Adam Johnson

About

Adam Johnson is the Phil and Penny Knight Professor of Creative Writing and a Professor of English at Stanford University. He holds a B.A. in Journalism from Arizona State University, an M.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Fiction) from McNeese State University, and a Ph.D. in English from Florida State University. Johnson is an accomplished author, having written several books including Fortune Smiles, which won the National Book Award, and the novel The Orphan Master’s Son, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His stories have been published in prominent outlets such as Esquire, GQ, Playboy, Harper's Magazine, Granta, The Paris Review, and have been recognized with awards like the Story Prize, The Sunday Times Short Story Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His work has been translated into more than three-dozen languages. Johnson was born in South Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. His teaching and research interests include the development of the novel, indigeneity, the oral tradition, counter narrative, trauma theory, and speculative fiction.

Research topics

• Physics
• Mathematics
• Computer Science
• Particle physics
• Nuclear physics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Atomic physics
• Algorithm
• Mathematical analysis
• Quantum mechanics

Selected publications

• The Fermi Galactic Center GeV Excess and Implications for Dark Matter

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2017-05-01 · 412 citations

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  Abstract The region around the Galactic Center (GC) is now well established to be brighter at energies of a few GeV than what is expected from conventional models of diffuse gamma-ray emission and catalogs of known gamma-ray sources. We study the GeV excess using 6.5 yr of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope. We characterize the uncertainty of the GC excess spectrum and morphology due to uncertainties in cosmic-ray source distributions and propagation, uncertainties in the distribution of i…

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• FERMI-LAT OBSERVATIONS OF HIGH-ENERGY γ-RAY EMISSION TOWARD THE GALACTIC CENTER

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2016-02-26 · 408 citations

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  ABSTRACT The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided the most detailed view to date of the emission toward the Galactic center (GC) in high-energy γ -rays. This paper describes the analysis of data taken during the first 62 months of the mission in the energy range 1–100 GeV from a 15° × 15° region about the direction of the GC. Specialized interstellar emission models (IEMs) are constructed to enable the separation of the γ -ray emissions produced by cosmic ray particles interacting with…

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• 2FHL: THE SECOND CATALOG OF HARD FERMI-LAT SOURCES

  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2016-01-01 · 308 citations

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  ABSTRACT We present a catalog of sources detected above 50 GeV by the Fermi -Large Area Telescope (LAT) in 80 months of data. The newly delivered Pass 8 event-level analysis allows the detection and characterization of sources in the 50 GeV–2 TeV energy range. In this energy band, Fermi -LAT has detected 360 sources, which constitute the second catalog of hard Fermi -LAT sources (2FHL). The improved angular resolution enables the precise localization of point sources (∼1.′7 radius at 68% C. L.)…

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• THE FIRST FERMI LAT SUPERNOVA REMNANT CATALOG

  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2016-05-01 · 258 citations

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  ABSTRACT To uniformly determine the properties of supernova remnants (SNRs) at high energies, we have developed the first systematic survey at energies from 1 to 100 GeV using data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Based on the spatial overlap of sources detected at GeV energies with SNRs known from radio surveys, we classify 30 sources as likely GeV SNRs. We also report 14 marginal associations and 245 flux upper limits. A mock catalog in which the positions of known remnants are scram…

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• Gamma-Ray Blazars within the First 2 Billion Years

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2017-02-27 · 75 citations

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  Abstract The detection of high-redshift ( ) blazars enables the study of the evolution of the most luminous relativistic jets over cosmic time. More importantly, high-redshift blazars tend to host massive black holes and can be used to constrain the space density of heavy black holes in the early universe. Here, we report the first detection with the Fermi -Large Area Telescope of five γ -ray-emitting blazars beyond z = 3.1, more distant than any blazars previously detected in γ -rays. Among the…

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Frequent coauthors

• I. A. Grenier

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

  2452 shared

• J. M. Casandjian

  Université Paris Cité

  2151 shared

• L. Tibaldo

  Université de Toulouse

  2078 shared

• E. Nuss

  Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier

  1686 shared

• J. Cohen-Tanugi

  Université Clermont Auvergne

  1675 shared

• F. Piron

  Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier

  1657 shared

• O. Reimer

  1625 shared

• A. Reimer

  1572 shared

Labs

• Creative WritingPI

Awards & honors

• Whiting Award
• Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation
• Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
• Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin
• National Book Award for Fortune Smiles

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