Dr Patrick Kavanagh

Experimental Physics

Lecturer

Science Building
2.12
(+353) 1 708 4563

Biography

Patrick Kavanagh completed his PhD at Dublin City University in 2011 before moving to the IAAT at the Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen in Germany, where he worked for 5 years as a post-doctoral researcher on the matter cycle in galaxies. During this time he participated in the eROSITA consortium, and joined the Athena Science Working Groups. In 2016 he took up a position at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies working on calibration and software development of the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), while continuing his research activities. As part of the MIRI team he worked on the development of MIRI, the JWST calibration pipeline, and the post-launch commissioning of MIRI at the JWST Mission Operations Centre at the Space Telescope Science Institute. He moved to Maynooth University in 2023 where he leads his SFI-IRC Pathway funded research group. His research is focused on the matter cycle in galaxies through multi-wavelength observations of young stellar objects and star formation, star-forming regions, supernova remnants, superbubbles, and the interstellar medium.

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2023 O C Jones; J Álvarez-Márquez; G C Sloan; P J Kavanagh; I Argyriou; D R Law; A Labiano; P Patapis; Michael Mueller; Kirsten L Larson; Stacey N Bright; P D Klaassen; O D Fox; Danny Gasman; V C Geers; Adrian M Glauser; Pierre Guillard; Omnarayani Nayak; A Noriega-Crespo; Michael E Ressler; B Sargent; T Temim; B Vandenbussche; Macarena García Marín (2023) 'Observations of the planetary nebula SMP LMC 058 with the JWST MIRI medium resolution spectrometer'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Danny Gasman; Ioannis Argyriou; G. C. Sloan; Bernhard Aringer; Javier Álvarez-Márquez; Ori Fox; Alistair Glasse; Adrian Glauser; Olivia C. Jones; Kay Justtanont; Patrick J. Kavanagh; Pamela Klaassen; Alvaro Labiano; Kirsten Larson; David R. Law; Michael Mueller; Omnarayani Nayak; Alberto Noriega-Crespo; Polychronis Patapis; Pierre Royer; Bart Vandenbussche (2023) 'JWST MIRI/MRS in-flight absolute flux calibration and tailored fringe correction for unresolved sources'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [DOI]
2023 Larsson, J.; Fransson, C.; Sargent, B.; Jones, O.C.; Barlow, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Meixner, M.; Blommaert, J.A.D.L.; Coulais, A.; Fox, O.D.; Gastaud, R.; Glasse, A.; Habel, N.; Hirschauer, A.S.; Hjorth, J.; Jaspers, J.; Kavanagh, P.J.; Krause, O.; Lau, R.M.; Lenkić, L.; Nayak, O.; Rest, A.; Temim, T.; Tikkanen, T.; Wesson, R.; Wright, G.S. (2023) 'JWST NIRSpec Observations of Supernova 1987A—From the Inner Ejecta to the Reverse Shock'. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 949 . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Laura Lenkić; Conor Nally; Olivia C. Jones; Martha L. Boyer; Patrick J. Kavanagh; Nolan Habel; Omnayarani Nayak; Alec S. Hirschauer; Margaret Meixner; B. A. Sargent; Tea Temim (2023) 'A JWST/MIRI and NIRCam Analysis of the Young Stellar Object Population in the Spitzer I region of NGC 6822'. . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Gillian S. Wright; George H. Rieke; Alistair Glasse; Michael Ressler; Macarena García Marín; Jonathan Aguilar; Stacey Alberts; Javier Álvarez-Márquez; Ioannis Argyriou; Kimberly Banks; Pierre Baudoz; Anthony Boccaletti; Patrice Bouchet; Jeroen Bouwman; Bernard R. Brandl; David Breda; Stacey Bright; Steven Cale; Luis Colina; Christophe Cossou; Alain Coulais; Misty Cracraft; Wim De Meester; Daniel Dicken; Michael Engesser; Mireya Etxaluze; Ori D. Fox; Scott Friedman; Henry Fu; Danny Gasman; András Gáspár; René Gastaud; Vincent Geers; Adrian Michael Glauser; Karl D. Gordon; Thomas Greene; Thomas R. Greve; Timothy Grundy; Manuel Güdel; Pierre Guillard; Peter Haderlein; Ryan Hashimoto; Thomas Henning; Dean Hines; Bryan Holler; Örs Hunor Detre; Amir Jahromi; Bryan James; Olivia C. Jones; Kay Justtanont; Patrick Kavanagh; Sarah Kendrew; Pamela Klaassen; Oliver Krause; Alvaro Labiano; Pierre-Olivier Lagage; Scott Lambros; Kirsten Larson; David Law; David Lee; Mattia Libralato; Jose Lorenzo Alverez; Margaret Meixner; Jane Morrison; Migo Mueller; Katherine Murray; Matthew Mycroft; Richard Myers; Omnarayani Nayak; Bret Naylor; Bryony Nickson; Alberto Noriega-Crespo; Göran Östlin; Brian O’Sullivan; Richard Ottens; Polychronis Patapis; Konstantin Penanen; Martin Pietraszkiewicz; Tom Ray; Michael Regan; Anthony Roteliuk; Pierre Royer; Piyal Samara-Ratna; Bridget Samuelson; Beth A. Sargent; Silvia Scheithauer; Analyn Schneider; Jürgen Schreiber; Bryan Shaughnessy; Even Sheehan; Irene Shivaei; G. C. Sloan; Laszlo Tamas; Kelly Teague; Tea Temim; Tuomo Tikkanen; Samuel Tustain; Ewine F. van Dishoeck; Bart Vandenbussche; Mark Weilert; Paul Whitehouse; Schuyler Wolff (2023) 'The Mid-infrared Instrument for JWST and Its In-flight Performance'. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, . [DOI]
2023 Ewine F. van Dishoeck; S. Grant; B. Tabone; M. van Gelder; L. Francis; L. Tychoniec; G. Bettoni; A. M. Arabhavi; D. Gasman; P. Nazari; M. Vlasblom; P. Kavanagh; V. Christiaens; P. Klaassen; H. Beuther; Th. Henning; I. Kamp (2023) 'The diverse chemistry of protoplanetary disks as revealed by JWST'. arXiv, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Jane Rigby; Marshall Perrin; Michael McElwain; Randy Kimble; Scott Friedman; Matt Lallo; René Doyon; Lee Feinberg; Pierre Ferruit; Alistair Glasse; Marcia Rieke; George Rieke; Gillian Wright; Chris Willott; Knicole Colon; Stefanie Milam; Susan Neff; Christopher Stark; Jeff Valenti; Jim Abell; Faith Abney; Yasin Abul-Huda; D. Scott Acton; Evan Adams; David Adler; Jonathan Aguilar; Nasif Ahmed; Loïc Albert; Stacey Alberts; David Aldridge; Marsha Allen; Martin Altenburg; Javier Álvarez-Márquez; Catarina Alves de Oliveira; Greg Andersen; Harry Anderson; Sara Anderson; Ioannis Argyriou; Amber Armstrong; Santiago Arribas; Etienne Artigau; Amanda Arvai; Charles Atkinson; Gregory Bacon; Thomas Bair; Kimberly Banks; Jaclyn Barrientes; Bruce Barringer; Peter Bartosik; William Bast; Pierre Baudoz (2023) 'The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning'. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 J. Álvarez-Márquez; A. Labiano; P. Guillard; D. Dicken; I. Argyriou; P. Patapis; D. R. Law; P. J. Kavanagh; K. L. Larson; D. Gasman; M. Mueller; S. Alberts; B. R. Brandl; L. Colina; M. García-Marín; O. C. Jones; A. Noriega-Crespo; I. Shivaei; T. Temim; G. S. Wright (2023) 'Nuclear high-ionisation outflow in the Compton-thick AGN NGC 6552 as seen by the JWST mid-infrared instrument'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Ioannis Argyriou; Alistair Glasse; David R. Law; Alvaro Labiano; Javier Álvarez-Márquez; Polychronis Patapis; Patrick J. Kavanagh; Danny Gasman; Michael Mueller; Kirsten Larson; Bart Vandenbussche; Adrian M. Glauser; Pierre Royer; Daniel Dicken; Jake Harkett; Beth A. Sargent; Michael Engesser; Olivia C. Jones; Sarah Kendrew; Alberto Noriega-Crespo; Bernhard Brandl; George H. Rieke; Gillian S. Wright; David Lee; Martyn Wells (2023) 'JWST MIRI flight performance: The Medium-Resolution Spectrometer'. Astronomy & Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Jones, O.~C.; Kavanagh, P.~J.; Barlow, M.~J.; Temim, T.; Fransson, C.; Larsson, J.; Blommaert, J.~A.~D.~L.; Meixner, M.; Lau, R.~M.; Sargent, B.; Bouchet, P.; Hjorth, J.; Wright, G.~S.; Coulais, A.; Fox, O.~D.; Gastaud, R.; Glasse, A.; Habel, N.; Hirschauer, A.~S.; Jaspers, J.; Krause, O.; Lenkić; Nayak, O.; Rest, A.; Tikkanen, T.; Wesson, R.; Colina, L.; van Dishoeck, E.~F.; Güdel, M.; Henning, Th.; Lagage, P. -O.; Östlin; Ray, T.~P.; Vandenbussche, B. (2023) 'Ejecta, Rings, and Dust in SN 1987A with JWST MIRI/MRS'. arXiv e-prints, . [DOI]
2023 Gardner, Jonathan P.; Mather, John C.; Abbott, Randy; Abell, James S.; Abernathy, Mark; Abney, Faith E.; Abraham, John G.; Abraham, Roberto; Abul-Huda, Yasin M.; Acton, Scott; Adams, Cynthia K.; Adams, Evan; Adler, David S.; Adriaensen, Maarten; Aguilar, Jonathan Albert; Ahmed, Mansoor; Ahmed, Nasif S.; Ahmed, Tanjira; Albat, Rüdeger; Albert, Löıc; Alberts, Stacey; Aldridge, David; Allen, Mary Marsha; Allen, Shaune S.; Altenburg, Martin; Altunc, Serhat; Alvarez, Jose Lorenzo; Álvarez-Márquez, Javier; de Oliveira, Catarina Alves; Ambrose, Leslie L.; Anandakrishnan, Satya M.; Andersen, Gregory C.; Anderson, Harry James; Anderson, Jay; Anderson, Kristen; Anderson, Sara M.; Aprea, Julio; Archer, Benita J.; Arenberg, Jonathan W.; Argyriou, Ioannis; Arribas, Santiago; Artigau, Étienne; Arvai, Amanda Rose; Atcheson, Paul; Atkinson, Charles B.; Averbukh, Jesse; Aymergen, Cagatay; Bacinski, John J.; Baggett, Wayne E.; Bagnasco, Giorgio; Baker, Lynn L.; Balzano, Vicki Ann; Banks, Kimberly A.; Baran, David A.; Barker, Elizabeth A.; Barrett, Larry K.; Barringer, Bruce O.; Barto, Allison; Bast, William; Baudoz, Pierre; Baum, Stefi; Beatty, Thomas G.; Beaulieu, Mathilde; Bechtold, Kathryn; Beck, Tracy; Beddard, Megan M.; Beichman, Charles; Bellagama, Larry; Bely, Pierre; Berger, Timothy W.; Bergeron, Louis E.; Bernier, Antoine-Darveau; Bertch, Maria D.; Beskow, Charlotte; Betz, Laura E.; Biagetti, Carl P.; Birkmann, Stephan; Bjorklund, Kurt F.; Blackwood, James D.; Blazek, Ronald Paul; Blossfeld, Stephen; Bluth, Marcel; Boccaletti, Anthony; Boegner, Martin E., Jr.; Bohlin, Ralph C.; Boia, John Joseph; Böker, Torsten; Bonaventura, N.; Bond, Nicholas A.; Bosley, Kari Ann; Boucarut, Rene A.; Bouchet, Patrice; Bouwman, Jeroen; Bower, Gary; Bowers, Ariel S.; Bowers, Charles W.; Boyce, Leslye A.; Boyer, Christine T.; Boyer, Martha L.; Boyer, Michael; Boyer, Robert; Bradley, Larry D.; Brady, Gregory R.; Brandl, Bernhard R.; Brannen, Judith L.; Breda, David; Bremmer, Harold G.; Brennan, David; Bresnahan, Pamela A.; Bright, Stacey N.; Broiles, Brian J.; Bromenschenkel, Asa; Brooks, Brian H.; Brooks, Keira J.; Brown, Bob; Brown, Bruce; Brown, Thomas M.; Bruce, Barry W.; Bryson, Jonathan G.; Bujanda, Edwin D.; Bullock, Blake M.; Bunker, A.~J.; Bureo, Rafael; Burt, Irving J.; Bush, James Aaron; Bushouse, Howard A.; Bussman, Marie C.; Cabaud, Olivier; Cale, Steven; Calhoon, Charles D.; Calvani, Humberto; Canipe, Alicia M.; Caputo, Francis M.; Cara, Mihai; Carey, Larkin; Case, Michael Eli; Cesari, Thaddeus; Cetorelli, Lee D.; Chance, Don R.; Chandler, Lynn; Chaney, Dave; Chapman, George N.; Charlot, S.; Chayer, Pierre; Cheezum, Jeffrey I.; Chen, Bin; Chen, Christine H.; Cherinka, Brian; Chichester, Sarah C.; Chilton, Zachary S.; Chittiraibalan, Dharini; Clampin, Mark; Clark, Charles R.; Clark, Kerry W.; Clark, Stephanie M.; Claybrooks, Edward E.; Cleveland, Keith A.; Cohen, Andrew L.; Cohen, Lester M.; Colón, Knicole D.; Coleman, Benee L.; Colina, Luis; Comber, Brian J.; Comeau, Thomas M.; Comer, Thomas; Reis, Alain Conde; Connolly, Dennis C.; Conroy, Kyle E.; Contos, Adam R.; Contreras, James; Cook, Neil J.; Cooper, James L.; Cooper, Rachel Aviva; Correia, Michael F.; Correnti, Matteo; Cossou, Christophe; Costanza, Brian F.; Coulais, Alain; Cox, Colin R.; Coyle, Ray T.; Cracraft, Misty M.; Crew, Keith A.; Curtis, Gary J.; Cusveller, Bianca; Maciel, Cleyciane Da Costa; Dailey, Christopher T.; Daugeron, Frédéric; Davidson, Greg S.; Davies, James E.; Davis, Katheri (2023) 'The James Webb Space Telescope Mission'. \pasp, . [DOI]
2023 Patapis, P.; Argyriou, I.; Law, D.~R.; Glauser, A.~M.; Glasse, A.; Labiano, A.; Álvarez-Márquez, J.; Kavanagh, P.~J.; Gasman, D.; Mueller, M.; Larson, K.; Vandenbussche, B.; Klaassen, P.; Guillard, P.; Wright, G.~S. (2023) 'Geometric distortion and astrometric calibration of the JWST MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrometer'. arXiv e-prints, . [DOI]
2023 Henrik Beuther; E. F. van Dishoeck; L. Tychoniec; C. Gieser; P. J. Kavanagh; G. Perotti; M. L. van Gelder; P. Klaassen; A. Caratti o Garatti; L. Francis; W. R. M. Rocha; K. Slavicinska; T. Ray; K. Justtanont; H. Linnartz; C. Waelkens; L. Colina; T. Greve; M. Güdel; T. Henning; P.-O. Lagage; B. Vandenbussche; G. Östlin; G. Wright (2023) 'JWST Observations of Young protoStars (JOYS)'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2022 (2022) 'Mysterious odd radio circle near the large magellanic cloud – an intergalactic supernova remnant?'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2022 P J Kavanagh; M Sasaki; M D Filipović; S D Points; L M Bozzetto; F Haberl; P Maggi; C Maitra (2022) 'New XMM–Newton observations of faint, evolved supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2022 Samuel Green; Jonathan Mackey; Patrick Kavanagh; Thomas J. Haworth; Maria Moutzouri; Vasilii V. Gvaramadze (2022) 'Thermal emission from bow shocks'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 (2021) 'Multiwavelength analysis of the X-ray spur and southeast of the Large Magellanic Cloud'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 (2021) 'The ASKAP-EMU Early Science Project: 888 MHz radio continuum survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 (2021) 'XMMU J050722.1−684758: discovery of a new Be X-ray binary pulsar likely associated with the supernova remnant MCSNR J0507−6847'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 (2021) 'Radio continuum sources behind the Large Magellanic Cloud'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2020 Patrick J. Kavanagh (2020) 'Thermal and non-thermal X-ray emission from stellar clusters and superbubbles'. Astrophysics and Space Science, . [Link] [DOI]
2020 (2020) 'mirisim: a simulator for the Mid-Infrared Instrument on JWST'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2020 Patrick J. Kavanagh; Manami Sasaki; Dieter Breitschwerdt; Miguel A. de Avillez; Miroslav D. Filipović; Timothy Galvin; Frank Haberl; Despina Hatzidimitriou; Martin Henze; Paul P. Plucinsky; Sara Saeedi; Kirill V. Sokolovsky; Benjamin F. Williams (2020) 'Deep XMM-Newton observations of the northern disc of M31'. Astronomy & Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2020 (2020) 'New optically identified supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2020 (2020) 'The nature of point source fringes in mid-infrared spectra acquired with the James Webb Space Telescope'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2019 (2019) 'Discovery of a pulsar-powered bow shock nebula in the Small Magellanic Cloud supernova remnant DEM S5'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2019 (2019) 'Magnetic field estimates from the X-ray synchrotron emitting rims of the 30 Dor C superbubble and the implications for the nature of 30 Dor C’s TeV emission'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2019 (2019) 'The ASKAP EMU Early Science Project: radio continuum survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2019 (2019) 'Radio emission from interstellar shocks: Young type Ia supernova remnants and the case of N 103B in the Large Magellanic Cloud'. Astrophysics and Space Science, . [Link] [DOI]
2019 (2019) 'The supernova remnant population of the Small Magellanic Cloud'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2019 (2019) 'Discovery of a very young high-mass X-ray binary associated with the supernova remnant MCSNR J0513-6724 in the LMC'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2018 (2018) 'An X-ray expansion and proper motion study of the Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnant J0509–6731 with the Chandra X-ray observatory'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2018 (2018) 'Deep XMM-Newton observations of the northern disc of M 31'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2017 (2017) 'Statistical Analysis of Supernova Remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud'. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, . [Link] [DOI]
2016 (2016) 'Evidence for a binary origin of a central compact object'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2016 (2016) 'The population of X-ray supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2016 Kavanagh P.; Sasaki M.; Bozzetto L.; Points S.; Crawford E.; Dickel J.; Filipović M.; Haberl F.; Maggi P.; Whelan E.T. (2016) 'Two evolved supernova remnants with newly identified Fe-rich cores in the Large Magellanic Cloud'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 586 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 (2015) 'Multi-frequency study of the newly confirmed supernova remnant MCSNR J0512−6707 in the Large Magellanic Cloud'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2015 (2015) 'XMM-Newtonstudy of 30 Doradus C and a newly identified MCSNR J0536−6913 in the Large Magellanic Cloud'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2015 Kavanagh P.; Sasaki M.; Whelan E.T.; Maggi P.; Haberl F.; Bozzetto L.; Filipović M.; Crawford E. (2015) 'XMM-Newton observation of SNR J0533-7202 in the Large Magellanic Cloud'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 579 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 (2015) 'SUPERNOVA REMNANTS IN THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS'. 천문학논총, . [Link] [DOI]
2014 (2014) 'Multi-frequency study of DEM L299 in the Large Magellanic Cloud'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2014 (2014) 'Four new X-ray-selected supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2014 (2014) 'Multifrequency study of a new Fe-rich supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud, MCSNR J0508−6902'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2014 (2014) 'XMM-Newtonobservation of the interacting galaxies NGC 1512 and NGC 1510'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2013 (2013) 'Multiwavelength study of the newly confirmed supernova remnant MCSNR J0527−7104 in the Large Magellanic Cloud'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2012 (2012) 'XMM-Newtonview of the N 206 superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, . [Link] [DOI]
2012 Whelan, ET; Ray, TP; Comeron, F; Bacciotti, F; Kavanagh, PJ (2012) 'SPATIALLY RESOLVED OBSERVATIONS OF THE BIPOLAR OPTICAL OUTFLOW FROM THE BROWN DWARF 2MASS J12073347-3932540'. Astrophysical Journal, 761 . [DOI] [Full-Text]
2011 (2011) 'Diffuse thermal X-ray emission in the core of the young massive cluster Westerlund 1'. New Astronomy, . [Link] [DOI]
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Employment

Employer Position From / To
National University of Ireland, Maynooth Assistant Professor -
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies SFI-IRC Pathway Fellow 01/06/2022 - 31/03/2023
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies JWST/MIRI Test Team, postdoctoral researcher 01/02/2016 - 31/05/2022
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Postdoctoral researcher 01/02/2011 - 31/01/2016