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Instituto de Astronomia
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Apdo. Postal 70-264
Cd. Universitaria
Mexico D.F. 04510
MEXICO

Ph: 52-55-5622-4020
Fax: 52-55-5616-0653
wlee@astroscu.unam.mx
 

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Research interests
 

         Coalescing binaries

         Accretion disks

         Galaxy mergers

Publications
    

       Papers in refereed journals

• 35. SSC Emission as the Origin of the Gamma Ray Afterglow Observed in GRB 980923, Fraija, N., Gonzalez, M.M., Lee, W.H., 2012, ApJ, 751, 33, arxiv1201.3689 (pdf)
  


• 34. On the sensitivity of the HAWC observatory to gamma-ray bursts, Abeysekara, A.U. et al., 2012, Astroparticle Physics, 35, 641, arXiv1108.6034 (pdf)
  


• 33. Electromagnetic Transients Powered by Nuclear Decay in the Tidal Tails of Coalescing Compact Binaries, Roberts, L.F., Kasen, D., Lee, W.H., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., 2011, ApJ, 736, L21 (pdf)
  


• 32. A Possible Relativistic Jetted Outburst from a Massive Black Hole Fed by a Tidally Disrupted Star, Bloom, J.S., Giannios, D., Metzger, B.D., Cenko, S.B., Perkley, D.A., Butler, N.R., Tanvir, N.R., Levan, A.J., O'Brien, P.T., Strubbe, L.E., de Colle, F., Ramirz-Ruiz, E., Lee, W.H., Nayakshin, S., Quataert, E., King, A.Ar., Cucchiara, A., Guillochon, J., Bower, G.C., Fruchter, A.S., Morgan, A.N., van der Horst, A.J., 2011, Science, 333, 203 (pdf)
  


• 31.Characterizing the time variability in magnetized neutrino-cooled accretion disks: signatures of the gamma-ray burst central engine, Carballido, A., Lee, W.H., 2011, ApJ Letters, 727, L41 (pdf)
  


• 30.Short gamma-ray bursts from dynamically-assembled binaries in globular clusters:pathways, rates, hydrodynamical evolution and cosmological setting, Lee, W.H., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., van de Ven, G., 2010, ApJ, 720, 953(pdf)
  


• 29.Hypercritical accretion onto a magnetized neutron star surface: a numerical approach, Bernal, C.G., Lee, W.H., Page, D., 2010, RMAA 46, 301 (pdf)
  


• 28.Critical angular momentum distributions in collapsars: quiescent periods from accretion state transitions in gamma-ray bursts, Lopez-Camara, D., Lee, W.H., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., 2010, ApJ, 716, 1308(pdf)
  


• 27.Limits on radioactive-powered emission associated with a short-hard GRB 070724A in a star-forming galaxy, Kocevski, D., Thone, C.C., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Bloom, J.S., Granot, J., Butler, N.R., Perley, D.A., Modjaz, M., Lee, W.H., Cobb, B.E., Levan, A.J., Tanvir, N., Covino, S., 2010, MNRAS, 404, 963(pdf)
  


• 26.An upper limit to the central density of dark matter haloes from consistency with the presence of massive central black holes, Hernandez, X., Lee, W.H. 2010, MNRAS, 404, L6(pdf,Release)
  


• 25.Phase transitions and He-synthesis driven winds in neutrino cooled accretion disks: prospects for late flares in short gamma-ray bursts, Lee, W.H., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Lopez-Camara, D. 2009, ApJ, 699, L93, (pdf)
  


• 24.Gamma Ray Burst production and Supernova signatures in slowly rotating collapsars, Lopez-Camara, D., Lee, W.H., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., 2009, ApJ, 692, 804 (pdf)
  


• 23.The tightening of wide binaries in dSph galaxies through dynamical friction as a test of the Dark Matter hypotehsis, Hernandez, X., Lee, W.H., 2008, MNRAS, 387, 1727 (pdf)
  


• 22.The progenitors of short gamma ray bursts, Lee, W.H., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., 2007, New Journal of Physics, 9, 17 (Focus Issue on Gamma Ray Bursts in the SWIFT Era) (pdf)
  


• 21.The galaxy hosts and large-scale environments of short-hard gamma ray bursts, Prochaska, J. X., Bloom, J. S., Chen, H.-W., Foley, R. J., Perley, D. A., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Granot, J., Lee, W. H., Pooley, D., Alatalo, K., Hurley, K., Cooper, M. C., Dupree, A. K., Gerke, B. F., Hansen, B. M. S., Kalirai, J. S., Newman, J. A., Rich, R. M., Richer, H., Stanford, S. A., Stern, D., van Breugel, W. J. M., 2006, ApJ, 642, 989 (ps, pdf)
  

• 20.Accretion modes in collapsars: prospects for GRB production, Lee, W.H., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., 2006, ApJ, 641, 961 (ps , pdf) 

• 19.A compact binary merger model for the short, hard GRB 050509b, Lee, W.H., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Granot, J. 2005, ApJ,  630, L165-L168 (ps , pdf)

• 18.Oscillations of thick accretion discs around black holes - II, Rubio-Herrera, E., Lee, W.H., 2005, MNRAS, 362, 789-798 (pdf)

• 17.Dynamical evolution of neutrino-cooled accretion disks: detailed mircophysics, lepton-driven convection and global energetics, Lee, W.H., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Page, D., 2005, ApJ, 632, 421 (ps , pdf) 

• 16.Oscillations of thick accretion discs around black holes, Rubio-Herrera, E., Lee, W.H., 2005, MNRAS Letters, 357, L31 - L34 (pdf)

• 15.A possible hydrodynamical equivalence for astrophysical jets, Mendoza, S., Hernandez, X., Lee, W. H., 2005, Rev. Mex. Astron. y Astrof., 41, 453 (ps , pdf) 

• 14.Opaque or Transparent? A link between neutrino optical depths and the characteristic duration of short gamma ray bursts, Lee, W.H., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Page, D., 2004, ApJ, 608, L5 (ps , pdf) 


• 13.Resonance in forced oscillations of an accretion disk and kHz QPOs, Lee, W.H., Abramowicz, M.A., Kluzniak, W.  2004, ApJ, 603, L93 (ps, pdf)


• 12.Non-linear resonance in the accretion disk of a millisecond pulsar, Kluzniak, W., Abramowicz, M.A., Kato, S., Lee, W.H., Stergioulas, N. 2004, ApJ, 603, L89 (ps, pdf)

• 11.Dynamical consequences of CDM merger trees, Hernandez, X. , Lee, W.H., 2004, MNRAS, 347, 1304 (ps).

• 10.Non-Linear Resonance in Nearly Geodesic Motion in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries, Abramowicz, M. A., Karas, V.,  Kluzniak, W., W.H.Lee and Rebusco, P., 2003, PASJ, 55, 467 (pdf) 

•  9.The swallowing of a quark star by a black hole, Kluzniak, W., Lee, W.H., 2002, MNRAS, 335, L29-L32 (pdf).

• 8.Accretion disks around black holes: dynamical evolution, meridional circulations and gamma ray bursts, Lee, W.H., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., 2002, ApJ, 577, 893 (pdf, ps)

• 7.Coalescence of a strange star with a black hole: Newtonian results, Lee, W.H., Kluzniak, W., Nix, J., 2001, Acta Astronomica, 51, 331, (astro-ph/0201114, ps)

• 6.Newtonian hydrodynamics of the coalescence of black holes with neutron stars IV: Irrotational binaries with a soft equation of state, Lee, W.H.,  2001, MNRAS, 328, 583 (pdf).

• 5.Newtonian hydrodynamics of the coalescence of black holes with neutron stars III: Irrotational binaries with a stiff equation of state, Lee, W.H.,  2000, MNRAS, 318, 606 (pdf)

• 4.Newtonian hydrodynamics of the coalescence of black holes with neutron stars II: Tidally locked binaries with a soft equation of state, Lee, W.H.,  Kluzniak, W., 1999, MNRAS, 308, 780 (pdf)

• 3.Newtonian hydrodynamics of the coalescence of black holes with neutron stars I: Tidally locked binaries with a stiff equation of state, Lee, W.H.,  Kluzniak, W., 1999, ApJ , 526, 178  (pdf, ps)

• 2.Simulations of binary coalescence of a neutron star a a black hole, 1998, Kluzniak, W., Lee, W.H., ApJ, 494, L53 (pdf, ps)

• 1.Merger of a neutron star with a newtonian black hole, 1995, Lee, W.H., Kluzniak, W., Acta astronomica, 45, 705 (pdf)

• Hydrodynamics of the coalescence of a black hole with a neutron star, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998 (ps).  (Thesis advisor: W. Kluzniak)

         Conference proceedings
 

• Simulations of black hole--neutron star binary coalescence, William H. Lee, in ``Astrophysical sources for ground-based gravitational wave detectors", AIP Proc.,  2001, 575, 152-163, ed. Joan M. Centrella (astro-ph/0101132, ps)

• Advection dominated flows around black holes in two dimensions, William H. Lee, Proceedings of the Third Microquasar Workshop: Granada Workshop on galactic relativistic jet sources, 2001, Eds: A. J. Castro-Tirado, J. Greiner and J. M. Paredes, Astrophysics and Space Science (suppl.), 2001, 276, 239-240 (astro-ph/0011151, ps).

• Coalescence of a strange star with a black hole, William H. Lee, Jon Nix, Wlodzimierz Kluzniak, Proceedings of the 4th INTEGRAL Workshop ``Exploring the Gamma-ray Universe'', 2001, ESA SP-459, 227-229, (astro-ph/0103380, ps), A Gimenez-Canete, V. Reglero, C Winkler, eds.

• Hydrodynamics of black hole-neutron star coalescence, William H. Lee, Proceedings of the 4th INTEGRAL Workshop ``Exploring the Gamma-ray Universe'', 2001, ESA SP-459, 199-202 (ps), A Gimenez-Canete, V. Reglero, C Winkler, eds.

• Black hole--neutron star mergers, William H. Lee, en ``The Seventh Texas-Mexico Conference on Astrophysics: Flows, Blows, and Glows'', Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica, Serie de Conferencias, 2001, 10, 176-181, ed.  William H. Lee and Silvia Torres--Peimbert.

• Hydrodynamics of black hole--neutron star coalescence, Lee, W.H., Kluzniak, W., Proceedings of the XIX Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, Paris, France, 1998, eds. E. Aubourg, T. Montmerle, J. Paul, P. Peter, Elsevier Science,Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl), 80 (2000), 06/19 (CD-ROM).

• Creation of a dense torus in the coalescence of a black hole with a neutron star, Kluzniak, W., Lee, W.H., Proceedings of the3rd INTEGRAL Workshop, Taormina, Italy, 1998, Astrophysical Letters and Communications, 1999, 308 (1-6), p. 205-208.

• Black hole--neutron star coalescence as a source of gamma--ray bursts,  Lee, W.H., Kluzniak, W., Gamma Ray Bursts, 4th Huntsville Symposium, Huntsville, Alabama, EUA, 1997, C.A. Meegan & R.D. Preece, T.M. Koshut, Eds., AIP Conference Proceedings, 428, 798-802.

• Gravitational Radiation From Mergers of Black Hole-Neutron Star Binaries, Lee, W.H., Kluzniak, W., 2nd Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, CERN, Switzerland, E. Coccia, G. Pizzella, G. Veneziano, eds., World Scientific, 1998, E. Amaldi Foundation Serries, 4, 252-256.

• Gravitational waveforms for mergers of neutron stars with black holes, Kluzniak, W., Lee, W.H., International Conference on Gravitational Waves: Sources and Detectors, Cascina (Pisa), Italy, 1996. I. Ciufolini & F. Fidecaro, Eds. World Scientific, E. Amaldi Foundation Series, 2, 44-47

• Hydrodynamic Simulations of Mergers of Neutron Stars and Newtonian Black Holes, Lee, W.H., Kluzniak, W., 1996 BAAS, 188, #84.04

• The Symbiotic Star HM SGE in the 1977--1989 Period, Peimbert, M., Lee, W.H., Torres--Peimbert, S., Costero, R., 1992, BAAS,180, #39.12