Maurice van Putten

Model Predictions
Van Putten and Ostriker (2001) introduced unification of short and long GRBs produced by slowly, respectively, rapidly spinning black holes, and predicted that short GRBs hereby produce (weak) X-ray afterglows. This was confirmed by HETE II and Swift in 2005. Van Putten (1999) introduced a model for long GRBs from rotating black holes in merger events, which predicts long GRBs with no supernova. This was confirmed in 2006 by the Swift event GRB060616. Open predictions are long duraton radio bursts from such naked inner engines produced in merger events, and long duration gravitational wave bursts from core-collapse supernovae and mergers involving rapidly spinning black holes. Indirect evidence for the long GWBs follows from black hole spindown discovered in the 1491 light curves of long GRBs in the BATSE catalogue.

Other Research Interests
Pair condensates produced in bosenovae (2010); experimental fluid dynamics and heat transfer at micro-Kelvin resolution in a modulated Rayleigh-Benard chambers (2007; approved for use in commerce by the State of California, CTEP/CDFA#5554-8); EEG data-analysis in clinical applications.

Membership, Public Outreach
2011-Member of KAGRA (formerly the Large Cryogenic Gravitational-wave Telescope, LCGT)
2009-Member of US National Working Group (USNWG/NIST) on H2
2009-Advisory Report to La Region Centre, France (ISBN 978-90-9023939-2)
2008-Advisory to NTEP/NCWM
2008-Advisory Report to the Dutch Government on energy legislation (ISBN 978-90-9022005-5)
2008-Testimony at a Congressional Hearing in The Hague on energy legislation

Some recent publications
Entropic force between black holes and its Newtonian limits, 2012, Phys. Rev. D, 85, 064046
Discovery of black hole spindown in the BATSE catalogue of long GRBs, 2012, Prog. Theor. Phys., 127(2), 331
Relaxation-limited evaporation of globular clusters, 2012, NewA, 17, 411
Prospects for true calorimetry on Kerr black holes in core-collapse supernovae and mergers, Maurice H.P.M. van Putten, Nobuyuki Kanda, Hideyuki Tagasho, Daisuke Tatsumi, Fujimoto Masa-Katsu, and Massimo Della Valla, 2011, Phys. Rev. D, 83, 044046
Pair condensates produced in bosenovae, 2010, Phys. Lett. A., 374, 3376
Extended black hole cosmologies in de Sitter space, 2010, Class. Quant. Grav., 27, 075011
On the origin of long gamma-ray bursts, 2009, MNRAS Lett., 396, L81
Nonthermal transient sources from rotating black holes, 2009, MNRAS, 394, 2238 (with Alok C. Gupta)
Gravitational-wave forms from Kerr black holes interacting with high-density matter, 2008, Astroph. J. Lett., 685, L63
Non-thermal emissions from black holes by a relativistic capillary effect, 2008, Astroph. J. Lett., 684, L91
Detecting energy emissions from a rotating black hole cover of Science(2002) (with A. Levinson)
Global spectral representations of black holes in the complex plane cover of the Proc. Nat. Acad. Sc. (2006)
Discovery of linear asymptotic behavior at micro-Kelvin resolution in a modulated Rayleigh-Benard chamber Proc. Roy. Soc. London A (2007) ( US Pat. 7,246,519 (2007), Approved by the State of California (2008))
Superradiance in a torus magnetosphere around a black hole Science(1999);

Books
van Putten, M.H.P.M. and Levison A., 2012, Relativistic Astrophysics of the Transient Universe, Cambridge University Press, with a foreword by Prof. Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel Laureate Physics 1999), to appear
van Putten, M.H.P.M., 2005, Gravitational Radiation, Luminous Black Holes and Gamma-ray Burst Supernovae ,Cambridge University Press, with a foreword by Prof. Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel Laureate Physics 1999)

Fall 2010-
faculty member, Korean Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)
Fall 2008
Invited 2008-2009 Studium Chair d'Astrophysique position at the University of Orleans, France
Fall 2007
Visiting Outstanding Full Professor at the Department of Physics, Nanjing University

Press

Book Review (2007)
MIT Press Release (2002)
MIT/NASA Press Release (2003)
Honouring Roy Kerr, TV3 New Zealand Evening News (August 2004), Interview