I’m quite late to making this announcement, but Kevin Whitley successfully defended his dissertation on June 13. The dissertation is titled “Electromagnetic Signatures of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries.” Some of my favorite figures from it below.
Three of us (Cayenne Matt, CJ Harris, and I) attended Compact Objects in Michigan and Ontario 2024. This year it was hosted by Henry Ford College. Cayenne and CJ gave talks on their most recent research.
A huge congratulations to former undergraduate group member Dr. Erica Hammerstein, who successfully defended her dissertation, titled “Population Studies of Tidal Disruption Events and Their Hosts: Understanding Host Galaxy Preferences and the Origin of the Ultraviolet and Optical Emission”. The NANOGrav results keep on coming out! The following papers were officially published in the past […]
It has been over a year since posting a news item, but it has been a busy year. I will do bullet points of the most important stuff that has happened. The evidence for gravitational wave background is huge news. It was a huge effort to get there from a team I have loved being […]
So I am working my way back through all of the announcements I should have been keeping up with, but ya boy got paaaiiid! See more at my grant page. All added up, these combine to a hair over $367k. Aaaaand I’ve spent it already.
I was in Bothell, WA right before AAS for a NASA LISA Study Team meeting. We put in some time thinking about the Science Ground Segment and the best ways for NASA to enable astrophysicists to extract science from LISA data. It’s really exciting to think about all the amazing stuff that will come from […]
![Three-dimensional view of fundamental plane of black hole accretion. A cube is labeled with the following orthogonal axes and limits. X-axis: Radio [erg/s] 30–45; Y-axis: X-ray [erg/s] 30–45; Z-axis: Mass [solar] 0–15. A light blue plane cuts through data points which are clustered as red spheres at the high-mass end and blue cubes and cones at the low mass end.](https://kayhan.astro.lsa.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/x3d_3dfp_1.png)
