The Dream Team
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Nicholas Vieira
PhD student at McGill (co-supervised)
Nicholas is pioneering new approaches to performing Bayesian inference on kilonova spectra, with the goal of identifying absorption lines of specific heavy elements and probing the r-process abundance patterns.
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Élodie Lescure
MSc student at Bishop’s, NSERC CGS-M
Élodie is making the first comparison between the inferred r-process abundance pattern in the GW170817 kilonova to abundance patterns measured in metal-poor stars in the Milky Way halo.
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Patrick Horlaville
MSc student at Bishop’s
Patrick is applying our new insights into the unique characteristics of binary supermassive black hole host galaxies to a conduct a novel search for dual AGN in archival datasets.
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Weixiang Yu
Canadian Rubin Postdoctoral Fellow at Bishop’s
Weixiang is performing calculations to quantify the background of transient and variable sources that will contaminate telescope follow-up observations of gravitational wave events.
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Olivier Gilbert
BSc student at Université Laval
Olivier is using new Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope imaging of a sample of faded ‘changing-look‘ quasars to understand the geometry of their accretion flows at extremely low luminosities.
Former Team Members
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Samuel Gagnon-Hartman
Bishop’s MSc 2022, now PhD student in Astrophysics at Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa
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Virginia Marquez-Pacheco
BSc student at Bishop’s
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Jaeden Bardati
Bishop’s BSc 2023, now PhD student in Physics at Caltech
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Nicole Ford
McGill MSc 2023 (co-supervised), now PhD student in Physics at McGill