Kavli Senior Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. Practitioner of Bayesian Inference and wannabe theorist. Fan of Real Madrid and soundtracks
Cambridge, England
Joined February 2014
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Disappointed to learn Oppenheimer is about the atomic bomb and not the Tolman- Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation...
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NEW VIDEO! Nikhil Sarin (@Stockholm_Uni) joins us from Sweden to chat about his article on kilonovae: youtu.be/2kO9rVPjrmI
The AAS Journal Author Series connects authors with their article, their human story & the larger #astronomy community. #TheGoodStuff #ExploreAstronomy
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Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions?
No they don't
link.springer.com/article/10…
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Such a memorable inspiring day @ScienceAcad_swe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences & so wonderful to share this day with many colleagues & dear friends @Dr_CMingarelli @antiqueDB5 @rlunnan @evanoc @CJHaster .. kva.se/en/event/symposium-on…
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Every university has a single, underappreciated mid-level admin person preventing its immediate collapse
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professor: ... you've ... installed python before?
student: no, this is my first time
professor: your envs are isolated per project. who taught you to do that?
student: it seemed the right way
professor: *muttering* he shall know your ways as though born to them
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#O4IsHere
🚨 An exciting one! #GravitationalWave candidate #S240422ed
If real, the source is probably a neutron star–black hole (could have an electromagnetic counterpart)
False alarm rate 1 in 10^5 yr
GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents…
GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/36236
Rating 🍫🎱🥯
#O4IsHere
ALT Initial sky localization. 90% area 400 sq deg
ALT Initial three-dimensional volume localization. Distance around 210 Mpc
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New paper arxiv.org/abs/2404.08048 led by Nikhil. We examine the claimed link between GRB 201006 and the FRB that appeared ~1hr later. We think
1. The association is not statistically robust,
2. The remnant is unlikely to be a long-lived neutron star; instead, likely a black hole.
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Indeed. It’s time to welcome a new member to the GW family 😄
Meet #GW230529 👋
It’s time for a thread! 🧵🪡
#GravitationalWaves #O4IsHere @ego_virgo @KAGRA_PR @LIGO
Today the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration is proud to announce GW230529, the first exceptional #GravitationalWaves event from our fourth observing run (#O4). You can learn more from @astronerdika's excellent infographic, or by visiting our detection page! ligo.org/detections/GW230529…
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Today the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration is proud to announce GW230529, the first exceptional #GravitationalWaves event from our fourth observing run (#O4). You can learn more from @astronerdika's excellent infographic, or by visiting our detection page! ligo.org/detections/GW230529…
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Capturing ripples in spacetime
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna #LISA mission is the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space.
The @ESA_LisaMission has three spacecraft that will fly in formation. Together they form an equilateral triangle connected by laser beams, trailing the Earth during its orbit around the Sun.
Read more 👉 esa.int/Science_Exploration/…
ALT Infographic providing information on gravitational waves and how the LISA mission will measure them using laser beams and free-floating cubes. The image shows the three LISA spacecraft in orbit with the Earth and Sun visible. A zoomed in circle focuses on one of the spacecraft and the two golden cubes it contains. In the background an illustration of two colliding black holes is creating ripples in spacetime. Another box shows a sequence of triangles to demonstrate the effect gravitational waves will have on the distance travelled by LISA’s laser beams.
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officially the first time my splash visualisation code has featured in an Apple ad... great work from Jason Terry, @astro_cass, and thanks @johnilee for spotting splash in it...
Jason Terry developed a machine learning model to spot a new planet outside the solar system. Great work happens #onMac.
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We're advertising!! Lot's of postdoc positions open within OzGrav, including two at Monash! The Monash job ad is linked below, and other jobs linked in the thread. Please pass this on, and get in touch if interested! @ARC_OzGRav @MonashAstro
Monash: careers.pageuppeople.com/513…
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Why on earth have I just found out about @matplotlib constrained layouts - matplotlib.org/stable/users/…? All your subplots with no overlapping titles, ticks, xlabels etc. So useful and works nicely with plt.subplot_mosaic.
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Self-plug - If you'd like to have press release images for your papers, keep me in mind for commissioning!
I'm happy to work with you to create a bespoke visualisation.
Here are some of the artworks I've created that have been featured on Washington Post, BBC + more
#SciArt
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Yes, our team did some research and wrote a paper on it.
And here’s what we found…
Really happy to finally have our Redback paper out, 4+ years in the making! arxiv.org/abs/2308.12806
Redback is an open source software package for simulating or fitting a wide variety of EM transients. Check it out here: github.com/nikhil-sarin/redb…
Redback’s workflow is designed to be flexible and modular.
So… fetch/simulate some EM data, fit your favourite models, and start interpreting your favourite EM transient!
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