People in the WVU Center for Astrophysics
Faculty:
Jack Littleton – Stellar spectra
Duncan Lorimer – Pulsars, radio transients, signal processing
Maura McLaughlin – Multiwavelength studies of pulsars and radio transients
D.J. Pisano – Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy
Staff:
Adam Dorsey – Part-time system administrator
Joris Verbiest – Pulsar statistics and timing
Graduate students:
Jason Boyles – Pulsar searches
Jayanth Chennamangalam – Globular cluster pulsars
Mitch Mickaliger – Transient detection
Nipuni Pallyaguru – RRATs
Benetge Perera – Double pulsar interactions
Katie Rabidoux – Galaxies
Josh Ridley – Neutron star population synthesis
Josh Miller – RRATs and X-ray data analysis
Spencer Wolfe – Galaxies
Undergraduate students:
Stas Edel – Gravitational lensing, PALFA searches, magnetars
Dominic Ludovici – HI studies of galaxies, GMRT searches, magnetars
Tab Smith – RRATs
Former members:
Paulo Freire – now at Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radio Astronomie, Bonn, Germany
Vlad Kondratiev – now at Astron in the Netherlands
The group as of May 28, 2009 pictured on the grassy knoll outside of Hodges.
Back row: Joris Verbiest, Tabitha Smith, Duncan Lorimer, Jason Boyles, Mitch Mickaliger, Spencer Wolfe
Front row: Vlad Kondratiev, Paulo Freire, Maura McLaughlin, D.J. Pisano, Dominic Ludovici, Stas Edel, Katie Rabidoux, Ben Perera
Missing from photo: Jack Littleton, Josh Ridley, Josh Miller
The group as of March 31, 2008 pictured at the WVU observatory. From left to right: Ben Perera, Stas Edel, Dominic Ludovici, Spencer Wolfe, Vlad Kondratiev, Mitch Mickaliger, Dunc Lorimer, Maura McLaughlin, Josh Miller, Robert Simmons, Josh Ridley, Jason Boyles & Jack Littleton
