Marcus Lower
- Dr, Associate Investigator
- Swinburne University of Technology
I am an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow based at the Center for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University. My work primarily involves developing and using Bayesian inference techniques to learn more about the properties of pulsars – rotating neutron stars that emit beams of electromagnetic radiation from their magnetic poles. In particular, their links to the enigmatic ‘fast radio bursts’, brief millisecond flashes of radio waves that come from distant galaxies. I am also the priniciple investigator of the Parkes `P574′ young pulsar timing project, which uses the CSIRO 64-m Parkes radio telescope (AKA ‘Murriyang’) to monitor 270 energectic pulsars.
Other interests of mine include follow-up parameter estimation of gravitational-wave events seen by Advanced LIGO and Virgo, and searches for the stochastic gravitational-wave background with pulsar timing arrays.
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