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Shanika Galaudage
@astronerdika.bsky.social
Astrophysicist | Postdoc at the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur 🇫🇷 | gravitational waves + compact binaries + population studies | Dabbles in spaceaustralia.com & includeher.au things (she/her) shanikagalaudage.github.io
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Poster sparkler time! 💥

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We’re getting ready for the plenary sessions at the LVK meeting 🤩 Also trying to figure out what I want to say for my poster sparkler… and we’ve just got 30 seconds! 💥 #GravitationalWaves

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Tuesday morning gravitational-wave candidate S240924a If real, the source is probably a binary black hole False alarm rate 1 in 13 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/...gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/37... Rating 🕊️🛏️ [🧪🔭⚛️]

Initial sky localization. 90% area 1300 sq deg
Initial three-dimensional volume localization. Distance around 4.7 Gpc
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Monday night gravitational-wave candidate S240923ct If real, the source is probably a binary black hole False alarm rate 1 per 4.1 × 10^7 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/...gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/37... Rating 🍦🛏️🗓️ [🧪🔭⚛️]

Initial sky localization. 90% area 520 sq deg
Initial three-dimensional volume localization. Distance around 4.8 Gpc
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Attending an LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA meeting in-person for the first time! 🤩 Super excited to put some faces to the names I know + see how tall folks are 🤣 #GravitationalWaves

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Saturday night gravitational-wave candidate S240921cw If real, the source is probably a binary black hole False alarm rate 1 per 40 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/...gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/37... Rating 🍿🍨 [🧪🔭⚛️]

Initial sky localization. 90% area 5000 sq deg
Initial three-dimensional volume localization. Distance around 1.1 Gpc
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Second gravitational-wave candidate of the day S240920dw If real, the source is most probably a binary black hole False alarm rate 1 in 3 × 10^43 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/...gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/37... Rating 🌙🦆🍿 [🧪🔭⚛️]

Initial sky localization. 90% area 190 sq deg
Initial three-dimensional volume localization. Distance around 950 Mpc
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Starting this morning at GEMMA2 with a talk by Paulo Freire on NGC 1851E: a binary system in a globular cluster millisecond pulsar + mass gap object ✨ Spotted an iconic plot 😎 #GravitationalWaves#Pulsars#GEMMA2Workshop

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Spotted! My infographic at GEMMA2 🤩 Always love seeing folks use my graphics for presentations + scicomm 🩵 #GravitationalWaves#Astrophysics#GEMMA2Workshop#SciComm

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When in Rome… you do science! ✨ But you also see the sights 😍 Attending the GEMMA2 workshop this week! Excited for this multidisciplinary workshop with topics ranging from #GravitationalWaves#DarkMatter#GEMMA2#Astrophysics

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Shanika Galaudage
@astronerdika.bsky.social
Astrophysicist | Postdoc at the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur 🇫🇷 | gravitational waves + compact binaries + population studies | Dabbles in spaceaustralia.com & includeher.au things (she/her) shanikagalaudage.github.io
240 followers94 following98 posts