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Matt Miles

@astromattmiles.bsky.social

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Astrophysicist! Lover of all things gravitational waves, pulsar timing, black holes, and neutron stars | MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array | Parkes Pulsar Timing Array | he/him

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Rowina Nathan ✨ @pinkastrophysicist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I made this website for the MeerKAT PTA. Check it out! mpta-gw.github.io

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Ryan Shannon @ryanmshannon.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

When we started MSP precision timing with MeerKAT in 2018, we knew it would be a fantastic telescope for a pulsar timing array, but did not know when it would become sensitive to gravitational waves. The timing baseline with MeerKAT would always be much shorter than other established PTAs.

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Rowina Nathan ✨ @pinkastrophysicist.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

phys.org/news/2024-12...

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New map of the universe uses gravitational waves to reveal hidden black holes and cosmic structure

An international study led by astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology has created the most detailed maps of gravitational waves across the universe to date.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 03/12/2024

MOAR EVIDENCE FOR THE GRAVITATIONAL WAVE BACKGROUND! Using MeerKAT (super sensitive telescope array) the MPTA team have also found supporting evidence (with their assumptions and models) of the GWB that other PTAs announced last year. This is further independent verification! The Universe rattles!

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Matt Miles @astromattmiles.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

For the past few years I've been leading the first gravitational wave searches with the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array (mpta-gw.github.io/index.html). It's been an incredibly rewarding experience, and today the research is published!

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Rowina Nathan ✨ @pinkastrophysicist.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

What generates the gravitational waves that make up the background? It is probably supermassive black-hole binaries and/or early Universe physics. We don't know yet but it is likely a combination of both! 💥 It's paper release day tomorrow! Excited to share with you all!

A graphic comparing gravitational wave background sources. The left shows a black hole binary and the right shows some bubbles. The text on the left reads "SUPERMASSIVE BLACK
HOLE BINARIES
Extraordinarily massive black holes in the center of galaxies orbiting eachother,
GW Signal: Anisotropic Different in different directions
Allows us to study: Galaxy formation, mass distribution of Universe, gravity"
The text on the right reads "PRIMORDIAL UNIVERSE
PHYSICS
Colisions between 'bubbles' in the hot, dense, 'boiling' early Universe soup
*+ GW Signal: Isotropic - Same in all directions
Allows us to study: The Big Bang, early
Universe, particle physics"

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