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Ryan Shannon

@ryanmshannon.bsky.social
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Pulsar and FRB astronomer | Professor at Swinburne University of Technology | MeerKAT and Murriyang Pulsar Timing / ASKAP FRB searching | he/him

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 07/07/2025
@astromattmiles.bsky.social (Swinburne, now Vanderbilt) for his thesis “Millisecond pulsar timing and gravitational wave searches with the MeerKAT radio telescope” supervised by @ryanmshannon.bsky.social has been awarded the Charlene Heisler Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis in astronomy.
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Ryan Shannon @ryanmshannon.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
With use of radio interferometers and new search strategies, these slowish transients/periodic sources are being found at increasing rate and bound to have a few/many more surprises in store.
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Nature Astronomy @natastron.nature.com · 21/12/2024
The winner of cover of the year for 2024 is the September cover connected to the Caleb, Lenc et al. paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulations to all involved, particularly Carl Knox @ozgrav.bsky.social and @csiro.bsky.social #NAstroCoverComp #astronomy
This image shows the cover image for the September issue of Nature Astronomy, featuring the ASKAP telescope pointing at a night sky that is split half and half. The left half features a pulsar, with curling purple magnetic field lines; the right half a white dwarf against a starry backdrop.
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Ryan Shannon @ryanmshannon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Nice way to commute to a conference.
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Ingrid Stairs @ingridhstairs.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Our CHIME/Pulsar data imply that a pulsar thought to be very massive... isn't. The previous mass measurement relied on white-dwarf modeling; now we have measured the orbital period decay due to gravitational-wave emission. 🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2412.02850
arxiv.org
A Lower Mass Estimate for PSR J0348+0432 Based on CHIME/Pulsar Precision Timing
The binary pulsar J0348+0432 was previously shown to have a mass of approximately 2\,${\rm M_\odot}$, based on the combination of radial-velocity and model-dependent mass parameters derived from high-...
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Ryan Shannon @ryanmshannon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
MPTA results written up in today's The Age/Morning Herald as well www.smh.com.au/national/a-s... @astromattmiles.bsky.social @pinkastrophysicist.bsky.social
smh.com.au
‘A ship on the ocean of reality’: New maps show universe is even weirder than we thought
A decade ago, astronomers observed gravitational waves for the first time. What has emerged since is a picture of the universe as a vast ocean – dark and powerful.
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Ryan Shannon @ryanmshannon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Off to the OzGrav retreat/ECR workshop in Brisbane. I'm on a panel in the ECR workshop tomorrow on "making the most of OzGrav". Hopefully I can deliver some insight!
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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
mpta-gw.github.io
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Ryan Shannon @ryanmshannon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Another day, another PTA result. This from Murriyang: A novel way to search for axion dark matter by looking for fluctuations in polarisation position angle in pulsars arxiv.org/abs/2412.02229
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First Pulsar Polarization Array Limits on Ultralight Axion-like Dark Matter
We conduct the first-ever Pulsar Polarization Array (PPA) analysis to detect the ultralight Axion-Like Dark Matter (ALDM) using the polarization data of 22 millisecond pulsars from the third data rele...
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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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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!
mpta-gw.github.io
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