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Nissanke, Samaya; Holz, Daniel E.; Dalal, Neal; Hughes, Scott A.; Sievers, Jonathan L.; Hirata, Christopher M. (2013-07-09). "Determining the Hubble constant from gravitational wave observations of merging compact binaries".
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is an astrophysicist, associate professor in gravitational wave and multi-messenger astrophysics and the spokesperson for the GRAPPA Centre for Excellence in Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics at the
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Nissanke, Samaya; Kasliwal, Mansi; Georgieva, Alessandra (2013). "Identifying Elusive Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Mergers: an end-to-end simulation".
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Nissanke was working at Radboud as the group leader for the gravitational wave group when the first detection of gravitational waves was confirmed. In 2016 she was awarded
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Nissanke was born in London to a Japanese mother and a Sri Lankan father. She completed her bachelor's and master's degrees in the Natural Sciences Tripos (Physics) at the
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using gravitational wave observations from merging neutron star binaries and how to identify the elusive electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave mergers.
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Nissanke, Samaya; Sievers, Jonathan; Dalal, Neal (2011). "Localizing compact binary inspirals on the sky using ground-based gravitational wave interferometers".
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working on gravitational wave and electromagnetic emission from compact object mergers since 2007. She is a member of the Virgo collaboration and works with the
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Nissanke, Samaya; Holz, Daniel; Hughes, Scott; Dalal, Neal; Sievers, Jonathan (2010). "Exploring Short Gamma-ray Bursts as Gravitational-wave Standard Sirens".
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press conference in 2017, for the announcement of a merger of neutron stars. Before the detection of gravitational waves, Nissanke joined composer
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Aspects théoriques de la forme des ondes gravitationnelles pour les phases spiralante et de fusion des systèmes binaires compacts
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Aspects théoriques de la forme des ondes gravitationnelles pour les phases spiralante et de fusion des systèmes binaires compacts
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Aspects théoriques de la forme des ondes gravitationnelles pour les phases spiralante et de fusion des systèmes binaires compacts
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at the Marshmallow Laser Feast to create a piece of music about merging neutron stars and black holes billions of years ago.
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with Jo Dunkley and Kendrick Smith from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. In 2021 Nissanke received a
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the development of novel techniques to extract fundamental physics from astronomical data
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for her postgraduate studies. Nissanke earned her PhD in analytical relativity at the
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As part of the LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations, Nissanke was awarded the
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telescopes and was part of the group that discovered the radio counterpart to
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Nissanke is a popular science communicator and has been interviewed by
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Nissanke completed her postdoctoral research at the
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Grappa.amsterdam. 2019-08-19 1: 602:Radboud Excellence Initiative 324:New Horizons in Physics Prize 300:European Southern Observatory 187:in 2007 with a thesis titled 157:New Horizons in Physics Prize 155:In 2020, she was awarded the 72:New Horizons in Physics Prize 766:10.1088/0004-637X/767/2/124 657:10.1088/0004-637X/725/1/496 213:Radboud University Nijmegen 107:Radboud University Nijmegen 1341: 710:10.1088/0004-637X/739/2/99 736:The Astrophysical Journal 680:The Astrophysical Journal 627:The Astrophysical Journal 441:10.1146/knowable-010921-1 320:Gruber Prize in Cosmology 134: 87: 66:Gruber Prize in Cosmology 171:Early life and education 163:and Kendrick Smith for " 1232:University of Amsterdam 406:"Members | GRAPPA" 248:University of Amsterdam 177:University of Cambridge 146:University of Amsterdam 141:Samaya Michiko Nissanke 111:University of Amsterdam 43:University of Cambridge 328:Suffrage Science award 179:. 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Westminster School
University of Cambridge
Institut d'astrophysique de Paris
Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Gruber Prize in Cosmology
New Horizons in Physics Prize
Suffrage Science award
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
California Institute of Technology
Radboud University Nijmegen
University of Amsterdam
Thesis
Aspects théoriques de la forme des ondes gravitationnelles pour les phases spiralante et de fusion des systèmes binaires compacts
University of Amsterdam
GW170817
New Horizons in Physics Prize
Jo Dunkley
University of Cambridge
Paris Observatory
Institut d'astrophysique de Paris
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Jet Propulsion Lab
California Institute of Technology
Radboud University Nijmegen
BlackGEM
VLA
MeerKAT
LOFAR
GW170817
Hubble constant

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