Group

 

Dimitrios Psaltis
Associate Professor of Astronomy and Physics
Steward Observatory
The University of Arizona
933 N. Cherry Ave, Tucson, AZ 85721
+1-520-621-7859
dpsaltis@email.arizona.edu
 
 
 

Students and Postdocs I am currently collaborating with:

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Tessa Baker
3rd year D. Phil student at Oxford University
Research: Gravitational collapse in in scalar-tensor gravity theories

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Michi Baubock
3rd year PhD student in Astronomy
Thesis: The observational appearance of spinning neutron stars

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Alan Cooney
6th year PhD student in Physics
Thesis: Modified Gravity in Cosmology and around Compact Objects

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Phil Jenks
3rd year PhD student in Physics
Thesis: Numerical Simulations of Super-Eddington accretion onto Black Holes

 

Evan Tucker
Junior in Physics
Research: Relativistic Orbits around Sgr A*

 

Scott Palmer
Junior in Physics
Research: Relativistic Orbits around Sgr A*

Students and postdocs I have collaborated with:

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David Ballantyne
Currently: Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech
2005-2008: TAP Postdoctoral Fellow
Research: Polarization of Accretion Flows

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Chi-Kwan Chan
Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher, NORDITA
2003-2007: PhD student in Physics
Thesis: Numerical Simulations of MHD Accretion Flows

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Simon DeDeo
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute
1999-2000: Senior student at Harvard Univ.
2001-2003: PhD Student at Princeton
Research: General Relativistic Constraints on Emission Models of AXPs; Astrophysical Tests of Scalar-Tensor Gravity; Modified Gravity with Perturbative Constraints

 

Hakan Erkut
Currently: Assistant Professor, lstanbul Kultur Universitesi
2005-2006: TUBITAK Exchange Fellow
Research: Resonant Modes in MHD Accretion Disks

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Andras Gaspar
Currently: Posdoctoral Researcher, UofA
2009-2011: PhD Student in Astronomy
Research: Observations and Models of Debris Disks

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Tolga Guver
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Sabanci University, Istanbul
2008-2011: Postdoctoral Researcher
Research: Spectroscopic Measurements of Neutron-Star Masses and Radii

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Keiko Hiranaka
Currently: PhD Student, CUNY
2008-2009: Senior in Physics
Research: Curved Universes in Modified Gravity

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Tim Johannsen
Currently:CITA Fellow, Perimeter Institute
2007-2012: PhD student in Physics
Thesis: Testing General Relativity with Black Holes

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Chris Limbach
Currently: PhD Student, Princeton University
2008-2009: Junior/Senior in Physics
Research: The Tully-Fisher Relation in Modified Gravity

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Sui Ann Mao
Currently: Jansky Fellow, U. Wisconsin
2004-2005: Junior in Physics
Research: Numerical Simulations of QPOs around Black Holes

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Robert Marcus
Currently: PhD Student, Harvard University
2005-2006: Senior in Physics
Research: A 2D Algorithm for Photon Diffusion in Neutron Star Atmospheres

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Peter Perakis
Currently: pre-doc researcher, Northwestern U
2010-2011: Senior in Physics
Research: Free-free Opacities in Neutron-Star Atmospheres

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Martin Pessah
Currently: Assistant Professor, Niels Bohr Institute
2003-2007: PhD student in Physics
Thesis: MHD Turbulence and Angular Momentum Transport in Accretion Disks

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Pavlin Savov
Currently: Associate, Goldman Sachs
1999-2000: Junior/Senior in Physics, MIT
Research: Eddington Limited X-ray Bursts

 

Can Wang
2007-2008: Exchange Senior in Physics
Research: Viscous Damping of Oscillations in Accretion Disks