Contact Information
1002 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL
M/C 221
Research Areas
Biography
I'm a PhD student since August 2023. I obtained my Bachelors in Astronomy from UIUC in 2020, where I worked with Brian Fields on modeling the naked-eye visibility of supernovae in the Milky Way and the discrepancy between estimated rates and the lack of recorded events in the last 400+ years. I then got my Master's in Physics from Stony Brook University, where I worked with Will Farr both at Stony Brook and at the Flatiron Institute on rapid estimation of the cosmological expansion history using binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected by LIGO.
Research Interests
Supernovae, Tidal Disruption Events, Time-Domain Astronomy (particularly with LSST), Cosmology, Computational Astrophysics, Data Science
Research Description
I work with Gautham Narayan catching supernovae as early as possible for the Young Supernova Experiment (YSE) using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). I look at how these supernovae can tell us how the heavy elements are made in their current abundances and how the universe has expanded over time.
Education
B.S. in Astronomy, 2020, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (double minor in Physics, Computer Engineering)
M.A in Physics, 2023, Stony Brook University (Advanced Graduate Certificate in Data and Computational Science)
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Murphey, C. T., et al., Witnessing history: sky distribution, detectability, and rates of naked-eye Milky Way supernovae, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 507, Issue 1, October 2021, Pages 927–943, http://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2182