{"id":836,"date":"2023-01-14T03:50:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T08:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broekgaarden.nl\/floor\/wordpress\/?page_id=836"},"modified":"2025-08-26T17:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:23:27","slug":"news-updates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.broekgaarden.nl\/floor\/wordpress\/news-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"News & Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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August 26, 2025<\/strong><\/p>

\"\ud83d\udea8\"<\/span> New Gravitational-Wave Results from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (GWTC-4) are out \u2014 and here\u2019s what I love about them \"\u2728\"<\/span>with LIGO Laboratory

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I finally finished going through the latest LVK GWTC O4 papers released today (not all are out yet!) \u2014 and wow, this was A LOT \"\ud83d\udd25\"<\/span>\"\ud83d\ude47\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\"<\/span>. So many amazing results, beautiful plots, and exciting insights!

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One thing I especially want to highlight is the LVK\u2019s leadership in making data accessible and publicly available. Several papers go into detail on the methods and procedures behind this effort \u2014 something that is truly game-changing for our field, but often goes underappreciated. Huge kudos to everyone involved in this monumental work \"\u2728\"<\/span> \"\ud83d\udd25\"<\/span> \"\ud83d\udc99\"

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\"\ud83d\udc49\"<\/span> I also put together a (very biased!) astrophysics-focused summary of some key highlights from the papers here:<\/div><\/div>
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It includes links, plots, and quotes from the original papers (staying close to the source and pointing back to LVK results), but with an emphasis on the new astrophysical insights. Hopefully this serves as a helpful entry point \u2014 but of course, nothing replaces reading the papers themselves. I hope this summary encourages you to dive in! \"\u2728\"<\/span> \"\ud83d\udcab\"

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HUGE thank you to all LVK members for this monumental effort<\/div>
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August 21, 2025\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>

Feeling beyond honored to work with so many talented students at the School of Physical Sciences<\/a>, UC San Diego<\/a> \u2728\u2728 \ud83d\ude47\u200d\u2640\ufe0f Incl. this amazing group during the summer: in photos \ud83d\udcf8 : Suoi-Nguon Pham<\/a>, Amedeo Romagnolo<\/a> (co-advisor), Esther Park<\/a>, Manasvini Komandur<\/a>, Laya Binu<\/a>, Feranmi Falodun<\/a>, Saina Kadni<\/a> & additionally: Matthew McCall, Alexis Vazquez, Eugene Shang, Meera Desawale<\/a>, Khushi Karthikeyan, Cau\u00e3 Rodrigues, Angel Hernandez, Hanan Sayes + grad students Ana Lam, Sasha Levina<\/a>, Alexander Migala<\/a>, Tyler Smith<\/a>, & Shasha Arani who served as wonderful mentors<\/p>

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Aug 20, 2025<\/strong><\/p>

[Summer student highlight] Meet Manasvini Komandur<\/a> \ud83d\udcab :
A rising junior with a Physics\/Astro major at UCSD. She received the UCSD STARS Fellowship this summer and has been working with her advisor, Tyler Smith (PhD student at UCI), and me on investigating “mass ratio reversals” (when the more massive black hole forms from the initially less massive star). \u2728 Here is a fantastic plot that she made & some pictures from her fantastic presentation last week \ud83e\udd29 \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>

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August 13, 2025 [Summer student highlight] Meet Feranmi Falodun:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

\"\"Feranmi is an undergraduate Computer Engineering student at California State University, East Bay. She received the CalBridge<\/a> Fellowship this summer and has been working on a project that analyzes the binary black hole merger rates and their properties across redshift using Startrack as part of our Gravitational-wave Paleontology group at the Astronomy department @UC San Diego<\/a> School of Physical Sciences<\/a>. In just a few weeks, she has already discovered some amazing r<\/p>

esults about which stars can form the binary black holes observed by LIGO Laboratory<\/a> and VIRGO. She is presenting her results this Wednesday at the SRC conference. Feranmi Falodun<\/a> will be applying for PhD programs this fall, so keep an eye out for her application! \ud83e\udd29 \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Aug 5, 2025\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>

Next Wednesday several of our group members will present at UCSD’s SRC conference. A list of presentations\/presenters is below:
Full Schedule https:\/\/ugresearch.ucsd.edu\/_files\/src\/2025-SRC-Presenter-Lineup.pdf<\/a><\/p>