OzGrav Associate Investigator; Research Fellow in Astrophysics, The University of Western Australia
Eric Howell studies the synergy between Gravitational Wave transients and Gamma-ray Bursts. This work involves combining data from the Gravitational Wave and the electromagnetic domains to determine what drives cataclysmic astrophysical events, how often they occur and their history. He is a member of the science team for both the NASA StarBurst and MoonBEAM (Moon Burst Energetics All-sky Monitor) gamma-ray burst satellites expected to launch in later this decade. He played a key role in initializing the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA targeted search for gravitational waves associated with Fast Radio Bursts and has co-led the search since 2019. He held an Australian Research Council DECRA fellowship till 2023 in astrophysics and has been a member of LIGO since 2005.
Sep 29, 2023 08:50 am UTC| Science
Every so often, astronomers glimpse an intense flash of radio waves from space a flash that lasts only instants but puts out as much energy in a millisecond as the Sun does in a few years. The origin of these fast radio...
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