Biography:Marta Burgay
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Short description: Italian radio astronomer
Marta Burgay (30 November 1976, Torino) is an Italian radio astronomer whose initial claim to fame was being the discoverer[1][2][3] of PSR J0737-3039, the first double pulsar (two pulsars orbiting each other), through using the 64-metre Parkes radio telescope in Australia .[4]
Awards and honors
- Her Thesis on radio pulsars won the 2005 Pietro Tacchini Prize, awarded by the Italian Astronomical Society (Italian: Società Astronomica Italiana) for the best Ph.D. thesis.[5]
- In 2006, she became the first winner of the IUPAP's Young Scientists Prize in Astrophysics award.[6]
- In 2010, she was honoured with the Vainu Bappu Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of India.[7]
- Asteroid 198634 Burgaymarta, discovered at Vallemare di Borbona in 2005, was named in her honor.[4] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 October 2017 (M.P.C. 106503).[8]
References
- ↑ Pulsar find boosts hope for gravity-wave hunters, CSIRO, 3 December 2003, accessed 2009-05-11
- ↑ New Binary Neutron Star Will Test Einstein , Robert Naeye, Sky and Telescope, 2003.12.12, accessed 2009-05-11
- ↑ Einstein Passes New Tests, Robert Naeye, Sky and Telescope, 3 March 2005, accessed 2009-05-11
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "198634 Burgaymarta (2005 AN54)". Minor Planet Center. https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=198634. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
- ↑ Burgay, Marta, "Marta Burgay PhD Thesis", The Cagliari Pulsar Group (Cagliari Astronomical Observatory), http://pulsar.oa-cagliari.inaf.it/pulsar/Tesi/BurgayPhd/, retrieved 2012-01-03
- ↑ Fridman, Alexia M. (2005), "The IUPAP young scientists prize in astrophysics", Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions (Commission 19 (Astrophysics) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) 24 (3): 149, doi:10.1080/10556790500481042, Bibcode: 2005A&AT...24..149F, http://www.iupap.org/commissions/c19/youngscie.html, retrieved 2012-01-03
- ↑ "Professor M. K. Vainu Bappu Gold Medal". Astronomical Society of India. http://www.astron-soc.in/awards.php#vainu_bappu. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
- ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
External links
- Gold, Lauren (August 18, 2005), "Weeklong summer school brings students and researchers to Arecibo Observatory to learn and to wonder", News Service (Cornell University), http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug05/Arecibo.main.lg.html, retrieved 2012-01-03
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