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Matthew Bailes

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Matthew Bailes
FAA
Alma materAustralian National University (PhD)
AwardsAustralian Laureate Fellowship (2015)[1]
Shaw Prize (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
Pulsars
Fast radio bursts
Gravitational waves[2]
InstitutionsSwinburne University of Technology
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
ThesisThe origin of pulsar velocities (1989)
Doctoral students
Websitewww.astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/mbailes.html Edit this at Wikidata

Matthew Bailes FAA is an astrophysicist and Professor at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology[2] and the Director of OzGrav, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery. In 2015 he won an ARC Laureate Fellowship to work on Fast Radio Bursts.[1][5] He is one of the most active researchers in pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts in the world. His research interests includes the birth, evolution of binary and millisecond pulsars, gravitational waves detection using an array of millisecond pulsars and radio astronomy data processing system design for Fast Radio Burst discovery. He is now leading his team to re-engineer the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope with a newly designed correlation system for observation of pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs).[6]

Education

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Bailes was educated at the Australian National University, graduating with a PhD in 1989.[7]

Career and research

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Bailes research interests are in astrophysics, pulsars, fast radio bursts and gravitational waves.[2][8][9]

Bailes founded the organisation for development of the Virtual Room, an octagonal virtual reality system for displaying the planets, the Sun, the stars, the Milky Way, the galaxies and the universe, etc. He made the 3D film Realising Einstein's Universe. His former doctoral students include Duncan Lorimer.[4]

Bailes is a committee member of the Australia Telescope Steering Committee[10] and on advisory board of Collaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER).

Awards and honours

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Bailes was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAAS) in 2022.[11] In 2023, he was awarded the Shaw Prize in Astronomy shared equally with Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin for their discovery of FRBs.[12][13][14] In 2024, Bailes was awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Science for his work in the discovery of FRBs. [15]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Star professor awarded fellowship". Swinburne University of Technology. 25 June 2015. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b c Matthew Bailes publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ "Manisha Pranati Caleb". AstroGen. American Astronomical Society. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  4. ^ a b Lorimer, Duncan Ross (1996). Galactic population of millisecond and normal pulsars. manchester.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. OCLC 657642507.
  5. ^ "Professor Matthew Bailes - Staff Profile". Swinburne University of Technology. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  6. ^ Matthew Bailes publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  7. ^ Bailes, Matthew (1989). The origin of pulsar velocities. gov.au (PhD thesis). Australian National University. OCLC 222990340.
  8. ^ Abbott, B. P.; et al. (2017). "GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral". Physical Review Letters. 119 (16): 161101. arXiv:1710.05832. Bibcode:2017PhRvL.119p1101A. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.119.161101. PMID 29099225.
  9. ^ Abbott, B. P.; et al. (2017). "Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger*". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 848 (2): L12. arXiv:1710.05833. Bibcode:2017ApJ...848L..12A. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/AA91C9.
  10. ^ "ATNF Steering Committee". ATNF. CSIRO. 18 April 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  11. ^ "Academy announces 2022 Fellows for outstanding contributions to science". Australian Academy of Science. 26 May 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  12. ^ "Shaw Prize Laureates 2023". shawprize.org.
  13. ^ "Shaw Prize 2023 press release". shawprize.org.
  14. ^ Australian astronomer wins prestigious science award, ABC Radio National interview ("Breakfast"), ABC News Online, 2023-05-31
  15. ^ "Astrophysicist Matthew Bailes wins 2024 Prime Minister's Prize for Science". ABC News. Australian Broadcast Corporation. Retrieved 11 October 2024.


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