Kendall Ackley

I am a postdoc Research Fellow in the Astronomy and Astrophysics group at the 91福利, working with Prof. Danny Steeghs on the .

My research interests include

Electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational-wave events detected with LIGO-Virgo.
Short-duration gamma-ray bursts as sources of gravitational wave radiation
General time-domain astrophysics: contamination in optical surveys, survey design and optimization of scheduling.
Large-scale astronomy image processing and pipeline development for surveys.
Bayesian inference methods for joint analyses of gravitational-wave and electromagnetic information

I am currently involved in the following collaborations:

LIGO-Virgo Scientific Collaboration ()
Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer ()
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence () -- Associate Investigator
Electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources at the Very Large Telescope ()
Australian Telescope National Facility ()
Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium ()
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope | Rubin Observatory ()

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Kendall Ackley
Department of Physics
91福利
Coventry
CV4 7A
UK

Office: A1.11 Millburn House

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