NANOGrav Gallery
The NANOGrav collaboration consists primarily of participants from 14 different North American institutions. The participants range in experience from full professors to first year undergraduate and high school students. Each one has a unique skill set to contribute to our goal of detecting gravitational waves.
NANOGrav Senior Researchers
* Associate Member
- Zaven Arzoumanian
- Universities Space Research Association & Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center – Greenbelt, MD
- * Shamibrata Chatterjee
- Department of Astronomy, Cornell University – Ithaca, NY
- James Cordes
- Department of Astronomy, Cornell University – Ithaca, NY
- Paul Demorest
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory – Charlottesville, VA
- Lee Samuel Finn
- Department of Physics, Penn State University - State College, PA
- Fredrick Jenet
- Department of Physics, University of Texas at Brownsville – Brownsville, TX
- Victoria Kaspi
- Department of Physics, McGill University – Montreal, Canada
- Joseph Lazio
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Andrea Lommen
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Franklin & Marshall College – Lancaster, PA
- Duncan Lorimer
- Department of Physics, West Virginia University – Morgantown, WV
- Maura McLaughlin
- Department of Physics, West Virginia University – Morgantown, WV
- David Nice
- Physics Department, Lafayette College – Lafayette, PA
- Scott Ransom
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory – Charlottesville, VA
- Xavier Siemens
- University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, WI
- Ingrid Stairs
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia – Vancouver, Canada
- Daniel Stinebring
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Oberlin College – Oberlin, OH
- * Michele Vallisneri
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Non-Member Affiliated Researchers
- Rachel Bean
- Department of Astronomy, Cornell University - Ithaca, NY
- Fronefield Crawford
- Franklin & Marshall College - Lancaster, PA
- Julia Deneva
- National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center – Arecibo, PR
- Joanna Rankin
- Physics Department, University of Vermont – Burlington, VT
- Walid Majid
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Joseph Romano
- Department of Physics, University of Texas at Brownsville – Brownsville, TX
Postdoctoral Research Associates
- Sarah Burke-Spolaor
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- * Brian Christy
- Franklin & Marshall College - Lancaster, PA
- Timothy Dolch
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Oberlin College - Oberlin, OH
- Rob Ferdman
- Department of Physics, McGill University – Montreal, Canada
- * Lina Levin
- Department of Physics, West Virginia University - Morgantown, WV
- Jintao Luo
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory – Charlottesville, VA
- * Ryan Lynch
- Department of Physics, McGill University – Montreal, Canada
- Glenn Jones
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory – Charlottesville, VA
- * Sean McWilliams
- Physics Department, Princeton University - Princeton, NJ
- Yan Wang
- Department of Physics, University of Texas at Brownsville – Brownsville, TX
- WeiWei Zhu
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia – Vancouver, Canada
Graduate Students
- Sydney Chamberlin
- University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, WI
- Xiaho Deng
- Department of Physics, Penn State University - State College, PA
- Justin Ellis
- University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, WI
- * Emmanuel Fonseca
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia – Vancouver, Canada
- Lou Jing
- Department of Physics, University of Texas at Brownsville – Brownsville, TX
- Michael Koop
- Department of Physics, Penn State University - State College, PA
- Dustin Madison
- Department of Astronomy, Cornell University – Ithaca, NY
- Nipuni Palliyaguru
- Department of Physics, West Virginia University – Morgantown, WV
- Tim Pennucci
- Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia – Charlottesville, VA
- Joe Swiggum
- Department of Physics, West Virginia University – Morgantown, WV
Undergraduate Students
- Ryan Anella
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Franklin & Marshall College – Lancaster, PA
- Sam Berney
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Oberlin College - Oberlin, OH
- Alex Grassi
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Franklin & Marshall College – Lancaster, PA
- Mikaela Larkin
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Oberlin College - Oberlin, OH
- Gary Marchiny
- Department of Physics, West Virginia University – Morgantown, WV
- Jose Martinez
- Department of Physics, University of Texas at Brownsville – Brownsville, TX
- Anthony Post
- Physics Department, Lafayette College – Lafayette, PA
- Rimal Prabhat
- Physics Department, Lafayette College – Lafayette, PA
- Jackie Reser
- Department of Physics, University of Texas at Brownsville – Brownsville, TX
- Nicholas Stein
- Physics Department, Lafayette College – Lafayette, PA
- Gregory Stevens
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Oberlin College - Oberlin, OH
- Joseph Tumulty
- Physics Department, Lafayette College – Lafayette, PA
Institutional Members
NANOGrav is committed to forming partnerships with institutions in order to further NANOGrav's scientific goals
- Arecibo Observatory
- Arecibo, PR
- Franklin & Marshall College
- Lancaster, PA
- National Radio Astronomy Observatories
- Charlottesville, VA
- Oberlin College
- Oberlin, OH
- West Virginia University
- Morgantown, WV
Telescopes & Facilities
The primary observing instruments used by the NANOGrav collaboration are the 305-m diameter Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the 105-m Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. We also have the ability to use the Expanded Very Large Array in New Mexico and the Allen Telescope Array in California.
Observations at AO and the GBT are now using GUPPI and PUPPI for observing and timing millisecond pulsars. These instruments are some of the most advanced digital spectrometers for radio astronomy available anywhere in the world.
Green Bank Telescope, photo courtesy NRAO
Green Bank Telescope, photo courtesy NRAO
Green Bank Telescope, photo courtesy NRAO
Arecibo Observatory, photo courtesy of the NAIC - Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF
Arecibo Observatory, photo courtesy of the NAIC - Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF
Arecibo Observatory, photo courtesy of the NAIC - Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF