@mayaKfish

Assistant professor @CITA_ICAT, using gravitational waves to learn about the universe. she/her/hers.

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Joined January 2013
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🎙️ Join the Conversation: Catch Maya Fishbach as a Q&A panelist following the private screening of Bending Light in Toronto on May 27th. 🎥✨ 🌌 Event Details Showing at Spadina Theatre Doors open: 6:45 PM Free Admission Registration Required RSVP at karmafilm.ca/bendinglight
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We're thrilled to have Maya Fishbach, @UofTArtSci Assistant Professor @CITA_ICAT, presenting at #AstronomyOnTapTO! ✨ Join us on March 1 to hear @mayaKfish explain how scientists are "listening" to black holes with gravitational waves ow.ly/1OMu50QGOlj
A promotional image for Astronomy on Tap T.O. featuring Prof. Maya Fishbach, who will be presenting, "Listening to Black Holes with Gravitational Waves."

ALT A promotional image for Astronomy on Tap T.O. featuring Prof. Maya Fishbach, who will be presenting, "Listening to Black Holes with Gravitational Waves."

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Thanks to @OntUniv for awarding me the John Charles Polanyi Prize in physics, and to @LGOntario, @JillDunlop1, the other prize winners, Nobel Laureates and everyone for putting together such a fun, inspiring ceremony! cita.utoronto.ca/cita-facult…

CITA faculty Maya Fishbach receives the 2023 John Charles Polanyi Prize in Physics - Canadian...

By: Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics Assistant Professor Maya Fishback, one of the newest additions to the faculty of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysi...

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Extremely honored to have been awarded a Sloan Fellowship this year. Huge thanks to all my @LIGO @ego_virgo KAGRA colleagues for detecting gravitational waves and making my research possible! Congratulations to all the winners!
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics@CITA_ICAT20 Feb 2024
Congratulations to @CITA_ICAT faculty @mayaKfish for receiving the @SloanFoundation Fellowship!  She is one of 126 early-career scholars who "represent the most promising scientific researchers working today". @sloanfellow @thejunaverse utoronto.ca/celebrates/maya-…
Maya Fishbach, Daniel Litt awarded 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships https://www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/maya-fishbach-daniel-litt-awarded-2024-sloan-research-fellowships

ALT Maya Fishbach, Daniel Litt awarded 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships https://www.utoronto.ca/celebrates/maya-fishbach-daniel-litt-awarded-2024-sloan-research-fellowships

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Félicitations à Mme Maya Fishbach de @UofT lauréate du prix Polanyi 2023 de physique! En savoir plus sur sa recherche primée : bit.ly/4bIvnYZ #ONpse #UofT @mayaKfish
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Through pioneering research, Dr. @mayaKfish, is working to not only enhance our understanding of the universe's most extreme objects, but also to unravel their origins and contexts, with profound implications for cosmology. Learn more: ontariosuniversities.ca/univ…
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Congratulations Dr. Maya Fishbach from @UofT, winner of the 2023 Polanyi Prize in Physics! Learn more about their award-winning research: bit.ly/3SV4ysa #ONpse #UofT @mayaKfish
Dr. Maya Fishbach. 2023 Polanyi Prize in Physics. The Ontario trillium logo.

ALT Dr. Maya Fishbach. 2023 Polanyi Prize in Physics. The Ontario trillium logo.

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Maya Fishbach & Daniel Litt from @UofTArtSci have been awarded prestigious 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. #UofT 🏆 uoft.me/adV
Maya Fishbach (L) and Daniel Litt

ALT Maya Fishbach (L) and Daniel Litt

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Maya Fishbach retweeted
daniel holz@decohere21 Feb 2023
Fun, fresh paper led by Reed Essick, asking whether GW sources are random on the sky. Although data is consistent with isotropy, we find an excess in the direction of constellation Equuleus. @GWastrology Note: title is pun intended. tinyurl.com/3huhhnmr @farrwill @mayaKfish
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Black holes are beautifully simple—they can be described by just their mass and their spin. These reveal information about how the black holes formed But do measurements made using different observations tell a consistent story? A 🧵to catch up on recent papers
Masses in the stellar graveyard, an infographic showing estimated masses the masses of black holes and neutron stars observed in different ways There are many black holes observed using gravitational waves, and these seem more massive than the black holes observed electromagnetically Might there also be a gap between the most massive neutron stars and the smallest black holes?

ALT Masses in the stellar graveyard, an infographic showing estimated masses the masses of black holes and neutron stars observed in different ways There are many black holes observed using gravitational waves, and these seem more massive than the black holes observed electromagnetically Might there also be a gap between the most massive neutron stars and the smallest black holes?

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Check out our review of some of the coolest cosmological probes, including gravitational wave standard sirens 💫 🚨
Living Reviews | Relativity@livrev_lrr14 Dec 2022
Moresco, M., Amati, L., Amendola, L. et al. Unveiling the Universe with emerging cosmological probes. #LivingRevRelativ 25, 6 (2022). doi.org/10.1007/s41114-022-0… #OpenAccess #ReviewArticle #cosmology @MicheleMoresco @mayaKfish @decohere @raul_jimenez67 @AlkistisPou @licia_verde
Redshift distribution of the various emerging cosmological probes considered in this review.

ALT Redshift distribution of the various emerging cosmological probes considered in this review.

Current constraints on cosmological parameters from the various cosmological probes covered in this review.

ALT Current constraints on cosmological parameters from the various cosmological probes covered in this review.

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And our review "Unveiling the Universe with emerging cosmological probes" it's finally been published! Very happy about it! 🚀🎉🍾
Living Reviews | Relativity@livrev_lrr14 Dec 2022
Moresco, M., Amati, L., Amendola, L. et al. Unveiling the Universe with emerging cosmological probes. #LivingRevRelativ 25, 6 (2022). doi.org/10.1007/s41114-022-0… #OpenAccess #ReviewArticle #cosmology @MicheleMoresco @mayaKfish @decohere @raul_jimenez67 @AlkistisPou @licia_verde
Redshift distribution of the various emerging cosmological probes considered in this review.

ALT Redshift distribution of the various emerging cosmological probes considered in this review.

Current constraints on cosmological parameters from the various cosmological probes covered in this review.

ALT Current constraints on cosmological parameters from the various cosmological probes covered in this review.

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Great summary from AAS Nova about my latest paper with @ChaseBKimball and Vicky Kalogera!
AAS Nova@AASNova10 Oct 2022
Insights from Misaligned Black Hole Pairs How many black holes formed from collapsing stars and how many formed from other black holes? Gravitational waves give us a way to find out. aasnova.org/2022/10/10/insig… @NUCIERA @NUPhysicsAstro
simulation of two black holes bending light

ALT simulation of two black holes bending light

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Maya Fishbach retweeted
Christopher Berry@cplberry5 Oct 2022
Replying to @mayaKfish @decohere @UChicago
We have already established that most black holes are vanilla, and by virtue of the no-hair theorem do not come with toppings, but there is still much to discover
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Thanks @jmezquiagabravo and @decohere for the exciting gravitational wave cosmology workshop @UChicago last week! Standard sirens are the next best thing to ice cream (and come in just as many flavors, probably)
Me giving a talk with a slide titled “standard siren flavors” showing an illustration of merging neutron stars, but the neutron stars are replaced with scoops of vanilla and strawberry ice cream.

ALT Me giving a talk with a slide titled “standard siren flavors” showing an illustration of merging neutron stars, but the neutron stars are replaced with scoops of vanilla and strawberry ice cream.

Talk slide titled “Standard Siren Flavors,” with bullets saying “bright,” “dark” and “spectral” next to an illustration of gravitational waves radiating from a binary neutron star system, but the neutron stars have been replaced with scoops of vanilla and strawberry ice cream.

ALT Talk slide titled “Standard Siren Flavors,” with bullets saying “bright,” “dark” and “spectral” next to an illustration of gravitational waves radiating from a binary neutron star system, but the neutron stars have been replaced with scoops of vanilla and strawberry ice cream.

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Maya Fishbach retweeted
Will M Farr@farrwill11 Aug 2022
Do gravitational wave events come equally from every place in the sky? A thread about a recent (sort of) paper I was involved in with Reed Essick, @mayaKfish, @decohere, and Erik Katsavounidis. (Spoiler: yes, they do, so far as we can tell.). arxiv.org/abs/2207.05792
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🆕 AAS Journal Author Series video! Maya Fishbach @mayaKfish (@NSULA) chats about her article on black holes: youtube.com/watch?v=pdNhnmjI… The goal of this series is to connect authors w/their article, their human story & the larger #astronomy community. #ExploreAstronomy #BlackHoles
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I just made a donation to @midwestaccess. You should too! midwestaccesscoalition.org/p…
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LIGO@LIGO16 Mar 2022
Huge congratulations to our @LIGO colleague, Christine Ye, who has been awarded the top #RegeneronSTS prize for her #GravitationalWaves project with @mayaKfish. What a wonderful achievement! We are sure Christine has a very bright #STEM future.👋👋👋
Regeneron
@Regeneron16 Mar 2022
Congrats to the 2022 #RegeneronSTS top winner, Christine Ye, for her winning project analyzing the gravitational waves emitted from huge collisions between neutron stars and black holes. We can’t wait to see how these finalists will shape the future of #STEM. @Society4Science
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Huge congrats to Christine! I’m so proud of everything you’ve accomplished — you’re already shaping the future of STEM!
Regeneron
@Regeneron16 Mar 2022
Congrats to the 2022 #RegeneronSTS top winner, Christine Ye, for her winning project analyzing the gravitational waves emitted from huge collisions between neutron stars and black holes. We can’t wait to see how these finalists will shape the future of #STEM. @Society4Science
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You can read Christine's paper on neutron star masses and spins inferred from @LIGO @ego_virgo @KAGRA_PR gravitational-wave observations here! arxiv.org/abs/2202.05164

Inferring the neutron star maximum mass and lower mass gap in...

Gravitational-wave (GW) detections of merging neutron star-black hole (NSBH) systems probe astrophysical neutron star (NS) and black hole (BH) mass distributions, especially at the transition...

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