Marta Burgay

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 Archived 2008-12-03 at the Wayback Machine, 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
^ ^a ^b "198634 Burgaymarta (2005 AN54)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
^ Burgay, Marta, "Marta Burgay PhD Thesis", The Cagliari Pulsar Group, Cagliari Astronomical Observatory, archived from the original on 2013-09-27, retrieved 2012-01-03
^ Fridman, Alexia M. (2005), "The IUPAP young scientists prize in astrophysics", Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions, 24 (3), Commission 19 (Astrophysics) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics: 149, Bibcode:2005A&AT...24..149F, doi:10.1080/10556790500481042, retrieved 2012-01-03
^ "Professor M. K. Vainu Bappu Gold Medal". Astronomical Society of India. Archived from the original on June 10, 2015. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. 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, retrieved 2012-01-03