Research Areas
Astrophysics & Cosmology; Particle Physics
Research Type
Experimentalist
Research Website
Current Projects
21cm Radio Instrumentation to measure Large Scale Structure and Dark Energy - Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), The Hydrogen Intensity Mapping and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX)
Early Universe Cosmology: The Cosmic Microwave Background - Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), Simons Observatory
Biographical Sketch
Laura Newburgh is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Yale University. She received her PhD. in Physics from Columbia University on her work building, characterizing, deploying, and analyzing data on the polarized CMB experiment QUIET. She worked on low-temperature detector characterization, integration, and deployment for polarized CMB experiment ACTPol as a postdoc at Princeton University, and began working on novel methods of calibration for the 21cm experiment CHIME as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. Her work spans hardware, software, and analysis for CMB and 21cm cosmology through her current projects CHIME, HIRAX, Simons Observatory, and CMB-S4.
Education
Ph.D. 2010, Columbia University
Honors & Awards
NSF Career, 2018
Selected Publications
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, A Second Source of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts, Nature, Volume 566, Issue 7743
CHIME/FRB Collaboration, First Detection of Fast Radio Bursts between 400 and 800 MHz by CHIME/FRB, Astronomer’s Telegram #11901
Louis et al, The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Two-Season ACTPol Spectra and Parameters, ArXiv
Newburgh et al, HIRAX: A Probe of Dark Energy and Radio Transients, Proc. SPIE, ArXiv
Berger et al, Holographic Beam Mapping of the CHIME Pathfinder Array, Proc. SPIE , ArXiv
Newburgh et al, Calibrating CHIME, A New Radio Interferometer to Probe Dark Energy, Proc. SPIE, 2014, ArXiv