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Banting Prize Fellow at McGill University
Banting Prize Fellow at McGill University
Welcome! I am a 1st-year postdoc at McGill university in Montreál working in Prof. Daryl Haggard's group. My work focuses on Sgr A* and its unique environment. I am a part of the XRISM Galactic Center team, and I use data from Chandra, JWST, and XRISM.
I did my Astrophysics PhD with Prof. Lia Corrales at the University of Michigan, where I modelled the Chandra HETG high-resolution spectrum of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, comparing black hole accretion models to numerical simulations of the Wolf-Rayet winds in the central parsec. I also separated out supernova remnant Sgr A East from other extended sources in the region using machine learning techniques.
Previous work: I have experience observing stellar mass black holes using data from Swift, Chandra, NICER, and XMM-Newton. My past projects include analysis of the accretion disk wind of GRO J1655-40, the novel obscured state of GRS 1915+105, and the system consisting of black hole binary Swift J1728 and supernova remnant G351.9.
Please feel free to contact me at mayura.balakrishnan@mcgill.ca!
Recent Papers with Significant Contribution:
Recent Papers with Significant Contribution:
As part of the NASA Astrophysics Mission Design School, published October 2024.
M. Balakrishnan, C. M. P. Russell, L. Corrales, D. Calderón, J. Cuadra, D. Haggard, S. Markoff, J. Neilsen, M. Nowak, Q. D. Wang, F. Baganoff, ApJ, 974, 99
M. Balakrishnan, L. Corrales, S. Markoff, M. Nowak, D. Hagard, Q. D. Wang, J. Neilsen, C. M. P. Russell, D. Calderón, J. Cuadra, F. Baganoff, ApJ, 974, 98
M. Balakrishnan, P. A. Draghis, J. M. Miller, R. Fender, J. Bright, M. Ng, E. Cackett, A. Fabian, K. Kuntz, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, D. Proga, P. Ray, J. Raymond, M. T. Reynolds, A. Zoghbi (04/2023)
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