Welcome! I am a 5th year graduate student in the Astronomy program at the University of Michigan. This September, I will be joining Prof. Daryl Haggard's group at McGill as a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, where I will work on tracing hot plasma from Sgr A* from the central parsecs to the eROSITA bubbles.

My research is focused on X-ray views of the Galactic Center and supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. My most recent work is on modelling the Chandra high resolution of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, comparing black hole accretion models to numerical simulations of the Wolf-Rayet winds in the central parsec. I am currently using signal separation techniques to separate overlapping extended objects with Chandra imaging data.

Preious 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 bmayura@umich.edu!