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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For her discovery of high energy gammaray flares from the Crab nebula in Fermi data and her major contributions to the success of Fermi

Overview

E. Hays is a researcher affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States, primarily working in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans several specialized subfields, including Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics within astrophysics and related areas. These include Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology, Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, and Neutrino Physics Research.

Hays has published extensively in notable venues, with frequent publications in

  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Nature Astronomy

Some recent papers include:

  • Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • Incremental Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • The Fourth Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal
  • The POEMMA (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics) Observatory, 2020, Institutional Research Information System University of Turin (University of Turin)
  • Fermi-GBM Discovery of GRB 221009A: An Extraordinarily Bright GRB from Onset to Afterglow, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Throughout their work, E. Hays has frequently collaborated with other researchers such as E. Bissaldi, R. Bonino, R. A. Cameron, S. Cutini, and F. D'Ammando, each appearing as a coauthor on multiple publications.

In 2014, Hays was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for contributions related to the discovery of high-energy gamma-ray flares from the Crab nebula in Fermi data and other contributions to the Fermi mission.

Best Publications

  • The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Mission

    W. B. Atwood;A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;W. Althouse

  • FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE FIRST SOURCE CATALOG

    A.A. Abdo;A.A. Abdo;Markus Ackermann;Marco Ajello;A. Allafort

  • Fermi Large Area Telescope Second Source Catalog

    P. L. Nolan;A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello

  • Measurement of the Cosmic Ray e+ + e- spectrum from 20 GeV to 1 TeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope.

    A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;M. Axelsson

  • Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog Data Release 2

    J. Ballet;T.H. Burnett;S.W. Digel;B. Lott

  • Searching for dark matter annihilation from Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies with six years of Fermi Large Area Telescope data

    M. Ackermann;A. Albert;B. Anderson;W. B. Atwood

  • THE SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION OF FERMI BRIGHT BLAZARS

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;I. Agudo;M. Ajello

  • The Spectral Energy Distribution of Fermi bright blazars

    A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;M. Axelsson

  • The second catalog of active galactic nuclei detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

    Markus Ackermann;Marco Ajello;A. Allafort;E. Antolini;E. Antolini

  • Detection of the characteristic pion-decay signature in supernova remnants

    Markus Ackermann;Marco Ajello;A. Allafort;Luca Baldini

  • The Second Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

    M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;A. Allafort;E. Antolini

  • THE SECOND FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE CATALOG OF GAMMA-RAY PULSARS

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ajello;A. Allafort;L. Baldini

  • Fermi-LAT observations of the diffuse γ-ray emission: implications for cosmic rays and the interstellar medium

    M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;W. B. Atwood;L. Baldini

  • The spectrum of isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission between 100 MeV and 820 GeV

    M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;A. Albert

  • The spectrum of isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission between 100 MeV and 820 GeV

    M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;A. Albert;W. B. Atwood

  • The First Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;Markus Ackermann;Marco Ajello;A. Allafort

  • Fermi/Large Area Telescope bright gamma-ray source list

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;W. B. Atwood

  • A limit on the variation of the speed of light arising from quantum gravity effects

    A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;K. Asano

  • Constraining Dark Matter Models from a Combined Analysis of Milky Way Satellites with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

    M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;A. Albert;W. B. Atwood

  • The fermi large area telescope on orbit: Event classification, instrument response functions, and calibration

    Markus Ackermann;Marco Ajello;A. Albert;A. Allafort

Frequent Co-Authors

Diego F. Torres
Diego F. Torres Institute of Space Sciences
Julie McEnery
Julie McEnery Goddard Space Flight Center
G. Tosti
G. Tosti University of Perugia
Olaf Reimer
Olaf Reimer University of Innsbruck
C. C. Cheung
C. C. Cheung United States Naval Research Laboratory
Igor V. Moskalenko
Igor V. Moskalenko Stanford University
A. Morselli
A. Morselli National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Peter F. Michelson
Peter F. Michelson Stanford University
Marco Ajello
Marco Ajello Clemson University
Yasushi Fukazawa
Yasushi Fukazawa Hiroshima University

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