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2026

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Citations
46827
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Fernando Camilo is affiliated with the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory in South Africa. Their research primarily falls within the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their work also extends to Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Oceanography, Instrumentation, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's main topics of research encompass pulsars and gravitational waves, radio astronomy observations and technology, astrophysics and cosmic phenomena, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, astrophysical phenomena and observations, geophysics and gravity measurements, and the study of galaxies' formation, evolution, and phenomena.

Fernando Camilo has contributed extensively to the academic literature, with recent publications including:

  • Strong-Field Gravity Tests with the Double Pulsar, 2021, Physical Review X
  • The Third Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-Ray Pulsars, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal
  • The MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey, 2021, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • The 1.28 GHz MeerKAT Galactic Center Mosaic, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
  • Eight new millisecond pulsars from the first MeerKAT globular cluster census, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • S. Buchner
  • M. Krämer
  • M. Geyer
  • W. D. Cotton
  • M. Bailes

The venues where Fernando Camilo has often published are diverse, reflecting a broad engagement with the scientific community. Key publication outlets include:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • An increased estimate of the merger rate of double neutron stars from observations of a highly relativistic system

    M. Burgay;N. D'Amico;A. Possenti;R. N. Manchester

  • Tests of General Relativity from Timing the Double Pulsar

    M. Kramer;I. H. Stairs;R. N. Manchester;M. A. McLaughlin;M. A. McLaughlin

  • A double-pulsar system: A rare laboratory for relativistic gravity and plasma physics

    A. G. Lyne;M. Burgay;M. Kramer;A. Possenti

  • A radio pulsar spinning at 716 Hz.

    Jason W. T. Hessels;Scott M. Ransom;Ingrid H. Stairs;Paulo C. C. Freire

  • A repeating fast radio burst

    L. G. Spitler;P. Scholz;J. W. T. Hessels;J. W. T. Hessels;S. Bogdanov

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

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

  • The Parkes multi-beam pulsar survey - I. Observing and data analysis systems, discovery and timing of 100 pulsars

    R.N. Manchester;A.G. Lyne;F. Camilo;J.F. Bell

  • Transient radio bursts from rotating neutron stars

    M. A. McLaughlin;A. G. Lyne;D. R. Lorimer;M. Kramer

  • The Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey: I. Observing and Data Analysis Systems, Discovery and Timing of 100 Pulsars

    R. N. Manchester;A. G. Lyne;F. Camilo;J. F. Bell

  • Fast Radio Burst Discovered in the Arecibo Pulsar ALFA Survey

    L. G. Spitler;J. M. Cordes;J. W. T. Hessels;D. R. Lorimer

  • The First Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;Markus Ackermann;Marco Ajello;W. B. Atwood

  • The Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey - VI. Discovery and timing of 142 pulsars and a Galactic population analysis

    D. R. Lorimer;D. R. Lorimer;A. J. Faulkner;A. G. Lyne;R. N. Manchester

  • Fast Radio Burst Discovered in the Arecibo Pulsar ALFA Survey

    L. G. Spitler;J. M. Cordes;J. W. T. Hessels;J. W. T. Hessels;D. R. Lorimer

  • Transient pulsed radio emission from a magnetar

    Fernando Camilo;Scott M. Ransom;Jules P. Halpern;John Reynolds

  • THE COSMIC COALESCENCE RATES FOR DOUBLE NEUTRON STAR BINARIES

    V. Kalogera;C. Kim;D. R. Lorimer;M. Burgay

  • Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Crab Pulsar and Nebula

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

  • Multifrequency Observations of Radio Pulse Broadening and Constraints on Interstellar Electron Density Microstructure

    N. D. Ramesh Bhat;James M. Cordes;Fernando Camilo;David J. Nice

  • Very low braking index for the Vela pulsar

    A. G. Lyne;R. S. Pritchard;F. Graham-Smith;F. Camilo

  • Twenty-one millisecond pulsars in Terzan 5 using the Green Bank Telescope.

    Scott M. Ransom;Scott M. Ransom;Jason W. T. Hessels;Ingrid H. Stairs;Paulo C. C. Freire

  • Arecibo pulsar survey using ALFA. I. Survey strategy and first discoveries

    J. M. Cordes;P. C. C. Freire;D. R. Lorimer;F. Camilo

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Kramer
Michael Kramer Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Maura McLaughlin
Maura McLaughlin West Virginia University
Ingrid H. Stairs
Ingrid H. Stairs University of British Columbia
Paulo C. C. Freire
Paulo C. C. Freire Max Planck Society
Scott M. Ransom
Scott M. Ransom National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Duncan R. Lorimer
Duncan R. Lorimer West Virginia University
Richard N. Manchester
Richard N. Manchester Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jason W. T. Hessels
Jason W. T. Hessels University of Amsterdam
Andrew Lyne
Andrew Lyne University of Manchester
Simon Johnston
Simon Johnston Australia Telescope National Facility

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