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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2008 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Maura McLaughlin is affiliated with West Virginia University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a total of 354 publications. Their research primarily spans the subfields of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Aerospace Engineering.

The main topics of McLaughlin's work include:

  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Advanced Frequency and Time Standards
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

McLaughlin has published in several scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

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

Some recent papers include:

  • The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-wave Background (2023), The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • mRNA vaccines induce durable immune memory to SARS-CoV-2 and variants of concern (2021), Science
  • The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics (2023), The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • The NANOGrav 11-year data set: High-precision timing of 45 millisecond pulsars (2024), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • The NANOGrav 11 Year Data Set: Pulsar-timing constraints on the Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background (2024), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

McLaughlin collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • S. M. Ransom
  • Ryan S. Lynch
  • Emmanuel Fonseca
  • I. H. Stairs
  • D. R. Lorimer

Award recognition for McLaughlin includes being named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2008.

Best Publications

  • A massive pulsar in a compact relativistic binary

    John Antoniadis;Paulo C. C. Freire;Norbert Wex;Thomas M. Tauris

  • A Bright Millisecond Radio Burst of Extragalactic Origin

    Duncan R. Lorimer;Matthew Bailes;Maura Ann McLaughlin;David J. Narkevic

  • 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

  • Relativistic Shapiro delay measurements of an extremely massive millisecond pulsar

    H. Thankful Cromartie;Emmanuel Fonseca;Scott M. Ransom;Paul B. Demorest

  • Relativistic Shapiro delay measurements of an extremely massive millisecond pulsar

    H. T. Cromartie;E. Fonseca;S. M. Ransom;P. B. Demorest

  • 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

  • A direct localization of a fast radio burst and its host

    S. Chatterjee;C. J. Law;R. S. Wharton;S. Burke-Spolaor;S. Burke-Spolaor

  • Transient radio bursts from rotating neutron stars

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

  • The International Pulsar Timing Array project: using pulsars as a gravitational wave detector

    G. Hobbs;A. Archibald;Z. Arzoumanian;D. Backer

  • The Host Galaxy and Redshift of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102

    Shriharsh P. Tendulkar;Cees Bassa;James M. Cordes;Geoffery C. Bower

  • The Host Galaxy and Redshift of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102

    S. P. Tendulkar;C. G. Bassa;J. M. Cordes;G. C. Bower

  • Fast Radio Burst Discovered in the Arecibo Pulsar ALFA Survey

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

  • 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

  • A radio pulsar/x-ray binary link.

    Anne M. Archibald;Ingrid H. Stairs;Ingrid H. Stairs;Ingrid H. Stairs;Scott M. Ransom;Victoria M. Kaspi

  • The NANOGrav 11-year Data Set: High-precision Timing of 45 Millisecond Pulsars

    Zaven Arzoumanian;Adam Brazier;Sarah Burke-Spolaor;Sydney Chamberlin

  • 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

  • The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Search for an Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background

    Zaven Arzoumanian;Paul T. Baker;Harsha Blumer;Bence Bécsy

Frequent Co-Authors

Duncan R. Lorimer
Duncan R. Lorimer West Virginia University
Ingrid H. Stairs
Ingrid H. Stairs University of British Columbia
Scott M. Ransom
Scott M. Ransom National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Michael Kramer
Michael Kramer Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Fernando Camilo
Fernando Camilo South African Radio Astronomy Observatory
Jason W. T. Hessels
Jason W. T. Hessels University of Amsterdam
Paulo C. C. Freire
Paulo C. C. Freire Max Planck Society
Andrew Lyne
Andrew Lyne University of Manchester
Andrea Possenti
Andrea Possenti National Institute for Astrophysics
Richard N. Manchester
Richard N. Manchester Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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