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Priyamvada Natarajan

Priyamvada Natarajan

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Physics

D-Index
93
Citations
26781
World Ranking
2060
National Ranking
1057

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For key contributions to two of the most challenging problems in cosmology  mapping dark matter and tracing the accretion history of black holes Her work using gravitational lensing techniques has provided a deeper understanding of the granularity of dark matter in clusters of galaxies  She has developed theoretical models to describe the assembly and accretion history of black holes

Overview

Priyamvada Natarajan is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has a primary focus in the field of Physics and Astronomy with over 400 publications. Their research encompasses a wide range of subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, as well as Statistics and Probability.

The scientist's work covers main topics such as:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing

Natarajan's recent notable papers include:

  • "The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-wave Background", 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • "The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics", 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • "The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational-wave Background", 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • "Evidence for heavy-seed origin of early supermassive black holes from a z ≈ 10 X-ray quasar", 2023, Nature Astronomy
  • "UNCOVER: The Growth of the First Massive Black Holes from JWST/NIRSpec-Spectroscopic Redshift Confirmation of an X-Ray Luminous AGN at z = 10.1", 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters

The frequent co-authors with whom Natarajan has collaborated extensively include Angelo Ricarte, Ramesh Narayan, Mathilde Jauzac, Laura Blecha, and Luke Zoltan Kelley.

Publications by Natarajan are often found in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Galaxies

In addition to numerous scientific papers, Natarajan has authored books, notably "Mapping the Heavens" published by Yale University Press in 2020.

The scientist has been recognized with awards including Fellowship of the American Physical Society in 2010, with the citation highlighting key contributions to cosmology, particularly in mapping dark matter and tracing the accretion history of black holes. Their work using gravitational lensing techniques has provided insights into dark matter in galaxy clusters, and theoretical models concerning black hole assembly and accretion have also been developed.

Best Publications

  • First Stars, Very Massive Black Holes, and Metals

    R. Schneider;Andrea Ferrara;P. Natarajan;K. Omukai

  • The Frontier Fields: Survey Design

    J. M. Lotz;A. Koekemoer;D. Coe;N. Grogin

  • A wide field Hubble Space Telescope study of the cluster CL0024+16 at z=0.4. I: morphological distributions to 5 Mpc radius

    T. Treu;R.S. Ellis;J.-P. Kneib;A. Dressler

  • High-redshift galaxies, their active nuclei and central black holes

    Martin G. Haehnelt;Priyamvada Natarajan;Martin J. Rees

  • A Wide-Field Hubble Space Telescope Study of the Cluster Cl 0024+16 at z = 0.4. I. Morphological Distributions to 5 Mpc Radius

    Tommaso Treu;Richard S. Ellis;Jean-Paul Kneib;Alan Dressler

  • Supermassive black hole formation during the assembly of pre-galactic discs

    Giuseppe Lodato;Priyamvada Natarajan

  • A Mean Redshift of 2.8 for Swift gamma - ray bursts

    P Jakobsson;A Levan;A Levan;Jpu Fynbo;R Priddey

  • The Frontier Fields: Survey Design and Initial Results

    J. M. Lotz;A. Koekemoer;D. Coe;N. Grogin

  • Gamma‐ray bursts from stellar remnants: probing the Universe at high redshift

    Ralph A. M. J. Wijers;Joshua S. Bloom;Jasjeet S. Bagla;Priyamvada Natarajan

  • A mean redshift of 2.8 for Swift gamma-ray bursts

    P. Jakobsson;A. Levan;J. P. U. Fynbo;R. Priddey

  • Combining strong and weak gravitational lensing in abell 1689

    Marceau Limousin;Johan Richard;Johan Richard;Eric Jullo;Jean-Paul Kneib

  • Cluster Lenses

    Jean-Paul Kneib;Priyamvada Natarajan

  • Accretion during the Merger of Supermassive Black Holes

    Philip J. Armitage;Priyamvada Natarajan

  • A Wide Field Hubble Space Telescope Study of the Cluster Cl0024+1654 at z=0.4 II: The Cluster Mass Distribution

    Jean-Paul Kneib;Patrick Hudelot;Richard S. Ellis;Tommaso Treu

  • Spin-induced Galaxy Alignments and Their Implications for Weak-Lensing Measurements

    Robert G. Crittenden;Priyamvada Natarajan;Priyamvada Natarajan;Ue-Li Pen;Tom Theuns

  • A Wide-Field Hubble Space Telescope Study of the Cluster Cl 0024+1654 at z=0.4. II. The Cluster Mass Distribution

    Jean-Paul Kneib;Patrick Hudelot;Richard S. Ellis;Tommaso Treu;Tommaso Treu

  • The evolution of massive black hole seeds

    Marta Volonteri;Giuseppe Lodato;Priyamvada Natarajan

  • Journey to the MBH-σ relation: the fate of low-mass black holes in the Universe

    Marta Volonteri;Priyamvada Natarajan;Priyamvada Natarajan

  • Discriminating weak lensing from intrinsic spin correlations using the curl-gradient decomposition

    Robert G. Crittenden;Priyamvada Natarajan;Ue-Li Pen;Tom Theuns

  • Combined strong and weak lensing analysis of 28 clusters from the Sloan Giant Arcs Survey

    Masamune Oguri;Matthew B. Bayliss;Håkon Dahle;Keren Sharon

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Paul Kneib
Jean-Paul Kneib École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Marta Volonteri
Marta Volonteri Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
Harald Ebeling
Harald Ebeling University of Hawaii at Manoa
Johan Richard
Johan Richard Lyon Observatory
Nial R. Tanvir
Nial R. Tanvir University of Leicester
Ezequiel Treister
Ezequiel Treister Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Ian Smail
Ian Smail Durham University
Jens Hjorth
Jens Hjorth University of Copenhagen
C. Megan Urry
C. Megan Urry Yale University

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