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julie l. malewicz

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I study supermassive black holes and how they shine.
My main object of study is supermassive black hole binaries — what they look like, how to search for them, what they can tell us about galaxy formation and evolution, general relativity and black hole accretion. My method of choice is X-ray reflection spectroscopy My thesis work specifically is on the spectral properties of the relativistic X-ray reflection associated with supermassive black hole binaries — with a special focus on the ones that emit detectable gravitational waves (in either the mHz or nHz frequency ranges). I am particularly interested in multimessenger searches for these kinds of systems. I am a member of the LISA consortium, NewAthena's Multimessenger working group, and have contributed on projects for NANOGrav and the AXIS Science Team.

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I am a PhD candidate at Georgia Tech's Center for Relativistic Astrophysics where I work with Profs. Tamara Bogdanović and David Ballantyne. Here you can find a list of publications and talks I've given.

If you'd like to contact me to talk about my research, black holes or astrophysics in general, or how we can make that kind of research more accessible to future scientists of all backgrounds — you can email me at jlm [at] gatech [dot] edu.

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