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Fiona A. Harrison is the Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy at Caltech , Harold A. Rosen Professor of Physics at Caltech and the Principal Investigator for NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR ) mission. She won the Hans A. Bethe Prize in 2020 for her work on NuSTAR .[1] [2]
Biography [ edit ]
Harrison was born in Santa Monica, California but moved to Boulder, Colorado , at age three. She completed her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in 1985 with high honors in physics, and went to U.C. Berkeley for graduate studies, completing a PhD in 1993. She then went to Caltech as a Millikan Fellow, joining the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1995. She became a full professor in 2005 and was appointed as the Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics in 2013.
Research [ edit ]
Harrison's research combines the development of new instrumentation with observational work focused on high energy observations of black holes , neutron stars , gamma-ray bursts and supernova remnants . As the Principal Investigator for NuSTAR , the first focusing telescope in orbit operating in the high energy part of the X-ray spectrum (3 – 79 keV), she led an international team to propose, develop and launch the mission. The focal plane detectors and instrument electronics were built in Harrison's labs at Caltech . She led the science team executing the two-year baseline mission, which extended from August 2012 – August 2014.
Harrison's observational research showed that the afterglows of gamma-ray bursts exhibit breaks in their decay rate due to collimation of the ejecta.[3] Cassieopeia A supernova remnant to constrain the core collapse explosion mechanism,[4] [5] [6] [7] black holes , the discovery of a magnetar in the Galactic Center ,[8] pulsar .[9] [10]
Awards and honors [ edit ]
Harrison was awarded the Presidential Early Career award by President Clinton in 2000,[11] NASA Outstanding Public Leadership medal in 2013,[12] Bruno Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society in 2015.[13] American Physical Society ,[14] American Academy of Arts and Sciences , an honorary fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society , and honorary degree Doctor Technices Hornoris Causa from the Danish Technical University , and a member of the National Academy of Sciences .
She was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020.[15]
She was awarded the Mohler Prize from the University of Michigan in 2022.[16]
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References [ edit ]
^ Harrison, Fiona (1999). "Optical and Radio Observations of the Afterglow from GRB 990510: Evidence for a Jet". Astrophysical Journal Letters . 523 (2 ): L121–L124. arXiv :astro-ph/9905306 Bibcode :1999ApJ...523L.121H . doi :10.1086/312282 . S2CID 15374011 .
^ Grefenstette, Brian (2014). "Asymmetries in core-collapse supernovae from maps of radioactive $^{44}$Ti in Cassiopeia A". Nature . 506 (7488): 339–342. arXiv :1403.4978 Bibcode :2014Natur.506..339G . doi :10.1038/nature12997 . PMID 24553239 . S2CID 205237413 .
^ "NASA's NuSTAR Untangles Mystery of How Stars Explode" . JPL. Retrieved 24 April 2015 .
^ Risaliti, Guido (2013). "A rapidly spinning supermassive black hole at the centre of NGC 1365". Nature . 494 (7438): 449–451. arXiv :1302.7002 Bibcode :2013Natur.494..449R . doi :10.1038/nature11938 . PMID 23446416 . S2CID 2138608 .
^ Tomsick, John (2014). "The Reflection Component from Cygnus X-1 in the Soft State Measured by NuSTAR and Suzaku". Astrophysical Journal . 780 (1 ): 78. arXiv :1310.3830 Bibcode :2014ApJ...780...78T . doi :10.1088/0004-637X/780/1/78 . S2CID 21048167 .
^ Mori, Kaya (2013). "NuSTAR Discovery of a 3.76 s Transient Magnetar Near Sagittarius A*". Astrophysical Journal . 770 (2 ): L23. arXiv :1305.1945 Bibcode :2013ApJ...770L..23M . doi :10.1088/2041-8205/770/2/L23 . S2CID 6803966 .
^ Bachetti, Matteo (2014). "An ultraluminous X-ray source powered by an accreting neutron star". Nature . 514 (7521): 202–204. arXiv :1410.3590 Bibcode :2014Natur.514..202B . doi :10.1038/nature13791 . PMID 25297433 . S2CID 4390221 .
^ "NASA's NuSTAR Telescope Discovers Shockingly Bright Dead Star" . JPL. Retrieved 24 April 2015 .
^ "Presidential Early Career Award 2000" . Archived from the original on 2015-09-12. Retrieved 2015-04-24 .
^ "NASA Medal 2013" (PDF) .
^ "Bruno Rossi Prize" .
^ "APS Fellow Archive" . American Physical Society .
^ "AAS Fellows" . AAS. Retrieved 28 September 2020 .
^ "Fiona A Harrison | Caltech" . sites.srl.caltech.edu . Retrieved 2024-05-08 .
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