Eileen Meyer
Post-doctoral Fellow
Click HERE for the page of M87 jet movies.
Click here for the MARLAM 2013 meeting webpage.
Most recently I have been working with collaborators at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center where we have shown that the efficiencies of jets in Gamma-Ray Bursts and AGN are similar despite covering ten order of magnitude in mass and energy. This work was recently published in Science (press release here).
M.S. Physics, Rice University, 2008
B.S. Astrophysics, Rice University, 2005
Click here for the MARLAM 2013 meeting webpage.
Research
I am currently a post-doctoral fellow at STScI working with Dr. Bill Sparks, using high-precision astrometry with Hubble to measure the proper motion of the jet in M87. This past June I defended my PhD thesis in Radio-Loud AGN Unification at Rice University, where I have been working with Dr. Giovanni Fossati. I am interested in high-energy studies of AGN, multi-wavelength population studies (particularly of relativistic jets), and I have a great interest in using low-frequency radio measurements as a 'calorimeter' to tell us about the kinetic power in relativistic jets.Most recently I have been working with collaborators at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center where we have shown that the efficiencies of jets in Gamma-Ray Bursts and AGN are similar despite covering ten order of magnitude in mass and energy. This work was recently published in Science (press release here).
Education
Ph.D. Physics, Rice University, 2012M.S. Physics, Rice University, 2008
B.S. Astrophysics, Rice University, 2005
Contact
3700 San Martin DriveBaltimore, MD 21209
Office: Bloomberg 611
Phone: (410) 516-5008
Email: meyer@stsci.edu