Tessa Vernstrom

Radio Astronomer
​Senior Research Fellow
​ICRAR

UWA

Education

  • BSc, Astrophysics, University of Minnesota 2008
  • MSc, Astronomy, University of British Columbia 2011
  • PhD, Astronomy, University of British Columbia 2015

Positions

  • Senior Research Fellow, ICRAR, UWA, 2021 - Present
  • Bolton Fellow, Astronomy & Space Science, CSIRO, 2018 - 2021
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto 2015 - 2018

Research Interests

Extragalactic radio sources, particularly in the μJy and sub-μJy ranges; Galaxy evolution; Deep radio surveys; Diffuse radio emission; Large scale structure; the synchrotron cosmic web; the cosmic radio background, astrostatistics
**Keen to supervise students with projects at honours, masters, and PhD levels. Please feel free to get in contact to discuss projects and opportunities ***  

skills

Model fitting: likelihoods, chi-squared, Bayesian analysis, Monte Carlo Markov Chains; error/uncertainty analysis; covariance/correlation matrices; bootstrap tests; jackknife tests; stacking; Fourier transforms; power spectra; source peak finding; source fitting; confusion analysis; source counts; luminosity functions; SED fitting; radio interferometry data reduction 

Files

CV
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My Masters Thesis
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My PhD Thesis
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links

  • My ADS publication list
  • ICRAR Homepage
  • VLA 3GHz Lockman Hole Catalogue
  • The Murchison Widefield Array
  • The Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) Survey
  • The Space Australia Highlight Article
  • ​NRAO Lockman Hole press release

Contact

ICRAR/ UWA
7 Fairway
Crawley, WA 6009 Australia

tessa.vernstrom@uwa.edu.au
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