Dr Christopher BerryNov 3, 2022

Hello #Astrodon

I'm a gravitational-wave astronomer researching the formation and evolution of black holes and neutron stars

I primarily work on LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA data analysis, inferring source properties, but I'm also interested in space-based observatories like LISA

I enjoy #SciComm (I want to get back into blogging https://cplberry.com/blog/), and I'm currently a member of the community-science Gravity Spy project https://gravityspy.org/

I also like cake

#Introduction

Christopher Berry

Gravitational-wave astronomer

Christopher Berry
Show threadDr Christopher BerryNov 4, 2022

My avatar pic is a doodle I drew for a LIGO Magazine article about how we infer the properties of a #GravitaitonalWave source for the signal, for example how we measure the masses of merging black holes

https://www.ligo.org/magazine/LIGO-magazine-issue-7.pdf#page=32

The Doodle shows Monty and Carla exploring the distribution of source masses. The names are a pun as we use Markov-chain Monte Carlo samplers as part of our analysis

#Introduction

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@cplberry that is good! 🤩
Nov 4, 2022 at 2:35pmWeb
Show threadDr Christopher BerryNov 4, 2022
@mmylova Thank you! Monty and Carla are pleasantly round. They are shaped like friends. All inference algorithms should be friendly