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Matthew J Turk

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Contact Information

4038 NCSA
1205 W. Clark St., Urbana
M/C 257
Assistant Professor of Information Sciences

Research Interests

Formation of the first stars and galaxies
Primordial chemistry
High-performance computing and computational simulations
Analysis and visualization of astrophysical data

Education

BA from Northwestern in 2003
PhD from Stanford in 2009

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences
Assistant Professor, Astronomy
Assistant Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Center for Social and Behavioral Science

Recent Publications

Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Gammie, C. F., & Turk, M. (2022). A Universal Power-law Prescription for Variability from Synthetic Images of Black Hole Accretion Flows. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 930(2), Article L20. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac65eb

Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Gammie, C. F., & Turk, M. (2022). Characterizing and Mitigating Intraday Variability: Reconstructing Source Structure in Accreting Black Holes with mm-VLBI. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 930(2), Article L21. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac6584

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2022). First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. EHT and Multiwavelength Observations, Data Processing, and Calibration. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 930(2), Article L13. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac6675

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Gammie, C. F., & Turk, M. J. (2022). First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. III. Imaging of the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 930(2), Article L14. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac6429

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2022). First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 930(2), Article L12. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac6674

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