
Contact Information
1205 W. Clark St., Urbana
M/C 257
Research Areas
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, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Center for Social and Behavioral Science
External Links
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), 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), L21. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac6584
Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Gammie, C. F., & Turk, M. (2022). First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. III. Imaging of the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 930(2), L14. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac6429
Liao, W. T., Turk, M., & Schive, H. Y. (2021). Large-scale Dynamo in a Primordial Accretion Flow: An Interpretation from Hydrodynamic Simulation. Astrophysical Journal, 909(1), [37]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abd9b7
Narayanan, D., Turk, M. J., Robitaille, T., Kelly, A. J., McClellan, B. C., Sharma, R. S., Garg, P., Abruzzo, M., Choi, E., Conroy, C., Johnson, B. D., Kimock, B., Li, Q., Lovell, C. C., Lower, S., Privon, G. C., Roberts, J., Sethuram, S., Snyder, G. F., ... Wise, J. H. (2021). Powderday: Dust Radiative Transfer for Galaxy Simulations. Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, 252(1), [12]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/abc487