Education

  • Ph.D., Physics, University of Washington, 2021
    Dissertation: “Enabling the Next Generation of 21 cm Cosmology: Precision Analysis Techniques for Radio Cosmology Observations”

  • M.S., Physics, University of Washington, 2017

  • B.A., Physics, Macalester College, 2014

Appointments

  • National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 2023-present 

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, California Institute of Technology, 2021–2023 

Selected Publications

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Byrne, R., N. Mahesh, G. W. Hallinan, L. Connor, V. Ravi, and T. J. W. Lazio, 2024. “21 cm Intensity Mapping with the DSA-2000.” ApJ 966, 2. arXiv: 2311.00896.

Byrne, R., 2023. "Delay-Weighted Calibration: Precision Calibration for 21 cm Cosmology with Resilience to Sky Model Error." ApJ 943, 117. arXiv: 2208.04406.

Byrne, R., M. F. Morales, B. Hazelton, I. Sullivan, and N. Barry, 2022. "The FHD Polarized Imaging Pipeline: A New Approach to Widefield Interferometric Polarimetry." PASA 39, E023. arXiv: 2201.10653.

Byrne, R., M. F. Morales, B. Hazelton, I. Sullivan, N. Barry, C. Lynch, J. L. B. Line, and D. C. Jacobs, 2021. “A Map of Diffuse Radio Emission at 182 MHz to Enhance Epoch of Reionization Observations in the Southern Hemisphere.” MNRAS 510, 2. arXiv: 2107.11487.

Byrne, R., M. F. Morales, B. Hazelton, and M. Wilensky, 2021. “A Unified Calibration Framework for 21 cm Cosmology.” MNRAS 503, 2. arXiv: 2004.08463.

Byrne, R., and D. Jacobs, 2021. “Development of a High Throughput Cloud-Based Data Pipeline for 21 cm Cosmology.” Astronomy and Computing 34. arXiv: 2009.10223.

Byrne, R., M. F. Morales, B. Hazelton, W. Li, N. Barry, A. P. Beardsley, R. Joseph, J. C. Pober, I. Sullivan, and C. Trott, 2019. “Fundamental Limitations on the Calibration of Redundant 21 cm Cosmology Instruments and Implications for HERA and the SKA.” ApJ 875, 1. arXiv: 1811.01378.