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Dr. Z. (Ziggy) Pleunis

Faculty of Science
Anton Pannekoek Institute of Astronomy
Photographer: Meaghan MacSween
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  • Science Park 904
  • Room number: C4.128
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  • Postbus 94249
    1090 GE Amsterdam
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  • Biography

    Profile

    Ziggy Pleunis is an assistant professor in high-energy astrophysics and an NWO Veni fellow at the University of Amsterdam and a visiting scientist at ASTRON, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy. He obtained his PhD from McGill University in 2020 on the detection and characterization of fast radio bursts with the CHIME telescope. His thesis work was recognized with prizes from IAU Division D and the Canadian Astronomical Society. Ziggy was an independent Dunlap postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto's Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics in Canada until starting at UvA/ASTRON in January 2024.

    Research

    Ziggy’s research focuses on the detection and characterization of fast radio bursts. It is his ambition to unravel the origins of these extragalactic transients and to develop their use as astrophysical tools to better understand the Universe at large. He is mainly a radio astronomer, but has a broad experience across wavelengths, having led and collaborated in studies on pulsars and fast radio bursts using data collected with the CHIME, LOFAR, Arecibo, Green Bank, Fermi and optical telescopes. He is a member of the CHIME/FRB Collaboration and has helped to design, build, and commission the CHIME/FRB experiment during his PhD at McGill University. He is also part of the team that has discovered the lowest-frequency millisecond pulsars and fast radio bursts with the LOFAR telescope.

    Keywords

    Fast radio bursts, neutron stars, astrophysical transients, radio astronomy.

  • Publications

    2024

    • Bhardwaj, M., Michilli, D., Kirichenko, A. Y., Modilim, O., Shin, K., Kaspi, V. M., Andersen, B. C., Cassanelli, T., Brar, C., Chatterjee, S., Cook, A. M., Dong, F. A., Fonseca, E., Gaensler, B. M., Ibik, A. L., Kaczmarek, J. F., Lanman, A. E., Leung, C., Masui, K. W., ... Smith, K. M. (2024). Host Galaxies for Four Nearby CHIME/FRB Sources and the Local Universe FRB Host Galaxy Population. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 971(2), L51. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad64d1
    • Cassanelli, T., Leung, C., Sanghavi, P., Mena-Parra, J., Cary, S., Mckinven, R., Bhardwaj, M., Masui, K. W., Michilli, D., Bandura, K., Chatterjee, S., Peterson, J. B., Kaczmarek, J., Rahman, M., Shin, K., Vanderlinde, K., Berger, S., Brar, C., Boyle, P. J., ... Tendulkar, S. P. (2024). A fast radio burst localized at detection to an edge-on galaxy using very-long-baseline interferometry. Nature Astronomy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-024-02357-x
    • Faber, J. T., Michilli, D., Mckinven, R., Su, J., Pearlman, A. B., Nimmo, K., Main, R. A., Kaspi, V., Bhardwaj, M., Chatterjee, S., Curtin, A. P., Dobbs, M., Eadie, G., Gaensler, B. M., Kader, Z., Leung, C., Masui, K. W., Pandhi, A., Petroff, E., ... Stairs, I. (2024). Morphologies of Bright Complex Fast Radio Bursts with CHIME/FRB Voltage Data. Astrophysical Journal, 974(2), Article 274. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad59aa [details]
    • Gopinath, A., Bassa, C. G., Pleunis, Z., Hessels, J. W. T., Chawla, P., Keane, E. F., Kondratiev, V., Michilli, D., & Nimmo, K. (2024). Propagation effects at low frequencies seen in the LOFAR long-term monitoring of the periodically active FRB 20180916B. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(4), 9872-9891. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STAD3856 [details]
    • Lanman, A. E., Andrew, S., Lazda, M., Shah, V., Amiri, M., Balasubramanian, A., Bandura, K., Boyle, P. J., Brar, C., Carlson, M., Cliche, J.-F., Gusinskaia, N., Hendricksen, I. T., Kaczmarek, J. F., Landecker, T., Leung, C., Mckinven, R., Mena-Parra, J., Milutinovic, N., ... Zegmott, T. J. (2024). CHIME/FRB Outriggers: KKO Station System and Commissioning Results. Astrophysical Journal, 168(2), 87. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad5838
    • Ould-Boukattine, O. S., Blaauw, R., Gawronski, M., Herrmann, W., Hessels, J. W. T., Hewitt, D. M., Kirsten, F., Mulder, H., Pleunis, Z., Puchalska, W., Snelders, M. P., & Sluman, J. J. (2024). A burst detection from FRB 20240209A at 1.3 GHz using the Westerbork-RT1 25-m telescope. The astronomer's telegram, 16873. https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=16873 [details]

    2023

    • Curtin, A. P., Tendulkar, S. P., Josephy, A., Chawla, P., Andersen, B., Kaspi, V. M., Bhardwaj, M., Cassanelli, T., Cook, A., Dong, F. A., Fonseca, E., Gaensler, B. M., Kaczmarek, J. F., Lanmnan, A. E., Leung, C., Pearlman, A. B., Petroff, E., Pleunis, Z., Rafiei-Ravandi, M., ... Stairs, I. (2023). Limits on Fast Radio Burst-like Counterparts to Gamma-Ray Bursts Using CHIME/FRB. Astrophysical Journal, 954(2), Article 154. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ACE52F [details]
    • Good, D. C., Chawla, P., Fonseca, E., Kaspi, V., Meyers, B. W., Pleunis, Z., Sand, K. R., Scholz, P., Stairs, I. H., & Tendulkar, S. P. (2023). Nondetection of CHIME/Fast Radio Burst Sources with the Arecibo Observatory. Astrophysical Journal, 944(1), Article 70. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acb139 [details]
    • Mckinven, R., Gaensler, B. M., Michilli, D., Masui, K., Kaspi, V. M., Bhardwaj, M., Cassanelli, T., Chawla, P., Dong, F., Fonseca, E., Leung, C., Li, D. Z., Ng, C., Patel, C., Petroff, E., Pearlman, A. B., Pleunis, Z., Rafiei-Ravandi, M., Rahman, M., ... Tendulkar, S. (2023). A Large-scale Magneto-ionic Fluctuation in the Local Environment of Periodic Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 20180916B. Astrophysical Journal, 950(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc65f [details]
    • Mckinven, R., Gaensler, B. M., Michilli, D., Masui, K., Kaspi, V. M., Su, J., Bhardwaj, M., Cassanelli, T., Chawla, P., Dong, F., Fonseca, E., Leung, C., Li, D. Z., Ng, C., Patel, C., Pearlman, A. B., Petroff, E., Pleunis, Z., Rafiei-Ravandi, M., ... Tendulkar, S. (2023). Revealing the Dynamic Magnetoionic Environments of Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources through Multiyear Polarimetric Monitoring with CHIME/FRB. Astrophysical Journal, 951(1), Article 82. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ACD188 [details]
    • Sand, K. R., Breitman, D., Michilli, D., Kaspi, V. M., Chawla, P., Fonseca, E., Mckinven, R., Nimmo, K., Pleunis, Z., Shin, K., Andersen, B. C., Bhardwaj, M., Boyle, P. J., Brar, C., Cassanelli, T., Cook, A. M., Curtin, A. P., Dong, F. A., Eadie, G. M., ... Stenning, D. C. (2023). A CHIME/FRB Study of Burst Rate and Morphological Evolution of the Periodically Repeating FRB 20180916B. Astrophysical Journal, 956(1), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acf221 [details]
    • The CHIME/FRB Collaboration, Andersen, B. C., Chawla, P., Michilli, D., Petroff, E., & Pleunis, Z. (2023). CHIME/FRB Discovery of 25 Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources. Astrophysical Journal, 947(2), Article 83. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc6c1 [details]

    2022

    • Nieder, L., Clark, C. J., Kandel, D., Romani, R. W., Bassa, C. G., Allen, B., Ashok, A., Cognard, I., Fehrmann, H., Freire, P., Karuppusamy, R., Kramer, M., Li, D., Machenschalk, B., Pan, Z., Papa, M. A., Ransom, S. M., Ray, P. S., Roy, J., … Roberts, M. S. E. (2022). Gravitational-wave freq. limits for PSRJ1653-0158 : J/ApJ/902/L46. Centre de Donnees Strasbourg (CDS). https://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.19029046
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