Name: Dr. Colm Coughlan
Title: Post-doctoral research fellow
E-Mail: coughlan@cp.dias.ie
Phone: +353-1-4406656 x358
Address:Astronomy & Astrophysics Section, 31 Fitzwilliam Place Dublin 2, Ireland
Related Links www.colmcoughlan.com, https://ie.linkedin.com/in/colmpcoughlan
Research Interests: radio astronomy, imaging and calibration algorithms, high performance computing, big data, long baseline interferometry, YSO jets, AGN jets and polarimetry
Biographical Sketch:
Colm is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Star Formation group at DIAS with a particular interest in high performance scientific computing. He is currently the PI of the “New discoveries at low frequencies” project which uses the high performance computing facilities at the Irish Centre for High End Computing to search for signals from Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) and exoplanets using the LOFAR radio interferometer. Colm is part of the team that recently obtained the first detection of a YSO jet at LOFAR frequencies. He has also developed radio imaging algorithms for very long baseline radio polarimetry. His research interests include high performance scientific computing, big data in astrophysics, calibration and imaging algorithms for radio astronomy, relativistic jets from Active Galactic Nuclei and jets from YSOs.
Selected Publications:
GMRT detections of low-mass young stars at 323 and 608 MHz – Ainsworth, Rachael E.; Scaife, Anna M. M.; Green, David A.; Coughlan, Colm P.; Ray, Tom P. (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016MNRAS.459.1248A)
Connecting magnetic towers with Faraday rotation gradients in active galactic nuclei jets – Mahmud, M.; Coughlan, C. P.; Murphy, E.; Gabuzda, D. C.; Hallahan, D. R. (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRAS.431..695M)
