Curriculum Vitæ - Duncan Galloway

Contact details:
School of Physics & Astronomy Monash University Victoria 3800, Australia	Tel: +61 (0)3 9905-4422 Mobile: +61 (0)414 139-763 Mobile: +31 (0)6 86490075
email: duncan.galloway@monash.edu, duncan.galloway@igdore.org www: https://outs1der.github.io ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6558-5121

EDUCATION

PhD, University of Tasmania, 2001.
Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours, University of Tasmania, 1991.
Graduate Certificate in Information Technology, Monash University, 2015

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My primary area of research interest is the nature and properties of neutron star binaries. A neutron star is the extreme product of a supernova explosion; the surface density, temperature, and magnetic field strength are all many orders of magnitude in excess of anything achievable on Earth. Accreting binaries, in which gas from a relatively normal stellar companion falls under gravity onto a neutron star, offer a unique window on some rich physics via satellite-based X-ray observations.

My research involves observational studies of thermonuclear (type-I) bursts, merging compact objects, and accretion-powered millisecond pulsars using ground- and satellite-based observatories, including GOTO, INTEGRAL, XMM-Newton, Chandra, Swift and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). The goals of these studies include improved understanding of the physical processes; measuring the rates of nuclear reactions (via collaborating members of the International Research Network for Nuclear Astrophysics, IReNA); and constraining the uncertain neutron star equation of state.

I am the Monash PI of the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observatory (GOTO) project, with the goal of building a network of optical telescopes to respond to gravitational wave detections by the Advanced Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory (aLIGO) Accreting binaries are also candidate gravitational wave sources, which may be detectable by aLIGO. I carry out optical and X-ray observations to improve the measured system parameters, which can lead to more sensitive searches for gravitational waves.

I am broadly interested in astrophysical transient search and followup, and am a member of the Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) survey science project for the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP).

EMPLOYMENT

Associate professor, Monash University, 2018—present
Senior lecturer, Monash University, 2013—2017
ARC Future Fellow, Monash University, 2009—2013
Monash Fellow, Monash University, 2007—2009
Centenary Fellow, University of Melbourne, 2005—2007
Postdoctoral Associate, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT 2004—2005
Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Space Research, MIT 2000—2003
Advisor: A/Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty
PhD in X-ray astronomy, University of Tasmania 1996—2000
Thesis title: Spectrum and Pulse Profile Formation in Strong-Field X-ray Pulsars.
Supervisors: Dr. John Greenhill (University of Tasmania) and Dr. Kinwah Wu (now at MSSL, University College London)
Experimental Scientist, Australian Institute of Marine Science 1992—1996

OTHER POSITIONS

Member, International Research Network for Nuclear Astrophysics, IReNA), 2024-
Affiliate, Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE), 2021-
Member of the LSST Transients & Variable Star collaboration
Member, Astronomical Society of Australia’s Women in Astronomy (WiA) and Education & Public Outreach (EPOC) chapters; also member, ASA Council, 2013—2017; vice-president 2015—2016 Nov
Member, International Astronomical Union, 2003—
Chief investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGRav), 2017—24
Senior Investigator, Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics - Center for the Evolution of the Elements (JINA-CEE), 2014—21
Science Lead, eROSITA/AAL collaboration, 2021—22
Principal Investigator, Australian LSST MoU (via AAL), 2018—21
Chair, Australian National Committee for Astronomy’s Decadal Plan 2016—25 working group 1.4: High energy and fundamental astrophysics, 2013—15
Member, Australia Telescope Time Assignment Committee, 2012 Nov—15 & Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer peer reviewer, 2000—2001
Member, Australian National Committee for Astronomy’s Decadal Review 2006—15 working groups 2.2 (Nearby Universe) and 3.1 (International Facilities), 2004—2005
Member, LIGO Astronomy & Astrophysics Advisory Panel, 2013—14
Referee, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Astrophysical Journal

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Current HDR students:
- Sergey Belkin (PhD with Felipe Jiménez-Ibarra & Kendall Ackley, 2023—)
Previous students:
- Ka Ho Tse (PhD with Alexander Heger, 2020—23)
- Yik Lun (Travis) Mong (PhD with Kendall Ackley, 2018—22)
- Adelle Goodwin (PhD with Alexander Heger, 2017—20); now postdoc at ICRAR, Curtin, WA
- Zac Johnston (PhD with Alexander Heger, 2016—19); now postdoc at MSU
- Vaishali Parkash (PhD with Michael Brown, 2015—19)
- Shanika Galaudage (Honours 2018); now postdoc at the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
- Adelle Goodwin (Honours 2016)
- Hauke Worpel (PhD with Daniel Price, 2011—14); now postdoc in Barcelona, Spain
- Shakya Premachandra (PhD with Danny Steeghs, Warwick, 2010—15)
- Nathanael Lampe (Honours 2012—13) now Senior Data Scientist at Vicinity Centres
- Christine Chung (PhD 2010, with Andrew Melatos) U. Melbourne; now Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne
- Dane Kleiner (Honours 2009) then PhD 2012—2017 with Kevin Pimbblet
- Timothy Atta (Honours 2009)
ASP3051 Relativity and Cosmology lecturing & course coordination, 2014—24
ASP3231 Observational Astronomy “Beyond Optical” component, 2008—24
ASP2011 Astronomy Coordination & lecturing, 2024; “Celestial mechanics” component, 2023; “Measuring Stars” component & course coordination, 2014; “Measurement Techniques” component, 2007
ASP2062 Introduction to Astrophysics lecturing & course coordination, 2014—17
M4222/1 Research Topics (Honours) component “Statistics for X-ray Data Analysis”, Semester 2, 2009 & Semester 1, 2011—14
M4331 Planetary Dynamics/Binary Stars (Honours) component “X-ray Binaries”, Semester 1, 2008

AWARDS & HONORS

Fellow, Astronomical Society of Australia, 2011— (member since 1997)
University Medal in Physics, University of Tasmania, 1992
Dean’s Citation, University of Tasmania, 1991
Dean’s Roll of Excellence, University of Tasmania, 1988—90
Digby Fitzhardinge Memorial Prize for Physics I, University of Tasmania, 1988
University Exhibition, University of Tasmania, 1987

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Total of 118 publications in astrophysics (excluding conference proceedings) since 1998, with 5715 citations (as of November 2024; source: NASA ADS). See also my Google scholar page

Kini, Y., Salmi, T., Vinciguerra, et al. including Galloway, D.K. (2024). Constraining the properties of the thermonuclear burst oscillation source XTE J1814-338 through pulse profile modelling. MNRAS, accepted
[ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2405.10717 ]
Galloway, D.K., Goodwin, A. J., Hilder, T., Waterson, L., Cupák, M. (2024). Inferring system parameters from the bursts of the accretion-powered pulsar IGR J17498-2921. MNRAS, 535, 647
[ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2403.16471 ]
Killestein, T. L., Kelsey, L., Wickens, E., et al. including Galloway, D. K. (2024). Kilonova Seekers: the GOTO project for real-time citizen science in time-domain astrophysics. MNRAS 533, 2113
[ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2406.02334 ]
Belkin, S. et al. including Galloway, D. K. (2024). GRB 230911A: The First Discovery of a Fermi GRB Optical Counterpart with the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) RNAAS, 8, #1
[ IOP | ADS ]
Levan, A. et al. including Galloway, D. K. JWST detection of heavy neutron capture elements in a compact object merger Nature 626, 737
[ Nature | ADS | arXiv:2307.02098 ]
Patel, M. et al. for the GOTO collaboration including Galloway, D. K. (2023). GRB 201015A and the nature of low-luminosity soft gamma-ray bursts. MNRAS 523(4), 4923
[ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2305.14491 ]
Alizai, K., Chenevez, J., Cumming, A., Degenaar, N., Falanga, M., Galloway, D. K., in’t Zand, J. J. M., Jaisawal, G. K., Keek, L., Kuulkers, E., Lampe, N., Schatz, H., Serino, M. (2023). A catalogue of unusually long thermonuclear bursts on neutron stars. MNRAS 521, 3608
[ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2308.03499 ]
Killestein, T. L., Mould, M., Steeghs, D., Casares, J., Galloway, D. K., Whelan, J. T. (2023). Precision Ephemerides for Gravitational-wave Searches - IV. Corrected and refined ephemeris for Scorpius X-1. MNRAS 520, 5317
[ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2302.00018 ]
Mong, Y. -L., Ackley, K., Killestein, T. L., Galloway, D. K. for the GOTO collaboration (2022). Self-Supervised Clustering on Image-Subtracted Data with Deep-Embedded Self-Organizing Map MNRAS 518, 752
[ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2209.06375 ]
Galloway, D. K., Johnston, Z., Goodwin, A. J., He, C.-C. (2022). Robust inference of neutron-star parameters from thermonuclear burst observations ApJS 263, 30
[ IOP | ADS | arXiv:2210.03598 ]
Duffy, C., Ramsay, G., et al. including Galloway, D. K. (2022). The return of the spin period in DW Cnc and evidence of new high state outbursts. MNRAS 510(1), 1002-1009
[ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2111.10416 ]
Steeghs, D., Galloway, D.K. for the GOTO Collaboration (2021). The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO): prototype performance and prospects for transient science. MNRAS 511(2), 2405-2422
[ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2110.05539 ]
Galaudage, S., Wette, K., Galloway, D. K., Messenger C. (2021). Deep searches for X-ray pulsations from Scorpius X-1 and Cygnus X-2 in support of continuous gravitational wave searches. MNRAS 509(2), 1745
[ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2105.13803 ]
Mong, Y. -L., Ackley, K., Galloway, D. K. for the GOTO collaboration (2021). Searching For Fermi GRB Optical Counterparts With The Prototype Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO). MNRAS 507(4), 5463—5476
[ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2108.11802 ]
Burhanudin, U. F. et al. for the GOTO collaboration including Galloway, D. K. (2021). Light curve classification with recurrent neural networks for GOTO: dealing with imbalanced data. MNRAS 505(3), 4345—4361
[ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2105.11169 ]
Makrygianni, L. et al. for the GOTO collaboration including Galloway, D. K. (2021). Processing GOTO data with the Rubin Observatory LSST Science Pipelines II: Forced Photometry and light curves. PASA 38, e025
[ CUP | ADS | arXiv:2105.05128 ]
Killestein, T. et al. for the GOTO collaboration including Galloway, D. K. (2021). Transient-optimized real-bogus classification with Bayesian convolutional neural networks - sifting the GOTO candidate stream. MNRAS 503(4), 4838
[ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2102.09892 ]
Li, Z. S., Kuiper, L., Falanga, M., Poutanen, J., Tsygankov, S. S., Galloway, D. K., Bozzo, E., Pan, Y. Y., Huang, Y., Zhang, S. N., Zhang, S. (2021). Broadband X-ray spectra and timing of the accreting millisecond pulsar Swift J1756.9-2508 during its 2018 and 2019 outbursts. A&A 6749, #A76
[ EDP | ADS | arXiv:2102.11687 ]
Duffy, C. et al. for the GOTO collaboration including Galloway, D. K. (2021). Evidence that short period AM CVn systems are diverse in outburst behaviour. MNRAS 502(4), 4953
[ OUP | ADS | arXiv:2102.04428 ]
Galloway, D. K., Keek, L. (2021) Thermonuclear X-ray bursts. “Timing Neutron Stars: Pulsations, Oscillations and Explosions”, Editors: Tomaso Belloni, Mariano Méndez & Chengmin Zhang, ASSL, Vol. 461, pp209—262 (Springer)
[ ADS | arXiv:1712.06227 ]
Tse, K-H, Galloway, D. K., Chou, Y., Heger, A., Hsieh, H-E (2021). Detection of Millihertz Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in the X-Ray Binary 1RXS J180408.9—342058. MNRAS 500, 34
[ ADS | OUP | arXiv:2009.01536 ]
Mullaney, J. R., Makrygianni, L., Dhillon, V., Littlefair, S, for the GOTO collaboration including Galloway, D. K. (2021). Processing GOTO data with the Rubin Observatory LSST Science Pipelines I: Production of coadded frames. PASA 38, e004
[ PASA | ADS | arXiv:2010.15142 ]

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