Duncan Watts

Postdoctoral Fellow - Kosmologi

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Email duncan.watts@astro.uio.no

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Visiting address Sem Sælands vei 13 Svein Rosselands hus 0371 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1029 Blindern 0315 Oslo

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Academic interests

I study cosmology, the cosmic microwave background, microwave emission from the Milky Way, and analyze these data to answer fundamental questions about the Universe.

Employment

Postdoctoral fellow, Inst University of Oslo, August 2020-present.
Postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University, August 2018-July 2020.

Education

PhD, Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, USA 2018
AB in Physics and Astronomy, Harvard College, USA, 2012

Tags: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Cosmoglobe, High-performance computing, Bayesian Statistics

Eimer, Joseph R.; Li, Yunyang; Brewer, Michael K.; Shi, Rui; Ali, Aamir & Appel, John W. [Show all 34 contributors for this article] (2024). CLASS Angular Power Spectra and Map-component Analysis for 40 GHz Observations through 2022. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 963(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1abf. Full text in Research Archive
Li, Yunyang; Eimer, Joseph R.; Osumi, Keisuke; Appel, John W.; Brewer, Michael K. & Ali, Aamir [Show all 36 contributors for this article] (2023). CLASS Data Pipeline and Maps for 40 GHz Observations through 2022. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 956(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/acf293. Full text in Research Archive
Eskilt, Johannes Røsok; Watts, Duncan; Aurvik, Ragnhild; Basyrov, Artem; Bersanelli, Marco & Brilenkov, Maksym [Show all 30 contributors for this article] (2023). Cosmoglobe DR1 results II. Constraints on isotropic cosmic birefringence from reprocessed WMAP and Planck LFI data. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 679. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346829. Full text in Research Archive
Dahal, Sumit; Brewer, Michael K.; Akins, Alex B.; Appel, John W.; Bennett, Charles L. & Bustos, Ricardo [Show all 24 contributors for this article] (2023). Microwave Observations of Venus with CLASS. The Planetary Science Journal (PSJ). ISSN 2632-3338. 4(8). doi: 10.3847/PSJ/acee76. Full text in Research Archive
Watts, Duncan; Basyrov, Artem; Eskilt, Johannes Røsok; Galloway, Mathew; Gjerløw, Eirik & Hergt, L.T. [Show all 32 contributors for this article] (2023). COSMOGLOBE DR1 results: I. Improved Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe maps through Bayesian end-to-end analysis. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 679. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346414. Full text in Research Archive
Li, Yunyang; Appel, John W.; Bennett, Charles L.; Bustos, Ricardo; Chuss, David T. & Cleary, Joseph [Show all 24 contributors for this article] (2023). CLASS Observations of Atmospheric Cloud Polarization at millimeter Wavelengths. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 958(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad0233. Full text in Research Archive
Eskilt, Johannes Røsok; Lee, Katherine; Watts, Duncan; Anshul, V.; Aurvik, Ragnhild & Basyrov, Artem [Show all 22 contributors for this article] (2023). COSMOGLOBE: Towards end-to-end CMB cosmological parameter estimation without likelihood approximations. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 678. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347358. Full text in Research Archive
Gerakakis, S.; Brilenkov, Maksym; Ieronymaki, M.; San, Metin; Watts, Duncan & Andersen, Kristian Joten [Show all 41 contributors for this article] (2023). From BeyondPlanck to Cosmoglobe: Open Science, Reproducibility, and Data Longevity. The Open Journal of Astrophysics. 6. doi: 10.21105/astro.2205.11262. Full text in Research Archive
Colombo, L.P.L.; Eskilt, Johannes Røsok; Paradiso, S.; Thommesen, Harald; Andersen, Kristian Joten & Aurvik, Ragnhild [Show all 39 contributors for this article] (2023). BeyondPlanck: XI. Bayesian CMB analysis with sample-based end-to-end error propagation. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 675. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244619. Full text in Research Archive

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Eskilt, Johannes Røsok; Wehus, Ingunn Kathrine; Eriksen, Hans Kristian Kamfjord; Watts, Duncan; Komatsu, Eiichiro & Hansen, Frode Kristian (2023). Signatures of New Physics in the CMB: From Cosmic Topology to Cosmic Birefringence. Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. ISSN 1501-7710.

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Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy