Marta Burgay Explained

Marta Burgay (30 November 1976, Torino) is an Italian radio astronomer whose initial claim to fame was being the discoverer^{[1] [2] [3]} of PSR J0737-3039, the first double pulsar (two pulsars orbiting each other), through using the 64-metre Parkes radio telescope in Australia.

Awards and honors

• Her Thesis on radio pulsars won the 2005 Pietro Tacchini Prize, awarded by the Italian Astronomical Society (Italian: Società Astronomica Italiana|link=no) for the best Ph.D. thesis.
• In 2006, she became the first winner of the IUPAP's Young Scientists Prize in Astrophysics award.
• In 2010, she was honoured with the Vainu Bappu Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of India.^[4]
• Asteroid 198634 Burgaymarta, discovered at Vallemare di Borbona in 2005, was named in her honor. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 October 2017 .

Notes and References

1. http://www.atnf.csiro.au/news/press/neutron_binary/ Pulsar find boosts hope for gravity-wave hunters
2. http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1124_1.asp New Binary Neutron Star Will Test Einstein
3. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/3310106.html Einstein Passes New Tests
4. Web site: Professor M. K. Vainu Bappu Gold Medal. Astronomical Society of India. June 10, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150610132727/http://www.astron-soc.in/awards.php#vainu_bappu. June 10, 2015. dead.