Education & Professional Experience
Honors and Awards:
Royal Astronomical Society Michael Penston Prize runner-up (2019)
Enrico Persico award (2014)
Leadership Roles:
Curriculum ViTAE
Research Interests
I am an observational cosmologist and astronomer interested in novel methods to understand the content and evolution of the Universe. My main goal is to exploit information from both galaxy surveys and gravitational wave (GW) data to understand the Universes dynamics and content, and to shed light on the origin of GW sources and their correlation with galaxy evolution. As a result of my interests in galaxy evolution, galaxy clusters and galaxy redshifts estimation, along with GW follow-up and extragalactic transients, my research lies at the interface between large galaxy surveys, time domain astronomy, and GW experiments.
I am heavily involved in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and the Dark Energy Survey (DES) experiments, and I also contribute to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. I am a member of the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Dark Energy Science Collaboration and of the Cosmic Explorer Consortium. I use several facilities to perform gravitational wave follow-up, looking for the electromagnetic radiation produced by cosmic collisions between neutron stars or black holes.
Selected Publications
K. Kunnumkai, A. Palmese, et al., Kilonova emission from GW230529 and mass gap neutron star-black hole mergers, arXiv:2409.10651 (2024)
T. Cabrera, A. Palmese, et al., Searching for electromagnetic emission in an AGN from the gravitational wave binary black hole merger candidate S230922g, arXiv:2407.10698 (2024)
I. Magana-Hernandez & A. Palmese, A new bump in the night: evidence of a new feature in the binary black hole mass distribution at 70 solar masses from gravitational-wave observations, arXiv:2407.02460 (2024)
A. Palmese et al., A standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant using GW170817 and the latest observations of the electromagnetic counterpart afterglow, PRD 109, 063508 (2024)
C. Meldorf, A. Palmese & Salim, Measuring the dust attenuation law of galaxies using photometric data, MNRAS 531, 3242 (2024)
C. Bom & A. Palmese, Standard Siren Cosmology with Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Mergers in Active Galaxy Nuclei, PRD, 110, 083005 (2024)
M. Bhardwaj, A. Palmese et al., GW190425 and FRB20190425A: Challenges for Fast Radio Bursts as Multi-Messenger Sources from Binary Neutron Star Mergers, arXiv:2306.00948 (2024)
A. Palmese et al., A standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant using gravitational wave events from the first three LIGO/Virgo observing runs and the DESI Legacy Survey, ApJ 943 56 (2023)
C. Meldorf, A. Palmese, D. Brout, et al., The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program results: Type Ia Supernova brightness correlates with host galaxy dust, MNRAS 518, 1985–2004 (2023)
A. Palmese et al., Do LIGO/Virgo black hole mergers produce AGN flares? The case of GW190521 and prospects for reaching a confident association, ApJ 914, L34 (2021)
A. Palmese and C. J. Conselice, GW190521 from the Merger of Ultra-Dwarf Galaxies, PRL 126, 181103 (2021)
Y. Tsai, A. Palmese, S. Profumo, T. Jeltema, Is GW170817 a Multimessenger Neutron Star-Primordial Black Hole Merger?, JCAP 10, 019 (2021)
A. Palmese et al., A statistical standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant from the LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave compact object merger GW190814 and Dark Energy Survey galaxies, ApJ 900, 2, L33 (2020)
C. Meldorf, A. Palmese, D. Brout, et al., The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program results: Type Ia Supernova brightness correlates with host galaxy dust, (2022)
A. Palmese et al., A standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant using gravitational wave events from the first three LIGO/Virgo observing runs and the DESI Legacy Survey, (2021)
A. Palmese et al., Do LIGO/Virgo black hole mergers produce AGN flares? The case of GW190521 and prospects for reaching a confident association, (2021)
A. Palmese and C. J. Conselice, GW190521 from the Merger of Ultra-Dwarf Galaxies, (2021)
Y. Tsai, A. Palmese, S. Profumo, T. Jeltema, Is GW170817 a Multimessenger Neutron Star-Primordial Black Hole Merger?, (2021)
A. Palmese & A. G. Kim, Probing gravity and growth of structure with gravitational waves and galaxies’ peculiar velocity, (2021)
A. Palmese & A. G. Kim, Probing gravity and growth of structure with gravitational waves and galaxies’ peculiar velocity, PRD 103, 103507 (2021)
A. Palmese et al., A statistical standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant from the LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave compact object merger GW190814 and Dark Energy Survey galaxies, (2020)
A. Palmese et al., Stellar mass as a galaxy cluster mass proxy: application to the Dark Energy Survey redMaPPer clusters, MNRAS 493, 4 (2020)
C. J. Conselice, R. Bhatawdekar, A. Palmese, W. G. Hartley, LIGO/Virgo Sources from Merging Black Holes in Ultradwarf Galaxies, (2020)
A. Palmese et al., Stellar mass as a galaxy cluster mass proxy: application to the Dark Energy Survey redMaPPer clusters, (2020)
A. Palmese et al., Gravitational wave cosmology and astrophysics with large spectroscopic galaxy surveys, (2019)
M. Soares-Santos & A. Palmese et al., First measurement of the Hubble constant from a dark standard siren using the Dark Energy Survey galaxies and the LIGO/Virgo binary-black-hole merger GW170814, (The DES Collaboration, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration), (2019)
M. Soares-Santos & A. Palmese et al., First measurement of the Hubble constant from a dark standard siren using the Dark Energy Survey galaxies and the LIGO/Virgo binary-black-hole merger GW170814, (The DES Collaboration, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration), ApJL, 876, 1, L7 (2019)
A. Palmese et al., Evidence for dynamically–driven formation of of the GW170817 Neutron Star Binary in NGC 4993, ApJL, 849, L34 (2017)