CITA Postdoctoral Fellow Claire Ye has been awarded the 2023-25 Jeffrey L. Bishop Fellowship in recognition of her outstanding research on dense star clusters.
Dr. Ye studies the dynamical evolution of compact objects in globular clusters, especially the interactions between neutron stars and black holes, the birth and life of millisecond pulsars and the formation of gravitational wave sources. She is an expert in simulating dense star clusters using N-body dynamics codes, particularly Cluster Monte Carlo (CMC). Her recent paper (arXiv:2402.12444) shows that mass segregation in dense star clusters could naturally lead to a correlation between the component masses in a merging black hole binary and the redshift at which it merges.
Two of her earlier publications were distinguished with the IOP Publishing Top Cited Paper Award 2023. The papers ‘On the Rate of Neutron Star Binary Mergers from Globular Clusters’ (Ye, C. S., et al. 2020, ApJL, 888, L10-22.) and ‘Modeling Dense Star Clusters in the Milky Way and Beyond with the CMC Cluster Catalog’ (Kremer, K., Ye, C. S., et al. 2020, ApJS, 247, 48) were in the top 1% of most cited articles in the Astronomy and Astrophysics subject category. .One of the most cited papers from North America published across the entire IOP Publishing journal portfolio for 2020-2022.
Before joining the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Claire earned her Ph.D. at the Department of Physics and Astronomy and CIERA at Northwestern University. She is originally from Southern China and got her Bachelor’s degree in Physics at Zhejiang University in the beautiful city of Hangzhou.
The Jeffrey L. Bishop Fellowship was made possible by a generous gift of Mrs. Muriel Simmons in honour of her son Jeffrey Bishop who died in a car accident shortly after he left CITA. Jeffrey was one of CITA’s first postdoctoral fellows. His family contributes the fund to four institutions that he attended (Princeton, Chicago, CITA and Columbia).