The Peak of the Fallback Rate from Tidal Disruption Events: Dependence on Stellar Type
Bandopadhyay, A. et al 2024 ApJL 961 L2, DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad0388
CV
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Education
- Ph.D in Physics, Syracuse University, 2022 – Present
- B.S. in Physics, Syracuse University, 2019 – 2022
Research experience
- August 2022 – Present: Graudate Research Assistant, Syracuse University
- Studying the dynamics of sub-energetic shockwaves in core-collapse supernovae
- Advisor: Eric Coughlin
- 2019 – 2022: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Syracuse University
- Designed and constructed an arrray of muon detectors
- Advisors: Mitch Soderberg and Denver Whittington
Awards
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2024
- Summer Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, SU Graduate School, 2023
- Social Justice and Community Building Award, SU Department of Physics, 2022
- Academic Excellence Prize, SU Department of Physics, 2022
Publications
Low-energy Explosions in a Gravitational Field: Implications for Sub-energetic Supernovae and Fast X-ray Transients
Paradiso, D. A. et al 2024 ApJ 961 158, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad11f4
Gotta Go Fast: A Generalization of the Escape Speed to Fluid-dynamical Explosions and Implications for Astrophysical Transients
Paradiso, D. A. & Coughlin, E. R. 2025 ApJ 985 173, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adce6f
On the Origin of Mass Ejection in Failed Supernovae
Paradiso, D. A. et al 2026 ApJ 1004 120, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae6b85
Teaching
- August 2022 – May 2024: Graudate Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University
- PHY 212: Electricity and Magnetism
Service and leadership
- 2023 – 2024: President, Physics Graduate Organization, SU
- 2022 – Present: Mentor, Research in Phyiscs Summer Program, SU
- 2021 – Present: Tour Guide, Holden Observatory, SU
- 2021 – Present: Member, Physics Outreach Group, SU
- 2021 – 2022: Vice President, Society of Physics Students, SU