Hannah Dykaar

Astronomy Post Doc at McGill University working with Prof. Daryl Haggard (McGill University) and Prof. John Ruan (Bishop's University)

Education

Ph.D. Astrophysics University of Toronto, 2025
B.Sc. Honours Physics McGill University, 2018

Research

I am currently a PhD student in the department of of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Toronto supervised by Dr. Bryan Gaensler and Dr. Maria Drout. I study slowly-evolving transients using wide-field radio surveys and am specifically interested in tidal disruption events.

I previously received a BSc in Honours Physics from McGill University in 2018.

Research Interests

Selected Publications

An Untargeted Search for Radio-emitting Tidal Disruption Events in the VAST Pilot Survey
Hannah Dykaar, Maria R. Drout, B. M. Gaensler, David L. Kaplan, Tara Murphy, Assaf Horesh, Akash Anumarlapudi, Dougal Dobie, Laura N. Driessen, Emil Lenc, Adam Stewart
FIRST J153350.8+272729: the Radio Afterglow of a Decades-Old Tidal Disruption Event
Vikram Ravi, Hannah Dykaar, Jackson Codd, Ginevra Zaccagnini, Dillon Dong, Maria R. Drout, Bryan M. Gaensler, Gregg Hallinan, and Casey Law

Outreach

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