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Abe Falcone

Abe Falcone — Research Professor — Faculty
Office: 516 Davey Laboratory
Address: 0525 Davey Laboratory University Park, PA 16802 US
adf15@psu.edu
+1 814 863 5364
Abe Falcone
Astronomy CTA SWIFT VERITAS Cosmic Rays Multimessenger Astrophysics Quasars Dynamic Universe CMA

The Falcone Group consists of two working groups: The High Energy Astrophysics Detector and Instrumentation (HEADI) Lab and the High Energy Analysis Group. Abe Falcone is the Principal Investigator for both research groups. Please see the group website at https://sites.psu.edu/headilab/

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ORCID: 0000-0002-5068-7344

Publications
  1. C. Adams, others “The throughput calibration of the VERITAS telescopes.” Astron. Astrophys. 658 (2022) doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202142275
  2. Roberta Zanin, others “CTA – the World’s largest ground-based gamma-ray observatory.” PoS ICRC2021 (2022) doi:10.22323/1.395.0005
  3. N. White, others “The Gamow Explorer: A gamma-ray burst observatory to study the high redshift universe and enable multi-messenger astrophysics.” Astronomy 22 (2021) doi:10.1117/12.2599293

Abe Falcone's research group

Name Role Affiliations Email Phone Office Centers Research topics
Joseph Colosimo Joseph Colosimo Graduate Student Astronomy jmc1221@psu.edu 1-814-865-0150 413 Davey Laboratory CMA Astroinformatics, Quasars
Amanpreet Kaur Amanpreet Kaur Faculty Astronomy auk971@psu.edu +1 814 863 9341 CMA Astroinformatics, Dynamic Universe
Stephen Kerby Stephen Kerby Graduate Student Astronomy sek289@psu.edu – 532C Davey Laboratory CMA Quasars
Kyle Neumann Kyle Neumann Graduate Student Astronomy kdn5172@psu.edu (814) 865-0418 537 Davey Laboratory IGC Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, Multimessenger Astrophysics, Dynamic Universe

Abe Falcone's former group members

Name Role Affiliations Email Phone Office Centers Research topics
Daniel LaRocca Daniel LaRocca Faculty Astronomy dml6156@psu.edu – CMA Dark Matter, Dynamic Universe
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Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.