Victor Liu

Victor Liu — Graduate Student — Graduate Student

Office: 537 Davey Laboratory

Address: 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802

vql5180@psu.edu

6467255201

Victor Liu

Astronomy Black Holes Gravitational Waves Multimessenger Astrophysics Quasars IGC

Hello, my name is Victor! I am a PhD student in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University and hail from Brooklyn, New York. My current research interests cover anything relating to compact objects, including but not limited to, black holes, neutron stars, gravitational waves, tidal disruption events, and gamma-ray bursts.

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ORCID: 0000-0003-4434-3921

Publications

Victor Liu, Abderahmen Zoghbi, Jon Miller “Detection of Asymmetry in the Narrow Fe Kα Emission Line in MCG-5-23-16 with Chandra.” The Astrophysical Journal 963 1 (2024) doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad18c8

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.