Dr Anne Archibald awarded APS' 2014 Prize for top PhD thesis in Astrophysics

Apr 2015: Former McGill graduate Anne Archibald has been awarded the American Physical Society's 2014 Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in Astrophysics for her PhD thesis The End of Accretion: The X-ray Binary/Millisecond Pulsar Transition Object PSR J1023+0038 which she completed under the supervision of Victoria Kaspi. Using several different telescopes at a variety of wavelengths, Dr. Archibald established the transitional nature of the system from low-mass X-ray binary to millisecond radio pulsar, the first such object discovered and a key “missing link” in our understanding of neutron star binary evolution Congratulations Anne!