Joseph Farah

Biography

Joseph Farah is a second-year Ph.D. student in astrophysics at UC Santa Barbara, studying supernovae under Dr. Andy Howell as part of the Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) and the Global Supernova Project. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2021. As an undergraduate, Joseph worked on the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project as a Smithsonian Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics under the supervision of Michael Johnson. He helped produce the first image of the black hole M87* and led the development of novel techniques for analyzing and measuring the shadows of black holes observed with the EHT. He remains a member of the EHT Collaboration and developed a method for dynamically imaging sources such as the Galactic Center on short timescales as part of the effort to image the black hole Sgr A*. For his work with the Collaboration, Joseph was named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, a co-recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, and the winner of the 2021 LeRoy Apker Award.
 

Selected Publications

Joseph Farah ..., and the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. (2022) Selective Dynamical Imaging of Interferometric Data. ApJL, 930, L18.
Joseph Farah, D. W. Pesce, M. D. Johnson, & L. Blackburn. 2020. On the Approximation of the Black Hole Shadow with a Simple Polar Curve. ApJ, 900, 77.
Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration et al. (2019) ApJL, 875, L1-L6.
Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration et al. (2022) ApJL 930 L12-L17.
M. Wielgus, M. Moscibrodzka, J. Vos, ... Farah, Joseph R. et al. 2022. Orbital motion near Sagittarius A* . Constraints from polarimetric ALMA observations. A&A, 665, 6.
Johnson, M. D., Lupsasca, A., Strominger, A., ... Farah, Joseph R., et al. 2019. Universal Interferometric Signatures of a Black Hole’s Photon Ring. Science Advances, arXiv:1907.04329.
A. E. Broderick, D. W. Pesce, R. Gold, ... Farah, Joseph R. et al. 2022. The Photon Ring in M87*. ApJL, 935, 1.
A. R. Raymond, D. Palumbo, ... Farah, Joseph R., et al. 2021. Evaluation of New Submillimeter VLBI Sites for the Event Horizon Telescope. ApJ. arXiv:2102.05482