Michael McCrackan

Michael McCrackan

Postdoctoral Associate
Physics

Biographical Sketch

I earned my Bachelor of Science from the University of New Mexico in 2015. I completed my Ph.D. in 2024 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the mentorship of Professor Grant Wilson. My dissertation focused on developing the data reduction and mapmaking pipeline for the TolTEC millimeter camera on the Large Millimeter Telescope. Additionally, I developed a general-purpose hierarchical Bayesian fitting framework to model and map the dust content in local dwarf galaxies, serving as analogs for high-redshift early galaxies.

Research:

I work with Professor Laura Newburgh in Cosmology and Cosmic Microwave Background science. I am a member of the Simons Observatory (SO) Collaboration, where my focus is on analyzing the time-ordered data for both the Small Aperture Telescopes (SAT) and the Large Aperture Telescope (LAT) while developing and optimizing the data reduction algorithms of the SO time-ordered data reduction pipeline (sotodlib/so3g).

Education: 

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2024 

Honors & Awards

Selected Publications

Contact Info

michael.mccrackan@yale.edu

WLC 258

PI: Laura Newburgh

Research Website

Research Areas: Astrophysics & Cosmology

Research Type: Experimentalist

Experiments

CV

Experiments

Simons Observatory

Newburgh

Science goal: Probe the Cosmic Microwave Background to learn more about the beginning of the Universe. 

WL involvement: The Newburgh group is part of the team commissioning SO. Newburgh leads the data acquisition and control group, mainly building software to control and acquire data.

Simons Observatory telescope.

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