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Ross Michael Silver

(NPP Fellow)

Ross Michael Silver's Contact Card & Information.
Email: ross.m.silver@nasa.gov
Org Code: 660
Address:
NASA/GSFC
 Mail Code 660
 Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: Southeastern Universities Research Assoc.

Brief Bio

I am from Reisterstown, MD and lived there most of my life. I went to undergrad at Gettysburg College from 2014-2018 where I majored in Physics and minored in Mathematics. One summer I performed research analyzing the magnetic activity cycles of stars in the cluster NGC 6811.


I went to Clemson University from 2018-2023 to obtain my Ph.D. researching active galactic nuclei (AGN), or supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. More specifically, I modeled the X-ray data of AGN to study the obscuration caused by the torus of gas and dust that surrounds the central engine on parsec scales. I created a machine learning algorithm capable of predicting AGN obscuration using infrared and X-ray data.

Education

B.S. in Physics from Gettysburg College. Class of 2018

Ph.D. in Physics from Clemson University. Class of 2023

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