Kaitlyn Shin

Research

⭐ I think a lot about science involving large numbers of FRBs -- e.g., where do they reside, how are their brightnesses distributed, how can they be used to probe baryonic matter in the Universe? -- while endeavoring to correct for observational selection effects as best as possible. Some code and basic data products from my work can be found here. (If you think I should have uploaded some data products but didn't, please let me know!)
🪠 I contributed significantly to the CHIME/FRB intensity Catalog 1 efforts, and am actively working on internal infrastructure to ensure robust populations-level analyses for future catalog efforts and for CHIME/FRB Outriggers. I maintain and lead all current baseband localization pipeline efforts within CHIME/FRB, and led the technical processing for our first baseband catalog, "BaseCat1" (and am actively working towards BaseCat2!). I am also co-leading the injections effort for the CHIME/FRB Catalog 2 (check out the Catalog 1 injections data release!).
🔭 I also use the Magellan telescopes (and others!) to characterize host galaxy candidates of FRBs.
👷🏻‍♀️ I briefly helped commission and deploy the digital hardware for the CHIME/FRB Outrigger telescope at GBO.
🌌 My newer, more Galactic interests include investigating long-period radio transients and following up UV/O/IR time-domain surveys of globular clusters to identify other fun, weird radio transients with multi-wavelength counterparts.
📚 A list of papers I have (co-)authored can be found here.