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Rowina Nathan Pulsar timer & gravitational wave finder

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Last year, when the International Pulsar Timing Array announced the first detection of a gravitational wave background, Monash University PhD student Rowina Nathan was on the front line.

“I was involved in the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array, so the Australian collaboration,” she says. “I did some

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