J. Xavier Prochaska

J. Xavier Prochaska

Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz; Astronomer, UC Observatories.

UC Santa Cruz astrophysicists honored for advancing research on the mysterious FRB

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Along with the CHIME/FRB Collaboration, I shared a Marcel Grossmann Award recognizing the detection and comprehensive analysis of a large population of fast radio bursts — a major step in turning FRBs into routine cosmological tools.

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Welcome! This is the new home for my research, publications, and software.

Record-breaking fast radio burst is most distant ever detected

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A global team I contributed to detected an eight-billion-year-old fast radio burst — the most ancient and distant yet localized — using telescopes across three continents, pushing FRBs further than ever as probes of the cosmos.