Dr. Eileen Theresa Meyer
Professor · Tenured
About
I was born in Wichita, KS and attended Rice University for B.S. in Astrophysics and PhD in Physics. I was a postdoc at STScI before joining the faculty at UMBC. I was awarded tenure in 2021 and am now an associate professor in physics.
Research interests
Super-Massive Black Holes, Active Galaxies, Relativistic Jets, Polarimetry, Spectroscopy, Tidal Disruption Events, Galaxy Evolution, Solar System and Planetary Science, Instrumentation, X-ray Observatories
Teaching interests
Physics and Astrophysics, Math and Statistical Methods in Physics
Education
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Ph D, Physics
— Rice University (2012) The Blazar Envelope and the Relativistic Jet Dichotomy: Unification of Radio-Loud AGN
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MS, Physics
— Rice University (2008) The effects of intrinsic spectral curvature and flux limits on the measured evolutionary behavior of BL Lacertae objects
- BS, Astrophysics — Rice University (2005)
Presentations
- The seed factor: how a combination of four observables can unveil the location of blazar GeV emission 2018
- X-ray Variability In Extragalactic Jets as Seen by Chandra 2018
- What is the nature of the X-ray emission of the large-scale jets of powerful quasars? 2017
Grants and Contracts
- Uncovering the optical emission in the brightest X-ray Jet (HST GO-18089) 2026
- Uncovering the optical emission in the brightest X-ray Jet (Cycle 27 Chandra co-award to HST; GO-27700356) 2026
- A superluminal jet in 3C264: the view at 30 (GO-17781) 2025
- HST Polarimetry and Proper Motions of the Pictor A Hotspot (GO-17783) 2025
- A legacy epoch for Hubble's optical jets (co-award to JWST GO award; GO-17919) 2025
- A superluminal jet in 3C264: the view at 30 (Cycle 26 Chandra co-award to HST; GO-26700506) 2025
- A legacy epoch for Hubble's optical jets (JWST-GO-9226) 2025
- Collaborative Research: Polarimetric Asteroseismology of Massive Hot Stars 2024
- NSF-BSF: Uncovering the Physical Origin of Radio Emission in Radio-Quiet Quasars 2024
- A Unique X-ray Polarimetry Target: The Western Hotspot of Pictor A 2024
- Examining the Variability of High-Redshift Jets (HST co-award; GO-17241) 2023
- Determining the High-Energy Emission Mechanism in Extragalactic Jets with HST (GO-17201) 2023
- Proper Motions of Extragalactic Jets with HST: A New Epoch (GO-17197) 2023
- Examining the Variability of High-Redshift Jets 2023
- Determining the High-Energy Emission Mechanism in Extragalactic Jets with HST (Chandra co-award) 2023
- WOU-MMA: Understanding Cosmic Particle Accelerators with VERITAS 2022
- A Tale of Two Catalogs: Revealing the cause of GAIA/VLBI quasar position offsets 2021
- Extragalactic Jets: Emission Mechanisms, Power, and Impact 2021
- High-redshift 3CR: witnessing the formation of the most massive galaxies, clusters and AGN in the Bright Ages 2020
- An HST proper-motion and spectral study of the optical jet in 4C + 00.58 (continuation) 2019
- Probing The Emission Mechanism in X-ray Anomalous Quasars with Fermi Observations 2018
- Understanding Energy-Dependent Variability of Fermi Sources 2017
- Ultraviolet Flashers in M87: Rapidly Recurring Novae as Snla Progenitors 2016
- An HST proper-motion and spectral study of the optical jet in 4C + 00.58 2016