Marc Favata
Assistant Professor
Mathematical Sciences
Montclair State University
United States of America
Biography
Marc Favata works as assistant professor of physics in the Mathematical Sciences Department at Montclair State University. He have been a visiting scientist in the relativity group at Caltech and at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He got M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Astronomy, with Eanna Flanagan serving as his thesis advisor. After graduating in August 2006, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara. From 2009 to 2011 he was a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Before coming to Montclair he was a postdoc in the LIGO group at UWM's Center for Gravitation and Cosmology. His research is focused on gravitational waves — ripples in the gravitational field that propagate through space and time.
Research Interest
Theoretical astrophysics, compact objects, gravitational-wave astronomy
Publications
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Favata M. Conservative self-force correction to the innermost stable circular orbit: Comparison with multiple post-Newtonian-based methods. Physical Review D. 2011 Jan 21;83(2):024027.
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Favata M. Conservative corrections to the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of a Kerr black hole: A new gauge-invariant post-Newtonian ISCO condition, and the ISCO shift due to test-particle spin and the gravitational self-force. Physical Review D. 2011 Jan 21;83(2):024028.
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Favata M. The gravitational-wave memory from eccentric binaries. Physical Review D. 2011 Dec 6;84(12):124013.
