Hannah Fritze Moon, PhD

I study X-ray binary (XRB) populations in nearby galaxies, with a particular focus on the nature of the compact objects in XRB systems and how XRB populations are linked to host galaxy parameters. I use data from a variety of X-ray satellite telescopes, and authored a successful large program NuSTAR proposal focused on the XRB population of the southern disk of the Andromeda Galaxy totaling 825 ks. I am also interested in future X-ray telescopes such as NewAthena. I'm a member of the Compact Objects (wg4) and Transients and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (wg5) working groups in the NewAthena Science Community (NASC), and within the compact objects working group I am co-leading a science objective focused on population studies of compact objects in external galaxies.

I am also generally interested in physics and astronomy education, particularly the experiences of neurodivergent students in physics at the undergraduate level, although I have not participated in any PER/AER research thus far.

I appear on author lists as Hannah Moon or H. Moon

1. "A NuSTAR Census of the X-ray Binary Population of the M31 Disk," Moon, H., Wik, D. R., et al. 2024, ApJ, 970, 167, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad4da4

2. "The high energy X-ray probe: resolved X-ray populations in extragalactic environments," Lehmer, B. D., Garofali, K., Binder, B. A., Fornasini, F., Vulic, N., Zezas, A., Hornschemeier, A., Lazzarini, M., Moon, H., Venters, T., Wik, D. R., Yukita, M., Bachetti, M., García, J. A., Grefenstette, B., Madsen, K., Mori, K., Stern, D. 2023, FrASS, 10, 1293918, doi: 10.3389/fspas.2023.1293918

3. "A Deep NuSTAR Survey of M31: Identifying Compact Objects in its X-ray Binary Population," First author, in prep

4. "Unveiling Extragalactic Compact Object Populations from the Sub- to Super-Eddington with NewAthena," corresponding author, in prep