Lynnie Saade, PhD
I am a postdoctoral researcher who works at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center as a contractor with the Universities Space Research Association. I work with NASA scientists on X-ray astronomy of active galactic nuclei and X-ray binaries. I have been a member of the NuSTAR team previously, and am currently a member of the IXPE team.
Research Interests
Black holes are my favorite celestial objects, and I am interested in black holes of all sizes, from supermassive to stellar. I study active galactic nuclei and X-ray binaries to better understand the ways in which black holes accrete and how they grow over time.
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My second favorite celestial objects are neutron stars, and I have used my X-ray astronomy skills to help analyze the geometry of their accretion flows and magnetic fields.
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I have successfully PI'd NuSTAR, NICER, and Swift programs on AGN and X-ray binaries.
Selected Publications
Saade, M. L., Kaaret, P., Liodakis, I., and Ehlert, S. R. ``A Comparison of the X-ray Polarimetric Properties of Stellar and Supermassive Black Holes", 2024, The Astrophysical Journal, 974, 101
Saade, M. L., Brightman, Stern, D. M., et al. ``NuSTAR Observations of Candidate Sub-Parsec Binary Supermassive Black Holes", 2024, The Astrophysical Journal, 966, 10
Saade, M. L., Brightman, M., Stern, D., Malkan, M. A., and Garcia, J. " NuSTAR Observations of AGN with Low Observed X-ray to [OIII] Luminosity Ratios: Heavily Obscured AGN or Turned-Off AGN?”, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal, 936, 162