Talks and Presentations

Below are some highlights of recent talks I have given, with links to relevant videos and abstracts. See my CV for a full list of talks.

A New Population of Mid-Infrared-Selected Tidal Disruption Events

April 23, 2024

Contributed Talk, UCSB KITP, Santa Barbara, CA

I spoke at the 2024 UCSB KITP Conference on Anticipating the Rising Tide of Tidal Disruption Events: Theory and Observations about my work on a new population of infrared-selected TDEs. You can watch my talk online here!

Unusual Hard X-Ray Flares Caught in NICER Monitoring of the Binary Supermassive Black Hole Candidate AT2019cuk/Tick Tock/SDSS J1430+2303

March 25, 2023

Poster, High Energy Astrophysics Division Meeting, Waikaloa, Hawaii

The poster I presented at the 2023 HEAD meeting can be found here.

Probing Extreme Accretion Physics with X-ray Nuclear Transients: A Case Study of 1ES 1927+654

June 15, 2022

Contributed Talk, European Space Agency Centre, Madrid, Spain

Find my contributed talk to the XMM-Newton 2022 Science Workshop on Black Hole Accretion on YouTube here! My talk begins around 7:09:00 (or start around 6:38:40 to see a wonderful introduction to 1ES 1927+654 by my collaborator, Claudio Ricci).

Evolution of a Relativistic Outflow and the X-ray Corona and in the Extreme Changing-Look AGN 1ES 1927+654

March 15, 2022

Contributed Talk, High Energy Astrophysics Division Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Abstract here

Megan Masterson

Talks and Presentations

A New Population of Mid-Infrared-Selected Tidal Disruption Events

Unusual Hard X-Ray Flares Caught in NICER Monitoring of the Binary Supermassive Black Hole Candidate AT2019cuk/Tick Tock/SDSS J1430+2303

Probing Extreme Accretion Physics with X-ray Nuclear Transients: A Case Study of 1ES 1927+654

Evolution of a Relativistic Outflow and the X-ray Corona and in the Extreme Changing-Look AGN 1ES 1927+654