Their work was recognized by the judging panel for the “potential for remarkable impact through the exploration of gravitational wave phenomena in the unprobed microhertz frequency band via a novel technique leveraging already-existing missions, which could enable exploration of first-order cosmological phase transitions in the early Universe.”

The prize was announced in the last AAS meeting

More information:

• “Bridging the μHz gap in the gravitational-wave landscape with binary resonance” on arXiv
• Press release on the result