Yr Athro Patrick Sutton
Research Group Leader, Gravity Exploration Institute
- suttonpj1@cardiff.ac.uk
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My research focuses on the detection and study of gravitational waves -- ripples in the fabric of spacetime. These are produced by some of the most violent events in the Universe, such as the collisions of black holes, the explosive deaths of massive stars, and perhaps the Big Bang itself. The detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO observatories has opened a new window on nature, and is allowing us to probe the behaviour of matter and test Einstein's theory of gravity under extreme conditions that cannot (and should not!) be replicated on Earth. My particular specialties are the detection and interpretation of weak signals in noisy data. I am a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and have served on various national and international advisory committees on gravitational waves and astroparticle physics.
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I undertook my graduate studies at the University of Alberta, studying the renormalisation of quantum field theories in curved spacetimes, and graduated in 2000. I then spent two and a half years as a postdoctoral fellow in the gravitational physics group at Penn State University, followed by a four-year stint as a senior postdoctoral fellow and then a senior research fellow at the California Institute of Technology. I joined the faculty of Cardiff University as a senior lecturer in June 2007, and was promoted to Reader in 2012 and then Personal Chair in 2016.
Anrhydeddau a Dyfarniadau
Head, Gravitational Physics Group, Cardiff University
Chair, STFC Particle Astrophysics Advisory Panel (to 2016)
Member, Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (ApPEC) - Scientific Advisory Commitee
Cyhoeddiadau
2021
- Abbott, R.et al. 2021. Observation of gravitational waves from two neutron star-black hole coalescences. Astrophysical Journal Letters 915(1), article number: L5. (10.3847/2041-8213/ac082e)
- Abbott, R.et al. 2021. Tests of general relativity with binary black holes from the second LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog. Physical Review D 103(12), article number: 122002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.103.122002)
- Abbott, R.et al. 2021. All-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems. Physical Review D 103(6), article number: 64017. (10.1103/PhysRevD.103.064017)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2021. A gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant following the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo. Astrophysical Journal 909(2), article number: 218. (10.3847/1538-4357/abdcb7)
2020
- Abbott, R.et al. 2020. Gravitational-wave constraints on the equatorial ellipticity of millisecond pulsars. Astrophysical Journal Letters 902(1), article number: L21. (10.3847/2041-8213/abb655)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2020. Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA. Living Reviews in Relativity 23(1), article number: 3. (10.1007/s41114-020-00026-9)
- Abbott, R.et al. 2020. GW190521: a binary back hole merger with a total mass of 150 M⊙. Physical Review Letters 125(10), article number: 101102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.101102)
- Abbott, R.et al. 2020. Properties and astrophysical implications of the 150 M ⊙ binary black hole merger GW190521. Astrophysical Journal Letters 900(1), article number: L13. (10.3847/2041-8213/aba493)
- Barausse, E.et al. 2020. Prospects for fundamental physics with LISA. General Relativity and Gravitation 52(8), article number: 81. (10.1007/s10714-020-02691-1)
- Abbott, R.et al. 2020. GW190814: gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 23 solar mass black hole with a 2.6 solar mass compact object. Astrophysical Journal Letters 896(2), article number: L44. (10.3847/2041-8213/ab960f)
- Hamburg, R.et al. 2020. A joint Fermi-GBM and LIGO/Virgo analysis of compact binary mergers from the first and second gravitational-wave observing runs. Astrophysical Journal 893(2), article number: 100. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab7d3e)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2020. Optically targeted search for gravitational waves emitted by core-collapse supernovae during the first and second observing runs of advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo. Physical Review D 101(8), article number: 84002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.101.084002)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2020. A guide to LIGO-Virgo detector noise and extraction of transient gravitational-wave signals. Classical and Quantum Gravity 37(5), article number: 55002. (10.1088/1361-6382/ab685e)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2020. Model comparison from LIGO-Virgo data on GW170817's binary components and consequences for the merger remnant. Classical and Quantum Gravity 37(4), article number: 45006. (10.1088/1361-6382/ab5f7c)
2019
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2019. Search for gravitational-wave signals associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Astrophysical Journal 886(1), article number: 75. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab4b48)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2019. Search for subsolar mass ultracompact binaries in advanced LIGO's second observing run. Physical Review Letters 123(16), article number: 161102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.161102)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2019. Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo network. Physical Review D 100(6), article number: 64064. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.064064)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2019. Search for eccentric binary black hole mergers with advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo during their first and second observing runs. Astrophysical Journal 883(1), article number: 49. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab3c2d)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2019. GWTC-1: A gravitational-wave transient catalog of compact binary mergers observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first and second observing runs. Physical Review X 9(3), article number: 31040. (10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031040)
- Booth, C.et al. 2019. All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO O2 data. Physical Review D 100(2), article number: 24004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.024004)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2019. All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run. Physical Review D 100(2), pp. -., article number: 24017. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.024017)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2019. Tests of general relativity with GW170817. Physical Review Letters 123, pp. -., article number: 11102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.011102)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2019. Narrow-band search for gravitational waves from known pulsars using the second LIGO observing run. Physical Review D 99(12), pp. -., article number: 122002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.99.122002)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2019. Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in 2015?2017 LIGO Data. Astrophysical Journal 879(1), pp. 10., article number: 10. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab20cb)
- Soares-Santos, M.et al. 2019. First measurement of the Hubble constant from a dark standard siren using the Dark Energy Survey galaxies and the LIGO/Virgo binary-black-hole merger GW170814. Astrophysical Journal Letters 876(1), article number: L7. (10.3847/2041-8213/ab14f1)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2019. All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the second Advanced LIGO observing run. Physical Review D 99(10), article number: 104033. (10.1103/PhysRevD.99.104033)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2019. Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from 15 Supernova Remnants and Fomalhaut b with Advanced LIGO. Astrophysical Journal 875(2), pp. 122., article number: 122. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab113b)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2019. Low-latency gravitational-wave alerts for multimessenger astronomy during the second advanced LIGO and virgo observing run. Astrophysical Journal 875(2), pp. 161., article number: 161. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab0e8f)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2019. Search for transient gravitational-wave signals associated with magnetar bursts during advanced LIGO's second observing run. Astrophysical Journal 874(2), pp. 163., article number: 163. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab0e15)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2019. Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Physical Review X 9(1), article number: 11001. (10.1103/PhysRevX.9.011001)
- Burns, E.et al. 2019. A fermi gamma-ray burst monitor search for electromagnetic signals coincident with gravitational-wave candidates in advanced LIGO's first observing run. Astrophysical Journal 871(1), article number: 90. (10.3847/1538-4357/aaf726)
- Pannarale Greco, F., Macas, R. and Sutton, P. J. 2019. Bayesian inference analysis of unmodelled gravitational-wave transients. Classical and Quantum Gravity 36(3), article number: 35011. (10.1088/1361-6382/aaf76d)
- Albert, A.et al. 2019. Search for multimessenger sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos with advanced LIGO during its first observing run, ANTARES, and IceCube. Astrophysical Journal 870(2), article number: 134. (10.3847/1538-4357/aaf21d)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2019. Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using data from Advanced LIGO's first two observing runs. Physical Review D 100(6), article number: 62001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.062001)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2019. Search for the isotropic stochastic background using data from Advanced LIGO's second observing run. Physical Review D 100(6) (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.061101)
2018
- Abbott, B.et al. 2018. Search for subsolar-mass ultracompact binaries in advanced LIGO's first observing Run. Physical Review Letters 121(23), pp. -., article number: 231103. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.231103)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2018. GW170817: Measurements of neutron star radii and equation of state. Physical Review Letters 121(16), article number: 161101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.161101)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2018. Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background. Physical Review Letters 120(20), pp. -., article number: 201102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.201102)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2018. Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run. Physical Review D 97(10), article number: 102002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.97.102002)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2018. GW170817: Implications for the stochastic gravitational-wave background from compact binary coalescences. Physical Review Letters 120(9) (10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.091101)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2018. All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run. Classical and Quantum Gravity 35(6), article number: 65009. (10.1088/1361-6382/aaab76)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2018. Effects of data quality vetoes on a search for compact binary coalescences in Advanced LIGO's first observing run. Classical and Quantum Gravity 35(6), article number: 65010. (10.1088/1361-6382/aaaafa)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2018. First search for nontensorial gravitational waves from known pulsars. Physical Review Letters 120(3), article number: 31104. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.031104)
2017
- Abbott, B.et al. 2017. First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data. Physical Review D 96(12), pp. -., article number: 122006. (10.1103/PhysRevD.96.122006)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2017. First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data. Physical Review D 96(12), article number: 122004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.96.122004)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2017. Search for post-merger Gravitational Waves from the remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817. Astrophysical Journal Letters 851(1), article number: L16. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa9a35)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2017. On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817. Astrophysical Journal Letters 850(2), pp. -., article number: L40. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa93fc)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2017. Estimating the contribution of dynamical ejecta in the kilonova associated with GW170817. Astrophysical Journal Letters 850(2), article number: L39. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa9478)
- Dorrington, I.et al. 2017. Search for high-energy neutrinos from binary neutron star merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 850(2), article number: L35. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa9aed)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2017. Upper limits on gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 from a model-based cross-correlation search in advanced LIGO data. Astrophysical Journal 847(1), pp. -., article number: 47. (10.3847/1538-4357/aa86f0)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2017. All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data. Physical Review D 96(6), article number: 62002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.96.062002)
- Albert, A.et al. 2017. Search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW151226 and candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube. Physical Review D 96(2), article number: 22005. (10.1103/PhysRevD.96.022005)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2017. Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first observing run of Advanced LIGO. Physical Review D 96(2), article number: 22001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.96.022001)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2017. Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the first Advanced LIGO observing run with a hidden Markov model. Physical Review D 95(12), article number: 122003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.95.122003)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2017. GW170104: Observation of a 50-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence at redshift 0.2. Physical Review Letters 118(22), article number: 221101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.221101)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2017. Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in globular cluster NGC 6544. Physical Review D 95(8), article number: 82005. (10.1103/PhysRevD.95.082005)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2017. Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914. Classical and Quantum Gravity 34(10), pp. -., article number: 104002. (10.1088/1361-6382/aa6854)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2017. First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with advanced LIGO. Astrophysical Journal 839(1), pp. 19-19., article number: 12. (10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2017. Calibration of the advanced LIGO detectors for the discovery of the binary black-hole merger GW150914. Physical Review D 95, article number: 62003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.95.062003)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2017. Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves from advanced LIGO's first observing run. Physical Review Letters 118, pp. -., article number: 121102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.121102)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2017. All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run. Physical Review D 95(4), article number: 42003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.95.042003)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2017. The basic physics of the binary black hole merger GW150914. Annelen der Physik 529(1-2), article number: 1600209. (10.1002/andp.201600209)
2016
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. Binary black hole mergers in the first advanced LIGO observing run. Physical Review X 6(4), article number: 41015. (10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041015)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Living Reviews in Relativity 19, article number: 1. (10.1007/lrr-2016-1)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. Improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform model. Physical Review X 6(4), pp. -., article number: 41014. (10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041014)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. Upper limits on the rates of binary neutron star and neutron star-black hole mergers from advanced Ligo's first observing run. Astrophysical Journal Letters 832(2), pp. -., article number: L21. (10.3847/2041-8205/832/2/L21)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. First targeted search for gravitational-wave bursts from core-collapse supernovae in data of first-generation laser interferometer detectors. Physical Review D 94(10), pp. -., article number: 102001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.94.102001)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein's equations for binary black hole coalescence. Physical Review D 94(6), article number: 64035. (10.1103/PhysRevD.94.064035)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. Comprehensive all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the sixth science run LIGO data. Physical Review D 94(4), pp. -., article number: 42002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.94.042002)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914. Astrophysical Journal Letters 826(1), pp. -., article number: L13. (10.3847/2041-8205/826/1/L13)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. Supplement: 'Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914' (2016, ApJL, 826, l13). Astrophysical Journal Supplement 225(1), pp. 1-15. (10.3847/0067-0049/225/1/8)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. Properties of the binary black hole merger GW150914. Physical Review Letters 116(24), article number: 241102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241102)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. GW151226: Observation of gravitational waves from a 22-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence. Physical Review Letters 116(24), article number: 241103. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241103)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO. Physical Review D 93(12), article number: 122003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122003)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions. Physical Review D 93(12), article number: 122004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122004)
- Adrián-Martínez, S.et al. 2016. High-energy neutrino follow-up search of gravitational wave event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube. Physical Review D 93(12), article number: 122010. (10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122010)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. Search for transient gravitational waves in coincidence with short-duration radio transients during 2007-2013. Physical Review D 93(12), pp. -., article number: 122008. (10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122008)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914. Classical and Quantum Gravity 33(13), article number: 134001. (10.1088/0264-9381/33/13/134001)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. Tests of general relativity with GW150914. Physical Review Letters 116(22), article number: 221101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.221101)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. GW150914: implications for the stochastic gravitational wave background from binary black holes. Physical Review Letters 116, article number: 131102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.131102)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. GW150914: the advanced LIGO detectors in the era of first discoveries. Physical Review Letters 116(13), article number: 131103. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.131103)
- Adams, T.et al. 2016. Search of the Orion spur for continuous gravitational waves using a loosely coherent algorithm on data from LIGO interferometers. Physical Review d Particles and Fields 93(4), article number: 42006. (10.1103/PhysRevD.93.042006)
- Coughlin, S. B.et al. 2016. All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients with initial LIGO. Physical Review D. 93(4), article number: 42005. (10.1103/PhysRevD.93.042005)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2016. First low frequency all-sky search for continuous gravitational wave signals. Physical Review D 93(4), article number: 42007. (10.1103/PhysRevD.93.042007)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger. Physical Review Letters 116(6), article number: 61102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102)
2015
- Adams, T.et al. 2015. Searches for continuous gravitational waves from nine young supernova remnants. The Astrophysical Journal 813(1), article number: 39. (10.1088/0004-637X/813/1/39)
- Clark, J.et al. 2015. Prospects for joint gravitational wave and short gamma-ray burst observations. Astrophysical Journal 809(1), article number: 53. (10.1088/0004-637X/809/1/53)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2015. Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run. Classical and Quantum Gravity 32(11), article number: 115012. (10.1088/0264-9381/32/11/115012)
- Adams, T.et al. 2015. Directed search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with initial LIGO data. Physical Review d Particles and Fields 91(6), article number: 62008. (10.1103/PhysRevD.91.062008)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2015. Advanced LIGO. Classical and Quantum Gravity 32(7), article number: 74001. (10.1088/0264-9381/32/7/074001)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2015. Narrow-band search of continuous gravitational-wave signals from Crab and Vela pulsars in Virgo VSR4 data. Physical Review D 91, article number: 22004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.91.022004)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2015. Searching for stochastic gravitational waves using data from the two colocated LIGO Hanford detectors. Physical Review Letters 91(2), article number: 22003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.91.022003)
2014
- Aasi, J.et al. 2014. Improved upper limits on the stochastic gravitational-wave background from 2009-2010 LIGO and Virgo data. Physical Review Letters 113(23), article number: 231101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.231101)
- Aartsen, M. G.et al. 2014. Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCub. Physical Review D Particles and Fields 90(10), article number: 102002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.90.102002)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2014. First all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown sources in binary systems. Physical Review d Particles and Fields 90(6), article number: 62010. (10.1103/PhysRevD.90.062010)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2014. Implementation of an F-statistic all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Virgo VSR1 data. Classical and Quantum Gravity 31(16), article number: 165014. (10.1088/0264-9381/31/16/165014)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2014. Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by the interplanetary network. Physical Review Letters 113(1), article number: 11102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.011102)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2014. Methods and results of a search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts using the GEO 600, LIGO, and Virgo detectors. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 89, pp. -., article number: 122004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.89.122004)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2014. Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run. Physical Review Letters 89, article number: 122003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.89.122003)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2014. The NINJA-2 project: detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations. Classical and Quantum Gravity 31(11), article number: 115004. (10.1088/0264-9381/31/11/115004)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2014. Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed intermediate mass black holes in LIGO-Virgo data from 2005-2010. Physical Review d Particles and Fields 89(10), article number: 102006. (10.1103/PhysRevD.89.102006)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2014. Constraints on cosmic strings from the LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave detectors. Physical Review Letters 112(13), article number: 131101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.131101)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2014. Application of a Hough search for continuous gravitational waves on data from the fifth LIGO science run. Classical and Quantum Gravity 31(8), article number: 85014. (10.1088/0264-9381/31/8/085014)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2014. First searches for optical counterparts to gravitational-wave candidate events. Astrophysical Journal Supplement 211(1), article number: 7. (10.1088/0067-0049/211/1/7)
2013
- Aasi, J.et al. 2013. Search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients coincident with long gamma-ray bursts. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 88(12), article number: 122004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.88.122004)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2013. Directed search for continuous gravitational waves from the Galactic center. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 88(10), article number: 102002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.88.102002)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2013. Parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence signals with the first generation gravitational-wave detector network. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 88(6), article number: 62001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.88.062001)
- Adrián-Martínez, S.et al. 2013. A first search for coincident gravitational waves and high energy neutrinos using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2013(6), article number: 8. (10.1088/1475-7516/2013/06/008)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2013. Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data. Physical Review D Particles and Fields 87(4), article number: 42001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.87.042001)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2013. Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009–2010. Physical Review D Particles and Fields 87(2), article number: 22002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.87.022002)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2013. Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light [Letter]. Nature Photonics 7(8), pp. 613-619. (10.1038/nphoton.2013.177)
- Nuttall, L.et al. 2013. Large-scale image processing with the rotse pipeline for follow-up of gravitational wave events. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 209(2), pp. 24-33. (10.1088/0067-0049/209/2/24)
2012
- Abadie, J.et al. 2012. Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600–1000 Hz. Physical Review D Particles and Fields 85(12), article number: 122001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.85.122001)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2012. All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run. Physical Review D Particles and Fields 85(12), article number: 122007. (10.1103/PhysRevD.85.122007)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2012. First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy & Astrophysics 541, article number: A155. (10.1051/0004-6361/201218860)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2012. Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 85(10), article number: 102004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.85.102004)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2012. Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy & Astrophysics 539, article number: A124. (10.1051/0004-6361/201118219)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2012. All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data. Physical Review D 85(2), article number: 22001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.85.022001)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2012. Implications for the origin of GRB 051103 from LIGO observations. Astrophysical Journal 755(1), article number: 2. (10.1088/0004-637X/755/1/2)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2012. Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during LIGO science run 6 and Virgo science runs 2 and 3. Astrophysical Journal 760(1), article number: 12. (10.1088/0004-637X/760/1/12)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2012. Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGO’s sixth science run and Virgo’s science runs 2 and 3. Physical Review D Particles and Fields 85(8), article number: 82002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.85.082002)
- Aasi, J.et al. 2012. The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches. Classical and Quantum Gravity 29(15), article number: 155002. (10.1088/0264-9381/29/15/155002)
- Evans, P. A.et al. 2012. SWIFT follow up observations of candidate gravitational-wave transient events. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 203(2), article number: 28. (10.1088/0067-0049/203/2/28)
2011
- Clark, J.et al. 2011. A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit. Nature Physics 7, pp. 962-965. (10.1038/nphys2083)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2011. Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown. Physical Review D 83(12), article number: 122005. (10.1103/PhysRevD.83.122005)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2011. Search for gravitational wave bursts from six magnetars. Astrophysical Journal Letters 734(2), article number: L35. (10.1088/2041-8205/734/2/L35)
- Hild, S.et al. 2011. Sensitivity studies for third-generation gravitational wave observatories. Classical and Quantum Gravity 28(9), article number: 94013. (10.1088/0264-9381/28/9/094013)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2011. Search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar. Physical Review D 83(4), article number: 42001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.83.042001)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2011. Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the Vela pulsar. Astrophysical Journal 737(2), article number: 93. (10.1088/0004-637X/737/2/93)
2010
- Abadie, J.et al. 2010. Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity 27(17), article number: 173001. (10.1088/0264-9381/27/17/173001)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2010. Search for gravitational-wave bursts associated with gamma-ray bursts using data from LIGO science run 5 and Virgo science run 1. Astrophysical Journal 715(2), pp. 1438-1452. (10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1438)
- Nuttall, L. and Sutton, P. J. 2010. Identifying the host galaxy of gravitational wave signals. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 82(10), article number: 102002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.82.102002)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2010. Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars with science run 5 LIGO data. Astrophysical Journal 713(1), pp. 671-685. (10.1088/0004-637X/713/1/671)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2010. All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 81(10), article number: 102001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.81.102001)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2010. First search for gravitational waves from the youngest known neutron star. Astrophysical Journal 722(2), pp. 1504-1513. (10.1088/0004-637X/722/2/1504)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2010. Calibration of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors in the fifth science run. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 624(1), pp. 223-240. (10.1016/j.nima.2010.07.089)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2010. Search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence in LIGO and Virgo data from S5 and VSR1. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 82(10), article number: 102001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.82.102001)
- Abadie, J.et al. 2010. Search for gravitational-wave inspiral signals associated with short gamma-ray bursts during ligo's fifth and virgo's first science run. The Astrophysical Journal 715(2), pp. 1453-1461. (10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1453)
2009
- Abbott, B.et al. 2009. First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 80(6), article number: 62002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.80.062002)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2009. Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 80(6), article number: 62001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.80.062001)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2009. An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin. Nature 460(7258), pp. 990-994. (10.1038/nature08278)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2009. Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data. Physical Review D 80(4), article number: 42003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.80.042003)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2009. LIGO: the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory. Reports on Progress in Physics 72(7), article number: 76901. (10.1088/0034-4885/72/7/076901)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2009. Search for gravitational waves from low mass binary coalescences in the first year of LIGO's S5 data. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 79(12), article number: 122001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.79.122001)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2009. Stacked Search for Gravitational Waves from the 2006 SGR 1900+14 Storm. Astrophysical Journal 701(2), pp. L68-L74. (10.1088/0004-637X/701/2/L68)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2009. Search for high frequency gravitational-wave bursts in the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 80(10), article number: 102002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.80.102002)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2009. Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state. New Journal of Physics 11(7), pp. 73032. (10.1088/1367-2630/11/7/073032)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2009. Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data. Physical Review D 80(4), article number: 42003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.80.042003)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2009. Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO's fifth science run. Physical Review D 80(4), article number: 47101. (10.1103/PhysRevD.80.047101)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2009. Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first year of the fifth LIGO science run. Physical Review D 80(10), article number: 102001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.80.102001)
2007
- Abbott, B.et al. 2007. Searches for periodic gravitational waves from unknown isolated sources and Scorpius X-1: Results from the second LIGO science run. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 76(8), article number: 82001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.76.082001)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2007. Upper limit map of a background of gravitational waves. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 76(8), article number: 82003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.76.082003)
Addysgu
On Research Leave for 2016-17. Previous teaching duties include:
PX3241 - Particle Physics and Special Relativity (2013-16)
PX4124 - Introduction to General Relativity (2014-15)
PX3237 - Nuclear and Particle Physics (2012-13)
PX4115 - General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics (2007-13)
I have also served as the Teaching Quality Officer for PHYSX since 2013.
Research interests
Violent relativistic events such as the collisions of black holes or neutron stars, supernovae, and gamma-ray bursts, can produce powerful bursts of gravitational waves. A common feature of these systems is that they are difficult to model, involving complex physics of matter at nuclear densities and nonlinear general relativistic effects. Gravitational waves could provide a probe of the rich physics of these systems. As a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, I am developing strategies to detect gravitational-wave bursts, and creating techniques for locating the sources on the sky, extracting their waveforms from noisy data, and fitting them to simulations and theoretical models. In particular, I focus on the detection of gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts and supernovae using data from the LIGO, GEO, and Virgo detectors.
Supervision
Current PhD students: Maxime Fays, Iain Dorrington, Ronaldas Macas, Scott Coughlin, Vassilis Skliris.
Supervision
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:
- gravitational waves
- signal detection techniques
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Past projects
- Supervisor for Laura Nuttall - Electromagnetic Follow-Up of Gravitational Wave Candidates (PhD, 2013).
- Supervisor for Mark Edwards - On the search for intermediate duration gravitational waves using the spherical harmonic basis (PhD, 2014)
- Supervisor for Thomas Adams - Detector Characterisation and Searches for Gravitational Waves Using GEO 600 (PhD, 2014)
- Supervisor for Scott Coughlin - Gravitational waves searches associated with galactic core-collapse supernova (MPhil, 2015)