Professor Bernard Schutz
Gravity Exploration Institute
Overview
I hold a half-time professorship at Cardiff University in the School of Physics and Astronomy. My research is primarily on gravitational wave detection and astronomy, which I do as a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. I came to Cardiff as a lecturer in 1974, working on the astrophysics of relativistic systems like neutron stars and black holes, and on their gravitational wave emissions. From the mid-1980s I began to develop the theory underlying the techniques now used by LIGO and its partners Virgo and KAGRA to find weak gravitational wave signals in their data. I moved to Germany in 1995 to help set up the Albert Einstein Institute, where I expanded my research in data analysis and numerical relativity. My interest in data analysis led to work on big data, and when I returned to Cardiff in 2014 I helped establish the Data Innovation Research Institute, and became its first director.
I am very interested in teaching relativity and explaining it to non-scientists, and have written two widely used textbooks. While in Germany, I established the open-access journal Living Reviews in Relativity, which has become the highest-impact open-access journal in the world; it is now published by Springer.
My work in gravitational waves has led to a number of honours. I am a member of the Learned Society of Wales, of the US National Academy of Sciences, and of Germany's national academy Leopoldina. I have received the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the R. A. Isaacson Award of the American Physical Society, the Amaldi Gold Medal of the Italian Society of General Relativity and Gravitation, and a DSc from the University of Glasgow.
Biography
I was born and educated in the USA, and came to Cardiff for my first academic teaching position as a lecturer in 1974. I had obtained my PhD in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1971, supervised by Kip Thorne. I also had done postdoctoral work at Cambridge University (in the groups of Stephen Hawking and Martin Rees) and at Yale University (James Bardeen) before coming to Cardiff.
In 1995, then a full professor, I became part time in Cardiff to take a full time position as a director of the new Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam, Germany. I joined Jürgen Ehlers as one of the two founding directors. Since then the institute has grown to have 5 directors and two sites: the second site in Hannover was set up to do experimental gravitational wave research. With over 300 staff, the AEI (as it is known) is the biggest research institute in the world devoted to gravitational science. The AEI has made major contributions to the LIGO detector system, both in technologies and in data analysis, and is the lead institute for the LISA gravitational wave mission of the European Space Agency.
I retired from the AEI in 2014 and returned to Cardiff with a 50% professorship to help set up the new Data Innovation Research Institute, one of several University Research Institutes at Cardiff University. I stepped down from the directorship in 2017. I continue as an Emeritus Director of the AEI.
My research has been recognised by election to a number of learned societies,
- Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA (2019)
- Fellow, Learned Society of Wales (2011)
- Member, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (2006) – Germany’s national academy
- Member, Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden (2005)
and by other awards,
- Richard A Isaacson Award for Gravitational-Wave Science of the American Physical Society (2020), shared with my AEI fellow-director Bruce Allen
- Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2019)
- Honorary DSc, Glasgow University (2011)
- Amaldi Gold Medal of the Italian Society for Gravitation (SIGRAV), 2006
- Communitas Award, Max Planck Society (2013)
- Fellow, International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation (2013)
- Honorary Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society (UK, 2009)
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Fellow, Institute of Physics (UK)
Honours and awards
- Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
- member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Uppsala
- I have been awarded the Amaldi Gold Medal of the Italian Society for Gravitation and the honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Glasgow University
- Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Fellow of the International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK).
Publications
2020
- 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.et al. 2019. Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the second Advanced LIGO observing run with an improved hidden Markov model. Physical Review D 100(12), article number: 122002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.122002)
- 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)
- Gupta, A.et al. 2019. Calibrating the cosmic distance ladder using gravitational-wave observations. Astrophysical Journal 886(1), article number: 71. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab4c92)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2019. Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1. Physical Review D 100(10), article number: 104036. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.104036)
- 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)
- Huerta, E. A.et al. 2019. Enabling real-time multi-messenger astrophysics discoveries with deep learning. Nature Reviews Physics 1(10), pp. 600-608. (10.1038/s42254-019-0097-4)
- 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. 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. Binary black hole population properties inferred from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Astrophysical Journal Letters 882(2), article number: L24. (10.3847/2041-8213/ab3800)
- 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)
- Abbott, B.et al. 2019. Constraining the p-Mode-g-Mode tidal instability with GW170817. Physical Review Letters 122(6), pp. -., article number: 61104. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.061104)
- 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)
- 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)
- Holz, D. E., Hughes, S. A. and Schutz, B. F. 2018. Measuring cosmic distances with standard sirens. Physics today 71(12), pp. 34-40. (10.1063/PT.3.4090)
- 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)
- Schutz, B. F. 2018. Gravitational-wave astronomy: delivering on the promises. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 376(2120), article number: 20170279. (10.1098/rsta.2017.0279)
- 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. Full band all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data. Physical Review D 97(10), article number: 102003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.97.102003)
- 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. 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. 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.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. P.et al. 2017. GW170608: observation of a 19 solar-mass binary black hole coalescence. Astrophysical Journal Letters 851, article number: L35. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa9f0c)
- 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. 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)
- 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)
- 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. A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant. Nature 551, pp. 85-88. (10.1038/nature24471)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2017. Multi-messenger observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger. Astrophysical Journal Letters 848, article number: L12. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2017. GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. Physical Review Letters 119(16), article number: 161101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.161101)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2017. GW170814: a three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence. Physical Review Letters 119(14), article number: 141101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.141101)
- 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 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. Upper limits on the stochastic gravitational-wave background from advanced LIGO's first observing run. Physical Review Letters 118(12) (10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.121101)
- 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)
- Papa, M. A.et al. 2016. Hierarchical follow-up of subthreshold candidates of an all-sky Einstein@Home search for continuous gravitational waves on LIGO sixth science run data. Physical Review D 94(12), article number: 122006. (10.1103/PhysRevD.94.122006)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. The rate of binary black hole mergers inferred from advanced LIGO observations surrounding GW150914. Astrophysical Journal Letters 833(1), article number: L1. (10.3847/2041-8205/833/1/L1)
- Abbott, B. P.et al. 2016. Supplement: "The rate of binary black hole mergers inferred from advanced LIGO observations surrounding GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 833, L1). Astrophysical Journal Supplement 227(2), pp. 14. (10.3847/0067-0049/227/2/14)
- 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. 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. Properties of the binary black hole merger GW150914. Physical Review Letters 116, article number: 241102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241102)
- 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)
- 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. Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions. Physical Review D 93(12), article number: 122004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122004)
- 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: the advanced LIGO detectors in the era of first discoveries. Physical Review Letters 116(13), article number: 131103. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.131103)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
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- 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)
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2012
- 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. 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. 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)
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2011
- Abadie, J.et al. 2011. Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using LIGO S5 science data. Physical Review Letters 107(27), article number: 271102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.271102)
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- 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)
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2010
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2009
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2008
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2007
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2006
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2005
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2004
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Teaching
For many years I have taught general relativity and gravitational wave science to undergraduates and MSc students in the School of Physics and Astronomy and its predecessors. My textbook, A First Course in General Relativity (Cambridge University Press) is one of the most widely used introductory texts in the subject worldwide. My textbook on differential geometry, Geometrical Methods of Mathematical Physics (Cambridge University Press), is also widely used at the post-graduate level.
My principal research over the last 40 years has been in the study of the physics and astrophysics of possible gravitational wave sources, including black holes and neutron stars; and in methods of analyzing data from gravitational wave detectors to discover and study gravitational waves.
With J Friedman, I have shown that all rotating stars are vulnerable to an instability that arises from the emission of gravitational waves; one member of this CFS class of instabilities, the r-mode instability, is thought to limit the rotation speed of millisecond pulsars. With K Kokkotas, I discovered a new class of vibrations of relativistic stars, the w-modes, which arise from their coupling to gravitatonal waves. With T Futamase I worked on the foundations of the theory of gravitational radiation. In 1986 I discovered that gravitational waves from binary star systems contain information in their wave-forms that allow us to measure the distance to the system, and I showed how to use that to measure the expansion rate of the Universe, the Hubble-Lemaitre Constant. All detections of binary black hole and neutron star mergers by LIGO and Virgo have used this method to assign a distance, and for the first neutron-star merger (GW170817) it was used to provide a measurement of the Hubble-Lemaitre Constant.
When I moved to Potsdam, Germany, in 1995 to help set up the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) I was able to broaden my research in data analysis and to establish an intensive research effort in numerical relativity. With M-A Papa I helped lay the foundations of the Hough transform method of looking for continuous signals from gravitational wave pulsars, which is the most challenging data analysis problem facing LIGO and its partners. With L Wen I developed the null-stream coherent method for data analysis in systems of three or more detectors, which will see more and more application in the future, particularly for the rejection of spurious noise and possibly for calibration. With P Jaranowski and A Krolak I developed the F-statistic, which is the optimum way to assess the significance of a candidate detection for a continuous signal.
In 1994 I was one of the team that proposed the LISA gravitational wave detector, which is now a mission adopted by the European Space Agency and being developed for launch in 2034. Starting in the late 1990s, my group in Germany began to lay the foundations for the data analysis methods that LISA will use. Also in the 1990s, as a PI of the GEO gravitational wave collaboration (between British and German research groups), I negotiated GEO's alliance with the LIGO gravitational wave project, after which I served on the executive committee of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) until 2019. I continue to work within the LSC on gravitational wave detection and astrophysics and with the LISA Consortium on the scientific returns expected from the mission.
Finally I have a strong interest in issues of open access, open data and Big Data in scientific research.
