Professor Hartmut Grote
Gravity Exploration Institute
- groteh@cardiff.ac.uk
- ++44 (0)29 2087 6460
- N/1.08, Queen's Buildings - North Building, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA
Overview
I am a member of the Gravity Exploration Institute and my main expertise and experience is in experimental gravitational physics research, in particular instrumentation for gravitational wave detectors. I am also interested in exploring how to apply precision interferometry to fundamental physics, as for example in the search for dark matter.
I am Prinipal Investigator to the consortium "Quantum-Enhanced Interferometry for New Physics", in which we search for new particles beyond the standard model and for experimental signatures of quantization of space-time or semi-classical gravity. More on our consortium can be found here:
Books:
I co-edited the 2-volume book "Advanced Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors" (World Scientific, 2019):
and published a book introducing a brief history of gravitational-wave research, the workings of the detectors, and the first detections for a general audience (CRC Press, 2019)
the German version of the book can be found here (C.H. Beck, 2018):
Biography
- since 2018: Faculty member in the School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University. Chair of experimental gravitational-wave physics
- 2009 – 2017: Scientific leader of the GEO600 gravitational wave detector
- 2015 – 2016: Visiting research associate at Caltech / LIGO Livingston Observatory
- 2004 – 2014: Various research visits to NAOJ (Japan) and LIGO Laboratory (Caltech and LIGO Livingston Observatory)
- 2003 – 2008: Research fellow, Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Hannover: Commissioning and noise analysis of GEO600
- 2003: Phd (Doctorate) in physics from Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
- 1999 – 2003: Scientific assistant, Max-Planck institute for gravitational physics. Locking and automatic alignment of GEO600
- 1993 – 1997: Systems developer, Research laboratories of Medical University of Hannover. Development of special research equipment for medical research (Self-learning heart beat detection, leg length measurement machine, ergometer calorimeter)
Honours and awards
- Special breakthrough prize in fundamental physics awarded to R. W. P. Drever, K. S. Thorne, R. Weiss, and 1012 contributors to the discovery of gravitational waves, 2016
- Gruber Cosmology Prize awarded awarded to R. W. P. Drever, K. S. Thorne, R. Weiss, and the members of the LIGO and Virgo collaborations, 2016
- JSPS (Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science) fellowship, 2008
- Prize for best pre-diploma (bachelor equivalent) thesis
Speaking engagements
(selected talks since 2015)
- "Dark Matter Signatures in Laser-Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors", Texas Syposium, Portsmouth, 16.12.2019
- "Search for Dark Matter with Laser Interferometers and othe (ab)uses of Precision Instruments", Univiersity of Birmingham, 27.11.2019
- "Ultra-High Frequency Gravitational Waves and their link to ALPS and IAXO", IAXO collaboration meeting, 22.10.2019
- "Experimental Upeer Limits on (Ultra-) High Frequency Gravitational Waves and Prospects for More", Invited talk ICTP workshop Trieste, 14.10.2019
- “Gravitationswellen”, Public talk Urania Berlin, 28.6.2018
- "The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory LIGO:
Principles and Upgrades", URSI2018, Sicily, Italy, 20.6.2018 - "News from the dark Universe: Gravitational waves and the complex machines to detect them", Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA, 24.5.2018
- “The Road Ahead: Challenges for Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors”,
Fermilab Colloquium, USA, 7.3.2018 - “LIGO, Virgo, GEO: wie funktioniert ein Gravitationswellendetektor?” 33.
Hochschultage in Marburg, 16.2.2018 - “News from the dark Universe: The discovery of gravitational waves”, Public
talk at Mountain cloud Zen center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 13.12.2017 - "Gravitationswellen, Geschichte einer Jahrhundertentdeckung", IGPP Freiburg, Germany, 18.10.2017
- "Squeezed-light Enhancement: GEO600 and Prospects for Other Gravitational Wave Detectors", URSI/GRAS 2017, Montreal, Canada, 24.8.2017
- “News from the dark Universe: The discovery of gravitational waves”,
Colloquium University of Regensburg, Germany, 24.10.2016 - “Nachrichten vom Dunklen Universum: Die Entdeckung der Gravitationswellen”, Graz, Austria, 22.10.2016
- “News from the dark Universe: The discovery of gravitational waves”, Joint astronomy colloquium European southern observatory (ESO) and MPI for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany, 20.10.2016
- “Gravitationswellen”, Literary forum Hannover, Germany, 17.5.2016
- “News from the dark Universe: The discovery of gravitational waves”, Colloquium generale, University of Luxemburg, 12.5.2016
- “QED/VMB at gravitational wave detectors”, QED workshop DESY, Hamburg, Germany, 2.11.2015
- “No signal yet: The elusive birefringence of the vacuum and how GW detectors may help”, Colloquium University of Oxford, MS, US, 20.10.2015
- Plenary talk: “Overview and status of Advanced Interferometers”, TAUP conference Torino, Italy, 11.9.2015
- “No signal yet: The elusive birefringence of the vacuum and how GW detectors may help”, Caltech seminar, US, 24.2.2015
- “Ultra sensitive length measurements: Gravitational wave detectors and what they might be good for”, Colloquium University of Ferrara, 2.2.2015
Publications
2022
- Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Model-based cross-correlation search for gravitational waves from the low-mass x-ray binary scorpius x-1 in ligo o3 data. Astrophysical Journal Letters 941(2), article number: L30. (10.3847/2041-8213/aca1b0)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with a hidden Markov model in O3 LIGO data. Physical Review D 106(6), article number: 62002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.106.062002)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Search for continuous gravitational wave emission from the Milky Way center in O3 LIGO-Virgo data. Physical Review D 106(4), article number: 42003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.106.042003)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Search for subsolar-mass binaries in the first half of advanced LIGO's and advanced Virgo's third observing run. Physical Review Letters 129(6) (10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.061104)
- Dooley, K. L., Grote, H. and van den Brand, J. 2022. Terrestrial Laser Interferometers. In: Bambi, C., Katsanevas, S. and Kokkotas, K. D. eds. Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy. Springer, pp. 37-83., (10.1007/978-981-16-4306-4_2)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2022. First joint observation by the underground gravitational-wave detector, KAGRA, with GEO 600. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics 2022(6), article number: 063F01. (10.1093/ptep/ptac073)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Narrowband searches for continuous and long-duration transient gravitational waves from known pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo third observing run. Astrophysical Journal 932(2), article number: 133. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac6ad0)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2022. All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational waves from Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runs. Physical Review D 105(12), article number: 122001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.105.122001)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars at two harmonics in the second and third LIGO-Virgo observing runs. Astrophysical Journal 935(1), article number: 1. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac6acf)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2022. All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data. Physical Review D 105(10), article number: 102001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.105.102001)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Search of the early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational waves from the Cassiopeia A and Vela Jr. supernova remnants. Physical Review D 105(8), article number: 82005. (10.1103/PhysRevD.105.082005)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo Run O3b. Astrophysical Journal 928(2), article number: 186. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac532b)
- Diaz Ortiz, M. et al. 2022. Design of the ALPS II optical system. Physics of the Dark Universe 35, article number: 100968. (10.1016/j.dark.2022.100968)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Search for intermediate-mass black hole binaries in the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Astronomy & Astrophysics 659, article number: A84. (10.1051/0004-6361/202141452)
- Aiello, L., Richardson, J. W., Vermeulen, S., Grote, H., Hogan, C., Kwon, O. and Stoughton, C. 2022. Constraints on Scalar Field dark matter from Colocated Michelson interferometers. Physical Review Letters 128(12), article number: 121101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.121101)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Constraints on dark photon dark matter using data from LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run. Physical Review D 105(6), article number: 63030. (10.1103/PhysRevD.105.063030)
2021
- Abbott, R. et al. 2021. Search for lensing signatures in the gravitational-wave observations from the first half of LIGO-Virgo's third observing run. Astrophysical Journal 923(1), article number: 14. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac23db)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2021. All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run. Physical Review D 104, article number: 122004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.104.122004)
- Vermeulen, S. M. et al. 2021. Direct limits for scalar field dark matter from a gravitational-wave detector. Nature 600(7889), pp. 424-428. (10.1038/s41586-021-04031-y)
- Aasi, J. et al. 2021. Erratum: "Searches for continuous gravitational waves from nine young supernova remnants" (2015, ApJ, 813, 39). Astrophysical Journal 918(2), pp. 90. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac1f2d)
- Abbott, B. P. et al. 2021. Erratum: "Searches for continuous gravitational waves from 15 supernova remnants and Fomalhaut b with advanced LIGO" (2019, ApJ, 875, 122)*. Astrophysical Journal 918(2), pp. 91. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac1f2c)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2021. Search for anisotropic gravitational-wave backgrounds using data from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runs. Physical Review D 104(2), article number: 22005. (10.1103/PhysRevD.104.022005)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2021. Upper limits on the isotropic gravitational-wave background from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's third observing run. Physical Review D 104(2), article number: 22004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.104.022004)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2021. Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo run O3a. Astrophysical Journal 915(2), article number: 86. (10.3847/1538-4357/abee15)
- 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. GWTC-2: compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run. Physical Review X 11(2), article number: 21053. (10.1103/PhysRevX.11.021053)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2021. Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the third advanced LIGO-Virgo observing run. Physical Review Letters 126(24), article number: 241102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.241102)
- 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)
- Vermeulen, S. M., Aiello, L., Ejlli, A., Griffiths, W. L., James, A., Dooley, K. L. and Grote, H. 2021. An experiment for observing quantum gravity phenomena using twin table-top 3D interferometers. Classical and Quantum Gravity 38(8), article number: 85008. (10.1088/1361-6382/abe757)
- 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)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2021. Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. SoftwareX 13, article number: 100658. (10.1016/j.softx.2021.100658)
- Lough, J. et al. 2021. First demonstration of 6 dB quantum noise reduction in a kilometer scale gravitational wave observatory. Physical Review Letters 126(4), article number: 41102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.041102)
2020
- Bisht, A. et al. 2020. Modulated differential wavefront sensing: alignment scheme for beams with large higher order mode content. Galaxies 8(4), article number: 81. (10.3390/galaxies8040081)
- 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)
- Adhikari, R. X. et al. 2020. A cryogenic silicon interferometer for gravitational-wave detection. Classical and Quantum Gravity 37(16), article number: 165003. (10.1088/1361-6382/ab9143)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2020. GW190412: observation of a binary-black-hole coalescence with asymmetric masses. Physical Review D 102(4), article number: 43015. (10.1103/PhysRevD.102.043015)
- 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
- Grote, H. and Stadnik, Y. V. 2019. Novel signatures of dark matter in laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. Physical Review Research 1(3), article number: 33187. (10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.033187)
- Ejlli, A., Ejlli, D., Cruise, A. M., Pisano, G. and Grote, H. 2019. Upper limits on the amplitude of ultra-high-frequency gravitational waves from graviton to photon conversion. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 79(12), article number: 1032. (10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7542-5)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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. 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)
- Martynov, D. et al. 2019. Exploring the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors to neutron star physics. Physical Review D 99, pp. -., article number: 102004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.99.102004)
- 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)
- Reitze, D., Saulson, P. and Grote, H. eds. 2019. Advanced interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. 100 Years of General Relativity: Volume 5. World Scientific. (10.1142/10181)
- Grote, H. 2019. Length sensing and control. In: Grote, H. ed. Advanced Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors., Vol. 5. [Advanced Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors]. 100 Years of General Relativity: Volume 5 World Scientific, pp. 555-583., (10.1142/9789813146082_0020)
- 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)
- 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)
- Wittel, H. et al. 2018. Matrix heater in the gravitational wave observatory GEO 600. Optics Express 26(18), pp. 22687-22697. (10.1364/OE.26.022687)
- Grote, H. 2018. Commentary: intentional observer effects on quantum randomness: a bayesian analysis reveals evidence against micro-psychokinesis. Frontiers in Psychology 9, article number: 1350. (10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01350)
- Yu, H. et al. 2018. Prospects for detecting gravitational waves at 5 Hz with ground-based detectors. Physical Review Letters 120, article number: 141102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.141102)
- Grote, H. 2018. Gravitationswellen Geschichte einer Jahrhundertentdeckung. C.H.Beck.
- 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. 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)
- Walker, M. et al. 2017. Effects of transients in LIGO suspensions on searches for gravitational waves. Review of Scientific Instruments 88(12), article number: 124501. (10.1063/1.5000264)
- 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. Gravitational waves and gamma-rays from a binary neutron star merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A. Astrophysical Journal Letters 848(2), article number: L13. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa920c)
- Abbott, B. P. et al. 2017. Multi-messenger observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger. Astrophysical Journal Letters 848(2), 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 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. P. et al. 2017. Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during the first advanced LIGO observing run and implications for the origin of GRB 150906B. Astrophysical Journal 841(2), pp. 89. (10.3847/1538-4357/aa6c47)
- Blair, C. et al. 2017. First Demonstration of Electrostatic Damping of Parametric Instability at Advanced LIGO. Physical Review Letters 118(15), article number: 151102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.151102)
- 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)
- Martynov, D. V. et al. 2017. Quantum correlation measurements in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. Physical Review A 95(4), article number: 43831. (10.1103/PhysRevA.95.043831)
- 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. 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. P. et al. 2017. Exploring the sensitivity of next generation gravitational wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity 34(4), article number: 44001. (10.1088/1361-6382/aa51f4)
- 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. 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. 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. et al. 2016. Results of the deepest all-sky survey for continuous gravitational waves on LIGO S6 data running on the Einstein@Home volunteer distributed computing project. Physical Review D 94(10), article number: 102002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.94.102002)
- 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)
- Grote, H. et al. 2016. High power and ultra-low-noise photodetector for squeezed-light enhanced gravitational wave detectors. Optics Express 24(18), article number: 20107. (10.1364/OE.24.020107)
- 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)
- 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)
- Martynov, D. V. et al. 2016. Sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO detectors at the beginning of gravitational wave astronomy. Physical Review D 93(11), article number: 112004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112004)
- Dooley, K. L. et al. 2016. GEO 600 and the GEO-HF upgrade program: successes and challenges. Classical and Quantum Gravity 33, article number: 75009. (10.1088/0264-9381/33/7/075009)
- 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)
- Schreiber, E. et al. 2016. Alignment sensing and control for squeezed vacuum states of light. Optics Express 24(1), pp. 146-152. (10.1364/OE.24.000146)
- Grote, H. 2016. Overview and status of advanced interferometers for gravitational wave detection. Journal of Physics. Conference Series 718, article number: 22009. (10.1088/1742-6596/718/2/022009)
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)
- Adams, T. et al. 2015. Cost-benefit analysis for commissioning decisions in GEO 600. Classical and Quantum Gravity 32(13), article number: 135014. (10.1088/0264-9381/32/13/135014)
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- Dooley, K. L., Schreiber, E., Vahlbruch, H., Affeldt, C., Leong, J. R., Wittel, H. and Grote, H. 2015. Phase control of squeezed vacuum states of light in gravitational wave detectors. Optics Express 23(7), pp. 8235-8245. (10.1364/OE.23.008235)
- 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)
- Grote, H. 2015. On the possibility of vacuum QED measurements with gravitational wave detectors. Physical Review D 91(2), article number: 22002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.91.022002)
2014
- Affeldt, C. et al. 2014. Advanced techniques in GEO 600. Classical and Quantum Gravity 31(22), article number: 224002. (10.1088/0264-9381/31/22/224002)
Teaching
current:
PX4230/PXT128 Physics and Reality
PXT901 Experimental Gravitational-Wave Physics I
past:
PX4133 / PXT127 Modern Quantum Optics
PXT902 Experimental Gravitational-Wave Physics II
My research interest is in instrumentation for gravitational wave detectors, and how these complex machines can be made more sensitive and reliable. Interferometric gravitational wave detectors embody phyiscs and engineering from many disciplines, like mechanics, optics, control systems, electronics, computing, solid state physics, and vacuum technology.
Examples of my particular interests are: Improving the readout methods with which gravitational wave information is obtained from the optical output of what we call the main interferometer, understanding and improving the complex alignment system of gravitational wave detectors that hold all optics at their correct angles at all times, and researching ways to reduce the quantum noise in interferometers.
I also have an interest in the application of precision interferometry techniques to other fundamental physics questions, like the measurement of birefringence of the vacuum, the search for new particles beyond the standard model, and more exotic questions. One of them is the question wether we can observe signatures of quantization of space-time with laser interferometry.
We are constructing a table-top interferometer in our group, that will search for quantization of space-time, for scalar field dark matter and for ultra-high frequency gravitational waves.
