Professor Stephen Fairhurst
Head of Gravity Exploration Institute
- fairhursts@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 0166
- 1.16, Queen's Buildings - North Building, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA
- Media commentator
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
My research focuses on observing gravitational wave signals emitted by the coalescence of black holes and neutron stars, and using these observations to understand the properties of the systems that we observe.
I am a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and for five years led the Compact Binary Coalescence group, responsible for searching for black hole and neutron star binary mergers.
Biography
Prof Fairhurst obtained a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1995, and completed the part III mathematics in 1996. He obtained my PhD in Physics from Penn State University in 2001, supervised by Abhay Ashtekar. His doctoral research focused on the properties of black hole horizons.
Following his PhD, he was a Killam postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta for two years and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee for three years. It was at Milwaukee that he began to work on searches for gravitational waves using the LIGO, Virgo and GEO detectors. He worked as a visiting associate at the California Institute of technology for a year.
Prof Fairhurst joined the staff at Cardiff University in 2007. He was a Royal Society University Research Fellow from 2007 to 2014. He is currently a Professor at Cardiff University.
Speaking engagements
I have given a number of invited talks in recent years, including
- "Status of LIGO and Virgo searches for Neutron star binaries", MICRA 2015, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015
- "Einstein’s Messengers", UK-India Frontiers of Science, India, 2014
- "Gravitational Waves and Gamma Ray Bursts", Paris, France, 2014
- "Gravitational Wave Astronomy with Compact Binaries: Localization and Latency", KITP, Santa Barbara, USA, 2012
- "Gravitational Wave Astronomy", NEB15, Crete, Greece, 2012
- "Gravitational Wave Astronomy," Goa, India 2011
- "Current and Future Challenges in Gravitational Wave Observation," London, UK, 2010
- "Searching for Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Binary Systems," Penn State, PA, USA, 2009
- "Current status of exploiting theoretical modelling of gravity waves in data analysis,", Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2008.
Conference Organisation
- I have been involved in the organisation of a number of conferences including Amaldi 9 and NRDA 2011, Cardiff; NRDA 2010, Waterloo, Canada.
Editorial Boards
- I serve on the editorial board of the International Journal of Modern Physics D.
Membership of external committees
- I am chair of the STFC Computing Advisory Panel.
- I am a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration's Executive Committee.
Publications
2024
- Abac, A. G. et al. 2024. Search for eccentric black hole coalescences during the third observing run of LIGO and Virgo. The Astrophysical Journal 973(2), article number: 132. (10.3847/1538-4357/ad65ce)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2024. Search for gravitational-lensing signatures in the full third observing run of the LIGO–Virgo network. Astrophysical Journal 970(191) (10.3847/1538-4357/ad3e83)
- Abac, A. G. et al. 2024. Observation of gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 2.5–4.5 M ⊙ compact object and a neutron star. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 970(2), article number: L34. (10.3847/2041-8213/ad5beb)
- Fairhurst, S., Mills, C., Colpi, M., Schneider, R., Sesana, A., Trinca, A. and Valiante, R. 2024. Identifying heavy stellar black holes at cosmological distances with next-generation gravitational-wave observatories. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 529(3), pp. 2116–2130. (10.1093/mnras/stae443)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2024. Search for gravitational-wave transients associated with magnetar bursts in Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo data from the third observing run. The Astrophysical Journal 966(1), article number: 137. (10.3847/1538-4357/ad27d3)
- Fletcher, C. et al. 2024. A joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT analysis of Gravitational-wave candidates from the third Gravitational-wave Observing Run. The Astrophysical Journal 964(2), article number: 149. (10.3847/1538-4357/ad1eed)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2024. GWTC-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run. Physical Review D (particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology) 109(2), article number: 22001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.109.022001)
2023
- Fairhurst, S., Hoy, C., Green, R., Mills, C. and Usman, S. A. 2023. Simple parameter estimation using observable features of gravitational-wave signals. Physical Review D (particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology) 108(8), article number: 82006. (10.1103/PhysRevD.108.082006)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2023. Search for gravitational waves associated with fast radio bursts detected by CHIME/FRB during the LIGO–Virgo observing run O3a. Astrophysical Journal 955(2), article number: 155. (10.3847/1538-4357/acd770)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2023. Open Data from the Third Observing Run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO. Astrophysical Journal Supplement 267(2), article number: 29. (10.3847/1538-4365/acdc9f)
- Tiwari, V., Hoy, C., Fairhurst, S. and MacLeod, D. 2023. Fast non-Markovian sampler for estimating gravitational-wave posteriors. Physical Review D (particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology) 108(2), article number: 23001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.108.023001)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2023. Constraints on the cosmic expansion history from GWTC–3. Astrophysical Journal 949(2), article number: 76. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac74bb)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2023. Population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3. Physical Review X 13(1), article number: 11048. (10.1103/PhysRevX.13.011048)
- Abbott, R. et al. 2023. Search for subsolar-mass black hole binaries in the second part of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, article number: stad588. (10.1093/mnras/stad588)
2022
- Fairhurst, S. et al. 2022. All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo O3 data. Physical Review D 106(10) (10.1103/PhysRevD.106.102008)
- Hannam, M. et al. 2022. General-relativistic precession in a black-hole binary. Nature 610(7933), pp. 652-655. (10.1038/s41586-022-05212-z)
- 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)
- Hoy, C., Mills, C. and Fairhurst, S. 2022. Evidence for subdominant multipole moments and precession in merging black-hole-binaries from GWTC-2.1. Physical Review D 106(2), article number: 23019. (10.1103/PhysRevD.106.023019)
- 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. 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)
- 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)
- Hoy, C., Fairhurst, S., Hannam, M. and Tiwari, V. 2022. Understanding how fast black holes spin by analyzing data from the second gravitational-wave catalogue. Astrophysical Journal 928(1), article number: 75. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac54a3)
- 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)
- Kalogera, V. et al. 2021. The next generation global gravitational wave observatory: the science book. Gravitational Wave International Committee.
- 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)
- Green, R., Hoy, C., Fairhurst, S., Hannam, M., Pannarale, F. and Thomas, C. 2021. Identifying when precession can be measured in gravitational waveforms. Physical Review D 103(12), article number: 124023. (10.1103/PhysRevD.103.124023)
- 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)
- Davis, D. et al. 2021. LIGO detector characterization in the second and third observing runs. Classical and Quantum Gravity 38(13), article number: 135014. (10.1088/1361-6382/abfd85)
- Tiwari, V. and Fairhurst, S. 2021. The emergence of structure in the binary black hole mass distribution. Astrophysical Journal Letters 913(2), article number: L19. (10.3847/2041-8213/abfbe7)
- 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)
- Valiante, R. et al. 2021. Unveiling early black hole growth with multi-frequency gravitational wave observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 500(3), pp. 4095-4109., article number: staa3395. (10.1093/mnras/staa3395)
- 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)
- Mills, C. and Fairhurst, S. 2021. Measuring gravitational-wave higher-order multipoles. Physical Review D 103(2), article number: 24042. (10.1103/PhysRevD.103.024042)
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. GW190412: observation of a binary-black-hole coalescence with asymmetric masses. Physical Review D 102(4), article number: 43015. (10.1103/PhysRevD.102.043015)
- Fairhurst, S., Green, R., Hannam, M. and Hoy, C. 2020. When will we observe binary black holes precessing?. Physical Review D 102(4), article number: 041302(R). (10.1103/PhysRevD.102.041302)
- Fairhurst, S., Green, R., Hoy, C., Hannam, M. and Muir, A. 2020. Two-harmonic approximation for gravitational waveforms from precessing binaries. Physical Review D 102(2), article number: 24055. (10.1103/PhysRevD.102.024055)
- 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)
- 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)
- Usman, S. A., Mills, J. C. and Fairhurst, S. 2019. Constraining the inclinations of binary mergers from gravitational-wave observations. Astrophysical Journal 877(2), article number: 82. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab0b3e)
- 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)
- Tiwari, V., Fairhurst, S. and Hannam, M. 2018. Constraining black hole spins with gravitational-wave observations. Astrophysical Journal 868(2), pp. -., article number: 140. (10.3847/1538-4357/aae8df)
- 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)
- Mills, C., Tiwari, V. and Fairhurst, S. 2018. Localization of binary neutron star mergers with second and third generation gravitational-wave detectors. Physical Review D 97(10), article number: 104064. (10.1103/PhysRevD.97.104064)
- 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)
- Fairhurst, S. 2018. Localization of transient gravitational wave sources: beyond triangulation. Classical and Quantum Gravity 35(10), article number: 105002. (10.1088/1361-6382/aab675)
- 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. 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)
- 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)
- Nitz, A. H., Dent, T., Dal Canton, T., Fairhurst, S. and Brown, D. A. 2017. Detecting binary compact-object mergers with gravitational waves: Understanding and improving the sensitivity of the PyCBC search. Astrophysical Journal 849(2), article number: 118. (10.3847/1538-4357/aa8f50)
- 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)
- Tanvir, N. R. et al. 2017. The emergence of a lanthanide-rich kilonova following the merger of two neutron stars. The Astrophysical Journal 848(2), article number: L27. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa90b6)
- Levan, A. J. et al. 2017. The environment of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. The Astrophysical Journal 848(2), article number: L28. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa905f)
- 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)
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- 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)
- Fairhurst, S. 2009. Triangulation of gravitational wave sources with a network of detectors. New Journal of Physics 11(12), article number: 123006. (10.1088/1367-2630/11/12/123006)
- 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)
- Farr, B., Fairhurst, S. and Sathyaprakash, B. S. 2009. Searching for binary coalescences with inspiral templates: detection and parameter estimation. Classical and Quantum Gravity 26(11), article number: 114009. (10.1088/0264-9381/26/11/114009)
- Biswas, R., Brady, P. R., Creighton, J. D. E. and Fairhurst, S. 2009. The loudest event statistic: general formulation, properties and applications. Classical and Quantum Gravity 26(17), article number: 175009. (10.1088/0264-9381/26/17/175009)
2008
- Abbott, B. et al. 2008. Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters. Physical Review Letters 101(21), article number: 211102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.211102)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2008. First joint search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO and GEO 600 data. Classical and Quantum Gravity 25(24), article number: 245008. (10.1088/0264-9381/25/24/245008)
- Harry, I. W., Fairhurst, S. and Sathyaprakash, B. S. 2008. A hierarchical search for gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binary mergers. Classical and Quantum Gravity 25(18), article number: 184027. (10.1088/0264-9381/25/18/184027)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2008. Search of S3 LIGO data for gravitational wave signals from spinning black hole and neutron star binary inspirals. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 78(4), article number: 42002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.78.042002)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2008. Implications for the origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO observations. Astrophysical Journal 681(2), pp. 1419-1430. (10.1086/587954)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2008. Search for gravitational waves associated with 39 gamma-ray bursts using data from the second, third, and fourth LIGO runs. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 77(6), article number: 62004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.77.062004)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2008. All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 77(2), article number: 22001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.77.022001)
- Baggio, L. et al. 2008. A joint search for gravitational wave bursts with AURIGA and LIGO. Classical and Quantum Gravity 25(9), article number: 95004. (10.1088/0264-9381/25/9/095004)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2008. Beating the Spin-Down Limit on Gravitational Wave Emission from the Crab Pulsar. Astrophysical Journal 683(1), pp. L45., article number: L45. (10.1086/591526)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2008. Astrophysically triggered searches for gravitational waves: status and prospects. Classical and Quantum Gravity 25(11), article number: 114051. (10.1088/0264-9381/25/11/114051)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2008. Search for gravitational waves from binary inspirals in S3 and S4 LIGO data. Physical Review D 77(6), article number: 62002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.77.062002)
- Babak, S. et al. 2008. The Mock LISA Data Challenges: from Challenge 1B to Challenge 3. Classical and Quantum Gravity 25(18), article number: 184026. (10.1088/0264-9381/25/18/184026)
- Kopparapu, R. K., Hanna, C., Kalogera, V., O'Shaughnessy, R., González, G., Brady, P. R. and Fairhurst, S. 2008. Host galaxies catalog used in LIGO searches for compact binary coalescence events. The Astrophysical Journal 675(2), pp. 1459-1467. (10.1086/527348)
- Brady, P. R. and Fairhurst, S. 2008. Interpreting the results of searches for gravitational waves from coalescing binaries. Classical and Quantum Gravity 25(10), article number: 105002. (10.1088/0264-9381/25/10/105002)
- Beauville, F. et al. 2008. A comparison of methods for gravitational wave burst searches from LIGO and Virgo. Classical and Quantum Gravity 25(4), article number: 45002. (10.1088/0264-9381/25/4/045002)
- Beauville, F. et al. 2008. Detailed comparison of LIGO and Virgo inspiral pipelines in preparation for a joint search. Classical and Quantum Gravity 25(4), article number: 45001. (10.1088/0264-9381/25/4/045001)
- Babak, S. et al. 2008. Report on the second Mock LISA data challenge. Classical and Quantum Gravity 25(11), article number: 114037. (10.1088/0264-9381/25/11/114037)
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. Search for gravitational wave radiation associated with the pulsating tail of the SGR 1806-20 hyperflare of 27 December 2004 using LIGO. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 76(6), article number: 62003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.76.062003)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2007. Searching for a stochastic background of gravitational waves with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Astrophysical Journal 659(2), pp. 918-930. (10.1086/511329)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2007. Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 76(4), article number: 42001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.76.042001)
- 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)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2007. First cross-correlation analysis of interferometric and resonant-bar gravitational-wave data for stochastic backgrounds. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 76(2), article number: 22001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.76.022001)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2007. Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO data from the fourth science run. Classical and Quantum Gravity 24(22), pp. 5343-5369. (10.1088/0264-9381/24/22/002)
- Ajith, P. et al. 2007. Data formats for numerical relativity waves. [Online]. arXiv. Available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0093
2006
- Fairhurst, S., Brady, P. R., Gonzalez, G. and Kanda, N. 2006. Joint LIGO and TAMA300 Search for Gravitational Waves From Inspiralling Neutron Star Binaries. Physical Review -Series D- 73, article number: 102002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.73.102002)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2006. Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data. Physical Review D 73(6), article number: 62001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.73.062001)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2006. Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO's third science run. Classical and Quantum Gravity 23(8), pp. S29. (10.1088/0264-9381/23/8/S05)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2006. Joint LIGO and TAMA300 search for gravitational waves from inspiralling neutron star binaries. Physical Review D Particles and Fields 73(10), article number: 102002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.73.102002)
2005
- Balasubramanian, R. et al. 2005. Upper Limits on a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves. Physical Review Letters 95(22), article number: 221101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.221101)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2005. Search for Gravitational Waves from Galactic and Extra-Galactic Binary Neutron Stars. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 72(8), article number: 82001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.72.082001)
- Fairhurst, S. and Takahashi, H. 2005. Status of the joint LIGO-TAMA300 inspiral analysis. Classical and Quantum Gravity 22(18), article number: S1109. (10.1088/0264-9381/22/18/S25)
- Booth, I. and Fairhurst, S. 2005. Horizon energy and angular momentum from a Hamiltonian perspective. Classical and Quantum Gravity 22(21), pp. 4515-4550. (10.1088/0264-9381/22/21/006)
- Beauville, F. et al. 2005. A first comparison between LIGO and Virgo inspiral search pipelines. Classical and Quantum Gravity 22(18), article number: S1149. (10.1088/0264-9381/22/18/S29)
- Beauville, F. et al. 2005. A first comparison of search methods for gravitational wave bursts using LIGO and Virgo simulated data. Classical and Quantum Gravity 22(18), pp. S1293. (10.1088/0264-9381/22/18/S43)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2005. Limits on gravitational-wave emission from selected pulsars using LIGO data. Physical Review Letters 94(18), article number: 181103. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.181103)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2005. Search for gravitational waves associated with the gamma ray burst GRB030329 using the LIGO detectors. Physical Review D 72(4), article number: 42002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.72.042002)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2005. Search for gravitational waves from primordial black hole binary coalescences in the galactic halo. Physical Review D 72(8), article number: 82002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.72.082002)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2005. Upper limits on gravitational wave bursts in LIGO's second science run. Physical Review D 72(6), article number: 62001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.72.062001)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2005. First all-sky upper limits from LIGO on the strength of periodic gravitational waves using the Hough transform. Physical Review D 72(10), article number: 102004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.72.102004)
- Abbott, B. et al. 2005. Upper limits from the LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational-wave bursts. Physical Review D Particles and Fields 72(12), article number: 122004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.72.122004)
2004
- Fairhurst, S. and Booth, I. 2004. The First Law for Slowly Evolving Horizons. Physical Review Letters (PRL) 92(1), article number: 11102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.011102)
- Sutton, P. J. et al. 2004. Plans for the LIGO-TAMA joint search for gravitational wave bursts. Classical and Quantum Gravity 21(20), pp. S1801-S1807. (10.1088/0264-9381/21/20/023)
- Brown, D. A. et al. 2004. Searching for gravitational waves from binary inspirals with LIGO. Classical and Quantum Gravity 21(20), pp. S1625. (10.1088/0264-9381/21/20/005)
2003
- Ashtekar, A., Fairhurst, S. and Willis, J. L. 2003. Quantum gravity, shadow states and quantum mechanics. Classical and Quantum Gravity 20(6), pp. 1031-1061. (10.1088/0264-9381/20/6/302)
- Booth, I. and Fairhurst, S. 2003. Canonical phase space formulation of quasi-local general relativity. Classical and Quantum Gravity 20(21), pp. 4507-4531. (10.1088/0264-9381/20/21/001)
2000
- Ashtekar, A., Fairhurst, S. and Krishnan, B. 2000. Isolated horizons: Hamiltonian evolution and the first law. Physical Review D 62(10), article number: 104025. (10.1103/PhysRevD.62.104025)
- Ashtekar, A., Beetle, C. and Fairhurst, S. 2000. Mechanics of isolated horizons. Classical and Quantum Gravity 17(2), pp. 253-298. (10.1088/0264-9381/17/2/301)
- Ashtekar, A., Beetle, C., Dreyer, O., Fairhurst, S., Krishnan, B., Lewandowski, J. and Wiśniewski, J. 2000. Generic isolated horizons and their applications. Physical Review Letters 85(17), pp. 3564-3567. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3564)
1999
- Ashtekar, A., Beetle, C. and Fairhurst, S. 1999. Isolated horizons: a generalization of black hole mechanics. Classical and Quantum Gravity 16(2), pp. L1-L7. (10.1088/0264-9381/16/2/027)
Teaching
- I developed and taught the first year module 'Computational Skills for Problem Solving, from 2012 to 2015. Visit the Course website.
- I developed and taught the fourth year module 'Advanced general relativity and gravitational waves' in 2015.
- I currently teach the third year module `Special Relativity and Particle Physics'.
My research focuses primarily on identifying gravitational wave signals emitted by merging black holes and neutron stars, and using the observed signals to understand the properties of the sources. Over the years, I have developed large parts of the search and lead the Cardiff effort to search for binary merger signals in the advanced LIGO data.
In late 2015, gravitational waves emitted from merging black holes were observed for the first time. Subsequently, we have observed more than fifty gravitational wave signals from merging black holes and several from colliding neutron stars.
Supervision
Current supervision
Past projects
Previous Postgraduate Students
I have previously supervised seven PhD students as primary supervisor:
- Dr Ian Harry, Can we hear black holes collide?, https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/55138/
- Dr Valeriu Predoi, Gravitational waves and short gamma ray bursts, https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/39987/
- Dr Duncan Macleod, Improving the sensitivity of searches for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences, https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/50885/
- Dr Andrew Williamson, Gravitational waves with gamma-ray bursts, https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/96479/
- Dr Charlie Hoy, You spin me round: Measuring precession in the black hole population, https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/142273/
- Dr Cameron Mills, Compact binary astrophysics, https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/143308/
- Dr Rhys Green, There’s more than one way to ride the wave: A multi-disciplinary approach to gravitational wave data analysis, https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/147940/
and two MPhil students:
- Alistair Muir, Towards improving detection rates of gravitational waves from precessing binary black holes, https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/118182/
- Samantha Usman, Rapid parameterization and estimated inclination of gravitational waves from binary systems, https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/114479/
