Publications
This page lists publications with GWPAC members as co-authors. GWPAC faculty/staff co-authors are shown in bold. Student authors are indicated with an additional asterisk*.
2024
- “Ar transport and blister growth kinetics in titania-doped germania-based optical coatings,” E ́mileLalande, Aaron Davenport, Lory Marchand, Ashot Markosyan, Daniel Martinez*, Annalisa Paolone, Michael Rezac*, Marco Bazzan, Martin Chicoine, Julien L Colaux, Matthieu Coulon, Martin M Fejer, Alexandre W Lussier, Ettore Majorana, Ludvik Martinu, Carmen Menoni, Christophe Michel, Fulvio Ricci, Franc ̧ois Schiettekatte, Nikita Shcheblanov, Joshua R Smith, Julien Teillon, Guy Terwagne and Gabriele Vajente, Class. Quantum Grav. 41 115013 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ad3ffb
- “Multi-messenger astrophysics of black holes and neutron stars as probed by ground-based gravitational wave detectors: from present to future,” Alessandra Corsi1, Lisa Barsotti, Emanuele Berti, Matthew Evans, Ish Gupta, Konstantinos Kritos, Kevin Kuns, Alexander H. Nitz, Benjamin J. Owen, Binod Rajbhandari, Jocelyn Read, Bangalore S. Sathyaprakash, David H. Shoemaker, Joshua R. Smith and Salvatore Vitale, Front. Astron. Space Sci., 22 May 2024, Sec. Cosmology, Volume 11 - 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13445 https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2024.1386748
- “Gravity Spy: Lessons Learned and a Path Forward,”, Michael Zevin, Corey B Jackson, Zoheyr Doctor, Yunan Wu, Carsten Østerlund, L Clifton Johnson, Christopher PL Berry, Kevin Crowston, Scott B Coughlin, Vicky Kalogera, Sharan Banagiri, Derek Davis, Jane Glanzer, Renzhi Hao, Aggelos K Katsaggelos, Oli Patane*, Jennifer Sanchez, Joshua Smith, Siddharth Soni, Laura Trouille, Marissa Walker, Irina Aerith, Wilfried Domainko, Victor-Georges Baranowski, Gerhard Niklasch, Barbara Te ́gla ́s, The European Physical Journal Plus, 139, 100 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04795-4 https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15530
- “Characterizing Gravitational Wave Detector Networks: From A# to Cosmic Explorer,” Ish Gupta, Chaitanya Afle, KG Arun, Ananya Bandopadhyay, Masha Baryakhtar, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Ssohrab Borhanian, Floor Broekgaarden, Alessandra Corsi, Arnab Dhani, Matthew Evans, Evan D Hall, Otto A Hannuksela, Keisi Kacanja, Rahul Kashyap, Sanika Khadkikar, Kevin Kuns, Tjonnie GF Li, Andrew L Miller, Alexander Harvey Nitz, Benjamin J Owen, Cristiano Palomba, Anthony Pearce, Hemantakumar Phurailatpam, Binod Rajbhandari, Jocelyn Read, Joseph D Romano, Bangalore S Sathyaprakash, David H Shoemaker, Divya Singh, Salvatore Vitale, Lisa Barsotti, Emanuele Berti, Craig Cahillane, Hsin-Yu Chen, Peter Fritschel, Carl-Johan Haster, Philippe Landry, Geoffrey Lovelace, David McClelland, Bram JJ Slagmolen, Joshua Smith, Marcelle Soares-Santos, Ling Sun, David Tanner, Hiro Yamamoto, Michael Zucker, Accepted by Class. Quantum Grav. 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10421
- “GWTC-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run,” R. Abbott et al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 109, 02200 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.022001
2023
- “Imaging Scatterometer for Observing In-Situ Changes to Optical Coatings During Air Annealing,” Michael Rezac*, Daniel Martinez*, Amy Gleckl*, Joshua R. Smith, Appl. Opt. 62, B97-B103 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.476979 https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03143
- “Titania Mixed with Silica: A Low Thermal-Noise Coating Material for Gravitational-Wave Detectors,” Graeme I. McGhee, Viola Spagnuolo, Nicholas Demos, Simon C. Tait, Peter G. Murray, Martin Chicoine, Paul Dabadie, Slawek Gras, Jim Hough, Guido Alex Iandolo, Ross Johnston, Vale ́rie Martinez, Oli Patane*, Sheila Rowan, Franc ̧ois Schiettekatte, Joshua R. Smith, Lukas Terkowski, Liyuan Zhang, Matthew Evans, Iain W. Martin, and Jessica Steinlechner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171401 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.171401
- “Cosmic Explorer: A Submission to the NSF MPSAC ngGW Subcommittee,” Matthew Evans, Alessandra Corsi, Chaitanya Afle, Alena Ananyeva, K.G. Arun, Stefan Ballmer, Ananya Bandopadhyay, Lisa Barsotti, Masha Baryakhtar, Edo Berger, Emanuele Berti, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Ssohrab Borhanian, Floor Broekgaarden, Duncan A. Brown, Craig Cahillane, Lorna Campbell, Hsin-Yu Chen, Kathryne J. Daniel, Arnab Dhani, Jennifer C. Driggers, Anamaria Effler, Robert Eisenstein, Stephen Fairhurst, Jon Feicht, Peter Fritschel, Paul Fulda, Ish Gupta, Evan D. Hall, Giles Hammond, Otto A. Hannuksela, Hannah Hansen, Carl-Johan Haster, Keisi Kacanja, Brittany Kamai, Rahul Kashyap, Joey Shapiro Key, Sanika Khadkikar, Antonios Kontos, Kevin Kuns, Michael Landry, Philippe Landry, Brian Lantz, Tjonnie G. F. Li, Geoffrey Lovelace, Vuk Mandic, Georgia L. Mansell, Denys Martynov, Lee McCuller, Andrew L. Miller, Alexander Harvey Nitz, Benjamin J. Owen, Cristiano Palomba, Jocelyn Read, Hemantakumar Phurailatpam, Sanjay Reddy, Jonathan Richardson, Jameson Rollins, Joseph D. Romano, Bangalore S. Sathyaprakash, Robert Schofield, David H. Shoemaker, Daniel Sigg, Divya Singh, Bram Slagmolen, Piper Sledge, Joshua Smith, Marcelle Soares-Santos, Amber Strunk, Ling Sun, David Tanner, Lieke A. C. van Son, Salvatore Vitale, Benno Willke, Hiro Yamamoto, Michael Zucker. Report number: CE-P2300018, 2023. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13745
- “GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the Second Part of the Third Observing Run,” R. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration), Phys. Rev. X 13, 041039, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.13.041039
2022
- “Imaging Scatterometer for Observing Changes to Optical Coatings During Air Annealing,” Michael Rezac*, Daniel Martinez*, Amy Gleckl*, and Joshua R. Smith, in Optical Interference Coatings Conference (OIC) 2022, R. Sargent and A. Sytchkova, eds., Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2022), paper ThB.3. https://doi.org/10.1364/OIC.2022.ThB.3
- “Science-driven Tunable Design of Cosmic Explorer Detectors.” Varun Srivastava, Derek Davis, Kevin Kuns, Philippe Landry, Stefan Ballmer, Matthew Evans, Evan D. Hall, Jocelyn Read, and B. S. Sathyaprakash. Astrophys. J. Lett. 931 22 (2022).
- Nils L. Fischer, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Gabriel S. Bonilla, Nils Deppe, François Hébert, Lawrence E. Kidder, Geoffrey Lovelace, Jordan Moxon, Mark A. Scheel, Saul A. Teukolsky, William Throwe, Nikolas A. Wittek, Tom Wlodarczyk. “A scalable elliptic solver with task-based parallelism for the SpECTRE numerical relativity code.” Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D (2022). Preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06767
2021
- “The Mass Distribution of Neutron Stars in Gravitational-wave Binaries.” Philippe Landry, Jocelyn S. Read. Astrophys. J. Lett. 921, L25 (2021).
- Lück, H, Smith J., Punturo M. (2021) Third-Generation Gravitational-Wave Observatories. In: Bambi C., Katsanevas S., Kokkotas K.D. (eds) Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4702-7_7-1
- “A Horizon Study for Cosmic Explorer: Science, Observatories, and Community,” Matthew Evans, Rana X Adhikari, Chaitanya Afle, Stefan W. Ballmer, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Ssohrab Borhanian, Duncan A. Brown, Yanbei Chen, Robert Eisenstein, Alexandra Gruson*, Anuradha Gupta, Evan D. Hall, Rachael Huxford, Brittany Kamai, Rahul Kashyap, Jeff S. Kissel, Kevin Kuns, Philippe Landry, Amber Lenon, Geoffrey Lovelace, Lee McCuller, Ken K. Y. Ng, Alexander H. Nitz, Jocelyn Read, B. S. Sathyaprakash, David H. Shoemaker, Bram J. J. Slagmolen, Joshua R. Smith, Varun Srivastava, Ling Sun, Salvatore Vitale, Rainer Weiss, Report number: CE-P2100003, 2021. https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09882
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“Gravitational-wave physics with Cosmic Explorer: Limits to low-frequency sensitivity,” ED Hall, K Kuns, JR Smith, Y Bai, C Wipf, S Biscans, RX Adhikari, K Arai, S Ballmer, L Barsotti, Y Chen, M Evans, P Fritschel, J Harms, B Kamai, JG Rollins, D Shoemaker, BJJ Slagmolen, R Weiss, and H Yamamoto, Phys. Rev. D 103, 122004 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.122004
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“In-vacuum measurements of optical scatter versus annealing temperature for amorphous Ta2O5 and TiO2:Ta2O5 thin films,” Elenna M. Capote*, Amy Gleckl*, Jazlyn Guerrero*, Michael Rezac*, Robert Wright, and Joshua R. Smith, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 38, 534-541 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.415665
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“GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First Half of the Third Observing Run,” R. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. X 11, 021053 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.021053
- “Observation of gravitational waves from two neutron star-black hole coalescences.” The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collabora- tion. ApJL, 915, L5 (2021).
2020
- “Parametrized equation of state for neutron star matter with continuous sound speed.” Michael F O’Boyle, Charalampos Markakis, Nikolaos Stergioulas, Jocelyn S Read. Phys. Rev. D. 102 8 083027 (2020).
- "The impact of the crust equation of state on the analysis of GW170817," R Gamba, J S Read and L E Wade, Class. Quantum Grav. 37 025008 2020. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ab5ba4
- “A Cryogenic Silicon Interferometer for Gravitational-wave Detection,”Rana X Adhikari, Odylio Aguiar, Koji Arai, Bryan Barr, Riccardo Bassiri, Garilynn Billingsley, Ross Birney, David Blair, Joseph Briggs, Aidan F Brooks, Daniel D Brown, Huy-Tuong Cao, Marcio Constancio, Sam Cooper, Thomas Corbitt, Dennis Coyne, Edward Daw, Johannes Eichholz, Martin Fejer, Andreas Freise, Valery Frolov, Slawomir Gras, Anna Green, Hartmut Grote, Eric K Gustafson, Evan D Hall, Giles Hammond, Jan Harms, Gregg Harry, Karen Haughian, Frances Hellman, Jan-Simon Hennig, Margot Hennig, Stefan Hild, Warren Johnson, Brittany Kamai, Disha Kapasi, Kentaro Komori, Mikhail Korobko, Kevin Kuns, Brian Lantz, Sean Leavey, Fabian Magana-Sandoval, Ashot Markosyan, Iain Martin, Rodica Martin, Denis V Martynov, David Mcclelland, Graeme Mcghee, Joseph Mills, Valery Mitrofanov, Manel Molina-Ruiz, Conor Mow-Lowry, Peter Murray, Sebastian Ng, Leonid Prokhorov, Volker Quetschke, Stuart Reid, David Reitze, Jonathan Richardson, Raymond Robie, Isobel Romero-Shaw, Sheila Rowan, Roman Schnabel, Merle Schneewind, Brett Shapiro, David Shoemaker, Bram Slagmolen, Joshua Smith, Jessica Steinlechner, Simon Tait, David Tanner, Calum Torrie, Joris Vanheijningen, Peter Veitch, Gavin Wallace, Peter Wessels, Benno Willke, Christopher Wipf, Hiro Yamamoto, Chunnong Zhao, Lisa Barsotti, Robert Ward, Angus Bell, Robert Byer, Andrew Wade, William Z Korth, Frank Seifert, Nicholas Smith, Dimitry Koptsov, Zeno Tornasi, Aaron Markowitz, Georgia Mansell, Terry Mcrae, Paul Altin, Min J Yap, Marielle Van Veggel, Graeme Eddolls, Edgard Bonilla, Elvis C Ferreira , Allan S Silva, Marcos A Okada, Diego Taira, Daniel Heinert, James Hough, Ken Strain, Alan Cumming, Roger Route, Daniel Shaddock, Matthew Evans, Rainer Weiss, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 37, 16, 2020. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ab9143
- “Knowledge Tracing to Model Learning in Online Citizen Science Projects,” Kevin Crowston, Carsten Osterlund, Tae Kyoung Lee, Corey Jackson, Mahboobeh Harandi, Sarah Allen, Sara Bahaadini, Scott Coughlin, Aggelos K Katsaggelos, Shane L Larson, Neda Rohani, Joshua R Smith, Laura Trouille, Michael Zevin, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies 13, 1, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2019.2936480
- “GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object,” R. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), The Astrophysical Journal Letters 896 (2), L44 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab960f
- “GW190425:observationofacompactbinarycoalescencewithtotalmass∼3.4M⊙,”R.Abbottetal.(LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), The Astrophysical Journal Letters 892 (1), L3 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab75f5
- “Model comparison from LIGO–Virgo data on GW170817’s binary components and consequences for the merger remnant,” The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and The Virgo Collaboration. Classical and Quantum Gravity 37 (4), 045006 (2020).
2019
- “Cosmic Explorer: The U.S. Contribution to Gravitational-Wave Astronomy beyond LIGO,” David Reitze, Rana X Adhikari, Stefan Ballmer, Barry Barish, Lisa Barsotti, GariLynn Billingsley, Duncan A. Brown, Yanbei Chen, Dennis Coyne, Robert Eisenstein, Matthew Evans, Peter Fritschel, Evan D. Hall, Albert Lazzarini, Geoffrey Lovelace, Jocelyn Read, B. S. Sathyaprakash, David Shoemaker, Joshua Smith, Calum Torrie, Salvatore Vitale, Rainer Weiss, Christopher Wipf, Michael Zucker, Astro2020 Decadal Survey ground-based technology development white paper, 2019. https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04833
- “Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817.” The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and The Virgo Collaboration. Phys. Rev. X 9, 011001 (2019).
- "Astrophysical science metrics for next-generation gravitational-wave detectors," R X Adhikari, P Ajith , Y Chen, J A Clark, V Dergachev, N V Fotopoulos, S E Gossan, I Mandel, M Okounkova, V Raymond and J S Read, Class. Quantum Grav. 36 245010 2019. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ab3cff
- Chapter 14: Diagnostic methods for gravitational-wave detectors. J. McIver, TJ. Massinger, F. Robinet, J. Smith, M. Walker. Book Chapter in Advanced Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors. Eds. P. Saulson, D. Reitze, H. Grote. 100 Years of General Relativity. World Scientific Publishing. July 2019. https://doi.org/10.1142/10181
- “Apparatus to Measure Optical Scatter of Coatings Versus Annealing Temperature,” JR Smith, RX Adhikari, KM Aleman*, A Avila-Alvarez*, G Billingsley, A Gleckl*, J Guerrero*, A Markosyan, S Penn, JA Rocha*, D Rose*, R Wright, in Optical Interference Coatings Conference (OIC) 2019, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2019), paper FA.2. https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11400
- Michael Boyle, Daniel Hemberger, Dante A.B. Iozzo, Geoffrey Lovelace, Serguei Ossokine, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, Leo C. Stein, Charles J. Woodford, Aaron B. Zimmerman, Nousha Afshari, Kevin Barkett, Jonathan Blackman, Katerina Chatziioannou, Tony Chu, Nicholas Demos*, Nils Deppe, Scott E. Field, Nils L. Fischer, Evan Foley*, Heather Fong, Alyssa Garcia*, Matthew Giesler, Francois Hebert, Ian Hinder, Reza Katebi, Haroon Khan, Lawrence E. Kidder, Prayush Kumar, Kevin Kuper, Halston Lim, Maria Okounkova, Teresita Ramirez, Samuel Rodriguez, Hannes R. Rüter, Patricia Schmidt, Bela Szilagyi, Saul A. Teukolsky, Vijay Varma, and Marissa Walker. “The SXS Collaboration catalog of binary black hole simulations.” Class. Quantum Grav. 36, 195006 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ab34e2
- “Classifying the unknown: discovering novel gravitational-wave detector glitches using similarity learning,” SB Coughlin, S Bahaadini, N Rohani, M Zevin, O Patane*, M Harandi, C Jackson, V Noroozi, S Allen, J Areeda, MW Coughlin, P Ruiz, CPL Berry, K Crowston, AK Katsaggelos, A Lundgren, C Osterlund, JR Smith, L Trouille, and V Kalogera, Phys. Rev. D 99, 082002, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.082002
- Coughlin, S Bahaadini, N Rohani, M Zevin, O Patane*, M Harandi, C Jackson, V Noroozi, S Allen, J Areeda, MW Coughlin, P Ruiz, CPL Berry, K Crowston, AK Katsaggelos, A Lundgren, C Osterlund, JR Smith, L Trouille, and V Kalogera, Phys. Rev. D 99, 082002, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.082002
- Katerina Chatziioannou, Roberto Cotesta, Sudarshan Ghonge, Jacob Lange, Ken KY Ng, Juan Calderón Bustillo, James Clark, Carl-Johan Haster, Sebastian Khan, Michael Pürrer, Vivien Raymond, Salvatore Vitale, Nousha Afshari, Stanislav Babak, Kevin Barkett, Jonathan Blackman, Alejandro Bohé, Michael Boyle, Alessandra Buonanno, Manuela Campanelli, Gregorio Carullo, Tony Chu, Eric Flynn, Heather Fong, Alyssa Garcia, Matthew Giesler, Maria Haney, Mark Hannam, Ian Harry, James Healy, Daniel Hemberger, Ian Hinder, Karan Jani, Bhavesh Khamersa, Lawrence E Kidder, Prayush Kumar, Pablo Laguna, Carlos O Lousto, Geoffrey Lovelace, Tyson B Littenberg, Lionel London, Margaret Millhouse, Laura K Nuttall, Frank Ohme, Richard O’Shaughnessy, Serguei Ossokine, Francesco Pannarale, Patricia Schmidt, Harald P Pfeiffer, Mark A Scheel, Lijing Shao, Deirdre Shoemaker, Bela Szilagyi, Andrea Taracchini, Saul A Teukolsky, and Yosef Zlochower. “On the properties of the massive binary black hole merger GW170729.” Phys. Rev. D 100, 104015 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.104015
2018
- “Identifying correlations between LIGO’s astronomical range and auxiliary sensors using lasso regression,” M. Walker, A.F. Agnew, J. Bidler*, A.P. Lundgren, A. Macedo*, D. Macleod, T.J. Massinger, O. Patane*, J.R. Smith, submitted to Class. Quantum Grav. July 2018.
- “GW170817: Measurements of neutron star radii and equation of state.” The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and The Virgo Collaboration. Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 161101 (2018).
- “Assessing the Energetics of Spinning Binary Black Hole Systems.” Serguei Ossokine, Tim Dietrich, Evan Foley*, Reza Katebi*, and Geoffrey Lovelace. Phys. Rev. D 98, 104057 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.104057
- “Machine learning for Gravity Spy: Glitch classification and dataset,” S. Bahaadini, V. Noroozi, N. Rohani, S. Coughlin, M. Zevin, J.R. Smith, V. Kalogera, A. Katsaggelos, Information Sciences 444 172-186 (2018).
- Chaitanya Afle, Anuradha Gupta, Bhooshan Gadre, Prayush Kumar, Nick Demos*, Geoffrey Lovelace, Han Gil Choi, Hyung Mok Lee, Sanjit Mitra, Michael Boyle, Daniel A. Hemberger, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, and Béla Szilágyi. “Detection and characterization of spin-orbit resonances in the advanced gravitational wave detectors era.” Phys. Rev. D 98, 083014 (2018). https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.083014
- Katerina Chatziioannou, Geoffrey Lovelace, Michael Boyle, Matthew Giesler*, Daniel A. Hemberger, Reza Katebi*, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, and Béla Szilágyi. “Measuring the properties of nearly extremal black holes with gravitational waves.” Phys. Rev. D 98, 044028 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.231103
2017
- “GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral,” B.P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 16 161101 (2017).
- “GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence,” B.P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 141101 (2017).
- “Matter effects on LIGO/Virgo searches for gravitational waves from merging neutron stars,” T. Cullen*, I. Harry, J. Read, E. Flynn*, Class. Quantum Gravity, 34 24 (2017).
- Geoffrey Lovelace, Nicholas Demos*, and Haroon Khan*. “Numerically modeling Brownian thermal noise in amorphous and crystalline thin coatings.” Class. Quantum Grav. 35, 025017 (2017). http://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aa9ccc
- Alejandro Bohé, Lijing Shao, Andrea Taracchini, Alessandra Buonanno, Stanislav Babak, Ian W. Harry, Ian Hinder, Serguei Ossokine, Michael Pürrer, Vivien Raymond, Tony Chu, Heather Fong, Prayush Kumar, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Michael Boyle, Daniel A. Hemberger, Lawrence E. Kidder, Geoffrey Lovelace, Mark A. Scheel, and Béla Szilágyi. “An improved effective-one-body model of spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes for the era of gravitational-wave astrophysics with advanced detectors.” Phys. Rev. D 95, 044028 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.044028 Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03703
- "LigoDV-web: Providing easy, secure and universal access to a large distributed scientific data store for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration,” J.S. Areeda, J.R. Smith, A.P. Lundgren, E. Maros, D.M. Macleod, J. Zweizig, Astronomy and Computing 18 2734 (2017). [arXiv].
- "Gravity Spy: Integrating Advanced LIGO Detector Characterization, Machine Learning, and Citizen Science,” M Zevin, S Coughlin, S Bahaadini, E Besler, N Rohani, S Allen, M Cabero, K Crowston, A K Katsaggelos, S L Larson, T K Lee, C Lintott, T B Littenberg, A Lundgren, C Oesterlund, J R Smith, L Trouille, V Kalogera, Class. Quantum Grav. 34 6 (2017). [CQG], [arXiv].
- “Effects of transients in LIGO suspensions on searches for gravitational waves,” M Walker...JR Smith, et al. Review of Scientific Instruments 88, 124501 (2017).
- “Search for Post-merger Gravitational Waves from the Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817” B.P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), The Astrophysical Journal Letters 851 1 (2017).
- B. P. Abbott et al., for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration. “All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run.” Phys. Rev. D 95, 042003 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.042003 Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1611.02972 (GWPAC co-authors: J. S. Areeda, A. Avila-Alvarez*, T. J. Cullen*, J. J. Hacker*, G. Lovelace, E. A. M. Muniz*, J. Read, J. R. Smith)
2016
- “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger." B. P. Abbott, et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration) (GWPAC co-authors J. S. Areeda, J. J. Hacker*, G. Islas*, G. Lovelace, J. Read, G. Serna*, J. R. Smith, D. C. Vander-Hyde*.) Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061102 (2016). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102 Preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03837
- "GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence." B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration) (GWPAC co-authors J. S. Areeda, J. J. Hacker*, G. Lovelace, J. Read, J. R. Smith, D. C. Vander-Hyde*.) Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241103 (2016). http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241103
- Geoffrey Lovelace, Carlos O. Lousto, James Healy, Mark A. Scheel, Alyssa Garcia*, Richard O’Shaughnessy, Michael Boyle, Manuela Campanelli, Daniel A. Hemberger, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Béla Szilágyi, Saul A. Teukolsky, and Yosef Zlochower. “Modeling the source of GW150914 with targeted numerical-relativity simulations.” Class. Quantum Grav. 33, 244002 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/33/24/244002 Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1607.05377
- B. P. Abbott et al, for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration. "Upper limits on the rates of binary neutron star and black hole-neutron star mergers from Advanced LIGO's first observing run." Astrophys. J. Lett. 832, L21 (2016). http://stacks.iop.org/2041-8205/832/i=2/a=L21 (GWPAC co-authors: J. S. Areeda, J. J. Hacker*, J. Read, J. R. Smith)
- “Coherent Cancellation of Photothermal Noise in GaAs/Al0.92Ga0.08As Bragg Mirrors,” T. Chalermsongsak, E.D. Hall, G.D. Cole, D. Follman, F. Seifert, K. Arai, E.K. Gustafson, J.R. Smith, M. Aspelmeyer, R.X. Adhikari, Metrologia 53 2 860 (2015). http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0026-1394/53/2/860/meta Preprint http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07088
- "Sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO detectors at the beginning of gravitational wave astronomy," D. V. Martynov, J. R. Smith, et al. Phys. Rev. D 93, 112004, (2016). http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112004
- B. P. Abbott et al., for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration. “Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein’s equations for binary black hole coalescence.” Phys. Rev. D 94, 064035 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.064035 Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1606.01262. (GWPAC co-authors: J. S. Areeda, J. J. Hacker*, J. Read, J. R. Smith, G. Lovelace)
- B. P. Abbott et al., for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration. “An improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform model.” Phys. Rev. X 6, 041014 (2016). (GWPAC co-authors Joseph S. Areeda, Joshua J. Hacker*, Geoffrey Lovelace, Jocelyn Read, Joshua R. Smith) http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041014 Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1606.01210
- "GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO," B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 93, 122003, (2016). http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122003
- "Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914," B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 33, Number 13, (2016). http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/33/13/134001/meta
- “GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries,” B.P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 131103 (2016). http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.131103 Preprint http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03838
- “Astrophysical Implications of the Binary Black-Hole Merger GW150914,” B.P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Astrophysical Journal Letters, 818 2 (2016). http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8205/818/2/L22 http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03846
- “GW150914: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Binary Black Holes,” B.P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 131102 (2016). http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.131102 http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03847
- "Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions," B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 93, 122004, (2016). http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122004
- "Tests of General Relativity with GW150914" B.P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (22), 221101, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.221101
- "Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914," B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241102, (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241102
2015
- Prayush Kumar, Kevin Barkett, Swetha Bhagwat, Nousha Afshari*, Duncan A. Brown, Geoffrey Lovelace, Mark A. Scheel, and Béla Szilágyi. “Accuracy and precision of gravitational-wave models of inspiraling neutron star-black hole binaries with spin: Comparison with matter-free numerical relativity in the low-frequency regime.” Phys. Rev. D 92, 102001 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.102001 Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.00103
- “Optical scatter of quantum noise filter cavity optics,” D. Vander-Hyde*, C. Amra, M. Lequime, F. Magana-Sandoval*, J.R. Smith, Class. Quantum Grav. 32 135019 (2015). http://iopscience.iop.org/0264-9381/32/13/135019/article Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5403
- "Nearly extremal apparent horizons in simulations of merging black holes," Geoffrey Lovelace, Mark A Scheel, Robert Owen, Matthew Giesler, Reza Katebi, Béla Szilágyi, Tony Chu, Nicholas Demos*, Daniel A Hemberger, Lawrence E Kidder, Harald P Pfeiffer, Nousha Afshari*, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 32, Number 6 (2015). http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/32/6/065007/meta Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.7297
- "Accuracy and precision of gravitational-wave models of inspiraling neutron star-black hole binaries with spin: Comparison with matter-free numerical relativity in the low-frequency regime," Prayush Kumar, Kevin Barkett, Swetha Bhagwat, Nousha Afshari*, Duncan A. Brown, Geoffrey Lovelace, Mark A. Scheel, and Béla Szilágyi, Phys. Rev. D 92, 102001. http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.102001 Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.00103
- "Improved methods for simulating nearly extremal binary black holes," Mark A Scheel, Matthew Giesler, Daniel A Hemberger, Geoffrey Lovelace, Kevin Kuper*, Michael Boyle, Béla Szilágyi, Lawrence E Kidder, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 32, Number 10 (2015). http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/32/10/105009/ Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1803
- “Improving the data quality of Advanced LIGO based on early engineering run results,” L. Nuttall, T. Massinger, J. Areeda, J. Betzwieser, S. Dwyer, A. Effler, R. Fisher, P. Fritschel, J. Kissel, A. Lundgren, D. Macleod, D. Martynov, J. McIver, A. Mullavey, J. Smith, G. Vajente, A. Williamson, C. Wipf, Class. Quantum Grav. 32 24 245005 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/32/24/245005 Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.07316
- “Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run,” J. Aasi et al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Class. Quantum Grav. 32 115012 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/32/11/115012 Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.7764
- “Advanced LIGO,” J. Aasi et al. (the LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Class. Quantum Grav. 32 074001 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/32/7/074001 Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.4547
2014
- "Low scatter and ultra-low reflectivity measured in a fused silica window," C. Padilla*, P. Fritschel, F. Magaña-Sandoval*, E. Muniz*, J. Smith, and L. Zhang, Appl. Opt. 53, 1315-1321 (2014). http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-53-7-1315 Preprint arXiv:1312.1569 [physics.optics] http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1569
- "Effective-one-body model for black-hole binaries with generic mass ratios and spins," Andrea Taracchini, Alessandra Buonanno, Yi Pan, Tanja Hinderer, Michael Boyle, Daniel A. Hemberger, Lawrence E. Kidder, Geoffrey Lovelace, Abdul H. Mroué, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, Béla Szilágyi, Nicholas W. Taylor, and Anil Zenginoglu, Phys. Rev. D 89, 061502(R) (2014). http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.061502 Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2544
- "First Searches for Optical Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Candidate Events," J. Aasi et al. (includes J.R. Smith, V. Lockett*, C. Griffo*), 2014 ApJS 211 7 (2014). http://stacks.iop.org/0067-0049/211/i=1/a=7 Preprint arXiv:1310.2314 [astro-ph.IM] http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2314
- "The NINJA-2 project: detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations," J. Aasi et al. (the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the NINJA2 Collaboration), Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 31, Number 11 (2014). http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/31/11/115004/meta Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0939
2013
- "Matter effects on binary neutron star waveforms." Jocelyn S. Read, Luca Baiotti, Jolien D. E. Creighton, John L. Friedman, Bruno Giacomazzo, Koutarou Kyutoku, Charalampos Markakis, Luciano Rezzolla, Masaru Shibata, and Keisuke Taniguchi. Phys. Rev. D 88, 044042 (2013), preprint arXiv:1306.4065 [gr-qc].
- "The transient gravitational-wave sky," Nils Andersson, John Baker, Krzystof Belczynski, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Emanuele Berti, Laura Cadonati, Pablo Cerdá-Durán, James Clark, Marc Favata, Lee Samuel Finn, Chris Fryer, Bruno Giacomazzo, Jose Antonio González, Martin Hendry, Ik Siong Heng, Stefan Hild, Nathan Johnson-McDaniel, Peter Kalmus, Sergei Klimenko, Shiho Kobayashi, Kostas Kokkotas, Pablo Laguna, Luis Lehner, Janna Levin, Steve Liebling, Andrew MacFadyen, Ilya Mandel, Szabolcs Marka, Zsuzsa Marka, David Neilsen, Paul O'Brien, Rosalba Perna, Jocelyn Read, Christian Reisswig, Carl Rodriguez, Max Ruffert, Erik Schnetter, Antony Searle, Peter Shawhan, Deirdre Shoemaker, Alicia Soderberg, Ulrich Sperhake, Patrick Sutton, Nial Tanvir, Michal Was, Stan Whitcomb, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 30, Number 19 (2013). http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/30/19/193002/meta Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0816
- “Massive disk formation in the tidal disruption of a neutron star by a nearly extremal black hole.” Geoffrey Lovelace, Matthew D. Duez, Francois Foucart, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, and B ́ela Szila ́gyi. Class. Quantum Grav. 30, 135004 (2013), preprint arXiv:1302.6297 [gr-qc].
- "The Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic physics (GNOME): A novel scheme to search for physics beyond the Standard Model." Pustelny, S., Jackson Kimball, D. F., Pankow, C., Ledbetter, M. P., Wlodarczyk, P., Wcislo, P., Pospelov, M., Smith, J. R., Read, J., Gawlik, W. and Budker, D. (2013), Ann. Phys. 525 (8-9), 659-670. doi: 10.1002/andp.201300061 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/andp.201300061, preprint arXiv:1303.5524 http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5524
- “A catalog of 171 high-quality binary black-hole simulations for gravitational-wave astronomy,” Abdul H. Mroué, Mark A. Scheel, Béla Szilágyi, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Michael Boyle, Daniel A. Hemberger, Lawrence E. Kidder, Geoffrey Lovelace, Serguei Ossokine, Nicholas W. Taylor, Anıl Zenginoğlu, Luisa T. Buchman, Tony Chu, Evan Foley*, Matthew Giesler*, Robert Owen, and Saul A. Teukolsky, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 241104 (2013). http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.241104 Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6077
- “Final spin and radiated energy in numerical simulations of binary black holes with equal masses and equal, aligned or antialigned spins,” Daniel A. Hemberger, Geoffrey Lovelace, Thomas J. Loredo, Lawrence E. Kidder, Mark A. Scheel, Béla Szilágyi, Nicholas W. Taylor, and Saul A. Teukolsky, Phys. Rev. D 88, 064014 (2013). http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.064014 Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.5991
- “Dynamical excision boundaries in spectral evolutions of binary black hole spacetimes.” Daniel A. Hemberger, Mark A. Scheel, Lawrence E. Kidder, B ́ela Szila ́gyi,Geoffrey Lovelace, Nicholas W. Taylor, and Saul A. Teukolsky. Class. Quantum Grav. 30, 115001 (2013), preprint arXiv:1211.6079 [gr-qc].
- "Periastron advance in spinning black hole binaries: Gravitational self-force from numerical relativity," Alexandre Le Tiec, Alessandra Buonanno, Abdul H. Mroué, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Daniel A. Hemberger, Geoffrey Lovelace, Lawrence E. Kidder, Mark A. Scheel, Bela Szilágyi, Nicholas W. Taylor, and Saul A. Teukolsky, Phys. Rev. D 88, 124027 (2015). http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.124027 Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0541
- "Periastron advance in spinning black hole binaries: comparing effective-one-body and numerical relativity," Tanja Hinderer, Alessandra Buonanno, Abdul H. Mroué, Daniel A. Hemberger, Geoffrey Lovelace, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Lawrence E. Kidder, Mark A. Scheel, Bela Szilagyi, Nicholas W. Taylor, and Saul A. Teukolsky, Phys. Rev. D 88, 084005 (2015). http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.084005 Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0544
2012
- “Large-angle scattered light measurements for quantum-noise filter cavity design studies,” Fabian Magaña-Sandoval*, Rana X. Adhikari, Valera Frolov, Jan Harms, Jacqueline Lee*, Shannon Sankar, Peter R. Saulson, and Joshua R. Smith, JOSA A, Vol. 29, Issue 8, pp. 1722-1727 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.29.001722, http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2528
- "Chapter 11: Optical Scatter." Joshua Smith and Michael Zucker. Optical Coatings and Thermal Noise in Precision Measurement. Eds. G. M. Harry, T. Bodiya, R. DeSalvo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Print. ISBN:9781107003385. Cambridge University Press
- “Visualizing Spacetime Curvature via Frame-Drag Vortexes and Tidal Tendexes III. Quasinormal Pulsations of Schwarzschild and Kerr Black Holes.” David A. Nichols, Aaron Zimmerman, Yanbei Chen, Geoffrey Lovelace, Keith D. Matthews, Robert Owen, Fan Zhang, and Kip S. Thorne. Phys. Rev. D 86, 104028 (2012), preprint arXiv:1208.3038 [gr-qc].
- “Visualizing Spacetime Curvature via Frame-Drag Vortexes and Tidal Tendexes II. Stationary Black Holes.” Fan Zhang, Aaron Zimmerman, David A. Nichols, Yanbei Chen, Geoffrey Lovelace, Keith D. Matthews, Robert Owen, and Kip S. Thorne. Phys. Rev. D 86, 084049 (2012), preprint arXiv:1208.3034 [gr-qc].
- “Are different approaches to constructing initial data for binary black hole simulations of the same astrophysical situation equivalent?,” B Garcia, G Lovelace, LE Kidder, M Boyle, SA Teukolsky, MA Scheel, and B Szila ́gyi,Phys. Rev. D 86, 084054 (2012).
- “Reducing the effect of seismic noise in LIGO searches by targeted veto generation,” D.M. Macleod, S. Fairhurst, B. Hughey, A.P. Lundgren, L. Pekowsky, J. Rollins and J.R. Smith, Class. Quantum Grav. 29 055006 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/29/5/055006, http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.0312
- “Implications for the Origin of GRB 051103 from LIGO Observations,” J. Abadie et al (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), The Astrophysical Journal Vol. 755, Issue 1, page 2, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/755/1/2, http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4413
- “All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run,” J. Abadie et al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 85, 122007 (2012). http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.122007, http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2788
- "Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescence in LIGO's Sixth Science Run and Virgo's Science Runs 2 and 3," J. Abadie et al (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 85 082002 (2012). http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.082002, http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.7314
- "Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts," J. Abadie et al (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Astronomy & Astrophysics 539, A124 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118219, http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.3498
- “First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts,” J. Abadie et al (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Astronomy & Astrophysics 541 A155 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201218860, http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6005
- "All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data," J. Abadie et al (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev D 85 022001 (2012). http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.022001, http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0208
GWPAC was founded in 2012. For publicaitons prior to then, please see the individual members' publications, for example on the CVs.