I joined the physics faculty at California State University Fullerton in August 2012, joining Josh Smith and Geoffrey Lovelace in the new Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Center (GWPAC). My research focuses on neutron stars; their astrophysics and their role in gravitational-wave astronomy.
CSUF undergraduate Eric Flynn has made this movie demonstrating the polarizatio of gravitational waves from a compact binary. On the left, two compact massive objects orbit. On the right, a distant ring of particles, in the direction of the viewer, shows the effect of gravitational waves emitted by the binary. The view changes to view the orbiting objects from above or from the side.