Suspension and advance material for future gravitation wave detectors
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Suspension and advance material for future gravitation wave detectors
People |
ORCID iD |
Giles Hammond (Primary Supervisor) | |
Karl Toland (Student) |
Publications
Toland K
(2018)
Development of a pulling machine to produce micron diameter fused silica fibres for use in prototype advanced gravitational wave detectors
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Soares-Santos M
(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
in The Astrophysical Journal
LIGO Scientific Collaboration And The Virgo Collaboration
(2017)
A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant.
in Nature
Driggers J
(2019)
Improving astrophysical parameter estimation via offline noise subtraction for Advanced LIGO
in Physical Review D
Burns E
(2019)
A Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Search for Electromagnetic Signals Coincident with Gravitational-wave Candidates in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run
in The Astrophysical Journal
Albert A
(2017)
Search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW151226 and candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube
in Physical Review D
Albert A
(2019)
Search for Multimessenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos with Advanced LIGO during Its First Observing Run, ANTARES, and IceCube
in The Astrophysical Journal
Albert A
(2017)
Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott BP
(2017)
GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence.
in Physical review letters
Abbott BP
(2019)
Search for Subsolar Mass Ultracompact Binaries in Advanced LIGO's Second Observing Run.
in Physical review letters
Abbott BP
(2017)
Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run.
in Physical review letters
Abbott BP
(2018)
GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State.
in Physical review letters
Abbott BP
(2016)
GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence.
in Physical review letters
Abbott BP
(2018)
GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences.
in Physical review letters
Abbott BP
(2019)
Tests of General Relativity with GW170817.
in Physical review letters
Abbott BP
(2017)
GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral.
in Physical review letters
Abbott BP
(2018)
First Search for Nontensorial Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars.
in Physical review letters
Abbott BP
(2019)
Constraining the p-Mode-g-Mode Tidal Instability with GW170817.
in Physical review letters
Abbott BP
(2018)
Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA.
in Living reviews in relativity
Abbott BP
(2018)
Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background.
in Physical review letters
Abbott BP
(2017)
Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run.
in Physical review letters
Abbott BP
(2018)
Search for Subsolar-Mass Ultracompact Binaries in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run.
in Physical review letters
Abbott B
(2019)
GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs
in Physical Review X
Abbott B
(2017)
Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in globular cluster NGC 6544
in Physical Review D
Abbott B
(2016)
Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein's equations for binary black hole coalescence
in Physical Review D
Abbott B
(2019)
Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo network
in Physical Review D
Abbott B
(2020)
Model comparison from LIGO-Virgo data on GW170817's binary components and consequences for the merger remnant
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Abbott B
(2019)
Erratum: "Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in 2015-2017 LIGO Data" (2019, ApJ, 879, 10)
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2016)
UPPER LIMITS ON THE RATES OF BINARY NEUTRON STAR AND NEUTRON STAR-BLACK HOLE MERGERS FROM ADVANCED LIGO'S FIRST OBSERVING RUN
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2016)
Improved Analysis of GW150914 Using a Fully Spin-Precessing Waveform Model
in Physical Review X
Abbott B
(2017)
Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated with GW170817
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2017)
Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the first Advanced LIGO observing run with a hidden Markov model
in Physical Review D
Abbott B
(2019)
Search for Transient Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Magnetar Bursts during Advanced LIGO's Second Observing Run
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(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
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2019)
Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using data from Advanced LIGO's first two observing runs
in Physical Review D
Abbott B
(2017)
Search for Post-merger Gravitational Waves from the Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2019)
Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from 15 Supernova Remnants and Fomalhaut b with Advanced LIGO
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2017)
First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data
in Physical Review D
Abbott B
(2019)
All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run
in Physical Review D
Abbott B
(2019)
Search for Gravitational Waves from a Long-lived Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2019)
All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the second Advanced LIGO observing run
in Physical Review D
Abbott B
(2019)
Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in 2015-2017 LIGO Data
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2017)
Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2017)
Upper Limits on Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 from a Model-based Cross-correlation Search in Advanced LIGO Data
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2018)
Effects of data quality vetoes on a search for compact binary coalescences in Advanced LIGO's first observing run
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Abbott B
(2019)
Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2017)
On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2017)
GW170608: Observation of a 19 Solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2017)
Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first observing run of Advanced LIGO
in Physical Review D
Studentship Projects
Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ST/N504075/1 | 01/10/2015 | 31/03/2021 | |||
1653089 | Studentship | ST/N504075/1 | 05/01/2016 | 06/07/2019 | Karl Toland |
Description | LIGO Visitor |
Amount | $2,737 (USD) |
Organisation | LIGO Scientific Collaboration |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United States |
Start | 01/2018 |
End | 01/2018 |
Description | Long Term Attachment |
Amount | £4,307 (GBP) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2017 |
End | 07/2017 |
Description | LIGO Scientific Collaboration |
Organisation | LIGO Scientific Collaboration |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Produced fused silica fibres for LIGO suspensions and aided work into producing and characterising fibres for future suspensions. |
Collaborator Contribution | On site collaborators assisted with the production and characterisation of these fibres. |
Impact | New characterisation analysis of fibre geometry was developed. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Title | Fibre angle misalignment characterisation |
Description | Characterises fibres used for gravitational wave suspension fibres to determine whether they are suitable for installation or not. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Impact | Used for choosing fibres to be installed into the LIGO suspension systems. |
Title | Thin fibre pulling machine and characterisation apparatus |
Description | This machine has been designed to produce sub 20 micron fused silica fibres for use in prototype gravitational wave detectors. Profiling machines that use shadow sensing techniques and a strength tester has also been developed. |
Type Of Technology | Systems, Materials & Instrumental Engineering |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | They have been used heavily within our research group to provide appropriate fibres for use in monolithic suspensions |
Description | Explorathon - STEM in the Gorbals |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A stall was set up to talk to the general public about gravitational waves and what Glasgow's contribution was to the LIGO project that discovered gravitational waves. This event lasted for several hours with the public coming up to the stalls for discussions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Festival of Physics 2018 - Dynamic Earth |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Festival of Physics at Dynamic Earth was a public science event. My role was participating with colleagues in the Institute for Gravitational Research talking to the general public about gravitational waves and Glasgow's involvement and contribution to LIGO. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Glasgow Science Festival - Innovates at Kelvingrove |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A large scale mosaic was made of a gravitational wave signal by cutting up old research posters and papers and coloured in by the public. These bits were then glued onto a large frame that would make the image of the signal the LIGO detectors observed. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Glasgow Science Festival - Meet the Black hole Hunters |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | While working at LIGO Hanford in the USA, I was part of a skype interview in Glasgow during the Meet the Black Hole Hunters event at the Glasgow Science Festival that involved me describing what my role in the collaboration was and how the detectors work. There was also a Q&A with the audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | School Visit (Glasgow Gaelic School) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | A talk on the discovery of gravitational waves and what they are was given to two classes of primary 7 pupils. The talks were followed by experimental demonstrations of the curvature of space time and how an interferometer works. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |