Gravitational-wave Research
Lead Research Organisation:
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
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Organisations
- CARDIFF UNIVERSITY (Lead Research Organisation)
- Max Planck Society (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (Collaboration)
- LIGO Scientific Collaboration (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- University of the West of Scotland (Collaboration)
- University of the Balearic Islands (Collaboration)
Publications
Hamburg R
(2020)
A Joint Fermi-GBM and LIGO/Virgo Analysis of Compact Binary Mergers from the First and Second Gravitational-wave Observing Runs
in The Astrophysical Journal
Hannam Mark
(2021)
Measurement of general-relativistic precession in a black-hole binary
in arXiv e-prints
Hernandez Vivanco F
(2019)
Measuring the neutron star equation of state with gravitational waves: The first forty binary neutron star merger observations
in Physical Review D
Hoy C
(2021)
PESummary: The code agnostic Parameter Estimation Summary page builder
in SoftwareX
Kalaghatgi C
(2020)
Parameter estimation with a spinning multimode waveform model
in Physical Review D
Morisaki S
(2020)
Prompt and accurate sky localization of gravitational-wave sources
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Morisaki S
(2020)
Rapid parameter estimation of gravitational waves from binary neutron star coalescence using focused reduced order quadrature
in Physical Review D
Morisaki Soichiro
(2020)
Prompt and accurate sky localization of gravitational-wave sources
in Gamma-ray Bursts in the Gravitational Wave Era 2019
Qi H
(2021)
Python-based reduced order quadrature building code for fast gravitational wave inference
in Physical Review D
Relton P
(2022)
Addressing the challenges of detecting time-overlapping compact binary coalescences
in Physical Review D
Relton P
(2021)
Parameter estimation bias from overlapping binary black hole events in second generation interferometers
in Physical Review D
Rich Abbott
(2021)
Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo
in SoftwareX
Romero-Shaw I
(2020)
Bayesian inference for compact binary coalescences with bilby : validation and application to the first LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalogue
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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 Letters
Vermeulen S
(2021)
Direct limits for scalar field dark matter from a gravitational-wave detector
in Nature
Description | Advanced LIGO Operations Support |
Amount | £1,259,847 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/V001337/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2020 |
End | 09/2023 |
Description | Exploring the Gravitational-wave Universe |
Amount | £1,859,398 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/V005618/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 10/2021 |
End | 09/2024 |
Description | GEO600 |
Organisation | Max Planck Society |
Department | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Detector characterisation and data analysis; strategic plans, scientific motivation for improving detector sensitivity. |
Collaborator Contribution | Building, maintaining, and operating the detector, detector characterisation and data analysis. |
Impact | A working gravitational wave detector, development of advanced technology for advanced and third generation detectors. |
Description | GEO600 |
Organisation | University of Birmingham |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Detector characterisation and data analysis; strategic plans, scientific motivation for improving detector sensitivity. |
Collaborator Contribution | Building, maintaining, and operating the detector, detector characterisation and data analysis. |
Impact | A working gravitational wave detector, development of advanced technology for advanced and third generation detectors. |
Description | GEO600 |
Organisation | University of Glasgow |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Detector characterisation and data analysis; strategic plans, scientific motivation for improving detector sensitivity. |
Collaborator Contribution | Building, maintaining, and operating the detector, detector characterisation and data analysis. |
Impact | A working gravitational wave detector, development of advanced technology for advanced and third generation detectors. |
Description | GEO600 |
Organisation | University of the Balearic Islands |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Detector characterisation and data analysis; strategic plans, scientific motivation for improving detector sensitivity. |
Collaborator Contribution | Building, maintaining, and operating the detector, detector characterisation and data analysis. |
Impact | A working gravitational wave detector, development of advanced technology for advanced and third generation detectors. |
Description | GEO600 |
Organisation | University of the West of Scotland |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Detector characterisation and data analysis; strategic plans, scientific motivation for improving detector sensitivity. |
Collaborator Contribution | Building, maintaining, and operating the detector, detector characterisation and data analysis. |
Impact | A working gravitational wave detector, development of advanced technology for advanced and third generation detectors. |
Description | LIGO Scientific Collaboration |
Organisation | LIGO Scientific Collaboration |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Search algorithms and software, data analysis and astrophysical interpretation, scientific motivation for improvement in detector sensitivity |
Collaborator Contribution | Building, maintaining, and operating the LIGO detectors |
Impact | Publications, conference plenaries, conference contributions |
Title | Gravitational Wave Analysis Software |
Description | Software to perform parameter estimation and model selection, especially (but not limited to) for gravitational waves emitted by merging black holes and neutron stars. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Next generation software to be used by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration in the analysis of gravitational waves. |
URL | https://lscsoft.docs.ligo.org/bilby/index.html |
Description | Interview for national and international news |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interview in both print media (BBC, The Guardian) and local TV (BBC Wales) on gravitational-wave analysis results. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57639520 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/29/gravitational-waves-from-star-eating-black-holes-detected-on-earth |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57639520 |
Description | Presentations at the Cardiff University Open Day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presentations to prospective undergraduate students at the Cardiff University Open Day, Cardiff, UK. Title: Exploding stars, black holes and gravitational waves. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020,2021,2022 |
Description | Public outreach presentation at the Cardiff, Bristol and Bath Astronomical Societies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation on gravitational-wave research titled "Stellar-size Black holes" at a joint event of the Bath, Bristol and Cardiff astronomical societies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extreme-stellar-environments-tickets-169977235487 |