Vivien Raymond

Cardiff University

School of Physics and Astronomy Gravity Exploration Institute

The Parade, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, UK raymondv@cardiff.ac.uk

+44(0) 29 2068 8915  vivienraymond.com

E D U C AT I O N 2008 – 2012 Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, USA. Ph.D. thesis: Parameter Estimation Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Methods for Gravitational Waves from Spinning Inspirals of Compact Objects. Advisor: Prof. Vicky Kalogera. Thesis winner of the Stefano Braccini Prize.

2007 – 2008 Engineering degree (M.Sc. major physics), ENSPS, France and M.Sc. in astrophysics from University Louis Pasteur, France.

(distinction "Très Bien": summa cum laude).

2005 – 2007 Engineer’s school ENSPS (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Strasbourg).

A P P O I N T M E N T S 2018 – Lecturer (assistant professor) in Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff

University, Cardiff, UK.

2014 – 2017 Senior Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam-Golm, Germany.

2012 – 2014 Richard Chase Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics at the California Institute of Technology, USA.

R E S E A R C H I N T E R E S T S Astronomy: Transient gravitational-wave observations. In particular with the

LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) and Virgo interferometer network and jointly with Electromagnetic or Neutrino counterparts.

Experimental Optimized experimental design of future detectors. Holistic physics: modeling for gravitational-wave observatories.

Astrophysics: Understanding gravitational sources with parameter estimation using Bayesian Methods. Inference of universal properties using multiple events.

AWA R D S A N D G R A N T S 2017 Bruno Rossi Prize (recognizing the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

from the High Energy Astrophysics division of the American Astronomical Society for the first direct detections of gravitational waves, the discovery of merging black hole binaries, and beginning the new era of gravitational-wave astronomy. https://aas.org/posts/news/2017/01/aas-announces-recipients-2017-prizes-and-awards

2017 Group Achievement Award (recognizing the LIGO team) from the Royal Astronomical Society for the direct detection of gravitational waves. https://www.ras.org.uk/images/stories/awards/winners/2017/LIGO%202017%20Group%20Achievement%20Award%20A.pdf

2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research (recognizing the LIGO founders and the entire LIGO discovery team) for the first observation of gravitational waves. fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards

2016 Gruber Cosmology Prize (recognizing the LIGO founders and the entire LIGO discovery team) for the first observation of gravitational waves. gruber.yale.edu/prize/2016-gruber-cosmology-prize

2016 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (shared between the LIGO founders and the contributors to the discovery) for the detection of gravitational waves. breakthroughprize.org/News/32

2012 The Stefano Braccini Prize for a doctoral thesis on gravitational waves.

2011 Grant for the access to the Quest High Performance Computing System from Northwestern University, USA. ~1.6 million processor-hours.

2010 James B. Hartle Award from the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation for the best student presentation at session C2 at the 19th conference of the society held in Mexico City, july 5 - 9 2010.

2010 Grant for the access to the Quest High Performance Computing System from Northwestern University, USA. ~1 million processor-hours.

2008 – 2009 Huang Fellowship and University Fellowship, Northwestern University.

2007 – 2008 Boussole Scholarship from the Région Alsace, France. (Partially covered the cost of studies in Osaka University and Northwestern University before joining the graduate program).

P R O F E S S I O N A L O R G A N I Z AT I O N S • American Astronomical Society. • American Physical Society; Topical Group in Gravitation. • International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. • LIGO-Virgo Scientific Collaboration.

A C A D E M I C A C T I V I T I E S 2018 – Module designer for the course Observational Gravitational-wave

Astronomy (graduate).

2018 – Module organiser for the course Structured Programming (undergraduate).

2018 – Grant reviewer for the UK Research and Innovation (Science and Technology Facilities Council), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

2016 – Co-chair of the LIGO-Virgo Compact Binaries Coalescence Parameter Estimation group.

2015 – 2017 Chair of the LIGO review committee for the Burst group (searches for unmodelled gravitational-wave transients in LIGO-Virgo data).

2012 – Reviewer for Classical and Quantum Gravity, Physical Review D, Physical Review Letters, the Astrophysical Journal.

2012 – 2014 Member of the LIGO Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology

2007 – 2012 Research assistant, member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration as a member of the Northwestern group (local PI: Prof. Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA), regular presentations at collaboration meetings, three to four times a year.

Winter & Teaching assistant "General Relativity and Applications" with Spring 2011 Prof. Frederic Rasio (graduate-level course), Department of Physics

and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.

Fall 2009 Teaching assistant "Highlights of Astronomy" with Prof. Dave Meyer, with weekly telescope showings, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.

Summer 2009 Visiting scholar with Prof. Alberto Vecchio, Astrophysics and Space Research Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Summer 2008 Participant in the 2nd Course of the International School on Astrophysical Relativity, Frontiers in Numerical Gravitational Astrophysics, "John Archibald Wheeler", at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy.

2007 – Member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.

Summer 2007 Research assistant with Prof. Satoshi Hamaguchi, Center for Atomic and Molecular Technologies, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan.

P U B L I C O U T R E A C H 2018 Presentations to prospective undergraduate students at the Cardiff

University Open Day, Cardiff, UK. Title: Exploding stars, black holes and gravitational waves.

2017 Televised interview on gravitational waves in Tomorrow Today http://p.dw.com/p/2p33b, on Deutsche Welle, Germany's public international broadcaster.

2017 Televised interview on the first joint electromagnetic and gravitational waves observation in Zibb www.rbb-online.de/zibb/, German evening news program.

2017 Invited talk at the Potsdam Tag Der Wissenschaften, Potsdam, Germany, www.potsdamertagderwissenschaften.de. Title: Explodierende Sterne, Schwarze Löcher und Gravitationswellen (Exploding stars, black holes and gravitational waves).

2017 Presentation to high-school students of the Physik-LK des Schadowgymnasiums, Potsdam, Germany. Title: Explodierende Sterne, Schwarze Löcher und Gravitationswellen (Exploding stars, black holes and gravitational waves).

2016 Invited talk at the Nuit des Étoiles, Montalivet, France www.astronomieclubmedocain.fr. Title: Trous noirs, Relativité Générale et ondes gravitationnelles (Black holes, General Relativity and gravitational waves).

2016 Invited talk at the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Berlin, Germany www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de. Title: Explodierende Sterne, Schwarze Löcher und Gravitationswellen (Exploding stars, black holes and gravitational waves).

2016 Televised interview on the first direct gravitational waves detection in Zibb www.rbb-online.de/zibb/, German evening news program.

2016 Potsdam Tag Der Wissenschaften, Potsdam, Germany, www.potsdamertagderwissenschaften.de (presentation and interaction with the public)

2016 Press interviews in the Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung (www.maz-online.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Neue-Art-der-Weltallforschung-in-Potsdam) and Spektrum der Wissenschaft (www.spektrum.de/news/im-kreisssaal-der-gravitationswellen-astronomie/1408830)

2013 Pasadena Engineering and Science Expo at the Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California, USA (presentation and interaction with the public).

2011 – 2012 Astronomy Conversations at the Space Visualization Laboratory at the Adler Planetarium, Chicago, Illinois, USA (presentation and interaction with the public).

2007 – 2012 Telescope assistant at Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern university, Evanston, Illinois, USA (monthly public observing sessions).

Summer 2009 Special Traveling Exhibit "Catch A New Wave: Gravitational Wave Astronomy as a Probe of the Universe" at the Adler Planetarium, Chicago, Illinois, USA (installation and presentation to museum visitors).

R E S E A R C H A D V I S I N G A N D M E N T O R I N G Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Hong Qi (2018 – )

Ph.D. Thesis Students

Virginia D'Emilio (2018 – )

Rhys Green (2018 – )

Chinmay Kalaghatgi (2018 – )

Undergraduate Research Students

Benedict Hofmann (2018 –)

Abel Preston (2018 –)

Thomas Hutchins (2018 –)

Georgia Theodoropoulou (summer 2018), University of Athens physics undergraduate;

"On the effect of Power Spectrum Density estimation on gravitational-wave parameter estimation."

Jesse Murray-Dean (summer 2018), University of Kent physics undergraduate; "Testing and benchmarking of containers and cloud solutions for gravitational-wave analysis software."

Abigail Lee (summer 2017), University of Pennsylvania physics undergraduate; "Using gravitational-wave parameter estimation tools to analyze glitches".

Naomi Gendler (summer 2014), Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Reed College physics undergraduate; "Inference on Binary Neutron Star Populations".

Halston Lim (2013 – 2014), Caltech physics undergraduate; "How much better does the parameter estimates and Bayesian evidence for a BNS signal get when knowing the true sky position from electromagnetic observations?" and "Cutting Edge Computing for the Extraction of Astrophysical Parameters from Gravitational-Wave Observations".

Karla Guardado (summer 2013), Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, MIT physics undergraduate; "Extracting Astrophysical Parameters from Gravitational-Wave Observations. Study of the biases due to post-Newtonian approximants for spinning compact binaries.".

Scott Dossa (summer 2013), Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Carleton College physics undergraduate; "Characterising Behavior of LIGO Subsystems through Noise in the Seismic Environment.".

Patricia Porter (summer 2013), Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Carleton College physics undergraduate; "3D Localization of Gravitational Wave Event Candidates.".

John Le (2011 – 2012), Northwestern University physics undergraduate; "What is the SNR at which current Bayesian inference techniques can correctly identify a binary black hole non-spinning signal with spinning and non-spinning models in LIGO data?".

Scott Coughlin (2011-2012), Northwestern University physics undergraduate; "Development of a likelihood estimator and visual representation of a multi-dimensional likelihood surface to identify parameter space characteristics for spinning binary compact objets in LIGO data".

TA L K S "Gravitational waves in the cloud" Invited talk, Oracle's High Performance Cloud for

Research & Innovation, Bristol, UK, November 2018.

"Gravitational wave observations: the lens of waveform modelling" Invited talk, University of Oregon, Oregon, USA, March 2018.

"Astrophysical results from compact binary coalescences" Invited talk, EPS-HEP 2017, Venice, Italy, July 2017.

"Studying gravitational waves with LIGO" Invited talk, DESY in Zeuthen, Germany, April 2017.

"Gravitational-wave astrophysics" Invited talk and consecutive tutorial, 2nd International Interdisciplinary Workshop on Time Series Analysis, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France, December 2016.

"A new beginning for transient Gravitational-wave astrophysics." Invited CaJAGWR seminar, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA, November 2016.

"GW150914, GW151226 and LVT151012: a new beginning for transient Gravitational-wave astrophysics." Invited talk, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 2016.

"Gravitational-wave science; parameter inference of compact binaries with Advanced LIGO." Invited talk, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom, September 2016.

"Astrophysical inference from gravitational-wave observations of compact binaries with Advanced LIGO." Invited talk, Seoul National University, South Korea, July 2016.

"On the measurement of spinning compact binaries with the gravitational-wave observatory Advanced LIGO." Contributed talk, APS April Meeting 2016, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, April 2016.

"GW150914: A new beginning for transient gravitational-wave astrophysics." Invited talk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, February 2016.

"GW150914: Characterisation and properties." Invited talk, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany, February 2016.

"GW150914: Astrophysical & Cosmological Relativity." Invited talk on behalf of Prof. Alessandra Buonanno, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover, Germany, February 2016.

"Population inference in gravitational-wave astronomy." Contributed talk, Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop, Osaka, Japan, June 2015.

"Status and future of gravitational-wave parameter estimation for Compact Binary Coalescences ." Invited talk, Numerical and Analytical Relativity and Data Analysis, California State University, Fullerton, California, USA, August 2014.

"What can we learn from gravitational waves on the physics of bursts and compact binaries ." Invited talk, 10th Rencontres du Vietnam: "Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe", Quy Nhon, Vietnam, August 2014.

"Some Thoughts about Rates & Statistics." Contributed talk with prof. Rana Adhikari (Caltech), Gravitational Wave Advanced Detector Workshop, Takayama, Japan, May 2014.

"Gravitational Waves from Spinning Inspirals of Compact Objects." Invited talk, Pisa INFN Section, Department of Physics, Pisa University, Pisa, Italy, October 2013.

"How Much We Lose in Sky Localization If We Neglect Spin Effects in NS-NS and NS-BH Binaries." Invited talk, Rattle and Shine conference, KITP Conference, Santa Barbara, California, USA, August 2012.

"Evidence for Spin in Compact Binary Coalescence Gravitational Waves signals." Contributed talk, APS April Meeting 2012, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 2012.

"Astrophysics with LIGO/Virgo, the challenges of parameter estimation." Seminar, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, December 2011; Seminar, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA, February 2012

"Status of LIGO CBC Bayesian Inference." Seminar, Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, December 2011.

"Evidence for Spin in Compact Binary Coalescence: when can we trust it ?" Contributed talk, 21st Midwest Relativity Meeting, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA, November 2011.

"How well can we distinguish spinning, spin aligned and non- spinning binary systems with the advanced detector network?" Contributed talk, Amaldi 9 & NRDA, Cardiff, United Kingdom, July 2011.

"Parameter Estimation of Gravitational Waves" Contributed talk, Rencontres de Moriond, La Thuile, Aosta valley, Italy, March 2011.

"PhenSpin MCMC: Parameter estimation and model selection using spinning phenomenological waveforms" Contributed talk, 19th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, Mexico City, Mexico, July 2010; Contributed talk, Theory Meets Data Analysis at Comparable and Extreme Mass Ratios, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, June 2010.

"Accurate parameter estimation of spinning compact binary inspirals: Markov-chain Monte Carlo applied to LIGO gravitational-wave signals" Contributed talk, Numerical Relativity and Data Analysis Meeting, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Golm, Germany, July 2009.

"Parameter estimation of spinning binary inspirals using Markov-chain Monte Carlo", Contributed talk, Numerical Relativity and Data Analysis Meeting, Physics department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New-York, USA, August 2008.

P O S T E R P R E S E N TAT I O N S "Inferring astrophysical properties of the LIGO O1 events: GW150914, GW151226

and LVT151012", Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Advisory Board meeting, Potsdam, Germany, September 2016.

"Towards Automated Control.", Gravitational Wave Advanced Detector Workshop, Takayama, Japan, May 2014.

"Parameter Estimation in Practice for Advanced LIGO/Virgo.", 221th AAS Meeting, Long Beach, California, USA, January 2013.

"Evidence for Spin in Compact Binary Coalescence: when can we trust it ?", 219th AAS Meeting, Austin, Texas, USA, January 2012.

"Model selection with Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo results applied to Gravitational Waves", GWDAW-14, Rome, Italy, January 2010.

"Accurate parameter estimation of spinning compact-object binaries: Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo applied to LIGO gravitational-wave signals", Amaldi 8, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA, June 2009.

"Parameter Estimation using Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo on Inspiral Signals from Spinning Binaries: Comparison of post-Newtonian Order Effects, and a 15 Dimensional Analysis", GWDAW-13, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA, January 2009.

"Parameter estimation of spinning binaries using MCMC", 2nd Course of the International School on Astrophysical Relativity, Frontiers in Numerical Gravitational Astrophysics, "John Archibald Wheeler", Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, June 2008.

R E F E R E E D P U B L I C AT I O N S This list includes publications from the LIGO-Virgo collaboration which contain major personal contributions.

"Tests of General Relativity with GW170817" The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, et al. 2018, ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1811.00364

"GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2018, Physical Review Letters, 121, 161101

"Black-hole spectroscopy by making full use of gravitational-wave modeling" Brito, R., Buonanno, A., & Raymond, V. 2018, Physical Review D, 98, 084038

"Mitigation of the instrumental noise transient in gravitational-wave data surrounding GW170817" Pankow, C., et al. 2018, Physical Review D, 98, 084016

"Constraining the p-mode--g-mode tidal instability with GW170817" The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, et al. 2018, ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1808.08676

"PyCBC Inference: A Python-based parameter estimation toolkit for compact binary coalescence signals" Biwer, C. M., Capano, C. D., De, S., Cabero, M., Brown, D. A., Nitz, A. H., & Raymond, V. 2018, ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1807.10312

"Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817" The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, et al. 2018, ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1805.11579

"Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2018, Living Reviews in Relativity, 21, 3

"Parametrized tests of the strong-field dynamics of general relativity using gravitational wave signals from coalescing binary black holes: Fast likelihood calculations and sensitivity of the method" Meidam, J., et al. 2018, Physical Review D, 97, 044033

"On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, The Astrophysical Journal, 850, L40

"Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated with GW170817" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, The Astrophysical Journal, 850, L39

"A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, Nature, 551, 85

"GW170608: Observation of a 19 Solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence" The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, et al. 2017, The Astrophysical Journal, 851, L35

"GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, Physical Review Letters, 119, 161101

"GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, Physical Review Letters, 119, 141101

"Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, The Astrophysical Journal, 848, L13

"Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, The Astrophysical Journal, 848, L12

"GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, Physical Review Letters, 118, 221101

"Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34, 104002

"An improved effective-one-body model of spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes for the era of gravitational-wave astrophysics with advanced detectors" Bohé, A., et al. 2017, Physical Review D, 95, 044028

"Parameter estimation for heavy binary-black holes with networks of second-generation gravitational-wave detectors" Vitale, S., Lynch, R., Raymond, V., Sturani, R., Veitch, J., & Graff, P. 2017, Physical Review D, 95, 064053

"GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence" The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, et al. 2016, Physical Review Letters, 116, 241103

"Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run" The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, et al. 2016, Physical Review X, 6, 041015

"An improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform model" The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, et al. 2016, Physical Review X, 6, 041014

"Fast and accurate inference on gravitational waves from precessing compact

binaries" Smith, R., Field, S. E., Blackburn, K., Haster, C.-J., Pürrer, M., Raymond, V., & Schmidt, P. 2016, Physical Review D, 94, 044031

"Going the Distance: Mapping Host Galaxies of LIGO Sources in Three Dimensions Using Local Cosmography and Targeted Follow-up" Singer, L. P., et al. 2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 829, L15

"Supplement: "Going the Distance: Mapping Host Galaxies of LIGO and Virgo Sources in Three Dimensions Using Local Cosmography and Targeted Follow-up" (2016, ApJL, 829, L15)" Singer, L. P., et al. 2016, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 226, 10

"Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, Physical Review D, 93, 122004

"Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 826, L13

"Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, Physical Review Letters, 116, 241102

"Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, Physical Review Letters, 116, 061102

"Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, Living Reviews in Relativity, 19,

"Robust parameter estimation for compact binaries with ground-based gravitational-wave observations using the LALInference software library"

Veitch, J., Raymond, V., Farr, B., Farr, W., Graff, P.,, Vitale, S., et al. (and 20 additional coauthors in alphabetical order), 2015 Physical Review D 91, 042003.

"Accelerated gravitational-wave parameter estimation with reduced order modeling" Canizares, P., Field, S. E., Gair, J., Raymond, V., Smith, R., Tiglio, M.,

2015 Physical Review Letters 114, 071104.

"Measuring the spin of black holes in binary systems using gravitational waves" Vitale, S., Lynch, R., Veitch, J., Raymond, V., Sturani, R., 2014

Physical Review Letters 112, 251101.

"Systematic and statistical errors in a bayesian approach to the estimation of the neutron-star equation of state using advanced gravitational wave detectors"

Wade, L., Creighton, J., Ochsner, E., Lackey, B., Farr, B., Farr, W., Littenberg, B., and Raymond, V., 2014 Physical Review D 89, 103012.

"Parameter estimation of gravitational waves from precessing black hole-neutron star inspirals with higher harmonics"

O'Shaughnessy, R., Farr, B., Ochsner, E., Hee-Suk, C., Raymond, V., Chunglee, K., Chang-Hwan, L., 2014 Physical Review D 89, 102005.

"Physically motivated exploration of the extrinsic parameter space in ground-based gravitational-wave astronomy"

Raymond, V., Farr, W., internally reviewed publication by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, 2014.

"Basic Parameter Estimation of Binary Neutron Star Systems by the Advanced LIGO/Virgo Network"

Rodriguez, C., Farr, B., Raymond, V., Farr, W., Littenberg, T., Fazi, D., Kalogera, V., 2014 The Astrophysical Journal, 784, (119).

"Reconstructing the sky location of gravitational-wave detected compact binary systems: methodology for testing and comparison"

Sidery, T., et al. (and 22 coauthors in alphabetical order), 2014 Physical Review D 89, 084060.

"Parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence signals with the first generation gravitational-wave detector network"

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration: Aasi, J., et al (and 801 coauthors in alphabetical order), 2013 Physical Review D,88, 062001. Science summary: http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6PE/index.php

"Estimating parameters of coalescing compact binaries with proposed advanced detector networks"

Veitch, J., Mandel, I., Aylott, B., Farr, B., Kalogera, V., Raymond, V., Rodriguez, C., van der Sluys, M., & Vecchio, A., 2012 Physical Review D, 85, 104045.

"The effects of LIGO detector noise on a 15-dimensional Markov-chain Monte Carlo analysis of gravitational-wave signals"

Raymond, V., van der Sluys, M., Mandel, I., Kalogera, V., Röver, C., & Christensen, N. 2010, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27, 114009.

"Parameter estimation for signals from compact binary inspirals injected into LIGO data"

van der Sluys, M., Mandel, I., Raymond, V., Kalogera, V., Röver, C., & Christensen, N. 2009, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 26, 204010.

"Testing gravitational-wave searches with numerical relativity waveforms: results from the firstNumerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project"

Aylott, B., et al. (and 76 coauthors in alphabetical order) 2009, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 26, 165008.

"Status of NINJA: the Numerical INJection Analysis project" Cadonati, L., et al. (and 76 coauthors in alphabetical order) 2009,

Classical and Quantum Gravity, 26, 114008.

"Degeneracies in sky localization determination from a spinning coalescing binary through gravitational wave observations: a Markov-chain Monte Carlo analysis for two detectors"

Raymond, V., van der Sluys, M. V., Mandel, I., Kalogera, V., Röver, C., & Christensen, N. 2009, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 26, 114007.

"Gravitational-Wave Astronomy with Inspiral Signals of Spinning Compact-Object Binaries"

van der Sluys, M. V., Röver, C., Stroeer, A., Raymond, V., Mandel, I., Christensen, N., Kalogera, V., Meyer, R., & Vecchio, A. 2008, The Astrophysical Journal, 688, L61.

"Parameter estimation of spinning binary inspirals using Markov chain Monte Carlo" van der Sluys, M., Raymond, V., Mandel, I., Röver, C., Christensen, N.,

Kalogera, V., Meyer, R., & Vecchio, A. 2008, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 25, 184011.

L I G O - V I R G O C O L L A B O R AT I O N P U B L I C AT I O N S "Search for Multi-messenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy

Neutrinos with Advanced LIGO during its first Observing Run, ANTARES and IceCube" ANTARES, et al. 2018, ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1810.10693

"A Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Search for Electromagnetic Signals Coincident with Gravitational-Wave Candidates in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run" The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team, et al. 2018, ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1810.02764

"Search for gravitational waves from a long-lived remnant of the binary neutron star merger GW170817" The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, et al. 2018, ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1810.02581

"Search for sub-solar mass ultracompact binaries in Advanced LIGO's first observing run" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2018, ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1808.04771

"Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2018, Physical Review Letters, 120, 201102

"Full band all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2018, Physical Review D, 97, 102003

"Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2018, Physical Review D, 97, 102002

"Effects of data quality vetoes on a search for compact binary coalescences in Advanced LIGO's first observing run" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2018, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 35, 065010

"All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2018, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 35, 065009

"Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2018, Physical Review Letters, 120, 201102

"Full band all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2018, Physical Review D, 97, 102003

"First Search for Nontensorial Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2018, Physical Review Letters, 120, 031104

"Constraints on Cosmic Strings from the LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Detectors" Aasi, J., et al. 2014, Physical Review Letters, 112, 131101

"Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory" Albert, A., et al. 2017, The Astrophysical Journal, 850, L35

"Search for Post-merger Gravitational Waves from the Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, The Astrophysical Journal, 851, L16

"GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2018, Physical Review Letters, 120, 091101

"First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data" The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, et al. 2017, Physical Review D, 96, 122006

"Effects of data quality vetoes on a search for compact binary coalescences in Advanced LIGO's first observing run" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2018, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 35, 065010

"All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, Physical Review D, 96, 062002

"Upper Limits on Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 from a Model-based Cross-correlation Search in Advanced LIGO Data" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, The Astrophysical Journal, 847, 47

"Search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW151226 and candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube" Albert, A., et al. 2017, Physical Review D, 96, 022005

"Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first observing run of Advanced LIGO" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, Physical Review D, 96, 022001

"First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data" The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, et al. 2017, Physical Review D, 96, 122004

"Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the first Advanced LIGO observing run with a hidden Markov model" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, Physical Review D, 95, 122003

"Upper Limits on Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 from a Model-based Cross-correlation Search in Advanced LIGO Data" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, The Astrophysical Journal, 847, 47

"Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts during the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run and Implications for the Origin of GRB 150906B" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, The Astrophysical Journal, 841, 89

"All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, Physical Review D, 95, 042003

"The basic physics of the binary black hole merger GW150914" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, Annalen der Physik, 529, 1600209

"Exploring the sensitivity of next generation gravitational wave detectors" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34, 044001

"Upper Limits on the Rates of Binary Neutron Star and Neutron Star-Black Hole Mergers from Advanced LIGO’s First Observing Run" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 832, L21

"Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in globular cluster NGC 6544" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, Physical Review D, 95, 082005

"Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein's equations for binary black hole coalescence" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, Physical Review D, 94, 064035

"Comprehensive All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Sixth Science Run LIGO Data" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, Physical Review D, 94, 042002

"First targeted search for gravitational-wave bursts from core-collapse supernovae in data of first-generation laser interferometer detectors" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, Physical Review D, 94, 102001

"High-energy neutrino follow-up search of gravitational wave event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube" Adrián-Martínez, S., et al. 2016, Physical Review D, 93, 122010

"GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, Physical Review Letters, 116, 131103

"High-energy neutrino follow-up search of gravitational wave event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube" Adrián-Martínez, S., et al. 2016, Physical Review D, 93, 122010

"GW150914: Implications for the stochastic gravitational wave background from binary black holes" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, Physical Review Letters, 116, 131102

"Astrophysical Implications of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914" Abbott et al. 2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 818, L22

"Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detectors for the discovery of the binary black-hole merger GW150914" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2017, Physical Review D, 95, 062003

"Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33, 134001

"The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred from Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 833, L1

"Supplement: 'The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred from Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914' (2016, ApJL, 833, L1)" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 227, 14

"Tests of General Relativity with GW150914" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, Physical Review Letters, 116, 221101

"GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, Physical Review D, 93, 122003

"GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, Physical Review Letters, 116, 131103

"All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients with initial LIGO" Abbott, B. P., et al. 2016, Physical Review D, 93, 042005

"Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Nine Young Supernova Remnants" Aasi et al. 2015, The Astrophysical Journal, 813, 39

"First low frequency all-sky search for continuous gravitational wave signals" Aasi, J., et al. 2016, Physical Review D, 93, 042007

"A search of the Orion spur for continuous gravitational waves using a "loosely coherent" algorithm on data from LIGO interferometers" Aasi, J., et al. 2016, Physical Review D, 93, 042006

"Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run" Aasi et al. 2015, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 32, 115012

"Advanced LIGO" LIGO Scientific Collaboration et al. 2015, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 32, 074001

"Directed search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with initial LIGO data" Aasi et al. 2015, Physical Review D, 91, 062008

"Narrow-band search of continuous gravitational-wave signals from Crab and Vela pulsars in Virgo VSR4 data" Aasi et al. 2015, Physical Review D, 91, 022004

"Searching for stochastic gravitational waves using data from the two colocated LIGO Hanford detectors" Aasi et al. 2015, Physical Review D, 91, 022003

"Improved Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from 2009-2010 LIGO and Virgo Data" Aasi et al. 2014, Physical Review Letters, 113, 231101

"Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube" Aartsen et al. 2014, Physical Review D, 90, 102002

"First all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown sources in binary systems" Aasi et al. 2014, Physical Review D, 90, 062010

"Implementation of an F-statistic all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Virgo VSR1 data" Aasi et al. 2014, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 31, 165014

"Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with γ-ray Bursts Detected by the Interplanetary Network" Aasi et al. 2014, Physical Review Letters, 113, 011102

"Methods and results of a search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts using the GEO 600, LIGO, and Virgo detectors" Aasi et al. 2014, Physical Review D, 89, 122004

"Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run" Aasi et al. 2014, Physical Review D, 89, 122003

"The NINJA-2 project: detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations" Aasi et al. 2014, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 31, 115004

"Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed intermediate mass black holes in LIGO-Virgo data from 2005-2010" Aasi et al. 2014, Physical Review D, 89, 102006

"Constraints on Cosmic Strings from the LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Detectors" Aasi et al. 2014, Physical Review Letters, 112, 131101

"Application of a Hough search for continuous gravitational waves on data from the fifth LIGO science run" Aasi et al. 2014, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 31, 085014

"Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars: Results from the Initial Detector Era" Aasi et al. 2014, The Astrophysical Journal, 785, 119

"First Searches for Optical Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Candidate Events" Aasi et al. 2014, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 211, 7

"Search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients coincident with long gamma-ray bursts" Aasi et al. 2013, Physical Review D, 88, 122004

"Directed search for continuous gravitational waves from the Galactic center" Aasi et al. 2013, Physical Review D, 88, 102002

"A first search for coincident gravitational waves and high energy neutrinos using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007" Adriàn-Martìnez et al. 2013, Journal of Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, 6, 008

"Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data" Aasi et al. 2013, Physical Review D, 87, 042001

"Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009-2010" Aasi et al. 2013, Physical Review D, 87, 022002

"Swift Follow-up Observations of Candidate Gravitational-wave Transient Events" Evans et al. 2012, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 203, 28

"Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts during LIGO Science Run 6 and Virgo Science Runs 2 and 3" Abadie et al. 2012, The Astrophysical Journal, 760, 12

"The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches" Aasi et al. 2012, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 29, 155002

"Implications for the Origin of GRB 051103 from LIGO Observations" Abadie et al. 2012, The Astrophysical Journal, 755, 2

"All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run" Abadie et al. 2012, Physical Review D, 85, 122007

"Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600-1000 Hz" Abadie et al. 2012, Physical Review D, 85, 122001

"Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes" Abadie et al. 2012, Physical Review D, 85, 102004

"First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts" Abadie et al. 2012, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 541, A155

"Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGO's sixth science run and Virgo's science runs 2 and 3" Abadie et al. 2012, Physical Review D, 85, 082002

"Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts" LIGO Scientific Collaboration et al. 2012, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 539, A124

"All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data" Abadie et al. 2012, Physical Review D, 85, 022001

"Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves Using LIGO S5 Science Data" Abadie et al. 2011, Physical Review Letters, 107, 271102

"A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit" LIGO Scientific Collaboration et al. 2011, Nature Physics, 7, 962

"Beating the Spin-down Limit on Gravitational Wave Emission from the Vela Pulsar" Abadie et al. 2011, The Astrophysical Journal, 737, 93

"Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown" Abadie et al. 2011, Physical Review D, 83, 122005

"Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Six Magnetars" Abadie et al. 2011, The Astrophysical Journal, 734, L35

"Search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar" Abadie et al. 2011, Physical Review D, 83, 042001

"Calibration of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors in the fifth science run" Abadie et al. 2010, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 624, 223

"Search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence in LIGO and Virgo data from S5 and VSR1" Abadie et al. 2010, Physical Review D, 82, 102001

"First Search for Gravitational Waves from the Youngest Known Neutron Star" Abadie et al. 2010, The Astrophysical Journal, 722, 1504

"TOPICAL REVIEW: Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors" Abadie et al. 2010, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27, 173001

"Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run" Abadie et al. 2010, The Astrophysical Journal, 715, 1453

"Search For Gravitational-wave Bursts Associated with Gamma-ray Bursts using Data from LIGO Science Run 5 and Virgo Science Run 1" Abbott et al. 2010, The Astrophysical Journal, 715, 1438

"All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run" Abadie et al. 2010, Physical Review D, 81, 102001

"Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Science Run 5 LIGO Data" Abbott et al. 2010, The Astrophysical Journal, 713, 671

"Sensitivity to Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences Achieved during LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run" The LIGO Scientific Collaboration et al. 2010, ArXiv e-prints, arXiv:1003.2481

"Search for high frequency gravitational-wave bursts in the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run" Abbott et al. 2009, Physical Review D, 80, 102002

"Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first year of the fifth LIGO science run" Abbott et al. 2009, Physical Review D, 80, 102001

"First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings" Abbott et al. 2009, Physical Review D, 80, 062002

"Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data" Abbott et al. 2009, Physical Review D, 80, 062001

"Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO's fifth science run" Abbott et al. 2009, Physical Review D, 80, 047101

"Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data" Abbott et al. 2009, Physical Review D, 80, 042003

"An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin" Abbott et al. 2009, Nature, 460, 990

"Stacked Search for Gravitational Waves from the 2006 SGR 1900+14 Storm" Abbott et al. 2009, The Astrophysical Journal, 701, L68

"LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory" Abbott et al. 2009, Reports on Progress in Physics, 72, 076901

"Search for gravitational waves from low mass binary coalescences in the first year of LIGO's S5 data" Abbott et al. 2009, Physical Review D, 79, 122001