Observations of gravitational waves have opened a new window on the Universe. WVU
faculty are involved both in the detection and characterization of gravitational
waves, as well as the computational modeling of gravitational wave sources like
black hole and neutron star binaries. Our group is rather unique in that we specialize
in gravitational waves across the spectrum, from the very long gravitational waves
detectable by NANOGrav (McLaughlin is the co-Director of the NANOGrav Physics Frontier
Center), to the “medium-sized” waves detectable by LISA (McWilliams), to the “short”
gravitational waves detected by LIGO (McWilliams and Etienne are members of the
LIGO Scientific Collaboration).
Researchers in this area include:
Sean McWilliams
Sarah Burke-Spolaor
Maura McLaughlin
Recent
publications:
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration, 2021, Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs, arXiv e-prints.
Ligo Scientific Collaboration, VIRGO Collaboration, and Kagra Collaboration, 2021, All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run, Physical Review D, 104.
Ar zoumanian, Zaven, Baker, Paul T., Blumer, Harsha, Becsy, Bence, Brazier, Adam, Brook, Paul R., Burke-Spolaor, Sarah, Charisi, Maria, Chatterjee, Shami, Chen, Siyuan, Cordes, James M., Cornish, Neil J., Crawford, Fronefield, Cromartie, H. Thankful, DeCesar, Megan E., DeGan, Dallas M., Demorest, Paul B., Dolch, Timothy, Drachler, Brendan, Ellis, Justin A., Ferrara, Elizabeth C., Fiore, William, Fonseca, Emmanuel, Garver-Daniels, Nathan, Gentile, Peter A., Good, Deborah C., Hazboun, Jeffrey S., Holgado, A. Miguel, Islo, Kristina, Jennings, Ross J., Jones, Megan L., Kaiser, Andrew R., Kaplan, David L., Kelley, Luke Zoltan, Shapiro Key, Joey, Laal, Nima, Lam, Michael T., Lazio, T. Joseph W., Lorimer, Duncan R., Liu, Tingting, Luo, Jing, Lynch, Ryan S., Madison, Dustin R., McEwen, Alexander, McLaughlin, Maura A., Mingarelli, Chiara M. F., Ng, Cherry, Nice, David J., Olum, Ken D., Pennucci, Timothy T., Pol, Nihan S., Ransom, Scott M., Ray, Paul S., Romano, Joseph D., Sardesai, Shashwat C., Shapiro-Albert, Brent J., Siemens, Xavier, Simon, Joseph, Siwek, Magdalena S., Spiewak, Renee, Stairs, Ingrid H., Stinebring, Daniel R., Stovall, Kevin, Sun, Jerry P., Swiggum, Joseph K., Taylor, Stephen R., Turner, Jacob E., Vallisneri, Michele, Vigeland, Sarah J., Wahl, Haley M., and Witt, Caitlin A., 2021, The NANOGrav 12.5-year data set: Search for Non-Einsteinian Polarization Modes inthe Gravitational-Wave Background, arXiv e-prints.
Arzoumanian, Zaven, Baker, Paul T., Brazier, Adam, Brook, Paul R., Burke-Spolaor,
Sarah, Becsy, Bence, Charisi, Maria, Chatterjee, Shami, Cordes, James M., Cornish,
Neil J., Crawford, Fronefield, Cromartie, H. Thankful, Decesar, Megan E., Demorest,
Paul B., Dolch, Timothy, Elliott, Rodney D., Ellis, Justin A., Ferrara, Elizabeth
C., Fonseca, Emmanuel, Garver-Daniels, Nathan, Gentile, Peter A., Good, Deborah
C., Hazboun, Jeffrey S., Islo, Kristina, Jennings, Ross J., Jones, Megan L., Kaiser,
Andrew R., Kaplan, David L., Kelley, Luke Zoltan, Key, Joey Shapiro, Lam, Michael
T., Lazio, T. Joseph W., Luo, Jing, Lynch, Ryan S., Ma, Chung-Pei, Madison, Dustin
R., McLaughlin, Maura A., Mingarelli, Chiara M. F., Ng, Cherry, Nice, David J.,
Pennucci, Timothy T., Pol, Nihan S., Ransom, Scott M., Ray, Paul S., Shapiro-Albert,
Brent J., Siemens, Xavier, Simon, Joseph, Spiewak, Renée, Stairs, Ingrid H., Stinebring,
Daniel R., Stovall, Kevin, Swiggum, Joseph K., Taylor, Stephen R., Vallisneri,
Michele, Vigeland, Sarah J., Witt, Caitlin A., and Nanograv Collaboration, 2021,
The NANOGrav 11 yr Data Set: Limits on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Galaxies
within 500 Mpc,
The Astrophysical Journal, 914.