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