Publications

LIGO Short Author Publications

S. Karki, et al. The Advanced LIGO Photon Calibrators. Review of Scientific Instruments, 87:114503, 2016.
D. Tuyenbayev, et al. Improving LIGO calibration accuracy by tracking and compensating for slow temporal variations. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34(1):015002, 2017.
C. Cahillane, et al. Calibration uncertainty for Advanced LIGOs first and second observing runs. Phys. Rev. D, 96:102001, 2017.
C. Biwer, et al. Validating gravitational-wave detections: The advanced LIGO hardware injection system. Phys. Rev. D, 95:062002, 2017.
A. D. Viets, et al. Reconstructing the calibrated strain signal in the Advanced LIGO detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 35(9):095015, 2018.

Condensed Matter Publications

B. J. Nordell, S. Karki, T. D. Nguyen, et al. The influence of hydrogen on the chemical, mechan- ical, optical/electronic, and electrical transport properties of amorphous hydrogenated boron carbide. Journal of Applied Physics, 118(3):035703, 2015.
M. S. Driver, M. M. Paquette, S. Karki, et al. The electronic and chemical structure of the a-B3CO0.5:Hy -to-metal interface from photo-emission spectroscopy: implications for Schottky barrier heights. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 24(44):445001, 2012.
M. M. Paquette, W. Li, M. S. Driver, S. Karki, et al. The local physical structure of amorphous hy- drogenated boron carbide: insights from magic angle spinning solid-state NMR spectroscopy.Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 23(43):435002, 2011.

LIGO Full Author Publications

B. P. Abbott et al. GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs. Submitted to PRX, 1811.12907, 2019.
B. P. Abbott et al. Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Submitted to ApJ 1811.12940, 2019.
B. P. Abbott et al. Tests of General Relativity with GW170817. Submitted to PRL, 1811.00364, 2019.
B. P. Abbott et al. Search for gravitational waves from a long-lived remnant of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Submitted to ApJ 1810.02581, 2019
B. P. Abbott et al. Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Phys. Rev. X 9, 011001, 2019
B. P. Abbott et al. GW170817: Measurements of neutron star radii and the equation of state Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 161101 2018
B. P. Abbott et al. Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background. Phys. Rev. Lett., 120(20):201102, 2018.
B. P. Abbott et al. Full Band All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data. Phys. Rev., D97(10):102003, 2018.
B. P. Abbott et al. Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first advanced LIGO observing run. Phys. Rev. D, 97:102002, May 2018.
P. B. Covas et al. Identification and mitigation of narrow spectral artifacts that degrade searches for persistent gravitational waves in the first two observing runs of advanced ligo. Phys. Rev. D, 97:082002, Apr 2018.
B. P. Abbott et al. GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational- Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences. Phys. Rev. Lett., 120(9):091101, 2018.
B. P. Abbott et al. All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run. Class. Quant. Grav., 35(6):065009, 2018.
B. P. Abbott et al. Effects of data quality vetoes on a search for compact binary coalescences in Advanced LIGOs first observing run. Class. Quant. Grav., 35(6):065010, 2018.
B. P. Abbott et al. First search for nontensorial gravitational waves from known pulsars. Phys. Rev. Lett., 120(3):031104, 2018.
B. P. Abbott et al. First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data. Phys. Rev., D96(12):122006, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. GW170608:Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence. Astrophys. J., 851(2):L35, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data. Phys. Rev., D96(12):122004, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. Search for Post-merger Gravitational Waves from the Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817. Astrophys. J., 851(1):L16, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817. Astrophys. J., 850(2):L40, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated with GW170817. Astrophys. J., 850(2):L39, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory. Astrophys. J., 850(2):L35, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant. Nature, 551(7678):8588, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. Gravitational Waves and Gamma-rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A. Astrophys. J., 848(2):L13, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger. Astrophys. J., 848(2):L12, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. Gw170817: Observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. Phys. Rev. Lett., 119:161101, Oct 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence. Phys. Rev. Lett., 119(14):141101, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. Upper Limits on Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 from a Model-Based Cross-Correlation Search in Advanced LIGO Data. Astrophys. J., 847(1):47, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data. Phys. Rev., D96(6):062002, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first observing run of Advanced LIGO. Phys. Rev., D96(2):022001, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the first Advanced LIGO observing run with a hidden Markov model. Phys. Rev., D95(12):122003, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar- Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2. Phys. Rev. Lett., 118(22):221101, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma- Ray Bursts During the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run and Implications for the Origin of GRB 150906B. Astrophys. J., 841(2):89, 2017.
T. D. Abbott et al. Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in globular cluster NGC 6544. Phys. Rev., D95(8):082005, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914. Class. Quant. Grav., 34(10):104002, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Advanced LIGO. Astrophys. J., 839(1):12, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGOs First Observing Run. Phys. Rev. Lett., 118(12):121101, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves from Advanced LIGOs First Observing Run. Phys. Rev. Lett., 118(12):121102, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. All-sky search for short gravitational-wavebursts in the first Advanced LIGO run. Phys. Rev., D95(4):042003, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. Exploring the Sensitivity of Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors. Class. Quant. Grav., 34(4):044001, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. The basic physics of the binary black hole merger GW150914. Annalen Phys., 529(1-2):1600209, 2017.
B. P. Abbott et al. Supplement: The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred from Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914. Astrophys. J. Suppl., 227(2):14, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred from Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914. Astrophys. J., 833(1):L1, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. Upper Limits on the Rates of Binary Neutron Star and Neutron Starblack Hole Mergers From Advanced Ligos First Observing run. Astrophys. J., 832(2):L21, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. Results of the deepest all-sky survey for continuous gravitational waves on LIGO S6 data running on the Einstein@Home volunteer distributed computing project. Phys. Rev., D94(10):102002, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run. Phys. Rev., X6(4):041015, 2016.
T. D. Abbott et al. Improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin precessing waveform Model. Phys. Rev., X6(4):041014, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einsteins equations for binary black hole coalescence. Phys. Rev., D94(6):064035, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. Comprehensive all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the sixth science run LIGO data. Phys. Rev., D94(4):042002, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. Supplement: Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914. Astrophys. J. Suppl., 225(1):8, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational- wave transient GW150914. Astrophys. J., 826(1):L13, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22- Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence. Phys. Rev. Lett., 116(24):241103, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914. Phys. Rev. Lett., 116(24):241102, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions. Phys. Rev., D93(12):122004, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO. Phys. Rev., D93(12):122003, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914. Class. Quant. Grav., 33(13):134001, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. GW150914: Implications for the stochastic gravitational wave background from binary black holes. Phys. Rev. Lett., 116(13):131102, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries. Phys. Rev. Lett., 116(13):131103, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. Astrophysical Implications of the Binary Black-Hole Merger GW150914. Astrophys. J., 818(2):L22, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger. Phys. Rev. Lett., 116(6):061102, 2016.
B. P. Abbott et al. Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA. Living Rev. Rel., 21:3, 2018.