Dr Jethro Linley
- Research Associate (Statistics)
email:
Jethro.Linley@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
He/him/his
Biography
Dr Linley received the Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces M.Sc. from Imperial College in 2017, and his Ph.D. in gravitational wave data analysis from the University of Glasgow in 2022. His doctoral work consisted of a deep analysis of a broad range of physical phenomena and theories that imprint in gravitational wave signals, and presented a novel technique to simplify difficult computational problems related to the data analysis of those signals, resulting in being awarded the Kelvin Award for his thesis. He joined the School of Mathematics and Statistics in 2023 as a Research Associate, and is currently working on modelling carbon emissions associated to UK household energy consumption in partnership with NatWest Group.
Research interests
My current research focuses on statistical modelling and predictive analytics, particularly in the context of energy systems and environmental data. I am interested in the development and evaluation of statistical and machine learning models, with a strong emphasis on handling uncertainty, structured data dependencies, and model interpretability.
Key areas of my research include:
- Generalised Additive and Generalised Additive Location Scale Shape (GAMLSS) models – for flexible, distributional regression modelling.
- Spatio-temporal modelling – integrating structured dependencies in energy and environmental data.
- Regression and supervised learning methods – with applications in forecasting and decision-making.
- Model selection and evaluation – using cross-validation, information criteria, and likelihood-based approaches.
- Energy and environmental applications – including probabilistic forecasting, emissions modelling, and uncertainty quantification.
More broadly, I am interested in the intersection of statistical modelling, applied machine learning, and decision-making under uncertainty, particularly in high-impact domains such as energy, climate, and sustainability.
Publications
2024
Linley, J. (2024) Geometric obstructions of C^0- extendibility of gravitational collapse spacetimes. International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, (Accepted for Publication)
Abbott, R. et al. (2024) Search for gravitational-wave transients associated with magnetar bursts in advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo data from the third observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 966(1), 137. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad27d3)
Abbott, R. et al. (2024) GWTC-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run. Physical Review D, 109(2), 022001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.022001)
2023
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) GWTC-3: Compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the second part of the third observing run. Physical Review X, 13(4), 041039. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevX.13.041039)
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) Constraints on the cosmic expansion history from GWTC–3. Astrophysical Journal, 949(2), 76. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac74bb)
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) Population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3. Physical Review X, 13(1), 011048. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevX.13.011048)
2022
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo O3 data. Physical Review D, 106(10), 102008. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.102008)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with a hidden Markov model in O3 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 106(6), 062002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.062002)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Search for continuous gravitational wave emission from the Milky Way center in O3 LIGO-Virgo data. Physical Review D, 106(4), 042003. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.042003)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars at two harmonics in the second and third LIGO-Virgo observing runs. Astrophysical Journal, 935(1), 1. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac6acf)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Search for subsolar-mass binaries in the first half of Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s third observing run. Physical Review Letters, 129(6), 061104. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.061104)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Narrowband searches for continuous and long-duration transient gravitational waves from known pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo third observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 932(2), 133. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac6ad0)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational waves from Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s first three observing runs. Physical Review D, 105(12), 122001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.122001)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) First joint observation by the underground gravitational-wave detector, KAGRA, with GEO 600. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2022(6), 063F01. (doi: 10.1093/ptep/ptac073)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data. Physical Review D, 105(10), 102001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.102001)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Tests of general relativity with GWTC-3. Physical Review D, (Accepted for Publication)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO–Virgo run O3b. Astrophysical Journal, 928(2), 186. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac532b)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Constraints on dark photon dark matter using data from LIGO’s and Virgo’s third observing run. Physical Review D, 105(6), 063030. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.063030)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Search for intermediate-mass black hole binaries in the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 659, A84. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141452)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Search for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond x-ray pulsars in O3 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 105(2), 022002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.022002)
2021
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run. Physical Review D, 104(12), 122004. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.122004)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Search for lensing signatures in the gravitational-wave observations from the first half of LIGO–Virgo’s third observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 923(1), 14. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac23db)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Constraints from LIGO O3 data on gravitational-wave emission due to r-modes in the glitching pulsar PSR J0537–6910. Astrophysical Journal, 922(1), 71. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac0d52)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run. Physical Review D, 104(10), 102001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.102001)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Searches for continuous gravitational waves from young supernova remnants in the early third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo. Astrophysical Journal, 921(1), 80. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac17ea)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars in the early O3 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 104(8), 082004. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.082004)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Search for anisotropic gravitational-wave backgrounds using data from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo’s first three observing runs. Physical Review D, 104(2), 022005. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.022005)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Upper limits on the isotropic gravitational-wave background from advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's third observing run. Physical Review D, 104(2), 022004. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.022004)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo run O3a. Astrophysical Journal, 915(2), 86. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abee15)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Observation of gravitational waves from two neutron star–black hole coalescences. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 915(1), L5. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac082e)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the third Advanced LIGO–Virgo observing run. Physical Review Letters, 126(24), 241102. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.241102)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Tests of general relativity with binary black holes from the second LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog. Physical Review D, 103(12), 122002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.122002)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) GWTC-2: compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run. Physical Review X, 11(2), 021053. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevX.11.021053)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Diving below the spin-down limit: constraints on gravitational waves from the energetic young pulsar PSR J0537-6910. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 913(2), L27. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/abffcd)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Population properties of compact objects from the second LIGO–Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 913(1), L7. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/abe949)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) All-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems. Physical Review D, 103(6), 064017. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.064017)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. SoftwareX, 13, 100658. (doi: 10.1016/j.softx.2021.100658)
2020
Abbott, R. et al. (2020) GW190521: a binary black hole merger with a total mass of 150 M⊙. Physical Review Letters, 125(10), 101102. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.101102)
Abbott, R. et al. (2020) Properties and astrophysical implications of the 150 M ⊙ binary black hole merger GW190521. Astrophysical Journal, 900(1), L13. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/aba493)
Abbott, R. et al. (2020) GW190412: Observation of a binary-black-hole coalescence with asymmetric masses. Physical Review D, 102(4), 043015. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.043015)
Abbott, R. et al. (2020) Gravitational-wave Constraints on the Equatorial Ellipticity of Millisecond Pulsars. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 902(1), L21. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/abb655)
Articles
Linley, J. (2024) Geometric obstructions of C^0- extendibility of gravitational collapse spacetimes. International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, (Accepted for Publication)
Abbott, R. et al. (2024) Search for gravitational-wave transients associated with magnetar bursts in advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo data from the third observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 966(1), 137. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad27d3)
Abbott, R. et al. (2024) GWTC-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run. Physical Review D, 109(2), 022001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.022001)
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) GWTC-3: Compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the second part of the third observing run. Physical Review X, 13(4), 041039. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevX.13.041039)
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) Constraints on the cosmic expansion history from GWTC–3. Astrophysical Journal, 949(2), 76. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac74bb)
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) Population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3. Physical Review X, 13(1), 011048. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevX.13.011048)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo O3 data. Physical Review D, 106(10), 102008. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.102008)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with a hidden Markov model in O3 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 106(6), 062002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.062002)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Search for continuous gravitational wave emission from the Milky Way center in O3 LIGO-Virgo data. Physical Review D, 106(4), 042003. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.042003)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars at two harmonics in the second and third LIGO-Virgo observing runs. Astrophysical Journal, 935(1), 1. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac6acf)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Search for subsolar-mass binaries in the first half of Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s third observing run. Physical Review Letters, 129(6), 061104. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.061104)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Narrowband searches for continuous and long-duration transient gravitational waves from known pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo third observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 932(2), 133. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac6ad0)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational waves from Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s first three observing runs. Physical Review D, 105(12), 122001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.122001)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) First joint observation by the underground gravitational-wave detector, KAGRA, with GEO 600. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2022(6), 063F01. (doi: 10.1093/ptep/ptac073)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data. Physical Review D, 105(10), 102001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.102001)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Tests of general relativity with GWTC-3. Physical Review D, (Accepted for Publication)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO–Virgo run O3b. Astrophysical Journal, 928(2), 186. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac532b)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Constraints on dark photon dark matter using data from LIGO’s and Virgo’s third observing run. Physical Review D, 105(6), 063030. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.063030)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Search for intermediate-mass black hole binaries in the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 659, A84. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141452)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Search for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond x-ray pulsars in O3 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 105(2), 022002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.022002)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run. Physical Review D, 104(12), 122004. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.122004)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Search for lensing signatures in the gravitational-wave observations from the first half of LIGO–Virgo’s third observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 923(1), 14. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac23db)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Constraints from LIGO O3 data on gravitational-wave emission due to r-modes in the glitching pulsar PSR J0537–6910. Astrophysical Journal, 922(1), 71. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac0d52)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run. Physical Review D, 104(10), 102001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.102001)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Searches for continuous gravitational waves from young supernova remnants in the early third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo. Astrophysical Journal, 921(1), 80. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac17ea)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars in the early O3 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 104(8), 082004. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.082004)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Search for anisotropic gravitational-wave backgrounds using data from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo’s first three observing runs. Physical Review D, 104(2), 022005. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.022005)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Upper limits on the isotropic gravitational-wave background from advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's third observing run. Physical Review D, 104(2), 022004. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.022004)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo run O3a. Astrophysical Journal, 915(2), 86. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abee15)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Observation of gravitational waves from two neutron star–black hole coalescences. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 915(1), L5. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac082e)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the third Advanced LIGO–Virgo observing run. Physical Review Letters, 126(24), 241102. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.241102)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Tests of general relativity with binary black holes from the second LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog. Physical Review D, 103(12), 122002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.122002)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) GWTC-2: compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run. Physical Review X, 11(2), 021053. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevX.11.021053)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Diving below the spin-down limit: constraints on gravitational waves from the energetic young pulsar PSR J0537-6910. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 913(2), L27. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/abffcd)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Population properties of compact objects from the second LIGO–Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 913(1), L7. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/abe949)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) All-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems. Physical Review D, 103(6), 064017. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.064017)
Abbott, R. et al. (2021) Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. SoftwareX, 13, 100658. (doi: 10.1016/j.softx.2021.100658)
Abbott, R. et al. (2020) GW190521: a binary black hole merger with a total mass of 150 M⊙. Physical Review Letters, 125(10), 101102. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.101102)
Abbott, R. et al. (2020) Properties and astrophysical implications of the 150 M ⊙ binary black hole merger GW190521. Astrophysical Journal, 900(1), L13. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/aba493)
Abbott, R. et al. (2020) GW190412: Observation of a binary-black-hole coalescence with asymmetric masses. Physical Review D, 102(4), 043015. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.043015)
Abbott, R. et al. (2020) Gravitational-wave Constraints on the Equatorial Ellipticity of Millisecond Pulsars. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 902(1), L21. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/abb655)
