Dr Andrew Spencer
- Lecturer in the Institute for Gravitational Research (Physics & Astronomy)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4418-3366Publications
2024
Middleton, H. et al. (2024) Communicating the gravitational-wave discoveries of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. Journal of Science Communication, 23(07), N03. (doi: 10.22323/2.23070803)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2024) Ultralight vector dark matter search using data from the KAGRA O3GK run. Physical Review D, 110(4), 042001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.042001)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2024) Observation of gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 2.5–4.5 M ⊙ compact object and a neutron star. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 970(2), L34. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad5beb)
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)
Abac, A. et al. (2024) Observation of gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 2.5−4.5 M⊙ compact object and a neutron star. arXiv, (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2404.04248)
Fletcher, C. et al. (2024) A joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT analysis of gravitational-wave candidates from the third gravitational-wave observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 964(2), 149. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1eed)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2024) Ultralight vector dark matter search using data from the KAGRA O3GK run. arXiv, (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2403.03004)
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) Search for gravitational waves associated with fast radio bursts detected by CHIME/FRB during the LIGO–Virgo observing run O3a. Astrophysical Journal, 955(2), 155. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/acd770)
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) Search for subsolar-mass black hole binaries in the second part of Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s third observing run. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(4), pp. 5984-5992. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad588)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2023) Search for eccentric black hole coalescences during the third observing run of LIGO and Virgo. arXiv, (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2308.03822)
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) Open data from the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 267(2), 29. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4365/acdc9f)
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)
Berger, B. K. et al. (2023) Searching for the causes of anomalous Advanced LIGO noise. Applied Physics Letters, 122(18), 184101. (doi: 10.1063/5.0140766)
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) Search for gravitational-lensing signatures in the full third observing run of the LIGO-Virgo network. arXiv, (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2304.08393)
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) Model-based cross-correlation search for gravitational waves from the low-mass X-Ray binary Scorpius X-1 in LIGO O3 data. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 941(2), L30. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/aca1b0)
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)
Spencer, A. , Barr, B. , Bell, A. , Briggs, J., Minty, A., Sorazu, B. , Wright, J. and Strain, K. (2022) Frequency noise stabilisation of a 1550 nm external cavity diode laser with hybrid feedback for next generation gravitational wave interferometry. Optics Express, 30(13), pp. 22687-22699. (doi: 10.1364/OE.459474) (PMID:36224961)
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)
Jia, W. et al. (2021) Point absorber limits to future gravitational-wave detectors. Physical Review Letters, 127(24), 241102. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.241102)
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)
Spencer, A.P. , Barr, B.W. , Bell, A.S. , Briggs, J., Dupej, P. , Huttner, S.H., Sorazu, B. , Wright, J. and Strain, K.A. (2021) Experimental investigation of the limitations of polarisation optics for future gravitational wave detectors based on the polarisation Sagnac speedmeter. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 38(19), 195004. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/ac1a67)
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)
Whittle, C. et al. (2021) Approaching the motional ground state of a 10-kg object. Science, 372(6548), pp. 1333-1336. (doi: 10.1126/science.abh2634) (PMID:34140386)
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)
Brooks, A. F. et al. (2021) Point absorbers in Advanced LIGO. Applied Optics, 60(13), pp. 4047-4063. (doi: 10.1364/AO.419689) (PMID:33983346)
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)
2020
Abbott, B.P. et al. (2020) Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA. Living Reviews in Relativity, 23(1), 3. (doi: 10.1007/s41114-020-00026-9) (PMID:33015351) (PMCID:PMC7520625)
Bode, N. et al. (2020) Advanced LIGO laser systems for O3 and future observation runs. Galaxies, 8(4), 84. (doi: 10.3390/galaxies8040084)
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)
Yu, H. et al. (2020) Quantum correlations between light and the kilogram-mass mirrors of LIGO. Nature, 583(7814), pp. 43-47. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2420-8)
Abbott, R. et al. (2020) GW190814: gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 23 solar mass black hole with a 2.6 solar mass compact object. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 896(2), L44. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab960f)
Hamburg, R. et al. (2020) A joint Fermi-GBM and LIGO/Virgo analysis of compact binary mergers from the first and second gravitational-wave observing runs. Astrophysical Journal, 893(2), 100. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab7d3e)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2020) Optically targeted search for gravitational waves emitted by core-collapse supernovae during the first and second observing runs of advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo. Physical Review D, 101(8), 084002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.084002)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2020) GW190425: observation of a compact binary coalescence with total mass ∼ 3.4 M ⊙. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 892(1), L3. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab75f5)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2020) A gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant following the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo. Astrophysical Journal, 909(2), 218. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abdcb7)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2020) A guide to LIGO–Virgo detector noise and extraction of transient gravitational-wave signals. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 37(5), 055002. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/ab685e)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2020) Model comparison from LIGO–Virgo data on GW170817’s binary components and consequences for the merger remnant. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 37(4), 045006. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/ab5f7c)
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)
2019
Tse, M. et al. (2019) Quantum-enhanced advanced LIGO detectors in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy. Physical Review Letters, 123(23), 231107. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.231107)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the second Advanced LIGO observing run with an improved hidden Markov model. Physical Review D, 100, 122002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.122002)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Search for gravitational-wave signals associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Astrophysical Journal, 886(1), 75. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab4b48)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1. Physical Review D, 100(10), 104036. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.104036)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Search for subsolar mass ultracompact binaries in Advanced LIGO’s second observing run. Physical Review Letters, 123(16), 161102. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.161102)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo network. Physical Review D, 100(6), 064064. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.064064)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Search for eccentric binary black hole mergers with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during their first and second observing runs. Astrophysical Journal, 883(2), 149. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab3c2d)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Search for the isotropic stochastic background using data from Advanced LIGO’s second observing run. Physical Review D, 100(6), 061101(R). (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.061101)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Binary black hole population properties inferred from the first and second observing runs of advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo. Astrophysical Journal, 882(2), L24. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab3800)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using data from Advanced LIGO’s first two observing runs. Physical Review D, 100(6), 062001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.062001)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run. Physical Review D, 100(2), 024017. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.024017)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Search for gravitational waves from a long-lived remnant of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Astrophysical Journal, 875(2), 160. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab0f3d)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Low-latency gravitational wave alerts for multi-messenger astronomy during the second Advanced LIGO and Virgo observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 875(2), 161. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab0e8f)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Physical Review X, 9(1), 011001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.011001)
2018
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2018) Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA. Living Reviews in Relativity, 21(1), 3. (doi: 10.1007/s41114-018-0012-9) (PMID:29725242) (PMCID:PMC5920066)
Covas, P. B. et al. (2018) Identification and mitigation of narrow spectral artifacts that degrade searches for persistent gravitational waves in the first two observing runs of Advanced LIGO. Physical Review D, 97(8), 082002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.082002)
2017
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data. Physical Review D, 96(12), 122004. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.122004)
Hennig, J.-S. et al. (2017) Demonstration of a switchable damping system to allow low-noise operation of high-Q low-mass suspension systems. Physical Review D, 96(12), 122005. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.122005)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. Physical Review Letters, 119(16), 161101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.161101)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) GW170814: a three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence. Physical Review Letters, 119(14), 141101. (doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.141101) (PMID:29053306)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) GW170104: observation of a 50-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence at redshift 0.2. Physical Review Letters, 118(22), 221101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.221101)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during the first advanced LIGO observing run and implications for the origin of GRB 150906B. Astrophysical Journal, 841(2), 89. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6c47)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34(10), 104002. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/aa6854)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with advanced LIGO. Astrophysical Journal, 839(1), 12. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves from advanced LIGO's first observing run. Physical Review Letters, 118(12), 121102. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.121102) (PMID:28388200)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) Upper limits on the stochastic gravitational-wave background from advanced LIGO's first observing run. Physical Review Letters, 118(12), 121101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.121101) (PMID:28388180)
Zhang, T. et al. (2017) Effects of static and dynamic higher-order optical modes in balanced homodyne readout for future gravitational waves detectors. Physical Review D, 95(6), 062001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.062001)
Abbott, B.P. et al. (2017) All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run. Physical Review D, 95(4), 042003. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.042003)
Huttner, S.H. et al. (2017) Candidates for a possible third-generation gravitational wave detector: comparison of ring-Sagnac and sloshing-Sagnac speedmeter interferometers. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34(2), 024001. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/34/2/024001)
Articles
Middleton, H. et al. (2024) Communicating the gravitational-wave discoveries of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. Journal of Science Communication, 23(07), N03. (doi: 10.22323/2.23070803)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2024) Ultralight vector dark matter search using data from the KAGRA O3GK run. Physical Review D, 110(4), 042001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.042001)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2024) Observation of gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 2.5–4.5 M ⊙ compact object and a neutron star. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 970(2), L34. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad5beb)
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)
Abac, A. et al. (2024) Observation of gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 2.5−4.5 M⊙ compact object and a neutron star. arXiv, (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2404.04248)
Fletcher, C. et al. (2024) A joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT analysis of gravitational-wave candidates from the third gravitational-wave observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 964(2), 149. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1eed)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2024) Ultralight vector dark matter search using data from the KAGRA O3GK run. arXiv, (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2403.03004)
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) Search for gravitational waves associated with fast radio bursts detected by CHIME/FRB during the LIGO–Virgo observing run O3a. Astrophysical Journal, 955(2), 155. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/acd770)
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) Search for subsolar-mass black hole binaries in the second part of Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s third observing run. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(4), pp. 5984-5992. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad588)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2023) Search for eccentric black hole coalescences during the third observing run of LIGO and Virgo. arXiv, (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2308.03822)
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) Open data from the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 267(2), 29. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4365/acdc9f)
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)
Berger, B. K. et al. (2023) Searching for the causes of anomalous Advanced LIGO noise. Applied Physics Letters, 122(18), 184101. (doi: 10.1063/5.0140766)
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) Search for gravitational-lensing signatures in the full third observing run of the LIGO-Virgo network. arXiv, (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2304.08393)
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) Model-based cross-correlation search for gravitational waves from the low-mass X-Ray binary Scorpius X-1 in LIGO O3 data. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 941(2), L30. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/aca1b0)
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)
Spencer, A. , Barr, B. , Bell, A. , Briggs, J., Minty, A., Sorazu, B. , Wright, J. and Strain, K. (2022) Frequency noise stabilisation of a 1550 nm external cavity diode laser with hybrid feedback for next generation gravitational wave interferometry. Optics Express, 30(13), pp. 22687-22699. (doi: 10.1364/OE.459474) (PMID:36224961)
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)
Jia, W. et al. (2021) Point absorber limits to future gravitational-wave detectors. Physical Review Letters, 127(24), 241102. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.241102)
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)
Spencer, A.P. , Barr, B.W. , Bell, A.S. , Briggs, J., Dupej, P. , Huttner, S.H., Sorazu, B. , Wright, J. and Strain, K.A. (2021) Experimental investigation of the limitations of polarisation optics for future gravitational wave detectors based on the polarisation Sagnac speedmeter. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 38(19), 195004. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/ac1a67)
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)
Whittle, C. et al. (2021) Approaching the motional ground state of a 10-kg object. Science, 372(6548), pp. 1333-1336. (doi: 10.1126/science.abh2634) (PMID:34140386)
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)
Brooks, A. F. et al. (2021) Point absorbers in Advanced LIGO. Applied Optics, 60(13), pp. 4047-4063. (doi: 10.1364/AO.419689) (PMID:33983346)
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, B.P. et al. (2020) Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA. Living Reviews in Relativity, 23(1), 3. (doi: 10.1007/s41114-020-00026-9) (PMID:33015351) (PMCID:PMC7520625)
Bode, N. et al. (2020) Advanced LIGO laser systems for O3 and future observation runs. Galaxies, 8(4), 84. (doi: 10.3390/galaxies8040084)
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)
Yu, H. et al. (2020) Quantum correlations between light and the kilogram-mass mirrors of LIGO. Nature, 583(7814), pp. 43-47. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2420-8)
Abbott, R. et al. (2020) GW190814: gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 23 solar mass black hole with a 2.6 solar mass compact object. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 896(2), L44. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab960f)
Hamburg, R. et al. (2020) A joint Fermi-GBM and LIGO/Virgo analysis of compact binary mergers from the first and second gravitational-wave observing runs. Astrophysical Journal, 893(2), 100. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab7d3e)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2020) Optically targeted search for gravitational waves emitted by core-collapse supernovae during the first and second observing runs of advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo. Physical Review D, 101(8), 084002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.084002)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2020) GW190425: observation of a compact binary coalescence with total mass ∼ 3.4 M ⊙. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 892(1), L3. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab75f5)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2020) A gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant following the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo. Astrophysical Journal, 909(2), 218. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abdcb7)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2020) A guide to LIGO–Virgo detector noise and extraction of transient gravitational-wave signals. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 37(5), 055002. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/ab685e)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2020) Model comparison from LIGO–Virgo data on GW170817’s binary components and consequences for the merger remnant. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 37(4), 045006. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/ab5f7c)
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)
Tse, M. et al. (2019) Quantum-enhanced advanced LIGO detectors in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy. Physical Review Letters, 123(23), 231107. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.231107)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the second Advanced LIGO observing run with an improved hidden Markov model. Physical Review D, 100, 122002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.122002)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Search for gravitational-wave signals associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Astrophysical Journal, 886(1), 75. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab4b48)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1. Physical Review D, 100(10), 104036. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.104036)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Search for subsolar mass ultracompact binaries in Advanced LIGO’s second observing run. Physical Review Letters, 123(16), 161102. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.161102)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo network. Physical Review D, 100(6), 064064. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.064064)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Search for eccentric binary black hole mergers with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during their first and second observing runs. Astrophysical Journal, 883(2), 149. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab3c2d)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Search for the isotropic stochastic background using data from Advanced LIGO’s second observing run. Physical Review D, 100(6), 061101(R). (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.061101)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Binary black hole population properties inferred from the first and second observing runs of advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo. Astrophysical Journal, 882(2), L24. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab3800)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using data from Advanced LIGO’s first two observing runs. Physical Review D, 100(6), 062001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.062001)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run. Physical Review D, 100(2), 024017. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.024017)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Search for gravitational waves from a long-lived remnant of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Astrophysical Journal, 875(2), 160. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab0f3d)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Low-latency gravitational wave alerts for multi-messenger astronomy during the second Advanced LIGO and Virgo observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 875(2), 161. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab0e8f)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2019) Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Physical Review X, 9(1), 011001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.011001)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2018) Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA. Living Reviews in Relativity, 21(1), 3. (doi: 10.1007/s41114-018-0012-9) (PMID:29725242) (PMCID:PMC5920066)
Covas, P. B. et al. (2018) Identification and mitigation of narrow spectral artifacts that degrade searches for persistent gravitational waves in the first two observing runs of Advanced LIGO. Physical Review D, 97(8), 082002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.082002)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data. Physical Review D, 96(12), 122004. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.122004)
Hennig, J.-S. et al. (2017) Demonstration of a switchable damping system to allow low-noise operation of high-Q low-mass suspension systems. Physical Review D, 96(12), 122005. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.122005)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. Physical Review Letters, 119(16), 161101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.161101)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) GW170814: a three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence. Physical Review Letters, 119(14), 141101. (doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.141101) (PMID:29053306)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) GW170104: observation of a 50-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence at redshift 0.2. Physical Review Letters, 118(22), 221101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.221101)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during the first advanced LIGO observing run and implications for the origin of GRB 150906B. Astrophysical Journal, 841(2), 89. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6c47)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34(10), 104002. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/aa6854)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with advanced LIGO. Astrophysical Journal, 839(1), 12. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves from advanced LIGO's first observing run. Physical Review Letters, 118(12), 121102. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.121102) (PMID:28388200)
Abbott, B. P. et al. (2017) Upper limits on the stochastic gravitational-wave background from advanced LIGO's first observing run. Physical Review Letters, 118(12), 121101. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.121101) (PMID:28388180)
Zhang, T. et al. (2017) Effects of static and dynamic higher-order optical modes in balanced homodyne readout for future gravitational waves detectors. Physical Review D, 95(6), 062001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.062001)
Abbott, B.P. et al. (2017) All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run. Physical Review D, 95(4), 042003. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.042003)
Huttner, S.H. et al. (2017) Candidates for a possible third-generation gravitational wave detector: comparison of ring-Sagnac and sloshing-Sagnac speedmeter interferometers. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34(2), 024001. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/34/2/024001)
Research datasets
2016
Leavey, S. , Danilishin, S. L., Gläfke, A., Barr, B. W., Gräf, C., Hennig, J.-S., Houston, E. A., Lück, H., Pascucci, D., Somiya, K., Spencer, A., Steinlechner, S., Strain, K. , WRIGHT, J., Zhang, T. and Hild, S. (2016) Control of a velocity-sensitive audio-band quantum non-demolition interferometer. [Data Collection] (Unpublished)