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  • 2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his important contributions at the interface between perturbation theory and numerical relativity and in understanding how to simulate binary black holes

Overview

Carlos O. Lousto is affiliated with the Rochester Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Additional subfields include Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Oceanography, Aerospace Engineering, and General Health Professions.

Their work covers a range of topics, notably Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, as well as Relativity and Gravitational Theory.

Among the venues where they have frequently published are:

  • Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Carlos O. Lousto include:

  • Eccentricity estimate for black hole mergers with numerical relativity simulations, 2022, Nature Astronomy
  • The Fourth RIT binary black hole simulations catalog: Extension to Eccentric Orbits, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Third RIT binary black hole simulations catalog, 2020, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Exploring the Small Mass Ratio Binary Black Hole Merger via Zeno's Dichotomy Approach, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Measuring the Hubble Constant with GW190521 as an Eccentric black hole Merger and Its Potential Electromagnetic Counterpart, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Frequent collaborators include:

  • James Healy
  • Alessandro Ciarfella
  • S. del Palacio
  • G. Gancio
  • J. A. Combi

Carlos O. Lousto has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) since 2012. The citation for this fellowship acknowledges contributions at the interface between perturbation theory and numerical relativity as well as insights into simulating binary black holes.

Best Publications

  • Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    B. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW151226: observation of gravitational waves from a 22-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State.

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • Tests of general relativity with GW150914

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Accurate Evolutions of Orbiting Black-Hole Binaries without Excision

    Manuela Campanelli;C.O. Lousto;P. Marronetti;Y. Zlochower

  • GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GW170608: Observation of a 19 solar-mass binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese;F. Acernese

  • Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass $\sim 3.4 M_{\odot}$

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M

    R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandra Buonanno
Alessandra Buonanno Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Harald P. Pfeiffer
Harald P. Pfeiffer Max Planck Society
N. A. Robertson
N. A. Robertson California Institute of Technology
J. A. Giaime
J. A. Giaime Louisiana State University
G. Bergmann
G. Bergmann Max Planck Society
Karsten Danzmann
Karsten Danzmann Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Nelson Christensen
Nelson Christensen Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
Richard O'Shaughnessy
Richard O'Shaughnessy Rochester Institute of Technology
Bernard F. Schutz
Bernard F. Schutz Cardiff University
Patrick Brady
Patrick Brady University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

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