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  • 2019 - OSA Fellows Daniel Sigg LIGO Hanford Observatory, United States For the development of techniques essential to the successful high-sensitivity operation of gravitational wave detectors and for leadership in commissioning the LIGO detectors, leading to the first direct detection of gravitational waves
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For development of techniques essential to the successful highsensitivity operation of gravitational wave detectors and leadership in commissioning the LIGO detectors

Overview

D. Sigg is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily falls under the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a notable focus on subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Astronomy and Astrophysics; and Computational Mechanics. Additional areas of work pertain to Molecular Biology and Oceanography.

Their scholarly output covers multiple main topics, such as Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Advanced Frequency and Time Standards, Physics and Engineering Research Articles, Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies.

Among their recent publications are the following:

  • LIGO's quantum response to squeezed states, 2021, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Cosmic Explorer: A Submission to the NSF MPSAC ngGW Subcommittee, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Low phase noise squeezed vacuum for future generation gravitational wave detectors, 2020, Classical and Quantum Gravity
  • Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Future Gravitational-Wave Detector Facilities, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Timing system of LIGO discoveries, 2023, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

Their frequent co-authors include B. J. J. Slagmolen, Y. Asali, D. Brown, G. L. Mansell, and C. Cahillane. Through collaboration, they have contributed to literature across venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Physical review. D/Physical review. D., Classical and Quantum Gravity, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, and MTZ - Motortechnische Zeitschrift.

Awards received by D. Sigg include the OSA Fellows designation in 2019, awarded for contributions related to high-sensitivity operation of gravitational wave detectors and leadership in commissioning LIGO detectors. In 2015, they were also named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for similar contributions to gravitational wave detector technology and commissioning efforts.

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

  • Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors

    J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;M. Abernathy

  • Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors

    J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott

  • 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

  • Exploring the Sensitivity of Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors

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

  • Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light

    J. Aasi;J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

    J. Aasi;J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

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

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

Frequent Co-Authors

N. A. Robertson
N. A. Robertson California Institute of Technology
J. A. Giaime
J. A. Giaime Louisiana State University
Bruce Allen
Bruce Allen Max Planck Society
Alessandra Buonanno
Alessandra Buonanno Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Bernard F. Schutz
Bernard F. Schutz Cardiff University
Karsten Danzmann
Karsten Danzmann Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Roman Schnabel
Roman Schnabel Universität Hamburg
Maria Alessandra Papa
Maria Alessandra Papa Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

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