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David A. Nichols is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans multiple subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Ocean Engineering, Oceanography, and Geophysics.

The scientist's main research topics include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Geophysics and Sensor Technology, Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena, and High-pressure Geophysics and Materials.

David A. Nichols has published numerous papers in several venues, with a significant number of papers in Physical Review D. Other publication venues include arXiv (Cornell University), Living Reviews in Relativity, the SPE International Conference on Oilfield Chemistry, and the Indiana Magazine of History.

  • New horizons for fundamental physics with LISA, 2022, Living Reviews in Relativity
  • Detecting dark matter around black holes with gravitational waves: Effects of dark-matter dynamics on the gravitational waveform, 2020, Physical Review D
  • Measuring the dark matter environments of black hole binaries with gravitational waves, 2022, Physical Review D
  • Forecasts for detecting the gravitational-wave memory effect with Advanced LIGO and Virgo, 2020, Physical Review D
  • Outlook for detecting the gravitational-wave displacement and spin memory effects with current and future gravitational-wave detectors, 2023, Physical Review D

Frequent coauthors of David A. Nichols include Alexander M. Grant, Kent Yagi, Robert Benkel, Emanuele Berti, and Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño.

The number of collaborative works with these coauthors suggests ongoing partnerships in research related to gravitational waves, black hole physics, and related topics within physics and astronomy.

Best Publications

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

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

  • 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

  • GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

    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

  • GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass ∼ 3.4 M O

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    B. P. Abbott

  • GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 M$_\odot$ Black Hole with a 2.6 M$_\odot$ Compact Object

    R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott

  • Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1

    B.P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T.D. Abbott;S. Abraham

  • Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

    Leor Barack;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Samaya Nissanke;Samaya Nissanke;Samaya Nissanke;Thomas P. Sotiriou

  • Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandra Buonanno
Alessandra Buonanno Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
N. A. Robertson
N. A. Robertson California Institute of Technology
R. Flaminio
R. Flaminio National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Harald P. Pfeiffer
Harald P. Pfeiffer Max Planck Society
Karsten Danzmann
Karsten Danzmann Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Gijs Nelemans
Gijs Nelemans Radboud University
Nelson Christensen
Nelson Christensen Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
Fabio Marchesoni
Fabio Marchesoni Tongji University
H. Heitmann
H. Heitmann Artemis Intelligent Power (United Kingdom)
Anthony A. Amato
Anthony A. Amato Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

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