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  • 2017 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions to gravitationalwave physics including the development and implementation of search algorithms within LIGO, estimation of rates of astrophysical signals, and the developing methods to measure the equation of state of neutron stars

Overview

Jolien D. E. Creighton is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. They have contributed extensively to the study of gravitational waves and related astrophysical phenomena.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena

They have published extensively across a range of journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by the scientist are:

  • "Distance measures in gravitational-wave astrophysics and cosmology", 2020, Classical and Quantum Gravity
  • "Fast evaluation of multidetector consistency for real-time gravitational wave searches", 2020, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • "Identifying Strong Gravitational-wave Lensing during the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo", 2021, The Astrophysical Journal
  • "Improved ranking statistics of the GstLAL inspiral search for compact binary coalescences", 2023, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • "Nonparametric Inference of the Population of Compact Binaries from Gravitational-wave Observations Using Binned Gaussian Processes", 2023, The Astrophysical Journal

Over their career, they have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • C. Messick
  • S. Sachdev
  • Leo Tsukada
  • P. Godwin
  • R. M. Magee

In recognition of their contributions to gravitational-wave physics, the scientist was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2017. The citation highlights pioneering work in gravitational-wave physics, including developing and implementing search algorithms within LIGO, estimating rates of astrophysical signals, and advancing methods to measure the equation of state of neutron stars.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
Alessandra Buonanno
Alessandra Buonanno Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Bruce Allen
Bruce Allen Max Planck Society
Bernard F. Schutz
Bernard F. Schutz Cardiff University
Maria Alessandra Papa
Maria Alessandra Papa Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Nelson Christensen
Nelson Christensen Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
Roman Schnabel
Roman Schnabel Universität Hamburg
J. H. Hough
J. H. Hough University of Glasgow

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