N. A. Robertson

Research.com Recognitions

• 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
• 2008 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering work in the field of interferometric gravitational wave detection, especially in the domain of the suspension and isolation of the test masses
• 2000 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Best Publications

• Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

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

  16747
  Citations

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

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

  9850
  Citations

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

  B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  4133
  Citations

• 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

  3648
  Citations

• 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

  3555
  Citations

• 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

  2923
  Citations

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

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

  2411
  Citations

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

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

  2381
  Citations

• 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

  1961
  Citations

• Tests of general relativity with GW150914

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

  1908
  Citations

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

  B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  1831
  Citations

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

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

  1417
  Citations

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

  J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott

  1416
  Citations

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

  B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  1387
  Citations

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

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

  1379
  Citations

• Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

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

  1351
  Citations

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

  B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  1338
  Citations

• Exploring the Sensitivity of Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors

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

  1329
  Citations

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

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

  1285
  Citations

• Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

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

  1213
  Citations