Peter Fritschel

Research.com Recognitions

• 2019 - OSA Fellows Peter Fritschel Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States For advances in quantum-limited precision measurement in the Advanced LIGO detectors, leading to the first direct detection of gravitational waves
• 2005 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his pioneering achievements in optical metrology at the quantum limit and their application to gravitational wave detection

Overview

Best Publications

• Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

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

  16747
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• GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral

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

  9850
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• 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

• 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

• GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence

  Nancy Aggarwal;Lisa Barsotti

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