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Richard O'Shaughnessy is affiliated with the Rochester Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans several overlapping fields including Physics and Astronomy and Engineering. Within these areas, they have contributed significantly to subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Acoustics and Ultrasonics; and Materials Chemistry.

Their work covers multiple specialized topics, notably Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics, Random lasers and scattering media, Geophysics and Sensor Technology, Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications, and Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors.

Richard O'Shaughnessy's recent published papers include the following:

  • Challenges and opportunities of gravitational-wave searches at MHz to GHz frequencies, 2021, Living Reviews in Relativity
  • A cryogenic silicon interferometer for gravitational-wave detection, 2020, Classical and Quantum Gravity
  • Bayesian Inference for Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Star Mergers in Third Generation Observatories, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Ultrafast 3.5 µm fiber laser, 2021, Optics Letters
  • Mitigating stimulated Brillouin scattering in multimode fibers with focused output via wavefront shaping, 2023, Nature Communications

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Ori Henderson-Sapir
  • Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem
  • Linh V. Nguyen
  • Stephen C. Warren-Smith
  • Erik P. Schartner

Richard O'Shaughnessy often publishes in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review D
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity
  • Optics Letters

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

  • The Einstein Telescope: a third-generation gravitational wave observatory

    M. Punturo;M. Abernathy;F. Acernese;B. Allen

  • 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

  • Testing general relativity with present and future astrophysical observations

    Emanuele Berti;Emanuele Berti;Enrico Barausse;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Leonardo Gualtieri

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

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

N. A. Robertson
N. A. Robertson California Institute of Technology
Bruce Allen
Bruce Allen Max Planck Society
J. A. Giaime
J. A. Giaime Louisiana State University
Alessandra Buonanno
Alessandra Buonanno Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Bernard F. Schutz
Bernard F. Schutz Cardiff University
Roman Schnabel
Roman Schnabel Universität Hamburg
Maria Alessandra Papa
Maria Alessandra Papa Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Karsten Danzmann
Karsten Danzmann Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Nelson Christensen
Nelson Christensen Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
Alberto Vecchio
Alberto Vecchio University of Birmingham

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