S. E. Whitcomb

Research.com Recognitions

• 2017 - Henry Draper Medal, United States National Academy of Sciences Honoring Barish and Whitcomb, on behalf of the LIGO collaboration, for their visionary and pivotal leadership roles, scientific guidance, and novel instrument design during the development of LIGO that were crucial for LIGO's discovery of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, thus directly validating Einstein's 100-year-old prediction of gravitational waves and ushering a new field of gravitational wave astronomy.
• 2012 - OSA Fellows For seminal contributions to the development of large-scale interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, in particular in his role leading the development and successful commissioning of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory interferometers.
• 2002 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his outstanding contributions to metrology and to the development and implementation of interferometers for the detection of gravitational radiation

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

• 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

• LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

  Alex Abramovici;William E. Althouse;Ronald W. P. Drever;Yekta Gürsel

  3030
  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

• 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

• 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

• A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

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

  1162
  Citations

• A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit

  J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott

  1097
  Citations

• GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries

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

  859
  Citations

• An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin

  B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;F. Acernese;R. Adhikari

  501
  Citations

• An All-Optical Trap for a Gram-Scale Mirror

  Thomas Corbitt;Yanbei Chen;Edith Innerhofer;Helge Müller-Ebhardt

  486
  Citations

• Detector description and performance for the first coincidence observations between LIGO and GEO

  B. Abbott;R. Abbott;R. Adhikari;A. Ageev;A. Ageev

  448
  Citations

• Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914

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

  416
  Citations

• Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGO's sixth science run and Virgo's science runs 2 and 3

  J. Abadie;B.P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T.D. Abbott

  352
  Citations

• AIGO: a southern hemisphere detector for the worldwide array of ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors

  Pablo Barriga;David Blair;David Coward;Jacqueline Davidson

  27
  Citations