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Author:

Stuver, Amber Lynnell

Title:

Burst Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Methods:<br> Design, Development and Comparison

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

General Relativity
LIGO
simulation
signal processing
MATLAB
data analysis
gravitational waves

File:

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Committee Members:

Lee S Finn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member

Author:

Vaishnav, Birjoo

Title:

Gravitational waves from Intermediate Mass Binary Black Holes: First steps toward using Numerical Relativity waveforms for LIGO data analysis

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

black holes
gravitational waves
numerical relativity
LIGO
data analysis
gravitational wave astronomy

File:

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Committee Members:

Deirdre Shoemaker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin Owen, Committee Member
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Richard Alan Wade, Committee Member

Author:

Whitbeck, David Michael

Title:

Observational Consequences of Gravitational Wave Emission From Spinning Compact Sources

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

gravitational waves
recoil
LIGO

File:

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Committee Members:

Benjamin J Owen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee S Finn, Committee Member
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member

Author:

Ochoa, Joseph R

Title:

Topics in the Standard Model of Particle Physics Extension and Fourth-Order Gravity

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

weyl tensor
cosmic microwave background
cmb
chern-simons
circular polarization
lorentz
violation
cosmology
standard model extension
noncommutative geometry
gravitational waves
fourth-order gravity

File:

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Committee Members:

Martin Bojowald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephon Alexander, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin Bojowald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Victor Nistor, Committee Member

Author:

Johnson-McDaniel, Nathan Kieran

Title:

Gravitational waves and the deformation of compact objects: Topics in relativistic astrophysics

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

summation formulae
binary white dwarfs
neutron stars
relativistic astrophysics
binary black holes
gravitational waves

File:

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Committee Members:

Benjamin J Owen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin J Owen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin Bojowald, Committee Member
Irina Mocioiu, Committee Member
Steinn Sigur&Eth;Sson, Committee Member

Author:

Yunes, Nicolas

Title:

At the Interface: Gravitational Waves as Tools to Test Quantum Gravity and Probe the Astrophysical Universe

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

test
black hole
string theory
gravitational waves
recoil velocity
post-Newtonian

File:

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Committee Members:

Benjamin J Owen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephon H S Alexander, Committee Member
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member

Author:

Bode, Tanja

Title:

The Robustness of Binary Black Hole Mergers and Waveforms

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

numerical relativity
black holes
initial data
gravitational waves

File:

Download TBode-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee S Finn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee S Finn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deirdre Shoemaker, Committee Member
Martin Bojowald, Committee Member
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member

Author:

Summerscales, Tiffany Zoe

Title:

Gravitational Wave Astronomy with LIGO: from Data to Science

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

maximum entropy
core-collapse supernovae
LIGO
gravitational waves

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee S Finn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Member
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
James Jonathan Whitmore, Committee Member

Author:

Koop, Michael Jameson

Title:

Understanding the physical mechanisms and capabilities of gravitational wave detectors

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

gravitational waves
general relativity
pulsar timing array
detection
interferometer

File:

Download MichaelKoopDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee S Finn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin Bojowald, Committee Member
Dr Benjamin J Owen, Committee Member
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member

Author:

Idrisy, Ashikuzzaman

Title:

Searching for gravitational waves from neutron stars

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

neutron stars
gravitational waves

File:

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Committee Members:

Benjamin Owen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin Owen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin Bojowald, Committee Member
Sarah Elizabeth Shandera, Committee Member
Michael Eracleous, Special Member