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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:

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:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Messick, Cody

Title:

Detecting Gravitational Waves for Multi-Messenger Astronomy

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

gravitational waves
compact binary
compact binary coalescence
binary black hole
binary neutron star
LIGO
Virgo
general relativity
multi-messenger astronomy
multi-messenger astrophysics
multi-messenger
GW170817
GW150914
GW151226
GW170104
GW170814

File:

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Committee Members:

Chad Hanna, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chad Hanna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Doug Cowen, Committee Member
Irina Mocioiu, Committee Member
Derek Fox, Outside Member

Author:

Godwin, Patrick

Title:

Low-latency Statistical Data Quality in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

LIGO
Gravitational Waves
Feature Extraction
Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Detector Characterization
iDQ
GstLAL
Matched Filtering
Signal Processing
Physics

File:

Download PatrickGodwin-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chad Richard Hanna, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chad Richard Hanna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bangalore S Sathyaprakash, Committee Member
Maria Del Carmen Carmona Benitez, Committee Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair