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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
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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

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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
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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

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Author:: Whitbeck, David Michael
Title:: Observational Consequences of Gravitational Wave Emission From Spinning Compact Sources
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: gravitational waves
recoil
LIGO
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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

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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:: Download JosephOchoa-Dissertation.pdf
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

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Author:: Micic, Miroslav
Title:: GRAVITATIONAL WAVE RADIATION FROM THE GROWTH OF SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES
Graduate Program:: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Keywords:: SMBH
gravitational waves
galaxy formation
merger rates
ULX
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Committee Members:: Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kelly Holley Bockelmann, Committee Member
Donald P Schneider, Committee Member
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Member
Ben Owen, Committee Member

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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:: Download dissertation_NKJ-M.pdf
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

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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
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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

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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

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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

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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

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