June 2021
Did someone call for a doctor? After 3.5 years of hard work, I successfully defended my PhD thesis titled: "You Spin Me Round: Measuring precession in the black-hole population". Read it here.
Did someone call for a doctor? After 3.5 years of hard work, I successfully defended my PhD thesis titled: "You Spin Me Round: Measuring precession in the black-hole population". Read it here.
Our paper which performs a large-scale Bayesian Inference analysis to indentify where in the binary black-hole parameter space spin-induced orbital precession is measurable in gravitational waves has been published by Physics Review D. Read about it here (arXiv preprint).
It keeps going. I just had a fantastic interview with Rusty Burridge on Radio Hydrogen where we talked about GW190814. Listen to it here!
This is crazy -- I have been chosen as the scientific expert for S4C's 'Gwylio’r Ser' television programme tonight! Remember to tune in to hear about me talking about GW190814!
Our paper which identifies when spin-induced orbital precession can be measured in gravitational waves has been published by Physics Review D. Read about it here (arXiv preprint).
I am a scientist! My first short-author paper has been published by Physical Review D. This paper presents a brand new interpretation of gravitational waves emitted from precessing binary systems. We show for the first time that a precessing gravitational wave can be decomposed into a series of 5 harmonics. By writing it in this way, we are able to identify regions of the parameter space where precession is likely to have an observable effect on the waveform, and to propose a new approach to searching for signals from precessing binaries. Read about it here (arXiv preprint).
I am famous! Not only have I been quoted in a BBC News article about GW190814, see here, but I have also been quoted in NYTimes, physicsworld, IFLScience, and more! If you are interested in learning more about GW190814, see this webinar that I gave with my co-authors.
The wait is finally over... The paper which I have been working on for nearly a year has been published by Astrophysical Journal Letters. This paper, titled GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object details a major breakthrough that could potentially help to solve a decades-old mystery. Read the paper here! Cardiff University has written an article about my contribution to this paper here.