Detecting a Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background: The Overlap Reduction Function (2008)
Finn, Lee Samuel, Larson, Shane L., Romano, Joseph D.
Detection of a gravitational-wave stochastic background via ground or space-based gravitational-wave detectors requires the cross-correlation of the response of two or more independent detectors. The...
Constraining effective quantum gravity with LISA (2008)
Yunes, Nicolas, Finn, Lee Samuel
All modern routes leading to a quantum theory of gravity -- i.e., perturbative quantum gravitational one-loop exact correction to the global chiral current in the standard model, string theory, and...
The response of interferometric gravitational wave detectors (2008)
The derivation of the response function of an interferometric gravitational wave detector is a paradigmatic calculation in the field of gravitational wave detection. Surprisingly, the standard...
Relativistic stellar pulsations (2008)
This thesis consists of studies on the topic of relativistic stellar pulsations. i) A new formalism for the numerical study of g-modes in neutron stars is developed. This formalism avoids pitfalls...
GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION SOURCES AND SIGNATURES (2008)
The goal of these lecture notes is to introduce the developing research area of gravitational-wave phenomenology. In more concrete terms, they are meant to provide an overview of gravitational-wave...
A gravitational-wave probe of effective quantum gravity (2007)
Alexander, Stephon, Finn, Lee Samuel, Yunes, Nicolas
The Green-Schwarz anomaly-cancelling mechanism in string theories requires a Chern-Simons term in the Einstein-Hilbert action, which leads to an amplitude birefringence of spacetime for the...
Summerscales, T. Z., Burrows, Adam, Ott, Christian D., Finn, Lee Samuel
The gravitational wave signal arising from the collapsing iron core of a Type II supernova progenitor star carries with it the imprint of the progenitor's mass, rotation rate, degree of differential...
GravEn: Software for the simulation of gravitational wave detector network response (2006)
Stuver, Amber L., Finn, Lee Samuel
Physically motivated gravitational wave signals are needed in order to study the behaviour and efficacy of different data analysis methods seeking their detection. GravEn, short for...
A First Comparison of SLOPE and Other LIGO Burst Event Trigger Generators (2006)
Stuver, Amber L., Finn, Lee Samuel
A number of different methods have been proposed to identify unanticipated burst sources of gravitational waves in data arising from LIGO and other gravitational wave detectors. When confronted with...
Addressing LISA Science Analysis Challenges (2006)
Benacquista, Matthew J., Finn, Lee Samuel, Larson, Shane L., Rubbo, Louis J.
The principal goal of the \emph{LISA Science Analysis Workshop} is to encourage the development and maturation of science analysis technology in preparation for LISA science operations. Exactly...
Event Rate for Extreme Mass Ratio Burst Signals in the LISA Band (2006)
Rubbo, Louis J., Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Finn, Lee Samuel
Stellar mass compact objects in short period orbits about a $10^{4.5}$--$10^{7.5}$ solar mass massive black hole (MBH) are thought to be a significant continuous-wave source of gravitational...
The Testbed for LISA Analysis Project (2006)
Finn, Lee Samuel, Benacquista, Matthew J., Larson, Shane L., Rubbo, Louis J.
The Testbed for LISA Analysis (TLA) Project aims to facilitate the development, validation and comparison of different methods for LISA science data analysis, by the broad LISA Science Community, to...
Plans for the LIGO-TAMA Joint Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts (2004)
Sutton, Patrick J., Ando, Masaki, Brady, Patrick, Cadonati, Laura, Di Credico, Alessandra, Fairhurst, Stephen, ...
We describe the plans for a joint search for unmodelled gravitational wave bursts being carried out by the LIGO and TAMA collaborations using data collected during February-April 2003. We take a...
Nutzman, Philip, Kalogera, Vicky, Finn, Lee Samuel, Hendrickson, Cy, Belczynski, Krzysztof
We examine the selection effects that determine how the population of inspiraling binary compact objects (BCOs) is reflected by those potentially observed with ground-based interferometers like LIGO....
Swift Pointing and the Association Between Gamma-Ray Bursts and Gravitational-Wave Bursts (2004)
Finn, Lee Samuel, Krishnan, Badri, Sutton, Patrick J.
The currently accepted model for gamma-ray burst phenomena involves the violent formation of a rapidly rotating solar mass black hole. Gravitational waves should be associated with the black-hole...
Black Hole Spectroscopy: Testing General Relativity through Gravitational Wave Observations (2004)
Dreyer, Olaf, Kelly, Bernard J., Krishnan, Badri, Finn, Lee Samuel, Garrison, David, Lopez-Aleman, Ramon
Assuming that general relativity is the correct theory of gravity in the strong field limit, can gravitational wave observations distinguish between black hole and other compact object sources?...
Black Hole Spectroscopy: Testing General Relativity through Gravitational Wave Observations (2003)
Dreyer, Olaf, Kelly, Bernard, Krishnan, Badri, Finn, Lee Samuel, Garrison, David, Lopez-Aleman, Ramon
Assuming that general relativity is the correct theory of gravity in the strong field limit, can gravitational wave observations distinguish between black hole and other compact object sources?...
Swift Pointing and Gravitational-Wave Bursts from Gamma-Ray Burst Events (2003)
Finn, Lee Samuel, Krishnan, Badri, Sutton, Patrick J.
The currently accepted model for gamma-ray burst phenomena involves the violent formation of a rapidly rotating solar-mass black hole. Gravitational waves should be associated with the black-hole...
Swift Pointing and the Association Between Gamma-Ray Bursts and Gravitational-Wave Bursts (2003)
Finn, Lee Samuel, Krishnan, Badri, Sutton, Patrick J.
The currently accepted model for gamma-ray burst phenomena involves the violent formation of a rapidly rotating solar mass black hole. Gravitational waves should be associated with the black-hole...
No statistical excess in Explorer/Nautilus observations in the year 2001 (2003)
A recent report on gravitational wave detector data from the NAUTILUS and EXPLORER detector groups claims a statistically significant excess of coincident events when the detectors are oriented in a...
Swift Pointing and Gravitational-Wave Bursts from Gamma-Ray Burst Events (2003)
Finn, Lee Samuel, Krishnan, Badri, Sutton, Patrick J.
The currently accepted model for gamma-ray burst phenomena involves the violent formation of a rapidly rotating solar-mass black hole. Gravitational waves should be associated with the black-hole...
Bounding the graviton mass with binary pulsar observations (2001)
Sutton, Patrick J., Finn, Lee Samuel
By comparing the observed orbital decay of the binary pulsars PSRB1913+16 and PSRB1534+12 to that predicted by general relativity due to gravitational-wave emission, we are able to bound the mass of...
Bounding the mass of the graviton using binary pulsar observations (2001)
Finn, Lee Samuel, Sutton, Patrick J.
The close agreement between the predictions of dynamical general relativity for the radiated power of a compact binary system and the observed orbital decay of the binary pulsars PSR B1913+16 and PSR...
Technical discussions of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) sensitivity often focus on its effective sensitivity to gravitational waves in a given band; nevertheless, the...
Modulating the experimental signature of a stochastic gravitational wave backgroun (2001)
Finn, Lee Samuel, Lazzarini, Albert
Detecting a stationary, stochastic gravitational wave signal is complicated by impossibility of observing the detector noise independently of the signal. One consequence is that we require at least...
Finn, Lee Samuel, Thorne, Kip S.
Results are presented from high-precision computations of the orbital evolution and emitted gravitational waves for a stellar-mass object spiraling into a massive black hole in a slowly shrinking,...
Aperture synthesis for gravitational-wave data analysis: Deterministic Sources (2000)
Gravitational wave detectors now under construction are sensitive to the phase of the incident gravitational waves. Correspondingly, the signals from the different detectors can be combined, in the...
Finn, Lee Samuel, Mukherjee, Soma
Interferometric gravitational wave detectors operate by sensing the differential light travel time between free test masses. Correspondingly, they are sensitive to anything that changes the physical...
Finn, Lee Samuel, Thorne, Kip S.
Results are presented from high-precision computations of the orbital evolution and emitted gravitational waves for a stellar-mass object spiraling into a massive black hole in a slowly shrinking,...
Removing Instrumental Artifacts: Suspension Violin Modes (1999)
Mukherjee, Soma, Finn, Lee Samuel
We describe the design of a Kalman filter that identifies suspension violin modes in an interferometric gravitational wave detectors data channel. We demonstrate the filter's effectiveness by...
Spectral Methods for Numerical Relativity. The Initial Data Problem (1999)
Kidder, Lawrence E., Finn, Lee Samuel
Numerical relativity has traditionally been pursued via finite differencing. Here we explore pseudospectral collocation (PSC) as an alternative to finite differencing, focusing particularly on the...
Upper limits based on "loudest" events (1999)
This paper has been withdrawn due to a crucial error in combining the two probability sectors represented in equations 13 and 14. Corrected, one can recover, in the limit of no background, the...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory Scientific Data Archive (1999)
LIGO --- The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory --- is one of several large projects being undertaken in the United States, Europe and Japan to detect gravitational radiation. The...
Gravitational radiation sources and signatures (1999)
The goal of these lecture notes is to introduce the developing research area of gravitational-wave phenomenology. In more concrete terms, they are meant to provide an overview of gravitational-wave...
Detecting an association between Gamma Ray and Gravitational Wave Bursts (1999)
Finn, Lee Samuel, Mohanty, Soumya D., Romano, Joseph D.
If $\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) are accompanied by gravitational wave bursts (GWBs) the correlated output of two gravitational wave detectors evaluated in the moments just prior to a GRB will differ...
Gravitational Radiation Sources and Signatures (1998)
Introduction The goal of these lecture notes is to introduce the developing research area of gravitational-wave phenomenology. In more concrete terms, they are meant to provide an overview of...
Issues in gravitational wave data analysis (1997)
Data analysis is the application of probability and statistics to draw inference from observation. Is a signal present or absent? Is the source an inspiraling binary system or a supernova? At what...
Gravitational radiation sources for acoustic detectors (1996)
When completed, the gravitational wave detectors now proposed or under construction will provide us with a perspective on the Universe fundamentally different from any we have come to know. With this...
A numerical approach to binary black hole coalescence (1996)
The nature of binary black hole coalescence is the final, uncharted frontier of the relativistic Kepler problem. In the United States, binary black hole coalescence has been identified as a...
Defining a Research Environment: LIGO and the Gravitational Physics Research Community (1996)
The LIGO Research Community (LRC) is an independent organization of researchers interested in the scientific opportunities created by the construction and operation of the Laser Interferometer...
Binary inspiral, gravitational radiation, and cosmology (1996)
Observations of binary inspiral in a single interferometric gravitational wave detector can be cataloged according to signal-to-noise ratio $\rho$ and chirp mass $\cal M$. The distribution of events...
Observing Binary Inspiral with LIGO (1994)
Gravitational radiation from a binary neutron star or black hole system leads to orbital decay and the eventual coalescence of the binary's components. During the last several minutes before the...
Cutler, Curt, Apostolatos, Theocharis A., Bildsten, Lars, Finn, Lee Samuel, Flanagan, Eanna E., Kennefick, Daniel, ...
Gravitational-wave interferometers are expected to monitor the last three minutes of inspiral and final coalescence of neutron star and black hole binaries at distances approaching cosmological,...
Gravitational Radiation, Inspiraling Binaries, and Cosmology (1993)
Chernoff, David F., Finn, Lee Samuel
We show how to measure cosmological parameters using observations of inspiraling binary neutron star or black hole systems in one or more gravitational wave detectors. To illustrate, we focus on the...
Observing binary inspiral in gravitational radiation: One interferometer (1993)
Finn, Lee Samuel, Chernoff, David F.
We investigate the sensitivity of individual LIGO/VIRGO-like interferometers and the precision with which they can determine the characteristics of an inspiralling binary system. Since the two...
Detection, Measurement and Gravitational Radiation (1992)
Here I examine how to determine the sensitivity of the LIGO, VIRGO, and LAGOS gravitational wave detectors to sources of gravitational radiation by considering the process by which data are analyzed...
Cutler, Curt, Apostolatos, Theocharis A., Bildsten, Lars, Finn, Lee Samuel, Flanagan, Eanna E., Kennefick, Daniel, ...
Gravitational-wave interferometers are expected to monitor the last three minutes of inspiral and final coalescence of neutron star and black hole binaries at distances approaching cosmological,...
Relativistic stellar pulsations (1987)
This thesis consists of studies on the topic of relativistic stellar pulsations. i) A new formalism for the numerical study of g-modes in neutron stars is developed. This formalism avoids pitfalls...