Dr Vivien Raymond

2025

• Chattopadhyay, D., Al-Shammari, S., Antonini, F., Fairhurst, S., Miles, B. and Raymond, V. 2025. The impact of astrophysical priors on parameter inference for GW230529. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 536(1), pp. L19-L25. (10.1093/mnrasl/slae099)

2024

• Abac, A. G. et al. 2024. Search for eccentric black hole coalescences during the third observing run of LIGO and Virgo. The Astrophysical Journal 973(2), article number: 132. (10.3847/1538-4357/ad65ce)
• Abac, A. et al. 2024. Ultralight vector dark matter search using data from the KAGRA O3GK run. Physical Review D (particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology) 110(4), article number: 42001. (10.1103/physrevd.110.042001)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2024. Search for gravitational-lensing signatures in the full third observing run of the LIGO–Virgo network. Astrophysical Journal 970(191) (10.3847/1538-4357/ad3e83)
• Abac, A. G. et al. 2024. Observation of gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 2.5–4.5 M ⊙ compact object and a neutron star. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 970(2), article number: L34. (10.3847/2041-8213/ad5beb)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2024. Search for gravitational-wave transients associated with magnetar bursts in Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo data from the third observing run. The Astrophysical Journal 966(1), article number: 137. (10.3847/1538-4357/ad27d3)
• Fletcher, C. et al. 2024. A joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT analysis of Gravitational-wave candidates from the third Gravitational-wave Observing Run. The Astrophysical Journal 964(2), article number: 149. (10.3847/1538-4357/ad1eed)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2024. GWTC-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run. Physical Review D (particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology) 109(2), article number: 22001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.109.022001)
• Göttel, A. S., Ejlli, A., Karan, K., Vermeulen, S. M., Aiello, L., Raymond, V. and Grote, H. 2024. Searching for scalar field dark matter with LIGO. Physical Review Letters 133(10), article number: 101001. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.101001)

2023

• Abbott, R. et al. 2023. Search for gravitational waves associated with fast radio bursts detected by CHIME/FRB during the LIGO–Virgo observing run O3a. Astrophysical Journal 955(2), article number: 155. (10.3847/1538-4357/acd770)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2023. Open Data from the Third Observing Run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO. Astrophysical Journal Supplement 267(2), article number: 29. (10.3847/1538-4365/acdc9f)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2023. Constraints on the cosmic expansion history from GWTC–3. Astrophysical Journal 949(2), article number: 76. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac74bb)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2023. Population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3. Physical Review X 13(1), article number: 11048. (10.1103/PhysRevX.13.011048)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2023. Search for subsolar-mass black hole binaries in the second part of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, article number: stad588. (10.1093/mnras/stad588)

2022

• Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Model-based cross-correlation search for gravitational waves from the low-mass x-ray binary scorpius x-1 in ligo o3 data. Astrophysical Journal Letters 941(2), article number: L30. (10.3847/2041-8213/aca1b0)
• Fairhurst, S. et al. 2022. All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo O3 data. Physical Review D 106(10) (10.1103/PhysRevD.106.102008)
• Relton, P. et al. 2022. Addressing the challenges of detecting time-overlapping compact binary coalescences. Physical Review D 106(10), article number: 104045. (10.1103/PhysRevD.106.104045)
• Hannam, M. et al. 2022. General-relativistic precession in a black-hole binary. Nature 610(7933), pp. 652-655. (10.1038/s41586-022-05212-z)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with a hidden Markov model in O3 LIGO data. Physical Review D 106(6), article number: 62002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.106.062002)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Search for continuous gravitational wave emission from the Milky Way center in O3 LIGO-Virgo data. Physical Review D 106(4), article number: 42003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.106.042003)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Search for subsolar-mass binaries in the first half of advanced LIGO's and advanced Virgo's third observing run. Physical Review Letters 129(6) (10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.061104)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2022. First joint observation by the underground gravitational-wave detector, KAGRA, with GEO 600. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics 2022(6), article number: 063F01. (10.1093/ptep/ptac073)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Narrowband searches for continuous and long-duration transient gravitational waves from known pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo third observing run. Astrophysical Journal 932(2), article number: 133. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac6ad0)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars at two harmonics in the second and third LIGO-Virgo observing runs. Astrophysical Journal 935(1), article number: 1. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac6acf)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2022. All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data. Physical Review D 105(10), article number: 102001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.105.102001)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Search of the early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational waves from the Cassiopeia A and Vela Jr. supernova remnants. Physical Review D 105(8), article number: 82005. (10.1103/PhysRevD.105.082005)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo Run O3b. Astrophysical Journal 928(2), article number: 186. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac532b)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Search for intermediate-mass black hole binaries in the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Astronomy & Astrophysics 659, article number: A84. (10.1051/0004-6361/202141452)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2022. Constraints on dark photon dark matter using data from LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run. Physical Review D 105(6), article number: 63030. (10.1103/PhysRevD.105.063030)

2021

• D'Emilio, V., Green, R. and Raymond, V. 2021. Density estimation with Gaussian processes for gravitational wave posteriors. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 508(2), pp. 2090–2097. (10.1093/mnras/stab2623)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2021. Search for lensing signatures in the gravitational-wave observations from the first half of LIGO-Virgo's third observing run. Astrophysical Journal 923(1), article number: 14. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac23db)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2021. All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run. Physical Review D 104, article number: 122004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.104.122004)
• Vermeulen, S. M. et al. 2021. Direct limits for scalar field dark matter from a gravitational-wave detector. Nature 600(7889), pp. 424-428. (10.1038/s41586-021-04031-y)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2021. Erratum: "Searches for continuous gravitational waves from 15 supernova remnants and Fomalhaut b with advanced LIGO" (2019, ApJ, 875, 122)*. Astrophysical Journal 918(2), pp. 91. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac1f2c)
• Hoy, C. and Raymond, V. 2021. PESummary: The code agnostic Parameter Estimation Summary page builder. SoftwareX 15, article number: 100765. (10.1016/j.softx.2021.100765)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2021. Search for anisotropic gravitational-wave backgrounds using data from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runs. Physical Review D 104(2), article number: 22005. (10.1103/PhysRevD.104.022005)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2021. Upper limits on the isotropic gravitational-wave background from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's third observing run. Physical Review D 104(2), article number: 22004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.104.022004)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2021. Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo run O3a. Astrophysical Journal 915(2), article number: 86. (10.3847/1538-4357/abee15)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2021. Observation of gravitational waves from two neutron star-black hole coalescences. Astrophysical Journal Letters 915(1), article number: L5. (10.3847/2041-8213/ac082e)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2021. GWTC-2: compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run. Physical Review X 11(2), article number: 21053. (10.1103/PhysRevX.11.021053)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2021. Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the third advanced LIGO-Virgo observing run. Physical Review Letters 126(24), article number: 241102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.241102)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2021. Tests of general relativity with binary black holes from the second LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog. Physical Review D 103(12), article number: 122002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.103.122002)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2021. All-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems. Physical Review D 103(6), article number: 64017. (10.1103/PhysRevD.103.064017)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2021. A gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant following the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo. Astrophysical Journal 909(2), article number: 218. (10.3847/1538-4357/abdcb7)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2021. Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. SoftwareX 13, article number: 100658. (10.1016/j.softx.2021.100658)

2020

• Abbott, R. et al. 2020. Gravitational-wave constraints on the equatorial ellipticity of millisecond pulsars. Astrophysical Journal Letters 902(1), article number: L21. (10.3847/2041-8213/abb655)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2020. GW190521: a binary back hole merger with a total mass of 150 M⊙. Physical Review Letters 125(10), article number: 101102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.101102)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2020. Properties and astrophysical implications of the 150 M ⊙ binary black hole merger GW190521. Astrophysical Journal Letters 900(1), article number: L13. (10.3847/2041-8213/aba493)
• Barausse, E. et al. 2020. Prospects for fundamental physics with LISA. General Relativity and Gravitation 52(8), article number: 81. (10.1007/s10714-020-02691-1)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2020. GW190412: observation of a binary-black-hole coalescence with asymmetric masses. Physical Review D 102(4), article number: 43015. (10.1103/PhysRevD.102.043015)
• Abbott, R. et al. 2020. GW190814: gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 23 solar mass black hole with a 2.6 solar mass compact object. Astrophysical Journal Letters 896(2), article number: L44. (10.3847/2041-8213/ab960f)
• Kalaghatgi, C., Hannam, M. and Raymond, V. 2020. Parameter estimation with a spinning multimode waveform model. Physical Review D 101(10), article number: 103004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.101.103004)
• Hamburg, R. et al. 2020. A joint Fermi-GBM and LIGO/Virgo analysis of compact binary mergers from the first and second gravitational-wave observing runs. Astrophysical Journal 893(2), article number: 100. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab7d3e)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2020. Optically targeted search for gravitational waves emitted by core-collapse supernovae during the first and second observing runs of advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo. Physical Review D 101(8), article number: 84002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.101.084002)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2020. A guide to LIGO-Virgo detector noise and extraction of transient gravitational-wave signals. Classical and Quantum Gravity 37(5), article number: 55002. (10.1088/1361-6382/ab685e)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2020. Model comparison from LIGO-Virgo data on GW170817's binary components and consequences for the merger remnant. Classical and Quantum Gravity 37(4), article number: 45006. (10.1088/1361-6382/ab5f7c)

2019

• Abbott, B. et al. 2019. Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the second Advanced LIGO observing run with an improved hidden Markov model. Physical Review D 100(12), article number: 122002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.122002)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2019. Search for gravitational-wave signals associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Astrophysical Journal 886(1), article number: 75. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab4b48)
• Abbott, B. et al. 2019. Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1. Physical Review D 100(10), article number: 104036. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.104036)
• Chatziioannou, K. et al. 2019. On the properties of the massive binary black hole merger GW170729. Physical Review D 100(10), article number: 104015. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.104015)
• Abbott, B. et al. 2019. Search for subsolar mass ultracompact binaries in advanced LIGO's second observing run. Physical Review Letters 123(16), article number: 161102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.161102)
• Abbott, B. et al. 2019. Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo network. Physical Review D 100(6), article number: 64064. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.064064)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2019. Search for eccentric binary black hole mergers with advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo during their first and second observing runs. Astrophysical Journal 883(1), article number: 49. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab3c2d)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2019. Binary black hole population properties inferred from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Astrophysical Journal Letters 882(2), article number: L24. (10.3847/2041-8213/ab3800)
• Abbott, B. et al. 2019. GWTC-1: A gravitational-wave transient catalog of compact binary mergers observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first and second observing runs. Physical Review X 9(3), article number: 31040. (10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031040)
• Booth, C. et al. 2019. All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO O2 data. Physical Review D 100(2), article number: 24004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.024004)
• Abbott, B. et al. 2019. All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run. Physical Review D 100(2), pp. -., article number: 24017. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.024017)
• Abbott, B. et al. 2019. Tests of general relativity with GW170817. Physical Review Letters 123, pp. -., article number: 11102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.011102)
• Abbott, B. et al. 2019. Narrow-band search for gravitational waves from known pulsars using the second LIGO observing run. Physical Review D 99(12), pp. -., article number: 122002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.99.122002)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2019. Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in 2015?2017 LIGO Data. Astrophysical Journal 879(1), pp. 10., article number: 10. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab20cb)
• Soares-Santos, M. et al. 2019. First measurement of the Hubble constant from a dark standard siren using the Dark Energy Survey galaxies and the LIGO/Virgo binary-black-hole merger GW170814. Astrophysical Journal Letters 876(1), article number: L7. (10.3847/2041-8213/ab14f1)
• Abbott, B. et al. 2019. All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the second Advanced LIGO observing run. Physical Review D 99(10), article number: 104033. (10.1103/PhysRevD.99.104033)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2019. Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from 15 Supernova Remnants and Fomalhaut b with Advanced LIGO. Astrophysical Journal 875(2), pp. 122., article number: 122. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab113b)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2019. Low-latency gravitational-wave alerts for multimessenger astronomy during the second advanced LIGO and virgo observing run. Astrophysical Journal 875(2), pp. 161., article number: 161. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab0e8f)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2019. Search for transient gravitational-wave signals associated with magnetar bursts during advanced LIGO's second observing run. Astrophysical Journal 874(2), pp. 163., article number: 163. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab0e15)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2019. Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Physical Review X 9(1), article number: 11001. (10.1103/PhysRevX.9.011001)
• Abbott, B. et al. 2019. Constraining the p-Mode-g-Mode tidal instability with GW170817. Physical Review Letters 122(6), pp. -., article number: 61104. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.061104)
• Burns, E. et al. 2019. A fermi gamma-ray burst monitor search for electromagnetic signals coincident with gravitational-wave candidates in advanced LIGO's first observing run. Astrophysical Journal 871(1), article number: 90. (10.3847/1538-4357/aaf726)
• Albert, A. et al. 2019. Search for multimessenger sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos with advanced LIGO during its first observing run, ANTARES, and IceCube. Astrophysical Journal 870(2), article number: 134. (10.3847/1538-4357/aaf21d)
• Abbott, B. et al. 2019. Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using data from Advanced LIGO's first two observing runs. Physical Review D 100(6), article number: 62001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.062001)
• Abbott, B. et al. 2019. Search for the isotropic stochastic background using data from Advanced LIGO's second observing run. Physical Review D 100(6) (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.061101)

2018

• Abbott, B. et al. 2018. Search for subsolar-mass ultracompact binaries in advanced LIGO's first observing Run. Physical Review Letters 121(23), pp. -., article number: 231103. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.231103)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2018. GW170817: Measurements of neutron star radii and equation of state. Physical Review Letters 121(16), article number: 161101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.161101)
• Meidam, J. et al. 2018. Parametrized tests of the strong-field dynamics of general relativity using gravitational wave signals from coalescing binary black holes: Fast likelihood calculations and sensitivity of the method. Physical Review D 97(4), article number: 44033. (10.1103/PhysRevD.97.044033)

2017

• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2017. GW170608: Observation of a 19 solar-mass binary black hole coalescence. Astrophysical Journal Letters 851, article number: L35. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa9f0c)
• Puerrer, M., Smith, R., Field, S., Canizares, P., Raymond, V., Gair, J. and Hannam, M. 2017. Accelerating parameter estimation of gravitational waves from black hole binaries with reduced order quadratures. Presented at: 14th Marcel Grossman Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, 12 -18 July 2015 Presented at Bianchi, M., Jantzen, R. T. and Ruffini, R. eds.14th Marcel Grossman Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories: Proceedings of the MG14 Meeting on General Relativity. World Scientific Publishing pp. 2015-2018., (10.1142/9789813226609_0218)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2017. A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant. Nature 551, pp. 85-88. (10.1038/nature24471)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2017. Gravitational waves and gamma-rays from a binary neutron star merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A. Astrophysical Journal Letters 848(2), article number: L13. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa920c)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2017. Multi-messenger observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger. Astrophysical Journal Letters 848(2), article number: L12. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2017. GW170817: Observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. Physical Review Letters 119(16), article number: 161101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.161101)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2017. GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence. Physical Review Letters 119(14), article number: 141101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.141101)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2017. GW170104: Observation of a 50-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence at redshift 0.2. Physical Review Letters 118(22), article number: 221101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.221101)

2016

• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2016. Binary black hole mergers in the first advanced LIGO observing run. Physical Review X 6(4), article number: 41015. (10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041015)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2016. Properties of the binary black hole merger GW150914. Physical Review Letters 116(24), article number: 241102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241102)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2016. GW151226: Observation of gravitational waves from a 22-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence. Physical Review Letters 116(24), article number: 241103. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241103)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2016. Tests of general relativity with GW150914. Physical Review Letters 116(22), article number: 221101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.221101)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2016. GW150914: the advanced LIGO detectors in the era of first discoveries. Physical Review Letters 116(13), article number: 131103. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.131103)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2016. Astrophysical implications of the binary black hole merger GW150914. Astrophysical Journal Letters 818(2), article number: L22. (10.3847/2041-8205/818/2/L22)
• Abbott, B. P. et al. 2016. Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger. Physical Review Letters 116(6), article number: 61102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102)

2015

• Aasi, J. et al. 2015. Advanced LIGO. Classical and Quantum Gravity 32(7), article number: 74001. (10.1088/0264-9381/32/7/074001)
• Veitch, J. et al. 2015. Parameter estimation for compact binaries with ground-based gravitational-wave observations using the LALInference software library. Physical Review D 91(4), article number: 42003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.91.042003)