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Mr Lorenzo Aiello
Research Associate
Gravity Exploration Institute
School of Physics and Astronomy
- AielloL@cardiff.ac.uk
- Queen's Buildings - North Building, Room Room N/2.08b, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am Research Associate of the Gravity Exploration Institute and a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and of the Quantum-enhanced Interferometry for New Physics Consortium. My expertise concerns experimental physics research.
During my PhD I worked in the Advanced Virgo Thermal Compensation System (TCS), the subsystem devoted to the correction of the optical aberrations. I was involved in the commissioning for O2 and O3 observing runs and to the development of the TCS upgrades in view of O4 and O5.
At Cardiff University, I am involved in the setting up of a table-top experiment to investigate quantization of space-time, scalar field dark matter and ultra-high frequency gravitational waves. I am also involved in data analysis's projects to investigate the presence of scalar field dark matter.
Publication
2023
- Ejlli, A., Vermeulen, S., Schwartz, E., Aiello, L. and Grote, H. 2023. Probing dark matter with polarimetry techniques. Physical Review D 107, article number: 83035. (10.1103/PhysRevD.107.083035)
- 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)
- Nardecchia, I. et al. 2023. Optimized radius of curvature tuning for the virgo core optics. Classical and Quantum Gravity 40(5), article number: 55004. (10.1088/1361-6382/acb632)
2022
- 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. All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational waves from Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runs. Physical Review D 105(12), article number: 122001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.105.122001)
- 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)
- Aiello, L., Richardson, J. W., Vermeulen, S., Grote, H., Hogan, C., Kwon, O. and Stoughton, C. 2022. Constraints on Scalar Field dark matter from Colocated Michelson interferometers. Physical Review Letters 128(12), article number: 121101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.121101)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- Vermeulen, S. M., Aiello, L., Ejlli, A., Griffiths, W. L., James, A., Dooley, K. L. and Grote, H. 2021. An experiment for observing quantum gravity phenomena using twin table-top 3D interferometers. Classical and Quantum Gravity 38(8), article number: 85008. (10.1088/1361-6382/abe757)
Erthyglau
- Ejlli, A., Vermeulen, S., Schwartz, E., Aiello, L. and Grote, H. 2023. Probing dark matter with polarimetry techniques. Physical Review D 107, article number: 83035. (10.1103/PhysRevD.107.083035)
- 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)
- Nardecchia, I. et al. 2023. Optimized radius of curvature tuning for the virgo core optics. Classical and Quantum Gravity 40(5), article number: 55004. (10.1088/1361-6382/acb632)
- 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. All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational waves from Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runs. Physical Review D 105(12), article number: 122001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.105.122001)
- 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)
- Aiello, L., Richardson, J. W., Vermeulen, S., Grote, H., Hogan, C., Kwon, O. and Stoughton, C. 2022. Constraints on Scalar Field dark matter from Colocated Michelson interferometers. Physical Review Letters 128(12), article number: 121101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.121101)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Vermeulen, S. M., Aiello, L., Ejlli, A., Griffiths, W. L., James, A., Dooley, K. L. and Grote, H. 2021. An experiment for observing quantum gravity phenomena using twin table-top 3D interferometers. Classical and Quantum Gravity 38(8), article number: 85008. (10.1088/1361-6382/abe757)
Teaching
- A.A. 2022 - 2023
Physics and Reality, module PX4230 (Instructor)
Module organizer: Prof. H. Grote
Experimental Gravitational I, module PXT901 (Instructor)
Module organizer: Prof. H. Grote, Prof. K. L. Dooley
- A.A. 2021 - 2022
Physics and Reality, module PX4230 (Instructor)
Module organizer: Prof. H. Grote
Experimental Gravitational I, module PXT901 (Instructor)
Module organizer: Prof. H. Grote - A.A. 2020 - 2021
Experimental Gravitational I, module PXT901 (Instructor)
Module organizer: Prof. H. Grote - A.A. 2019 - 2020
Experimental Gravitational II, module PXT902 (Instructor)
Module organizer: Prof. H. Grote
Supervisions
PhD students
- William Griffiths, Cardiff University (2019-present)