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Mr Jordan Barber
Graduate Demonstrator
School of Physics and Astronomy
- BarberJ2@cardiff.ac.uk
- Queen's Buildings, Room Room N/2.14, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA
Overview
I am a 3rd year PhD student in the School of Physics and Astronomy under the supervision of Dr Fabio Antonini and Prof Stephen Fairhurst. Currently, I am investigating binary black hole (BBH) formation channels inside dense stellar environments such as star clusters; focusing on how these different channels affect the sub-population of merging BBHs. From this work, we hope to provide some insight into the implication of the BBH formation channel on the gravitational wave detections made by the LVK colloboration.
Publication
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)
- Barber, J., Chattopadhyay, D. and Antonini, F. 2024. Black hole binary mergers in dense star clusters: the importance of primordial binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 527(3), pp. 7363–7381. (10.1093/mnras/stad3600)
2023
- Chattopadhyay, D., Stegmann, J., Antonini, F., Barber, J. and Romero-Shaw, I. M. 2023. Double black hole mergers in nuclear star clusters: eccentricities, spins, masses, and the growth of massive seeds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 526(4), pp. 4908–4928. (10.1093/mnras/stad3048)
Erthyglau
- 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)
- Barber, J., Chattopadhyay, D. and Antonini, F. 2024. Black hole binary mergers in dense star clusters: the importance of primordial binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 527(3), pp. 7363–7381. (10.1093/mnras/stad3600)
- Chattopadhyay, D., Stegmann, J., Antonini, F., Barber, J. and Romero-Shaw, I. M. 2023. Double black hole mergers in nuclear star clusters: eccentricities, spins, masses, and the growth of massive seeds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 526(4), pp. 4908–4928. (10.1093/mnras/stad3048)
Research
Interests: Black hole physics, gravitational wave physics, stellar dynamics.
I am a 3rd year PhD student using numerical models to study the evolution of compact object binaries within globular clusters. Specifically, I am investigating the effect of dynamical interactions and hierarchical mergers on black hole populations, and merger rates which can be compared against observed merger rates from LIGO.
Teaching
- Marker/Demonstrator: Introduction to General Relativity (2023-)
- Marker/Demonstrator: Gravitational Wave Astrophysics (2023-)
- Marker: Special Relativity and Particle Physics (2021-2023)
- Demonstrator/Marker: Structured Programming. (2021-2023)
Research themes
Specialisms
- General relativity and gravitational waves
- Black Holes