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Dr Duncan MacLeod
(he/him)
Teams and roles for Duncan MacLeod
Senior Research Software Engineer
Gravity Exploration Institute
Overview
I am a Senior Research Software Engineer in the Gravity Exploration Institute of the School of Physics and Astronomy. My research targets development of improved user-facing software utilities for accessing, processing, and visualising data from the second-generation of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors, primarily the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). I also support users on the LIGO partition of the Supercomputing Wales Hawk Computing Centre.
Publication
2025
- Abac, A. G. et al., 2025. Search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run. The Astrophysical Journal 983 (2) 99. (10.3847/1538-4357/adb3a0)
- Abac, A. G. et al., 2025. Search for gravitational waves emitted from SN 2023ixf. The Astrophysical Journal 985 (2) 183. (10.3847/1538-4357/adc681)
- Aiello, L. et al., 2025. Tests of general relativity with GWTC-3. Physical Review D 112 084080. (10.1103/PhysRevD.112.084080)
- Al-Shammari, S. et al. 2025. GW241011 and GW241110: Exploring binary formation and fundamental physics with asymmetric, high-spin black hole coalescences. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 993 L21. (10.3847/2041-8213/ae0d54)
- Al-Shammari, S. et al. 2025. GW231123: A binary black hole merger with total mass 190–265 M⊙. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 993 (1) L25. (10.3847/2041-8213/ae0c9c)
- al-Shammari, S. et al. 2025. All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run. Physical Review D 112 102005. (10.1103/wjdz-jdby)
- Amarasinghege, O. et al. 2025. GW250114: Testing Hawking’s area law and the Kerr nature of black holes. Physical Review Letters 135 111403. (10.1103/kw5g-d732)
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) 132. (10.3847/1538-4357/ad65ce)
- Abac, A. G. et al., 2024. A search using GEO600 for gravitational waves coincident with fast radio bursts from SGR 1935+2154. The Astrophysical Journal 977 (2) 255. (10.3847/1538-4357/ad8de0)
- 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) L34. (10.3847/2041-8213/ad5beb)
- 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) 042001. (10.1103/physrevd.110.042001)
- 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) 022001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.109.022001)
- 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)
- 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) 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) 149. (10.3847/1538-4357/ad1eed)
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) 155. (10.3847/1538-4357/acd770)
- Abbott, R. et al., 2023. Population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3. Physical Review X 13 (1) 011048. (10.1103/PhysRevX.13.011048)
- Abbott, R. et al., 2023. Constraints on the cosmic expansion history from GWTC–3. Astrophysical Journal 949 (2) 76. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac74bb)
- Abbott, R. et al., 2023. Open Data from the Third Observing Run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO. Astrophysical Journal Supplement 267 (2) 29. (10.3847/1538-4365/acdc9f)
- 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 stad588. (10.1093/mnras/stad588)
- Berger, B. K. et al., 2023. Searching for the causes of anomalous Advanced LIGO noise. Applied Physics Letters 122 (18) 184101. (10.1063/5.0140766)
- Tiwari, V. et al., 2023. Fast non-Markovian sampler for estimating gravitational-wave posteriors. Physical Review D (particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology) 108 (2) 023001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.108.023001)
2022
- 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) 133. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac6ad0)
- 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) 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 A84. (10.1051/0004-6361/202141452)
- 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) 122001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.105.122001)
- 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) 063030. (10.1103/PhysRevD.105.063030)
- 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. 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) 082005. (10.1103/PhysRevD.105.082005)
- 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) 102001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.105.102001)
- 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) 063F01. (10.1093/ptep/ptac073)
- 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) L30. (10.3847/2041-8213/aca1b0)
- 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) 042003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.106.042003)
- 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) 062002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.106.062002)
- 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) 1. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac6acf)
2021
- 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) 218. (10.3847/1538-4357/abdcb7)
- 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)
- 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) 064017. (10.1103/PhysRevD.103.064017)
- Abbott, R. et al., 2021. Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the third advanced LIGO-Virgo observing run. Physical Review Letters 126 (24) 241102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.241102)
- 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) 021053. (10.1103/PhysRevX.11.021053)
- Abbott, R. et al., 2021. Observation of gravitational waves from two neutron star-black hole coalescences. Astrophysical Journal Letters 915 (1) L5. (10.3847/2041-8213/ac082e)
- 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) 022005. (10.1103/PhysRevD.104.022005)
- 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) 86. (10.3847/1538-4357/abee15)
- 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) 14. (10.3847/1538-4357/ac23db)
- 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) 022004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.104.022004)
- 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 122004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.104.122004)
- Abbott, R. et al., 2021. Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. SoftwareX 13 100658. (10.1016/j.softx.2021.100658)
- 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) 122002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.103.122002)
- Brooks, A. F. et al., 2021. Point absorbers in Advanced LIGO. Applied Optics 60 (13), pp.4047-4063. (10.1364/AO.419689)
- Davis, D. et al., 2021. LIGO detector characterization in the second and third observing runs. Classical and Quantum Gravity 38 (13) 135014. (10.1088/1361-6382/abfd85)
- Macleod, D. M. et al. 2021. GWpy: A Python package for gravitational-wave astrophysics. SoftwareX 13 100657. (10.1016/j.softx.2021.100657)
- Nguyen, P. et al., 2021. Environmental noise in advanced LIGO detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity 38 (14) 145001. (10.1088/1361-6382/ac011a)
- Robinet, F. et al., 2021. Omicron: a tool to characterize transient noise in gravitational-wave detectors. SoftwareX 12 100620. (10.1016/j.softx.2020.100620)
- Soni, S. et al., 2021. Reducing scattered light in LIGO's third observing run. Classical and Quantum Gravity 38 (2) 025016. (10.1088/1361-6382/abc906)
2020
- 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) 055002. (10.1088/1361-6382/ab685e)
- 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) 084002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.101.084002)
- Abbott, R. et al., 2020. Gravitational-wave constraints on the equatorial ellipticity of millisecond pulsars. Astrophysical Journal Letters 902 (1) L21. (10.3847/2041-8213/abb655)
- Abbott, R. et al., 2020. GW190412: observation of a binary-black-hole coalescence with asymmetric masses. Physical Review D 102 (4) 043015. (10.1103/PhysRevD.102.043015)
- Abbott, R. et al., 2020. GW190521: a binary back hole merger with a total mass of 150 M⊙. Physical Review Letters 125 (10) 101102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.101102)
- 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) L44. (10.3847/2041-8213/ab960f)
- Abbott, R. et al., 2020. Properties and astrophysical implications of the 150 M ⊙ binary black hole merger GW190521. Astrophysical Journal Letters 900 (1) L13. (10.3847/2041-8213/aba493)
- Buikema, A. et al., 2020. Sensitivity and performance of the Advanced LIGO detectors in the third observing run. Physical Review D 102 (6) 062003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.102.062003)
- Yu, H. et al., 2020. Quantum correlations between light and the kilogram-mass mirrors of LIGO. Nature 583 (7814), pp.43-47. (10.1038/s41586-020-2420-8)
2019
- 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) L24. (10.3847/2041-8213/ab3800)
- 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. 161. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab0e8f)
- Abbott, B. P. et al., 2019. Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Physical Review X 9 (1) 011001. (10.1103/PhysRevX.9.011001)
- 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) 49. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab3c2d)
- 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) 75. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab4b48)
- 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. 163. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab0e15)
- 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. 122. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab113b)
- 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. 10. (10.3847/1538-4357/ab20cb)
- 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) 104033. (10.1103/PhysRevD.99.104033)
- 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.-. 024017. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.024017)
- Abbott, B. et al., 2019. Constraining the p-Mode-g-Mode tidal instability with GW170817. Physical Review Letters 122 (6), pp.-. 061104. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.061104)
- 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) 062001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.062001)
- 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) 031040. (10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031040)
- 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.-. 122002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.99.122002)
- 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) 122002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.122002)
- 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) 064064. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.064064)
- Abbott, B. et al., 2019. Search for subsolar mass ultracompact binaries in advanced LIGO's second observing run. Physical Review Letters 123 (16) 161102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.161102)
- 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)
- Abbott, B. et al., 2019. Tests of general relativity with GW170817. Physical Review Letters 123 , pp.-. 011102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.011102)
- 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) 104036. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.104036)
- 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) 134. (10.3847/1538-4357/aaf21d)
- 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) 024004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.100.024004)
- 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) 90. (10.3847/1538-4357/aaf726)
- 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) L7. (10.3847/2041-8213/ab14f1)
- Tse, M. et al., 2019. Quantum-enhanced advanced LIGO detectors in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy. Physical Review Letters (23) 231107. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.231107)
2018
- Abbott, B. P. et al., 2018. GW170817: Measurements of neutron star radii and equation of state. Physical Review Letters 121 (16) 161101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.161101)
- Abbott, B. P. et al., 2018. Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA. Living Reviews in Relativity 21 (1)(10.1007/s41114-018-0012-9)
- Abbott, B. et al., 2018. First search for nontensorial gravitational waves from known pulsars. Physical Review Letters 120 (3) 031104. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.031104)
- Abbott, B. et al., 2018. Full band all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data. Physical Review D 97 (10) 102003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.97.102003)
- Abbott, B. et al., 2018. GW170817: Implications for the stochastic gravitational-wave background from compact binary coalescences. Physical Review Letters 120 (9)(10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.091101)
- Abbott, B. et al., 2018. Search for subsolar-mass ultracompact binaries in advanced LIGO's first observing Run. Physical Review Letters 121 (23), pp.-. 231103. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.231103)
- Abbott, B. et al., 2018. Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background. Physical Review Letters 120 (20), pp.-. 201102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.201102)
2017
- 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. Estimating the contribution of dynamical ejecta in the kilonova associated with GW170817. Astrophysical Journal Letters 850 (2) L39. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa9478)
- 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) L13. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa920c)
- Abbott, B. P. et al., 2017. GW170608: Observation of a 19 solar-mass binary black hole coalescence. Astrophysical Journal Letters 851 L35. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa9f0c)
- 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) 141101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.141101)
- Abbott, B. P. et al., 2017. On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817. Astrophysical Journal Letters 850 (2), pp.-. L40. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa93fc)
- Abbott, B. P. et al., 2017. Upper limits on gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 from a model-based cross-correlation search in advanced LIGO data. Astrophysical Journal 847 (1), pp.-. 47. (10.3847/1538-4357/aa86f0)
- Abbott, B. et al., 2017. Search for post-merger Gravitational Waves from the remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817. Astrophysical Journal Letters 851 (1) L16. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa9a35)
- Abbott, B. et al., 2017. All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data. Physical Review D 96 (6) 062002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.96.062002)
- Abbott, B. et al., 2017. Calibration of the advanced LIGO detectors for the discovery of the binary black-hole merger GW150914. Physical Review D 95 062003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.95.062003)
- Abbott, B. et al., 2017. First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data. Physical Review D 96 (12) 122004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.96.122004)
- Abbott, B. et al., 2017. First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data. Physical Review D 96 (12), pp.-. 122006. (10.1103/PhysRevD.96.122006)
- Albert, A. et al., 2017. Search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW151226 and candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube. Physical Review D 96 (2) 022005. (10.1103/PhysRevD.96.022005)
- Dorrington, I. et al. 2017. Search for high-energy neutrinos from binary neutron star merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 850 (2) L35. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa9aed)
2016
- Abbott, B. P. et al., 2016. Astrophysical implications of the binary black hole merger GW150914. Astrophysical Journal Letters 818 (2) L22. (10.3847/2041-8205/818/2/L22)
- Abbott, B. P. et al., 2016. GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO. Physical Review D 93 (12) 122003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122003)
- Martynov, D. V. et al., 2016. Sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO detectors at the beginning of gravitational wave astronomy. Physical Review D 93 (11) 112004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112004)
2015
- Aasi, J. et al., 2015. Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run. Classical and Quantum Gravity 32 (11) 115012. (10.1088/0264-9381/32/11/115012)
- Aasi, J. et al., 2015. Searching for stochastic gravitational waves using data from the two colocated LIGO Hanford detectors. Physical Review Letters 91 (2) 022003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.91.022003)
2014
- Aasi, J. et al., 2014. First searches for optical counterparts to gravitational-wave candidate events. Astrophysical Journal Supplement 211 (1) 7. (10.1088/0067-0049/211/1/7)
- Aasi, J. et al., 2014. Application of a Hough search for continuous gravitational waves on data from the fifth LIGO science run. Classical and Quantum Gravity 31 (8) 085014. (10.1088/0264-9381/31/8/085014)
- Aasi, J. et al., 2014. Constraints on cosmic strings from the LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave detectors. Physical Review Letters 112 (13) 131101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.131101)
- Williamson, A. R. et al. 2014. Improved methods for detecting gravitational waves associated with short gamma-ray bursts. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 90 (12), pp.-. 122004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.90.122004)
2013
- Aasi, J. et al., 2013. Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light [Letter]. Nature Photonics 7 (8), pp.613-619. (10.1038/nphoton.2013.177)
- Aasi, J. et al., 2013. Directed search for continuous gravitational waves from the Galactic center. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 88 (10) 102002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.88.102002)
- Aasi, J. et al., 2013. Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data. Physical Review D Particles and Fields 87 (4) 042001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.87.042001)
- Aasi, J. et al., 2013. Parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence signals with the first generation gravitational-wave detector network. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 88 (6) 062001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.88.062001)
- Aasi, J. et al., 2013. Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009–2010. Physical Review D Particles and Fields 87 (2) 022002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.87.022002)
- Aasi, J. et al., 2013. Search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients coincident with long gamma-ray bursts. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 88 (12) 122004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.88.122004)
- Adrián-Martínez, S. et al., 2013. A first search for coincident gravitational waves and high energy neutrinos using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2013 (6) 008. (10.1088/1475-7516/2013/06/008)
- MacLeod, D. 2013. Improving the sensitivity of searches for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
2012
- Aasi, J. et al., 2012. The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches. Classical and Quantum Gravity 29 (15) 155002. (10.1088/0264-9381/29/15/155002)
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Thesis
- MacLeod, D. 2013. Improving the sensitivity of searches for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences. PhD Thesis , Cardiff University.
Research
My research involves developing and improving software in support of gravitational physics research, including
- software development (mainly Python, C, and C++)
- software packaging and distribution (RPM, Deb, Conda, Pip, ...)
- Optimisation
- batch software workflows with HTCondor
Biography
I completed a PhD here in Cardiff in 2013, working under Dr (now Prof) Steve Fairhurst on gravitational-wave data analysis methods.
I then moved to Louisiana State University and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher for the 'LIGO Data Grid', providing software support for the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors. During this time I was moslty in residence at the LIGO Livingston Observatory.
I returned to Cardiff in 2017 as a Sêr Cymru Research Fellow, working on research software in the Cardiff Gravity Exploration Institute.
In 2020 I briefly took on a role as a Research Software Engineer as part of the Supercomputing Wales project, before moving into my current role as a Senior Research Software Engineer.
Academic positions
- 2020 - present: Senior Research Software Engineer, Gravity Exploration Institute
- 2020: Research Software Engineer, Gravity Exploration Institute, Cardiff University
- 2017 - 2020: Sêr Cymru COFUND Fellow, Gravity Exploration Institute, Cardiff University,
- 2013 - 2017: Postdoctoral Researcher, Louisiana State University
Committees and reviewing
- Journal reviewer, Classical and Quantum Gravity
Contact Details
[email protected]
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Queen's Buildings - North Building, Room Room 2.08A, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA