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Vivien Raymond

Dr Vivien Raymond

Reader
Gravity Exploration Institute

School of Physics and Astronomy

Email
RaymondV@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29206 88915
Campuses
Queen's Buildings - North Building, Room N/1.15, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

I am a gravitational-wave astrophysicist, and I search for black holes and neutron stars using gravitational waves to unlock the secrets of how the fundamentals of the universe operate. This new way to look at the world around us was pioneered in 2015, with the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration's detection of the binary black hole merger GW150914.

I am a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and specialise in the astrophysical interpretation of gravitational-wave observations. My work includes charaterizing the detected black holes and neutron stars at the source of the signals, and planning for the future discoveries of transient gravitational-wave astronomy.

Publication

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Articles

Conferences

Research

My research focus is in gravitational-wave astrophysics. I am especially interested in:

  • Astronomy: Transient gravitational-wave observations. In particular with the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) and Virgo interferometer network and jointly with Electromagnetic or Neutrino counterparts.
  • Experimental physics: Optimized experimental design of future detectors. Holistic modeling for gravitational-wave observatories.
  • Astrophysics: Understanding gravitational sources with parameter estimation using Bayesian Methods. Inference of universal properties using multiple events.

Supervisions

Current supervision

Virginia D'Emilio

Virginia D'Emilio

Research student

Research themes

Specialisms

  • General relativity and gravitational waves
  • Black Holes
  • Signal processing