Dr Vivien Raymond

: Available for postgraduate supervision

Teams and roles for Vivien Raymond

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Gravity Exploration Institute
School of Physics and Astronomy

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.

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2017

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)
Puerrer, M. et al. 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. Published in: 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) L13. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa920c)
Abbott, B. P. et al., 2017. GW170817: Observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. Physical Review Letters 119 (16) 161101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.161101)
Abbott, B. P. et al., 2017. Multi-messenger observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger. Astrophysical Journal Letters 848 (2) L12. (10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9)
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. GW170104: Observation of a 50-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence at redshift 0.2. Physical Review Letters 118 (22) 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) 041015. (10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041015)
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) 241103. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241103)
Abbott, B. P. et al., 2016. Properties of the binary black hole merger GW150914. Physical Review Letters 116 (24) 241102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241102)
Abbott, B. P. et al., 2016. Tests of general relativity with GW150914. Physical Review Letters 116 (22) 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) 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) 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) 061102. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102)

2015

Aasi, J. et al., 2015. Advanced LIGO. Classical and Quantum Gravity 32 (7) 074001. (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) 042003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.91.042003)

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.