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Dr Matthew Pitkin FHEA

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. 2024
  2. Published

    Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 2.5–4.5 M ⊙ Compact Object and a Neutron Star

    The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration, 1/08/2024, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 970, 2, L34.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Search for Gravitational-lensing Signatures in the Full Third Observing Run of the LIGO–Virgo Network

    The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration, 1/08/2024, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 970, 2, 191.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. 2023
  5. Published

    Constraints on the Cosmic Expansion History from GWTC-3

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 7/06/2023, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 949, 2, 76.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. 2022
  7. Published

    Nested sampling for physical scientists

    Ashton, G., Bernstein, N., Buchner, J., Chen, X., Csányi, G., Fowlie, A., Feroz, F., Griffiths, M., Handley, W., Habeck, M., Higson, E., Hobson, M., Lasenby, A., Parkinson, D., Pártay, L. B., Pitkin, M., Schneider, D., Speagle, J. S., South, L. & Veitch, J. & 3 others, Wacker, P., Wales, D. J. & Yallup, D., 31/12/2022, In: Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 2, 1, 39.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Model-based Cross-correlation Search for Gravitational Waves from the Low-mass X-Ray Binary Scorpius X-1 in LIGO O3 Data

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, 16/12/2022, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 941, 2, L30.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo O3 data

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 28/11/2022, In: Physical Review D. 106, 10, 37 p., 102008.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    CWInPy: A Python package for inference with continuous gravitational-wave signals from pulsars

    Pitkin, M., 29/09/2022, In: Journal of Open Source Software. 7, 77, 7 p., 4568.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with a hidden Markov model in O3 LIGO data

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, 21/09/2022, In: Physical Review D. 106, 6, 23 p., 062002.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Search for continuous gravitational wave emission from the Milky Way center in O3 LIGO-Virgo data

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 15/08/2022, In: Physical Review D. 106, 4, 24 p., 042003.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 10/08/2022, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 935, 1, 29 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Search for Subsolar-Mass Binaries in the First Half of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's Third Observing Run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 5/08/2022, In: Physical review letters. 129, 6, 16 p., 061104.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. Published

    First joint observation by the underground gravitational-wave detector, KAGRA, with GEO 600

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, Hewitt, A. & Pitkin, M., 30/06/2022, In: Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics. 2022, 6, 37 p., 063F01.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Narrowband Searches for Continuous and Long-duration Transient Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo Third Observing Run

    The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration, 27/06/2022, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 932, 2, 27 p., 133.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational waves from Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runs

    The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, 15/06/2022, In: Physical Review D. 105, 12, 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    lintegrate: A C/Python numerical integration library for working in log-space

    Pitkin, M., 25/05/2022, In: Journal of Open Source Software. 7, 73, 2 p., 4231.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 9/05/2022, In: Physical Review D. 105, 10, 28 p., 102001.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Search of the early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational waves from the Cassiopeia A and Vela Jr. supernova remnants

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 28/04/2022, In: Physical Review D. 105, 25 p., 082005.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO–Virgo Run O3b

    The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration, 1/04/2022, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 928, 2, 20 p., 186.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Constraints on dark photon dark matter using data from LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 31/03/2022, In: Physical Review D. 105, 6, 20 p., 063030.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    Search for intermediate-mass black hole binaries in the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 31/03/2022, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 659, 25 p., A84.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Search for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond x-ray pulsars in O3 LIGO data

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 15/01/2022, In: Physical Review D. 105, 2, 42 p., 022002.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. 2021
  26. Published

    All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 15/12/2021, In: Physical Review D. 104, 12, 24 p., 122004.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. Published

    Constraints from LIGO O3 Data on Gravitational-wave Emission Due to R-modes in the Glitching Pulsar PSR J0537-6910

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 23/11/2021, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 922, 1, p. 22 71.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  28. Published

    All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 11/11/2021, In: Physical Review D. 104, 10, 17 p., 102001.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  29. Published

    Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Young Supernova Remnants in the Early Third Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 2/11/2021, In: The Astronomical Journal. 921, 1, 29 p., 80.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  30. Published

    All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars in the early O3 LIGO data

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 8/10/2021, In: Physical Review D. 104, 8, 28 p., 082004.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  31. Published

    Search for anisotropic gravitational-wave backgrounds using data from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runs

    Abbott, R. & LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 27/07/2021, In: Physical Review D. 104, 2, 25 p., 022005.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  32. Published

    Upper limits on the isotropic gravitational-wave background from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's third observing run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 23/07/2021, In: Physical Review D. 104, 2, 022004.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  33. Published

    Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo Run O3a

    The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, 9/07/2021, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 915, 2, 16 p., 86.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  34. Published

    Observation of Gravitational Waves from Two Neutron Star–Black Hole Coalescences

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 29/06/2021, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 915, 1, L5.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  35. Published

    Constraints on Cosmic Strings Using Data from the Third Advanced LIGO–Virgo Observing Run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 16/06/2021, In: Physical review letters. 126, 24, 19 p., 241102.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  36. Published

    Tests of general relativity with binary black holes from the second LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 15/06/2021, In: Physical Review D. 103, 12, 43 p., 122002.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  37. Published

    GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First Half of the Third Observing Run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 9/06/2021, In: Physical Review X. 11, 2, 52 p., 021053.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  38. Published

    Diving below the Spin-down Limit: Constraints on Gravitational Waves from the Energetic Young Pulsar PSR J0537-6910

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration & KAGRA Collaboration, 1/06/2021, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 913, 2, 15 p., L27.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  39. Published

    Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 19/05/2021, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 913, 1, p. L7 41 p., L7.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  40. Published

    A Gravitational-wave Measurement of the Hubble Constant Following the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 19/03/2021, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 909, 2, 218.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  41. Published

    All-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 12/03/2021, In: Physical Review D. 103, 6, 23 p., 064017.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  42. Published

    Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 31/01/2021, In: SoftwareX. 13, 20 p., 100658.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  43. 2020
  44. Published

    Establishing the significance of continuous gravitational-wave detections from known pulsars

    Isi, M., Mastrogiovanni, S., Pitkin, M. & Piccinni, O., 28/12/2020, In: Physical Review D. 102, 19 p., 123027.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  45. Published
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  46. Published

    Gravitational-wave Constraints on the Equatorial Ellipticity of Millisecond Pulsars

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 12/10/2020, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 902, 1, 17 p., L21.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  47. Published

    GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M⊙

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 2/09/2020, In: Physical review letters. 125, 10, 17 p., 101102.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  48. Published

    Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M⊙ Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 2/09/2020, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 900, 1, p. L13 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  49. Published

    GW190412: Observation of a binary-black-hole coalescence with asymmetric masses

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 24/08/2020, In: Physical Review D. 102, 29 p., 043015.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  50. Published

    GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 23/06/2020, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 896, p. L44 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  51. Published

    A Joint Fermi-GBM and LIGO/Virgo Analysis of Compact Binary Mergers from the First and Second Gravitational-wave Observing Runs

    Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, 20/04/2020, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 893, 2, p. 100 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  52. Published

    Optically targeted search for gravitational waves emitted by core-collapse supernovae during the first and second observing runs of advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 15/04/2020, In: Physical Review D. 101, 8, p. 084002 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  53. Published

    GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass $\sim 3.4$\,\Msun

    Abbott, B. P. & LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 19/03/2020, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 892, 1, 24 p., L3.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  54. Published

    A guide to LIGO–Virgo detector noise and extraction of transient gravitational-wave signals

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 6/02/2020, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 37, 5, 54 p., 055002.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  55. Published

    Model comparison from LIGO─Virgo data on GW170817's binary components and consequences for the merger remnant

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 16/01/2020, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 37, 4, 44 p., 045006.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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