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Dr Matthew Pitkin FHEA

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Published

    Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger

    Pitkin, M. & LIGO collaboration, PESSTO collaboration et al., 16/10/2017, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 848, 2

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

    Abbott, B. P. & LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 2/01/2019, In: Physical Review X. 9, 1, 32 p., 011001.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Published

    Report on the first round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges

    Arnaud, K. A., Auger, G., Babak, S., Baker, J. G., Benacquista, M. J., Bloomer, E., Brown, D. A., Camp, J. B., Cannizzo, J. K., Christensen, N., Clark, J., Cornish, N. J., Crowder, J., Cutler, C., Finn, L. S., Halloin, H., Hayama, K., Hendry, M., Jeannin, O., Królak, A., & 24 othersLarson, S. L., Mandel, I., Messenger, C., Meyer, R., Mohanty, S., Nayak, R., Numata, K., Petiteau, A., Pitkin, M., Plagnol, E., Porter, E. K., Prix, R., Roever, C., Stroeer, A., Thirumalainambi, R., Thompson, D. E., Toher, J., Umstaetter, R., Vallisneri, M., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Vinet, J. -Y., Whelan, J. T. & Woan, G., 19/09/2007, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 24, 19, p. S529-S539 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    BILBY: A User-friendly Bayesian Inference Library for Gravitational-wave Astronomy

    Ashton, G., Hübner, M., Lasky, P. D., Talbot, C., Ackley, K., Biscoveanu, S., Chu, Q., Divakarla, A., Easter, P. J., Goncharov, B., Hernandez Vivanco, F., Harms, J., Lower, M. E., Meadors, G. D., Melchor, D., Payne, E., Pitkin, M. D., Powell, J., Sarin, N., Smith, R. J. E., & 1 othersThrane, E., 1/04/2019, In: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 241, 2, 13 p., 27.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. 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 othersWacker, 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

  14. Published

    Report on the second Mock LISA data challenge

    Babak, S., Baker, J. G., Benacquista, M. J., Cornish, N. J., Crowder, J., Cutler, C., Larson, S. L., Littenberg, T. B., Porter, E. K., Vallisneri, M., Vecchio, A., Auger, G., Barack, L., Blaut, A., Bloomer, E., Brown, D. A., Christensen, N., Clark, J., Fairhurst, S., Gair, J. R., & 23 othersHalloin, H., Hendry, M., Jimenez, A., Królak, A., Mandel, I., Messenger, C., Meyer, R., Mohanty, S., Nayak, R., Petiteau, A., Pitkin, M., Plagnol, E., Prix, R., Robinson, E. L., Roever, C., Savov, P., Stroeer, A., Toher, J., Veitch, J., Vinet, J-Y., Wen, L., Whelan, J. T. & Woan, G., 15/05/2008, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 25, 11, 8 p., 114037.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. Published

    Validating gravitational-wave detections: The Advanced LIGO hardware injection system

    Biwer, C., Barker, D., Batch, J. C., Betzwieser, J., Fisher, R. P., Goetz, E., Kandhasamy, S., Karki, S., Kissel, J. S., Lundgren, A. P., Macleod, D. M., Mullavey, A., Riles, K., Rollins, J. G., Thorne, K. A., Thrane, E., Abbott, T. D., Allen, B., Brown, D. A., Charlton, P., & 27 othersCrowder, S. G., Fritschel, P., Kanner, J. B., Landry, M., Lazzaro, C., Millhouse, M., Pitkin, M., Savage, R. L., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Smith, J. R., Sun, L., Veitch, J., Vitale, S., Weinstein, A. J., Cornish, N., Essick, R. C., Fays, M., Katsavounidis, E., Lange, J., Littenberg, T. B., Lynch, R., Meyers, P. M., Pannarale, F., Prix, R., O'Shaughnessy, R. & Sigg, D., 27/03/2017, In: Physical Review D. 95, 15 p., 062002.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Evidence-based search method for gravitational waves from neutron star ring-downs

    Clark, J., Heng, I. S., Pitkin, M. & Woan, G., 2007, In: Physical Review D. 76, 4, 13 p., 043003.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    An evidence based time-frequency search method for gravitational waves from pulsar glitches

    Clark, J., Heng, I. S., Pitkin, M. & Woan, G., 1/07/2008, In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 122, 1, 5 p., 012035.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    A targeted spectral interpolation algorithm for the detection of continuous gravitational waves

    Davies, G. S., Pitkin, M. & Woan, G., 1/01/2017, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 34, 1, 20 p., 015010.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Advanced technologies for future ground-based, laser-interferometric gravitational wave detectors

    Hammond, G., Hild, S. & Pitkin, M., 1/12/2014, In: Journal of Modern Optics. 61, Sup1, p. S10-S45 36 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineReview articlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Glitch or Anti-glitch: A Bayesian View

    Hu, Y-M., Pitkin, M., Heng, I. S. & Hendry, M. A., 21/03/2014, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 784, 2, 4 p., L41.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  21. Published

    Probing dynamical gravity with the polarization of continuous gravitational waves

    Isi, M., Pitkin, M. & Weinstein, A. J., 15/08/2017, In: Physical Review D. 96, 27 p., 042001.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Detecting beyond-Einstein polarizations of continuous gravitational waves

    Isi, M., Weinstein, A. J., Mead, C. & Pitkin, M., 1/04/2015, In: Physical Review D. 91, 8, 18 p., 082002.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. 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

  24. Published

    First search for long-duration transient gravitational waves after glitches in the Vela and Crab pulsars

    Keitel, D., Woan, G., Pitkin, M., Schumacher, C., Pearlstone, B., Riles, K., Lyne, A., Palfreyman, J., Stappers, B. & Weltevrede, P., 27/09/2019, In: Physical Review D. 100, 6, 10 p., 064058.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Upper limit to the transverse to longitudinal motion coupling of a waveguide mirror

    Leavey, S., Barr, B. W., Bell, A. S., Gordon, N., Gräf, C., Hild, S., Huttner, S. H., Kley, E-B., Kroker, S., Macarthur, J., Messenger, C., Pitkin, M., Sorazu, B., Strain, K. & Tünnermann, A., 1/09/2015, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 32, 17, 16 p., 175005.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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