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Dr Matthew Pitkin FHEA

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. 2020
  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 2019
  5. Published

    Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the second Advanced LIGO observing run with an improved hidden Markov model

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 15/12/2019, In: Physical Review D. 100, 12, 21 p., 122002.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Search for Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts during the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Aptekar, R. L., Boynton, W. V., Frederiks, D. D., Golenetskii, S. V., Golovin, D. V., Hurley, K., Kozlova, A. V., Litvak, M. L., Mitrofanov, I. G., Sanin, A. B., Svinkin, D. S. & Carotenuto, F., 20/11/2019, In: Astrophysical Journal. 886, 1, 15 p., 75.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 20/11/2019, In: Physical Review D. 100, 10, 30 p., 104036.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Search for Subsolar Mass Ultracompact Binaries in Advanced LIGO's Second Observing Run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 18/10/2019, In: Physical review letters. 123, 16, 13 p., 161102.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  9. Published

    Search for Eccentric Binary Black Hole Mergers with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during Their First and Second Observing Runs

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration & Salemi, F., 30/09/2019, In: Astrophysical Journal. 883, 2, 10 p., 149.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo network

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 30/09/2019, In: Physical Review D. 100, 6, 18 p., 064064.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. 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

  12. Published

    Search for the isotropic stochastic background using data from Advanced LIGO's second observing run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 15/09/2019, In: Physical Review D. 100, 6, 16 p., 061101.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 9/09/2019, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 882, 2, 30 p., L24.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  14. Published

    Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using data from Advanced LIGO's first two observing runs

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration & Virgo Collaboration, 4/09/2019, In: Physical Review D. 100, 6, p. 062001 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. Published

    GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 4/09/2019, In: Physical Review X. 9, 3, 49 p., 031040.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO O2 data

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 15/07/2019, In: Physical Review D. 100, 2, p. 024004 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

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

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 15/07/2019, In: Physical Review D. 100, 2, 18 p., 024017.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Tests of General Relativity with GW170817

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 3/07/2019, In: Physical review letters. 123, 1, p. 011102 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  19. Published

    Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in 2015-2017 LIGO Data

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 1/07/2019, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 879, 28 p., 10.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Narrow-band search for gravitational waves from known pulsars using the second LIGO observing run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 27/06/2019, In: Physical Review D. 99, 12, 20 p., 122002.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published

    All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the second Advanced LIGO observing run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 14/05/2019, In: Physical Review D. 99, 10, 13 p., 104033.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    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

    The DES Collaboration, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, 26/04/2019, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 876, 1, 15 p., L7.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  23. Published

    Low-latency Gravitational-wave Alerts for Multimessenger Astronomy during the Second Advanced LIGO and Virgo Observing Run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 25/04/2019, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 875, 2, 20 p., 161.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Search for Gravitational Waves from a Long-lived Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 25/04/2019, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 875, 2, 19 p., 160.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from 15 Supernova Remnants and Fomalhaut B with Advanced LIGO

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 23/04/2019, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 875, 2, 21 p., 122.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  26. Published

    Search for Transient Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Magnetar Bursts during Advanced LIGO's Second Observing Run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration & Pitkin, M., 4/04/2019, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 874, 2, 14 p., 163.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. 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. ~. & 1 others, Thrane, E., 1/04/2019, In: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 241, 2, 13 p., 27.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  28. Published

    Constraining the p -Mode-g -Mode Tidal Instability with GW170817

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 13/02/2019, In: Physical review letters. 122, 6, 12 p., 061104.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  29. Published

    A Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Search for Electromagnetic Signals Coincident with Gravitational-wave Candidates in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run

    Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, 24/01/2019, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 871, 1, 12 p., 90.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  30. Published

    Search for Multimessenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos with Advanced LIGO during Its First Observing Run, ANTARES, and IceCube

    ANTARES Collaboration, IceCube Collaboration, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, 16/01/2019, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 870, 16 p., 134.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  31. 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

  32. 2018
  33. Published

    Search for Subsolar-Mass Ultracompact Binaries in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 7/12/2018, In: Physical review letters. 121, 23, 13 p., 231103.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  34. Published

    GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 15/10/2018, In: Physical review letters. 121, 16, 16 p., 161101.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  35. Published

    Hierarchical Bayesian method for detecting continuous gravitational waves from an ensemble of pulsars

    Pitkin, M., Messenger, C. & Fan, X., 5/09/2018, In: Physical Review D. 98, 18 p., 063001.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  36. Published

    Evidence for a Minimum Ellipticity in Millisecond Pulsars

    Woan, G., Pitkin, M. D., Haskell, B., Jones, D. I. & Lasky, P. D., 21/08/2018, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 863, 2, 6 p., L40.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  37. Published

    OctApps: a library of Octave functions for continuous gravitational-wave data analysis

    Wette, K., Prix, R., Keitel, D., Pitkin, M., Dreissigacker, C., T. Whelan, J. & Leaci, P., 6/06/2018, In: Journal of Open Source Software. 3, 26, 3 p., 707.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  38. Published

    Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 16/05/2018, In: Physical review letters. 120, 20, 13 p., 201102.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  39. Published

    Full band all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 11/05/2018, In: Physical Review D. 97, 10, 31 p., 102003.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  40. Published

    Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 8/05/2018, In: Physical Review D. 97, 10, 20 p., 102002.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  41. Published

    GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 2/03/2018, In: Physical review letters. 120, 9, 12 p., 091101.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  42. Published

    Reduced order modelling in searches for continuous gravitational waves - I. Barycentring time delays

    Pitkin, M., Doolan, S., McMenamin, L. & Wette, K., 28/02/2018, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 476, 4, p. 4510-4519 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  43. Published

    psrqpy: a python interface for querying the ATNF pulsar catalogue

    Pitkin, M., 19/02/2018, In: Journal of Open Source Software. 3, 22, 2 p., 538.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  44. Published

    All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 14/02/2018, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 35, 6, 26 p., 065009.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  45. Published

    Effects of data quality vetoes on a search for compact binary coalescences in Advanced LIGO’s first observing run

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 14/02/2018, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 35, 6, 27 p., 065010.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  46. Published

    First Search for Nontensorial Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 19/01/2018, In: Physical review letters. 120, 3, 13 p., 031104.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  47. 2017
  48. Published

    First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 28/12/2017, In: Physical Review D. 96, 12, 20 p., 122006.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  49. Published

    GW170608: Observation of a 19 Solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 18/12/2017, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 851, 2, 11 p., L35.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  50. Published

    First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 15/12/2017, In: Physical Review D. 96, 12, 26 p., 122004.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  51. Published

    Search for Post-merger Gravitational Waves from the Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 7/12/2017, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 851, 1, p. L16

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  52. Published

    Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated with GW170817

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 1/12/2017, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 850, 2, p. L39 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  53. Published

    On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 1/12/2017, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 850, 2, p. L40

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  54. Published

    GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 16/10/2017, In: Physical review letters. 119, 16, 18 p., 161101.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

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