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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

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