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Dr Matthew Pitkin FHEA

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. 2021
  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 2020
  13. 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

  14. Published

    Bayesian inference for compact binary coalescences with BILBY: Validation and application to the first LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalogue

    Romero-Shaw, I. M., Talbot, C., Biscoveanu, S., D'Emilio, V., Ashton, G., Berry, C. P. L., Coughlin, S., Galaudage, S., Hoy, C., Hübner, M., Phukon, K. S., Pitkin, M., Rizzo, M., Sarin, N., Smith, R., Stevenson, S., Vajpeyi, A., Aréne, M., Athar, K., Banagiri, S., & 39 othersBose, N., Carney, M., Chatziioannou, K., Clark, J. A., Colleoni, M., Cotesta, R., Edelman, B., Estellés, H., Garcia-Quirós, C., Ghosh, A., Green, R., Haster, C. -J., Husa, S., Keitel, D., Kim, A. X., Hernandez-Vivanco, F., Magaña Hernandez, I., Karathanasis, C., Lasky, P. D., De Lillo, N., Lower, M. E., Macleod, D., Mateu-Lucena, M., Miller, A., Millhouse, M., Morisaki, S., Oh, S. H., Ossokine, S., Payne, E., Powell, J., Pratten, G., Pürrer, M., Ramos-Buades, A., Raymond, V., Thrane, E., Veitch, J., Williams, D., Williams, M. J. & Xiao, L., 1/12/2020, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 499, 3, p. 3295–3319 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 2019
  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

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