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Dr Matthew Pitkin FHEA

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. 2018
  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 2017
  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. Published

    GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 6/10/2017, In: Physical review letters. 119, 14, 16 p., 141101.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  25. 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

  26. Published

    GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 1/06/2017, In: Physical review letters. 118, 22, 17 p., 221101.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  27. Published

    A nested sampling code for targeted searches for continuous gravitational waves from pulsars

    Pitkin, M., Isi, M., Veitch, J. & Woan, G., 05/2017, 46 p.

    Research output: Working paper

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