Publications

Selected Publications

  • Fernández Galiana, Á., McCuller, L., Kissel, J., Barsotti, L., Miller, J., Tse, M., ... & Matichard, F. (2020). Advanced LIGO squeezer platform for backscattered light and optical loss reduction. Classical and Quantum Gravity, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/abb5c2.
  • Tse, M., Yu, H., Kijbunchoo, N., Fernandez-Galiana, A., Dupej, P., Barsotti, L., ... & Evans, M. (2019). Quantum-enhanced advanced LIGO detectors in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy. Physical Review Letters, 123(23), 231107.

    • Conference Papers

  • Fernández-Galiana, A., Arnbak, J., Evans, M. & Mavalvala, N. (2020). Implementation of length control of an optical cavity using second-order transverse modes. Proceedings of the 2020 American Society for Precision Engineering Spring Topical Meeting (pp. 105-109). The American Society for Precision Engineering, Raleigh, NC, USA
  • Fernández-Galiana, A. & Matichard F. (2018). A multipurpose tabletop active vibration isolation system for Ultra High Vacuum (UHV) optical experiments. Proceedings of the 33rd annual meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering (pp. 456-461). The American Society for Precision Engineering, Raleigh, NC, USA

    • Working Papers

  • Butters, B., Fernández-Galiana, A., Wollin, D., Traverso, G., Slocum, A. & Petrozza, J. (2021). A novel deployable six-tooth grasper for laparoscopic myomectomy. Working for submission in Journal of Medical Devices.
  • Blevins, M., Fernandez-Galiana, A., Hooper, M. & Boriskina, S. (2021). Roadmap on universal photonic biosensors for real-time detection of emerging pathogens. Working paper.
  • Fernandez-Galiana, A., Yu, H., Knyazev, E., Evans, M. and Mavalvala, N. (2021). The compact squeezer: A compact source of squeezed vacuum states. Working paper.
  • Kitane, D., Loukman, S., Marchoudi, N., Fernández-Galiana, A., Bertsimas, D., … & Fekkak, J. (2021). A simple and fast spectroscopy-based technique for COVID-19 diagnosis. Working paper.

    • Non-Peer Reviewed Papers

  • Armengol Urpi, A., Fernandez-Galiana, A., Johnson, H., Kantareddy, SNR & Wang, Z. (2019). Non-invasive material characterization using systemID with temperature modulated Raman spectroscopy. MIT Journal of Advanced Instrumentation and Measurement.
  • Fernández Galiana, Á., McCuller, L., Kissel, J., Barsotti, L., Miller, J., Tse, M., ... & Matichard, F. (2018). A compact actively damped vibration isolation platform for experiments in ultra-high vacuum. arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.09666.
  • Fernandez-Galiana, A., Gangeux, D. & Garcia, R. (2015). EntrySat satellite mechanics. ISAE-Supaero Internal Journal.

    • Other Selected Publications

  • McCuller, L., Whittle, C., Ganapathy, D., Komori, K., Tse, M., Fernandez-Galiana, A., ... & Mason, K. (2020). Frequency-Dependent Squeezing for Advanced LIGO. Physical Review Letters, 124(17), 171102.
  • Yu, H., McCuller, L., Tse, M., Barsotti, L., Mavalvala, N., & members of the LIGO Scientific COllaboration (2020). Quantum correlations between the light and kilogram-mass mirrors of LIGO. Nature, 583 (pp. 43-47).
  • Martynov, D. V., Frolov, V. V., Kandhasamy, S., Izumi, K., Miao, H., Mavalvala, N., ... & Abbott, T. D. (2017). Quantum correlation measurements in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. Physical Review A. 95(4), 043831.
  • Walker, M., Abbott, T. D., Aston, S. M., González, G., Macleod, D. M., McIver, J., ... & Anderson, S. B. (2017). Effects of transients in LIGO suspensions on searches for gravitational waves. Review of Scientific Instruments, 88(12), 124501.
  • LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) (2017). GW170104: observation of a 50-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence at redshift 0.2. Physical Review Letters, 118(22), 221101.
  • Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Agatsuma, K. (2020). GW190814: gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 23 solar mass black hole with a 2.6 solar mass compact object. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 896(2), L44.
  • LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) (2017). GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. Physical Review Letters, 119(16), 161101.

    • Other Publications

  • Buikema, A., Cahillane, C., Mansell, G. L., Blair, C. D., Abbott, R., Adams, C., ... & Areeda, J. S. (2020). Sensitivity and performance of the advanced LIGO detectors in the third observing run. arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.01301.
  • Soni, S., Austin, C., Effler, A., Schofield, R. M. S., Gonzalez, G., Frolov, V. V., ... & Abbott, R. (2020). Reducing scattered light in LIGO's third observing run. arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.14876.
  • Schwartz, E., Pele, A., Warner, J., Lantz, B., Betzwieser, J., Dooley, K. L., ... & Adams, C. (2020). Improving the Robustness of the Advanced LIGO Detectors to Earthquakes. arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.12847.
  • Kijbunchoo, N., McRae, T. G., Sigg, D., Dwyer, S., Yu, H., McCuller, L., ... & Fernandez-Galiana, A. (2020). Low phase noise squeezed vacuum for future generation gravitational wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity.
  • LIGO Scientific Collaboration, & Virgo Collaboration. (2020). GW190412: Observation of a Binary-Black-Hole GW190412: Observation of a binary-black-hole coalescence with asymmetric masses. arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.08342.
  • Hamburg, R., Fletcher, C., Burns, E., Goldstein, A., Bissaldi, E., Briggs, M. S., ... & Lesage, S. (2020). A joint Fermi-GBM and LIGO/Virgo analysis of compact binary mergers from the first and second gravitational-wave observing runs. The Astrophysical Journal, 893(2), 100.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agatsuma, K. (2020). Optically targeted search for gravitational waves emitted by core-collapse supernovae during the first and second observing runs of advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo. Physical Review D, 101(8), 084002.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2020). GW190425: Observation of a compact binary coalescence with total mass∼ 3.4 M⊙. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 892(1), L3.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agatsuma, K. (2020). A guide to LIGO–Virgo detector noise and extraction of transient gravitational-wave signals. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 37(5), 055002.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agatsuma, K. (2020). Model comparison from LIGO–Virgo data on GW170817’s binary components and consequences for the merger remnant. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 37(4), 045006.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). Search for gravitational-wave signals associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. The Astrophysical Journal, 886(1), 75.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1. Physical Review D, 100(10), 104036.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). Search for Subsolar Mass Ultracompact Binaries in Advanced LIGO’s Second Observing Run. Physical review letters, 123(16), 161102.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Affeldt, C. (2019). Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo network. Physical Review D, 100(6), 064064.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). Search for eccentric binary black hole mergers with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during their first and second observing runs. The Astrophysical Journal, 883(2), 149.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). Binary black hole population properties inferred from the first and second observing runs of advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 882(2), L24.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using data from Advanced LIGO’s first two observing runs. Physical Review D, 100(6), 062001.
  • Scientific, L. I. G. O., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). Search for the isotropic stochastic background using data from Advanced LIGO’s second observing run. Physical Review D, 100(6), 061101.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). GWTC-1: a gravitational-wave transient catalog of compact binary mergers observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first and second observing runs. Physical Review X, 9(3), 031040.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run. Physical Review D, 100(2), 024017.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO O2 data. Physical Review D, 100(2), 024004.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2019). Tests of general relativity with GW170817. Physical review letters, 123(1), 011102.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). Narrow-band search for gravitational waves from known pulsars using the second LIGO observing run. Physical Review D, 99(12), 122002.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars at two harmonics in 2015–2017 LIGO data. The Astrophysical Journal, 879(1), 10.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the second Advanced LIGO observing run. Physical Review D, 99(10), 104033.
  • Soares-Santos, M., Palmese, A., Hartley, W., Annis, J., Garcia-Bellido, J., Lahav, O., ... & Pereira, M. E. S. (2019). 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 Astrophysical Journal Letters, 876(1), L7.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2019). Search for gravitational waves from a long-lived remnant of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. The Astrophysical Journal, 875(2), 160.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). Low-latency gravitational-wave alerts for multimessenger astronomy during the second advanced LIGO and virgo observing run. The Astrophysical Journal, 875(2), 161.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). Searches for continuous gravitational waves from 15 supernova remnants and Fomalhaut b with advanced LIGO. The Astrophysical Journal, 875(2), 122.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). Gravitational wave astronomy with LIGO and similar detectors in the next decade. arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.03187.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Agathos, M. (2019). Search for transient gravitational-wave signals associated with magnetar bursts during Advanced LIGO’s second observing run. The Astrophysical Journal, 874(2), 163.
  • Reitze, D., Abbott, R., Adams, C., Adhikari, R., Aggarwal, N., Anand, S., ... & Araya, M. (2019). The US program in ground-based gravitational wave science: contribution from the LIGO laboratory. arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.04615.
  • Driggers, J. C., Vitale, S., Lundgren, A. P., Evans, M., Kawabe, K., Dwyer, S. E., ... & Fritschel, P. (2019). Improving astrophysical parameter estimation via offline noise subtraction for Advanced LIGO. Physical Review D, 99(4), 042001.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2019). Constraining the p-mode–g-mode tidal instability with GW170817. Physical review letters, 122(6), 061104.
  • Burns, E., Goldstein, A., Hui, C. M., Blackburn, L., Briggs, M. S., Connaughton, V., ... & Bissaldi, E. (2019). A Fermi gamma-ray burst monitor search for electromagnetic signals coincident with gravitational-wave candidates in advanced LIGO's first observing run. The Astrophysical Journal, 871(1), 90.
  • Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. J., Aublin, J., ... & Belhorma, B. (2019). Search for multimessenger sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos with advanced LIGO during its first observing run, ANTARES, and IceCube. The Astrophysical Journal, 870(2), 134.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2019). Tests of general relativity with GW170817. Physical review letters, 123(1), 011102.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2018). Search for Subsolar-Mass Ultracompact Binaries in Advanced LIGO’s First Observing Run. Physical review letters, 121(23), 231103.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Adya, V. B. (2018). Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA. Living Reviews in Relativity, 21(1), 3.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2018). GW170817: Measurements of neutron star radii and equation of state. Physical review letters, 121(16), 161101.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2017). GW170814: a three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence. Physical review letters, 119(14), 141101.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2018). Search for tensor, vector, and scalar polarizations in the stochastic gravitational-wave background. Physical review letters, 120(20), 201102.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2018). Full band all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 97(10), 102003.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2018). Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run. Physical Review D, 97(10), 102002.
  • Covas, P. B., Effler, A., Goetz, E., Meyers, P. M., Neunzert, A., Oliver, M., ... & Astone, P. (2018). Identification and mitigation of narrow spectral artifacts that degrade searches for persistent gravitational waves in the first two observing runs of Advanced LIGO. Physical Review D, 97(8), 082002.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2018). GW170817: implications for the stochastic gravitational-wave background from compact binary coalescences. Physical review letters, 120(9), 091101.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Adya, V. B. (2018). All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run. Classical and quantum gravity, 35(6), 065009.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2018). First search for nontensorial gravitational waves from known pulsars. Physical review letters, 120(3), 031104.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2017). First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data. Physical Review D, 96(12), 122006.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2017). GW170608: Observation of a 19 solar-mass binary black hole coalescence. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 851(2), L35.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2017). First low-frequency Einstein@ Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data. Physical Review D, 96(12), 122004.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2017). Search for post-merger gravitational waves from the remnant of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 851(1), L16.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2017). On the progenitor of binary neutron star merger GW170817. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 850(2), L40.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2017). Estimating the contribution of dynamical ejecta in the kilonova associated with GW170817. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 850(2), L39.
  • LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, 1M2H Collaboration, Dark Energy Camera GW-EM Collaboration, DES Collaboration, DLT40 Collaboration, ... & MASTER Collaboration. (2017). A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant. Nature, 551(7678), 85-88.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2017). Gravitational waves and gamma-rays from a binary neutron star merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 848(2), L13.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2017). GW170814: a three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence. Physical review letters, 119(14), 141101.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2017). Upper limits on gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 from a model-based cross-correlation search in advanced LIGO data. The Astrophysical Journal, 847(1), 47.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2017). All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 96(6), 062002.
  • Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. J., ... & Bertin, V. (2017). Search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW151226 and candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube. Physical Review D, 96(2), 022005.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2017). Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first observing run of Advanced LIGO. Physical Review D, 96(2), 022001.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Affeldt, C. (2017). Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the first Advanced LIGO observing run with a hidden Markov model. Physical Review D, 95(12), 122003.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Adya, V. B. (2017). Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during the first Advanced LIGO observing run and implications for the origin of GRB 150906B. The Astrophysical Journal, 841(2), 89.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Adya, V. B. (2017). Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34(10), 104002.
  • Blair, C., Gras, S., Abbott, R., Aston, S., Betzwieser, J., Blair, D., ... & Grote, H. (2017). First demonstration of electrostatic damping of parametric instability at Advanced LIGO. Physical review letters, 118(15), 151102.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Adya, V. B. (2017). First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Advanced LIGO. The Astrophysical Journal, 839(1), 12.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Adya, V. B. (2017). Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves from Advanced LIGO’s first observing run. Physical review letters, 118(12), 121102.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Adya, V. B. (2017). Upper limits on the stochastic gravitational-wave background from advanced LIGO’s first observing run. Physical review letters, 118(12), 121101.
  • Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Adya, V. B. (2017). All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run. Physical Review D, 95(4), 042003.