Gravity Research

Sean Carroll visited us this week delivering several talks and engaging with the URI community widely. Carroll gave a Physics Department seminar, a public talk and help many discussions with faculty, students, and other community members. He stayed at the President’s house as a special university guest. Carroll spent 2 hours with the U²GRC yesterday […]

We are really excited to share that Drs. Derek Davis and Deborah Ferguson will be joining U²GRC as faculty members at URI in Fall 2025. Derek Davis is currently a postdoc at Caltech. They work at an intersection of detector science and astrophysics, specifically on how characterization of gravitational-wave detectors impacts detections of gravitational wave sources.  […]

We are really excited to share that Dr. Sean Carroll will visit us in the first of March. As part of the visit, Dr. Carroll will give multiple talks and hold several small sessions with students and researchers.

Incorporating waveform calibration error in gravitational-wave modeling and inference for SEOBNRv4 Ritesh Bachhar, Michael Pürrer, Stephen R. Green arXiv:2410.17168 Accounting for Numerical-Relativity Calibration Uncertainty in Gravitational-Wave Modeling and Inference Lorenzo Pompili, Alessandra Buonanno, Michael Pürrer arXiv:2410.16859  Compact binary coalescences: grav…

Yesterday, Sept 20th, U²GRC held its first in-person meeting of the fall ’24 semester at URI!  We met at AstroSpace — a dedicated wing of URI’s East Hall for U²GRC to house faculty, students and hold collaboration meetings. Almost the entire UMass Dartmouth gravity group: Scott, Vijay, Bhaskar, Manas, Som, Adhrit, Anushka, Abhishekh, Veranya, Swati and Pranav drove in […]

The University of Rhode Island (URI) is hiring a tenure-track, assistant professor position in the broad area of gravitational wave astrophysics (theory, data analysis, or computational). URI runs a regional gravity research consortium with UMass Dartmouth that includes Sarah Caudill (UMassD), Rob Coyne (URI), Scott Field (UMassD), Bob Fisher (UMassD), Doug Gobeille (URI), Gaurav Khanna […]

Congrats to Manas Vishal, whose paper “Toward exponentially-convergent simulations of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals: A time-domain solver for the scalar Teukolsky equation with singular source terms” was recently accepted for publication in Physical Review D. You can find about more about this work here.

The U²GRC welcomes Aidan Chatwin-Davies! Aidan is joining URI as an Assistant Professor starting Fall semester (2024). His research interests lie in quantum information and quantum gravity, and he generally works on problems in which these fields intersect. These days Aidan is particularly interested in exploring connections among quantum error correction, cosmology, gauge theories, and othe…

High-Precision Ringdown Surrogate Model for Non-Precessing Binary Black Holes arXiv:2408.05300 Adding higher-order spherical harmonics in non-spinning eccentric binary black hole merger waveform models arXiv:2408.02762 Gravitational wave surrogate model for spinning, intermediate mass ratio binaries based on perturbation theory and numerical relativity arXiv:2407.18319 Gravitational waves from bl…

https://theconversation.com/black-holes-are-mysterious-yet-also-deceptively-simple-a-new-space-mission-may-help-physicists-answer-hairy-questions-about-these-astronomical-objects-222228

https://www.uri.edu/news/2024/04/dont-be-left-in-the-dark-uri-professor-provides-lowdown-on-mondays-total-solar-eclipse/

Searching for gravitational-wave signals from precessing black hole binaries with the GstLAL pipelineAuthors: Stefano Schmidt, Sarah Caudill, Jolien D. E. Creighton, Ryan Magee, Leo Tsukada, Shomik Adhicary, Pratyusava Baral, Amanda Baylor, Kipp Cannon, Bryce Cousins, Becca Ewing, Heather Fong, Richard N. George, Patrick Godwin, Chad Hanna, Reiko Harada, Yun-Jing Huang, Rachael Huxford, Prathames…