Phone: (773) 834-9785
Location: ERC 411
Email: reedessickkicp.uchicago.edu

Ongoing Scientific Projects:

• Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO)

• LIGO announces detection of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars, UChicago News
• Gravitational Waves Events, KICP News
• The KICP will welcome 5 new Fellows in the Autumn of 2017, KICP News

• KICP Postdocs Symposium, Fall 2017 Postdocs Symposium
• KICP Event, Public Lectures & Open Discussion: Gravitational Waves & Transient Astronomy

2018 | 2017


Latest Journal Publications

1. "Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817", arXiv:1805.11579 (May 2018)
2. "GW170817: Measurements of neutron star radii and equation of state", arXiv:1805.11581 (May 2018)
3. "Full band all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data", Physical Review D, Volume 97, Issue 10, id.102003 (May 2018)
4. "Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run", Physical Review D, Volume 97, Issue 10, id.102002 (May 2018)
5. "Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA", Living Reviews in Relativity, Volume 21, Issue 1, article id. 3, 57 pp (Apr 2018)
6. "Effects of data quality vetoes on a search for compact binary coalescences in Advanced LIGO’s first observing run", Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 35, Issue 6, article id. 065010 (2018) (Mar 2018)
7. "All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run", Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 35, Issue 6, article id. 065009 (2018) (Mar 2018)
8. "GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences", Physical Review Letters, Volume 120, Issue 9, id.091101 (Mar 2018)
9. "A Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background", arXiv:1802.10194 (Feb 2018)
10. "First Search for Nontensorial Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars", Physical Review Letters, Volume 120, Issue 3, id.031104 (Jan 2018)
11. "Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 850, Issue 2, article id. L35, 18 pp. (2017) (Dec 2017)
12. "First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data", Physical Review D, Volume 96, Issue 12, id.122006 (Dec 2017)
13. "On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 850, Issue 2, article id. L40, 18 pp. (2017) (Dec 2017)
14. "Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated with GW170817", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 850, Issue 2, article id. L39, 13 pp. (2017) (Dec 2017)
15. "Search for Post-merger Gravitational Waves from the Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 851, Issue 1, article id. L16, 13 pp. (2017) (Dec 2017)
16. "GW170608: Observation of a 19 Solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 851, Issue 2, article id. L35, 11 pp. (2017) (Dec 2017)
17. "Erratum: “First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO” (2017, ApJ, 839, 12)", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 851, Issue 1, article id. 71, 5 pp. (2017) (Dec 2017)
18. "Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run", arXiv:1712.01168 (Dec 2017)
19. "First low-frequency EinsteinHome all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data", Physical Review D, Volume 96, Issue 12, id.122004 (Dec 2017)
20. "A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant", Nature, Volume 551, Issue 7678, pp. 85-88 (2017) (Nov 2017)

Past Visitors:

1. Lindy Blackburn, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA (2018)