Location: ERC 454
Email: zdoctoruchicago.edu

Scientific Advisor: Daniel E. Holz

• KICP member Daniel Holz discusses Gravitational Waves on PBS' The Good Stuff, The Good Stuff
• 2016 Yerkes Summer Institute: Spy vs. Spy, KICP News
• KICP celebrates an historic day in science, KICP News
• Scientists find ripples in fabric of spacetime, The University of Chicago News Office

• KICP Yerkes Institute, The Physics of Toys, Yerkes Summer Institute (instructor)
• KICP Talk, Astronomy on Tap: Zoheyr Doctor, "100 Years in the Making: The Detection of Gravitational Waves"
• KICP Yerkes Institute, Spy vs. Spy, Yerkes Summer Institute (instructor)
• KICP Event, LIGO update on the search for gravitational waves
• KICP Yerkes Institute, The Science of Musical Instruments, Yerkes Winter Institute (instructor)
• KICP Yerkes Institute, Mission to Mars: Engineering Design Process, Yerkes Summer Institute (instructor)

2017 | 2016


Latest Journal Publications

1. "Science-Driven Optimization of the LSST Observing Strategy", arXiv:1708.04058 (Aug 2017)
2. "Search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW151226 and candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube", Physical Review D, Volume 96, Issue 2, id.022005 (Jul 2017)
3. "All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data", arXiv:1707.02667 (Jul 2017)
4. "Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first observing run of Advanced LIGO", Physical Review D, Volume 96, Issue 2, id.022001 (Jul 2017)
5. "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, Volume 841, Issue 2, article id. 89, 18 pp. (2017) (Jun 2017)
6. "GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2", Physical Review Letters, Volume 118, Issue 22, id.221101 (Jun 2017)
7. "Upper Limits on Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 from a Model-Based Cross-Correlation Search in Advanced LIGO Data", arXiv:1706.03119 (Jun 2017)
8. "Statistical Gravitational Waveform Models: What to Simulate Next?", arXiv:1706.05408 (Jun 2017)
9. "Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914", Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 34, Issue 10, article id. 104002 (2017) (May 2017)
10. "First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 839, Issue 1, article id. 12, 19 pp. (2017) (Apr 2017)
11. "Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run", Physical Review Letters, Volume 118, Issue 12, id.121101 (Mar 2017)
12. "Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run", Physical Review Letters, Volume 118, Issue 12, id.121102 (Mar 2017)
13. "A Search for Kilonovae in the Dark Energy Survey", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 837, Issue 1, article id. 57, 15 pp. (2017) (Mar 2017)
14. "Supplement: “Localization and Broadband Follow-up of the Gravitational-wave Transient GW150914” (2016, ApJL, 826, L13)", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 225, Issue 1, article id. 8, 15 pp. (2016) (Jul 2016)

Latest Conference Proceedings

1. "Gravitational Wave Emulation Using Gaussian Process Regression", APS April Meeting 2017, abstract #X6.007 (Jan 2017)
2. "Search for Kilonovae in Dark Energy Survey Supernova Fields", APS April Meeting 2016, abstract #M13.007 (Mar 2016)