Location: PRC 441
Email: zdoctoruchicago.edu

Scientific Advisor: Daniel E. Holz

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
• 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, Demystifying everyday electronics, Yerkes Winter Institute
• KICP Event, Public Lectures & Open Discussion: Gravitational Waves & Transient Astronomy
• KICP Event, Special KICP/EFI/Physics/A&A Colloquium and Reception
• 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)

2018 | 2017 | 2016


Latest Journal Publications

1. "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)
2. "A Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background", arXiv:1802.10194 (Feb 2018)
3. "How Many Kilonovae Can Be Found in Past, Present, and Future Survey Data Sets?", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 852, Issue 1, article id. L3, 7 pp. (2018) (Jan 2018)
4. "First Search for Nontensorial Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars", Physical Review Letters, Volume 120, Issue 3, id.031104 (Jan 2018)
5. "Statistical gravitational waveform models: What to simulate next?", Physical Review D, Volume 96, Issue 12, id.123011 (Dec 2017)
6. "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)
7. "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)
8. "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)
9. "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)
10. "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)
11. "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)
12. "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)
13. "Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run", arXiv:1712.01168 (Dec 2017)
14. "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)
15. "A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant", Nature, Volume 551, Issue 7678, pp. 85-88 (2017) (Nov 2017)
16. "VizieR Online Data Catalog: Gravitational waves search from known PSR with LIGO (Abbott+, 2017)", VizieR On-line Data Catalog: J/ApJ/839/12. Originally published in: 2017ApJ...839...12A (Nov 2017)
17. "GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence", Physical Review Letters, Volume 119, Issue 14, id.141101 (Oct 2017)
18. "The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 848, Issue 2, article id. L17, 10 pp. (2017) (Oct 2017)
19. "The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Discovery of the Optical Counterpart Using the Dark Energy Camera", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 848, Issue 2, article id. L16, 7 pp. (2017) (Oct 2017)
20. "The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. VII. Properties of the Host Galaxy and Constraints on the Merger Timescale", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 848, Issue 2, article id. L22, 7 pp. (2017) (Oct 2017)

Latest Conference Proceedings

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