List of works - Alexander Harvey Nitz

3-OGC: Catalog of Gravitational Waves from Compact-binary Mergers

scientific article published in 2021

A Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Search for Electromagnetic Signals Coincident with Gravitational-wave Candidates in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run

scientific article published on 25 January 2019

A first search for coincident gravitational waves and high energy neutrinos using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007

scientific article published on 7 June 2013

Advanced LIGO

scientific article (publication date: 3 March 2015)

All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run

scientific article (publication date: June 2012)

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients with initial LIGO ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 February 2016

All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

Application of a Hough search for continuous gravitational waves on data from the fifth LIGO science run

scientific article published on 3 April 2014

Astrophysical Implications of the Binary Black-hole Merger GW150914 ⬇️

journal article from 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters' published in 2016

Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run

scientific article published on 21 October 2016

Broad search for gravitational waves from subsolar-mass binaries through LIGO and Virgo’s third observing run

scientific article published in 2022

Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detectors for the discovery of the binary black-hole merger GW150914 ⬇️

journal article from 'Physical Review D' published in 2017

Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run ⬇️

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914 ⬇️

journal article from 'Classical and Quantum Gravity' published in 2016

Comprehensive all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the sixth science run LIGO data ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 August 2016

Constraining the p -Mode– g -Mode Tidal Instability with GW170817

scientific article published on 13 February 2019

Constraints on Cosmic Strings from the LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Detectors

scientific article

Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run

scientific article published on 8 May 2018

Detecting Baryon Acoustic Oscillations with Third-generation Gravitational Wave Observatories

scientific article published in 2022

Directed search for continuous gravitational waves from the Galactic center

scientific article published in November 2013

Directed search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with initial LIGO data ⬇️

scientific article published in March 2015

Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run. ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein's equations for binary black hole coalescence ⬇️

journal article from 'Physical Review D' published in 2016

Distinguishing short duration noise transients in LIGO data to improve the PyCBC search for gravitational waves from high mass binary black hole mergers

scholarly article by Alexander Nitz published 12 January 2018 in Classical and Quantum Gravity

Effects of data quality vetoes on a search for compact binary coalescences in Advanced LIGO’s first observing run

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914 ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data

scientific article published in February 2013

Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light

scientific article published on 21 July 2013

Erratum: “First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO” (2017, ApJ, 839, 12)

erratum published in the Astrophysical Journal

Erratum: “Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Nine Young Supernova Remnants” (2015, ApJ, 813, 39)

correction

Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated with GW170817 ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2017

Exploring the sensitivity of next generation gravitational wave detectors ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

First Search for Nontensorial Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars

scientific article published in January 2018

First Searches for Optical Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Candidate Events

scientific article published on 11 February 2014

First all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown sources in binary systems ⬇️

scientific article published in September 2014

First low frequency all-sky search for continuous gravitational wave signals ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data

scientific article published on 8 December 2017

First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data

scientific article published on 28 December 2017

First targeted search for gravitational-wave bursts from core-collapse supernovae in data of first-generation laser interferometer detectors ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 November 2016

From one to many: A deep learning coincident gravitational-wave search

scientific article published in 2022

Full band all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data

scientific article published on 11 May 2018

GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO ⬇️

journal article from 'Physical Review D' published in 2016

GW150914: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Binary Black Holes ⬇️

journal article from 'Physical Review Letters' published in 2016

GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries ⬇️

journal article from 'Physical Review Letters' published in 2016

GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

scientific article (publication date: June 2017)

GW170608: Observation of a 19 Solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence.

scientific article published on 6 October 2017

GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences.

scientific article published in March 2018

GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral.

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M_{⊙}

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

scientific article

GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

scholarly article

GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First Half of the Third Observing Run

scholarly article published in April 2021

Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Gravitational waves from known pulsars: results from the initial detector era ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

High-energy neutrino follow-up search of gravitational wave event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube ⬇️

journal article from 'Physical Review D' published in 2016

Implementation of an $\mathcal{F}$-statistic all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Virgo VSR1 data ⬇️

scientific article published on 5 August 2014

Improved Analysis of GW150914 Using a Fully Spin-Precessing Waveform Model ⬇️

journal article from 'Physical Review X' published in 2016

Improved Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from 2009–2010 LIGO and Virgo Data ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2014

Localization and Broadband Follow-up of the Gravitational-wave Transient GW150914 ⬇️

journal article from 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters' published in 2016

Methods and results of a search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts using the GEO 600, LIGO, and Virgo detectors ⬇️

scientific article published in June 2014

Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube ⬇️

scientific article published in November 2014

Narrow-band search of continuous gravitational-wave signals from Crab and Vela pulsars in Virgo VSR4 data ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2015

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions ⬇️

journal article from 'Physical Review D' published in 2016

On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2017

Parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence signals with the first generation gravitational-wave detector network

scientific article published in September 2013

Posterior samples of the parameters of binary black holes from Advanced LIGO, Virgo's second observing run

scientific article published on 03 June 2019

Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914 ⬇️

journal article from 'Physical Review Letters' published in 2016

Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

scientific article published on 2 January 2019

Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo.

scientific article published on 08 February 2016

Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA.

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

PyCBC Inference: a python-based parameter estimation toolkit for compact binary coalescence signals

scientific article published in January 2019

Results of the deepest all-sky survey for continuous gravitational waves on LIGO S6 data running on the Einstein@Home volunteer distributed computing project ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 November 2016

Search for Coincident Gravitational-wave and Fast Radio Burst Events from 4-OGC and the First CHIME/FRB Catalog

scientific article published in 2022

Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with γ -ray Bursts Detected by the Interplanetary Network ⬇️

scientific article published in June 2014

Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts during the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run and Implications for the Origin of GRB 150906B

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Search for Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of Subsolar-Mass Binaries in the First Half of Advanced LIGO and Virgo’s Third Observing Run

scientific article published in 2021

Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory ⬇️

scholarly article

Search for Post-merger Gravitational Waves from the Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 ⬇️

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

Search for Subsolar-Mass Ultracompact Binaries in Advanced LIGO’s First Observing Run

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in globular cluster NGC 6544 ⬇️

scientific article published on 19 April 2017

Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run ⬇️

scientific article published in June 2014

Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed intermediate mass black holes in LIGO-Virgo data from 2005–2010 ⬇️

scientific article published on 27 May 2014

Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during LIGO science run 6 and Virgo science runs 2 and 3 ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the first Advanced LIGO observing run with a hidden Markov model

scientific article published on 27 June 2017

Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009–2010

scientific article published in January 2013

Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes

scientific article published on 24 May 2012

Search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW151226 and candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube

scientific article published on 12 July 2017

Search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients coincident with long gamma-ray bursts

scientific article published in December 2013

Search for transient gravitational waves in coincidence with short-duration radio transients during 2007–2013 ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 20 June 2016)

Search of the Orion spur for continuous gravitational waves using a loosely coherent algorithm on data from LIGO interferometers ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Searches for continuous gravitational waves from nine young supernova remnants ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Searching for stochastic gravitational waves using data from the two colocated LIGO Hanford detectors ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2015

Supplement: "Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 826, L13) ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

Supplement: "The rate of binary black hole mergers inferred from Advanced LIGO observations surrounding GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 833, L1) ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 November 2016

Swift follow-up observations of candidate gravitational-wave transient events

scientific article published on 21 November 2012

Tests of General Relativity with GW150914 ⬇️

journal article from 'Physical Review Letters' published in 2016

Tests of General Relativity with GW170817

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1

scholarly article published in November 2019

The NINJA-2 project: detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 May 2014

The PyCBC search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence ⬇️

The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred from Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914 ⬇️

journal article from 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters' published in 2016

The basic physics of the binary black hole merger GW150914 ⬇️

journal article from 'Annalen der Physik' published in 2017

The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches

scientific article published on 27 June 2012

Training strategies for deep learning gravitational-wave searches

scientific article published in 2022

Upper Limits on Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 from a Model-based Cross-correlation Search in Advanced LIGO Data

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run.

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600–1000 Hz

scientific article published on 4 June 2012

Upper limits on the rates of binary neutron star and neutron star-black hole mergers from Advanced LIGO's first observing run ⬇️

scientific article published on 23 November 2016

List of works by Alexander Harvey Nitz

3-OGC: Catalog of Gravitational Waves from Compact-binary Mergers

A Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Search for Electromagnetic Signals Coincident with Gravitational-wave Candidates in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run

A first search for coincident gravitational waves and high energy neutrinos using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007

Advanced LIGO

All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients with initial LIGO ⬇️

All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data

All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run ⬇️

Application of a Hough search for continuous gravitational waves on data from the fifth LIGO science run

Astrophysical Implications of the Binary Black-hole Merger GW150914 ⬇️

Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run

Broad search for gravitational waves from subsolar-mass binaries through LIGO and Virgo’s third observing run

Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detectors for the discovery of the binary black-hole merger GW150914 ⬇️

Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run ⬇️

Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914 ⬇️

Comprehensive all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the sixth science run LIGO data ⬇️

Constraining the p -Mode– g -Mode Tidal Instability with GW170817

Constraints on Cosmic Strings from the LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run

Detecting Baryon Acoustic Oscillations with Third-generation Gravitational Wave Observatories

Directed search for continuous gravitational waves from the Galactic center

Directed search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with initial LIGO data ⬇️

Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run. ⬇️

Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein's equations for binary black hole coalescence ⬇️

Distinguishing short duration noise transients in LIGO data to improve the PyCBC search for gravitational waves from high mass binary black hole mergers

Effects of data quality vetoes on a search for compact binary coalescences in Advanced LIGO’s first observing run

Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914 ⬇️

Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data

Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light

Erratum: “First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO” (2017, ApJ, 839, 12)

Erratum: “Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Nine Young Supernova Remnants” (2015, ApJ, 813, 39)

Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated with GW170817 ⬇️

Exploring the sensitivity of next generation gravitational wave detectors ⬇️

First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO

First Search for Nontensorial Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars

First Searches for Optical Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Candidate Events

First all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown sources in binary systems ⬇️

First low frequency all-sky search for continuous gravitational wave signals ⬇️

First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data

First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts

First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data

First targeted search for gravitational-wave bursts from core-collapse supernovae in data of first-generation laser interferometer detectors ⬇️

From one to many: A deep learning coincident gravitational-wave search

Full band all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data

GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO ⬇️

GW150914: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Binary Black Holes ⬇️

GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries ⬇️

GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

GW170608: Observation of a 19 Solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence ⬇️

GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence.

GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences.

GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State

GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral.

GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M_{⊙}

GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First Half of the Third Observing Run

Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A ⬇️

Gravitational waves from known pulsars: results from the initial detector era ⬇️

High-energy neutrino follow-up search of gravitational wave event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube ⬇️

Implementation of an $\mathcal{F}$-statistic all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Virgo VSR1 data ⬇️

Improved Analysis of GW150914 Using a Fully Spin-Precessing Waveform Model ⬇️

Improved Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from 2009–2010 LIGO and Virgo Data ⬇️

Localization and Broadband Follow-up of the Gravitational-wave Transient GW150914 ⬇️

Methods and results of a search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts using the GEO 600, LIGO, and Virgo detectors ⬇️

Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger ⬇️

Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube ⬇️

Narrow-band search of continuous gravitational-wave signals from Crab and Vela pulsars in Virgo VSR4 data ⬇️

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger ⬇️

Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions ⬇️

On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 ⬇️

Parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence signals with the first generation gravitational-wave detector network

Posterior samples of the parameters of binary black holes from Advanced LIGO, Virgo's second observing run

Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914 ⬇️

Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo.

Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA.