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Research Theme: Modeling the gravitational-wave memory signal
This post describes two papers on constructing gravitational waveform models for the gravitational-wave memory effect.
Research Theme: Scalar-tensor gravity in Bondi-Sachs form
This post reviews three papers that treat asymptotically flat spacetimes in scalar-tensor theories of gravity. The first two papers dealt one theory called ...
Research Theme: Dynamics of dark matter in intermediate mass-ratio inspirals
This post describes three papers on the dynamics of dark matter in intermediate mass-ratio inspirals (IMRIs), the gravitational waves emitted from these syst...
News Update: Received NSF CAREER Award
I am pleased to announce (belatedly) that I received an NSF CAREER Award back in December 2024. The full abstract for the award is on the NSF website here. A...
Research Theme: Extended BMS Symmetries, Spin, Center-of-Mass and Higher Memory Effects
This post summarizes five papers related to the conserved quantities of extensions of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group and related higher memory effects.
News Updates: Appearances on Podcasts
I had the pleasure of appearing on the podcast Hoos in STEM hosted by UVA Mathematics Professor Ken Ono twice now. The first time I discussed some propertie...
Research Activity: Athena and LISA White Papers
This post summarizes three white papers to which I contributed, one about the European Space agency (ESA) mission Athena and the other two related to the ES...
Research Theme: Forecasts for detecting the gravitational-wave memory effect with current and future detectors
This post summarizes work on when the gravitational-wave memory effect and spin memory effect will be able to be detected by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo dete...
Research Theme: Persistent Gravitational-Wave Observables
This post summarizes two papers about three new procedures by which one can measure generalized notions of gravitational-wave memory. The first paper was an ...
Research Theme: Definitions of (super) angular momentum in asymptotically flat spacetimes
This post highlights a paper and essay that investigates several commonly used definitions of angular momentum and super angular momentum in asymptotically f...
Paper: Constraining the Properties of the Progenitor of GW170817
This post summarizes a paper about how well one can distinguish whether the progenitor of the GW170817 event was a binary neutron star or a neutron-star blac...
News Update: New Position and New Website
On July 25, 2019, I moved from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in the Netherlands to begin a new position as an Assistant Professor of Physics at the Unive...
Paper: Testing General Relativity Using Golden Black-Hole Binaries
This post describes a paper outlining the methodology for testing general relativity with binary black holes, which was later applied to the LIGO and Virgo d...
Research Theme: Gravitational-Wave Memory and Relativistic Angular Momentum
This post describes three papers related to defining a locally measured angular momentum, comparing this angular momentum measured by different observers, an...
Research Theme: Short-Wavelength Quasinormal Modes
This post describes two papers and a comment about quasinormal modes of Kerr black holes in the short-wavelength (geometric-optics) limit.
Research Theme: Visualizing Spacetime Curvature with Vortex and Tendex Lines
This post is a summary of six papers I wrote with collaborators during my Ph.D. about visualizing spacetime curvature around binary-black-hole mergers.
Research Theme: Hybrid Post-Newtonian and Black-Hole Perturbation Model
This post is a summary of two papers I wrote with Yanbei Chen during my Ph.D. about a semi-analytical model for explaining the properties of the gravitationa...
Research Theme: Black-Hole Recoil Velocity and the Landau-Lifshitz Pseudotensor
This post is a summary of three papers I wrote towards the begining of my Ph.D. about gravitational recoils from merging binary black holes.