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Professor, Physics

My research is in experimental general relativity, focusing mostly upon gravitational wave detection with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.

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About Michele Zanolin

My research is in experimental general relativity, focusing mostly upon gravitational wave detection with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.

Present	Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University ‐ Physics & Astronomy
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Physical Sciences and Mathematics

2010 College of Arts & Sciences Researcher of the Year
2011 Arizona Campus Researcher of the Year
2012 College of Arts & Sciences Researcher of the Year
2015 Arizona Campus Researcher of the Year

	Ph.D. in Physics, University of Parma
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Articles (33)

All-Sky Search for Long-Duration Gravitational Wave Transients in the First ...

Classical and Quantum Gravity (2018)

B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, J. W. W. Pratt, et al.

We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the data of the LIGO Hanford and ...

Effects of Data Quality Vetoes on a Search for Compact ...

Classical and Quantum Gravity (2018)

B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, J. Pratt, et al.

The first observing run of Advanced LIGO spanned 4 months, from 12 September 2015 to 19 January 2016, during which ...

First Search for Nontensorial Gravitational Waves From Known Pulsars

Physical Review Letters (2018)

B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, et al.

We present results from the first directed search for nontensorial gravitational waves. While general relativity allows for tensorial (plus and ...

First Narrow-Band Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves From Known Pulsars ...

Physical Review D (2017)

B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, et al.

Spinning neutron stars asymmetric with respect to their rotation axis are potential sources of continuous gravitational waves for ground-based interferometric ...

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

The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2017)

B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, et al.

On 2017 June 8 at 02:01:16.49 UTC, a gravitational-wave (GW) signal from the merger of two stellar-mass black holes was ...

First Low-Frequency Einstein@Home All-Sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves ...

Physical Review D (2017)

B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, et al.

We report results of a deep all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars in data from the ...

Search for Post-Merger Gravitational Waves From the Remnant of the ...

The Astronomical Journal Letters (2017)

B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, et al.

The first observation of a binary neutron star (NS) coalescence by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave (GW) detectors ...

Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated ...

The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2017)

B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, et al.

The source of the gravitational-wave (GW) signal GW170817, very likely a binary neutron star merger, was also observed electromagnetically, providing ...

On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2017)

B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, et al.

On 2017 August 17 the merger of two compact objects with masses consistent with two neutron stars was discovered through ...

Search for High-Energy Neutrinos From Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 ...

The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2017)

M. G. Aartsen, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, et al.

The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observatories recently discovered gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. A short gamma-ray ...

A Gravitational-Wave Standard Siren Measurement of the Hubble Constant

B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, et al.

The detection of GW170817 (Abbott et al. 2017a) in both gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves heralds the age of gravitational-wave ...

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

Physical Review Letters (2017)

B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, et al.

On August 17, 2017 at 12∶41:04 UTC the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors made their first observation of ...

Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger ...

The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2017)

B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, et al.

On 2017 August 17, the gravitational-wave event GW170817 was observed by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors, and the gamma-ray ...

Multi-Messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger

The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2017)

B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, et al.

On 2017 August 17 a binary neutron star coalescence candidate (later designated GW170817) with merger time 12:41:04 UTC was observed ...

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

Physical Review Letters (2017)

B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, et al.

On August 14, 2017 at 10∶30:43 UTC, the Advanced Virgo detector and the two Advanced LIGO detectors coherently observed a ...

Upper Limits on Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 from a ...

The Astrophysical Journal (2017)

B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, et al.

We present the results of a semicoherent search for continuous gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1, using ...

Full Band All-Sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the ...

Physical Review D (2017)

B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, et al.

We report on an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band 20–475 Hz and with a frequency ...

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

Physical Review Letters (2017)

B. P. Abbott, K. AultONeal, S. Gaudio, K. Gill, et al.

We describe the observation of GW170104, a gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of a pair of stellar-mass black holes. ...

Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts During the ...

The Astrophysical Journal (2017)

B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, J. W. W. Pratt, et al.

We present the results of the search for gravitational waves (GWs) associated with γ-ray bursts detected during the first observing ...

The Basic Physics of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914

Annalen der Physik (2017)

B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, J. Pratt, et al.

The first direct gravitational-wave detection was made by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory on September 14, 2015. The ...

The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred From Advanced ...

The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2016)

B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, M. J. Szczepańczyk, et al.

A transient gravitational-wave signal, GW150914, was identified in the twin Advanced LIGO detectors on 2015 September 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC. ...

Supplement: The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred From ...

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (2016)

B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, M. J. Szczepańczyk, et al.

This article provides supplemental information for a Letter reporting the rate of (BBH) coalescences inferred from 16 days of coincident ...

Directly Comparing GW150914 With Numerical Solutions of Einstein's Equations ...

Physical Review D (2016)

B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, M. J. Szczepańczyk, et al.

We compare GW150914 directly to simulations of coalescing binary black holes in full general relativity, including several performed specifically to ...

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

Physical Review Letters (2016)

B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, M. J. Szczepańczyk, et al.

We report the observation of a gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of two stellar-mass black holes. The signal, GW151226, ...

Search for Transient Gravitational Waves in Coincidence With Short-Duration Radio ...

Physical Review D (2016)

B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, D. Stiles, et al.

We present an archival search for transient gravitational-wave bursts in coincidence with 27 single pulse triggers from Green Bank Telescope ...