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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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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)

Observing Gravitational-Wave Transient GW150914 with Minimal Assumptions

Physical Review D (2016)

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

The gravitational-wave signal GW150914 was first identified on September 14, 2015, by searches for short-duration gravitational-wave transients. These searches identify ...

Characterization of Transient Noise in Advanced LIGO Relevant to Gravitational ...

Classical and Quantum Gravity (2016)

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

On September 14, 2015, a gravitational wave signal from a coalescing black hole binary system was observed by the Advanced ...

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

Physical Review Letters (2016)

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

On September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory simultaneously observed a transient ...

Application of Asymptotic Expansions for Maximum Likelihood Estimators' Errors to ...

Physical Review D (2011)

Salvatore Vitale and Michele Zanolin

This paper describes the most accurate analytical frequentist assessment to date of the uncertainties in the estimation of physical parameters ...

Application of Asymptotic Expansions for Maximum Likelihood Estimators Errors to ...

Physical Review D (2010)

M. Zanolin, S. Vitale and N. Makris

In this paper we describe a new methodology to calculate analytically the error for a maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) for ...

Gravitational Wave Burst Source Direction Estimation Using Time and Amplitude ...

Physical Review D (2008)

J. Markowitz, M. Zanolin, L. Cadonati and E. Katsavounidis

In this article we study two problems that arise when using timing and amplitude estimates from a network of interferometers ...

Asymptotic Accuracy of Geoacoustic Inversions

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2004)

Michele Zanolin, Ian Ingram, Aaron Thode and Nicholas C. Makris

Criteria necessary to accurately estimate a set of unknown geoacoustic parameters from remote acoustic measurements are developed in order to ...

Probing Europa's Interior with Natural Sound Sources

Sunwoong Lee, Michele Zanolin, Aaron M. Thode, Robert T. Pappalardo, et al.

Europa's interior structure may be determined by relatively simple and robust seismo-acoustic echo sounding techniques. The strategy is to use ...

Contribution to Book

Observation of Gravitational Waves From a Binary Black Hole Merger

Centennial of General Relativity: A Celebration (2017)

B. P. Abbott, M. Zanolin and et al.

Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, first published a century ago, was described by physicist Max Born as "the greatest ...