Publications (35)
Gravitational Wave Signals from Two-Dimensional Core-Collapse Supernova Models with Rotation and Magnetic Fields
Rylan Jardine, Jade Powell, Bernhard Müller
We investigate the impact of rotation and magnetic fields on the dynamics and gravitational wave emission in 2D core-collapse supernova simulations with neutrino transport. We simu…
Detecting and reconstructing gravitational waves from the next Galactic core-collapse supernova in the Advanced Detector Era
Marek Szczepanczyk, Javier Antelis, Michael Benjamin +17
We performed a detailed analysis of the detectability of a wide range of gravitational waves derived from core-collapse supernova simulations using gravitational-wave detector nois…
Core-Collapse Supernova Gravitational-Wave Search and Deep Learning Classification
Alberto Iess, Elena Cuoco, Filip Morawski +1
We describe a search and classification procedure for gravitational waves emitted by core-collapse supernova (CCSN) explosions, using a convolutional neural network (CNN) combined…
Classification methods for noise transients in advanced gravitational-wave detectors II: performance tests on Advanced LIGO data
Jade Powell, Alejandro Torres-Forné, Ryan Lynch +5
The data taken by the advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors contains short duration noise transients that limit the significance of astrophysical detections and redu…
Inferring the core-collapse supernova explosion mechanism with three-dimensional gravitational-wave simulations
Jade Powell, Marek Szczepanczyk, Ik Siong Heng
A detection of a core-collapse supernova signal with an Advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detector network will allow us to measure astrophysical parameters of the source.…
Reconstructing Core-Collapse Supernova Gravitational-Wave Signals with Transdimensional Bayesian Inference
Hayden Chapman, Jade Powell, Nir Guttman +2
Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are promising future sources of gravitational waves for current and next-generation observatories. Reconstructing CCSN gravitational-wave signals i…
An Optically Targeted Search for Gravitational Waves emitted by Core-Collapse Supernovae during the Third Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo
Marek J. SzczepaÅczyk, Yanyan Zheng, Javier M. Antelis +35
We present the results from a search for gravitational-wave transients associated with core-collapse supernovae observed optically within 30 Mpc during the third observing run of A…
Reconstructing Gravitational Wave Core-Collapse Supernova Signals with Dynamic Time Warping
Sofia Suvorova, Jade Powell, Andrew Melatos
Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are a potential source for ground-based gravitational wave detectors, as their predicted emission peaks in the detectors' frequency band. Typical s…
The final core collapse of pulsational pair instability supernovae
Jade Powell, Bernhard Müller, Alexander Heger
We present 3D core-collapse supernova simulations of massive Pop-III progenitor stars at the transition to the pulsational pair instability regime. We simulate two progenitor model…
Gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae with no electromagnetic counterparts
Jade Powell, Bernhard Müller
Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are regularly observed electromagnetically, prompting targetted searches for their gravitational-wave emission. However, there are scenarios where…
The SPIIR online coherent pipeline to search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences
Qi Chu, Manoj Kovalam, Linqing Wen +16
This paper presents the SPIIR pipeline used for public alerts during the third advanced LIGO and Virgo observation run (O3 run). The SPIIR pipeline uses infinite impulse response (…
Bilby: A user-friendly Bayesian inference library for gravitational-wave astronomy
Gregory Ashton, Moritz Huebner, Paul D. Lasky +18
Bayesian parameter estimation is fast becoming the language of gravitational-wave astronomy. It is the method by which gravitational-wave data is used to infer the sources' astroph…
The Science of the Einstein Telescope
Adrian Abac, Raul Abramo, Simone Albanesi +485
Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science ob…
The impact of pair-instability mass loss on the binary black hole mass distribution
Simon Stevenson, Matthew Sampson, Jade Powell +4
A population of binary black hole mergers has now been observed in gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO and Virgo. The masses of these black holes appear to show evidence for a pil…
Three-dimensional core-collapse supernova simulations of massive and rotating progenitors
Jade Powell, Bernhard Müller
We present three-dimensional simulations of the core-collapse of massive rotating and non-rotating progenitors performed with the general relativistic neutrino hydrodynamics code C…
Generating transient noise artifacts in gravitational-wave detector data with generative adversarial networks
Jade Powell, Ling Sun, Katinka Gereb +2
Transient noise glitches in gravitational-wave detector data limit the sensitivity of searches and contaminate detected signals. In this Paper, we show how glitches can be simulate…
Astrophysics with core-collapse supernova gravitational wave signals in the next generation of gravitational wave detectors
Vincent Roma, Jade Powell, Ik Siong Heng +1
The next generation of gravitational wave detectors will improve the detection prospects for gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae. The complex astrophysics involved in…
Strategy for identifying Vera C. Rubin Observatory kilonova candidates for targeted gravitational-wave searches
Simon Stevenson, Anais Möller, Jade Powell
Since the observation of the binary neutron star merger GW170817 and the associated kilonova AT2017gfo, the next joint gravitational-wave/optical kilonova has been highly anticipat…
Determining the core-collapse supernova explosion mechanism with current and future gravitational-wave observatories
Jade Powell, Alberto Iess, Miquel Llorens-Monteagudo +5
Gravitational waves are emitted from deep within a core-collapse supernova, which may enable us to determine the mechanism of the explosion from a gravitational-wave detection. Pre…
Inferring the core-collapse supernova explosion mechanism with gravitational waves
Jade Powell, Sarah E. Gossan, Joshua Logue +1
A detection of a core-collapse supernova (CCSN) gravitational-wave (GW) signal with an Advanced LIGO and Virgo detector network may allow us to measure astrophysical parameters of…
The deci-Hz gravitational wave signal from the collapse of rotating very massive stars
Bailey Sykes, Jade Powell, Bernhard Müller +1
We calculate the gravitational wave signal from the collapse of a rotating 300 star at the upper end of the pair-instability regime. The large-scale asymmetries that deve…
Enhancing Gravitational-Wave Science with Machine Learning
Elena Cuoco, Jade Powell, Marco Cavaglià +23
Machine learning has emerged as a popular and powerful approach for solving problems in astrophysics. We review applications of machine learning techniques for the analysis of grou…
The minimum neutron star mass in neutrino-driven supernova explosions
Bernhard Müller, Alexander Heger, Jade Powell
Supernova theory has struggled to explain the lightest known neutron star candidate with an accurate mass determination, the companion in the eccentric comp…
Gravitational Wave Emission from 3D Explosion Models of Core-Collapse Supernovae with Low and Normal Explosion Energies
Jade Powell, Bernhard Müller
Understanding gravitational wave emission from core-collapse supernovae will be essential for their detection with current and future gravitational wave detectors. This requires a…
Gravitational Waves from a Core g-Mode in Supernovae as Probes of the High-Density Equation of State
Pia Jakobus, Bernhard Müller, Alexander Heger +5
Using relativistic supernova simulations of massive progenitor stars with a quark-hadron equation of state (EoS) and a purely hadronic EoS, we identify a distinctive feature in the…
Inferring Astrophysical Parameters of Core-Collapse Supernovae from their Gravitational-Wave Emission
Jade Powell, Bernhard Müller
Nearby core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are powerful multi-messenger sources for gravitational-wave, neutrino and electromagnetic telescopes as they emit gravitational waves in the…
Impact of the nuclear equation of state on the explodability of massive stars
Jade Powell, Bernhard Müller
In recent years, astrophysical observations have placed tight constraints on key properties of the nuclear equation of state (EoS). Using 93 two-dimensional simulations for three d…
The gravitational-wave emission from the explosion of a 15 solar mass star with rotation and magnetic fields
Jade Powell, Bernhard Müller
Gravitational waveform predictions from 3D simulations of explosions of non-rotating massive stars with no magnetic fields have been extensively studied. However, the impact of mag…
Classification methods for noise transients in advanced gravitational-wave detectors
Jade Powell, Daniele Trifiro, Elena Cuoco +2
Noise of non-astrophysical origin will contaminate science data taken by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (aLIGO) and Advanced Virgo gravitational-w…
The DAWES review: Gravitational-wave burst astrophysics
Jade Powell, Paul D. Lasky
Over a hundred gravitational-wave signals have now been detected from the mergers of black holes and neutron stars, but other sources of gravitational waves have not yet been disco…
Unmodelled Clustering Methods for Gravitational Wave Populations of Compact Binary Mergers
Jade Powell, Simon Stevenson, Ilya Mandel +1
The mass and spin distributions of compact binary gravitational-wave sources are currently uncertain due to complicated astrophysics involved in their formation. Multiple sub-popul…
Parameter Estimation and Model Selection of Gravitational Wave Signals Contaminated by Transient Detector Noise Glitches
Jade Powell
The number of astrophysical sources detected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo is expected to increase as the detectors approach their design sensitivity. Gravitational wave detectors are…
Nucleosynthesis in the Innermost Ejecta of Magnetorotational Supernova Explosions in 3-dimensions
Shuai Zha, Bernhard Müller, Jade Powell
Core-collapse supernova (CCSN) explosions powered by rotation and magnetic fields present an interesting astrophysical site for nucleosynthesis that potentially contributes to the…
Open data from the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1741
The global network of gravitational-wave observatories now includes five detectors, namely LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO 600. These detectors collected data…
Three dimensional magnetorotational core-collapse supernova explosions of a 39 solar mass progenitor star
Jade Powell, Bernhard Mueller, David R. Aguilera-Dena +1
We perform three-dimensional simulations of magnetorotational supernovae using a progenitor star with two different initial magnetic field strengths of G…