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A Daytime Measurement of the Lunar Contribution to the Night Sky Brightness in LSST's ugrizy Bands-- Initial Results
Michael Coughlin, Christopher Stubbs, Chuck Claver
We report measurements from which we determine the spatial structure of the lunar contribution to night sky brightness, taken at the LSST site on Cerro Pachon in Chile. We use an a…
Detecting gravitational-wave transients at five sigma: a hierarchical approach
Eric Thrane, Michael Coughlin
As second-generation gravitational-wave detectors prepare to analyze data at unprecedented sensitivity, there is great interest in searches for unmodeled transients, commonly calle…
A Mock Data and Science Challenge for Detecting an Astrophysical Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo
Duncan Meacher, Michael Coughlin, Sean Morris +6
The purpose of this mock data and science challenge is to prepare the data analysis and science interpretation for the second generation of gravitational-wave experiments Advanced…
Constraining the r-mode saturation amplitude from a hypothetical detection of r-mode gravitational waves from a newborn neutron star - sensitivity study
Antonis Mytidis, Michael Coughlin, Bernard Whiting
This paper consists of two related parts: In the first part we derive an expression of the moment of inertia (MOI) of a neutron star as a function of observables from a hypothetica…
Chasing 5-sigma: Prospects for searches for long-duration gravitational-waves without time slides
Michael Coughlin, Patrick Meyers, Shivaraj Kandhasamy +2
The detection of unmodeled gravitational-wave bursts by ground-based interferometric gravitational-wave detectors is a major goal for the advanced detector era. These searches are…