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Dual Heuristic Dynamic Programing Control Of Grid-Connected Synchronverters, Sepehr Saadatmand, Mohamad Saleh Sanjari Nia, Pourya Shamsi, Mehdi Ferdowsi Oct 2019

Dual Heuristic Dynamic Programing Control Of Grid-Connected Synchronverters, Sepehr Saadatmand, Mohamad Saleh Sanjari Nia, Pourya Shamsi, Mehdi Ferdowsi

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A new approach to control a grid-connected synchronverter by using a dual heuristic dynamic programing (DHP) design is presented. The disadvantages of conventional synchronverter controller such as the challenges to cope with nonlinearity, uncertainties, and non-inductive grids are discussed. To deal with the aforementioned challenges a neural network–based adaptive critic design is introduced to optimize the associated cost function. The characteristic of the neural networks facilitates the performance under uncertainties and unknown parameters (e.g. different power angles). The proposed DHP design includes three neural networks: system NN, action NN, and critic NN. The simulation results compare the performance of the …


Neural Network Predictive Controller For Grid-Connected Virtual Synchronous Generator, Sepehr Saadatmand, Mohamad Saleh Sanjari Nia, Pourya Shamsi, Mehdi Ferdowsi, Donald C. Wunsch Oct 2019

Neural Network Predictive Controller For Grid-Connected Virtual Synchronous Generator, Sepehr Saadatmand, Mohamad Saleh Sanjari Nia, Pourya Shamsi, Mehdi Ferdowsi, Donald C. Wunsch

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this paper, a neural network predictive controller is proposed to regulate the active and the reactive power delivered to the grid generated by a three-phase virtual inertia-based inverter. The concept of the conventional virtual synchronous generator (VSG) is discussed, and it is shown that when the inverter is connected to non-inductive grids, the conventional PI-based VSGs are unable to perform acceptable tracking. The concept of the neural network predictive controller is also discussed to replace the traditional VSGs. This replacement enables inverters to perform in both inductive and non-inductive grids. The simulation results confirm that a well-trained neural network …


A Study Of Brain Neuronal And Functional Complexities Estimated Using Multiscale Entropy In Healthy Young Adults, Sreevalsan S. Menon, K. Krishnamurthy Oct 2019

A Study Of Brain Neuronal And Functional Complexities Estimated Using Multiscale Entropy In Healthy Young Adults, Sreevalsan S. Menon, K. Krishnamurthy

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Brain complexity estimated using sample entropy and multiscale entropy (MSE) has recently gained much attention to compare brain function between diseased or neurologically impaired groups and healthy control groups. Using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rfMRI) blood oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) signals in a large cohort (n = 967) of healthy young adults, the present study maps neuronal and functional complexities estimated by using MSE of BOLD signals and BOLD phase coherence connectivity, respectively, at various levels of the brain’s organization. The functional complexity explores patterns in a higher dimension than neuronal complexity and may better discern changes in brain functioning. …


Novel Highly Porous Ceramic And Metal Aerogels From Xerogel Powder Precursors, And Methods For Their Production And Use, Nicholas Leventis, Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis, Malik Adnan Saeed, Parwani Rewatkar, Tahereh Taghvaee Oct 2019

Novel Highly Porous Ceramic And Metal Aerogels From Xerogel Powder Precursors, And Methods For Their Production And Use, Nicholas Leventis, Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis, Malik Adnan Saeed, Parwani Rewatkar, Tahereh Taghvaee

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

The present invention discloses novel methods for producing highly porous ceramic and/or metal aerogel monolithic objects that are hard, sturdy, and resistant to high temperatures. These methods comprise preparing nanoparticulate oxides of metals and/or metalloids via a step of vigorous stirring to prevent gelation, preparing polymer-modified xerogel powder compositions by reacting said nanoparticulate oxides with one or more polyfunctional monomers, compressing said polymer-modified xerogel powder compositions into shaped compacts, and carbothermal conversion of the shaped xerogel compacts via pyrolysis to provide the highly porous ceramic and/or metal aerogel monolithic objects that have the same shapes as to their corresponding xerogel …


Dissipative Correlated Dynamics Of A Moving Impurity Immersed In A Bose-Einstein Condensate, Simeon I. Mistakidis, F. Grusdt, G. M. Koutentakis, P. Schmelcher Oct 2019

Dissipative Correlated Dynamics Of A Moving Impurity Immersed In A Bose-Einstein Condensate, Simeon I. Mistakidis, F. Grusdt, G. M. Koutentakis, P. Schmelcher

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We Unravel The Nonequilibrium Correlated Quantum Quench Dynamics Of An Impurity Traveling Through A Harmonically Confined Bose-Einstein Condensate In One-Dimension. For Weak Repulsive Interspecies Interactions The Impurity Oscillates Within The Bosonic Gas. At Strong Repulsions And Depending On Its Prequench Position The Impurity Moves Towards An Edge Of The Bosonic Medium And Subsequently Equilibrates. This Equilibration Being Present Independently Of The Initial Velocity, The Position And The Mass Of The Impurity Is Inherently Related To The Generation Of Entanglement In The Many-Body System. Focusing On Attractive Interactions The Impurity Performs A Damped Oscillatory Motion Within The Bosonic Bath, A Behavior …


Co-Localization Of Dna I-Motif-Forming Sequences And 5-Hydroxymethyl-Cytosines In Human Embryonic Stem Cells, Yogini P. Bhavsar-Jog, Eric Van Dornshuld, Tracy A. Brooks, Gregory S. Tschumper, Randy M. Wadkins Oct 2019

Co-Localization Of Dna I-Motif-Forming Sequences And 5-Hydroxymethyl-Cytosines In Human Embryonic Stem Cells, Yogini P. Bhavsar-Jog, Eric Van Dornshuld, Tracy A. Brooks, Gregory S. Tschumper, Randy M. Wadkins

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

G-quadruplexes (G4s) and i-motifs (iMs) are tetraplex DNA structures. Sequences capable of forming G4/iMs are abundant near the transcription start sites (TSS) of several genes. G4/iMs affect gene expression in vitro. Depending on the gene, the presence of G4/iMs can enhance or suppress expression, making it challenging to discern the underlying mechanism by which they operate. Factors affecting G4/iM structures can provide additional insight into their mechanism of regulation. One such factor is epigenetic modification. The 5-hydroxymethylated cytosines (5hmCs) are epigenetic modifications that occur abundantly in human embryonic stem cells (hESC). The 5hmCs, like G4/iMs, are known to participate in …


The Missouri Miner, October 2, 2019 Oct 2019

The Missouri Miner, October 2, 2019

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.


Tracking The 6-Dof Flight Trajectory Of Windborne Debris Using Stereophotogrammetry, Chaman Sabharwal, Yanlin Guo Oct 2019

Tracking The 6-Dof Flight Trajectory Of Windborne Debris Using Stereophotogrammetry, Chaman Sabharwal, Yanlin Guo

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Numerous post-windstorm investigations have reported that windborne debris can cause costly damage to the envelope of buildings in urban areas under strong winds (e.g., during hurricanes or tornados). Thus, understanding the physics of debris flight is of critical importance. Previously developed numerical models describing debris flight physics have not been validated for the complex urban flow environment; such a validation requires experimentally measuring the debris flight trajectory in wind tunnel tests. In this context, this paper proposes a debris measurement algorithm using stereophotogrammetry. This algorithm aims to determine the six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) trajectory and velocity of flying debris, addressing the research …


The 2nd 3d Face Alignment In The Wild Challenge (3dfaw-Video): Dense Reconstruction From Video, Rohith Krishnan Pillai, Laszlo Attila Jeni, Huiyuan Yang, Zheng Zhang, Lijun Yin, Jeffrey F. Cohn Oct 2019

The 2nd 3d Face Alignment In The Wild Challenge (3dfaw-Video): Dense Reconstruction From Video, Rohith Krishnan Pillai, Laszlo Attila Jeni, Huiyuan Yang, Zheng Zhang, Lijun Yin, Jeffrey F. Cohn

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

3D face alignment approaches have strong advantages over 2D with respect to representational power and robustness to illumination and pose. Over the past few years, a number of research groups have made rapid advances in dense 3D alignment from 2D video and obtained impressive results. How these various methods compare is relatively unknown. Previous benchmarks addressed sparse 3D alignment and single image 3D reconstruction. No commonly accepted evaluation protocol exists for dense 3D face reconstruction from video with which to compare them. The 2nd 3D Face Alignment in the Wild from Videos (3DFAW-Video) Challenge extends the previous 3DFAW 2016 competition …


Electrochemistry Of Illusive Barbosalite, Fe²⁺Fe³⁺ 2(Po₄)₂(Oh)₂: An Iron Phosphate Related To Lipscombite Structure, Prashanth Sandineni, Kartik Ghosh, Amitava Choudhury Oct 2019

Electrochemistry Of Illusive Barbosalite, Fe²⁺Fe³⁺ 2(Po₄)₂(Oh)₂: An Iron Phosphate Related To Lipscombite Structure, Prashanth Sandineni, Kartik Ghosh, Amitava Choudhury

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Barbosalite, an iron hydroxy-phosphate belonging to the family of Lazulite has been synthesized using hydrothermal route and its electrochemical property is investigated for the first time with respect to Li-ion batteries. The structure, as determined from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data, built up of undulating layers of FeO6 octahedra, consisting of trimers and PO4 tetrahedral units. Magnetic susceptibility measurements show predominant overall anti-ferromagnetic interactions and room temperature 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopic studies confirm the mixed 3+ and 2+ oxidation states of Fe in the compound. The compound is stable up to 400°C and undergo facile electrochemical lithium insertion. Galvanostatic charge-discharge …


State-To-State Inelastic Rotational Cross Sections In Five-Atom Systems With The Multiconfiguration Time Dependent Hartree Method, Steve Ndengue, Yohann Scribano, Fabien Gatti, Richard Dawes Oct 2019

State-To-State Inelastic Rotational Cross Sections In Five-Atom Systems With The Multiconfiguration Time Dependent Hartree Method, Steve Ndengue, Yohann Scribano, Fabien Gatti, Richard Dawes

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

We present a MultiConfiguration Time Dependent Hartree (MCTDH) method as an attractive alternative approach to the usual quantum close-coupling method that approaches some computational limits in the calculation of rotational excitation (and de-excitation) between polyatomic molecules (here collisions between triatomic and diatomic rigid molecules). We have performed a computational investigation of the rotational (de-)excitation of the benchmark rigid rotor H2O-H2 system on a recently developed Potential Energy Surface of the complex using the MCTDH method. We focus here on excitations and de-excitations from the 000, 111, and 110 states of H2 …


Search For Eccentric Binary Black Hole Mergers With Advanced Ligo And Advanced Virgo During Their First And Second Observing Runs, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Oct 2019

Search For Eccentric Binary Black Hole Mergers With Advanced Ligo And Advanced Virgo During Their First And Second Observing Runs, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

When formed through dynamical interactions, stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) may retain eccentric orbits (e > 0.1 at 10 Hz) detectable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. Eccentricity can therefore be used to differentiate dynamically formed binaries from isolated BBH mergers. Current template-based gravitational-wave searches do not use waveform models associated with eccentric orbits, rendering the search less efficient for eccentric binary systems. Here we present the results of a search for BBH mergers that inspiral in eccentric orbits using data from the first and second observing runs (O1 and O2) of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. We carried out the search with …


Probability Density Of The Fractional Langevin Equation With Reflecting Walls, Thomas Vojta, Sarah Skinner, Ralf Metzler Oct 2019

Probability Density Of The Fractional Langevin Equation With Reflecting Walls, Thomas Vojta, Sarah Skinner, Ralf Metzler

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We investigate anomalous diffusion processes governed by the fractional Langevin equation and confined to a finite or semi-infinite interval by reflecting potential barriers. As the random and damping forces in the fractional Langevin equation fulfill the appropriate fluctuation-dissipation relation, the probability density on a finite interval converges for long times towards the expected uniform distribution prescribed by thermal equilibrium. In contrast, on a semi-infinite interval with a reflecting wall at the origin, the probability density shows pronounced deviations from the Gaussian behavior observed for normal diffusion. If the correlations of the random force are persistent (positive), particles accumulate at the …


An Optimal Edg Method For Distributed Control Of Convection Diffusion Pdes, X. Zhang, Y. Zhang, John R. Singler Oct 2019

An Optimal Edg Method For Distributed Control Of Convection Diffusion Pdes, X. Zhang, Y. Zhang, John R. Singler

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We propose an embedded discontinuous Galerkin (EDG) method to approximate the solution of a distributed control problem governed by convection diffusion PDEs, and obtain optimal a priori error estimates for the state, dual state, their uxes, and the control. Moreover, we prove the optimize-then-discretize (OD) and discrtize-then-optimize (DO) approaches coincide. Numerical results confirm our theoretical results.


Three-Dimensional Rotation Of Paramagnetic And Ferromagnetic Prolate Spheroids In Simple Shear And Uniform Magnetic Field, Christopher A. Sobecki, Yanzhi Zhang, Cheng Wang Oct 2019

Three-Dimensional Rotation Of Paramagnetic And Ferromagnetic Prolate Spheroids In Simple Shear And Uniform Magnetic Field, Christopher A. Sobecki, Yanzhi Zhang, Cheng Wang

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We examine a time-dependent, three-dimensional rotation of magnetic ellipsoidal particles in a two-dimensional, simple shear flow and a uniform magnetic field. We consider that the particles have paramagnetic and ferromagnetic properties, and we compare their rotational dynamics due to the strengths and directions of the applied uniform magnetic field. We determine the critical magnetic field strength that can pin the particles' rotations. Above the critical field strength, the particles' stable steady angles were determined. In a weak magnetic regime (below the critical field strength), a paramagnetic particle's polar angle will oscillate toward the magnetic field plane while its azimuthal angle …


Double-Click Enables Synthesis Of Chemical Libraries For Drug Discovery, Joseph J. Topczewski, En Chih Liu Oct 2019

Double-Click Enables Synthesis Of Chemical Libraries For Drug Discovery, Joseph J. Topczewski, En Chih Liu

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.


Iot-Based Cyber-Physical Communication Architecture: Challenges And Research Directions, Md Masud Rana, Rui Bo Sep 2019

Iot-Based Cyber-Physical Communication Architecture: Challenges And Research Directions, Md Masud Rana, Rui Bo

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In order to provide intelligent services, the Internet of Things (IoT) facilitates millions of smart cyber-physical devices to be enabled with network connectivity to sense, collect, process, and exchange information. Unfortunately, the traditional communication infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber attacks and link failures, so it is a challenging task for the IoT to explore these applications. In order to begin research and contribute into the IoT-based cyber-physical digital world, one will need to know the technical challenges and research opportunities. In this study, several key technical challenges and requirements for the IoT communication systems are identified. Basically, privacy, security, intelligent …


The Missouri Miner, September 25, 2019 Sep 2019

The Missouri Miner, September 25, 2019

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.


Why Does This Entity Matter? Support Passage Retrieval For Entity Retrieval, Shubham Chatterjee, Laura Dietz Sep 2019

Why Does This Entity Matter? Support Passage Retrieval For Entity Retrieval, Shubham Chatterjee, Laura Dietz

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Our goal is to complement an entity ranking with human-readable explanations of how those retrieved entities are connected to the information need. While related to the problem of support passage retrieval, in this paper, we explore two underutilized indicators of relevance: contextual entities and entity salience. The effectiveness of the indicators is studied within a supervised learning-to-rank framework on a dataset from TREC Complex Answer Retrieval. We find that salience is a useful indicator, but it is often not applicable. In contrast, although performance improvements are obtained by using contextual entities, using contextual words still outperforms contextual entities.


Target Dependence Of Postcollision Interaction Effects On Fully Differential Ionization Cross Sections, M. Dhital, S. Bastola, A. Silvus, B. R. Lamichhane, E. Ali, M. F. Ciappina, R. A. Lomsadze, A. Hasan, Don H. Madison, Michael Schulz Sep 2019

Target Dependence Of Postcollision Interaction Effects On Fully Differential Ionization Cross Sections, M. Dhital, S. Bastola, A. Silvus, B. R. Lamichhane, E. Ali, M. F. Ciappina, R. A. Lomsadze, A. Hasan, Don H. Madison, Michael Schulz

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We have measured and calculated fully differential cross sections (FDCS) for ionization of helium by 75-keV proton impact. Ejected electrons with a speed close to and above the projectile speed were investigated. This range of kinematics represents a largely unexplored regime. A high sensitivity of the FDCS to the details of the description of the few-body dynamics, reported earlier for ionization of H2, was confirmed. A peak structure was found in an electron angular range between the regions where the so-called binary and recoil peaks are usually observed. The need for nonperturbative calculations using a two-center basis set …


Low-Cost, Ambient-Dried, Superhydrophobic, High Strength, Thermally Insulating, And Thermally Resilient Polybenzoxazine Aerogels, Sadeq Malakooti, Guoqiang Qin, Chandana Mandal, Rushi Soni, Tahereh Taghvaee, Yao Ren, Huiluo Chen, Nicholas Tsao, James Shiao, Shameek Sushil Kulkarni, Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis, Nicholas Leventis, Hongbing Lu Sep 2019

Low-Cost, Ambient-Dried, Superhydrophobic, High Strength, Thermally Insulating, And Thermally Resilient Polybenzoxazine Aerogels, Sadeq Malakooti, Guoqiang Qin, Chandana Mandal, Rushi Soni, Tahereh Taghvaee, Yao Ren, Huiluo Chen, Nicholas Tsao, James Shiao, Shameek Sushil Kulkarni, Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis, Nicholas Leventis, Hongbing Lu

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

A family of ambient-dried poly benzoxazine aerogels is prepared with a facile and scalable process as a high-performance polymeric aerogel with strong and robust thermomechanical properties at elevated temperatures. Those materials are inherently flame-retardant and superhydrophobic over the entire bulk density range (0.24-0.46 g cm-3). In addition, they are mechanically strong with strengths (e.g., 1 MPa at 0.24 g cm-3 at room temperature) higher than those of other high-performance aerogels of similar density, including polyimide and polyamide (Kevlar-like) aerogels as well as polymer-cross-linked X-silica and X-Vanadia aerogels, at a significantly lower cost. Furthermore, unlike most other glassy polymeric materials, the …


On Nonoscillatory Solutions Of Three Dimensional Time-Scale Systems, Elvan Akin, Taher Hassan, Ozkan Ozturk, Ismail U. Tiryaki Sep 2019

On Nonoscillatory Solutions Of Three Dimensional Time-Scale Systems, Elvan Akin, Taher Hassan, Ozkan Ozturk, Ismail U. Tiryaki

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this article, we classify nonoscillatory solutions of a system of three-dimensional time scale systems. We use the method of considering the sign of components of such solutions. Examples are given to highlight some of our results. Moreover, the existence of such solutions is obtained by Knaster's fixed point theorem.


Edgesense: Edge-Mediated Spatial-Temporal Crowdsensing, Sijia Yang, Jiang Bian, Licheng Wang, Haojin Zhu, Yanjie Fu, Haoyi Xiong Sep 2019

Edgesense: Edge-Mediated Spatial-Temporal Crowdsensing, Sijia Yang, Jiang Bian, Licheng Wang, Haojin Zhu, Yanjie Fu, Haoyi Xiong

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Edge computing recently is increasingly popular due to the growth of data size and the need of sensing with the reduced center. Based on Edge computing architecture, we propose a novel crowdsensing framework called Edge-Mediated Spatial-Temporal Crowdsensing. This algorithm targets on receiving the environment information such as air pollution, temperature, and traffic flow in some parts of the goal area, and does not aggregate sensor data with its location information. Specifically, EdgeSense works on top of a secured peer-To-peer network consisted of participants and propose a novel Decentralized Spatial-Temporal Crowdsensing framework based on Parallelized Stochastic Gradient Descent. To approximate the …


Strong Circular Dichroism In Chiral Plasmonic Metasurfaces Optimized By Micro-Genetic Algorithm, Zhigang Li, Daniel Rosenmann, David A. Czaplewski, Xiaodong Yang, Jie Gao Sep 2019

Strong Circular Dichroism In Chiral Plasmonic Metasurfaces Optimized By Micro-Genetic Algorithm, Zhigang Li, Daniel Rosenmann, David A. Czaplewski, Xiaodong Yang, Jie Gao

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Strong circular dichroism in absorption in the near-infrared wavelength range is realized by designing binary-pattern chiral plasmonic metasurfaces via the micro-genetic algorithm optimization method. The influence of geometric parameter modifications in the binary-pattern nanostructures on the circular dichroism performance is studied. The strong circular dichroism in absorption is attributed to the simultaneous excitation and field interference of the resonant modes with relative phase delay under linearly polarized incident light. This work provides a universal design method toward the on-demand properties of chiral metasurfaces, which paves the way for future applications in chemical and biological sensing, chiral imaging and spectroscopy.


Reliability-Based Design Optimization Of Load Sharing Systems Using Ssi-Markov Models, Arun Bala Subramaniyan, Rong Pan, Xiaoping Du Sep 2019

Reliability-Based Design Optimization Of Load Sharing Systems Using Ssi-Markov Models, Arun Bala Subramaniyan, Rong Pan, Xiaoping Du

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper presents a novel single loop approach to design the components of the load sharing systems by optimally allocating the failure probabilities to each component, thereby satisfying the overall system reliability requirement. The Reliability–Based Design Optimization (RBDO) of load sharing systems is computationally intensive due to the dynamic nature of component failure probabilities, since the failure of one component will vary the failure probabilities of other working components. Many RBDO methods have been successfully utilized to design individual components, however using these methods for handling system level reliability constraints is still a challenging task. This is because of a …


Directional Limits On Persistent Gravitational Waves Using Data From Advanced Ligo's First Two Observing Runs, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Sep 2019

Directional Limits On Persistent Gravitational Waves Using Data From Advanced Ligo's First Two Observing Runs, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We perform an unmodeled search for persistent, directional gravitational wave (GW) sources using data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO. We do not find evidence for any GW signals. We place limits on the broadband GW flux emitted at 25 Hz from point sources with a power law spectrum at Fα,Θ < (0.05-25) x 10−8 erg cm−2 s−1 Hz−1 and the (normalized) energy density spectrum in GWs at 25 Hz from extended sources at Ωα(Θ) < (0.19-2.89) x 10−8 sr−1 where α is the spectral index of the energy density spectrum. These represent improvements of …


Erratum: Searches For Gravitational Waves From Known Pulsars At Two Harmonics In 2015-2017 Ligo Data (Astrophysical Journal (2019) 879 (10) Doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/Ab20cb), B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Sep 2019

Erratum: Searches For Gravitational Waves From Known Pulsars At Two Harmonics In 2015-2017 Ligo Data (Astrophysical Journal (2019) 879 (10) Doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/Ab20cb), B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Due to an error at the publisher, in the published article the number of pulsars presented in the paper is incorrect in multiple places throughout the text. Specifically, "222" pulsars should be "221." Additionally, the number of pulsars for which we have EM observations that fully overlap with O1 and O2 changes from "168" to "167." Elsewhere, in the machine-readable table of Table 1 and in Table 2, the row corresponding to pulsar J0952-0607 should be excised as well. Finally, in the caption for Table 2 the number of pulsars changes from "188" to "187." IOP Publishing sincerely regrets this …


Gwtc-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog Of Compact Binary Mergers Observed By Ligo And Virgo During The First And Second Observing Runs, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Sep 2019

Gwtc-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog Of Compact Binary Mergers Observed By Ligo And Virgo During The First And Second Observing Runs, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact binaries with component masses above 1 Ma™ during the first and second observing runs of the advanced gravitational-wave detector network. During the first observing run (O1), from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, gravitational waves from three binary black hole mergers were detected. The second observing run (O2), which ran from November 30, 2016 to August 25, 2017, saw the first detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral, in addition to the observation of gravitational waves from a total of seven binary black hole mergers, …


Search For Intermediate Mass Black Hole Binaries In The First And Second Observing Runs Of The Advanced Ligo And Virgo Network, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Sep 2019

Search For Intermediate Mass Black Hole Binaries In The First And Second Observing Runs Of The Advanced Ligo And Virgo Network, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Gravitational-wave astronomy has been firmly established with the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of ten stellar-mass binary black holes and a neutron star binary. This paper reports on the all-sky search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo network. The search uses three independent algorithms: two based on matched filtering of the data with waveform templates of gravitational-wave signals from compact binaries, and a third, model-independent algorithm that employs no signal model for the incoming signal. No intermediate mass black hole binary event …


Search For The Isotropic Stochastic Background Using Data From Advanced Ligo's Second Observing Run, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website. Sep 2019

Search For The Isotropic Stochastic Background Using Data From Advanced Ligo's Second Observing Run, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The stochastic gravitational-wave background is a superposition of sources that are either too weak or too numerous to detect individually. In this study, we present the results from a cross-correlation analysis on data from Advanced LIGO's second observing run (O2), which we combine with the results of the first observing run (O1). We do not find evidence for a stochastic background, so we place upper limits on the normalized energy density in gravitational waves at the 95% credible level of ΩGW < 6.0 x 10-8 for a frequency-independent (flat) background and ΩGW < 4.8 x 10-8 at 25 Hz for a background of compact …