Dr. Lee Samuel Finn
Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Publications
Mitra S, Dhurandhar SV, Finn LS. 2005. Improving the efficiency of the detection of gravitational wave signals from inspiraling compact binaries: Chebyshev interpolation. 0507011 pp.
Abbott B, Abbott R, Adhikari R, Ageev A, Allen B, et al. 2005. Search for gravitational waves associated with the gamma ray burst GRB030329 using the LIGO detectors. Physical Review D 72: 42002
Abbott B, Abbott R, Adhikari R, Ageev A, Allen B, et al. 2005. Search for gravitational waves from galactic and extra-galactic binary neutron stars. Physical Review D 72: 82001
Abbott B, Abbott R, Adhikari R, Ageev A, Allen B, et al. 2005. Search for gravitational waves from primordial black hole binary coalescences in the galactic halo. Physical Review D 72: 82002
Abbott B, Abbott R, Adhikari R, Ageev A, Allen B, et al. 2005. Limits on gravitational-wave emission from selected pulsars using LIGO data. Physical Review Letters 94
Abbott B, Abbott R, Adhikari R, Ageev A, Agresti J, et al. 2005. Upper limits on gravitational wave bursts in LIGO's second science run. Physical Review D 72: 62001
Sutton PJ, Ando M, Brady P, Cadonati L, Di Credico A, et al. 2004. Plans for the LIGO-TAMA joint search for gravitational wave bursts. Classical And Quantum Gravity 21: S1801-S7
Nutzman P, Kalogera V, Finn LS, Hendrickson C, Belczynski K. 2004. Gravitational waves from extragalactic inspiraling binaries: Selection effects and expected detection rates. Astrophysical Journal 612: 364-74
McNabb JWC, Ashley M, Finn LS, Rotthoff E, Stuver A, et al. 2004. Overview of the BlockNormal event trigger generator. Classical And Quantum Gravity 21: S1705-S10
Holley-Bockelmann K, Sigurdsson S, Finn LS. 2004. Loss Cone Evolution in Triaxial Galaxies. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts 205
Finn LS, Krishnan B, Sutton PJ. 2004. Swift pointing and the association between gamma-ray bursts and gravitational wave bursts. Astrophysical Journal 607: 384-90
Dreyer O, Kelly B, Krishnan B, Finn LS, Garrison D, Lopez-Aleman R. 2004. Black-hole spectroscopy: testing general relativity through gravitational-wave observations. Classical And Quantum Gravity 21: 787-803
Allen B, Woan G, Abbott B, Abbott R, Adhikari R, et al. 2004. Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134. Classical And Quantum Gravity 21: S671-S6
Abbott B, Abbott R, Adhikari R, Ageev A, Allen B, et al. 2004. Detector description and performance for the first coincidence observations between LIGO and GEO. Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors And Associated Equipment 517: 154-79
Abbott B, Abbott R, Adhikari R, Ageev A, Allen B, et al. 2004. Setting upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 using the first science data from the GEO 600 and LIGO detectors. Physical Review D 69
Abbott B, Abbott R, Adhikari R, Ageev A, Allen B, et al. 2004. First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts. Physical Review D 69
Abbott B, Abbott R, Adhikari R, Ageev A, Allen B, et al. 2004. Analysis of first LIGO science data for stochastic gravitational waves. Physical Review D 69
Abbott B, Abbott R, Adhikari R, Ageev A, Allen B, et al. 2004. Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars. Physical Review D 69
Sutton PJ, Finn LS, Krishnan B. 2003. Swift pointing and gravitational-wave bursts from gamma-ray burst events. Classical And Quantum Gravity 20: S815-S20
Finn LS, Mukherjee S. 2003. Erratum: Data conditioning for gravitational wave detectors: A Kalman filter for regressing suspension violin modes [Phys. Rev. D 63, 062004 (2001)]. Physical Review D 67: 109902
Finn LS. 2003. No statistical excess in EXPLORER/NAUTILUS observations in the year 2001. Classical And Quantum Gravity 20: L37-L44
Finn LS. 2003. Proceedings of the 4th International LISA Symposium, Penn State University, 19-24 July 2002. Classical And Quantum Gravity 20
Sutton PJ, Finn LS. 2002. Bounding the graviton mass with binary pulsar observations. Classical And Quantum Gravity 19: 1355-60
Lazzarini A, Finn LS. 2002. A technique to modulate the signature of a stochastic gravitational wave background. Classical And Quantum Gravity 19: 1485-92
Finn LS, Sutton PJ. 2002. Bounding the mass of the graviton using binary pulsar observations. Physical Review D 65
Finn LS, Mukherjee S. 2001. Data conditioning for gravitational wave detectors: A Kalman filter for regressing suspension violin modes. Physical Review D 6306: art. no.-062004
Finn LS, Lazzarini A. 2001. Modulating the experimental signature of a stochastic gravitational wave background. Physical Review D 6408: art. no.-082002
Finn LS. 2001. LIGO's "Science Reach". Presented at AIP Conf. Proc. 575: Astrophysical Sources for Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors
Finn LS. 2001. Aperture synthesis for gravitational-wave data analysis: Deterministic sources. Physical Review D 6310: art. no.-102001
Mukherjee S, Finn LS. 2000. Removing Instrumental Artifacts: Suspension Violin Modes. Presented at American Institute of Physics Conference Series
Kidder LE, Finn LS. 2000. Spectral methods for numerical relativity: The initial data problem. Physical Review D 6208: art. no.-084026
Finn LS, Thorne KS. 2000. Gravitational waves from a compact star in a circular, inspiral orbit, in the equatorial plane of a massive, spinning black hole, as observed by LISA. Physical Review D 6212
Finn LS, Gonzalez G, Hough J, Huq MF, Mohanty S, et al. 2000. Toward Gravitational Wave Detection. Presented at American Institute of Physics Conference Series
Finn LS, Mohanty SD, Romano JD. 1999. Detecting an association between gamma ray and gravitational wave bursts. Physical Review D 6012
Finn LS. 1999. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory scientific data archive. Future Generation Computer Systems 16: 123-34
Gomez R, Lehner L, Marsa RL, Winicour J, Abrahams AM, et al. 1998. Stable characteristic evolution of generic three-dimensional single-black-hole spacetimes. Physical Review Letters 80: 3915-8
Finn LS. 1998. Issues in Gravitational Wave Data Analysis. Presented at Second Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Wave Experiments
Cook GB, Huq MF, Klasky SA, Scheel MA, Abrahams AM, et al. 1998. Boosted Three-Dimensional Black-Hole Evolutions with Singularity Excision. Physical Review Letters 80: 2512-6
Abrahams AM, Rezzolla L, Rupright ME, Anderson A, Anninos P, et al. 1998. Gravitational Wave Extraction and Outer Boundary Conditions by Perturbative Matching. Physical Review Letters 80: 1812-5
Finn LS. 1997. A Numerical Approach to Binary Black Hole Coalescence. Presented at General Relativity and Gravitation
Finn LS. 1996. Cosmology and LIGO. Presented at Neutrino Mass, Dark Matter, Gravitational Waves, Monopose Condensation, and Light Cone Quantization
Finn LS. 1996. Binary inspiral, gravitational radiation, and cosmology. Physical Review D 53: 2878-94
Finn LS. 1995. Binary neutron star inspiral, LIGO, and cosmology. In Seventeenth Texas Symposium On Relativistic Astrophysics And Cosmology, pp. 489-92. New York: New York Acad Sciences
Abramovici A, Bender P, Drever R, Finn LS, Flaminio R, et al. 1995. Gravitational Wave Astrophysics. Presented at Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics and Cosmology in the Next Millenium
Finn LS. 1994. Observational constraints on the neutron star mass distribution. Physical Review Letters 73: 1878-81
Finn LS, Chernoff DF. 1993. Observing binary inspiral in gravitational radiation: One interferometer. Physical Review D 47: 2198-219
Cutler C, Finn LS, Poisson E, Sussman GJ. 1993. Gravitational radiation from a particle in circular orbit around a black hole. II. Numerical results for the nonrotating case. Physical Review D 47: 1511-8
Cutler C, Apostolatos TA, Bildsten L, Finn LS, Flanagan EE, et al. 1993. The last three minutes - Issues in gravitational-wave measurements of coalescing compact binaries. Physical Review Letters 70: 2984-7
Chernoff DF, Finn LS. 1993. Gravitational radiation, inspiraling binaries, and cosmology. Astrophysical Journal 411: L5-L8
Finn LS. 1992. Detection, measurement, and gravitational radiation. Physical Review D 46: 5236-49
Finn LS. 1991. Detectability of gravitational radiation from stellar-core collapse. New York Academy Sciences Annals 631: 156-72
Nelson RW, Finn LS, Wasserman I. 1990. Trompe L'Oeil 'binary' pulsars. Astrophysical Journal 348: 226-31
Finn LS, Shapiro SL. 1990. Spin-down of rapidly rotating neutron stars. Astrophysical Journal 359: 444-62
Finn LS, Evans CR. 1990. Determining gravitational radiation from Newtonian self-gravitating systems. Astrophysical Journal 351: 588-600
Finn LS. 1990. Non-radial pulsations of neutron stars with a crust. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 245: 82-91
Finn LS. 1989. Supernovae, Gravitational Radiation, and the Quadrupole Formula. In Frontiers in Numerical Relativity, pp. 126
Finn LS. 1989. Gravitational Radiation from Rotating Stellar Core Collapse. Presented at NATO ASIC Proc. 253: Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
Evans CR, Finn LS, Hobill DW. 1989. Frontiers in numerical relativity
Finn LS. 1988. Relativistic Stellar Pulsations In The Cowling Approximation. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society 232: 259-75Finn LS. 1987. Relativistic stellar pulsations. Ph.D. Thesis: 2
Finn LS. 1987. G-modes in zero-temperature neutron stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 227: 265-93
Finn LS. 1986. G-Modes Of Non-Radially Pulsating Relativistic Stars - The Slow-Motion Formalism. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society 222: 393-416
Finn LS. 1985. Gravitational waves from solar oscillations - Proposal for a transition-zone test of general relativity. Classical and Quantum Gravity 2: 381-402