At present, I am a postdoc at Center for Computation and Technology (CCT) working on the possible implementation of gravitational-wave waveforms from Binary Black Holes (BBH) as predicted by Numerical Relativity (NR) into LIGO data. The current goal is to inject these NR waveforms into LIGO's data and detect them using standard post-Newtonian (pN) templates so that one can estimate how well detection the methods are working. The following people at Center for Computation and Technology (CCT) and Department of Physics and Astronomy are involved in this project.

Peter Diener (CCT)

Gabriela González (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy) and LIGO

Joel E. Tolhine (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)

I did my Ph.D under the guidance of Prof. Joel Tohline. My work deals with Gravitational-waves from evolving Double White Dwarf (DWD) systems (both inspiraling and mass transferring) and population boundaries of these systems in LISA's "absolute" (distance independent) amplitude-frequency domain. Based on our present theoretical understanding of white dwarf stars and their evolution in binary systems, it is possible to constrain the space occupied by the these systems in the gravitational-wave amplitude-frequency region. The boundaries that arise due to these constraints can be used to identify population sub-domains for inspiral, mass-transfer and even Type Ia progenitor systems. The goal is to map an equivalent "Color-Magnitude" diagram in the gravitational-wave spectrum. I have presented a poster on this topic at the Sixth international LISA symposium. This poster gives a quick review on this work. Also a detailed paper is available on Astrophysical Journal .

At the moment I am planning to extend this work to layout a population of DWD systems within the boundaries that I mentioned above, to estimate the no. of systems that fall into the respective sub-population regions.

Some reports and proposals I did during the early years of my research are available here. Double White Dwarf