2017 Nobel Prize in Physics: Selected Papers
Kip Thorne and Barry Barish of Caltech have been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics. Rai Weiss of MIT shared the award with the Caltech duo. “The first direct observation of gravitational waves by LIGO is an extraordinary demonstration of scientific vision and persistence,” said Caltech President Thomas Rosenbaum. “Through four decades of development of exquisitely sensitive instrumentation – pushing the capacity of our imaginations – we are now able to glimpse cosmic processes that were previously undetectable. It is truly the start of a new era in astrophysics.”
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) compiled a special page containing biographical information about each of the winners, and the significance of gravitational wave, with links to research papers published by AIP journals.
The LIGO Science Collaboration Group has published close to 200 papers since 2004. Together these papers have been cited more that 10,000 times by more than 4,000 papers. Here is a short list of the most cited papers from the group, including the 2016 paper that was reported widely by popular news media.
- B. P. Abbott et al., Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger. Physical Review Letters 116, (2016).
- G. M. Harry, L. S. Collaboration, Advanced LIGO: the next generation of gravitational wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity 27, (2010).
- B. P. Abbott et al., LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Reports on Progress in Physics 72, (2009).
- J. Abadie et al., Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity 27, (2010).
- B. P. Abbott et al., GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence. Physical Review Letters 116, (2016).
- J. Abadie et al., A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit. Nature Physics 7, 962-965 (2011).
- J. Aasi et al., Advanced LIGO. Classical and Quantum Gravity 32, (2015).
- B. P. Abbott et al., An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin. Nature 460, 990-994 (2009).
- B. P. Abbott et al., ASTROPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGER GW150914. Astrophysical Journal Letters 818, (2016).
- B. Abbott et al., Analysis of first LIGO science data for stochastic gravitational waves. Physical Review D 69, (2004).
Selected 2017 papers:
- B. P. Abbott et al., GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2. Physical Review Letters 118, (2017).
- B. P. Abbott et al., Exploring the sensitivity of next generation gravitational wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity 34, (2017).
- B. P. Abbott et al., Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914. Classical and Quantum Gravity 34, (2017).
- B. P. Abbott et al., Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detectors for the discovery of the binary black-hole merger GW150914. Physical Review D 95, (2017).
- B. P. Abbott et al., The basic physics of the binary black hole merger GW150914. Annalen Der Physik 529, (2017).