Gabriela González, Ph.D.

Gabriela González, PhD
Professor of Physics

Ph.D., 1995 - Syracuse University

Louisiana State University
Department of Physics & Astronomy
271-C Nicholson Hall, Tower Dr.
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001
(225) 578-0468-Office

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Research Interests

Experimental General Relativity

Prof. González research interest is in the detection of gravitational waves with interferometric detectors, such as the one in the LIGO Livingston Observatory, in Livingston, LA. She was a founding member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and has participated intensely in the last three years in the commissioning of the detector at the Livingston Observatory, in issues related to alignment sensing and control. Her group is very involved in the instrumental characterization and calibration of the data collected in the data-taking Science Runs performed by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. She co-leads one of the four data analysis groups in the Collaboration, dedicated to the search of gravitational waves generated by binary systems of compact objects (neutron stars or black holes) in the final inspiraling stage before coalescence. She has also published several papers on the specific predictions of Brownian motion as a limiting sources to the detectors' sensitivity.

Current and Selected Publications

• Ravi Kumar Kopparapu, Chad R. Hanna, Vicky Kalogera, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Gabriela Gonzalez, Patrick R. Brady and Stephen Fairhurst, "Host Galaxies Catalog Used in LIGO Searches for Compact Binary Coalescence Events," June 2007, 24pp.
  e-Print: arXiv:0706.1283

• Duncan A. Brown, et al., "Searching for gravitational waves from binary inspirals with LIGO," Class. Quant. Grav. 21, S1625-S1633 (2004).
  e-Print: gr-qc/0403114

• Nelson Christensen, et al., by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, "Vetoes for inspiral triggers in LIGO data," Class. Quant. Grav. 21, S1747-S1756 (2004).

• Gabriela Gonzalez, et al., by LIGO Science Collaboration and LIGO Scientific Collaboration, "Search for inspiralling neutron stars in LIGO S1 data," Class. Quant. Grav. 21, S691-S696 (2004).

• Gabriela Gonzalez, et al., by LIGO Scientific Collaboration, "Gravitational wave detectors: A Report from LIGO Land," to appear in the proceedings of 10th Greek Relativity Meeting on New Developments in Gravity (NEB X), Chalkidiki, Greece 30 May - 2 June 2002; published in Kalithea 2002, Recent Developments in Gravity, 26-33.
  e-Print: gr-qc/0303117