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Youth Services Open

Rachel Magee, Kerry Townsend, Amanda Hovious, Jessie Maimone, Vickie Terrile , et al. · 2025

The ALISE Youth Services Special Interest Group (SIG) presents a panel exploring how youth services programs support communities. Community issues of homelessness and barriers to youth engagement are considered, as well as the need to hono…

Study On Branding Strategies Adapted By Higher Educational Institutes In Mysuru City Open

M Chaitra, D. R. Williams, Prof. Madhu Nayaka · 2025

Beyond GWTC-3: analyzing and verifying new gravitational-wave events from community catalogues Open

D. R. Williams · 2025

The public release of data from the LIGO and Virgo detectors has enabled the identification of potential gravitational wave signals by independent teams using alternative methodologies. In addition to the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaborati…

Probing the Firn Refractive Index Profile and Borehole Closure Using Antenna Response Open

Shrihan Agarwal, Nathaniel Alden, S. Ali, P. Allison, D. Besson , et al. · 2025

We present a methodology for extracting firn ice properties using S-parameter reflection coefficients (`$S_{11}$') of antennas lowered into boreholes. Coupled with Finite-Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulations and calculations, a depth-…

Beyond GWTC-3: Analysing and verifying new gravitational-wave events from community catalogues Open

D. R. Williams · 2025

These data contain the parameter estimation results described in "Beyond GWTC-3: Analysing and verifying new gravitational-wave events from community catalogues" in a format which is designed to be comparable to those used in GWTC catalogu…

Solar flare observations with the Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland (RNO-G) Open

Sushmita Agarwal, J. A. Aguilar, S. Ali, P. Allison, Marissa Betts , et al. · 2024

The Radio Neutrino Observatory - Greenland (RNO-G) seeks discovery of ultra-high energy neutrinos from the cosmos through their interactions in ice. The science program extends beyond particle astrophysics to include radioglaciology and, a…

Rapid Generation of Kilonova Light Curves Using Conditional Variational Autoencoder Open

Surojit Saha, M. J. Williams, L. E. H. Datrier, F. J. Hayes, M. Nicholl , et al. · 2024

The discovery of the optical counterpart, along with the gravitational waves (GWs) from GW170817, of the first binary neutron star merger has opened up a new era for multimessenger astrophysics. Combining the GW data with the optical count…

Beyond GWTC-3: Analysing and verifying new gravitational-wave events from the 4-OGC Catalogue Open

D. R. Williams · 2024

These data contain the parameter estimation results described in "Beyond GWTC-3: Analysing and verifying newgravitational-wave events from the 4-OGC Catalogue" in a format which is designed to be comparable to those used in GWTC catalogue …

Rapid Generation of Kilonova Light Curves Using Conditional Variational Autoencoder Open

Surojit Saha, M. J. Williams, L. E. H. Datrier, F. J. Hayes, M. Nicholl , et al. · 2023

The discovery of the optical counterpart, along with the gravitational waves from GW170817, of the first binary neutron star merger, opened up a new era for multi-messenger astrophysics. Combining the GW data with the optical counterpart, …

Low-Power Radiofrequency Systems for the RNO-G Project Open

Eric Oberla, J. A. Aguilar, P. Allison, D. Besson, A. Bishop , et al. · 2023

The Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G) seeks to detect the Askaryan\nradio emission from energetic neutrinos (> 10 PeV) interacting in the Greenland\nice sheet. The RNO-G detector comprises an array of independent and autonomo…

The interplay of ice-firn model and station calibration in RNO-G Open

Bob Oeyen, Juanan Aguilar, P. Allison, D. Besson, Abigail Bishop , et al. · 2023

In-ice radio neutrino detectors, such as the newly constructed and operational Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G), rely on ice models to understand the in-ice signal propagation.\nMost often the ice is approximated in first or…

Multimessenger Potential of the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland Open

Marco Stein Muzio, J. A. Aguilar, P. Allison, D. Besson, A. Bishop , et al. · 2023

The Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G) is the only ultrahigh\nenergy (UHE, ${\\gtrsim}30$~PeV) neutrino monitor of the Northern sky and will\nsoon be the world's most sensitive high-uptime detector of UHE neutrinos.\nBecause o…

Anomaly Detection in Early Data From the Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland Open

A. Nelles, Z. S. Meyers, J. A. Aguilar, P. Allison, D. Besson , et al. · 2023

After two seasons of installation, 7 stations built and many lessons learned, the Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland (RNO-G) is now operational. In the coming years, the construction of another 28+ stations will bring the array to full c…

Performance of the Horizontally Polarized Antennas Used in the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland Open

Bryan L. Hendricks, J. A. Aguilar, P. Allison, D. Besson, A. Bishop , et al. · 2023

Radio detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos via the Askaryan effect has enabled a new generation of immense, cost-effective neutrino detectors due to the long attenuation lengths of radio signals in dense dielectric media. The Radio Neu…

VAE-based latent-space classification of RNO-G data Open

T. Glüsenkamp, J. A. Aguilar, P. Allison, D. Besson, A. Bishop , et al. · 2023

The Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G) is a radio-based ultra-high energy neutrino detector located at Summit Station, Greenland. It is still being constructed, with 7 stations currently operational. Neutrino detection works b…

Asimov: A framework for coordinating parameterestimation workflows Open

D. R. Williams, J. Veitch, Maria Luisa Chiofalo, P. Schmidt, R. P. Udall , et al. · 2023

Since the first detection in 2015 of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence (B. P. \nAbbott & others, 2016a), improvements to the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors \nhave expanded our view into the universe for th…

New types of investments needed to address barriers to scaling up wildfire risk mitigation Open

Laurie Yung, Benjamin Gray, Carina Wyborn, Brett A. Miller, D. R. Williams , et al. · 2022

Background Wildfire mitigation is becoming increasingly urgent, but despite the availability of mitigation tools, such as prescribed fire, managed wildfire, and mechanical thinning, the USA has been unable to scale up mitigation. Limited a…

Mimicking mergers: mistaking black hole captures as mergers Open

W. Guo, D. R. Williams, I. S. Heng, Hunter Gabbard, Yeong-Bok Bae , et al. · 2022

As the number of gravitational wave observations has increased in recent years, the variety of sources has broadened. Here, we investigate whether it is possible for the current generation of detectors to distinguish between very short-liv…

"They are our eyes outside there in the community": Implementing enhanced training, management and monitoring of South Africa’s ward-based primary healthcare outreach teams Open

Joanne E. Mantell, Tsitsi B. Masvawure, Jennifer M. Zech, William Reidy, Martin Msukwa , et al. · 2022

Introduction In 2018, South Africa’s National Department of Health provided additional resources for ward-based primary healthcare outreach teams (OT) with support from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The intervention …

Observational limits on the rate of radiation-driven binary black hole capture events Open

Michael J. Ebersold, Shubhanshu Tiwari, L. Smith, Yeong-Bok Bae, Gungwong Kang , et al. · 2022

Dense astrophysical environments like globular clusters and galactic nuclei can host hyperbolic encounters of black holes which can lead to gravitational-wave driven capture. There are several astrophysical models which predict a fraction …

Asimov: A framework for coordinating parameter estimation workflows Open

D. R. Williams, J. Veitch, Maria Luisa Chiofalo, P. Schmidt, Richard P. Udall , et al. · 2022

Since the first detection in 2015 of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence, improvements to the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors have expanded our view into the universe for these signals. Searches of the of the lat…

In situ, broadband measurement of the radio frequency attenuation length at Summit Station, Greenland Open

J. A. Aguilar, P. Allison, J. J. Beatty, D. Besson, A. Bishop , et al. · 2022

Over the last 25 years, radiowave detection of neutrino-generated signals, using cold polar ice as the neutrino target, has emerged as perhaps the most promising technique for detection of extragalactic ultra-high energy neutrinos (corresp…

Organisational influence on the co-production of fire science: overcoming challenges and realising opportunities Open

Evora Glenn, Laurie Yung, Carina Wyborn, D. R. Williams · 2022

Addressing the challenges of wildland fire requires that fire science be relevant to management and integrated into management decisions. Co-production is often touted as a process that can increase the utility of science for management, b…

In situ, broadband measurement of the radio frequency attenuation length at Summit Station, Greenland Open

J. A. Aguilar, P. Allison, J. J. Beatty, D. Besson, Abigail Bishop , et al. · 2022

Over the last 25 years, radiowave detection of neutrino-generated signals, using cold polar ice as the neutrino target, has emerged as perhaps the most promising technique for detection of extragalactic ultra-high energy neutrinos (corresp…

transientlunatic/asimov: v0.3.2 Open

D. R. Williams, D. M. Macleod, A. Vajpeyi, J. A. Clark · 2021

Automation toolkit for gravitational wave analyses

Adapting Research, Management, and Governance to Confront Socioecological Uncertainties in Novel Ecosystems Open

Kevin S. McKelvey, William M. Block, Theresa B. Jain, Charles H. Luce, Deborah S. Page‐Dumroese , et al. · 2021

Wildland research, management, and policy in western democracies have long relied on concepts of equilibrium: succession, sustained yield, stable age or species compositions, fire return intervals, and historical range of variability criti…

Bayesian inference for compact binary coalescences with bilby: validation and application to the first LIGO–Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalogue Open

I. M. Romero-Shaw, C. Talbot, S. Biscoveanu, V. D’Emilio, G. Ashton , et al. · 2020

Gravitational waves provide a unique tool for observational astronomy. While the first LIGO–Virgo catalogue of gravitational-wave transients (GWTC-1) contains 11 signals from black hole and neutron star binaries, the number of observations…

Lowest observed surface and weld losses in fused silica fibres for gravitational wave detectors Open

A. Cumming, B. Sorazu, E. J. Daw, G. Hammond, J. Hough , et al. · 2020

High purity fused silica has become the cornerstone choice for use in the final monolithic stage of the mirror suspensions in the gravitational wave observatories Advanced LIGO (aLIGO) and Advanced Virgo (AdV). The ultra-low thermal noise …

Precessing numerical relativity waveform surrogate model for binary black holes: A Gaussian process regression approach Open

D. R. Williams, I. S. Heng, J. Gair, J. A. Clark, B. Khamesra · 2020

Gravitational wave astrophysics relies heavily on the use of matched\nfiltering both to detect signals in noisy data from detectors, and to perform\nparameter estimation on those signals. Matched filtering relies upon prior\nknowledge of t…

Comparing Short Gamma-Ray Burst Jet Structure Models Open

F. J. Hayes, I. S. Heng, J. Veitch, D. R. Williams · 2020

A structured gamma-ray burst (GRB) jet could explain the dimness of the prompt emission observed from GRB 170817A, but the exact form of this structure is still ambiguous. However, with the promise of future joint gravitational wave (GW) a…

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