Gravitational Waves

I work on low frequency gravitational waves from merging massive black hole binaries

The massive black hole binaries are sources of low frequency gravitational waves (GW) which will be observed in the millihertz band by LISA in the future. Pulsar timing arrays like NANOGrav will see a stochastic background of merging supermassive black hole binaries at the nanohertz band.

In my undergrad research, I worked on GWs from stellar mass binaries observable by LIGO. I worked on modeling gravitational waveforms for detection by LIGO (Paul et al., 2025)

References

2025

  1. Physical Review D
    Eccentric, spinning, inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform model with higher modes for the detection and characterization of binary black holes
    Kaushik Paul, Akash Maurya, Quentin Henry, Kartikey Sharma, Pranav Satheesh,  Divyajyoti, and 2 more authors
    Physical Review D, Apr 2025