Prof. Dr. Bruce Allen

  • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
    Albert Einstein Institute
    Leibniz Universität Hannover
    Callinstr. 38, D-30167 Hannover

    Phone: (+49) (511) 762-17148
    Fax: (+49) (511) 762-5861
  • Email: bruce.allen(at)aei.mpg.de

 

Major Research Interests concerning QUEST:

Gravitational wave detection and data analysis; distributed computing for data analysis.

10 most relevant publications:

  • B. Abbot, R. Abbot, R. Adhikari, B. Allen, et al.
    First all-sky upper limits from LIGO on the strength of periodic graviational waves using the Hough transform
    Phys. Rev D (2005) 102004.
  • B. Abbot, R. Abbot, R. Adhikari, B. Allen, et al.
    Search for gravitational waves from galactical and extra-galactical binary neutron stars
    Phys. Rev. D 72 (2005) 082001.
  • B. Allen
    A chi-squared time-frequency discriminator for gravitational wave detection
    Phys. Rev. D71 (2005) 062001.
  • B. Allen, J.D.E. Creighton, E.E. Flanagan, and J.D. Romano
    Robust statistics for deterministic and stochastic gravitational waves in non-Gaussian noise I & II
    Phys. Rev. D65 (2002) 122002 and Phys. Rev. D67 (2003) 122002.
  • B. Allen, M.A. Papa, and B.F. Schutz
    Optimal strategies for sinusoidal signal detection
    Phys. Rev. D66 (2002) 102003. 
  • B. Allen and J. Romano
    Detecting a stochastic background of gravitational radiation: signal processing strategies and sensitivities
    Phys. Rev. D59 (1999) 102001.  
  • B. Allen, K. Blackburn, P. Brady, J. Creighton, T. Creighton, S. Droz, A. Gillespie, S. Hughes, S. Kawamura, T. Lyons, J. Mason, B.J. Owen, F. Raab, M. Regehr, B. Sathyaprakash, R.L. Savage, Jr., S. Whitcomb, and A. Wiseman
    Observational limit on gravitational waves from binary neutron stars in the galaxy
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 83 (1999) 1498–1501.
  • B. Allen and E.P.S. Shellard
    Cosmic string evolution—a numerical simulation
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 64 (1990) 119–123.
  • B. Allen
    The stochastic gravity-wave background in inflationary universe models
    Phys. Rev. D37 (1988) 2078–2085.
  • B. Allen
    Vacuum states in de Sitter space
    Phys. Rev. D32 (1985) 3136–3149.