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Pubblicazioni

Titolo Pubblicato in Anno
A joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT analysis of gravitational-wave candidates from the third gravitational-wave observing run THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 2024
A Joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT Analysis of Gravitational-wave Candidates from the Third Gravitational-wave Observing Run THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 2024
Search for Gravitational-wave Transients Associated with Magnetar Bursts in Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo Data from the Third Observing Run THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 2024
Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen conditional squeezing for next generation gravitational-wave detectors NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT 2024
A Search Using GEO600 for Gravitational Waves Coincident with Fast Radio Bursts from SGR 1935+2154 THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 2024
Search for Gravitational-lensing Signatures in the Full Third Observing Run of the LIGO–Virgo Network THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 2024
A Search Using GEO600 for Gravitational Waves Coincident with Fast Radio Bursts from SGR 1935+2154 THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 2024
Search for eccentric black hole coalescences during the third observing run of LIGO and Virgo THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 2024
Ultralight vector dark matter search using data from the KAGRA O3GK run PHYSICAL REVIEW D 2024
Observation of gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 2.5–4.5 M ⊙ compact object and a neutron star THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS 2024
A Joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT Analysis of Gravitational-wave Candidates from the Third Gravitational-wave Observing Run THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 2024
Frequency-Dependent Squeezed Vacuum Source for the Advanced Virgo Gravitational-Wave Detector PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023
Open Data from the Third Observing Run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES 2023
Advanced Virgo Plus: Future Perspectives JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCE SERIES 2023
The Advanced Virgo+ status JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCE SERIES 2023
Virgo detector characterization and data quality: Tools CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY 2023
Virgo detector characterization and data quality: Results from the O3 run CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY 2023
Constraints on the Cosmic Expansion History from GWTC-3 THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 2023
Search for subsolar-mass black hole binaries in the second part of Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s third observing run MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 2023
GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the Second Part of the Third Observing Run PHYSICAL REVIEW. X 2023

ERC

  • PE2_4
  • PE2_5
  • PE2_12
  • PE2_13
  • PE2_14
  • PE2_17

KET

  • Micro/nano electronics & photonics

Interessi di ricerca

Gravitational Wave (GW) Detectors, Optics, Quantum Optics, Squeezing, Metrology

Experimental activities and responsibilities

Responsible of:

  •  low losses Faraday Isolators (FIs)in air and in vacuum for the injection of the frequency dependent squeezing (FDS) in Advanced Virgo+ for next observing run O4
  • optical design and assembly of the homodyne detector for FDS at Virgo
  • optomechanical design of SIPS (Suspended Interferometer for Ponderomotive Squeezing). Experiment aiming at reducing quantum noise in the detection band of ground- based GW detectors
    Work published: Eur. Phys. J. D (2020) 74: 227
    DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2020-10183-7
  • optical design of EPR squeezer for Advanced Virgo (co-responsible). Project funded by INFN for the realisation of a squeezer based on quantum entanglement (Einstein Podolsky Rosen) principle for broadband quantum noise reduction in Virgo.
  • optical design integration of SIPS and EPR squeezer for Advanced Virgo. Work presented at GW science and technology Symposium (GRASS) 2019 and published on Zenodo (2020) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3569196. The integration of EPR with SIPS will allow to test broadband quantum noise reduction in a suspended table-top interferometer before possible application on large scale interferometers such as Advanced Virgo.
  • R&D studies for the generation of Frequency Independent Squeezing for Virgo. Work published on Rev. Sci. Instrum., Vol. 92, 054504 (2021) DOI: 10.1063/5.0046317

nov. 2019: Visiting Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and collaboration with MIT-LIGO team for an experiment for the direct measurement of the thermal noise of mirror coatings, to study a strategy to improve coating thermal noise of GW ground-based detectors.

2018: R&D Studies on the Straylight for the future space mission LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, space-based GW detector to be launched in 2034). Work presented at the international conference NANOP 2018 and published on Open Mater. Sci. 2019; 5:12-18 (2019) DOI: 10.1515/oms-2019-0002

Teaching / tutoring activities and responsibilities

  • Co-supervisor of a PhD. student in theoretical and applied mechanics for the study and realisation of the local and global control system of SIPS interferometer.
  • Tutoring of last year Master student in Astrophysics: Thesis work on the optical design for laser injection in SIPS
  • Tutoring of master students for research activities of Physics and Astrophysics Laboratory classes since 2016: studies of the micro-crack occurring in fused silica monolithic suspensions of Advanced Virgo and mechanical quality factor of a joint produced with a 3D machine measured in air, in vacuum and ambient and cryogenic temperatures.
  • Tutoring of a summer stage student from the “Institut d’Optique de Paris-Saclay” at Virgo (summer 2021)
  • Laser Safety Course. 2019 for INFN Roma1 @ Univ. La Sapienza
  • Tutoring of last year bachelor student in Physics: Thesis work on “The squeezing technique to overcome the standard quantum limit in the advanced gravitational wave detectors”.
  • Tutoring of the research stage activity of a summer student of the second year for the bachelor’s degree in physics coming from the US for the exchange program of the LIGO-Virgo collaboration

Keywords

gravitational waves
and optics
astronomy and astrophysics

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