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Carlos Lousto

Professor

School of Mathematics and Statistics
College of Science
colsma@rit.edu
585-475-2219
Office Hours
Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:30pm-3:00 pm and by appointment.
Office Location
LAC-2069

Carlos Lousto

Professor

School of Mathematics and Statistics
College of Science

Education

Ph.D., Universidad Nacional de la Plata (Argentina); Ph.D., Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)

colsma@rit.edu
585-475-2219
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Areas of Expertise
Modeling
Computational Relativity and Gravitation
Gravitational Waves
Black Holes
Radio Astronomy
Pulsars
Numerical Simulations
Perturbation Theory
Artificial Intelligence
Philosophy
Mathematical

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Journal Paper
Healy, James, et al. "GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass ∼3.4M⊙." Astrophysical Journal Letters. (2020): 24. Web.
C., Gancio, et al. "Upgraded Antennas for Pulsar Observations in the Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy." Astronomy & Astrophysics 633. (2020): 12. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "Model Comparison from LIGO-Virgo Data on GW170817\'s Binary Components and Consequences for the Merger Remnant." Classical and Quantum Gravity. (2020): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "A Guide to LIGO–Virgo Detector Noise and Extraction of Transient Gravitational-wave Signals." Classical and Quantum Gravity 37. (2020): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "An Optically Targeted Search for Gravitational Waves emitted by Core-Collapse Supernovae during the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo." Physical Review D 101. 8 (2020): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and B. P. Abbott et al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration). "Model Comparison from LIGO–Virgo Data on GW170817’s Binary Components and Consequences for the Merger Remnant." Classical and Quantum Gravity. (2020): 37. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and et al. (The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations). "Optically Targeted Search for Gravitational Waves Emitted by Core-collapse Supernovae During the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo." Physical Review D. (2020): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., Luciano Combi, and Federico G. Lopez Armengol, et al. "Upgraded Antennas for Pulsar Observations in the Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy." Astronomy & Astrophysics 633. (2020): n/a. Print.
Lousto, Carlos O. and et al. (The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations). "A Guide to LIGO–Virgo Detector Noise and Extraction of Transient Gravitational-wave Signals." Classical and Quantum Gravity 37. 5 (2020): n/a. Print.
Lousto, Carlos O. and et al. (The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations). "A Joint Fermi-GBM and LIGO/Virgo Analysis of Compact Binary Mergers From the First and Second Gravitational-wave Observing Runs." The Astrophysical Journal 893. 2 (2020): n/a. Print.
Lousto, Carlos O. and et al. (The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations). "GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass \sim 3.4 M_{\odot}∼3.4M ⊙." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 892. 1 (2020): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., James Healy, and Nicole Rosato. "Adapted Gauge to a Quasilocal Measure of the Black Holes Recoil." Physical Review D 102. 2 (2020): n/a. Print.
Lousto, Carlos O. and et al. (The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations). "GW190412: Observation of a Binary-Black-Hole Coalescence with Asymmetric Masses." Physical Review D 102. 4 (2020): n/a. Print.
Lousto, Carlos O. and James Healy. "Exploring the Small Mass Ratio Binary Black Hole Merger via Zeno\'s Dichotomy Approach." Physical Review 125. 19 (2020): n/a. Print.
Lousto, Carlos O. and et al. (The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations). "GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object." The Astrophysical Journal 896. 2 (2020): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and James Healy. "Third RIT Binary Black Hole Simulations Catalog to Parameter Estimation of Gravitational Waves Signals from the LIGO-Virgo O1/O2 Observational Runs." Physical Review D 102. 10 (2020): n/a. Print.
Lousto, Carlos O. and et al. (The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations). "Gravitational-wave Constraints on the Equatorial Ellipticity of Millisecond Pulsars." The Astrophysical Journal 902. 1 (2020): n/a. Print.
Lousto, Carlos O. and et al. (The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations). "Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M_\odot ⊙ ​ Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521." The Astrophysical Journal 900. 1 (2020): n/a. Print.
Lousto, Carlos O. and et al. (The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations). "GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M_{\odot}150M ⊙ ​." Physical Review 125. 10 (2020): n/a. Print.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "GW190521 as a Highly Eccentric Black Hole Merger." Astrophysics. (2020): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and et al. (The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations). "Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA." Living Rev. Rel. 23. 1 (2020): n/a. Print.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "Hubble Constant Measurement with GW190521 as an Eccentric Black Hole Merger." Astrophysics. (2020): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "PSR J0437-4715: The Argentine Institute of Radioastronomy 2019-2020 Observational Campaign." Astrophysical Journal. (2020): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "Application of the Third RIT Binary Black Hole Simulations Catalog to Parameter Estimation of Gravitational Waves Signals from the LIGO-Virgo O1/O2 Observational Runs." General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology. (2020): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and et al. (The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations). "Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog." General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology. (2020): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and et al. (The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations). "Tests of General Relativity with Binary Black Holes from the second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog." General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology. (2020): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and et al. (The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations). "Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift During the LIGO-Virgo Run O3a." General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology. (2020): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and et al. (The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations). "GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run." General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology. (2020): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and James Healy, et al. "Open Data from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo." LIGO-P1900206. (2019): n/a. Web.
Bero, John J., et al. "A Guide to LIGO-Virgo Detector Noise and Extraction of Transient Gravitational-wave Signals." LVC Publications. (2019): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., Federico L. Armengol, and Luciano Combi., et al. "Upgraded Antennas for Pulsar Observations in the Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy." n/a. (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "A Gravitational-wave Measurement of the Hubble Constant Following the Second Observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo." LIGO-P1900015. (2019): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and James Healy. "Kicking Gravitational Wave Detectors with Recoiling Black Holes." Physical Review 100. 10 (2019): 104039. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "An Optically Targeted Search for Gravitational Waves emitted by Core-Collapse Supernovae during the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo." LIGO-P1700177 n/a. n/a (2019): n/a. Web.
Healy, James, et al. "Model Comparison from LIGO-Virgo data on GW170817\'s binary Components and Consequences for the Merger Remnant." LIGO-P1800379. (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "Search for Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Gamma-ray Bursts During the Second Observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo." The Astrophysical Journal. (2019): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "Search for Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 in the Second Advanced LIGO Observing run with an Improved Hidden Markov Model." Physical Review 100. 12 (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "Search for Intermediate Mass Black Hole Binaries in the First and Second Observing Runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo Network." Physical Review 100. 6 (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "All-Sky Search for Short Gravitational-Wave Bursts in the Second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo Run." Physical Review 100. 2 (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "Search for Subsolar Mass Ultracompact Binaries in Advanced LIGO’s Second Observing Run." Physical Review 123. 16 (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "All-sky Search for Long-duration Gravitational-wave Transients in the Second Advanced LIGO Observing Run." Physical Review D 99. 10 (2019): n/a. Web.
Bero, John J., et al. "Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves using Data from Advanced LIGO\'s First Two Observing Runs." Physical Review 100. 6 (2019): n/a. Web.
Lange, Jacob, et al. "On the Properties of the Massive Binary Black Hole Merger GW170729." Physical Review 100. 10 (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "Tests of General Relativity with the Binary Black Hole Signals from the LIGO-Virgo Catalog GWTC-1." Physical Review 100. 10 (2019): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "Search for the Isotropic Stochastic Background using Data from Advanced LIGO’s second observing run." Physical Review 100. 6 (2019): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "ll-sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Isolated Neutron Stars using Advanced LIGO O2 Data." Physical Review 100. 2 (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in 2015-2017 LIGO Data." The Astrophysical Journal. (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "Search for Transient Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Magnetar Bursts during Advanced LIGO’s Second Observing Run." The Astrophysical Journal 874. 2 (2019): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "Low-latency Gravitational-wave Alerts for Multimessenger Astronomy during the Second Advanced LIGO and Virgo Observing Run." The Astrophysical Journal. (2019): n/a. Web.
Healy, James, et al. "Second RIT Binary Black Hhole Simulations Catalog and its Application to Gravitational Waves Parameter Estimation." Physical Review 100. 2 (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "First Measurement of the Hubble Constant from a Dark Standard Siren using the Dark Energy Survey Galaxies and the LIGO/Virgo Binary–Black-hole Merger GW170814." The Astrophysical Journal 876. 1 (2019): n/a. Web.
Bero, John J., et al. "Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from 15 Supernova Remnants and Fomalhaut b with Advanced LIGO." The Astrophysical Journal 875. 2 (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo." The Astrophysical Journal 882. 2 (2019): n/a. Web.
Healy, James, et al. "GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs." Physical Review 9. 3 (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "Tests of General Relativity with GW170817." Physical Review 123. 1 (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "Search for Multimessenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos with Advanced LIGO during Its First Observing Run, ANTARES, and IceCube." The Astrophysical Journal 870. 2 (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "Search for Gravitational Waves from a Long-lived Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817." The Astrophysical Journal 875. 2 (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "A Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Search for Electromagnetic Signals Coincident with Gravitational-Wave Candidates in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run." The Astrophysical Journal 871. 1 (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817." Physical Review 9. 1 (2019): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from 15 Supernova Remnants and Fomalhaut b with Advanced LIGO." The Astrophysical Journal 875. (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo." The Astrophysical Journal 882. (2019): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs." Physical Review 9. 3 (2019): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "Tests of General Relativity with GW170817." Physical Review 123. 1 (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "Search for Multimessenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos with Advanced LIGO during Its First Observing Run, ANTARES, and IceCube." The Astrophysical Journal 870. (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "Search for Gravitational Waves from a Long-lived Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817." The Astrophysical Journal 875. (2019): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "A Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Search for Electromagnetic Signals Coincident with Gravitational-Wave Candidates in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run." The Astrophysical Journal. (2019): n/a. Web.
Birnholtz, Ofek, et al. "Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817." Physical Review 9. 1 (2019): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and James Healy. "Gravitational wave beacons." Physical Review 99. 6 (2019): n/a. Web.
Delfavero, Vera, et al. "Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo." General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology. (2019): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "Tests of General Relativity with the Binary Black Hole Signals from the LIGO-Virgo Catalog GWTC-1." Physical Review D 100. 10 (2019): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and B. P. Abbott et al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration). "Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in 2015-2017 LIGO Data." The Astrophysical Journal. (2020): 899. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and James Healy, et al. "GW170817: Measurements of neutron star radii and equation of state." Physical Review 121. 16 (2018): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., James Healy, and Daniel M. Wysocki., et al. "Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background." Physical Review 120. 20 (2018): n/a. Web.
Healy, James and Carlos O. Lousto. "Hangup effect in unequal mass binary black hole mergers and further studies of their gravitational radiation and remnant properties." Physical Review 97. 8 (2018): n/a. Web.
Healy, James, et al. "Targeted numerical simulations of binary black holes for GW170104." Physical Review 97. 6 (2018): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run." Physical Review 97. 10 (2018): n/a. Web.
Healy, James, et al. "Evolutions of unequal mass, highly spinning black hole binaries." Physical Review 97. 10 (2018): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and James Healy, et al. "GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences." Physical Review 120. 9 (2018): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and James Healy,. et al. "GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence." The Astrophysical Journal 851. (2017): n/a. Web.
Healy, James and Carlos O. Lousto., et al. "Search for Post-merger Gravitational Waves from the Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817." The Astrophysical Journal 851. (2017): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., James Healy, and Daniel M. Wysocki., et al. "Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory." The Astrophysical Journal 850. (2017): n/a. Web.
Healy, James, Jacob Lange, and Carlos O. Lousto., et al. "On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817." The Astrophysical Journal 850. (2017): n/a. Web.
Healy, James and Carlos O. Lousto., et al. "Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated with GW170817." The Astrophysical Journal 850. (2017): n/a. Web.
Healy, James, Jacob Lange, and Carlos O. Lousto., et al. "A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant." Nature. (2017): 85-88. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., et al. "Gravitational Waves and Gamma-rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A." The Astrophysical Journal 848. 2 (2017): n/a. Web.
Healy, James and Carlos O. Lousto., et al. "Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger." The Astrophysical Journal 848. (2017): n/a. Web.
Healy, James, et al. "GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral." Physical Review 119. 16 (2017): n/a. Web.
Healy, James and Carlos O. Lousto., et al. "GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence." Physical Review 119. 14 (2017): n/a. Web.
Healy, James, et al. "First search for nontensorial gravitational waves from known pulsars." Physical Review 120. 3 (2018): n/a. Web.
Healy, James and Carlos O. Lousto., et al. "Upper Limits on Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 from a Model-based Cross-correlation Search in Advanced LIGO Data." The Astrophysical Journal 847. (2017): n/a. Web.
Zlochower, Yosef, et al. "Evolutions of Nearly Maximally Spinning Black Hole Binaries Using the Moving Puncture Approach." Physical Review 96. 4 (2017): n/a. Web.
Lange, Jacob, et al. "Parameter estimation method that directly compares gravitational wave observations to numerical relativity." Physical Review 96. 10 (2017): n/a. Web.
Healy, James, Carlos O. Lousto, and Yosef Zlochower. "Nonspinning binary black hole merger scenario revisited." Physical Review 96. 12 (2017): n/a. Web.
Healy, James and Carlos O. Lousto., et al. "Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first observing run of Advanced LIGO." Physical Review 96. 2 (2017): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., Yosef Zlochower, and Manuela Campanelli. "Modeling the Black hole Merger of QSO 3C 186." The Astrophysical Journal 841. (2017): n/a. Web.
Healy, James, et al. "The RIT binary black hole simulations catalog." Classical and Quantum Gravity 34. (2017): n/a. Web.
Healy, James, et al. "Post-Newtonian Quasicircular Initial Orbits for Numerical Relativity." Classical and Quantum Gravity 34. (2017): n/a. Web.
Healy, James and Carlos O. Lousto., et al. "First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Advanced LIGO." The Astrophysical Journal 839. (2017): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and James Healy,. et al. "Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves from Advanced LIGO’s First Observing Run." Physical Review 118. 12 (2017): n/a. Web.
Healy, James and Carlos O. Lousto. "Remnant of binary black-hole mergers: New simulations and peak luminosity studies." Physical Review 95. 2 (2017): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and James Healy,. et al. "Modeling the source of GW150914 with targeted numerical-relativity simulations." Classical and Quantum Gravity 33. (2016): n/a. Web.
Healy, James and Carlos O. Lousto., et al. "Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run." Physical Review 8. 3 (2018): n/a. Web.
Healy, James and Carlos O. Lousto., et al. "GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence." Physical Review 116. 24 (2016): n/a. Web.
Healy, James and Carlos O. Lousto., et al. "Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein’s equations for binary black hole coalescence." Physical Review 94. 6 (2016): n/a. Web.
Healy, James and Carlos O. Lousto., et al. "Improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform Model." Physical Review 6. 4 (2016): n/a. Web.
Lange, Jacob and Carlos O. Lousto., et al. "Tests of General Relativity with GW150914." Physical Review 116. 22 (2016): n/a. Web.
Lange, Jacob, et al. "Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914." Physical Review 116. 24 (2016): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O., James Healy, and Richard O'Shaughnessy., et al. "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger." Physical Review 116. 6 (2016): n/a. Web.
Lousto, Carlos O. and James Healy. "Unstable flip-flopping spinning binary black holes." Physical Review 93. 12 (2016): n/a. Web.
Zlochower, Yosef, Marcelo Ponce, and Carlos Lousto. "Accuracy Issues for Numerical Waveforms." Physical Review D86. (2012): 104056. Print.
Lousto, Carlos, et al. "Study of Conformally Flat Initial Data for Highly Spinning Black Holes and their Early Evolutions." Physical Review D85. (2012): 124013. Print.
Ajith, P. and Carlos Lousto. "The NINJA-2 Catalog of Hybrid Post-Newtonian/numerical-relativity Waveforms for Non-precessing Black-hole Binaries." Class.Quant.Grav. 29. (2012): 124001. Print.
Cardoso, Vitor and Carlos Lousto. "NR/HEP: roadmap for the future." Class.Quant.Grav. 29. (2012): 244001. Print.
Lousto, Carlos, et al. "Gravitational Recoil From Accretion-Aligned Black-Hole Binaries." Physical Review D85. (2012): 84015. Print.
Nakano, Hiroyuki, et al. "Intermediate-mass-ratio Black Hole Binaries II: Modeling Trajectories and Gravitational Waveforms." Physical Review D84. (2011): 12400601-12400622. Print.
Lousto, Carlos Oscar and Yosef Zlochower. "Hangup Kicks: Still Larger Recoils by Partial Spin/Orbit Alignment of Black-Hole Binaries." Physical Review Letters 107. (2011): 2311021-2311025. Print.
Nakano, Hiroyuki, et al. "Perturbative Effects of Spinning Black Holes with Applications to Recoil Velocities." Classical and Quantum Gravity 28. (2011): 13400501-13400512. Print.
Zlochower, Yosef, Manuela Campanelli, and Carlos Oscar Lousto. "Modeling Gravitational Recoil Using Numerical Relativity." Classical and Quantum Gravity 28. (2011): 11401501-11401512. Print.
Lousto, Carlos Oscar and Yosef Zlochower. "Modeling Maximum Astrophysical Gravitational Recoil Velocities." Physical Review D83. (2011): 0240031-0240038. Print.
Lousto, Carlos Oscar and Yosef Zlochower. "Orbital Evolution of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Black-Hole Binaries with Numerical Relativity." Physical Review Letters 106. (2011): 0411011-0411014. Print.
Ponce, Marcelo, Carlos Oscar Lousto, and Yosef Zlochower. "Seeking for Toroidal Event Horizons from Initially Stationary BH Configurations." Classical and Quantum Gravity 28. (2011): 14502701-14502718. Print.
Jaramillo, Gabriela and Carlos Oscar Lousto. "Study of Multi Black Hole and Ring Singularity Apparent Horizons." Physical Review D84. (2011): 10401101-10401116. Print.
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Lousto, Carlos O. "From Simulations of Binary Black Holes to Insights into Astrophysics and Gravitational Waves." APS April Meeting 2019. APS Physics. Denver, CO. 14 Apr. 2019. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "First Pulsar Timings in South-America." Fall 2018 Collaboration Meeting at Green Bank Observatory. NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center. Green Bank, VA. 16 Oct. 2018. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Relatividad Numerica: Técnicas y Resultados sobre agujeros negros binarios, materia y estrellas de neutrones." Minicurso Ondas Gravitacionales. Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía. Argentina, n/a. 13 Dec. 2018. Keynote Speech.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Observación de ondas gravitacionales (LIGO) y predicciones para LISA y PTA. Agujeros negros binarios supermasivos y astronomía multimensajera." Minicurso Ondas Gravitacionales. Minicurso Ondas Gravitacionales. Argentina, n/a. 13 Dec. 2018. Keynote Speech.
Lousto, Carlos O. "De Agujeros Negros en Supercomputadoras a observaciones de LIGO." CONICET-UBA Colloquiums. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio IAFE (CONICET-UBA). Buneos Aires, Argentina, n/a. 12 Dec. 2018. Guest Lecture.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Gravitational waves parameter estimation from purely binary black hole numerical simulations." 28th Midwest Relativity Meeting. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Milwaukee, WI. 13 Oct. 2018. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "First Pulsar Observations in South-America." IPTA 2018 Conference. EPTA, NANOGrav and PPTA. Albuquerque, NM. 19 Jun. 2018. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Gravitational Wave Beacons." NANOGrav Spring 2018. University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA. 29 Mar. 2018. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "De colisiones de galaxias a púlsares y ondas gravitacionales." Coloquios y Seminarios. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio IAFE (CONICET-UBA). Buneos Aires, Argentina, n/a. 15 Mar. 2018. Keynote Speech.
Lousto, Carlos O. "First pulsar observations from South America." NANOGRAV FALL 2017. NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center/Lafayette College. Easton, PA. 10 Nov. 2017. Keynote Speech.
Lousto, Carlos O. "First observations of Pulsars in Argentina." 2017 NANOGrav Fall Meeting. NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center/Lafayette College. Easton, PA. 9 Nov. 2017. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Targeted numerical simulations of binary black holes for GW170104." Midwest Relativity Meeting 2017. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. 14 Oct. 2017. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Colisones de galaxias, agujeros negros supermasivos y ondas gravitacionales." Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica. Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Buenos Aires, Argentina, n/a. 9 Aug. 2017. Keynote Speech.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Púlsares, agujeros negros y ondas gravitacionales." Ciclo de Coloquios en el IAR. Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía. Buneos Aires, Argentina, n/a. 7 Aug. 2017. Keynote Speech.
Lousto, Carlos O. "The nonspinning binary black hole merger scenario revisited." 20th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. 19 Jun. 2017. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Modeling the Black Hole Merger of QS0 3C 186." 20th Eastern Gravity Meeting. Penn State's University. State College, PA. 9 Jun. 2017. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Modeling Gravitational Waves with Numerical-Relativity Simulations." 13th International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Minneapolis, MN. 18 May 2017. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Numerical Simulations of Merging Binary Black Holes." 2017 Spring NANOGrav Meeting. NANAGrav Physic Frontiers Center/West Virginia University. Morgantown, MV. 21 Apr. 2017. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Flip-flopping spinning binary black holes." Strong Gravity and Binary Dynamics with Gravitational Wave Observations. University of Mississippi. Oxford, MS. 28 Feb. 2017. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Remnant of binary black-hole mergers: New simulations, peak luminosity and hangup studies." APS April Meeting 2017. APS Physics. WDC, n/a. 31 Jan. 2017. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "El Nacimiento de la Astronomía de ondas gravitacionales." Seminar at University of Buenos Aires. University of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina, n/a. 24 Nov. 2016. Keynote Speech.
Lousto, Carlos O. "La Astronomía de las ondas gravitacionales." Seminar at Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Buenos Aires, Argentina, n/a. 22 Nov. 2016. Keynote Speech.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Modeling the source of GW150914 and GW151226 with targeted numerical-relativity simulations." 2016 MIDWEST RELATIVITY MEETING. Perimeter Institute. Waterloo, Canada, n/a. 13 Oct. 2016. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Black Hole Simulations for Gravitational Waves Modeling." 21st International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR21). Columbia University. NYC, NY. 10 Jun. 2016. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Numerical Simulations of GW150914." 19th Eastern Gravity Meeting. The University of New Hampshire. Durham, NH. 26 May 2016. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Detection of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger." SUNY Buffalo Colloquium. SUNY Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. 21 Apr. 2016. Guest Lecture.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Unstable flip-flopping binary black holes." APS April 2016. APS Physics. Salt Lake City, UT. 16 Apr. 2016. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Spin flips in generic black hole binaries." 2015 Midwest Relativity Meeting. NorthWestern University. Evanston, IL. 2 Oct. 2015. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Perturbative extraction of gravitational waveforms generated with Numerical Relativity." 18th Eastern Gravity Meeting. Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester, NY. 28 May 2015. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Genuine spin-flip in binary black holes." APS April 2015. APS Physics. Baltimore, MD. 14 Mar. 2015. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Flip-Floping Spinning Black Holes." 24th Midwest Relativity Meeting. Oakland University. Rochester, MI. 7 Nov. 2014. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Recoil velocities from unequal mass binary black holes." 17th Eastern Gravity Meeting. West Virginia University. Morgantown, WV. 14 May 2014. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "On the dynamics of binary black holes and some astrophysical consequences." APS-April meeting. APS Physics. Savannah, GA. 4 Mar. 2014. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Where angular momentum goes in precessing black hole binaries." 23rd Midwest Relativity Meeting. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Milwaukee, WI. 25 Nov. 2013. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Numerical Relativity of Binary Black Holes." Seminar at University of Rochester. Laboratory for Laser Energetics: University of Rochester. Rochester, NY. 8 Nov. 2013. Guest Lecture.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Challenging simulations of Black Hole Binaries." International Conference: AMMCS-2013. Wilfrid Laurier University. Waterloo, Canada, n/a. 26 Aug. 2013. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Astrophysical effects of gravitational radiation in Black-Hole Binaries." Massive Black Holes: Birth, Growth and Impact. Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics - UC Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA. 5 Aug. 2013. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Gravitational Recoil From Black-Hole Binaries." 16th Eastern Gravity Meeting. n/a. Toronto, Canada, n/a. 7 Jun. 2013. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Exploring the outer limits of Numerical Relativity." APS April meeting. APS Physics. Denver, CO. 12 Apr. 2013. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Simulaciones de colisiones de agujeros negros: Predicciones astrofísicas." Seminar at Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Observatorio Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. Buenos Aires, Argentina, n/a. 28 Feb. 2013. Keynote Speech.
Lousto, Carlos O. "Simulaciones de colisiones de agujeros negros: Predicciones astrofísicas." Seminar at Insituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio. Insituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio. Buenos Aires, Argentina, n/a. 27 Feb. 2013. Keynote Speech.
Lousto, Carlos. "Binary Black Hole Mergers in Numerical Relativistic Astrophysics." XXVI Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics. INPE. Sao Paulo, Brazil. 19 Dec. 2012. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos. "Gravitational Recoil From Black-Hole Binaries." Nishinomiya Yukawa Symposium: New Waves in Gravity and Cosmology. Yukawa Institute. Kyoto, Japan. 5 Dec. 2012. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos. "Gravitational Recoil From Merging Black-Hole Binaries." Conference: AMS 2012 Eastern Sectional Meeting. RIT. Rochester, NY. 22 Sep. 2012. Conference Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos. "Gravitational Recoil From Accretion-Aligned Black-Hole Binaries." 13th Marcel Grossmann Meeting. Marcel Grossmann Meeting. Stockholm, Sweden. 4 Jul. 2012. Conference Presentation.
External Scholarly Fellowships/National Review Committee
10/1/2012 - 9/30/2013
     (XSEDE) is supported by the National Science Foundation
     Amount: 17259113 SU
Published Article
Zlochower, Yosef, M. Campanelli, C.O. Lousto. “Modeling Gravitational Recoil Using NumericalRelativity.” Physical Review D, 82 (2010): 104057. Web. É  «
Lousto, Carlos O., M. Campanelli, Y. Zlochower. “Remnant Masses, Spins and Recoils from the Mergerof Generic Black-Hole Binaries.” Physical Review D, 81 (2010): 084023. Web. É  «
Lousto, Carlos O., M. Campanelli, Y. Zlochower. “Remnant Masses, Spins and Recoils from the Merger of Generic Black-Hole Binaries.” Classical Quantum Gravity, 27 (2010):114006. Print. É  «
Lousto, Carlos O.,H. Nakano, Y. Zlochower, M. Campanelli. “Intermediate Mass Ratio Black HoleBinaries: Numerical Relativity meets Perturbation Theory.” Physical Review Letters, 104 (2010): 211101. Web. É  «
Campanelli, Manuela, C.O. Lousto, B.C Mundim, H. Nakano, Y. Zlochower, Hans-Peter Bischof. “Advances in Simulations of Generic Black-HoleBinaries.” Classical Quantum Gravity, 27 (2010): 084034. Print. É  «
Lousto, Carlos O., H. Nakano, Y. Zlochower, M. Campanelli. “Intermediate mass-ratio black hole binaries: Intertwining numerical and perturbative techniques.” Physical Review D, 82 (2010): 104057. Web. É  «
Nakano, Hiroyuki, Manuela Campanelli, Carlos Lousto, and Yosef Zlochower. “Perturbative effects of spinning black holes with applications to recoil velocities.” Proceedings of theTheory Meets Data Analysis at Comparable and Extreme Mass Ratios Conference, 20-26 June 2010. n.p. Web. É  «
Formal Presentation
Lousto, Carlos.“Extreme-Mass-Ratio-Black-Hole-Binary Evolutions with Numerical Relativity.” 20th Annual Midwest Relativity Meeting. Guelph, Canada. 5-6 Nov. 2010. Presentation.
Lousto, Carlos.“Statistical Studies of Spinning Black-Hole Binaries.” American PhysicalSociety Meeting. Washington, DC.13-16 Feb. 2010. Presentation.

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