Dr Ling (Lilli) Sun

News:

• ** New ** Jun 24, 2026 GW250114 reveals signatures of post-merger black-hole horizon (Lu, Ma, Piccinni, Chen, Sun) is published in Naure 655, 71–75 (2026) 

• ** New ** May 13, 2026 GW240925 and GW250207: Astrophysical Calibration of Gravitational-wave Detectors (LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration) is released, PRL, arXiv:2605.11703 (2026)

• Apr 16, 2026 Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Supernova Remnants in the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Fourth Observing run (LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration) is accepted in ApJ, arXiv:2603.25808 (2026)

• Dec 29, 2025 Ultralight boson constraints from gravitational wave observations of spinning binary black holes (Aswathi, East, Siemonsen, Sun, Jones) is published in Phys. Rev. D 112, 123048 (2025), arXiv:2507.20979 

• Oct 28, 2025 GW241011 and GW241110: Exploring Binary Formation and Fundamental Physics with Asymmetric, High-spin Black Hole Coalescences (LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration) is published in Astrophys. J. Lett. 993, L21 (2025) 

• Oct 15, 2025 Impact of Detector Calibration Accuracy on Black Hole Spectroscopy (Sinha, Sun, Ma) is published in PRD 112, 084038, arXiv:2506.15979 (2025)

• Oct 8, 2025 Toward Low-Latency, High-Fidelity Calibration of the LIGO Detectors with Enhanced Monitoring Tools (Wade, Betzwieser, Bhattacharjee, Dartez, Goetz, Kissel, Sun, Viets, Carney, Makelele, Wade) is published in Class. Quantum Grav. 42 215016 (2025), arXiv:2508.08423 

• Sep 17, 2025 Statistical identification of ringdown modes with rational filters (Lu, Ma, Piccinni, Sun, Finch) is published in Phys. Rev. D 112, 064047 (2025), arXiv:2505.18560

• Sep 10, 2025 GW250114: Testing Hawking’s Area Law and the Kerr Nature of Black Holes (LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration) is published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111403 (2025); Black Hole Spectroscopy and Tests of General Relativity with GW250114 (LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration) is posted on arXiv:2509.08099 (2025)

• Sep 9, 2025 GW230814: investigation of a loud gravitational-wave signal observed with a single detector (LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration) is posted on arXiv:2509.07348 (2025)

• Sep 9, 2025 Directed searches for gravitational waves from ultralight vector boson clouds around merger remnant and galactic black holes during the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run (LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration) is posted on arXiv:2509.07352 (2025)

• Apr 24, 2025 Invited talk at "From Quarks to Neutron Stars: Insights from kHz Gravitational Wave" workshop: Gravitational Wave Discoveries — Now and the Near Future, Tokyo, Japan

• Apr 7, 2025 Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in five globular clusters with a phase-tracking hidden Markov model in the third LIGO observing run (Dunn, Melatos, Clearwater, Suvorova, Sun, Moran, Evans) is published in Phys. Rev. D 111, 083012 (2025), arXiv:2503.15773

• Apr 1, 2025 Media release "Random conversation leads to innovative dark matter detector design"

• Mar 24, 2025 Differential torsion sensor for direct detection of ultralight vector dark matter (Sun, Slagmolen, Qin) is published in Phys. Rev. D 111, 063064 (2025), arXiv:2402.08935 

• Mar 12, 2025 Impact of calibration uncertainties on Hubble constant measurements from gravitational-wave sources (Huang, Chen, Haster, Sun, Vitale, Kissel) is published in Phys. Rev. D 111, 063034 (2025), arXiv:2204.03614 

• Mar 11, 2025 Mapping inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms of binary black holes from black hole perturbation waveforms by machine learning (Zhong, Han, Sun) is published in Phys. Rev. D 111, 064033 (2025), arXiv:2503.04534

• Mar 10, 2025 Methodology for constraining ultralight vector bosons with gravitational wave searches targeting merger remnant black holes (Jones, Siemonsen, Sun, East, Miller, Wette, Piccinni) is published in Phys. Rev. D 111, 063028 (2025), arXiv:2412.00320

• Feb 26, 2025 Determination of the birth-mass function of neutron stars from observations (You et al.) is published in Nature Astronomy (2025), arXiv:2412.05524