Dr Ling (Lilli) Sun
Research Fellow, Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics, The Australian National University
I am a research fellow at the Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics (CGA) at the Australian National University. I am a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration, and one of the Chief Investigators of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav).
My primary research interests are gravitational-wave data analysis and studying fundamental physics from gravitational-wave observations, including:
continuous waves from neutron stars
gravitational waves from ultralight boson condensates around black holes
post-merger process and remnants of binary neutron star mergers
ringdown of binary black hole mergers
calibration of the gravitational-wave detectors
science of the next-generation detectors
In particular, I am interested in bringing together advanced computing and signal processing techniques, gravitational-wave data and theory, as well as the understanding of the instruments for gravitational-wave observation.
News:
May 25, 2023 Media release at the start of O4 "CGA to boost the global hunt for gravitational waves"
Apr 30, 2023 Methods and prospects for gravitational wave searches targeting ultralight vector boson clouds around known black holes (Jones, Sun, Siemonsen, East, Scott, Wette) is posted on arXiv:2305.00401
Apr 13, 2023 Invited colloquium at KIAA-PKU: Probing ultralight bosons with black holes and gravitational waves
Apr 4, 2023 Black hole spectroscopy by mode cleaning (Ma, Sun, Chen) is published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 141401 (2023), arXiv:2301.06705
Apr 4, 2023 Using rational filters to uncover the first ringdown overtone in GW150914 (Ma, Sun, Chen) is published in Phys. Rev. D 107, 084010 (2023), arXiv:2301.06639
Jan 13, 2023 Generating transient noise artifacts in gravitational-wave detector data with generative adversarial networks (Powell, Sun, Gereb, Lasky, Dollmann) is published in Class. Quantum Grav. 40 035006 (2023), arXiv:2207.00207
Dec 15, 2022 Invited talk at 2022 AIP Congress: What does Australia bring to the global gravitational-wave detector network? Adelaide, Australia
Dec 13, 2022 Validating continuous gravitational-wave candidates from a semicoherent search using Doppler modulation and an effective point spread function (Jones, Sun, Carlin, Dunn, Millhouse, Middleton, Meyers, Clearwater, Beniwal, Strang, Vargas, Melatos) is published in Phys. Rev. D 106, 123011 (2022), arXiv:2203.14468
Oct 20, 2022 Quasinormal-mode filters: A new approach to analyze the gravitational-wave ringdown of binary black-hole mergers (Ma, Mitman, Sun, Deppe, Hébert, Kidder, Moxon, Throwe, Vu, Chen) is published in Phys. Rev. D 106, 084036 (2022), arXiv:2207.10870
Sep 26, 2022 Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model (Sun) is published in Nature Reviews Physics