Dr Ling (Lilli) Sun

News:

• 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 on CQG, arXiv:2508.08423 (2025)

• Oct 1, 2025 GW250114 reveals black hole horizon signatures (Lu, Ma, Piccinni, Chen, Sun) is posted on arXiv:2510.01001 (2025)

• Sep 20, 2025 Impact of Detector Calibration Accuracy on Black Hole Spectroscopy (Sinha, Sun, Ma) is accepted in PRD, arXiv:2506.15979 (2025)

• 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)

• Jul 29, 2025 Ultralight boson constraints from gravitational wave observations of spinning binary black holes (Aswathi, East, Siemonsen, Sun, Jones) is posted on arXiv:2507.20979 (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