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Ronaldas Macas

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of Portsmouth

Biography

Analysing data from the most sensitive instrument in the world to search for exploding stars. Interested in astrophysics and multi-messenger astronomy enabled by gravitational waves. Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth. Member of LIGO.

Interests

  • Gravitational waves
  • Multi-messenger astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Data science

Education

  • PhD in Gravitational Physics, 2016-2020

    Cardiff University

  • MSci in Physics and Astronomy, 2011-2016

    University of Glasgow

Selected Publications

GLADE+: An Extended Galaxy Catalogue for Multimessenger Searches with Advanced Gravitational-wave Detectors
Dalya et al.
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Impact of noise transients on low latency gravitational-wave event localisation
Ronaldas Macas, Joshua Pooley, Laura K. Nuttall, Derek Davis, Martin J. Dyer, Yannick Lecoeuche, Joseph D. Lyman, Jess McIver, Katherine Rink
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Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift During the LIGO-Virgo Run O3b
Abbott et al.
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Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO–Virgo Run O3a
Abbott et al.
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LIGO Detector Characterization in the Second and Third Observing Runs
Davis et al.
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Selected Talks

Do glitches in gravitational-wave data affect our ability to estimate the correct sky localization?

Gravitational-wave (GW) data contains non-Gaussian noise artifacts called ‘glitches’. These glitches can sometimes overlap …
Jul 20, 2021 Online

Search For Gravitational Waves Associated With Gamma-Ray Bursts During The Second Advanced LIGO-Virgo Observing Run

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are one of the most violent phenomena in the universe. They are generally divided into two categories: …
Jul 10, 2019 Valencia, Spain

Unmodeled Source Reconstruction with Gravitational Waves

Parameter estimation of all gravitational-wave signals detected so far relies on precise source models. They are usually limited to …
Jul 9, 2019 Valencia, Spain

Search For Gravitational Waves Associated With Gamma-Ray Bursts During The Second Advanced LIGO-Virgo Observing Run

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are one of the most violent phenomena in the universe. They are generally divided into two categories: …
Jul 3, 2019 Lancaster, United Kingdom

Gravitational-wave Bursts: Searching for the Unknown

Gravitational waves (GWs) have been detected for the first time in 2015 and so far all detections were made using templates for …
Jun 22, 2018 State College, PA, USA
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