Theses

  1. M. Vallisneri, Modeling and Detecting Gravitational Waves from Compact Stellar Objects, thesis, Ph.D. in physics (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 2002), 145 pp. abs pdf ps.gz Caltech ETD
  2. M. Vallisneri, Relativity and Acceleration, thesis, doctorate in physics (University of Parma, Italy, 2000), 96 pp. abs pdf ps.gz
  3. M. Vallisneri, Mutamenti nella Nozione di Vuoto: Elettrodinamica dei Sistemi Accelerati, Radiazione di Unruh--Hawking e Termodinamica dei Buchi Neri, thesis, laurea in physics (University of Parma, Italy, 1997), 223 pp., in Italian. abs pdf ps.gz

Technical articles [-]

  1. Stanislav Babak, John G. Baker, Matthew J. Benacquista, Neil J. Cornish, Jeff Crowder, Shane L. Larson, Eric Plagnol, Edward K. Porter, Michele Vallisneri, Alberto Vecchio (the Mock LISA Data Challenge Task Force), Keith Arnaud, Leor Barack, Arkadiusz Błaut, Curt Cutler, Stephen Fairhurst, Jonathan Gair, Xuefei Gong, Ian Harry, Deepak Khurana, Andrzej Królak, Ilya Mandel, Reinhard Prix, B. S. Sathyaprakash, Pavlin Savov, Yu Shang, Miquel Trias, John Veitch, Yan Wang, Linqing Wen, John T. Whelan (the Challenge 1B participants), ``The Mock LISA Data Challenges: from Challenge 1B to Challenge 3,'' Class. Quantum Grav. 25, 184026 (2008). CQG arxiv.org/0806.2110
  2. S. Babak, J. G. Baker, M. J. Benacquista, N. J. Cornish, J. Crowder, C. Cutler, S. L. Larson, T. B. Littenberg, E. K. Porter, M. Vallisneri, A. Vecchio (the Mock LISA Data Challenge task force), G. Auger, L. Barack, A. Błaut, E. Bloomer, D. A. Brown, N. Christensen, J. Clark, S. Fairhurst, J. R. Gair, H. Halloin, M. Hendry, A. Jimenez, A. Królak, I. Mandel, C. Messenger, R. Meyer, S. Mohanty, R. Nayak, A. Petiteau, M. Pitkin, E. Plagnol, R. Prix, E. L. Robinson, C. Roever, P. Savov, A. Stroeer, J. Toher, J. Veitch, J.-Y. Vinet, L. Wen, J. T. Whelan, G. Woan (the Challenge 2 participants), ``Report on the second Mock LISA Data Challenge,'' Class. Quant. Gravity 25, 114037 (2008). CQG arxiv.org/0711.2667
  3. M. Vallisneri, J. Crowder, and M. Tinto, ``Sensitivity and parameter-estimation precision for alternate LISA configurations,'' Class. Quant. Gravity 25, 065005 (2008). CQG arxiv.org/0710.4369
  4. M. Vallisneri, ``Use and Abuse of the Fisher Information Matrix in the Assessment of Gravitational-Wave Parameter-Estimation Prospects'', Phys. Rev. D 77, 042001 (2008). PRD gr-qc/0703086
  1. M. Vallisneri and S. Babak, ``Python and XML for agile scientific computing: the Mock LISA Data Challenges,'' Computing in Science and Engineering 10(1), 80-87 (2008). PDF
  2. C. Cutler and M. Vallisneri, ``LISA detections of massive black hole inspirals: parameter extraction errors due to inaccurate template waveforms'', Phys. Rev. D 76, 104018 (2007). PRD arxiv.org/0707.2982
  3. D. A. Brown, J. Crowder, C. Cutler, I. Mandel, and M. Vallisneri, ``A three-stage search for supermassive black-hole binaries in LISA data'', Class. Quant. Grav. 24, S595-S605 (2007). CQG arXiv/0704.2447
  4. K. A. Arnaud, G. Auger, S. Babak, J. G. Baker, M. J. Benacquista, E. Bloomer, D. A. Brown, J. B. Camp, J. K. Cannizzo, N. Christensen, J. Clark, N. J. Cornish, J. Crowder, C. Cutler, L. S. Finn, H. Halloin, K. Hayama, M. Hendry, O. Jeannin, A. Królak, S. L. Larson, I. Mandel, C. Messenger, R. Meyer, S. Mohanty, R. Nayak, K. Numata, A. Petiteau, M. Pitkin, E. Plagnol, E. K. Porter, R. Prix, C. Roever, B. S. Sathyaprakash, A. Stroeer, R. Thirumalainambi, D. E. Thompson, J. Toher, R. Umstaetter, M. Vallisneri, A. Vecchio, J. Veitch, J.-Y. Vinet, J. T. Whelan, and G. Woan (the LISA Mock Data Challenge Task Force and Challenge 1 participants), ``Report on the first round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges'', Class. Quant. Grav. 24, S529-S539 (2007). CQG gr-qc/0701139
  5. K. A. Arnaud, S. Babak, J. G. Baker, M. J. Benacquista, N. J. Cornish, C. Cutler, L. S. Finn, S. L. Larson, T. Littenberg, E. K. Porter, B. S. Sathyaprakash, M. Vallisneri, A. Vecchio, and J.-Y. Vinet (the LISA Mock Data Challenge Task Force) ``An overview of the second round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges'', Class. Quant. Grav. 24, S551-S564 (2007). CQG gr-qc/0701170
  6. A. Buonanno, Y. Chen, Y. Pan, H. Tagoshi, and M. Vallisneri, ``Detecting gravitational waves from precessing binaries of spinning compact objects: II. Search implementation for low-mass binaries'', Phys. Rev. D 72, 084027 (2005). PRD gr-qc/0508064
  7. M. Vallisneri, ``Geometric Time Delay Interferometry'', Phys. Rev. D 72, 042003 (2005). Erratum: PRD 76, 109903(E) (2007). PRD(E) gr-qc/0504145
  8. M. Tinto, M. Vallisneri, and J. W. Armstrong, ``TDIR: Time-Delay Interferometric Ranging for space-borne gravitational-wave detectors'', Phys. Rev. D 71, 041101(R) (2005). PRD gr-qc/0410122
  9. M. Vallisneri, ``Synthetic LISA: Simulating Time Delay Interferometry in a Model LISA'', Phys. Rev. D 71, 022001 (2005). PRD gr-qc/0407102
  10. D. A. Shaddock, B. Ware, R. E. Spero, and M. Vallisneri, ``Post-processed time-delay interferometry for LISA'', Phys. Rev. D 70, 081101(R) (2004). PRD gr-qc/0406106
  11. A. Buonanno, Y. Chen, Y. Pan, and M. Vallisneri, ``Quasiphysical family of gravity-wave templates for precessing binaries of spinning compact objects: Application to double-spin precessing binaries'', Phys. Rev. D 70, 104003 (2004). Erratum: PRD 74, 029902(E) (2006). PRD(E) gr-qc/0405090
  12. J. R. Gair, L. Barack, T. Creighton, C. Cutler, L. Larson, E. S. Phinney, and M. Vallisneri, ``Event rate estimates for LISA extreme mass ratio capture sources'', Class. Quant. Grav. 21, S1595 (2004). CQG gr-qc/0405137
  13. A. Królak, M. Tinto, and M. Vallisneri, ``Optimal filtering of the LISA data'', Phys. Rev. D 70, 022003 (2004). Erratum: PRD 76, 069901(E) (2007). PRD(E) gr-qc/0401108
  14. Y. Pan, A. Buonanno, Y. Chen, and M. Vallisneri, ``Physical template family for gravitational waves from precessing binaries of spinning compact objects: Application to single-spin binaries'', Phys. Rev D 69, 104017 (2004). Erratum: PRD 74, 029905(E) (2006). PRD(E) gr-qc/0310034
  15. A. Buonanno, Y. Chen, and M. Vallisneri, ``Detecting gravitational waves from precessing binaries of spinning compact objects: Adiabatic limit'', Phys. Rev. D 67, 104025 (2003). Erratum: PRD 74, 029904(E) (2006). PRD(E) gr-qc/0211087
  16. A. Buonanno, Y. Chen, and M. Vallisneri, ``Detection template families for gravitational waves from the final stages of binary--black-hole inspirals: Nonspinning case'', Phys. Rev. D 67, 024016 (2003). Erratum: PRD 74, 029903(E) (2006). PRD(E) gr-qc/0205122
  17. M. Pauri and M. Vallisneri, ``Ephemeral point-events: is there a last remnant of physical objectivity?'', in the Roberto Torretti festschrift, Diálogos 79, 263-303 (2002). gr-qc/0203014 PITT-PHIL-SCI00000578
  18. L. Lindblom, J. Tohline, and M. Vallisneri, ``Numerical evolutions of nonlinear r-modes in neutron stars'', Phys. Rev. D 65, 084039 (2002). PRD astro-ph/0109352
  19. L. Lindblom, J. Tohline, and M. Vallisneri, ``Non-linear evolution of the r-modes in neutron stars'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1152-1155 (2001). PRL astro-ph/0010653
  20. M. Pauri and M. Vallisneri, ``Maerzke-Wheeler coordinates for accelerated observers in special relativity'', Found. Phys. Lett. 13, 401-425 (2000). FPL gr-qc/0006095
  21. M. Vallisneri, ``Prospects for gravity-wave observations of neutron-star tidal disruption in neutron-star/black-hole binaries'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3519-3522 (2000). PRL gr-qc/9912026
  22. M. Pauri and M. Vallisneri, ``Classical roots of the Unruh and Hawking effects'', Foundations of Physics 29, 1499-1520 (1999). FP gr-qc/9903052

Papers authored with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration [+]

  1. BCV2 search in S3: LIGO Scientific Collaboration, ``Search of S3 LIGO data for gravitational wave signals from spinning black hole and neutron star binary inspirals,'' Phys. Rev. D 78, 042002 (2008). PRD arXiv:0712.2050
  2. LIGO Scientific Collaboration and K. C. Hurley, ``Implications for the Origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO Observations,'' Astrophys. J. 681, 1419 (2008). ApJ arXiv:0711.1163
  3. AURIGA Collaboration, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, ``A Joint Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts with AURIGA and LIGO,'' Class. Quant. Grav. 25, 095004 (2008). CQG arXiv:0710.0497

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Other technical papers and publications

  1. T. A. Prince, B. L. Schumaker, and M. Vallisneri, ``Analysis Methods for Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observations from Space (AMIGOS): NASA Development Plan for the LISA Mission,'' v. 0.2 (December 2005). pdf
  2. M. Tinto, M. Vallisneri, and J. W. Armstrong, ``TDIR: Time-Delay Interferometric Ranging for Space-Borne Gravitational-Wave Detectors,'' whitepaper for the LISA Mission Science Office, v. 1.0 (Jul 2005). A slightly expanded version of Phys. Rev. D 71, 041101(R) (2005). pdf
  3. LIST WG1 EMRI taskforce, ``Estimates of detection rates for LISA captures sources,'' technical report for the LISA Science Team Working Group I (Dec 2003). pdf
  4. M. Vallisneri and J. Armstrong, ``Synthetic LISA: simulating Time Delay Interferometry in a model LISA'', whitepaper for the LISA Mission Science Office, v. 1.0 (Oct 2003). pdf available on request
  5. M. Vallisneri, ``Whitepaper on the event rates and detectability of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals with LISA'', whitepaper for the LISA Mission Science Office, v. 1.2 (Jun 2003). pdf available on request

Conference proceedings [+]

  1. M. Vallisneri (for the Mock LISA Data Challenge Taskforce), ``The Mock LISA Data Challenges: Status, Achievements, and Prospects,'' talk at the 2008 APS April meeting (St. Louis, MO, 11-15 Apr 2008), abs. in Bull. APS 53(5), 202 (2008).
  2. M. Vallisneri (for the Mock LISA Data Challenge Taskforce), ``The Mock LISA Data Challenges: Status, Achievements, and Prospects,'' talk at the 2008 AAS HEAD meeting (Los Angeles, CA, 31 Mar-3 Apr 2008), abs. in Bull. AAS 40(1), 57 (2008).
  3. M. Vallisneri (for the Mock LISA Data Challenge Taskforce), ``The Mock LISA Data Challenges: First Results and Future Prospects,'' poster at the 2007 AAS/AAPT joint meeting (Seattle, WA, 5-10 Jan 2007), abs. in Bull. AAS 38(4), 992 (2007). Poster available on request
  4. K. A. Arnaud, S. Babak, J. G. Baker, M. J. Benacquista, N. J. Cornish, C. Cutler, S. L. Larson, B. S. Sathyaprakash, M. Vallisneri, A. Vecchio, and J.-Y. Vinet (the LISA Mock Data Challenge Task Force), ``The Mock LISA Data Challenges: An overview'', in Laser Interferometer Space Antenna: 6th International LISA Symposium (Greenbelt, MD, 19-23 Jun 2006), S. M. Merkowitz and J. C. Livas, eds. (AIP, Melville, NY, 2006), p. 619. gr-qc/0609105 AIP

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Selected seminars and presentations [+]

  1. M. Vallisneri, ``The Mock LISA Data Challenges'', invited talk at the Miniprogram on the Interplay between Numerical Relativity and Data Analysis, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Jan 7-18, 2008. slides and video
  2. M. Vallisneri, ``Einstein's legacy: from rods and clocks to gravitational waves'', seminar at the Fall 2005 Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Southern California Section, South Pasadena, Nov 19, 2005. pdf and useful links
  3. M. Vallisneri, ``Onde gravitazionali: rivelatori e analisi dei dati'', lezioni al XIII Seminario Nazionale di Fisica Teorica, University of Parma, Italy, Aug 31--Sep 4, 2004. pdf e bibliografia (in Italian)

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Outreach

  1. S. Babak and M. Vallisneri, ``The Mock LISA Data Challenges,'' in LISA Mission Science Office, The LISA Newsletter, Issue 2 (Dec 2006), p. 13. pdf
  2. LISA Mission Science Office (eds.), The LISA Newsletter, Issue 2 (Dec 2006). pdf
  3. M. Poessel, S. Babak, M. Vallisneri, and the lisascience.org editorial team, The LISA International Science Community web portal, www.lisascience.org (open Jun 2006).
  4. LISA Mission Science Office (eds.), The LISA Newsletter, Issue 1 (May 2006). pdf

Book reviews

  1. M. Vallisneri, review of ``Hiroshima: la fisica conosce il peccato'' by P. Greco [Editori Riuniti, 1995, Roma], in Giano 22, 169 (1996). txt

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