Physics

My current work is connected with the LIGO project.
Selected papers:

• Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger - first ever observation of gravitational waves !! Also see LIGO detection page.
• A search of the Orion spur for continuous gravitational waves using a "loosely coherent" algorithm on data from LIGO interferometers, LIGO and Virgo collaboration, Phys. Rev. D (accepted) (2015), also see Scouting our galactic neighborhood.
• A high precision, compact electromechanical ground rotation sensor, V. Dergachev, R. DeSalvo, M. Asadoor, A. Bhawal, P. Gong, C. Kim, A. Lottarini, Y. Minenkov, C. Murphy, A. O'Toole, F.E. Pena Arellano, A.V. Rodionov, M. Shaner, E. Sobacchi, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 85, 054502 (2014)
• A Novel Universal Statistic for Computing Upper Limits in Ill-behaved Background,
  Vladimir Dergachev, Phys. Rev. D 87, 062001 (2013)
• Loosely coherent searches for sets of well-modeled signals,
  Vladimir Dergachev, Phys. Rev. D 85, 062003 (2012)
• All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Full S5 LIGO Data,
  LIGO and Virgo collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 85, 022001 (2012)
• On blind searches for noise dominated signals: a loosely coherent approach,
  Vladimir Dergachev, Class. Quantum Grav. 27 205017 (2010)
• All-sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early S5 Data,
  LIGO Scientific collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 111102 (2009)
• All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data,
  LIGO Scientific collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 77 (2008) 022001
• On blind searches for noise dominated signals: a loosely coherent approach,
  Vladimir Dergachev, Class. Quantum Grav. 27 205017 (2010)
• All-sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early S5 Data,
  LIGO Scientific collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 111102 (2009)
• All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data,
  LIGO Scientific collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 77 (2008) 022001

My papers on Google scholar