Eric H. Thrane

Working with undergraduate researcher, Jeff Mondloch (left), on a prototype magnetically-assisted pendulum. Photo by Alex Schumann posted with permission from the University of Minnesota Dept. of Physics & Astronomy.
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cosmology
gravitational waves
neutrinos

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Recent News

Spring, 2012: The coming fall I will be moving to Caltech.

April, 2012: Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600-1000 Hz accepted for publication in Physical Review D.

March, 2012: Identification of noise artifacts in searches for long-duration gravitational-wave transients (T. Prestegard, E. Thrane, et al.) published in Classical and Quantum Gravity.

December, 2011: Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using LIGO S5 science data published in Physical Review Letters.

November, 2011: Jeff Mondloch and I appear in the Department of Physics and Astronomy's Research Spotlight.

August, 2011: Identification of long-duration noise transients in LIGO and Virgo posted on the arXiv.   (Update: published in CQG.)

May, 2011: I presented "Searches for a stochastic background of gravitational waves" at the April APS meeting in Anaheim, CA.

Feb, 2011: STAMP method/motivation paper, "Long gravitational-wave transients and associated detection strategies for a network of terrestrial interferometers," (E. Thrane, S. Kandhasamy, C. D. Ott, et al.) published in Phys. Rev. D.

August, 2010: The first STAMP-PEM data-quality flag (for the identification of airplane-induced corruption of interferometer data) is implemented.

July, 2010: "Calibration of the LIGO Gravitational Wave Detectors in the Fifth Science Run" (J. Abadie et al.) published in NIMA.

December, 2009: "Probing the anisotropies of a stochastic gravitational-wave background using a network of ground-based laser interferometers" (E. Thrane, S. Ballmer, J. D. Romano, S. Mitra, D. Talukder, S. Bose, & V. Mandic) has been published in Phys. Rev. D.

September, 2009: "Search for Astrophysical Neutrino Point Sources at Super-Kamiokande" (E. Thrane et al.) published in the Astrophysical Journal.

March, 2009: "Search for Neutrinos from GRB 080319B at Super-Kamiokande" (E. Thrane et al.) published in the Astrophysical Journal.

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About Me

I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota and co-chair of the stochastic data analysis group of the LIGO experiment.  I am involved in the STAMP project (Stochastic Transient Analysis Multi-detector Pipeline) and I chair the LIGO hardware injection group.   My research interests include gravitational waves and gravitational-wave detectors, neutrinos, cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics.  I received my PhD in 2008 from the University of Washington where I studied astrophysical neutrino point sources with Super-Kamiokande.  I received my BS in 2003 from the University of Michigan where I worked for CDF and on the development of flat electron beams for use in the proposed ILC.

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