Phone: (773) 834-3306
Location: PRC 435
Email: dholzuchicago.edu
WWW: Web Site

Daniel studies the interface of general relativity, astrophysics, and cosmology, focusing on topics ranging from nearby black holes to distant supernovae, and from dark matter to the most massive superclusters of galaxies. He is currently exploring what we will learn about the universe from gravitational wave detectors. In particular, he is studying binary compact objects composed of black holes or neutron stars as powerful electromagnetic and gravitational-wave sources.

Ongoing Scientific Projects:

• Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO)

Past Students

GRADUATE: Maya Fishbach (2020), Zoheyr Doctor (2019), Hsin-Yu Chen (2017)

2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012


Latest Journal Publications

1. "Search for Eccentric Binary Black Hole Mergers with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during Their First and Second Observing Runs", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 883, Issue 2, article id. 149, 10 pp. (2019) (Oct 2019)
2. "A Future Percent-level Measurement of the Hubble Expansion at Redshift 0.8 with Advanced LIGO", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 883, Issue 2, article id. L42, 8 pp. (2019) (Oct 2019)
3. "Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 882, Issue 2, article id. L24, 30 pp. (2019) (Sep 2019)
4. "Erratum: “Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in 2015–2017 LIGO Data” (2019, ApJ, 879, 10)", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 882, Issue 1, article id. 73, 13 pp. (2019) (Sep 2019)
5. "Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using data from Advanced LIGO's first two observing runs", Physical Review D, Volume 100, Issue 6, id.062001 (Sep 2019)
6. "Model comparison from LIGO-Virgo data on GW170817's binary components and consequences for the merger remnant", arXiv:1908.01012 (Aug 2019)
7. "A guide to LIGO-Virgo detector noise and extraction of transient gravitational-wave signals", arXiv:1908.11170 (Aug 2019)
8. "Cosmological Inference using Gravitational Wave Standard Sirens: A Mock Data Challenge", arXiv:1908.06050 (Aug 2019)
9. "A Future Percent-Level Measurement of the Hubble Expansion at Redshift 0.8 With Advanced LIGO", arXiv:1908.09084 (Aug 2019)
10. "An Optically Targeted Search for Gravitational Waves emitted by Core-Collapse Supernovae during the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo", arXiv:1908.03584 (Aug 2019)
11. "A gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant following the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo", arXiv:1908.06060 (Aug 2019)
12. "All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO O2 data", Physical Review D, Volume 100, Issue 2, id.024004 (Jul 2019)
13. "Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in 2015–2017 LIGO Data", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 879, Issue 1, article id. 10, 28 pp. (2019) (Jul 2019)
14. "Black hole shadows, photon rings, and lensing rings", Physical Review D, Volume 100, Issue 2, id.024018 (Jul 2019)
15. "Tests of General Relativity with GW170817", Physical Review Letters, Volume 123, Issue 1, id.011102 (Jul 2019)
16. "All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run", Physical Review D, Volume 100, Issue 2, id.024017 (Jul 2019)
17. "Calibrating gravitational-wave detectors with GW170817", Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 36, Issue 12, article id. 125002 (2019) (Jun 2019)
18. "Narrow-band search for gravitational waves from known pulsars using the second LIGO observing run", Physical Review D, Volume 99, Issue 12, id.122002 (Jun 2019)
19. "First Measurement of the Hubble Constant from a Dark Standard Siren using the Dark Energy Survey Galaxies and the LIGO/Virgo Binary–Black-hole Merger GW170814", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 876, Issue 1, article id. L7, 15 pp. (2019) (May 2019)
20. "Astro2020 Science White Paper: Cosmology with a Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatory", Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, science white papers, no. 67; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, Issue 3, id. 67 (2019) (May 2019)

Latest Conference Proceedings

1. "Gravitational Wave Emulation Using Gaussian Process Regression", APS April Meeting 2017, abstract id. X6.007 (Jan 2017)
2. "Are LIGO's Black Holes Made from Smaller Black Holes?", APS April Meeting 2017, abstract id. E5.009 (Jan 2017)
3. "Observational Selection Effects with Ground-based Gravitational Wave Detectors", APS April Meeting 2017, abstract id. M3.005 (Jan 2017)
4. "Predicting binary merger event rates for advanced LIGO/Virgo", APS April Meeting 2016, abstract id. X14.001 (Mar 2016)
5. "Optimizing the use of 3D information for Electromagnetic Follow-up of Advanced LIGO-Virgo Events", APS April Meeting 2016, abstract id. M14.008 (Mar 2016)
6. "Rate and Followup of Advanced LIGO-Virgo Events", American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #227, id.405.04 (Jan 2016)
7. "Optimizing low latency LIGO-Virgo localization", APS April Meeting 2015, abstract id. S2.006 (Apr 2015)
8. "Astrophysical sources of gravitational waves and electromagnetic counterparts", American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #225, id.322.04 (Jan 2015)
9. "A Numerical Calculation of the Gravitational Wave Signal in the Low Frequency Regime Produced by Binary Supermassive Black Holes", American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #14, id.113.05 (Aug 2014)
10. "The Loudest Gravitational Wave Events", APS April Meeting 2014, abstract #C15.001 (Mar 2014)

Past Visitors:

1. Nicola Tamanini, IPhT CEA/Saclay France (2017)
2. Michele Vallisneri, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2015)
3. Douglas Finkbeiner, Harvard University (2014)
4. Tom Murphy, UCSD (2013)
5. John Beacom, Ohio State University (2012)
6. Keith Bechtol, Stanford / SLAC / KIPAC (2012)
7. Laura Cadonati, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2012)
8. Michal Dominik, Warsaw University (2012)
9. William Kinney, Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY (2012)
10. rachel somerville, Rutgers University (2012)
11. Risa Wechsler, Stanford University (2012)