Zack Carson

List of Publications

  1. Carson, Zack (2025), “ A tapestry of gravitational waveforms to study black hole mergers ” Springer Nature Astronomy 9 1109-1110

  2. Carson, Zack (2020), “ Probing Fundamental Physics with Gravitational Waves ” Doctoral dissertation, University of Viginia

  3. Carson, Zack and Yagi, Kent (2021), “ Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Waves ”, Submitted as a chapter in the "Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy" by C. Bambi, S. Katsanevas and K. Kokkotas; Springer Singapore

  4. Carson, Zack and Yagi, Kent (2020), “Probing string-inspired gravity with the inspiral-merger-ringdown consistency tests.” Classical and Quantum Gravity

  5. Carson, Zack, and Yagi, Kent (2020), “Probing Einstein-dilaton Gauss-Bonnet Gravity with the inspiral and ringdown of gravitational waves” Physical Review D 101 104030

  6. Carson, Zack and Yagi, Kent (2020), “Asymptotically flat, parameterized black hole metric preserving Kerr symmetries” Physical Review D 101, 084030

  7. Carson, Zack, and Yagi, Kent (2020), “Probing beyond-Kerr spacetimes with the inspiral-ringdown signals of gravitational waves” Physical Review D 101, 084050

  8. Carson, Zack and Yagi, Kent (2020), “Parameterized and inspiral-merger-ringdown consistency tests of gravity with multi-band gravitational wave observations” Physical Review D (101), 044047

  9. Zimmerman, Josef, Carson, Zack, Schumacher, Kristen, Steiner, Andrew W., and Yagi, Kent (2020), “Measuring Nuclear Matter Parameters with NICER and LIGO/Virgo” Physical Review Letters (under review)

  10. Carson, Zack and Yagi, Kent (2020), “Multi-band gravitational wave tests of general relativity” Classical and Quantum Gravity Letters

  11. Carson, Zack and Yagi, Kent (2019), “Parameterized and Consistency Tests of Gravity with Gravitational Waves: Current and Future” Proceedings, Recent Progress in Relativistic Astrophysics: Shanghai, China, May 6-8, 2019 (Vol. 17(1))

  12. Carson, Zack, Seymour, Brian C., and Yagi, Kent (2019), “Future Prospects for Probing Scalar-Tensor Theories with Gravitational Waves from Mixed Binaries” Classical and Quantum Gravity (37)10.1088

  13. Tahura, Sharaban, Yagi, Kent, and Carson, Zack (2019), “Testing Gravity with Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Mergers: Contributions from Amplitude Corrections.” Physical Review D100(10), 104001

  14. Carson, Zack, Chatziioannou Katerina, Haster, Carl-Johan, Yagi, Kent, and Yunes, Nicolas (2019), “Equation-of-state insensitive relations after GW170817.” Phys. Rev., D99 (8), 083016

  15. Carson, Zack, Andrew W. Steiner, and Yagi, Kent (2019), “Future Prospects for Constraining Nuclear Matter Parameters with Gravitational Waves.” Phys. Rev., D99 (8), 083016

  16. Carson, Zack, Andrew W. Steiner, and Yagi, Kent (2019), “Constraining nuclear matter parameters with GW170817.” Phys. Rev., D99 (4), 043010

  17. J. Zang, Z. Yang, X. Xie, M. Ren, Y. Shen, Z. Carson, O. Pfister, A. Beling, J.Campbell (2017), “High quantum efficiency uni-traveling-carrier photodiode” Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE, Oct. 2016

  18. Zhu, X. and Carson, Z. and Alexander, R. and Pfister, O., “Leveraging qumode scalability: high squeezing and entanglement from redistributed multitudinous-mode squeezing.” (in progress)

List of Conferences

  1. "Probing beyond-Kerr spacetimes with the IMR consistency tests of gravitational waves" (Contributed Speaker) - APS April Virtual Meeting, April 2020.

  2. "Multi-messenger probes of the neutron star equation of state" (Invited Speaker) - Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society (SESAPS) meeting, Wrightsville, NC, November 2019.

  3. "Universal relations after GW170817" (Contributed Speaker) - American Physical Society (APS) April Meeting, Denver CO, April 2019.

  4. "Constraining nuclear matter parameters and improving Universal Relations after GW170817" (Web seminar invited speaker, Youtube) - Nuclear Theory Group (hosted by Dr. Bharat Kumar, University of Tsukuba, Japan), March 2019.

  5. "Universal relations after GW170817" (Poster presentation) - GWPAW, University of Maryland, December 2018.

  6. "Team based design of science laboratories" (Contributed Speaker) - Innovation in Pedagogy Summit, University of Virginia, 2016.