Benjamin J. Owen - Publications

Refereed Articles

1996

1. B. J. Owen, Search templates for gravitational waves from inspiraling binaries: Choice of template spacing, Phys. Rev. D 53, 6749. [PRD] [arXiv]

   1998

2. B. J. Owen, H. Tagoshi, and A. Ohashi, Non-precessional spin-orbit effects on gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries to second post-Newtonian order, Phys. Rev. D 57, 6168. [PRD] [arXiv]
3. L. Lindblom, B. J. Owen, and S. M. Morsink, Gravitational radiation instability in hot young neutron stars, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4843. [PRL] [arXiv]
4. B. J. Owen, L. Lindblom, C. Cutler, B. F. Schutz, A. Vecchio, and N. Andersson, Gravitational waves from hot young rapidly rotating neutron stars, Phys. Rev. D 58, 084020. [PRD] [arXiv]

   1999

5. S. Droz, D. J. Knapp, E. Poisson, and B. J. Owen, Gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries: Validity of the stationary-phase approximation to the Fourier transform, Phys. Rev. D 59, 124016. [PRD] [arXiv]
6. B. J. Owen and B. S. Sathyaprakash, Matched filtering of gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries: Computational cost and template placement, Phys. Rev. D 60, 022002. [PRD] [arXiv]
7. L. Lindblom, G. Mendell, and B. J. Owen, Second-order rotational effects on the r-modes of neutron stars, Phys. Rev. D 60, 064006. [PRD] [arXiv]
8. B. Allen et al., Observational limit on gravitational waves from binary neutron stars in the Galaxy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1498. [PRL] [arXiv]

   2000

9. L. Lindblom, B. J. Owen, and G. Ushomirsky, Effect of a neutron-star crust on the r-mode instability, Phys. Rev. D 62, 084030. [PRD] [arXiv]

   2001

10. H. Tagoshi, A. Ohashi, and B. J. Owen, Gravitational field and equations of motion of spinning compact binaries to 2.5 post-Newtonian order, Phys. Rev. D 63, 044006. [PRD] [arXiv]

    2002

11. L. Lindblom and B. J. Owen, Effect of hyperon bulk viscosity on neutron-star r-modes, Phys. Rev. D 65, 063006. [PRD] [arXiv]
12. B. J. Owen and L. Lindblom, Gravitational radiation from the r-mode instability, Class. Quantum Grav 19, 1247. [CQG] [arXiv]
13. B. Willke et al., The GEO 600 gravitational wave detector, Class. Quantum Grav. 19, 1377. [CQG]

Conference Proceedings

1992

1. G. G. Spear and B. J. Owen, The IRAS Catalogue of Variable Sources: A preliminary description, Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc. 24, 789.
2. G. G. Spear, B. F. Madore, and B. J. Owen, The Cepheid period-luminosity relationship at 12 microns, Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc. 24, 1137.

   1993

3. G. Sprehn, B. J. Owen, and L. R. Cominsky, Motorization and computer control of the Sonoma State University Very Small Array, Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc. 25, 810.
4. G. G. Spear, B. J. Owen, and B. F. Madore, The IRAS Catalogue of Variable Sources, in Sky Surveys: Protostars to Protogalaxies, Astron. Soc. Pacific Conf. Ser. 43, edited by B. T. Soifer, p. 35.

   2000

5. B. J. Owen, Gravitational waves from neutron-star r-modes, in Gravitational Waves and Experimental Gravity, edited by J. Tran Thanh Van et al. (World Publishers, Hanoi), p. 131. Proceedings of the XXXIV. Rencontres de Moriond, Jan. 1999, Les Arcs, France. [PDF]
6. B. J. Owen, Gravitational waves from the r-modes of rapidly rotating neutron stars, in Gravitational Waves, Amer. Inst. Phys. Conf. Proc. 523, edited by S. Meshkov, p. 55. Proceedings of the 3rd Edoardo Amaldi Meeting, July 1999, Pasadena, California. [PDF] [arXiv]

Online Talks

2000

1. Latest news on continuous-wave sources and Parameter-space grid for Hough hierarchical pulsar search, tech. report LIGO-G000038-00-D. LIGO Science Collaboration Meeting, Mar. 2000, Livingston, Louisiana.
2. How can the r-modes prevent crust formation? ITP mini-program Gravitational radiation from the r-modes, Aug. 2000, Santa Barbara, California.
3. LIGO-II detectability of r-modes in young neutron stars. ITP workshop Spin and Magnetism in Young Neutron Stars, Aug. 2000, Santa Barbara, California.
4. Searching for Precessing Binaries and The r-modes are a burst source, Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, Dec. 2000, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

   2002

5. The Advantages of a Well-Modeled Signal, LIGO Science Collaboration meeting, Mar. 2002, Livingston, Louisiana.

Software Contributions

1. B. Allen et al., GRASP: Gravitational Radiation Analysis and Simulation Package.
2. LAL, the data analysis library for the LIGO Science Collaboration.

Ph.D. Thesis