Teviet Creighton's Page

Contact information

My PGP public key is here.

Personal information

• Biographical stuff.
• A picture of me.
• Interests.
• My curriculum vitae.
• 陈朴的页面.
• My old UWM web site.
• My old LIGO web site.

Work information

• LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory.
  • The Pulsar Upper Limit Group page, Wiki, and CVS archive.
  • Einstein@home: Search for gravitational waves on your own computer!
  • The Radio Analysis Group wiki.
  • The Data Analasys Software Working Group page and CVS archive.
  • The LIGO Scientific Collaboration
• LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.
  • The LISA International Science Team (LIST) page.
  • The LIST Working Group 1 (Sources and Data Analysis) page.

Miscellaneous

• Downloads subdirectory.
• Gravitational waves demystefied: a semi-quantitative introduction to gravitational-wave astronophysics.
• Animation of three nearby particle trajectories near a Kerr black hole, and a graph of their projected positions.
• Some graphics I developed for a proposed Einstein@home screensaver (not ultimately used in the final version).
• Sound files (WAV format) corresponding to gravitational waveforms for some LIGO and LISA sources:
  • Pulsar J1938+2134: emitting at 1283.86Hz, or twice its rotation frequency.
  • Two 10-solar-mass black holes colliding: inspiral from 40Hz matched to an a/M=0.998 ringdown.
  • Supernova explosion: waveform s15A50000B0.1 from Zwerger-Müller catalog.
  • Primordial stochastic background: Harrison-Zel'dovich spectrum from 40Hz to 22kHz.
  • Cusp in a cosmic string: -1/3 power law in characteristic strain with a 1kHz cutoff.
  • Capture of a 10-solar-mass black hole by a million-solar-mass black hole: p=2.2M, e=0.95, i=20°, a/M=0.998, frequency scaled to audible range.
• Share and Enjoy!

“Are you pondering what I'm pondering?”
“I think so, Brain, but if you replace the ‘p’ with ‘o’ my name would be ‘Oinky’...”