Teviet Creighton's Page

Contact information

My PGP public key is here.

This website is hosted by the theoretical astrophysics group at Caltech (it has proven to be the most stable through my various career moves).

Personal information

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

Work information

• STARGATE, Spacecraft Tracking and Astronomical Research into Gigahertz Astrophysical Transient Emission.
• LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory.
  • The Continuous Waves Working Group Wiki.
  • Einstein@home: Search for gravitational waves on your own computer!
  • 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.
• 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’...”