publications

Overview

I have co-authored 10 short author-list papers total. Of these I am the first author on four (highlighted below in blue) and second-author on three. I have more papers in preparation; these are listed at the bottom of the page and have a lighter text color.

I have also significantly contributed to four LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration papers. I was on the paper writing team and served as a key analyst for one LVK paper (about the population properties of compact binary mergers as of our fourth gravitational-wave transient catalog release), served as a lead analyst for another (about constraining Hawking’s Area Law with the loudest gravitational-wave detection to date), and contributed analysis to two more. These and my other LVK contributions can be verified here.

In the list below, each section is organized chronologically with the most recent publication at the top. Publications marked with a star (★) are co-authored by an undergraduate mentee.

Short author-list publications

• Measuring spin precession from massive black hole binaries with gravitational waves: insights from time-domain signal morphology. S. J. Miller, M. Isi, K. Chatziioannou, V. Varma, & S. Hourihane. (Physical Review D, November 2025. arXiv, Phys. Rev. D)

  
  

• Compact Binary Coalescence Sensitivity Estimates with Injection Campaigns during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaborations’ Fourth Observing Run. R. Essick, et al., incl. S. Miller. (Physical Review D, November 2025, arXiv, Phys. Rev. D)

  
  

• Inferring the spins of merging black holes in the presence of data-quality issues. R. Udall, S. Bini, K. Chatziioannou, D. Davis, S. Hourihane, J. McIver, Y. Lecoeuche, & S. Miller. (With Physical Review D reviewers, submitted October 2025. arXiv)

  
  

• ★ Mapping Parameter Correlations in Spinning Binary Black Hole Mergers. K. Kang, S. J. Miller, K. Chatziioannou, & D. Ferguson. (Physical Review D, September 2025, arXiv, Phys. Rev. D)

  
  

• Evidence of the pair instability gap in the distribution of black hole masses. H. Tong, et al., incl. S. J. Miller. (With Nature reviewers, submitted September 2025. arXiv)

  
  

• The anti-aligned spin of GW191109: glitch mitigation and its implications. R. Udall, S. Hourihane, S. Miller, D. Davis, K. Chatziioannou, M. Isi, & H. Deshong. (Physical Review D, January 2025, arXiv, Phys. Rev. D)

  
  

• ★ Gravitational wave signals carry information beyond effective spin parameters. S. J. Miller, Z. Ko, T. A. Callister, & K. Chatziioannou. (Physical Review D, May 2024, arXiv, Phys. Rev. D)

  
  

• GW190521: tracing imprints of spin-precession on the most massive black hole binary. S. J. Miller, M. Isi, K. Chatziioannou, V. Varma, & I. Mandel. (Physical Review D, January 2024, arXiv, Phys. Rev. D)

  
  

• No evidence that the majority of black holes in binaries have zero spin. T. A. Callister, S. J. Miller, K. Chatziioannou, & W. Farr. (The Astrophysical Journal Letters, September 2022, arXiv, ApJL)

  
  

• The Low Effective Spin of Binary Black Holes and Implications for Individual Gravitational-wave Events. S. Miller, T. A. Callister, & W. Farr. (The Astrophysical Journal, June 2020, arXiv, ApJ)

  
  

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration papers with significant contribution

• GW250114: testing Hawking’s area law and the Kerr nature of black holes. (Physical Review Letters, September 2025, arXiv, PRL)

  • ↪ Key analyst: generated all inspiral black hole measurements, confirming Hawking’s area law (Figures 5 & 8)

  
  

• GWTC-4.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries. (With Astrophysical Journal Letters reviewers, submitted August 2025. arXiv)

  • ↪ Paper writing team & key analyst: led all spin-related content, figures, coordination, and synthesis across the LVK spin analyses

  
  

• GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run. (With Astrophysical Journal Letters reviewers, submitted August 2025. arXiv)

  • ↪ Contributed population-reweighted posterior distributions for O4a events (Figure 2)

  
  

• Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO–Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog. (Astrophysical Journal Letters, May 2021, arXiv, ApJL)

  • ↪ Contributed spin analysis results (Figures 11 & 12)

  
  

Currently in preparation

• Misinterpreting spins of heavy black holes: insights from time-domain morphology. S. J. Miller, M. Isi, K. Chatziioannou, V. Varma, & S. Hourihane. (In prep, expected Spring 2026)

  
  

• ★ Improving Posterior Predictive Checks for Gravitational-wave Population Analyses. S. Winney, S. J. Miller, K. Chatziioannou, & P. Meyers. (In prep, expected Winter 2025-2026)

  
  

  This page was last updated November 18, 2025.