(Author lists marked with “★” include an undergraduate research mentee)
First author publications:
[16] Posterior Predictive Checks for Gravitational-wave Populations: Limitations and Improvements
★ S. J. Miller, S. Winney, K. Chatziioannou, & P. M. Meyers
With Physical Review D reviewers. Submitted Apr. 2026. arXiv:2604.06090
[15] 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, 112, 104046 (Nov. 2025), DOI, arXiv:2505.14573
[14] Gravitational wave signals carry information beyond effective spin parameters
★ S. J. Miller, Z. Ko, T. A. Callister, & K. Chatziioannou
Physical Review D, 109, 104036 (May 2024), DOI, arXiv:2401.05613
[13] 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, 109, 024024 (Jan. 2024), DOI, arXiv:2310.01544
[12] 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, 895, 128 (June 2020), DOI, arXiv:2001.06051
Additional short author-list publications:
[11] Coalescing Compact Binary Parameter Estimation with Gravitational Waves in the Presence of non-Gaussian Transient Noise
Y. Lecoeuche, J. McIver, A. Knee, R. Udall, K. Rink, S. Hourihane, S. J. Miller, K. Chatziioannou, D. Davis, & T. J. Massinger
With Classical and Quantum Gravity reviewers. Submitted Apr. 2026. arXiv:2604.07668
[10] Evidence of the pair instability gap in the distribution of black hole masses
H. Tong, M. Fishbach, E. Thrane, M. Mould, T. A. Callister, A. Farah, N. Guttman, S. Banagiri, D. Beltran-Martinez, B. Farr, S. Galaudage, J. Godfrey, J. Heinzel, M. Kalomenopoulos, S. J. Miller, & A. Vijaykumar (Authors after Guttman are alphabetical)
Nature (April. 2026), DOI, arXiv:2509.04151
[9] 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
Physical Review D, 113, 042005 (Feb. 2026), DOI, arXiv:2510.05029
[8] Compact Binary Coalescence Sensitivity Estimates with Injection Campaigns during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaborations’ Fourth Observing Run
R. Essick, M. W. Coughlin, M. Zevin, D. Chatterjee, T. A. Clarke, S. Colloms, U. Mali, S. Miller, N. Steinle, P. Baral, A. C. Baylor, G. Cabourn Davies, C. Dent, P. Joshi, P. Kumar, C. Messick, T. Mishra, A. Ouzriat, K. S. Phukon, L. Piccari, M. Pillas, M. Trevor, T. A. Callister, & M. Fishbach
Physical Review D, 112, 102001 (Nov. 2025), DOI, arXiv:2508.10638
[7] Mapping Parameter Correlations in Spinning Binary Black Hole Mergers
★ K. Kang, S. J. Miller, K. Chatziioannou, & D. Ferguson
Physical Review D, 112, 064020 (Sept. 2025), DOI, arXiv:2502.17402
[6] 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, 111, 024046 (Jan. 2025), DOI, arXiv:2409.03912
[5] 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, 937, L13 (Sept. 2022), DOI, arXiv:2205.08574
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration papers to which I have made a significant contribution:
[4] GW250114: testing Hawking’s area law and the Kerr nature of black holes
Physical Review Letters, 135, 111403 (Sept. 2025), DOI, arXiv:2509.08054
Core analyst: I was one of two key analysts who generated the data leading to the first-ever high-confidence observational confirmation of Hawking’s Area Law.
[3] GWTC-4.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries
With Astrophysical Journal Letters reviewers. Submitted Aug. 2025. arXiv:2508.18083
Core author and analyst: As an invited member of the paper writing team, I wrote and made figures for everything spin-related, and coordinated the production, result review, and synthesis of all spin analyses. I was also a key analyst for spin results.
[2] 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 Aug. 2025. arXiv:2508.18082
Analyst: I contributed the population-reweighted posterior distributions for the GWTC-4.0 catalog, and liaised between the GWTC-4.0 catalog and astrophysics rates & populations paper-writing teams.
[1] Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
Astrophysical Journal Letters, 913, L7 (May 2021), DOI, arXiv:2010.14533
Analyst: I developed spin population models and contributed corresponding analysis results.