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A/PROF ANDREW MELATOS

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Academic, Physics

Theoretical astrophysics (Neutron stars, gravitational waves, plasma physics, superfluids)

Overview

Has subject area

For 2008 6 Digit Code
- General Relativity and Gravitational Waves
Seo 2008 6 Digit Code
- Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences

Publications

Selected publications

2013
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Stochastic gravitational wave background from hydrodynamic turbulence in differentially rotating neutron stars
    . Physical Review D. 87. 2013
  - Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data. Physical Review D. 87. 2013
  - Knock-on processes in superfluid vortex avalanches and pulsar glitch statistics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 428:1911-1926. 2013
  - Reanalysis of ƒ-statistic gravitational-wave searches with the higher criticism statistic. Astrophysical Journal. 766. 2013
  - Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009–2010. Physical Review D. 87. 2013
2012
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Fast fossil rotation of neutron star cores
    . Astrophysical Journal. 761. 2012
  - All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run. Physical Review D. 85. 2012
  - All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data. Physical Review D. 85. 2012
  - Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves Using LIGO S5 Science Data. Physical Review Letters. 107. 2012
  - First Low-Latency LIGO+Virgo Search for Binary Inspirals and their Electromagnetic Counterparts. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 541. 2012
  - Gravitational-wave bursts and stochastic background from superfluid vortex avalanches during pulsar glitches. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 423:2058-2074. 2012
  - Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 539. 2012
  - Implications For The Origin Of GRB 051103 From LIGO Observations. The Astrophysical Journal. Letters. 755:1-8. 2012
  - Interpreting Superfluid Spin Up Through the Response of the Container. Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 166:151-170. 2012
  - Loan and nonloan flows in the Australian interbank network. Physica A - Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 391:2867-2882. 2012
  - Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during LIGO science run 6 and Virgo science runs 2 and 3. Astrophysical Journal. 760. 2012
  - Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes. Physical Review D. 85. 2012
  - Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGO’s sixth science run and Virgo’s science runs 2 and 3. Physical Review D. 85. 2012
  - Swift Follow-Up Observations Of Candidate Gravitational-Wave Transient Events. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 203:1-14. 2012
  - The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 29. 2012
  - Unpinning triggers for superfluid vortex avalanches. Physical Review B. 85. 2012
  - Updated gravitational-wave upper limits on the internal magnetic field strength of recycled pulsars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 421:760-767. 2012
  - Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600–1000 Hz. Physical Review D. 85. 2012
2011
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit. Nature Physics. 7. 2011
  - Beating The Spin-Down Limit On Gravitational Wave Emission From The Vela Pulsar. The Astrophysical Journal. Letters. 737:1-16. 2011
  - Designing a cross-correlation search for continuous-wave gravitational radiation from a neutron star in the supernova remnant SNR 1987A. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 414:2650-2663. 2011
  - Gravitational wave emission from a magnetically deformed non-barotropic neutron star. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 417:2288-2299. 2011
  - Gross–Pitaevskii model of pulsar glitches. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 415:1611-1630. 2011
  - Instability-driven interfacial dynamo in protoneutron stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 417:508-516. 2011
  - Quadrupole moment of a magnetically confined mountain on an accreting neutron star: effect of the equation of state. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 417:2696-2713. 2011
  - Search For Gravitational Wave Bursts From Six Magnetars. Astrophysical Journal. 734:1-9. 2011
  - Search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar. Physical Review D. 83. 2011
  - Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown. Physical Review D. 83. 2011
  - Spin Down of Superfluid-Filled Vessels: Theory Versus Experiment. Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 165:1-14. 2011
  - Stokes tomography of radio pulsar magnetospheres - I. Linear polarization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 411:2471-2529. 2011
  - Stokes tomography of radio pulsar magnetospheres - II. Millisecond pulsars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 415:1703-1737. 2011
2010
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - A note on the theory of fast money flow dynamics. European Physical Journal B. Condensed Matter and Complex Systems. 76:637-642. 2010
  - AIGO: a southern hemisphere detector for the worldwide array of ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 27. 2010
  - All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run. Physical Review D. 81. 2010
  - Calibration of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors in the fifth science run. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 624:223-240. 2010
  - Continuous-wave gravitational radiation from pulsar glitch recovery. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 409:1705-1718. 2010
  - First search for gravitational waves from the youngest known neutron star. Astrophysical Journal. 722:1504-1513. 2010
  - Gravitational radiation from hydrodynamic turbulence in a differentially rotating neutron star. Astrophysical Journal. 709:77-87. 2010
  - Gravitational-wave spin-down and stalling lower limits on the electrical resistivity of the accreted mountain in a millisecond pulsar. Astrophysical Journal. 717:404-410. 2010
  - Laplace transform analysis of a multiplicative asset transfer model. Physica A - Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 389:2782-2792. 2010
  - Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 27. 2010
  - Pulsar glitch recovery and the superfluidity coefficients of bulk nuclear matter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 409:1253-1268. 2010
  - Search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence in LIGO and Virgo data from S5 and VSR1. Physical Review D. 82. 2010
  - Search for gravitational-wave bursts associated with gamma-ray bursts using data from LIGO science run 5 and VIRGO science run 1. Astrophysical Journal. 715:1438-1452. 2010
  - Search for gravitational-wave inspiral signals associated with short gamma-ray bursts during LIGO’s fifth and VIRGO’s first science run. Astrophysical Journal. 715:1453-1461. 2010
  - Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars with science run 5 LIGO data. Astrophysical Journal. 713:671-685. 2010
  - Sinking of a magnetically confined mountain on an accreting neutron star. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 402:1099-1110. 2010
2009
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - An unstable superfluid stewartson layer in a differentially rotating neutron star. Astrophysical Journal. 701:L75-L78. 2009
  - An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin. Nature. 460:990-994. 2009
  - Continuous frequency spectrum of the global hydromagnetic oscillations of a magnetically confined mountain on an accreting neutron star. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 395:1963-1971. 2009
  - Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data. Physical Review D. 80. 2009
  - First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings. Physical Review D. 80. 2009
  - Improved estimate of the detectability of gravitational radiation from a magnetically confined mountain on an accreting neutron star. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 395:1972-1984. 2009
  - LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Reports on Progress in Physics. 72. 2009
  - Resistive relaxation of a magnetically confined mountain on an accreting neutron star. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 395:1985-1998. 2009
  - Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data. Physical Review D. 80. 2009
  - Search for gravitational waves from low mass binary coalescences in the first year of LIGO’s S5 data. Physical Review D. 79. 2009
  - Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO’s fifth science run. Physical Review D. 80. 2009
  - Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first year of the fifth LIGO science run. Physical Review D. 80. 2009
  - Search for high frequency gravitational-wave bursts in the first calendar year of LIGO’s fifth science run. Physical Review D. 80. 2009
  - Stacked search for gravitational waves from the 2006 SGR1900+14 storm. Astrophysical Journal. 701:L68-L74. 2009
  - Superfluid vortex unpinning as a coherent noise process, and the scale invariance of pulsar glitches. Astrophysical Journal. 700:1524-1540. 2009
2008
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - A cellular automaton model of pulsar glitches. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 390:175-191. 2008
  - Avalanche dynamics of radio pulsar glitches. Astrophysical Journal. 672:1103-1118. 2008
  - Collapse times of dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates. Physical Review A. 78. 2008
  - Does the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1814−338 precess?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 391:254-267. 2008
  - Gravitational radiation from pulsar glitches. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 25. 2008
  - Non-ideal evolution of non-axisymmetric, force-free magnetic fields in a magnetar. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 387:1735-1744. 2008
  - Superfluid spherical Couette flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 609:221-274. 2008
  - The Science benefits and Preliminary Design of the Southern hemisphere Gravitational Wave Detector AIGO. Journal of Physics - Conference Series. 122:1-6. 2008
  - Three-dimensional stability of magnetically confined mountains on accreting neutron stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 386:1294-1308. 2008
- Conference Papers Refereed
  - Burial of the polar magnetic field of an accreting neutron star and gravitational wave emission. 227-232. 2008
2007
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Burial of the polar magnetic field of an accreting neutron star – II. Hydromagnetic stability of axisymmetric equilibria. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 376:609-624. 2007
  - Electromagnetic strong plasma turbulence. Physics of Plasmas. 14. 2007
  - Fundamental emission via wave advection from a collapsing wave packet in electromagnetic strong plasma turbulence. Physics of Plasmas. 14. 2007
  - Gravitational waves from accreting neutron stars. Advances in Space Research. 40:1472-1479. 2007
  - Pulsed x-ray emission from pulsar a in the double pulsar system J0737 - 3039. Astrophysical Journal. 670:1301-1306. 2007
  - Superfluid turbulence and pulsar glitch statistics. Astrophysical Journal. 662:L99-L102. 2007
  - Superluminal electromagnetic waves in pulsar winds. Advances in Space Research. 40:1505-1511. 2007
  - Three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of asymmetric pulsar wind bow shocks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 374:793-808. 2007
- Conference Papers Refereed
  - Numerical simulation of flow past a stationary and rotating sphere. 870-875. 2007
2006
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Frequency spectrum of gravitational radiation from global hydromagnetic oscillations of a magnetically confined mountain on an accreting neutron star. Astrophysical Journal. 641:471-478. 2006
  - Gravitational radiation from nonaxisymmetric spherical couette flow in a neutron star. Astrophysical Journal. 644:L53-L56. 2006
  - Magnetic burial and the harmonic content of millisecond oscillations in thermonuclear x-ray bursts. Astrophysical Journal. 652:597-602. 2006
  - Transitions between turbulent and laminar superfluid vorticity states in the outer core of a neutron star. Astrophysical Journal. 651:1079-1091. 2006
2005
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Collapsed and extended cold dark matter halos in softened N -body gravity. Astrophysical Journal. 618:38-45. 2005
  - Global three-dimensional flow of a neutron superfluid in a spherical shell in a neutron star. Astrophysical Journal. 635:1224-1232. 2005
  - Gravitational radiation from an accreting millisecond pulsar with a magnetically confined mountain. Astrophysical Journal. 623:1044-1050. 2005
  - Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and circulation transfer at an isotropic-anisotropic superfluid interface in a neutron star. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 361:927-941. 2005
  - Near-infrared, kilosecond variability of the wisps and jet in the crab pulsar wind nebula. Astrophysical Journal. 633:931-940. 2005
  - Particle-in-cell simulations of a nonlinear transverse electromagnetic wave in a pulsar wind termination shock. Astrophysical Journal. 634:542-546. 2005
- Conference Papers Refereed
  - Nonlinear Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in the Termination Shock of a Pulsar Wind. 382-387. 2005
- Conference Papers Unrefereed
  - A Coherent, Nonlinear TEM Wave at a Pulsar Wind Termination Shock. 320-323. 2005
2004
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Burial of the polar magnetic field of an accreting neutron star - I. Self-consistent analytic and numerical equilibria. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 351:569-584. 2004
  - Torque bistability in the interaction between a neutron star magnetosphere and a thin accretion disc. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 354:591-600. 2004
2003
- Conference Papers Refereed
  - Gravitational waves from an accreting neutron star with a magnetic mountain. 92-95. 2003
2002
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Millimetre Science with the Upgraded Australia Telescope. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 19:475-485. 2002
2001
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Hydromagnetic structure of a neutron star accreting at its polar caps. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 18:421-430. 2001

Research

Investigator on

Contract
- EXPLORING THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE (Discovery Projects) awarded by AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY 2009 - 2012
- INTERNATIONAL DATA EXCHANGE FOR GLOBAL GRATITATIONAL WAVE ASTRONOMY (ARC Special Research Initiatives E-Research) awarded by AUST NATIONAL UNIVERSITY 2006
- THE AUSTRALIAN VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY (Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities)) awarded by AUST NATIONAL UNIVERSITY 2006
Grant
- Gravitational Wave Astrophysics with LIGO (Discovery Projects) awarded by AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL 2011 - 2013
- Physics of gravitational wave sources detectable by the international LIGO project (Melbourne Research Grants Scheme) awarded by UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE 2007 -
- Formation and Evolution in the Extragalactic Universe (Discovery Projects) awarded by AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL 2002 - 2006
- ENGINEERING THE INFORMATION FUTURE OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVE SCIENCE (Melbourne Research Grants Support Scheme) awarded by UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Fundamental Physics of Neutron Stars from Gravitational Wave Observations (Group of Eight & DAAD Australian-German Research Cooperation Scheme) awarded by UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- PRECISION PULSAR TIMING WITH THE AUSTRALIAN SQUARE KILOMETER ARRAY PATHFINDER (CSIRO Collaborative Research Support Scheme) awarded by UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Pulsar bow shocks (Collaborative Research Grants) awarded by UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Awards

Education and training

PhD, University of Sydney 1995
BSc, University of Sydney 1991

Awards and honors

Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Melbourne, 2008
Miller Fellowship for Astronomy, University of California, 1997
University Medal, University of Sydney, 1991

Linkages

International Linkage

University of Oslo (Exchange; Research)
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) (Exchange; Research)
Pennsylvania State University (Exchange; Research)
Princeton University (Research)

Supervision

Available for supervision

Y

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- amelatos@unimelb.edu.au
- 8344 5436
- fax: 9347 4783
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