Professor
Archana Pai
Archana Pai
Phone: +91-22-2576-9380
Phone No Extn: 9380
Office: 14, First Floor, Physics Department
Research Interests:
- Astrophysical gravitational-wave transient search in LIGO-Virgo network
- Parameter estimation of compact binaries with black-holes
- Test of General Relativity with gravitational-wave observations
- Multimessenger astronomy. Brief Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications:
Recent short author publications:
2025
Improving the detection significance of gravitational wave transient searches with convolutional neural network models,
Johann Fernandes, Archana Pai, and Koustav Chandra,
2025
Leveraging cross-detector parameter consistency measures to enhance senstivities of gravitational wave detectors,
Sayantan Ghosh, Leigh Smith, Jiyoon Sun, Archana Pai, Ik Siong Heng, V. Gayathri,
2025
Human resource development in astronomy: An Indian perspective,
J S Bagla, M. Datta, ...A. Pai..et.al,
2024
Enhancing search pipelines for short gravitational-wave transients with Gaussian mixture modelling,
Leigh Smith, Sayantan Ghosh, J Sun, V. Gayathri, Ik Siong Heng, Archana Pai,
2024
Probing eccentric higher order modes through effective chirp mass model,
Ravikiran Hegde, Nirban Bose and Archana Pai,
2024
Impact of Bayesian Priors on the Inferred Masses of Quasi-Circular Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Binaries,
Koustav Chandra, Archana Pai, Samson H. W. Leong and Juan Calderon Bustillo,
2024
Unmasking noise transients masquerading as intermediate-mass black hole binaries,
Sayantan Ghosh, Koustav Chandra and Archana Pai,
2024
Science with the Daksha: High Energy Transients Mission,
V. Bhalerao, D. Sawant, Archana Pai,.. et al,
2023
Searching for massive black hole binaries with a transfer learning algorithm,
Kritti Sharma, Koustav Chandra and Archana Pai,
2022
First gravitational-wave search for intermediate-mass black hole mergers with higher order harmonics,
Koustav Chandra, Juan Calderon Bustillo, Archana Pai and Ian Harry,
2022
Utilizing Gaussian mixture modelling in all-sky search for short duration gravitational wave burst,
Dixeena Lopez, V. Gayathri, Archana Pai, Ik Siong Heng, C. Messenger, S. K. Gupta,
2021
Effective chirp mass in the inspiral frequency evolution of the non-spinning eccentric compact binary,
Nirban Bose and Archana Pai,
2021
Science Case of LIGO-India,
M. Saleem, J. Rana, V. Gayathri, A. Vijaykumar, S. Goyal, S. Sachdev, J. Suresh, S. Sudhagar, A. Mukherjee, G. Gaur, B. Sathyaprakash, A. Pai, R. Adhikari, P. Ajith, S. bose,
2021
Optimized PyCBC search for gravitational waves from intermediate-mass black hole mergers,
K. Chandra, V. Villa-Ortega, T. Dent, C. Mclsaac, Archana Pai, I. W. Harry, G. S. Cabourne Davis, and K. Soni,
2020
Chirp mass based glitch identification in the long duration transient,
N. Bose, Archana Pai, K. Chandra and V. Gayathri,
2020
Numerical Relativity Injection Analysis of spinning binary black-hole signals in Advanced LIGO data,
Koustav Chandra, V. Gayathri, Juan Calderon-Bustillo, Archana Pai,
2020
Enhancing the sensitivity of transient gravitational-wave searches with Gaussian Mixure Models,
V. Gayathri, Dixeena Lopez, R. S. Pranjal, Ik Siong Heng, Archana Pai, Chris Messenger,
Selected Publications as a member of LIGO Scientific collaboration:
2025
GW231123: A binary black hole merger with total mass 190-265 Msun,
A. G. Abac,... A. Pai, ...et. al,
2025
All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing runs,
A. G. Abac,... A. Pai, ...et. al,
2024
Search for Eccentric Black Hole Coalescences during the Third Observing Run of LIGO and Virgo Scientific, and KAGRA collaborations,
A. G. Abac,... A. Pai, ...et. al,
2022
Search for intermediate-mass black hole binaries in the third observing run of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo,
LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (B.P. Abbott ,... A. Pai,....et al.),
2020
GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M,
LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (R. Abbott ,... A. Pai,....et al.),
2020
Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521,
LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (R. Abbott ,... A. Pai,....et al.),
2019
Search for intermediate-mass black hole binaries in the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo network,
LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (B.P. Abbott ,... A. Pai,....et al.),
2017
Gravitational Waves and Gamma-rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A,
LIGO Scientific and Virgo and Fermi-GBM and INTEGRAL Collaborations (B.P. Abbott,...A. Pai...et al.),
2017
GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral,
LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (B.P. Abbott, .... A. Pai,...et al.),
2016
Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run,
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaborations (B.P. Abbott,...A.Pai,.... et al.).
2017
The basic physics of the binary black hole merger GW150914,
The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (B.P. Abbott,...A. Pai,..... et al.).
Annalen der Physik Volume 529, Issue 1-2, January 2017, 1600209
2016
Tests of general relativity with GW150914,
The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (B.P. Abbott,...A. Pai,..... et al.). Feb 11, 2016.
2016
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger,
The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations (B.P. Abbott.....A. Pai,...et al.).
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