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Geoffrey Mo

Ph.D. Candidate
MIT Department of Physics
gmo (at) mit.edu


About me

I’m a PhD candidate in the LIGO Lab at MIT and at the MKI Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, where I work with Erik Katsavounidis on multi-messenger astrophysics. Previously, I was an undergraduate at Carleton College.

I’m interested in gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy, and how we can use both gravity and light to learn about the universe. Most recently, I’ve been interested in using TESS and WINTER to look for electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves.

If you’d like to chat, feel free to email me at gmo@mit.edu!

Research interests

Service

I am passionate about making physics and astrophysics more inclusive, and have been involved in efforts to make meaningful changes in my department and beyond.

Teaching

I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to teach and mentor students at MIT and at Carleton.

MIT

Carleton

Publications

I’ve included below papers for which I’ve made direct contributions. As a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration since 2018, I am also an author on LSC collaboration papers.

  1. ArXiV
    Identifying the hosts of binary black hole and neutron star-black hole mergers with next-generation gravitational-wave detectors
    Geoffrey Mo, Hsin-Yu Chen
    Submitted
    2024
    arXiv

  2. TAUP
    Multi-messenger astrophysics in the gravitational-wave era
    Geoffrey Mo, Rahul Jayaraman, Danielle Frostig, Michael Fausnaugh, Erik Katsavounidis, George Ricker
    Proceedings from TAUP 2023 (XVIII International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics 2023)
    2023
    arXiv Journal

  3. ArXiV
    Low-latency gravitational wave alert products and their performance in anticipation of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run
    Sushant Sharma Chaudhary, Andrew Toivonen, Gaurav Waratkar, Geoffrey Mo, et al.
    Submitted
    2023
    arXiv

  4. ApJL
    Searching for Gravitational-wave Counterparts Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
    Geoffrey Mo, Rahul Jayaraman, Michael Fausnaugh, Erik Katsavounidis, George Ricker, Roland Vanderspek
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters
    2023
    arXiv Journal

  5. PRX
    GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the Second Part of the Third Observing Run
    The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration (incl. Geoffrey Mo)
    Physical Review X
    2023
    arXiv Journal

  6. ApJ
    An Infrared Search for Kilonovae with the WINTER Telescope. I. Binary Neutron Star Mergers
    Danielle Frostig, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Geoffrey Mo, Viraj Karambelkar, Tito Dal Canton, Hsin-Yu Chen, Mansi Kasliwal, Erik Katsavounidis, Nathan P. Lourie, Robert A. Simcoe, Salvatore Vitale
    The Astrophysical Journal
    2022
    arXiv Journal

  7. CQG
    LIGO Detector Characterization in the Second and Third Observing Runs
    D. Davis et al. (incl. Geoffrey Mo)
    Classical and Quantum Gravity
    2021
    arXiv Journal

  8. ApJL
    First demonstration of early warning gravitational wave alerts
    Ryan Magee, Deep Chatterjee, Leo P. Singer, Surabhi Sachdev, Manoj Kovalam, Geoffrey Mo, et al.
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters
    2021
    arXiv Journal

  9. PRD
    A Coincidence Null Test for Poisson-Distributed Events
    Reed Essick, Geoffrey Mo, Erik Katsavounidis
    Physical Review D
    2021
    arXiv Journal

  10. CPT
    The MICROSCOPE Space Mission and Lorentz Violation
    Geoffrey Mo, Hélène Pihan-Le Bars, Quentin G. Bailey, Christine Guerlin, Jay D. Tasson, Peter Wolf
    Proceedings from Eighth Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, Bloomington, Indiana, May 12-16, 2019
    2019
    arXiv Journal

  11. PRL
    New test of Lorentz invariance using the MICROSCOPE space mission
    Hélène Pihan-le Bars, Christine Guerlin, Aurélien Hees, Romain Peaucelle, Jay D. Tasson, Quentin G. Bailey, Geoffrey Mo, Pacôme Delva, Frédéric Meynadier, Pierre Touboul, Gilles Métris, Manuel Rodrigues, Joël Bergé, Peter Wolf
    Physical Review Letters
    2019
    arXiv Journal

  12. PRD
    Identification and mitigation of narrow spectral artifacts that degrade searches for persistent gravitational waves in the first two observing runs of Advanced LIGO
    P. B. Covaset al. (incl. Geoffrey Mo)
    Physical Review D
    2018
    arXiv Journal


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