Peter Raffai

Peter Raffai

assistant professor

PhD (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2012)

Department of Atomic Physics

Room(s): Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building 3.141
Extension(s): +36-1-372-2500 / 6342
Homepage: praffai.web.elte.hu
Email: uh.etle.raseac@iaffarp

Biography:

Peter Raffai earned his MSc degree within the fields of physics and astrophysics at Lorand Eotvos University (ELTE), Budapest, in 2006, and his Ph.D. degree at ELTE in 2012. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, New York, between Fall 2011 and Spring 2013.

He currently works as an assistant professor at the Department of Atomic Physics of ELTE. He has been a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) since 2007, which is a world-wide community of scientists working on various fields of gravitational-wave physics. In particular, he has been leading the data analysis efforts of the LSC group at Eotvos University, called EGRG.

He has been demonstrating his active commitment to scientific outreach by giving public lectures, popularizing science through media appearances, and mentoring students at many academic levels. His research interests include gravitational-wave astrophysics, multi- messenger astronomy, compact objects, cosmology, and various aspects of data processing.

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Selected publications of recent years:

  1. Takátsy, J., Bécsy, B., and Raffai, P.; “Eccentricity distributions of eccentric binary black holes in galactic nuclei”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 486, Issue 1, p. 570 (2019)
  2. Fishbach, M., ..., Raffai, P., et al. (+54 authors & The Virgo Collaboration); “A Standard Siren Measurement of the Hubble Constant from GW170817 without the Electromagnetic Counterpart”, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 871, Issue 1, aid. L13 (2019)
  3. Dálya, G., Galgóczi, G., Dobos, L., Frei, Z., Heng, I. S., Macas, R., Messenger, C., Raffai, P., and de Souza, R. S.; “GLADE: A Galaxy Catalogue for Multi-Messenger Searches in the Advanced Gravitational-Wave Detector Era”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 479, Issue 2, p. 2374, (2018) [+VizieR Online Data Catalog: GLADE v2.3 catalog (Dalya+, 2018), VII/281.]
  4. Gondán, L., Kocsis, B., Raffai, P., and Frei, Z.; “Eccentric Black Hole Gravitational-wave Capture Sources in Galactic Nuclei: Distribution of Binary Parameters", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 860, Issue 1, aid. 5 (2018)
  5. Bécsy, B., Raffai, P., Cornish, N. J., et al. (+6 authors); “Parameter Estimation for Gravitational-wave Bursts with the BayesWave Pipeline”, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 839, Number 1 (2017)
  6. Abbott, B. P., ..., Raffai, P., et al. (+1312 authors); “A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant”, Nature, DOI
  7. Abbott, B. P., ..., Raffai, P., et al. (+3619 authors); “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger”, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 848, aid. L12 (2017)
  8. Raffai, P., Haiman, Z., and Frei, Z.; “A statistical method to search for recoiling supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 455, p. 484 (2016)
  9. Abbott, B. P., ..., Raffai, P., et al., “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger”, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 116, aid. 061102 (2016)
  10. Hu, Y., Raffai, P., Gondán, L., et al. (+5 authors); „Global Optimization for Future Gravitational Wave Detectors' Sites”, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Vol. 32, p. 105010 (2015)