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Dr. M. (Melissa) Lopez

Researcher 
Science
Physics
Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP)
Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP)

Dr. M. (Melissa) Lopez

Researcher
Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP)
Profile Publications
Profile Publications

Publications

2025

Scholarly publications

Veutro, A., Palma, I. D., Drago, M., Cerdá-Durán, P., López, M. P., & Ricci, F. (2025). CCSNe detection perspectives with Einstein Telescope with MUSE. Proceedings of Science, 501, Article 973. [DOI] [Portal]
Veutro, A., Di Palma, I., Drago, M., Cerdá-Durán, P., van der Laag, R., López, M., & Ricci, F. (2025). Unveiling gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae with MUSE. Physical Review D, 112(10), 1-12. Article 103042. [DOI]
Narola, H., Wouters, T., Negri, L., Lopez, M., Dooney, T., Cireddu, F., Wils, M., Wong, I. C. F., Pang, P. T. H., Janquart, J., Samajdar, A., Broeck, C. V. D., & Li, T. G. F. (2025). Null-stream-based third-generation-ready glitch mitigation for gravitational wave measurements. Physical Review D, 112(2), Article 024079. [DOI] [Portal]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2025). Detecting Electromagnetic Counterparts to LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Gravitational-wave Events with DECam: Neutron Star Mergers. Astrophysical Journal, 993(1), Article 15. [DOI] [Portal]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2025). GW250114: Testing Hawking's Area Law and the Kerr Nature of Black Holes. Physical Review Letters, 135(11), Article 111403. [DOI] [Portal]
Lopez, M., Boudart, V., Schmidt, S., & Caudill, S. (2025). Simulating transient burst noise with gengli. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 19(S368), 73-79. [DOI] [Portal]
Veutro, A., Di Palma, I., Drago, M., Cerdá-Durán, P., López, M. P., & Ricci, F. (2025). CCSNe detection perspectives with Einstein Telescope. EPJ Web of Conferences, 319, 1-2. Article 13003. [DOI] [Portal]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2025). Search for Gravitational Waves Emitted from SN2023ixf. Astrophysical Journal, 985(2), Article 183. [DOI] [Portal]
Lopez, M., Santoro, G. C., Martins, A., Schmidt, S., Schoppink, J., Van Straalen, W., Capano, C., & Caudill, S. (2025). Ameliorating transient noise bursts in gravitational-wave searches for intermediate-mass black holes. Physical Review D, 111(10), Article 103020. [DOI] [Portal]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2025). Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars in the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run. Astrophysical Journal, 983(2), Article 99. [DOI] [Portal]
Cerdá-Durán, P., López, M., Favali, A., Di Palma, I., Drago, M., & Ricci, F. (2025). Phenomenological gravitational waveforms for core-collapse supernovae. Physical Review D, 111(8), Article 083022. [DOI] [Portal]
Martins, A., Lopez, M., Baltus, G., Meijer, Q., van der Sluys, M., Van Den Broeck, C., & Caudill, S. (2025). Improving early detection of gravitational waves from binary neutron stars using CNNs and FPGAs. Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 6(1), Article 015072. [DOI] [Portal]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2025). Swift-BAT GUANO Follow-up of Gravitational-wave Triggers in the Third LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Observing Run. Astrophysical Journal, 980(2), Article 207. [DOI] [Portal]
Lopez, M. (2025). Exploring the Frontier of Transient Gravitational Wave Detection: Unleashing the Power of Machine Learning. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Universiteit Utrecht]. Utrecht University. [DOI] [Portal]

2024

Scholarly publications

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2024). A Search Using GEO600 for Gravitational Waves Coincident with Fast Radio Bursts from SGR 1935+2154. Astrophysical Journal, 977(2), Article 20. [DOI] [Portal]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2024). The first joint observation by KAGRA with GEO 600. Proceedings of Science, 444, Article 1579. [DOI] [Portal]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2024). Search for Eccentric Black Hole Coalescences during the Third Observing Run of LIGO and Virgo. Astrophysical Journal, 973(2), Article ad65ce. [DOI] [Portal]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2024). GWTC-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run. Physical Review D, 109(2), Article 022001. [DOI] [Portal]
Meijer, Q., Lopez, M., Tsuna, D., & Caudill, S. (2024). Gravitational-wave searches for cosmic string cusps in Einstein Telescope data using deep learning. Physical Review D, 109(2), Article 022006. [DOI] [Portal]
Laguarta, P., van der Laag, R., Lopez, M., Dooney, T., Miller, A. L., Schmidt, S., Cavaglia, M., Caudill, S., Driessens, K., Karel, J., Lenders, R., & Van Den Broeck, C. (2024). Detection of anomalies amongst LIGO’s glitch populations with autoencoders. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 41(5), Article 055004. [DOI] [Portal]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2024). Ultralight vector dark matter search using data from the KAGRA O3GK run. Physical Review D, 110(4), Article 042001. [DOI] [Portal]
Dooney, T., Curier, R. L., Tan, D. S., Lopez, M., Van Den Broeck, C., & Bromuri, S. (2024). One flexible model for multiclass gravitational wave signal and glitch generation. Physical Review D, 110(2), Article 022004. [DOI] [Portal]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2024). Search for Gravitational-lensing Signatures in the Full Third Observing Run of the LIGO-Virgo Network. Astrophysical Journal, 970(2), Article 191. [DOI] [Portal]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2024). Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 2.5–4.5Me Compact Object and a Neutron Star. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 970(2), 1-39. Article L34. [DOI] [Portal]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2024). Search for Gravitational-wave Transients Associated with Magnetar Bursts in Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo Data from the Third Observing Run. Astrophysical Journal, 966(1), Article 137. [DOI] [Repository]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2024). A Joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT Analysis of Gravitational-wave Candidates from the Third Gravitational-wave Observing Run. Astrophysical Journal, 964(2), Article 149. [DOI] [Repository]

2023

Scholarly publications

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2023). GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the Second Part of the Third Observing Run. Physical Review X, 13(4), Article 041039. [DOI] [Repository]
Lopez, M., Bonizzi, P., Driessens, K., Koekoek, G., de Vries, J. A., & Westra, R. (2023). Searching for ring-like structures in the cosmic microwave background. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519(1), 922-930. [DOI] [Repository]

2022

Scholarly publications

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2022). Search for intermediate-mass black hole binaries in the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 659, 1-25. Article A84. [DOI] [Repository]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2022). Model-based Cross-correlation Search for Gravitational Waves from the Low-mass X-Ray Binary Scorpius X-1 in LIGO O3 Data. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 941(2), 1-19. Article L30. [DOI] [Repository]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (2022). Search for Subsolar-Mass Binaries in the First Half of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's Third Observing Run. Physical Review Letters, 129(6), 1-16. Article 061104. [DOI] [Repository]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2022). All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational waves from Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runs. Physical Review D, 105(12), 1-23. Article 122001. [DOI] [Repository]
Virgo Collaboration (2022). Calibration of advanced Virgo and reconstruction of the detector strain h( t) during the observing run O3. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 39(4), 1-50. Article 045006. [DOI] [Repository]
Virgo Collaboration (2022). The Virgo O3 run and the impact of the environment. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 39(23), 1-41. Article 235009. [DOI] [Repository]
Baltus, G., Janquart, J., Lopez, M., Narola, H., & Cudell, J. R. (2022). Convolutional neural network for gravitational-wave early alert: Going down in frequency. Physical Review D, 106(4), 1-10. Article 042002. [DOI] [Repository]
Lopez, M., Boudart, V., Buijsman, K., Reza, A., & Caudill, S. (2022). Simulating transient noise bursts in LIGO with generative adversarial networks. Physical Review D, 106(2), 1-17. Article 023027. [DOI] [Repository]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2022). Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with a hidden Markov model in O3 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 106(6), Article 062002. [DOI] [Repository]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2022). All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo O3 data. Physical Review D, 106(10), 1-37. Article 102008. [DOI] [Repository]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2022). Search for continuous gravitational wave emission from the Milky Way center in O3 LIGO-Virgo data. Physical Review D, 106(4), 1-24. Article 042003. [DOI] [Repository]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2022). Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs. Astrophysical Journal, 935(1), 1-29. Article 1. [DOI] [Repository]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2022). Narrowband Searches for Continuous and Long-duration Transient Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo Third Observing Run. Astrophysical Journal, 932(2), 1-27. Article 133. [DOI] [Repository]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2022). Constraints on dark photon dark matter using data from LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run. Physical Review D, 105(6), 1-20. Article 063030. [DOI] [Repository]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, & Virgo Collaboration (2022). First joint observation by the underground gravitational-wave detector KAGRA with GEO 600. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2022(6), 1-37. Article 063F01. [DOI] [Repository]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (2022). Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo Run O3b. Astrophysical Journal, 928(2), 1-20. Article 186. [DOI] [Repository]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (2022). All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data. Physical Review D, 105(10), 1-28. Article 102001. [DOI] [Repository]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (2022). Search of the early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational waves from the Cassiopeia A and Vela Jr. supernova remnants. Physical Review D, 105(8), 1-25. Article 082005. [DOI] [Repository]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2022). Search for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond x-ray pulsars in O3 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 105(2), 1-42. Article 022002. [DOI] [Repository]

2021

Scholarly publications

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2021). All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run. Physical Review D, 104(12), 1-24. Article 122004. [DOI] [Repository]
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration (2021). All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run. Physical Review D, 104(10), 1-16. Article 102001. [DOI] [Repository]
Lopez, M., Drago, M., Di Palma, I., Ricci, F., & Cerda-Duran, P. (2021). Deep learning algorithms for gravitational waves core-collapse supernova detection. In 2021 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) Article 9461885 (Proceedings - International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing; Vol. 2021-June). IEEE. [DOI] [Portal]
López, M., Di Palma, I., Drago, M., Cerdá-Durán, P., & Ricci, F. (2021). Deep learning for core-collapse supernova detection. Physical Review D, 103(6), 1-15. Article 063011. [DOI] [Repository]
Baltus, G., Janquart, J., Lopez, M., Reza, A., Caudill, S., & Cudell, J. R. (2021). Convolutional neural networks for the detection of the early inspiral of a gravitational-wave signal. Physical Review D, 103(10), 1-11. Article 102003. [DOI] [Repository]
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