Biography
Stephen Eikenberry completed his Ph.D in Astronomy at Harvard University in 1997 under Dr. Giovanni Fazio, and from there moved to the Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship in Physics at Caltech. He was an Assistant Professor (1998) and then tenured Associate Professor (2002) in Astronomy at Cornell University, where he also won an NSF CAREER award in 2000. In 2003, Eikenberry left Cornell to become a Professor of Astronomy (and in 2012, Professor of Physics) at the University of Florida, where he remained until joining CREOL in 2021.Awards & Honors
- 2020 Undergraduate Teacher of the Year,
College of Liberal Arts & Science, University of Florida - 2009-2012, 2017-2020 University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship,
University of Florida - 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics,
Co-winner as member of the LIGO Science Consortium - 2016 Gruber Prize for Cosmology,
Co-winner as member of the LIGO Science Consortium - 2016 UK Royal Astronomical Society Team Achievement Award,
Co-winner as member of the LIGO Science Consortium - 2010 Grupo Santander Distinguished Visiting Professor in Physics,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) - 2008 Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professorship,
University of Florida - 2000-2005 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award,
National Science Foundation - 1997 Sherman H. Fairchild Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship in Physics,
California Institute of Technology - 1997 Fireman Award for Graduate Student Research in Astrophysics,
Harvard University - 1996 Derek Bok Award for Excellence in Science Teaching,
Harvard University - 1994-1997 NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship,
Harvard University
Research Group
My research focuses on studying black holes, neutron stars, and the massive stars that make them – as well as Dark Energy, gravitational waves, and extrasolar planets. I also design and build astronomical instruments (primarily infrared and optical) to carry out these observations, with related applications in biomedical imaging and spectroscopy.
Publications
Eikenberry, S "Constraints on the Cosmic Expansion History from GWTC-3" Astrophysical Journal 949(2) (2024)
Eikenberry, SS and 1669 more "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) (2024)
Eikenberry, S "A Joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT Analysis of Gravitational-wave Candidates from the Third Gravitational-wave Observing Run." The Astrophysical Journal 964(149) (2024)
Eikenberry, S "Revealing the characteristics of the dark GRB 150309A: Dust extinguished or high-z" Astronomy and Astrophysics 683(A55) (2024)
Eikenberry, S "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) (2024)
Richichi, A (Richichi, A.) [1] ; Fors, O (Fors, O.) [2] ; Canales, D (Canales, D.) [3] ; Patel, K (Patel, K.) [3] ; Zambrano, LEM (Zambrano, L. E. Mendoza) [3] ; Criscola, F (Criscola, F.) [3] ; Bevilacqua, R (Bevilacqua, R.) [3] ; Eikenberry, SS (Eikenberry, S. S.) [4] , [5] ; Gómez, JM (Gomez, J. M.) [6] "Lunar occultations events from the Earth-Moon equilateral Lagrangian point: simulations and scientific potential" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 527(3) pp.6616-6623 (2024)
Eikenberry, S "GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the Second Part of the Third Observing Run" Physical Review X 13(4) (2023)
Eikenberry, S "2023 Astrophotonics Roadmap: pathways to realizing multi-functional integrated astrophotonic instruments" Journal of Physics: Photonics 5(042501) (2023)
Eikenberry, S "Controlled short-period orbits around Earth-Moon equilateral libration points for Lunar Occultations" Acta Astronautica 211 pp.781-794 (2023)
Eikenberry, S "Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Fast Radio Bursts Detected by CHIME/FRB during the LIGO-Virgo Observing Run O3a" Astrophysical Journal 955(2) (2023)
Eikenberry, S "Constraints on the Cosmic Expansion History from GWTC-3" Astrophysical Journal 949(2) (2023)
Eikenberry, S "GTC data exploitation in the search for the first galaxies" Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics XI, La Laguna, Spain. (2023)
Eikenberry, S "Population of Merging Compact Binaries Inferred Using Gravitational Waves through GWTC-3" Physical Review X 13(1) (2023)
Eikenberry, S "OPA! The Original PolyOculus Array: A status update" UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts XI 12676 (2023)
LIGO Sci Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, and Kagra Collaboration, S.S. Eikenberry "Narrowband Searches for Continuous and Long-duration Transient Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo Third Observing Run" Astrophysical Journal, 932(2), A. 133 (2022)
LIGO Sci Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration, S.S. Eikenberry "All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data" Physical Review D, 105(10), A. 102001 (2022)
S.S. Eikenberry "Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo Run O3b" The Astrophysical Journal, 928(2), A. 186 (2022) PDF
LIGO Sci Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, S.S. Eikenberry "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), A. 082005 (2022)
S.S. Eikenberry "Constraints on dark photon dark matter using data from LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run" Physical Review D, 105(6), A. 063030 (2022) PDF
N.M. Law, H. Corbett, N.W. Galliher, R. Gonzalez, A. Vasquez, G. Walters, L. Machia, J. Ratzloff, K. Ackley, C. Bizon, C. Clemens, S. Cox, S.S. Eikenberry, W.S. Howard, A. Glazier, A.W. Mann, R. Quimby, D. Reichart, and D. Trilling "Low-cost Access to the Deep, High-cadence Sky: the Argus Optical Array" Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 134(1033), A. 035003 (2022) PDF