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.Scientists
Students
Publications
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
S.S. Eikenberry "Search for intermediate-mass black hole binaries in the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo" Astronomy & Astrophysics, 659, A. A84 (2022)
S.S. Eikenberry "Search for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond x-ray pulsars in O3 LIGO data" Physical Review D, 105(2), A. 022002 (2022)
S.S. Eikenberry "A Gravitational-wave Measurement of the Hubble Constant Following the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo (vol 908, 218, 2021)" Astrophysical Journal, 923(2), A. 279 (2021)
S.S. Eikenberry "All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run" Physical Review D, 104(12), A. 122004 (2021) PDF
S.S. Eikenberry "Search for Lensing Signatures in the Gravitational-Wave Observations from the First Half of LIGO-Virgo's Third Observing Run" The Astrophysical Journal, 923(1), A. 14 (2021) PDF
S.S. Eikenberry "All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run" Physical Review D, 104(10), A. 102001 (2021) PDF
S.S. Eikenberry "Constraints from LIGO O3 Data on Gravitational-wave Emission Due to R-modes in the Glitching Pulsar PSR J0537-6910" Astrophysical Journal, 922(1), A. 71 (2021)
S.S. Eikenberry "Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Young Supernova Remnants in the Early Third Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo" Astrophysical Journal, 921(1), A. 80 (2021)
S.S. Eikenberry "All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars in the early O3 LIGO data" Physical Review D, 104(8), A. 082004 (2021)
S.S. Eikenberry "On the discovery of stars, quasars, and galaxies in the Southern Hemisphere with S-PLUS DR2" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507(4), pp. 5847-5868 (2021)
S.S. Eikenberry "Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from 15 Supernova Remnants and Fomalhaut b with Advanced LIGO (vol 875, 122, 2019)" Astrophysical Journal, 918(2), A. 91 (2021)
S.S. Eikenberry "Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Nine Young Supernova Remnants (vol 813, 39, 2015)" Astrophysical Journal, 918(2), A. 90 (2021)
C.D. Moraitis, J.C. Alvarado-Zacarias, R. Amezcua-Correa, S. Jeram, and S.S. Eikenberry "Demonstration of high-efficiency photonic lantern couplers for PolyOculus" Applied Optics, 60(19), pp. D93-D99 (2021)
S.S. Eikenberry "Observation of Gravitational Waves from Two Neutron Star-Black Hole Coalescences" Astrophysical Journal Letters, 915(1), A. L5 (2021)