Mr Gregoire Lacaille
- Research Associate (Physics & Astronomy)
telephone:
01413302298
email:
Gregoire.Lacaille@glasgow.ac.uk
Publications
2026
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) Upper limits on the isotropic gravitational-wave background from the first part of LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA’s fourth observing run. Physical Review D, 114(4), 042001. (doi: 10.1103/wq57-sjt2)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) GW240925 and GW250207: astrophysical calibration of gravitational wave detectors. Physical Review Letters, 137(7), 071401. (doi: 10.1103/gzrj-mwv3)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) GWTC-4.0: constraints on the cosmic expansion rate and modified gravitational-wave propagation. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1007(1), L17. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae69dd)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) Narrowband searches for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in the first two parts of the fourth LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 1005(2), 221. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae77fc)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) Searches for continuous gravitational waves from supernova remnants in the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 1004(2), 204. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae6263)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) Directed searches for gravitational waves from ultralight vector boson clouds around merger remnant and galactic black holes during the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run. Physical Review D, 114(2), 022006. (doi: 10.1103/mjfs-m6t7)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) Directional search for persistent gravitational waves: Results from the first part of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA’s fourth observing run. Physical Review D, 114(2), 022001. (doi: 10.1103/wgp7-t8r8)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) Search for planetary-mass ultracompact binaries using data from the first part of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA fourth observing run. Physical Review D, 114(2), 022005. (doi: 10.1103/s551-7pch)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) GWTC-4.0: population properties of merging compact binaries. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1005(2), L51. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae771e)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Observing Run. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1004(2), L22. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae2c74)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run. Astrophysical Journal, 1004(2), 232. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae211e)
Abbasi, R. et al. (2026) Deep search for joint sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos with IceCube during the third observing run of LIGO and Virgo. Astrophysical Journal, 1003(1), 41. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae4e1b)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run. Physical Review D, 113(8), 082004. (doi: 10.1103/83j3-pgk1)
Abac, A. et al. (2026) The science of the Einstein Telescope. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2026(03), 081. (doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2026/03/081)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) Black hole spectroscopy and tests of general relativity with GW250114. Physical Review Letters, 136(4), 041403. (doi: 10.1103/6c61-fm1n)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) GW230814: Investigation of a Loud Gravitational-wave Signal Observed with a Single Detector. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1004(2), L23. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae2ad3)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) GWTC-4.0: Methods for Identifying and Characterizing Gravitational-wave Transients. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1004(2), L21. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae447b)
2025
Abac, A.G. et al. (2025) GWTC-4.0: An introduction to Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 995(1), L18. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae0c06)
Abbott, R. et al. (2025) Tests of general relativity with GWTC-3. Physical Review D, 112(8), 084080. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.112.084080)
Toland, K. et al. (2025) Design and development of a prototype single crystalline silicon cryogenic suspension for 3rd generation gravitational wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 42(17), 175006. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/adf8a9)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2025) Search for gravitational waves emitted from SN 2023ixf. Astrophysical Journal, 985(2), 183. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/adc681)
Abac, A. G. et al. (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), 99. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/adb3a0)
Raman, G. et al. (2025) Swift-BAT GUANO follow-up of gravitational-wave triggers in the third LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 980(2), 207. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad9749)
2024
Abac, A. G. et al. (2024) A search using GEO600 for gravitational waves coincident with fast radio bursts from SGR 1935+2154. Astrophysical Journal, 977(2), 255. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad8de0)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2024) Search for eccentric black hole coalescences during the third observing run of LIGO and Virgo. Astrophysical Journal, 973(2), 132. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad65ce)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2024) Ultralight vector dark matter search using data from the KAGRA O3GK run. Physical Review D, 110(4), 042001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.042001)
Collaboration, T. L. S. et al. (2024) Search for gravitational-lensing signatures in the full third observing run of the LIGO–Virgo network. Astrophysical Journal, 970(2), 191. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad3e83)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2024) Observation of gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 2.5–4.5 M ⊙ compact object and a neutron star. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 970(2), L34. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad5beb)
Haughian, K. et al. (2024) Temperature dependence of the mechanical dissipation of gallium bonds for use in gravitational wave detectors. Physical Review Letters, 132, 231401. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.231401)
Abbott, R. et al. (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), 137. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad27d3)
Fletcher, C. et al. (2024) A joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT analysis of gravitational-wave candidates from the third gravitational-wave observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 964(2), 149. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1eed)
2023
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) Search for subsolar-mass black hole binaries in the second part of Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s third observing run. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(4), pp. 5984-5992. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad588)
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) Open data from the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 267(2), 29. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4365/acdc9f)
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) Constraints on the cosmic expansion history from GWTC–3. Astrophysical Journal, 949(2), 76. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac74bb)
2022
Abbott, R. et al. (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), L30. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/aca1b0)
Abbott, R. et al. (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), 102008. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.102008)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with a hidden Markov model in O3 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 106(6), 062002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.062002)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Search for continuous gravitational wave emission from the Milky Way center in O3 LIGO-Virgo data. Physical Review D, 106(4), 042003. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.042003)
Abbott, R. et al. (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. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac6acf)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) First joint observation by the underground gravitational-wave detector, KAGRA, with GEO 600. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2022(6), 063F01. (doi: 10.1093/ptep/ptac073)
Abbott, R. et al. (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), 102001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.102001)
2021
Lang, L., Saltarelli, F., Lacaille, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6363-0646, Rowan, S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0666-9907, Hough, J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3242-3123, Graumann, I. J., Phillips, C. R. and Keller, U.
(2021)
Silicate bonding of sapphire to SESAMs: adjustable thermal lensing for high-power lasers.
Optics Express, 29(12),
pp. 18059-18069.
(doi: 10.1364/OE.427192)
2017
Lacaille, Grégoire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6363-0646, Mangano, Valentina, van Veggel, Anna-Maria A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5634-5169, Killow, Christian J., MacKay, Peter E., Rowan, Sheila
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0666-9907 and Hough, James
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3242-3123
(2017)
Optical Characterisation of Hydroxide Catalysed Bonds Applied to Phosphate Glass.
In: Optifab 2017, Rochester, NY, USA, 16-19 Oct 2017,
p. 1044825.
ISBN 9781510613645
(doi: 10.1117/12.2279693)
Articles
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) Upper limits on the isotropic gravitational-wave background from the first part of LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA’s fourth observing run. Physical Review D, 114(4), 042001. (doi: 10.1103/wq57-sjt2)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) GW240925 and GW250207: astrophysical calibration of gravitational wave detectors. Physical Review Letters, 137(7), 071401. (doi: 10.1103/gzrj-mwv3)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) GWTC-4.0: constraints on the cosmic expansion rate and modified gravitational-wave propagation. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1007(1), L17. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae69dd)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) Narrowband searches for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in the first two parts of the fourth LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 1005(2), 221. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae77fc)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) Searches for continuous gravitational waves from supernova remnants in the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 1004(2), 204. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae6263)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) Directed searches for gravitational waves from ultralight vector boson clouds around merger remnant and galactic black holes during the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run. Physical Review D, 114(2), 022006. (doi: 10.1103/mjfs-m6t7)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) Directional search for persistent gravitational waves: Results from the first part of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA’s fourth observing run. Physical Review D, 114(2), 022001. (doi: 10.1103/wgp7-t8r8)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) Search for planetary-mass ultracompact binaries using data from the first part of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA fourth observing run. Physical Review D, 114(2), 022005. (doi: 10.1103/s551-7pch)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) GWTC-4.0: population properties of merging compact binaries. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1005(2), L51. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae771e)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Observing Run. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1004(2), L22. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae2c74)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run. Astrophysical Journal, 1004(2), 232. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae211e)
Abbasi, R. et al. (2026) Deep search for joint sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos with IceCube during the third observing run of LIGO and Virgo. Astrophysical Journal, 1003(1), 41. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae4e1b)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run. Physical Review D, 113(8), 082004. (doi: 10.1103/83j3-pgk1)
Abac, A. et al. (2026) The science of the Einstein Telescope. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2026(03), 081. (doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2026/03/081)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) Black hole spectroscopy and tests of general relativity with GW250114. Physical Review Letters, 136(4), 041403. (doi: 10.1103/6c61-fm1n)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) GW230814: Investigation of a Loud Gravitational-wave Signal Observed with a Single Detector. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1004(2), L23. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae2ad3)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2026) GWTC-4.0: Methods for Identifying and Characterizing Gravitational-wave Transients. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1004(2), L21. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae447b)
Abac, A.G. et al. (2025) GWTC-4.0: An introduction to Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 995(1), L18. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae0c06)
Abbott, R. et al. (2025) Tests of general relativity with GWTC-3. Physical Review D, 112(8), 084080. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.112.084080)
Toland, K. et al. (2025) Design and development of a prototype single crystalline silicon cryogenic suspension for 3rd generation gravitational wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 42(17), 175006. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/adf8a9)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2025) Search for gravitational waves emitted from SN 2023ixf. Astrophysical Journal, 985(2), 183. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/adc681)
Abac, A. G. et al. (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), 99. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/adb3a0)
Raman, G. et al. (2025) Swift-BAT GUANO follow-up of gravitational-wave triggers in the third LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 980(2), 207. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad9749)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2024) A search using GEO600 for gravitational waves coincident with fast radio bursts from SGR 1935+2154. Astrophysical Journal, 977(2), 255. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad8de0)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2024) Search for eccentric black hole coalescences during the third observing run of LIGO and Virgo. Astrophysical Journal, 973(2), 132. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad65ce)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2024) Ultralight vector dark matter search using data from the KAGRA O3GK run. Physical Review D, 110(4), 042001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.042001)
Collaboration, T. L. S. et al. (2024) Search for gravitational-lensing signatures in the full third observing run of the LIGO–Virgo network. Astrophysical Journal, 970(2), 191. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad3e83)
Abac, A. G. et al. (2024) Observation of gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 2.5–4.5 M ⊙ compact object and a neutron star. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 970(2), L34. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad5beb)
Haughian, K. et al. (2024) Temperature dependence of the mechanical dissipation of gallium bonds for use in gravitational wave detectors. Physical Review Letters, 132, 231401. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.231401)
Abbott, R. et al. (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), 137. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad27d3)
Fletcher, C. et al. (2024) A joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT analysis of gravitational-wave candidates from the third gravitational-wave observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 964(2), 149. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1eed)
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) Search for subsolar-mass black hole binaries in the second part of Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s third observing run. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(4), pp. 5984-5992. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stad588)
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) Open data from the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 267(2), 29. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4365/acdc9f)
Abbott, R. et al. (2023) Constraints on the cosmic expansion history from GWTC–3. Astrophysical Journal, 949(2), 76. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac74bb)
Abbott, R. et al. (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), L30. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/aca1b0)
Abbott, R. et al. (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), 102008. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.102008)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with a hidden Markov model in O3 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 106(6), 062002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.062002)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) Search for continuous gravitational wave emission from the Milky Way center in O3 LIGO-Virgo data. Physical Review D, 106(4), 042003. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.042003)
Abbott, R. et al. (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. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac6acf)
Abbott, R. et al. (2022) First joint observation by the underground gravitational-wave detector, KAGRA, with GEO 600. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2022(6), 063F01. (doi: 10.1093/ptep/ptac073)
Abbott, R. et al. (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), 102001. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.102001)
Lang, L., Saltarelli, F., Lacaille, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6363-0646, Rowan, S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0666-9907, Hough, J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3242-3123, Graumann, I. J., Phillips, C. R. and Keller, U.
(2021)
Silicate bonding of sapphire to SESAMs: adjustable thermal lensing for high-power lasers.
Optics Express, 29(12),
pp. 18059-18069.
(doi: 10.1364/OE.427192)
Conference Proceedings
Lacaille, Grégoire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6363-0646, Mangano, Valentina, van Veggel, Anna-Maria A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5634-5169, Killow, Christian J., MacKay, Peter E., Rowan, Sheila
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0666-9907 and Hough, James
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3242-3123
(2017)
Optical Characterisation of Hydroxide Catalysed Bonds Applied to Phosphate Glass.
In: Optifab 2017, Rochester, NY, USA, 16-19 Oct 2017,
p. 1044825.
ISBN 9781510613645
(doi: 10.1117/12.2279693)