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Selected Publications

  • Mapping Parameter Correlations in Spinning Binary Black Hole Mergers
    Karen Kang, Simona J. Miller, Katerina Chatziioannou, Deborah Ferguson
    2025

Growing black-hole hair in nonminimally coupled biscalar gravity
Chloe Richards, Alexandru Dima, Deborah Ferguson, Helvi Witek
2025
Video: Black hole simulations in axi-dilaton gravity

  • Waveform Modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
    LISA Consortium Waveform Working Group (co-chaired by Helvi Witek)
    2023
  • Black holes in massive dynamical Chern-Simons gravity: Scalar hair and quasibound states at decoupling
    Chloe Richards, Alexandru Dima, Helvi Witek
    2023
    Video: Evolution of a single black hole in massive dynamical Chern-Simons gravity
  • Spin-induced dynamical scalarization, descalarization, and stealthness in scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity during a black hole coalescence
    Matthew Elley, Hector O. Silva, Helvi Witek, Nicolás Yunes
    2022
  • Dynamical Descalarization in Binary Black Hole Mergers
    Hector O. Silva, Helvi Witek, Matthew Elley, Nicolás Yunes
    2020
    Videos: Head-on collisions
  • Towards numerical relativity in scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity: 3+1 decomposition beyond the small-coupling limit
    Helvi Witek, Leonardo Gualtieri, Paolo Pani
    2020

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