Colm Talbot
Senior Software and Programming Analyst
Research Computing x Physics
Princeton University
About
- Open source software
- Astrophysical inference
- Computational astrostatistics
- Gravitational-wave astronomy
Below are my most recently published papers. For a complete listing including preprints see the publications page. Sometimes I add a short non-techincal description here to accompany the paper.
We address a common misconception of Bayesian analyses of gravitational-wave transients.
We present a pipeline for performing the optimal search for the astrophysical stochastic gravitational that combines a number of innovative time series analysis methods.
We propose a novel method to probe the presence of non-tensor gravitational-wave polarizations traveling faster than light.
We describe GWPopulation, a hardware agnostic framework for performing population inference.
We derive a new formalism to eliminate a form of systematic bias in standard siren cosmology due to mismodeling the observability of electromagnetic counterparts.
Sometimes I like to write up notes on random topics, mostly on how to use bits of software or implementations I found fun. A full list can be found in the posts tab.
A lightweight viewer for the properties of gravitational-wave observations.
Sep 19, 2025
1 minute
An introductory blog post written for the UChicago data science institute.
Mar 28, 2024
4 minutes
