Publications

1. Wadekar, D., Zackay, B., Ho-Yeuk Cheung, M., Islam, T., Roulet, J., Mehta, A.K., Venumadhav, T., Mushkin, J., Zumalacarregui, M., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2026)

Searching for lensed gravitational waves with unlensed templates

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2. Kwon, K.J., Abhishek Hegade K., R., Venumadhav, T., Yu, H., & Yunes, N. (2026)

Nonlinear Perturbations of Relativistic Stars

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3. Perera, A., Zackay, B., & Venumadhav, T. (2026)

A Multi-Mission Detection Framework for High-Energy Transients: Application to a 13-year Fermi/GBM and Swift/BAT Sample

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4. Maity, K.N., Jana, S., Barsode, A., Venumadhav, T., & Ajith, P. (2026)

Probing Dark Matter with Strongly Lensed Binary Black Hole Mergers: Prospects in the Near Future

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5. Perera, A., Zackay, B., & Venumadhav, T. (2026)

A Coherent Search for New Galactic Magnetars using Fermi/GBM and follow-up Swift/BAT: 7 Candidates and a Large Burst Catalog

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6. Abhishek Hegade K., R., Kwon, K.J., Venumadhav, T., Yu, H., & Yunes, N. (2026)

Relativistic mode sums for neutron-star tidal response

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7. Perera, A., Zackay, B., & Venumadhav, T. (2026)

Expanding the population of short gamma-ray transients with a coherent Fermi/GBM search: a 13-yr catalogue of short GRBs

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8. Yu, H., Nicolini, G., Lau, S.Y., Kwon, K.J., Venumadhav, T., Andersson, N., Pnigouras, P., Gittins, F., & Nanda, A. (2026)

Nonlinear hydrodynamics in spinning neutron stars: Theoretical universal relations and equilibrium solutions

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9. Islam, T., Venumadhav, T., & Wadekar, D. (2026)

Progenitor of the Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole RBH-1 Identified Using HST and JWST Imaging

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10. Ho-Yeuk Cheung, M., Wadekar, D., Zaldarriaga, M., Venumadhav, T., Roulet, J., & Mehta, A.K. (2026)

The diffraction-lensing interpretation of GW231123 with astrophysical priors

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11. Islam, T., Wadekar, D., Venumadhav, T., Zaldarriaga, M., Mehta, A.K., Roulet, J., & Zackay, B. (2026)

Discovery of Interpretable Surrogates via Agentic AI: Application to Gravitational Waves

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12. Maity, K.N., Jana, S., Venumadhav, T., Barsode, A., & Ajith, P. (2026)

Strong lensing cosmography using binary-black-hole mergers: Prospects for the near future

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13. Islam, T., Venumadhav, T., Wadekar, D., Mehta, A.K., Roulet, J., Mushkin, J., Ho-Yeuk Cheung, M., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2026)

GW190711_030756 and GW200114_020818: astrophysical interpretation of two asymmetric binary black hole mergers in the IAS catalog

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14. Zhou, Z., Wadekar, D., Roulet, J., Ivashtenko, O., Venumadhav, T., Islam, T., Mehta, A.K., Mushkin, J., Ho-Yeuk Cheung, M., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2026)

Searching for precessing binary systems with mode-by-mode filtering and marginalization

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15. Hegade K. R., A., Kwon, K.J., Venumadhav, T., Yu, H., & Yunes, N. (2026)

Relativistic and Dynamical Love Numbers

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16. Cheung, M.H.Y., Wadekar, D., Mehta, A.K., Islam, T., Roulet, J., Berti, E., Venumadhav, T., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2026)

Searching for intermediate mass ratio binary black hole mergers in the third observing run of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA

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17. Mehta, A.K., Wadekar, D., Anantpurkar, I., Roulet, J., Venumadhav, T., Islam, T., Mushkin, J., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2025)

Binary black hole population inference combining confident and marginal events from the IAS-HM search pipeline

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18. Mushkin, J., Roulet, J., Zackay, B., Venumadhav, T., Ivashtenko, O., Wadekar, D., Mehta, A.K., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2025)

Sampler-free gravitational wave inference using matrix multiplication

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19. Perera, A., Zackay, B., & Venumadhav, T. (2025)

A New Search Pipeline for Short Gamma-Ray Bursts in Fermi/GBM Data—A 50% Increase in the Number of Detections

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20. Islam, T. & Venumadhav, T. (2025)

Post-Newtonian theory-inspired framework for characterizing eccentricity in gravitational waveforms

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21. Islam, T., Venumadhav, T., Mehta, A.K., Wadekar, D., Roulet, J., Anantpurkar, I., Mushkin, J., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2025)

Data-driven extraction and phenomenology of eccentric harmonics in eccentric spinning binary black hole mergers

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22. Jana, S., Kapadia, S.J., Venumadhav, T., More, S., & Ajith, P. (2025)

Probing the Nature of Dark Matter Using Strongly Lensed Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Holes

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23. Islam, T., Venumadhav, T., Mehta, A.K., Anantpurkar, I., Wadekar, D., Roulet, J., Mushkin, J., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2025)

Data-driven extraction, phenomenology, and modeling of eccentric harmonics in binary black hole merger waveforms

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24. Wadekar, D., Pimpalkar, A., Ho-Yeuk Cheung, M., Wandelt, B., Berti, E., Mehta, A.K., Venumadhav, T., Roulet, J., Islam, T., Zackay, B., Mushkin, J., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2025)

Improving gravitational wave search sensitivity with TIER: Trigger Inference using Extended strain Representation

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25. Schiff, J. & Venumadhav, T. (2025)

Primordial magnetic fields and modified recombination histories

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26. Islam, T., Venumadhav, T., Mehta, A.K., Anantpurkar, I., Wadekar, D., Roulet, J., Mushkin, J., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2025)

gwharmone: first data-driven surrogate for eccentric harmonics in binary black hole merger waveforms

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27. Islam, T. & Venumadhav, T. (2025)

Universal phenomenological relations between spherical harmonic modes in nonprecessing eccentric binary black hole merger waveforms

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28. Kwon, K.J., Yu, H., & Venumadhav, T. (2025)

Resonance locking: radian-level phase shifts due to nonlinear hydrodynamics of $g$-modes in merging neutron star binaries

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29. Mehta, A.K., Wadekar, D., Roulet, J., Anantpurkar, I., Venumadhav, T., Mushkin, J., Zackay, B., Zaldarriaga, M., & Islam, T. (2025)

Significant increase in sensitive volume of a gravitational wave search upon including higher harmonics

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30. Mehta, A.K., Olsen, S., Wadekar, D., Roulet, J., Venumadhav, T., Mushkin, J., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2025)

New binary black hole mergers in the LIGO-Virgo O3b data

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31. Jana, S., J Kapadia, S., Venumadhav, T., More, S., & Ajith, P. (2024)

Strong-lensing cosmography using third-generation gravitational-wave detectors

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32. Kwon, K.J., Yu, H., & Venumadhav, T. (2024)

Resonance Locking of Anharmonic $g$-Modes in Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries

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33. Wadekar, D., Venumadhav, T., Mehta, A.K., Roulet, J., Olsen, S., Mushkin, J., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2024)

New approach to template banks of gravitational waves with higher harmonics: Reducing matched-filtering cost by over an order of magnitude

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34. Chia, H.S., Edwards, T.D.P., Wadekar, D., Zimmerman, A., Olsen, S., Roulet, J., Venumadhav, T., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2024)

In pursuit of Love numbers: First templated search for compact objects with large tidal deformabilities in the LIGO-Virgo data

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35. Roulet, J., Mushkin, J., Wadekar, D., Venumadhav, T., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2024)

Fast marginalization algorithm for optimizing gravitational wave detection, parameter estimation, and sky localization

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36. Wadekar, D., Venumadhav, T., Roulet, J., Mehta, A.K., Zackay, B., Mushkin, J., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2024)

New search pipeline for gravitational waves with higher-order modes using mode-by-mode filtering

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37. Roulet, J. & Venumadhav, T. (2024)

Inferring Binary Properties from Gravitational-Wave Signals

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38. Wadekar, D., Roulet, J., Venumadhav, T., Mehta, A.K., Zackay, B., Mushkin, J., Olsen, S., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2023)

New black hole mergers in the LIGO-Virgo O3 data from a gravitational wave search including higher-order harmonics

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39. Yu, H., Roulet, J., Venumadhav, T., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2023)

Accurate and efficient waveform model for precessing binary black holes

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40. Jana, S., Kapadia, S.J., Venumadhav, T., & Ajith, P. (2023)

Cosmography Using Strongly Lensed Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Holes

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41. Yu, H., Weinberg, N.N., Arras, P., Kwon, J., & Venumadhav, T. (2023)

Beyond the linear tide: impact of the non-linear tidal response of neutron stars on gravitational waveforms from binary inspirals

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42. Roulet, J., Olsen, S., Mushkin, J., Islam, T., Venumadhav, T., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2022)

Removing degeneracy and multimodality in gravitational wave source parameters

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43. Islam, T., Roulet, J., & Venumadhav, T. (2022)

Factorized Parameter Estimation for Real-Time Gravitational Wave Inference

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44. Olsen, S., Venumadhav, T., Mushkin, J., Roulet, J., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2022)

New binary black hole mergers in the LIGO-Virgo O3a data

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45. Chia, H.S., Olsen, S., Roulet, J., Dai, L., Venumadhav, T., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2022)

Signs of higher multipoles and orbital precession in GW151226

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46. Roulet, J., Chia, H.S., Olsen, S., Dai, L., Venumadhav, T., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2021)

Distribution of effective spins and masses of binary black holes from the LIGO and Virgo O1-O3a observing runs

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47. Olsen, S., Roulet, J., Chia, H.S., Dai, L., Venumadhav, T., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2021)

Mapping the likelihood of GW190521 with diverse mass and spin priors

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48. Zackay, B., Dai, L., Venumadhav, T., Roulet, J., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2021)

Detecting gravitational waves with disparate detector responses: Two new binary black hole mergers

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49. Zackay, B., Venumadhav, T., Roulet, J., Dai, L., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2021)

Detecting gravitational waves in data with non-stationary and non-Gaussian noise

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50. Roulet, J., Venumadhav, T., Zackay, B., Dai, L., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2020)

Binary black hole mergers from LIGO/Virgo O1 and O2: Population inference combining confident and marginal events

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51. Huang, Y., Haster, C.J., Roulet, J., Vitale, S., Zimmerman, A., Venumadhav, T., Zackay, B., Dai, L., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2020)

Source properties of the lowest signal-to-noise-ratio binary black hole detections

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52. Dai, L., Zackay, B., Venumadhav, T., Roulet, J., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2020)

Search for Lensed Gravitational Waves Including Morse Phase Information: An Intriguing Candidate in O2

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53. Venumadhav, T., Zackay, B., Roulet, J., Dai, L., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2020)

New binary black hole mergers in the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

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54. Dai, L., Kaurov, A.A., Sharon, K., Florian, M., Miralda-Escudé, J., Venumadhav, T., Frye, B., Rigby, J.R., & Bayliss, M. (2020)

Asymmetric surface brightness structure of caustic crossing arc in SDSS J1226+2152: a case for dark matter substructure

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55. Samsing, J., Venumadhav, T., Dai, L., Martinez, I., Batta, A., Lopez, M., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., & Kremer, K. (2019)

Probing the black hole merger history in clusters using stellar tidal disruptions

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56. Zackay, B., Venumadhav, T., Dai, L., Roulet, J., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2019)

Highly spinning and aligned binary black hole merger in the Advanced LIGO first observing run

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57. Kaurov, A.A., Dai, L., Venumadhav, T., Miralda-Escudé, J., & Frye, B. (2019)

Highly Magnified Stars in Lensing Clusters: New Evidence in a Galaxy Lensed by MACS J0416.1-2403

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58. Venumadhav, T., Zackay, B., Roulet, J., Dai, L., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2019)

New search pipeline for compact binary mergers: Results for binary black holes in the first observing run of Advanced LIGO

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59. Roulet, J., Dai, L., Venumadhav, T., Zackay, B., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2019)

Template bank for compact binary coalescence searches in gravitational wave data: A general geometric placement algorithm

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60. Coleman, M.S.B., Venumadhav, T., & Zackay, B. (2019)

Gravitational-wave-moderated Accretion: The Case of ES Ceti

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61. Dai, L., Venumadhav, T., Kaurov, A.A., & Miralda-Escud, J. (2018)

Probing Dark Matter Subhalos in Galaxy Clusters Using Highly Magnified Stars

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62. Venumadhav, T., Dai, L., Kaurov, A., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2018)

Heating of the intergalactic medium by the cosmic microwave background during cosmic dawn

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63. Kaurov, A.A., Venumadhav, T., Dai, L., & Zaldarriaga, M. (2018)

Implication of the Shape of the EDGES Signal for the 21 cm Power Spectrum

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64. Haris, K., Mehta, A.K., Kumar, S., Venumadhav, T., & Ajith, P. (2018)

Identifying strongly lensed gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers

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65. Zackay, B., Dai, L., & Venumadhav, T. (2018)

Relative Binning and Fast Likelihood Evaluation for Gravitational Wave Parameter Estimation

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66. Dai, L., Venumadhav, T., & Zackay, B. (2018)

Parameter Estimation for GW170817 using Relative Binning

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67. Hirata, C.M., Mishra, A., & Venumadhav, T. (2018)

Detecting primordial gravitational waves with circular polarization of the redshifted 21 cm line. I. Formalism

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68. Venumadhav, T., Dai, L., & Miralda-Escudé, J. (2017)

Microlensing of Extremely Magnified Stars near Caustics of Galaxy Clusters

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69. Venumadhav, T., Oklopčić, A., Gluscevic, V., Mishra, A., & Hirata, C.M. (2017)

New probe of magnetic fields in the prereionization epoch. I. Formalism

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70. Gluscevic, V., Venumadhav, T., Fang, X., Hirata, C., Oklopčić, A., & Mishra, A. (2017)

New probe of magnetic fields in the pre-reionization epoch. II. Detectability

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71. Dai, L. & Venumadhav, T. (2017)

On the waveforms of gravitationally lensed gravitational waves

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72. Dai, L., Venumadhav, T., & Sigurdson, K. (2017)

Effect of lensing magnification on the apparent distribution of black hole mergers

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73. Venumadhav, T., Chang, T.C., Doré, O., & Hirata, C.M. (2016)

A Practical Theorem on Using Interferometry to Measure the Global 21-cm Signal

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74. Venumadhav, T., Cyr-Racine, F.Y., Abazajian, K.N., & Hirata, C.M. (2016)

Sterile neutrino dark matter: Weak interactions in the strong coupling epoch

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75. Venumadhav, T. & Hirata, C. (2015)

Stability of small-scale baryon perturbations during cosmological recombination

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76. Venumadhav, T., Zimmerman, A., & Hirata, C.M. (2014)

The Stability of Tidally Deformed Neutron Stars to Three- and Four-mode Coupling

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77. Venumadhav, T., Haque, M., & Moessner, R. (2010)

Finite-rate quenches of site bias in the Bose-Hubbard dimer

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1. Raaijmakers, G. et al. (2021; incl. Venumadhav, T.)

The Challenges Ahead for Multimessenger Analyses of Gravitational Waves and Kilonova: A Case Study on GW190425

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2. Weltman, A. et al. (2020; incl. Venumadhav, T.)

Fundamental physics with the Square Kilometre Array

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3. Doré, O. et al. (2014; incl. Venumadhav, T.)

Cosmology with the SPHEREX All-Sky Spectral Survey

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