Boris Goncharov, Researcher
Gran Sasso Science Institute

I am now based at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in Italy and I am mainly involved in early stages of planning for the Einstein Telescope (ET), a European gravitational wave observatory of the 2030s. Additionally, I work on searches for nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves with pulsar timing arrays. I obtained a PhD degree at Monash University in Australia. There, I performed searches for persistent gravitational waves from sources like spherically asymmetric neutron stars. I also investigated timing noise properties of millisecond pulsars, rapidly rotating neutron stars which are employed as precise clocks that form pulsar timing arrays, galactic-scale detectors for nanohertz gravitational waves. Earlier, in 2015, I graduated with a joint BSc-MSc degree from the Physics Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University, where my work was on gamma-ray burst instrumentation.

Recent Work

Gravitational memory and spacetime symmetries

Symmetries of spacetime infinitely far away from gravitational fields may hint at new laws of nature

The nanohertz gravitational wave background

Is the common-spectrum process observed with pulsar timing arrays a precursor to the detection?

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