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Eanna E. Flanagan

Professor of Astronomy & Physics
Ph.D. 1994 (California Institute of Technology

Campus Address:
606 Space Sciences Building
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Email: flanagan at astro.cornell.edu

Phone: 607-255-6534

Homepage: http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~flanagan/

Specialty Areas: Theoretical Astrophysics

Research Projects: Cosmology, Physics of Neutron Stars and Black Holes., Studies of Gravitational Wave Sources for LIGO and for the Upcoming Mission LISA.

Biography: Professor Flanagan's research topic is the physics of strong gravitational fields. His research group develops quantitative models of processes involving neutron stars, black holes, and the early Universe, which are useful for comparison with data from gravitational wave detectors. Recently the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave (LIGO) has come on-line, opening up a new window onto the Universe and starting a new branch of astronomy. Other research topics include the exploration of models of the early Universe involving extra dimensions and membranes, and some mathematical issues in classical and semiclassical general relativity.

Selected Publications: E.E. Flanagan, "Palatini form of 1/R gravity", submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.
B. Abbott et. al., "Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars", submitted to Phys. Rev. D.
P. Arras, E.E. Flanagan, S.M. Morsink, A.K. Schenk, S. A. Teukolsky, I. Wasserman, "Saturation of the r-mode instability", Astrophys.J. 591, 1129-1151 (2003).
E.E. Flanagan, "Quantum inequalities in two dimensional curved spacetimes", Phys. Rev. D 66, 104007 (2002).
E.E. Flanagan, S.-H. H. Tye and I. Wasserman, "A Cosmology of the Brane World", Phys. Rev. D 62, 024011 (2000).
E.E. Flanagan, D. Marolf, and R.M. Wald, "Proof of Classical Versions of the Bousso Entropy Bound and of the Generalized Second Law", Phys. Rev. D 62, 084035 (2000).