Brennan John Hughey

Title: Dept. Chair of Physics and Astronomy, Associate Professor of Physics
Email: Brennan.Hughey@erau.edu Email
Department: Physics and Astronomy Department
College: College of Arts & Sciences

Office Hours

M 12:00 - 1:50 T 10:00 - 11:00 ; 1:20 - 5:00 W 12:00 - 1:50 Th 4:10 - 5:00 F 1:00 - 1:50 ; 3:00 - 3:50

Education

Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Physics: Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.S. - Bachelor of Science in Physics: Mathematics, Hope College

Currently Teaching

PS 113L: Intro Physics I Laboratory
PS 250: Physics for Engineers III
PS 215: Physics I
PS 161: Physics I & II for Engineers
PS 253: Physics Lab for Engineers
PS 350: Quantum Mechanics I
PS 490: Senior Research Thesis, Part I

Research Projects

Publications

Gravito-optics and intensity correlations for binary inspiral signal detections (Jones, Preston, Barret, Alexander, Carpenter, Justin, Gretarsson, Andri, Gretarsson, Ellie, Hughey, Brennan, Smith, Darrel, Zanolin, Michele, Singelton, Doug) Publications (2023)
The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred From Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914 (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
Supplement: The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred From Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914 (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
The Basic Physics of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914 (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Pratt, J., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2 (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Pratt, J. W. W., Schmidt, E., Schwalbe, G., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated With GW170817 (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
Search for High-Energy Neutrinos From Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 With ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory (Aartsen, M. G., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
Search for Post-Merger Gravitational Waves From the Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
Full Band All-Sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
Characterization of Transient Noise in Advanced LIGO Relevant to Gravitational Wave Signal GW150914 (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M, J., Zanolin, M., ,) Michele Zanolin (2018)
GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, Michele, al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
First Search for Nontensorial Gravitational Waves From Known Pulsars (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Pratt, J. W. W., Schmidt, E., Schwalbe, S. G., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
GW170608: Observation of a 19 Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
Directly Comparing GW150914 With Numerical Solutions of Einstein's Equations for Binary Black Hole Coalescence (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
Effects of Data Quality Vetoes on a Search for Compact Binary Coalescences in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Pratt, J., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
First Narrow-Band Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves From Known Pulsars in Advanced Detector Data (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
First Low-Frequency Einstein@Home All-Sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves in Advanced LIGO Data (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Pratt, J. W. W., Schmidt, E., Schwalbe, S. G., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
All-Sky Search for Long-Duration Gravitational Wave Transients in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Pratt, J. W. W., Rhoades, E., Schmidt, E., Schwalbe, S. G., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., et al.,) Publications (2018)
All-Sky Search for Long-Duration Gravitational Wave Transients in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Pratt, J. W. W., Rhoades, E., Schmidt, E., Schwalbe, S. G., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2018)
Effects of Data Quality Vetoes on a Search for Compact Binary Coalescences in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Pratt, J., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2018)
A Gravitational-Wave Standard Siren Measurement of the Hubble Constant (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarrson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalde, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
Multi-Messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, Michele, al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
Upper Limits on Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 from a Model-Based Cross-Correlation Search in Advanced LIGO Data (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Pratt, J. W. W., Schmidt, E., Schwalbe, S. G., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts During the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run and Implications for the Origin of GRB 150906B (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Pratt, J. W. W., Rhoades, E., Schmidt, E., Schwalbe, S. G., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2018)
First Search for Nontensorial Gravitational Waves From Known Pulsars (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Pratt, J. W. W., Schmidt, E., Schwalbe, S. G., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2018)
First Narrow-Band Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves From Known Pulsars in Advanced Detector Data (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2017)
GW170608: Observation of a 19 Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2017)
First Low-Frequency Einstein@Home All-Sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves in Advanced LIGO Data (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Pratt, J. W. W., Schmidt, E., Schwalbe, S. G., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2017)
Search for Post-Merger Gravitational Waves From the Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2017)
Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated With GW170817 (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2017)
Search for High-Energy Neutrinos From Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 With ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory (Aartsen, M. G., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2017)
On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2017)
Search for Transient Gravitational Waves in Coincidence With Short-Duration Radio Transients During 2007-2013 (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Stiles, D., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2017)
Observing Gravitational-Wave Transient GW150914 with Minimal Assumptions (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2017)
GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Michele Zanolin (2017)
A Gravitational-Wave Standard Siren Measurement of the Hubble Constant (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarrson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalde, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2017)
GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2017)
Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2017)
Multi-Messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, Michele, al., et) Publications (2017)
GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, Michele, al., et) Publications (2017)
Upper Limits on Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 from a Model-Based Cross-Correlation Search in Advanced LIGO Data (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Pratt, J. W. W., Schmidt, E., Schwalbe, S. G., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2017)
Full Band All-Sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Gretarsson, E. M., Hughey, B., Muratore, M., Pratt, J. W. W., Schwalbe, S. G., Staats, K., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2017)
GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2 (Abbott, B. P., AultONeal, K., Gaudio, S., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Pratt, J. W. W., Schmidt, E., Schwalbe, G., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2017)
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts During the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run and Implications for the Origin of GRB 150906B (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Pratt, J. W. W., Rhoades, E., Schmidt, E., Schwalbe, S. G., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2017)
The Basic Physics of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914 (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Pratt, J., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2017)
The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred From Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914 (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2016)
Supplement: The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred From Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914 (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2016)
Results of the Deepest All-Sky Survey for Continuous Gravitational Waves on LIGO S6 Data Running on the Einstein@Home Volunteer Distributed Computing Project (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, Michele, al., et) Publications (2016)
Improved Analysis of GW150914 Using a Fully Spin-Precessing Waveform Model (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2016)
Directly Comparing GW150914 With Numerical Solutions of Einstein's Equations for Binary Black Hole Coalescence (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2016)
GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2016)
Search for Transient Gravitational Waves in Coincidence With Short-Duration Radio Transients During 2007-2013 (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Stiles, D., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2016)
Observing Gravitational-Wave Transient GW150914 with Minimal Assumptions (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2016)
Characterization of Transient Noise in Advanced LIGO Relevant to Gravitational Wave Signal GW150914 (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., al., et) Publications (2016)
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger (Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepa\u0144czyk, M, J., Zanolin, M., et al.) Publications (2016)

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (2010-2012)

Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007-2010)