Noah E. Wolfe

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I work in the LIGO Astrophysics Laboratory under Professor Salvatore Vitale, beginning in September 2022. At MIT, I am supported by the Henry W. Kendall (1955) Fellowship Fund, the La Gattuta Physics Fund, and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Broadly, I am interested in gravitational-wave astrophysics; I seek to understand what gravitational-wave signals can tell us about the physics of the Universe. Recently, I have studied whether it would be possible to distinguish a sub-solar mass black hole from other exotic compact objects with gravitational waves. I have also helped develop advanced parameter estimation techniques for conducting phenomenological tests of general relativity with gravitational waves.

I earned Bachelors of Science degrees in Physics and Mathematics at North Carolina State University, where I studied core-collapse supernovae under Professor Carla Fröhlich.

If you’d like to learn more about me, feel free to read my CV (Last updated 25 July 2022)

Publications

• Accelerating tests of general relativity with gravitational-wave signals using hybrid sampling
  Wolfe, N. E., Talbot, C., Golomb, J. (2023)
  Physical Review D
  
  tests of general relativity
  astrostatistics
  
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• PUSHing Core-collapse Supernovae to Explosions in Spherical Symmetry. V. Equation of State Dependency of Explosion Properties, Nucleosynthesis Yields, and Compact Remnants
  Ghosh, S., Wolfe, N., Fröhlich, C. (2022)
  The Astrophysical Journal
  
  core-collapse supernovae
  numerical simulations
  
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• A New Constraint on the Nuclear Equation of State from Statistical Distributions of Compact Remnants of Supernovae
  Meskhi, M. M., Wolfe, N. E., Dai, Z., Fröhlich, C., Miller, J. M., Wong, R. W., Vilalta, R. (2022)
  The Astrophysical Journal
  
  core-collapse supernovae
  numerical simulations
  nuclear equation of state
  
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• Core-collapse Supernovae: From Neutrino-driven 1D Explosions to Light Curves and Spectra
  Curtis, S., Wolfe, N., Fröhlich, C., Miller, J. M., Wollaeger, R., Ebinger, K. (2021)
  The Astrophysical Journal
  
  core-collapse supernovae
  numerical simulations
  active subspace analysis
  
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