Sarah Shandera

Associate Professor of Physics
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Sarah
Shandera
She/Her
Associate Professor of Physics
Interests
Gravity, Theory
Particle physics, Theory
Address
Phone
(814) 863-9595

Education

Ph.D. Cornell University (2006)
B.S. University of Arizona (2001)

Websites

Full List of Publications

Specialties:

Particle Astrophysics
  • Theoretical
Gravitational Physics & Cosmology
  • Theoretical
Particles & Fields
  • Theoretical

Honors and Awards

  • Visiting Fellow, Perimeter Institute (January 1, 2016 - present)
  • Emmy Noether Visting Fellow, Perimeter Institute (August 2015 - December 2015)

Selected Publications

  1. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, and S. Shandera, Search for sub-solar mass ultracompact binaries in Advanced LIGO's second observing run, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123 (2019) no. 16, 161102.
  2. Shandera, S., Jeong, D. and Gebhardt, H.S.G, Gravitational waves from binary mergers of subsolar mass dark black holes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 (2018) no.24, 241102.
  3. Shandera, S., Agarwal, N., and Kamal, A., Open quantum cosmological system, Phys. Rev. D. 98 (2018) no. 98, 083535.
  4. Abazajian, K.N., Adshead, P., Ahmed, Z., Allen, S., Alonso, D., et al. CMB-S4 Science Book, 2016.
  5. Zhao, G.B., Wang, Y., Ross, A.J., Shandera, S., Percival, W.J., Dawson, K.S., Kneib, J.-P., Meyers, A.D., Brownstein, J.R., Comparat, J., Delubac, T., Gao, P., Hojjati, A., Koyama, K., McBride, C.K., Meza, A., Newman, J.A., Rossi, G., Schneider, D.P., Seo, H.-J., Tao, C., Wang, D., Yeche, C., Zhang, H., Zhang, Y., Zhou, X., Zhu, F., and Zou, H., et al. The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS): A Cosmological Forecast, Astron. J. 151 (2016). 
  6. Nelson, E. and Shandera, S. Statistical Naturalness and non-Gaussianity in a Finite Universe. Phys. Rev. Lett., 110 (2013), no.13, 131301.
  7. Shandera, S., Mantz, A., Rapetti, D., and Allen, S.W. X-ray Cluster Constraints on Non-Gaussianity. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2013(08), 004
  8. Burgess, C., Holman, R., Leblond, L., and Shandera, S. Super-Hubble de Sitter Fluctuations and the dynamical RG. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2010(03), 033. 
  9. LoVerde, M., Miller, A., Shandera, S., and Verde, L. Effects of scale-dependent non-Gaussianity on cosmological structures. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2008, no. 04 (2008): 014.
  10. Becker, M., Leblond, L., Shandera, S. Inflation from wrapped branes. Phys. Rev. D 76, 123516 (2007).

Assistants:

  • Natasha Urbanik