Research

I am trying to discover what we could learn about gravity from strong-field tests; that is from observations of processes occurring in extreme gravitational fields, such as close to a black hole. General Relativity, our best theory of gravitation, has yet to be thoroughly tested in these regimes. My supervisor, Jonathan Gair, and I are especially interested in what we could deduce from gravitational waves, in particular what we could find from observations made with a potential space-based detector, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).

Selected papers

Berry, C.P.L. & Gair, J.R.; Observing the Galaxy's massive black hole with gravitational wave bursts; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; 429(1):589-612; February 2013; DOI:10.1093/mnras/sts360; arXiv:1210.2778 [astro-ph.HE].

Berry, C.P.L. & Gair, J.R.; 'Linearized f(R) gravity: Gravitational radiation and Solar System tests'; Physical Review D; 83(10):104022(19); May 2011; DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.83.104022; arXiv:1104.0819 [gr-qc].

Berry, C.P.L. & Gair, J.R.; 'Gravitational wave energy spectrum of a parabolic encounter'; Physical Review D; 82(10):107501(4); November 2010; DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.82.107501; arXiv:1010.3865 [gr-qc].

Qualifications

BA (Hons), MSci Natural Sciences (Experimental & Theoretical Physics); Churchill College, University of Cambridge; 2009.

Additional information

You can discover more about me from my homepage. This has details of my teaching and outreach activities.

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