Dr Katy Clough
Senior Lecturer, STFC Ernest Rutherford Research Fellow
School of Mathematical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Fundamental fields, Black holes, Early Universe, Numerical relativity, General relativity, Gravitational waves
Interests
My research focusses on testing the limits of general relativity and the Standard Model of particle physics, in particular using numerical simulations of the early Universe and the interaction of fundamental fields and particles with black holes.Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation2024
Aurrekoetxea JC, Marsden J, Clough K and Ferreira PG (2024). Self-interacting scalar dark matter around binary black holes. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 110 (8) 02-10-2024
Clough K, Dietrich T and Khan S (2024). What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from warp drive collapse. The Open Journal of Astrophysics, Maynooth University vol. 7 25-07-2024
Wang Z, Helfer T, Traykova D, Clough K and Berti E (2024). Gravitational Magnus effect from scalar dark matter. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 110 (2) 08-07-2024
Saló LA, Brady SE, Clough K, Doneva D, Evstafyeva T, Figueras P, França T, Rossi L and Yao S (2024). GRFolres: A code for modified gravity simulations in strong gravity. The Journal of Open Source Software, The Open Journal vol. 9 (98) 01-06-2024
Aurrekoetxea JC, Clough K, Bamber J and Ferreira PG (2024). Effect of Wave Dark Matter on Equal Mass Black Hole Mergers. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 132 (21) 24-05-2024
2023
Traykova D, Vicente R, Clough K, Helfer T, Berti E, Ferreira PG and Hui L (2023). Relativistic drag forces on black holes from scalar dark matter clouds of all sizes. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 108 (12) 14-12-2023
Alexandre J, Clough K and Pla S (2023). Tunneling-induced cosmic bounce in the presence of anisotropies. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 108 (10) 14-11-2023
Brady SE, Saló LA, Clough K, Figueras P and Annamalai PS (2023). Solving the initial conditions problem for modified gravity theories. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 108 (10) 13-11-2023
Aresté Saló L, Clough K and Figueras P (2023). Puncture gauge formulation for Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity and four-derivative scalar-tensor theories in d+1 spacetime dimensions. Physical Review D, American Physical Society vol. 108 (8) 15-10-2023
Doneva DD, Saló LA, Clough K, Figueras P and Yazadjiev SS (2023). Testing the limits of scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity through nonlinear evolutions of spin-induced scalarization. Physical Review D, American Physical Society vol. 108 (8) 15-10-2023
Auclair P, Bacon D, Baker T, Barreiro T, Bartolo N, Belgacem E, Bellomo N, Ben-Dayan I, Bertacca D, Besancon M, Blanco-Pillado JJ, Blas D, Boileau G, Calcagni G, Caldwell R, Caprini C, Carbone C, Chang CF, Chen HY, Christensen N, et al. (2023). Cosmology with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. Living Reviews in Relativity, Springer vol. 26 (1) 28-08-2023
Aurrekoetxea JC, Clough K and Muia F (2023). Oscillon formation during inflationary preheating with general relativity. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 108 (2) 05-07-2023
Croft R, Helfer T, Ge B-X, Radia M, Evstafyeva T, Lim EA, Sperhake U and Clough K (2023). The gravitational afterglow of boson stars. Classical and Quantum Gravity, IOP Publishing vol. 40 (6) 15-02-2023
Aurrekoetxea JC, Clough K and Lim EA (2023). CTTK: A new method to solve the initial data constraints in numerical relativity. Classical and Quantum Gravity, IOP Publishing 02-02-2023
Bamber J, Aurrekoetxea JC, Clough K and Ferreira PG (2023). Black hole merger simulations in wave dark matter environments. Physical Review D, American Physical Society vol. 107 (2) 26-01-2023
Clough K and Zilhão M (2023). CQG focus issue editorial: bosonic stars. Classical and Quantum Gravity, IOP Publishing vol. 40 (3) 11-01-2023
2022
Saló LA, Clough K and Figueras P (2022). Well-Posedness of the Four-Derivative Scalar-Tensor Theory of Gravity in Singularity Avoiding Coordinates. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society vol. 129 (26) 23-12-2022
Aurrekoetxea JC, Ferreira PG, Clough K, Lim EA and Tattersall OJ (2022). Where is the ringdown: Reconstructing quasinormal modes from dispersive waves. Physical Review D, American Physical Society vol. 106 (10), 104002-104002. 02-11-2022
Clough K, Helfer T, Witek H and Berti E (2022). Ghost Instabilities in Self-Interacting Vector Fields: The Problem with Proca Fields. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society vol. 129 (15), 151102-151102. 07-10-2022
Arun KG, Belgacem E, Benkel R, Bernard L, Berti E, Bertone G, Besancon M, Blas D, Böhmer CG, Brito R, Calcagni G, Cardenas-Avendaño A, Clough K, Crisostomi M, De Luca V, Doneva D, Escoffier S, Ezquiaga JM, Ferreira PG, Fleury P, et al. (2022). New horizons for fundamental physics with LISA. Living Reviews in Relativity, Springer Nature vol. 25 (1) 30-06-2022
Radia M, Sperhake U, Drew A, Clough K, Figueras P, Lim EA, Ripley JL, Aurrekoetxea JC, França T and Helfer T (2022). Lessons for adaptive mesh refinement in numerical relativity. Classical and Quantum Gravity, IOP Publishing vol. 39 (13) 06-06-2022
Wang Z, Helfer T, Clough K and Berti E (2022). Superradiance in massive vector fields with spatially varying mass. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 105 (10) 15-05-2022
2021
Andrade T, Salo L, Aurrekoetxea J, Bamber J, Clough K, Croft R, de Jong E, Drew A, Duran A, Ferreira P, Figueras P, Finkel H, Frana T, Ge B-X, Gu C, Helfer T, Jäykkä J, Joana C, Kunesch M, Kornet K, et al. (2021). GRChombo: An adaptable numerical relativity code for fundamental physics. The Journal of Open Source Software vol. 6 (68), 3703-3703. 10-12-2021
Clough K, Traykova D, Ferreira P, Hui L, Helfer T and Berti E (2021). Dynamical friction from scalar dark matter in the relativistic regime. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, American Physical Society 09-11-2021
Clough K (2021). Continuity equations for general matter: applications in numerical relativity. Classical and Quantum Gravity vol. 38 (16) 01-08-2021
Bamber J, Tattersall OJ, Clough K and Ferreira PG (2021). Quasinormal modes of growing dirty black holes. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 103 (12) 07-06-2021
Nazari Z, Cicoli M, Clough K and Muia F (2021). Oscillon collapse to black holes. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, IOP Publishing vol. 2021 (05) 01-05-2021
Bamber J, Clough K, Ferreira PG, Hui L and Lagos M (2021). Growth of accretion driven scalar hair around Kerr black holes. Physical Review D vol. 103 (4) 25-02-2021
2020
Barausse E, Berti E, Hertog T, Hughes SA, Jetzer P, Pani P, Sotiriou TP, Tamanini N, Witek H, Yagi K, Yunes N, Abdelsalhin T, Achucarro A, van Aelst K, Afshordi N, Akcay S, Annulli L, Arun KG, Ayuso I, Baibhav V, et al. (2020). Prospects for fundamental physics with LISA. General Relativity and Gravitation, Springer (part of Springer Nature) vol. 52 (8) 31-08-2020
Aurrekoetxea JC, Clough K, Flauger R and Lim EA (2020). The effects of potential shape on inhomogeneous inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, IOP Publishing vol. 2020 (05), 030-030. 01-05-2020
2019
Alexandre J and Clough K (2019). Saving the universe with finite volume effects. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 100 (10) 15-11-2019
Dietrich T and Clough K (2019). Cooling binary neutron star remnants via nucleon-nucleon-axion bremsstrahlung. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 100 (8) 10-10-2019
Clough K, Ferreira PG and Lagos M (2019). Growth of massive scalar hair around a Schwarzschild black hole. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 100 (6) 15-09-2019
Muia F, Cicoli M, Clough K, Pedro F, Quevedo F and Vacca GP (2019). The fate of dense scalar stars. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, IOP Publishing vol. 2019 (07), 044-044. 01-07-2019
2018
Dietrich T, Ossokine S and Clough K (2018). Full 3D numerical relativity simulations of neutron star–boson star collisions with BAM. Classical and Quantum Gravity, IOP Publishing vol. 36 (2) 18-12-2018
Dietrich T, Day F, Clough K, Coughlin M and Niemeyer J (2018). Neutron star–axion star collisions in the light of multimessenger astronomy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP) vol. 483 (1), 908-914. 22-11-2018
Clough K, Dietrich T and Niemeyer JC (2018). Axion star collisions with black holes and neutron stars in full 3D numerical relativity. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 98 (8) 15-10-2018
Clough K and Niemeyer JC (2018). On the difficulty of generating gravitational wave turbulence in the early universe. Classical and Quantum Gravity, IOP Publishing vol. 35 (18) 21-08-2018
Alexandre J and Clough K (2018). Black hole interference patterns in flavor oscillations. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 98 (4) 06-08-2018
Clough K, Flauger R and Lim EA (2018). Robustness of inflation to large tensor perturbations. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, IOP Publishing vol. 2018 (05), 065-065. 01-05-2018
2017
Clough K, Lim EA, DiNunno BS, Fischler W, Flauger R and Paban S (2017). Robustness of inflation to inhomogeneous initial conditions. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, IOP Publishing vol. 2017 (09), 025-025. 01-09-2017
Helfer T, Marsh DJE, Clough K, Fairbairn M, Lim EA and Becerril R (2017). Black hole formation from axion stars. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, IOP Publishing vol. 2017 (03), 055-055. 01-03-2017
2015
Clough K, Figueras P, Finkel H, Kunesch M, Lim EA and Tunyasuvunakool S (2015). GRChombo: Numerical relativity with adaptive mesh refinement. Classical and Quantum Gravity, IOP Publishing vol. 32 (24) 04-12-2015
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation
Astronomy Research at Queen Mary 2023 - 2026Chris Clarkson, Richard Nelson, Timothy Clifton, William Sutherland, Edward Gillen, Karim Malik, Thomas Haworth, Sijme-Jan Paardekooper, Theresa Baker, David Mulryne, Philip Bull, Juan A. Valiente Kroon, Charalampos Markakis, Mohammad Mahdi Godazgar, Katy Clough, Pau Figueras and Arick Shao
£1,625,769 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC) (01-04-2023 - 30-09-2026)
Ernest Rutherford Fellowship - Katy Clough: Solving cosmological questions in strong gravityKaty Clough
£584,718 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC) (01-10-2021 - 30-09-2026)