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Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Gabriella Agazie
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
2
R. Abbott
Unknown
3
Adrian Abac
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
4
Adeela Afzal
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
5
Christoph Dlapa
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
6
Pierre Auclair
UCLouvain
7
D. Adhikari
Idaho State University
8
Shokhzod Jumaniyozov
New Uzbekistan University
9
Yilber Fabian Bautista
Perimeter Institute
10
Mathias Driesse
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Papers

1
Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 2.5–4.5 <i>M</i> <sub>⊙</sub> Compact Object and a Neutron Star
The Astrophysical Journal Letters|2024
177 cit.
2
Comparing Recent Pulsar Timing Array Results on the Nanohertz Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background
The Astrophysical Journal|2024
104 cit.
3
Conservative Black Hole Scattering at Fifth Post-Minkowskian and First Self-Force Order
Physical Review Letters|2024
89 cit.
4
GW231123: A Binary Black Hole Merger with Total Mass 190–265 <i>M</i> <sub>⊙</sub>
The Astrophysical Journal Letters|2025
80 cit.
5
GW250114: Testing Hawking’s Area Law and the Kerr Nature of Black Holes
Physical Review Letters|2025
69 cit.
6
Publication in Physical review. D/Physical review. D. (2024) [66 citations, W4396219165]
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.|2024
66 cit.
7
Publication in The European Physical Journal C (2024) [62 citations, W4402927073]
The European Physical Journal C|2024
62 cit.
8
Emergence of Calabi–Yau manifolds in high-precision black-hole scattering
Nature|2025
61 cit.
9
Local in Time Conservative Binary Dynamics at Fourth Post-Minkowskian Order
Physical Review Letters|2024
51 cit.
10
Publication in The European Physical Journal C (2025) [49 citations, W4407075796]
The European Physical Journal C|2025
49 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Olivia Young
Rochester Institute of Technology
2
A. V. Zwaniga
McGill University
3
Milagros Zeballos
National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics
4
C. Talbot
University of Chicago
5
Justin Vines
Cornell University
6
Kejia Lee
Chinese Academy of Sciences
7
Andrew Zic
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
8
M. H. Gibby
Jacobs (United States)
9
Tjonnie G. F. Li
Chinese University of Hong Kong
10
M. M. Giles
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Papers

1
First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way
The Astrophysical Journal Letters|2022
1.8k cit.
2
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-wave Background
The Astrophysical Journal Letters|2023
1.5k cit.
3
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational-wave Background
The Astrophysical Journal Letters|2023
358 cit.
4
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Observations and Timing of 68 Millisecond Pulsars
The Astrophysical Journal Letters|2023
354 cit.
5
The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array third data release
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia|2023
207 cit.
6
CHIME/FRB Discovery of 25 Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources
The Astrophysical Journal|2023
155 cit.
7
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
The Astrophysical Journal Letters|2023
154 cit.
8
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Detector Characterization and Noise Budget
The Astrophysical Journal Letters|2023
148 cit.
9
Comparing Recent Pulsar Timing Array Results on the Nanohertz Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background
The Astrophysical Journal|2024
104 cit.
10
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Anisotropy in the Gravitational-wave Background
The Astrophysical Journal Letters|2023
92 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
J. Zweizig
California Institute of Technology
2
J. Tonry
University of Hawaii System
3
Saul A. Teukolsky
California Institute of Technology
4
Bing Zhang
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
5
Nicolás Yunes
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
6
Yosef Zlochower
Rochester Institute of Technology
7
Luciano Rezzolla
European Organization for Nuclear Research
8
Clifford M. Will
Unknown
9
Tsvi Piran
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10
James M. Lattimer
Stony Brook University

Papers

1
Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
The Astronomical Journal|1998
19.5k cit.
2
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
Physical Review Letters|2016
14.3k cit.
3
Savitzky-Golay Smoothing Filters
Computers in Physics|1990
11.8k cit.
4
GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
Physical Review Letters|2017
9.6k cit.
5
GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs
Physical Review X|2019
3.6k cit.
6
GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
Physical Review Letters|2016
3.5k cit.
7
Advanced LIGO
Classical and Quantum Gravity|2015
3.4k cit.
8
Rotating Black Holes: Locally Nonrotating Frames, Energy Extraction, and Scalar Synchrotron Radiation
The Astrophysical Journal|1972
2.6k cit.
9
GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2
Physical Review Letters|2017
2.5k cit.
10
GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State
Physical Review Letters|2018
2.5k cit.

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