Abraham Loeb

Research.com Recognitions

• 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to several challenging problems in theoretical astrophysics ranging from the emergence of structure formation at the earliest epochs, to the physics of the epoch of reionization, to the use of gammaray bursts as cosmic probes, to the use of microlensing to detect planets
• 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2002 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• In the Beginning: The First Sources of Light and the Reionization of the Universe

  Rennan Barkana;Abraham Loeb

  1740
  Citations

• Generation of Magnetic Fields in the Relativistic Shock of Gamma-Ray Burst Sources

  Mikhail V. Medvedev;Mikhail V. Medvedev;Abraham Loeb

  993
  Citations

• Formation of the First Supermassive Black Holes

  Volker Bromm;Abraham Loeb;Abraham Loeb

  897
  Citations

• Constraining Cosmological Parameters Based on Relative Galaxy Ages

  Raul Jimenez;Abraham Loeb

  892
  Citations

• Theory of Ionic Ordering, Crystal Distortion, and Magnetic Exchange Due to Covalent Forces in Spinels

  John B Goodenough;A. L. Loeb

  848
  Citations

• Element Diffusion in the Solar Interior

  Anne A. Thoul;John N. Bahcall;Abraham Loeb

  816
  Citations

• 21-cm cosmology

  Jonathan R. Pritchard;Abraham Loeb

  814
  Citations

• Discovering Planetary Systems through Gravitational Microlenses

  Andrew Gould;Abraham Loeb

  746
  Citations

• 21 cm cosmology in the 21st century

  Jonathan R Pritchard;Abraham Loeb

  718
  Citations

• Subhaloes in self-interacting galactic dark matter haloes

  Mark Vogelsberger;Jesus Zavala;Jesus Zavala;Abraham Loeb

  641
  Citations

• Generic Spectrum and Ionization Efficiency of a Heavy Initial Mass Function for the First Stars

  Volker Bromm;Rolf P. Kudritzki;Abraham Loeb

  555
  Citations

• Self-regulated Growth of Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxies as the Origin of the Optical and X-Ray Luminosity Functions of Quasars

  J. Stuart B. Wyithe;Abraham Loeb;Abraham Loeb

  553
  Citations

• The formation of the first low-mass stars from gas with low carbon and oxygen abundances.

  Volker Bromm;Abraham Loeb

  521
  Citations

• Destruction of Molecular Hydrogen during Cosmological Reionization

  Zoltán Haiman;Martin J. Rees;Abraham Loeb

  517
  Citations

• Gravitational waves from scattering of stellar-mass black holes in galactic nuclei

  Ryan M. O'Leary;Bence Kocsis;Bence Kocsis;Abraham Loeb

  510
  Citations

• Jet-Launching Structure Resolved Near the Supermassive Black Hole in M87

  Sheperd S. Doeleman;Sheperd S. Doeleman;Vincent L. Fish;David E. Schenck;David E. Schenck;Christopher Beaudoin

  491
  Citations

• Cosmological Formation of Low-Mass Objects

  Zoltan Haiman;Anne A. Thoul;Abraham Loeb

  474
  Citations

• The Reionization of the Universe by the First Stars and Quasars

  Abraham Loeb;Rennan Barkana

  474
  Citations

• Birth of a relativistic outflow in the unusual γ-ray transient Swift J164449.3+573451

  Bevin Ashley Zauderer;Edo Berger;Alicia M. Soderberg;Abraham Loeb

  473
  Citations

• Collapse of primordial gas clouds and the formation of quasar black holes

  Abraham Loeb;Frederic A. Rasio

  470
  Citations