2026 D. W. Kurtz: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	77	3251	3091	287	277	492	19339

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Physics

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19339

Overview

D. W. Kurtz is a researcher affiliated with the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom, working primarily in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their scholarly contributions span a diverse range of topics within astronomy and related sciences, with significant focus on stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

Their research has been frequently published in several noted venues including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Astrophysical Journal
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Kurtz's work is concentrated within subfields such as:

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Instrumentation
Computational Mechanics
General Health Professions
Oceanography

The main topics of their research include:

Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation
Astro and Planetary Science
Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

The scientist has authored several recent papers, notable examples are:

Asteroseismology Across the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, 2022, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
The single-sided pulsator CO Camelopardalis, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Tidally trapped pulsations in binary stars, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
On the first δ Sct-roAp hybrid pulsator and the stability of p and g modes in chemically peculiar A/F stars, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
TESS cycle 1 observations of roAp stars with 2-min cadence data, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Throughout their career, Kurtz has collaborated regularly with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

G. Handler
S. Rappaport
Daniel L. Holdsworth
Rahul Jayaraman
Hideyuki Saio

Best Publications

Kepler Asteroseismology Program: Introduction and First Results

Ronald L. Gilliland;T. M. Brown;J. Christensen-Dalsgaard;H. Kjeldsen

631
Citations
Rapidly oscillating AP stars.

D. W. Kurtz

586
Citations
Kepler Asteroseismology Program: Introduction and First Results

Ronald L. Gilliland;Timothy M. Brown;Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard;Hans Kjeldsen

532
Citations
Asteroseismology of the DOV star PG 1159 - 035 with the Whole Earth Telescope

Donald E Winget;Donald E Winget;R. E. Nather;J. C. Clemens;J. Provencal

392
Citations
Asteroseismic measurement of surface-to-core rotation in a main-sequence A star, KIC 11145123

Donald W. Kurtz;Hideyuki Saio;Masao Takata;Hiromoto Shibahashi

336
Citations
A giant planet orbiting the ‘extreme horizontal branch’ star V 391 Pegasi

R Silvotti;S Schuh;R Janulis;J.-E Solheim

327
Citations
A CLASS OF ECCENTRIC BINARIES WITH DYNAMIC TIDAL DISTORTIONS DISCOVERED WITH KEPLER

Susan E. Thompson;Susan E. Thompson;Mark Everett;Fergal Mullally;Fergal Mullally;Thomas Barclay

273
Citations
HYBRID γ DORADUS-δ SCUTI PULSATORS: NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE PHYSICS OF THE OSCILLATIONS FROM KEPLER OBSERVATIONS

A. Grigahcène;V. Antoci;L. Balona;G. Catanzaro

259
Citations
Hybrid gamma Doradus - delta Scuti pulsators: New insights into the physics of the oscillations from Kepler observations

A. Grigahcene;V. Antoci;L. Balona;G. Catanzaro

257
Citations
An algorithm for significantly reducing the time necessary to compute a Discrete Fourier Transform periodogram of unequally spaced data

D. W. Kurtz

256
Citations
Asteroseismic measurement of slow, nearly uniform surface-to-core rotation in the main-sequence F star KIC 9244992

Hideyuki Saio;Donald W. Kurtz;Masao Takata;Hiromoto Shibahashi

253
Citations
FM stars: a Fourier view of pulsating binary stars, a new technique for measuring radial velocities photometrically

Hiromoto Shibahashi;Donald W. Kurtz

221
Citations
NOMINAL VALUES FOR SELECTED SOLAR AND PLANETARY QUANTITIES: IAU 2015 RESOLUTION B3

Andrej Prša;Petr Harmanec;Guillermo Torres;Eric Mamajek

209
Citations
KOI-54: The Kepler Discovery of Tidally Excited Pulsations and Brightenings in a Highly Eccentric Binary

William F. Welsh;Jerome A. Orosz;Conny Aerts;Conny Aerts;Timothy M. Brown;Timothy M. Brown

203
Citations
New Eyes to See Inside the Sun and Stars

Franz-Ludwig Deubner;Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard;Don Kurtz

202
Citations
Does Kepler unveil the mystery of the Blazhko effect? First detection of period doubling in Kepler Blazhko RR Lyrae stars

R. Szabó;Z. Kolláth;L. Molnár;K. Kolenberg

197
Citations
LAMOST observations in the Kepler field. Database of low-resolution spectra

P. De Cat;J. N. Fu;A. B. Ren;X. H. Yang

186
Citations
Pulsating red giant stars in eccentric binary systems discovered fromKeplerspace-based photometry

P. G. Beck;K. Hambleton;J. Vos;T. Kallinger

183
Citations
KIC 4544587: an eccentric, short-period binary system with δ Sct pulsations and tidally excited modes

K. M. Hambleton;K. M. Hambleton;K. M. Hambleton;Donald Wayne Kurtz;A. Prsa;J. A. Guzik

181
Citations
Super-Nyquist Asteroseismology with the Kepler Space Telescope*

Simon J. Murphy;Hiromoto Shibahashi;Donald W. Kurtz

174
Citations