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Overview

Luciano Rezzolla is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany and has an extensive publication record in the fields of Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans 316 publications with a strong focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics, evidenced by 251 works within this subfield. Other subfields include Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Oceanography, Geophysics, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's main research topics include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research.

Recent notable papers reflect a diverse and active research profile. These include:

  • Constraints on black-hole charges with the 2017 EHT observations of M87*, 2021, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • On the Sound Speed in Neutron Stars, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Postmerger Gravitational-Wave Signatures of Phase Transitions in Binary Mergers, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • A lower bound on the maximum mass if the secondary in GW190814 was once a rapidly spinning neutron star, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters
  • How to tell an accreting boson star from a black hole, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Christian M. Fromm, Alejandro Cruz-Osorio, Samuel D. Tootle, Christian Ecker, and Yosuke Mizuno, highlighting a network of closely associated co-authors contributing to various aspects of astrophysical research.

Rezzolla's work is regularly published in several prominent venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • The Astrophysical Journal

In addition to scientific articles, Luciano Rezzolla has contributed to academic literature through a book titled The Irresistible Attraction of Gravity, published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.

Best Publications

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • The Einstein Telescope: a third-generation gravitational wave observatory

    M. Punturo;M. Abernathy;F. Acernese;B. Allen

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Imaging the Central Supermassive Black Hole

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI. The Shadow and Mass of the Central Black Hole

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Physical Origin of the Asymmetric Ring

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. Array and Instrumentation

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. III. Data Processing and Calibration

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • New Constraints on Radii and Tidal Deformabilities of Neutron Stars from GW170817.

    Elias R. Most;Lukas R. Weih;Luciano Rezzolla;Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

  • Relativistic Hydrodynamics

    Olindo Zanotti;Luciano Rezzolla

  • The third generation of gravitational wave observatories and their science reach

    M. Punturo;M. Abernathy;F. Acernese;B. Allen

  • Using Gravitational-wave Observations and Quasi-universal Relations to Constrain the Maximum Mass of Neutron Stars

    Luciano Rezzolla;Elias R. Most;Lukas R. Weih

  • Binary Neutron Star Mergers: A Review of Einstein's Richest Laboratory

    Luca Baiotti;Luciano Rezzolla

  • Template bank for gravitational waveforms from coalescing binary black holes: Nonspinning binaries

    P. Ajith;S. Babak;Y. Chen;M. Hewitson

  • The missing link: Merging neutron stars naturally produce jet-like structures and can power short gamma-ray bursts

    Luciano Rezzolla;Bruno Giacomazzo;Bruno Giacomazzo;Luca Baiotti;Jonathan Granot

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VIII. Magnetic Field Structure near the Event Horizon

    Kazunori Akiyama;Kazunori Akiyama;Kazunori Akiyama;Juan Carlos Algaba;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • Computations of primordial black-hole formation

    Ilia Musco;John C Miller;John C Miller;Luciano Rezzolla;Luciano Rezzolla

  • Dynamical Mass Ejection from Binary Neutron Star Mergers

    David Radice;Filippo Galeazzi;Jonas Lippuner;Luke F. Roberts

  • Fast radio bursts: the last sign of supramassive neutron stars

    Heino Falcke;Luciano Rezzolla

  • Signatures of Quark-Hadron Phase Transitions in General-Relativistic Neutron-Star Mergers.

    Elias R. Most;L. Jens Papenfort;Veronica Dexheimer;Matthias Hanauske

  • Accurate evolutions of inspiralling neutron-star binaries: Prompt and delayed collapse to a black hole

    Luca Baiotti;Luca Baiotti;Bruno Giacomazzo;Luciano Rezzolla;Luciano Rezzolla;Luciano Rezzolla

Frequent Co-Authors

Remo P. J. Tilanus
Remo P. J. Tilanus University of Arizona
Heino Falcke
Heino Falcke Radboud University
Michael Kramer
Michael Kramer Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Eduardo Ros
Eduardo Ros Max Planck Society
Ramesh Narayan
Ramesh Narayan Harvard University
James M. Moran
James M. Moran Harvard University
David J. James
David J. James Smithsonian Institution
Ue-Li Pen
Ue-Li Pen University of Toronto
José A. Font
José A. Font University of Valencia
Mark Hannam
Mark Hannam Cardiff University

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