Ulrich Sperhake

Ulrich Sperhake publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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Ulrich Sperhake D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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Research.com Recognitions

• 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For important contributions to numerical studies of binary black hole systems, including leading work on recoil velocities following astrophysical mergers, and pioneering efforts exploring the highspeed collision problem of relevance to superPlanck scale physics

Best Publications

• Calibration of moving puncture simulations

  Bernd Brügmann;José A. González;José A. González;Mark Hannam;Sascha Husa

  444
  Citations

• Superradiant instabilities in astrophysical systems

  Helvi Witek;Helvi Witek;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Akihiro Ishibashi;Ulrich Sperhake

  267
  Citations

• Comment on "Kerr black holes as particle accelerators to arbitrarily high energy".

  Emanuele Berti;Emanuele Berti;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Leonardo Gualtieri;Frans Pretorius

  197
  Citations

• High-spin binary black hole mergers

  Pedro Marronetti;Wolfgang Tichy;Bernd Brügmann;Jose González;Jose González

  195
  Citations

• High-energy collision of two black holes.

  Ulrich Sperhake;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Frans Pretorius;Emanuele Berti

  194
  Citations

• Testing gravitational-wave searches with numerical relativity waveforms: Results from the first Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project

  Benjamin Aylott;John G. Baker;William D. Boggs;Michael Boyle

  189
  Citations

• Where post-Newtonian and numerical-relativity waveforms meet

  Mark Hannam;Sascha Husa;José A. González;José A. González;Ulrich Sperhake

  179
  Citations

• Exploring black hole superkicks

  Bernd Brügmann;José A. González;José A. González;Mark Hannam;Sascha Husa

  176
  Citations

• Mining information from binary black hole mergers: A Comparison of estimation methods for complex exponentials in noise

  Emanuele Berti;Vitor Cardoso;José A. González;Ulrich Sperhake

  163
  Citations

• Cross section, final spin, and zoom-whirl behavior in high-energy black-hole collisions.

  Ulrich Sperhake;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Frans Pretorius;Emanuele Berti;Emanuele Berti

  158
  Citations

• Reducing phase error in long numerical binary black hole evolutions with sixth-order finite differencing

  Sascha Husa;José A González;José A González;Mark Hannam;Bernd Brügmann

  157
  Citations

• Effective potentials and morphological transitions for binary black hole spin precession.

  Michael Kesden;Davide Gerosa;Richard O'Shaughnessy;Emanuele Berti

  138
  Citations

• Effective potentials and morphological transitions for binary black-hole spin precession

  Michael Kesden;Davide Gerosa;Richard O'Shaughnessy;Emanuele Berti

  138
  Citations

• Dynamics and gravitational wave signature of collapsar formation

  Christian David Ott;Christian Reisswig;Erik Schnetter;Evan O'Connor

  123
  Citations

• Numerical simulations of single and binary black holes in scalar-tensor theories: Circumventing the no-hair theorem

  Emanuele Berti;Emanuele Berti;Vitor Cardoso;Leonardo Gualtieri;Michael Horbatsch

  121
  Citations

• Eccentric binary black-hole mergers: The transition from inspiral to plunge in general relativity

  Ulrich Sperhake;Emanuele Berti;Emanuele Berti;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Jose A. Gonzalez;Jose A. Gonzalez

  118
  Citations

• Gravitational wave extraction in simulations of rotating stellar core collapse

  Christian Reisswig;Christian David Ott;Ulrich Sperhake;Erik Schnetter

  110
  Citations

• Black-hole binary simulations: The mass ratio 10:1

  José A. González;José A. González;Ulrich Sperhake;Ulrich Sperhake;Bernd Brügmann

  108
  Citations

• Deflection of light and particles by moving gravitational lenses

  Olaf Wucknitz;Ulrich Sperhake

  73
  Citations

• Numerical relativity for D dimensional axially symmetric space-times: Formalism and code tests

  Miguel Zilhão;Helvi Witek;Ulrich Sperhake;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso

  72
  Citations