A. Nitz

72.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
55 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

A. Nitz is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Nitz has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 10 papers in Geophysics and 5 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in A. Nitz's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (54 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (37 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (21 papers). A. Nitz is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (54 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (37 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (21 papers). A. Nitz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. A. Nitz's co-authors include D. Brown, C. D. Capano, Yifan Wang, I. W. Harry, T. Dal Canton, M. Cabero, T. Dent, Marlin B. Schäfer, B. Krishnan and A. P. Lundgren and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

A. Nitz

51 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

PyCBC Inference: A Python-based Parameter Estimation Toolkit for Compact Binary Coalescence Signals

2019 183 citations C. D. Capano, D. DeBra et al. profile →
3-OGC: Catalog of Gravitational Waves from Compact-binary Mergers

2021 136 citations A. Nitz, C. D. Capano et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
4-OGC: Catalog of Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Mergers

2023 131 citations A. Nitz, S. Kumar et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
A. Nitz	2.0k	383	356	253	111	55	2.0k
S. Babak	1.9k 1.0×	221 0.6×	482 1.4×	220 0.9×	68 0.6×	37	2.0k
M. A. Papa	1.1k 0.6×	310 0.8×	225 0.6×	317 1.3×	109 1.0×	66	1.2k
V. Raymond	2.0k 1.0×	430 1.1×	322 0.9×	385 1.5×	75 0.7×	35	2.0k
R. C. Essick	1.4k 0.7×	362 0.9×	251 0.7×	300 1.2×	61 0.5×	35	1.4k
Ian Hinder	2.7k 1.4×	351 0.9×	885 2.5×	200 0.8×	47 0.4×	34	2.8k
Sylvain Marsat	1.7k 0.9×	216 0.6×	538 1.5×	182 0.7×	40 0.4×	37	1.8k
A. Królak	1.6k 0.8×	322 0.8×	523 1.5×	280 1.1×	95 0.9×	57	1.7k
A. Bohé	3.2k 1.6×	581 1.5×	822 2.3×	441 1.7×	86 0.8×	27	3.3k
C. D. Capano	1.2k 0.6×	207 0.5×	307 0.9×	112 0.4×	47 0.4×	36	1.2k
A. Vecchio	2.9k 1.5×	392 1.0×	453 1.3×	476 1.9×	126 1.1×	86	3.0k

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Wang, Yifan, C. D. Capano, Jahed Abedi, et al.. (2025). Gating-and-inpainting perspective on GW150914 ringdown overtone: Understanding the data analysis systematics. Physical review. D. 112(8).

Wang, Yifan & A. Nitz. (2025). Search for Gravitational Waves from Eccentric Binary Black Holes with an Effective-one-body Template. The Astrophysical Journal. 993(2). 215–215. 1 indexed citations

Kumar, S., A. Nitz, & Xisco Jiménez Forteza. (2025). Parameter Estimation with Nonstationary Noise in Gravitational-wave Data. The Astrophysical Journal. 982(2). 67–67. 3 indexed citations

Jani, K., et al.. (2025). A Tale of Two Black Holes: Multiband Gravitational-wave Measurement of Recoil Kicks. The Astrophysical Journal. 983(1). 27–27.

Somasundaram, Rahul, et al.. (2024). Measuring neutron star radius with second and third generation gravitational wave detector networks. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 41(22). 225003–225003. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Yifan & A. Nitz. (2024). Targeted search for gravitational waves from highly spinning light compact binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(3). 3891–3896. 3 indexed citations

Nitz, A., Shichao Wu, Rahul Dhurkunde, et al.. (2024). Efficient Stochastic Template Bank Using Inner Product Inequalities. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(2). 212–212. 7 indexed citations

Capano, C. D., M. Cabero, J. Westerweck, et al.. (2023). Multimode Quasinormal Spectrum from a Perturbed Black Hole. Physical Review Letters. 131(22). 221402–221402. 49 indexed citations

Abedi, Jahed, C. D. Capano, Shilpa Kastha, et al.. (2023). Spectroscopy for asymmetric binary black hole mergers. Physical review. D. 108(10). 11 indexed citations

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Weaving, C. R., L. K. Nuttall, I. W. Harry, Shichao Wu, & A. Nitz. (2023). Adapting the PyCBC pipeline to find and infer the properties of gravitational waves from massive black hole binaries in LISA. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 41(2). 25006–25006. 11 indexed citations

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Wu, Shichao & A. Nitz. (2023). Mock data study for next-generation ground-based detectors: The performance loss of matched filtering due to correlated confusion noise. Physical review. D. 107(6). 20 indexed citations

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Dhurkunde, Rahul, H. Fehrmann, & A. Nitz. (2022). Hierarchical approach to matched filtering using a reduced basis. Physical review. D. 105(10). 8 indexed citations

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Lenon, A., D. Brown, & A. Nitz. (2021). Eccentric binary neutron star search prospects for Cosmic Explorer. Physical review. D. 104(6). 19 indexed citations

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Canton, T. Dal, A. Nitz, B. U. Gadre, et al.. (2021). Real-time Search for Compact Binary Mergers in Advanced LIGO and Virgo's Third Observing Run Using PyCBC Live. The Astrophysical Journal. 923(2). 254–254. 46 indexed citations

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Nitz, A. & Yifan Wang. (2021). Search for Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of Subsolar-Mass Binaries in the First Half of Advanced LIGO and Virgo’s Third Observing Run. Physical Review Letters. 127(15). 151101–151101. 36 indexed citations

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Nitz, A. & Yifan Wang. (2021). Search for Gravitational Waves from High-Mass-Ratio Compact-Binary Mergers of Stellar Mass and Subsolar Mass Black Holes. Physical Review Letters. 126(2). 21103–21103. 28 indexed citations

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Wang, Yifan & A. Nitz. (2021). Prospects for Detecting Gravitational Waves from Eccentric Subsolar Mass Compact Binaries. The Astrophysical Journal. 912(1). 53–53. 17 indexed citations

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Nitz, A., C. D. Capano, Alex B. Nielsen, et al.. (2019). 1-OGC: The First Open Gravitational-wave Catalog of Binary Mergers from Analysis of Public Advanced LIGO Data. The Astrophysical Journal. 872(2). 195–195. 137 indexed citations

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DeBra, D., et al.. (2019). Posterior samples of the parameters of binary black holes from Advanced LIGO, Virgo’s second observing run. Scientific Data. 6(1). 81–81. 5 indexed citations

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Nitz, A.. (2017). Distinguishing short duration noise transients in LIGO data to improve the PyCBC search for gravitational waves from high mass binary black hole mergers. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 35(3). 35016–35016. 59 indexed citations

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