Abbas Askar

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Abbas Askar is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Abbas Askar has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 11 papers in Instrumentation and 4 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Abbas Askar's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (31 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (26 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (18 papers). Abbas Askar is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (31 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (26 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (18 papers). Abbas Askar collaborates with scholars based in Poland, Sweden and Germany. Abbas Askar's co-authors include Mirek Giersz, Arkadiusz Hypki, T. Bulik, Manuel Arca Sedda, Magdalena Szkudlarek, D. Rosińska, Nathan W. C. Leigh, Diogo Belloni, Rainer Spurzem and Nora Lützgendorf and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

In The Last Decade

Abbas Askar

44 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

MOCCA-SURVEY Database – I. Coalescing binary black holes originating from globular clusters

2016 238 citations Abbas Askar, Mirek Giersz et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Abbas Askar Poland	19	1.5k	289	93	57	29	50	1.6k
Philip Rosenfield United States	15	1.7k 1.1×	834 2.9×	82 0.9×	58 1.0×	55 1.9×	22	1.8k
A. Palacios France	22	1.7k 1.1×	534 1.8×	112 1.2×	38 0.7×	27 0.9×	51	1.7k
Eduardo Telles Brazil	18	905 0.6×	283 1.0×	98 1.1×	28 0.5×	13 0.4×	49	920
Håkon Dahle Norway	19	937 0.6×	385 1.3×	141 1.5×	75 1.3×	14 0.5×	45	959
Georges Meylan United States	12	1.0k 0.7×	428 1.5×	62 0.7×	45 0.8×	15 0.5×	21	1.0k
Shoko Sakai United States	18	1.1k 0.7×	320 1.1×	148 1.6×	65 1.1×	10 0.3×	36	1.1k
Evan B. Bauer United States	12	1.6k 1.0×	383 1.3×	127 1.4×	34 0.6×	92 3.2×	25	1.6k
C. Moni Bidin Chile	20	1.1k 0.7×	578 2.0×	119 1.3×	45 0.8×	16 0.6×	72	1.1k
B. Klein United States	12	1.0k 0.7×	190 0.7×	164 1.8×	62 1.1×	69 2.4×	22	1.1k
A. M. Cool United States	18	1.0k 0.7×	344 1.2×	90 1.0×	39 0.7×	72 2.5×	39	1.1k

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Wiktorowicz, Grzegorz, et al.. (2025). Ultraluminous X-ray sources in Globular Clusters. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 696. A90–A90. 1 indexed citations

Pang, Xiaoying, M. B. N. Kouwenhoven, Rainer Spurzem, et al.. (2025). Evolution of star clusters with initial bulk rotation via N-body simulations. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 699. A196–A196.

Giersz, Mirek, Abbas Askar, Arkadiusz Hypki, et al.. (2025). Formation channels of gravitationally resolvable double white dwarf binaries inside globular clusters. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 702. A131–A131.

Askar, Abbas, Rainer Spurzem, Manuel Arca Sedda, et al.. (2025). Rapid formation of a very massive star (>50000 M _⊙ ), and subsequently, of an IMBH, from runaway collisions. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 704. A321–A321.

Askar, Abbas, et al.. (2025). Multiple stellar populations in MOCCA globular cluster models: Transient spatial overconcentration of pristine red giant stars driven by strong dynamical encounters. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 698. L11–L11. 1 indexed citations

Askar, Abbas, et al.. (2025). MOCCA: Effects of pristine gas accretion and cluster migration on globular cluster evolution, global parameters, and multiple stellar populations. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 699. A76–A76. 3 indexed citations

Giersz, Mirek, et al.. (2024). Double white dwarf binary population in MOCCA star clusters. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 690. A112–A112. 1 indexed citations

Hypki, Arkadiusz, et al.. (2024). MOCCA: Global properties of tidally filling and underfilling globular star clusters with multiple stellar populations. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 693. A41–A41. 5 indexed citations

Vesperini, Enrico, Abbas Askar, Andrea Bellini, et al.. (2024). Energy equipartition in multiple-population globular clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534(3). 2397–2409. 7 indexed citations

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Giersz, Mirek, et al.. (2023). MOCCA-Survey Database: extra galactic globular clusters – III. The population of black holes in Milky Way and Andromeda-like galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(2). 2593–2610. 3 indexed citations

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Giersz, Mirek, et al.. (2022). MOCCA-survey data base: extra galactic globular clusters – II. Milky Way and Andromeda. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 514(4). 5751–5766. 6 indexed citations

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Hypki, Arkadiusz, et al.. (2022). mocca: dynamics and evolution of single and binary stars of multiple stellar populations in tidally filling and underfilling globular star clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 517(4). 4768–4787. 15 indexed citations

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Singh, N., T. Bulik, Krzysztof Belczyński, & Abbas Askar. (2022). Exploring compact binary populations with the Einstein Telescope. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 667. A2–A2. 15 indexed citations

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Mastrobuono-Battisti, A., et al.. (2021). Using binaries in globular clusters to catch sight of intermediate-mass black holes. Research Padua Archive (University of Padua). 8 indexed citations

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Spurzem, Rainer, Abbas Askar, Sambaran Banerjee, et al.. (2021). Preparing the next gravitational million-body simulations: evolution of single and binary stars in nbody6++gpu , mocca , and mcluster . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 511(3). 4060–4089. 46 indexed citations

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Askar, Abbas, M. B. Davies, & Ross P. Church. (2021). Formation of supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei – I. Delivering seed intermediate-mass black holes in massive stellar clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 502(2). 2682–2700. 23 indexed citations

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Giersz, Mirek, et al.. (2019). MOCCA-SURVEY Database I: Dissolution of tidally filling star clusters harboring black hole subsystem. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 14(S351). 438–441. 1 indexed citations

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Askar, Abbas, et al.. (2019). Stellar-mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters: Dynamical consequences and observational signatures. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 14(S351). 395–399. 2 indexed citations

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Belczyński, Krzysztof, Abbas Askar, Manuel Arca Sedda, et al.. (2018). The origin of the first neutron star – neutron star merger. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 615. A91–A91. 72 indexed citations

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Belczynski, K., Jakub Klencki, G. Meynet, et al.. (2017). The origin of low spin of black holes in LIGO/Virgo mergers. arXiv (Cornell University). 45 indexed citations

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