Asaf Pe’er

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Asaf Pe’er is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Asaf Pe’er has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 41 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 6 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Asaf Pe’er's work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (65 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (39 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (36 papers). Asaf Pe’er is often cited by papers focused on Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (65 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (39 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (36 papers). Asaf Pe’er collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Sweden. Asaf Pe’er's co-authors include F. Ryde, Jun Ye, Svetlana Kotochigova, Paul S. Julienne, Kang-Kuen Ni, Brian Neyenhuis, J. J. Zirbel, D. S. Jin, Silke Ospelkaus and M. H. G. de Miranda and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Asaf Pe’er

73 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A High Phase-Space-Density Gas of Polar Molecules

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Asaf Pe’er United States	24	1.8k	1.4k	933	206	191	84	3.2k
Aurélien Hees France	27	1.1k 0.6×	680 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	30 0.1×	85 0.4×	85	2.0k
S. J. Asztalos United States	21	697 0.4×	774 0.6×	1.7k 1.8×	84 0.4×	58 0.3×	61	1.9k
Asimina Arvanitaki United States	24	2.8k 1.5×	1.0k 0.7×	3.2k 3.5×	88 0.4×	9 0.0×	31	4.1k
M. Landini Italy	17	1.6k 0.9×	542 0.4×	85 0.1×	26 0.1×	76 0.4×	76	2.0k
Ariel Zhitnitsky Canada	34	2.0k 1.1×	868 0.6×	3.9k 4.1×	183 0.9×	9 0.0×	146	4.3k
Michael McNeil Forbes United States	21	312 0.2×	879 0.6×	416 0.4×	315 1.5×	48 0.3×	32	1.3k
Sergei Khlebnikov United States	21	1.2k 0.7×	539 0.4×	1.3k 1.4×	236 1.1×	13 0.1×	76	2.1k
Armen Sedrakian Germany	35	3.0k 1.6×	1.4k 1.0×	1.6k 1.7×	319 1.5×	21 0.1×	140	4.0k
Stefano Profumo United States	45	4.1k 2.3×	329 0.2×	5.5k 5.9×	22 0.1×	18 0.1×	180	5.9k
J. Trân Thanh Vân France	29	420 0.2×	223 0.2×	2.6k 2.8×	60 0.3×	46 0.2×	127	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Asaf Pe’er

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Asaf Pe’er

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Pe’er, Asaf, et al.. (2025). A parametric study of population inversions in relativistic plasmas through non-resonant interactions with Alfvén waves and their applications to fast radio bursts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 538(2). 1029–1045.

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Bégué, Damien, et al.. (2025). Radiative Cooling Changes the Dynamics of Magnetically Arrested Disks. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 981(1). L11–L11.

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Sahakyan, N., Damien Bégué, P. Giommi, et al.. (2024). Modeling Blazar Broadband Emission with Convolutional Neural Networks. II. External Compton Model. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(1). 70–70. 7 indexed citations

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Pe’er, Asaf. (2024). Gamma-Ray Bursts: What Do We Know Today That We Did Not Know 10 Years Ago?. Galaxies. 13(1). 2–2. 1 indexed citations

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Bret, Antoine & Asaf Pe’er. (2024). On the Width of a Collisionless Shock and the Index of the Cosmic Rays It Accelerates. The Astrophysical Journal. 968(2). 100–100. 1 indexed citations

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Vyas, Mukesh Kumar, et al.. (2024). Unified Theory of Negative and Positive Spectral Lags in the Gamma-Ray Burst Prompt Phase due to Shear Comptonization from a Structured Jet. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 975(2). L29–L29. 1 indexed citations

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Pe’er, Asaf. (2023). Theory of plateau phase in Gamma-Ray Bursts. 3141–3149.

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Vyas, Mukesh Kumar & Asaf Pe’er. (2023). Photons’ Scattering in Relativistic Plasma with Velocity Shear: Generation of High Energy Power-law Spectra. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 943(1). L3–L3. 5 indexed citations

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Vyas, Mukesh Kumar, Asaf Pe’er, & David Eichler. (2023). GRB prompt phase spectra under backscattering dominated model. 3101–3106.

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Bégué, Damien, et al.. (2023). Hybrid Emission Modeling of GRB 221009A: Shedding Light on TeV Emission Origins in Long GRBs. The Astrophysical Journal. 956(1). 12–12. 10 indexed citations

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Gompertz, B. P., M. E. Ravasio, M. Nicholl, et al.. (2022). The case for a minute-long merger-driven gamma-ray burst from fast-cooling synchrotron emission. Nature Astronomy. 7(1). 67–79. 63 indexed citations

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Wallace, John & Asaf Pe’er. (2021). An Observational Signature of Sub-equipartition Magnetic Fields in the Spectra of Black Hole Binaries. The Astrophysical Journal. 916(2). 63–63. 2 indexed citations

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Bégué, Damien, et al.. (2021). The problematic connection between low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2021). 467–467. 2 indexed citations

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Kangas, T., A. S. Fruchter, S. B. Cenko, et al.. (2020). The Late-time Afterglow Evolution of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts GRB 160625B and GRB 160509A. The Astrophysical Journal. 894(1). 43–43. 16 indexed citations

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Pe’er, Asaf, et al.. (2018). Observational Signatures of Mass-loading in Jets Launched by Rotating Black Holes. The Astrophysical Journal. 853(1). 44–44. 7 indexed citations

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Pe’er, Asaf, et al.. (2017). Blazar Variability from Turbulence in Jets Launched by Magnetically Arrested Accretion Flows. The Astrophysical Journal. 843(2). 81–81. 13 indexed citations

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Pe’er, Asaf, et al.. (2016). Effects of spin on high-energy radiation from accreting black holes. Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology). 5 indexed citations

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Levan, A. J., A. S. Fruchter, N. R. Tanvir, et al.. (2013). GRB 130427A / SN 2013cq: Hubble space telescope observations.. GRB Coordinates Network. 14686. 1. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Bing & Asaf Pe’er. (2009). Evidence of a non-baryonic composition in GRB 080916C. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Graham, J. F., A. S. Fruchter, A. J. Levan, et al.. (2007). GRB 070714B: host galaxy spectroscopic redshift.. GRB Coordinates Network. 6836. 1. 1 indexed citations

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