Brian D. Metzger

24.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
207 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

Brian D. Metzger is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian D. Metzger has authored 207 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 205 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 65 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 5 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Brian D. Metzger's work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (182 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (133 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (130 papers). Brian D. Metzger is often cited by papers focused on Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (182 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (133 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (130 papers). Brian D. Metzger collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Brian D. Metzger's co-authors include Eliot Quataert, Nicholas C. Stone, Rodrigo Fernández, Ben Margalit, Daniel Kasen, Todd A. Thompson, E. Berger, Daniel M. Siegel, Anthony L. Piro and Jennifer Barnes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Brian D. Metzger

192 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Electromagnetic counterparts of compact object mergers powered by the radioactive decay of r-process nuclei

2010 645 citations Brian D. Metzger, Eliot Quataert et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Origin of the heavy elements in binary neutron-star mergers from a gravitational-wave event

2017 619 citations Brian D. Metzger, Eliot Quataert et al. profile →
Assisted inspirals of stellar mass black holes embedded in AGN discs: solving the ‘final au problem’

2016 335 citations Nicholas C. Stone, Brian D. Metzger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Kilonovae

2019 291 citations Brian D. Metzger profile →
Signatures of magnetar central engines in short GRB light curves

2013 286 citations Brian D. Metzger, N. R. Tanvir et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Rates of stellar tidal disruption as probes of the supermassive black hole mass function

2015 243 citations Nicholas C. Stone, Brian D. Metzger Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Kilonovae

2017 240 citations Brian D. Metzger profile →
Fast radio bursts as synchrotron maser emission from decelerating relativistic blast waves

2019 229 citations Brian D. Metzger, Ben Margalit et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Suppression of Shock X-Ray Emission in Novae from Turbulent Mixing with Cool Gas 2025 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Brian D. Metzger, Lachlan Lancaster, (unknown)	0
2	Prospects for Observing Astrophysical Transients with Gigaelectronvolt Neutrinos 2025 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), Jessie Thwaites, Ke Fang, J. Vandenbroucke, Brian D. Metzger	0
3	Tidal Disruption Events through the Lens of the Cooling Envelope Model 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Nikhil Sarin, Brian D. Metzger	5
4	Many Roads Lead to Lithium: Formation Pathways For Lithium-rich Red Giants 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), Melissa Ness, Benjamin T. Montet, Matteo Cantiello, Andrew R. Casey, Sven Buder, Megan Bedell, Katelyn Breivik, Brian D. Metzger, Sarah L. Martell, (unknown)	11
5	Fragmentation in Gravitationally Unstable Collapsar Disks and Subsolar Neutron Star Mergers 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Brian D. Metzger, (unknown), Matteo Cantiello	8
6	Roaring to Softly Whispering: X-Ray Emission after ∼3.7 yr at the Location of the Transient AT2018cow and Implications for Accretion-powered Scenarios* 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Giulia Migliori, R. Margutti, Brian D. Metzger, R. Chornock, C. Vignali, Daniel Brethauer, D. L. Coppejans, Thomas J. Maccarone, L. E. Rivera Sandoval, Joe Bright, T. Laskar, D. Milisavljević, E. Berger, A. J. Nayana	8
7	Ubiquitous Late Radio Emission from Tidal Disruption Events 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Y. Cendes, E. Berger, K. D. Alexander, R. Chornock, R. Margutti, Brian D. Metzger, M. H. Wieringa, M. F. Bietenholz, A. Hajela, T. Laskar, M. C. Stroh, G. Terreran	32
8	A Radio Study of Persistent Radio Sources in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies: Implications for Fast Radio Bursts 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Yuxin 雨欣 Dong 董, Tarraneh Eftekhari, Wen‐fai Fong, Shivani Bhandari, E. Berger, O. S. Ould-Boukattine, J. W. T. Hessels, Navin Sridhar, Amy E. Reines, Ben Margalit, Jeremy Darling, Alexa C. Gordon, Jenny E. Greene, C. D. Kilpatrick, B. Marcote, Brian D. Metzger, Kenzie Nimmo, Anya E. Nugent, Z. Paragi, Peter K. G. Williams	3
9	An X-Ray Census of Fast Radio Burst Host Galaxies: Constraints on Active Galactic Nuclei and X-Ray Counterparts 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Tarraneh Eftekhari, Wen‐fai Fong, Alexa C. Gordon, Navin Sridhar, C. D. Kilpatrick, Shivani Bhandari, Adam T. Deller, Yuxin 雨欣 Dong 董, Alicia Rouco Escorial, K. E. Heintz, Joel Leja, Ben Margalit, Brian D. Metzger, Aaron B. Pearlman, J. X. Prochaska, S. D. Ryder, Paul Scholz, R. M. Shannon, Nicolás Tejos	6
10	A Unified Picture of Short and Long Gamma-Ray Bursts from Compact Binary Mergers 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Ore Gottlieb, Brian D. Metzger, Eliot Quataert, (unknown), (unknown), François Foucart, Matthew Duez, Larry Kidder, Harald Pfeiffer, Mark Scheel	42
11	The Jet Opening Angle and Event Rate Distributions of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts from Late-time X-Ray Afterglows 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Alicia Rouco Escorial, Wen‐fai Fong, E. Berger, T. Laskar, R. Margutti, Genevieve Schroeder, Jillian Rastinejad, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Anya E. Nugent, K. Paterson, Brian D. Metzger, R. Chornock, K. D. Alexander, Y. Cendes, Tarraneh Eftekhari	26
12	Evidence for Multiple Shocks from the γ-Ray Emission of RS Ophiuchi 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), Brian D. Metzger, E. Aydi, Laura Chomiuk, Indrek Vurm, (unknown), Damiano Caprioli	17
13	A Short Gamma-Ray Burst from a Protomagnetar Remnant 2022 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), C. G. Mundell, C. Guidorzi, R. J. Smith, E. Ramírez-Ruiz, Brian D. Metzger, Shiho Kobayashi, A. Gomboc, I. A. Steele, Manisha Shrestha, M. Marongiu, A. Rossi, Barry Rothberg	12
14	Reconstructing Masses of Merging Neutron Stars from Stellar r-process Abundance Signatures 2021 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Erika M. Holmbeck, Anna Frebel, G. C. McLaughlin, Rebecca Surman, Rodrigo Fernández, Brian D. Metzger, Matthew R. Mumpower, T. M. Sprouse	12
15	Probing Kilonova Ejecta Properties Using a Catalog of Short Gamma-Ray Burst Observations 2021 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Jillian Rastinejad, Wen‐fai Fong, C. D. Kilpatrick, K. Paterson, N. R. Tanvir, A. J. Levan, Brian D. Metzger, E. Berger, R. Chornock, B. E. Cobb, T. Laskar, Peter Milne, Anya E. Nugent, Nathan Smith	27
16	Periodic Fast Radio Bursts from Luminous X-ray Binaries 2021 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Navin Sridhar, Brian D. Metzger, Paz Beniamini, Ben Margalit, Mathieu Renzo, Lorenzo Sironi, Konstantinos Kovlakas	58
17	Nuclear burning in collapsar accretion discs 2020 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Yossef Zenati, Daniel M. Siegel, Brian D. Metzger, Hagai B. Perets	22
18	Electromagnetic transients and gravitational waves from white dwarf disruptions by stellar black holes in triple systems 2020 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Giacomo Fragione, Brian D. Metzger, Rosalba Perna, Nathan W. C. Leigh, Bence Kocsis	8
19	An Empirical Study of Contamination in Deep, Rapid, and Wide-field Optical Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Events 2018 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·P. S. Cowperthwaite, E. Berger, A. Rest, R. Chornock, D. Scolnic, Peter K. G. Williams, Wen‐fai Fong, M. R. Drout, R. J. Foley, R. Margutti, R. Lunnan, Brian D. Metzger, Eliot Quataert	4
20	Magnetism, X-rays and accretion rates in WD 1145+017 and other polluted white dwarf systems 2017 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Jay Farihi, L. Fossati, P. J. Wheatley, Brian D. Metzger, Jon C. Mauerhan, (unknown), B. T. Gänsicke, Seth Redfield, P. Wilson Cauley, (unknown), N. Achilleos, Nicholas C. Stone	32

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