Curt Cutler

21.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
67 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Curt Cutler is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Curt Cutler has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 18 papers in Oceanography and 14 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Curt Cutler's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (53 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (18 papers) and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (18 papers). Curt Cutler is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (53 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (18 papers) and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (18 papers). Curt Cutler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Curt Cutler's co-authors include Éanna É. Flanagan, Leor Barack, Lars Bildsten, Kip S. Thorne, Gerald Jay Sussman, Lee Lindblom, B. F. Schutz, Theocharis A. Apostolatos, Eric Poisson and G. Ushomirsky 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

Curt Cutler

65 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

Gravitational waves from merging compact binaries: How accurately can one extract the binary’s parameters from the inspiral waveform?

1994 1.1k citations Curt Cutler et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
Spin-induced orbital precession and its modulation of the gravitational waveforms from merging binaries

1994 441 citations Curt Cutler, Gerald Jay Sussman et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
LISA capture sources: Approximate waveforms, signal-to-noise ratios, and parameter estimation accuracy

2004 416 citations Leor Barack, Curt Cutler Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
Intermediate and extreme mass-ratio inspirals—astrophysics, science applications and detection using LISA

2007 356 citations Pau Amaro‐Seoane, J. R. Gair et al. profile →
The last three minutes: Issues in gravitational-wave measurements of coalescing compact binaries

1993 338 citations Curt Cutler, L. S. Finn et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Curt Cutler	6.6k	1.5k	1.1k	939	533	67	6.8k
S. Husa	7.8k 1.2×	2.1k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	830 0.9×	639 1.2×	91	8.0k
B. W. Stappers	7.2k 1.1×	2.1k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	306 0.6×	278	7.5k
M. Bailes	7.5k 1.1×	1.8k 1.2×	854 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	242 0.5×	212	7.7k
D. R. Lorimer	9.3k 1.4×	2.6k 1.8×	1.2k 1.0×	1.6k 1.7×	387 0.7×	208	9.6k
Larry Kidder	8.3k 1.3×	2.6k 1.7×	1.1k 1.0×	818 0.9×	621 1.2×	156	8.7k
J. M. Cordes	7.3k 1.1×	2.6k 1.8×	848 0.7×	966 1.0×	336 0.6×	199	7.6k
G. Hobbs	7.8k 1.2×	2.4k 1.7×	946 0.8×	1.9k 2.0×	355 0.7×	150	8.1k
I. H. Stairs	7.7k 1.2×	2.2k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.8×	327 0.6×	141	7.9k
Luc Blanchet	8.9k 1.3×	3.2k 2.2×	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	595 1.1×	120	9.1k
Mark Scheel	8.9k 1.3×	3.2k 2.2×	1.2k 1.1×	807 0.9×	624 1.2×	171	9.3k

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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.

Jennrich, O., Nora Lüetzgendorf, James Ira Thorpe, Jacob Slutsky, & Curt Cutler. (2021). Sensitivity limits of space-based interferometric gravitational wave observatories from the solar wind. Physical review. D. 104(6). 8 indexed citations

Troian, Sandra M., et al.. (2020). Robust numerical computation of the 3D scalar potential field of the cubic Galileon gravity model at solar system scales. Physical review. D. 102(2). 2 indexed citations

Cutler, Curt, Emanuele Berti, Kelly Holley‐Bockelmann, et al.. (2019). What can we learn from multi-band observations of black hole binaries?. arXiv (Cornell University). 51(3). 109. 4 indexed citations

Wong, Kaze W. K., Ely D. Kovetz, Curt Cutler, & Emanuele Berti. (2018). Expanding the LISA Horizon from the Ground. Physical Review Letters. 121(25). 251102–251102. 35 indexed citations

Lindblom, Lee & Curt Cutler. (2016). Model waveform accuracy requirements for the Allenχ2discriminator. Physical review. D. 94(12). 3 indexed citations

Schutz, B. F., Joan Centrella, Curt Cutler, & Scott A. Hughes. (2009). Will Einstein Have the Last Word on Gravity. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 2010. 265. 1 indexed citations

Cutler, Curt & D. E. Holz. (2009). Ultrahigh precision cosmology from gravitational waves. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 80(10). 151 indexed citations

Amaro‐Seoane, Pau, J. R. Gair, Marc Freitag, et al.. (2007). Astrophysics, detection and science applications of intermediate- and extreme mass-ratio inspirals. arXiv (Cornell University). 15 indexed citations

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Racine, Étienne & Curt Cutler. (2007). Gaussianity of LISA’s confusion backgrounds. ArXiv.org. 76(12). 11 indexed citations

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Arnaud, Keith A., Stanislav Babak, John G. Baker, et al.. (2006). An Overview of the Mock LISA Data Challenges. AIP conference proceedings. 873. 619–624. 30 indexed citations

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Cutler, Curt, I. Gholami, & B. Krishnan. (2005). Improved stack-slide searches for gravitational-wave pulsars. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 72(4). 57 indexed citations

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Barack, Leor & Curt Cutler. (2004). LISA capture sources: Approximate waveforms, signal-to-noise ratios, and parameter estimation accuracy. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 69(8). 416 indexed citations breakdown →

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Barack, Leor & Curt Cutler. (2004). Confusion noise from LISA capture sources. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 70(12). 91 indexed citations

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Cutler, Curt. (2003). Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars. APS. 2003.

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Link, Bennett & Curt Cutler. (2002). Vortex unpinning in precessing neutron stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 336(1). 211–216. 29 indexed citations

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Cutler, Curt. (2002). Gravitational waves from neutron stars with large toroidalBfields. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 66(8). 223 indexed citations

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Cutler, Curt & D. I. Jones. (2000). Gravitational wave damping of neutron star wobble. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 63(2). 39 indexed citations

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Cutler, Curt, Daniel Kennefick, & Eric Poisson. (1994). Gravitational radiation reaction for bound motion around a Schwarzschild black hole. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 50(6). 3816–3835. 200 indexed citations

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Cutler, Curt, L. S. Finn, Eric Poisson, & Gerald Jay Sussman. (1993). Gravitational radiation from a particle in circular orbit around a black hole. II. Numerical results for the nonrotating case. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 47(4). 1511–1518. 111 indexed citations

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