E. Berger

31.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
272 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

E. Berger is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, E. Berger has authored 272 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 262 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 56 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 53 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in E. Berger's work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (236 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (85 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (79 papers). E. Berger is often cited by papers focused on Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (236 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (85 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (79 papers). E. Berger collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. E. Berger's co-authors include S. R. Kulkarni, D. A. Frail, Brian D. Metzger, R. Margutti, Peter K. G. Williams, Wen‐fai Fong, B. A. Zauderer, Ben Margalit, R. Chornock and M. Nicholl and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

E. Berger

248 papers receiving 6.7k 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.

Beaming in Gamma-Ray Bursts: Evidence for a Standard Energy Reservoir

2001 613 citations J. S. Bloom, E. Berger et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Tidal Deformabilities and Radii of Neutron Stars from the Observation of GW170817

2018 442 citations E. Berger et al. profile →
A DECADE OF SHORT-DURATION GAMMA-RAY BURST BROADBAND AFTERGLOWS: ENERGETICS, CIRCUMBURST DENSITIES, AND JET OPENING ANGLES

2015 287 citations Wen‐fai Fong, E. Berger et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
E. Berger	7.0k	2.0k	407	285	160	272	7.2k
N. Gehrels	8.1k 1.2×	2.7k 1.3×	731 1.8×	300 1.1×	55 0.3×	201	8.4k
Brian D. Metzger	10.5k 1.5×	3.4k 1.7×	302 0.7×	615 2.2×	217 1.4×	207	10.9k
Daniel Kasen	6.2k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	325 0.8×	216 0.8×	99 0.6×	100	6.5k
S. B. Cenko	6.2k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	481 1.2×	82 0.3×	64 0.4×	266	6.3k
Zi-Gao Dai	4.7k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	189 0.5×	249 0.9×	95 0.6×	254	5.0k
A. S. Fruchter	5.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.2k 2.9×	237 0.8×	171 1.1×	140	5.7k
Krzysztof Belczyński	7.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	530 1.3×	389 1.4×	207 1.3×	140	7.4k
R. Chornock	9.0k 1.3×	4.4k 2.2×	577 1.4×	58 0.2×	246 1.5×	157	9.1k
Todd A. Thompson	7.2k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	940 2.3×	151 0.5×	67 0.4×	177	7.6k
J. P. Halpern	6.4k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	315 0.8×	721 2.5×	195 1.2×	221	6.5k

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Kumar, Harsh, E. Berger, P. K. Blanchard, et al.. (2025). A Near-infrared Search for Helium in the Superluminous Supernova SN 2024ahr. The Astrophysical Journal. 987(2). 127–127. 1 indexed citations

Migliori, Giulia, R. Margutti, Brian D. Metzger, et al.. (2024). Roaring to Softly Whispering: X-Ray Emission after ∼3.7 yr at the Location of the Transient AT2018cow and Implications for Accretion-powered Scenarios*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 963(1). L24–L24. 8 indexed citations

董, Yuxin 雨欣 Dong, Tarraneh Eftekhari, Wen‐fai Fong, et al.. (2024). A Radio Study of Persistent Radio Sources in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies: Implications for Fast Radio Bursts. The Astrophysical Journal. 973(2). 133–133. 3 indexed citations

Cendes, Y., E. Berger, K. D. Alexander, et al.. (2024). Ubiquitous Late Radio Emission from Tidal Disruption Events. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(2). 185–185. 32 indexed citations

Eftekhari, Tarraneh, Alexander Tchekhovskoy, K. D. Alexander, et al.. (2024). Late-time X-Ray Observations of the Jetted Tidal Disruption Event AT2022cmc: The Relativistic Jet Shuts Off. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(2). 149–149. 5 indexed citations

Laskar, T., P. Groot, Rodolfo Barniol Duran, et al.. (2024). A Millimeter Rebrightening in GRB 210702A. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(2). 279–279. 1 indexed citations

Escorial, Alicia Rouco, Wen‐fai Fong, E. Berger, et al.. (2023). The Jet Opening Angle and Event Rate Distributions of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts from Late-time X-Ray Afterglows. The Astrophysical Journal. 959(1). 13–13. 26 indexed citations

Margutti, R., D. L. Coppejans, Katie Auchettl, et al.. (2023). The Luminosity Phase Space of Galactic and Extragalactic X-Ray Transients Out to Intermediate Redshifts. The Astrophysical Journal. 959(2). 75–75. 3 indexed citations

Laskar, T., Alicia Rouco Escorial, Genevieve Schroeder, et al.. (2022). The First Short GRB Millimeter Afterglow: The Wide-angled Jet of the Extremely Energetic SGRB 211106A. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 935(1). L11–L11. 16 indexed citations

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Kilpatrick, C. D., Wen‐fai Fong, P. K. Blanchard, et al.. (2022). Hubble Space Telescope Observations of GW170817: Complete Light Curves and the Properties of the Galaxy Merger of NGC 4993. The Astrophysical Journal. 926(1). 49–49. 15 indexed citations

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Nugent, Anya E., Wen‐fai Fong, Yuxin 雨欣 Dong 董, et al.. (2022). Short GRB Host Galaxies. II. A Legacy Sample of Redshifts, Stellar Population Properties, and Implications for Their Neutron Star Merger Origins. The Astrophysical Journal. 940(1). 57–57. 46 indexed citations

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Blanchard, P. K., E. Berger, M. Nicholl, et al.. (2021). . arXiv (Cornell University). 7 indexed citations

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Rastinejad, Jillian, Wen‐fai Fong, C. D. Kilpatrick, et al.. (2021). Probing Kilonova Ejecta Properties Using a Catalog of Short Gamma-Ray Burst Observations. The Astrophysical Journal. 916(2). 89–89. 27 indexed citations

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Alexander, K. D., Genevieve Schroeder, K. Paterson, et al.. (2021). A Late-time Galaxy-targeted Search for the Radio Counterpart of GW190814. The Astrophysical Journal. 923(1). 66–66. 22 indexed citations

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Hajela, A., R. Margutti, Adithan Kathirgamaraju, et al.. (2020). X-Ray Emission from GW170817 ∼2.5 years After the Merger. Research Notes of the AAS. 4(5). 68–68. 5 indexed citations

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Chrimes, A A, A. J. Levan, E. R. Stanway, et al.. (2019). The case for a high-redshift origin of GRB 100205A. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(1). 902–909. 3 indexed citations

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Cowperthwaite, P. S., E. Berger, A. Rest, et al.. (2018). An Empirical Study of Contamination in Deep, Rapid, and Wide-field Optical Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Events. The Astrophysical Journal. 858(1). 18–18. 4 indexed citations

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Forbrich, Jan, Trent J. Dupuy, M. J. Reid, et al.. (2016). HIGH-PRECISION RADIO AND INFRARED ASTROMETRY OF LSPM J1314+1320AB. I. PARALLAX, PROPER MOTIONS, AND LIMITS ON PLANETS. The Astrophysical Journal. 827(1). 22–22. 10 indexed citations

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Fong, Wen‐fai, E. Berger, R. Margutti, & B. A. Zauderer. (2015). A DECADE OF SHORT-DURATION GAMMA-RAY BURST BROADBAND AFTERGLOWS: ENERGETICS, CIRCUMBURST DENSITIES, AND JET OPENING ANGLES. The Astrophysical Journal. 815(2). 102–102. 287 indexed citations breakdown →

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Laskar, T., E. Berger, R. Margutti, et al.. (2015). ENERGY INJECTION IN GAMMA-RAY BURST AFTERGLOWS. The Astrophysical Journal. 814(1). 1–1. 45 indexed citations

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