Ken Van Tilburg

2.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Ken Van Tilburg is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken Van Tilburg has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 11 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Ken Van Tilburg's work include Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (14 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (6 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (5 papers). Ken Van Tilburg is often cited by papers focused on Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (14 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (6 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (5 papers). Ken Van Tilburg collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. Ken Van Tilburg's co-authors include Asimina Arvanitaki, Jesse Thaler, Junwu Huang, Savas Dimopoulos, Dmitry Budker, N. Leefer, Lykourgos Bougas, Surjeet Rajendran, M.D. Galanis and Jedidiah O. Thompson and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

Ken Van Tilburg

22 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Identifying boosted objects with N-subjettiness

2011 366 citations Jesse Thaler, Ken Van Tilburg Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
Searching for dilaton dark matter with atomic clocks

2015 272 citations Asimina Arvanitaki, Junwu Huang et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →

Peers

Ken Van Tilburg

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Masha Baryakhtar United States

Mariangela Lisanti United States

Felix Kahlhoefer Germany

Gordan Krnjaic United States

Josef Pradler Austria

Mathilde Fouché France

Samuel D. McDermott United States

Eduard Massó Spain

D. Horns Germany

Matthew R. Buckley United States

Masha Baryakhtar United States

Ken Van Tilburg

1.2k ×1.2

NHEP

1.2k ×2.3

AA

351 ×0.7

AMPO

34 ×0.3

AI

49 ×0.8

SNP

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Countries citing papers authored by Ken Van Tilburg

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ken Van Tilburg

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Tilburg, Ken Van, Masha Baryakhtar, M.D. Galanis, & Neal Weiner. (2025). Astrometry with extended-path intensity correlation. Physical review. D. 112(8). 1 indexed citations

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Galanis, M.D., Ken Van Tilburg, Masha Baryakhtar, & Neal Weiner. (2025). Extended-path intensity correlation: Microarcsecond astrometry with an arcsecond field of view. Physical review. D. 112(8). 1 indexed citations

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Tilburg, Ken Van, et al.. (2024). Astrometric weak lensing with Gaia DR3 and future catalogues: searches for dark matter substructure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 531(1). 632–648. 7 indexed citations

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Tilburg, Ken Van. (2024). Wake forces in a background of quadratically coupled mediators. Physical review. D. 109(9). 6 indexed citations

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Mingarelli, Chiara M. F., et al.. (2024). Pulsar-based map of galactic acceleration. Physical review. D. 109(12). 8 indexed citations

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Tilburg, Ken Van, et al.. (2023). Detecting dark compact objects in Gaia DR4:A data analysis pipeline for transient astrometric lensing searches. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(7). 37–37. 6 indexed citations

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Chiles, Jeff, Ilya Charaev, Robert Lasenby, et al.. (2022). New Constraints on Dark Photon Dark Matter with Superconducting Nanowire Detectors in an Optical Haloscope. Physical Review Letters. 128(23). 231802–231802. 86 indexed citations

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DeRocco, William, et al.. (2022). First Indirect Detection Constraints on Axions in the Solar Basin. Physical Review Letters. 129(10). 101101–101101. 1 indexed citations

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Lasenby, Robert & Ken Van Tilburg. (2021). Dark photons in the solar basin. Physical review. D. 104(2). 20 indexed citations

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Tilburg, Ken Van. (2021). Stellar basins of gravitationally bound particles. Physical review. D. 104(2). 28 indexed citations

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Tilburg, Ken Van, et al.. (2020). First Results on Dark Matter Substructure from Astrometric Weak Lensing. Physical Review Letters. 125(11). 111101–111101. 24 indexed citations

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Arvanitaki, Asimina, Savas Dimopoulos, M.D. Galanis, et al.. (2020). Large-misalignment mechanism for the formation of compact axion structures: Signatures from the QCD axion to fuzzy dark matter. Physical review. D. 101(8). 130 indexed citations

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Arvanitaki, Asimina, Peter W. Graham, Jason M. Hogan, Surjeet Rajendran, & Ken Van Tilburg. (2018). Search for light scalar dark matter with atomic gravitational wave detectors. Physical review. D. 97(7). 98 indexed citations

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Arvanitaki, Asimina, Savas Dimopoulos, V. Gorbenko, Junwu Huang, & Ken Van Tilburg. (2017). A small weak scale from a small cosmological constant. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2017(5). 33 indexed citations

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Arvanitaki, Asimina, Savas Dimopoulos, & Ken Van Tilburg. (2016). Sound of Dark Matter: Searching for Light Scalars with Resonant-Mass Detectors. Physical Review Letters. 116(3). 31102–31102. 92 indexed citations

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Tilburg, Ken Van, N. Leefer, Lykourgos Bougas, & Dmitry Budker. (2015). Search for Ultralight Scalar Dark Matter with Atomic Spectroscopy. Physical Review Letters. 115(1). 11802–11802. 151 indexed citations

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Graham, Peter W., et al.. (2015). Towards a Bullet-proof test for indirect signals of dark matter. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 91(10). 3 indexed citations

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Arvanitaki, Asimina, Junwu Huang, & Ken Van Tilburg. (2015). Searching for dilaton dark matter with atomic clocks. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 91(1). 272 indexed citations breakdown →

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Arvanitaki, Asimina, Masha Baryakhtar, Xinlu Huang, Ken Van Tilburg, & Giovanni Villadoro. (2014). The last vestiges of naturalness. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2014(3). 54 indexed citations

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Thaler, Jesse & Ken Van Tilburg. (2011). Identifying boosted objects with N-subjettiness. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2011(3). 366 indexed citations breakdown →

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