Masha Baryakhtar

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
20 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Masha Baryakhtar is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Masha Baryakhtar has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 15 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 6 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Masha Baryakhtar's work include Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (11 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (10 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (9 papers). Masha Baryakhtar is often cited by papers focused on Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (11 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (10 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (9 papers). Masha Baryakhtar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. Masha Baryakhtar's co-authors include Robert Lasenby, Asimina Arvanitaki, Xinlu Huang, M. Teo, Junwu Huang, M.D. Galanis, Sergei Dubovsky, Savas Dimopoulos, Nirmal Raj and Joseph Bramante and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

Masha Baryakhtar

20 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Discovering the QCD axion with black holes and gravitational waves

2015 356 citations Asimina Arvanitaki, Masha Baryakhtar et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
Black hole superradiance of self-interacting scalar fields

2021 154 citations Masha Baryakhtar, M.D. Galanis et al. Physical review. D profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Masha Baryakhtar United States	15	1.2k	1.2k	351	49	40	20	1.6k
Robert Lasenby United States	15	821 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	275 0.8×	33 0.7×	15 0.4×	21	1.3k
Samuel J. Witte Spain	19	981 0.8×	943 0.8×	131 0.4×	35 0.7×	27 0.7×	39	1.2k
Samuel D. McDermott United States	23	1.5k 1.2×	1.9k 1.6×	247 0.7×	74 1.5×	17 0.4×	39	2.1k
Kimberly K. Boddy United States	21	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	143 0.4×	76 1.6×	44 1.1×	40	1.6k
Céline Bœhm France	21	1.6k 1.3×	2.1k 1.8×	245 0.7×	51 1.0×	13 0.3×	55	2.3k
Haipeng An United States	23	926 0.8×	1.6k 1.3×	294 0.8×	49 1.0×	18 0.5×	53	1.7k
Naoya Kitajima Japan	18	893 0.7×	876 0.7×	151 0.4×	32 0.7×	42 1.1×	43	1.1k
Maurizio Giannotti United States	25	1.3k 1.1×	1.9k 1.6×	239 0.7×	31 0.6×	33 0.8×	66	2.1k
Josef Pradler Austria	25	1.4k 1.2×	2.2k 1.8×	409 1.2×	50 1.0×	15 0.4×	57	2.3k
D. Horns Germany	20	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	204 0.6×	31 0.6×	5 0.1×	85	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Masha Baryakhtar

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Masha Baryakhtar

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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

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

Mirasola, L., Nils Siemonsen, C. Palomba, et al.. (2025). Search for continuous gravitational wave signals from luminous dark photon superradiance clouds with LVK O3 observations. Physical review. D. 111(8). 5 indexed citations

Sun, L., et al.. (2024). Observational prospects of self-interacting scalar superradiance with next-generation gravitational-wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 42(2). 25006–25006. 9 indexed citations

Baryakhtar, Masha, et al.. (2024). Cosmology with varying fundamental constants from hyperlight, coupled scalars. Physical review. D. 110(8). 20 indexed citations

Siemonsen, Nils, et al.. (2023). Dark photon superradiance: Electrodynamics and multimessenger signals. Physical review. D. 107(7). 39 indexed citations

Aggarwal, N., M. Teo, Masha Baryakhtar, et al.. (2022). Searching for New Physics with a Levitated-Sensor-Based Gravitational-Wave Detector. Physical Review Letters. 128(11). 111101–111101. 69 indexed citations

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

Baryakhtar, Masha, Asher Berlin, Hongwan Liu, & Neal Weiner. (2022). Electromagnetic signals of inelastic dark matter scattering. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022(6). 24 indexed citations

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Baryakhtar, Masha, et al.. (2021). Black hole superradiance of self-interacting scalar fields. Physical review. D. 103(9). 154 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhu, S. J., Masha Baryakhtar, M. A. Papa, et al.. (2020). Characterizing the continuous gravitational-wave signal from boson clouds around Galactic isolated black holes. Physical review. D. 102(6). 77 indexed citations

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Baryakhtar, Masha, Junwu Huang, & Robert Lasenby. (2018). Axion and hidden photon dark matter detection with multilayer optical haloscopes. Physical review. D. 98(3). 115 indexed citations

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Baryakhtar, Masha, Joseph Bramante, Shirley Weishi Li, Tim Linden, & Nirmal Raj. (2017). Dark Kinetic Heating of Neutron Stars and an Infrared Window on WIMPs, SIMPs, and Pure Higgsinos. Physical Review Letters. 119(13). 131801–131801. 128 indexed citations

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Arvanitaki, Asimina, Masha Baryakhtar, Savas Dimopoulos, Sergei Dubovsky, & Robert Lasenby. (2017). Black hole mergers and the QCD axion at Advanced LIGO. Physical review. D. 95(4). 169 indexed citations

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Baryakhtar, Masha, Robert Lasenby, & M. Teo. (2017). Black hole superradiance signatures of ultralight vectors. Physical review. D. 96(3). 203 indexed citations

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Arvanitaki, Asimina, Masha Baryakhtar, & Xinlu Huang. (2015). Discovering the QCD axion with black holes and gravitational waves. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 91(8). 356 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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Baryakhtar, Masha, Edward Hardy, & John March-Russell. (2013). Axion mediation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2013(7). 9 indexed citations

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Baryakhtar, Masha. (2012). Graviton phenomenology of linear dilaton geometries. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 85(12). 15 indexed citations

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Xiao, Yanhong, Tun Wang, Masha Baryakhtar, et al.. (2009). Electromagnetically induced transparency with noisy lasers. Physical Review A. 80(4). 26 indexed citations

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