Niels Warburton

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Niels Warburton 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, Niels Warburton has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 18 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 3 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Niels Warburton's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (42 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (35 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (14 papers). Niels Warburton is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (42 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (35 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (14 papers). Niels Warburton collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United Kingdom and United States. Niels Warburton's co-authors include Barry Wardell, Leor Barack, Adam Pound, Scott A. Hughes, Leanne Durkan, J. Miller, Sarp Akçay, Alvin J. K. Chua, Michael L. Katz and Alexandre Le Tiec and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical review. D and Classical and Quantum Gravity.

In The Last Decade

Niels Warburton

47 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Gravitational Waveforms for Compact Binaries from Second-Order Self-Force Theory

2023 90 citations Barry Wardell, Adam Pound et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Niels Warburton Ireland	26	1.6k	598	133	102	81	48	1.7k
Barry Wardell Ireland	26	1.7k 1.1×	687 1.1×	139 1.0×	96 0.9×	109 1.3×	52	1.8k
Sylvain Marsat France	23	1.7k 1.1×	538 0.9×	104 0.8×	216 2.1×	68 0.8×	37	1.8k
Alexandre Le Tiec France	20	1.4k 0.9×	693 1.2×	101 0.8×	96 0.9×	89 1.1×	27	1.5k
J. T. Whelan United States	14	973 0.6×	212 0.4×	85 0.6×	176 1.7×	48 0.6×	47	1.0k
T. Dent Germany	17	880 0.6×	324 0.5×	33 0.2×	120 1.2×	72 0.9×	43	1.0k
Sean T. McWilliams United States	21	1.4k 0.9×	367 0.6×	114 0.9×	176 1.7×	48 0.6×	38	1.4k
Abdul Mroué United States	16	1.7k 1.1×	485 0.8×	176 1.3×	250 2.5×	51 0.6×	20	1.7k
M. Isi United States	20	1.4k 0.9×	609 1.0×	78 0.6×	146 1.4×	93 1.1×	47	1.5k
K. G. Arun India	27	2.4k 1.5×	605 1.0×	185 1.4×	381 3.7×	95 1.2×	69	2.4k
Michael Kesden United States	25	1.9k 1.2×	646 1.1×	84 0.6×	114 1.1×	63 0.8×	46	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Niels Warburton

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Chapman-Bird, C., Lorenzo Speri, Michael L. Katz, et al.. (2025). Efficient waveforms for asymmetric-mass eccentric equatorial inspirals into rapidly spinning black holes. Physical review. D. 112(10). 4 indexed citations

Kavanagh, Chris, et al.. (2025). Gravitational memory: new results from post-Newtonian and self-force theory. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 42(13). 135009–135009. 2 indexed citations

Meent, Maarten van de, et al.. (2024). Self-forced inspirals with spin-orbit precession. Physical review. D. 109(8). 11 indexed citations

Warburton, Niels, Lorenzo Speri, Chris Kavanagh, et al.. (2024). Assessing the importance of first postadiabatic terms for small-mass-ratio binaries. Physical review. D. 109(12). 28 indexed citations

Speri, Lorenzo, Michael L. Katz, Alvin J. K. Chua, et al.. (2024). Fast and Fourier: extreme mass ratio inspiral waveforms in the frequency domain. Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics. 9. 24 indexed citations

Field, Scott E., et al.. (2023). Survey of gravitational wave memory in intermediate mass ratio binaries. Physical review. D. 108(2). 9 indexed citations

Wardell, Barry, et al.. (2023). Gravitational Waveforms for Compact Binaries from Second-Order Self-Force Theory. Physical Review Letters. 130(24). 241402–241402. 90 indexed citations breakdown →

Warburton, Niels, et al.. (2023). Applying the effective-source approach to frequency-domain self-force calculations for eccentric orbits. Physical review. D. 108(8). 14 indexed citations

Macedo, Rodrigo Panosso, et al.. (2022). Hyperboloidal method for frequency-domain self-force calculations. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 24 indexed citations

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Katz, Michael L., Alvin J. K. Chua, Lorenzo Speri, Niels Warburton, & Scott A. Hughes. (2021). Fast extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral waveforms: New tools for millihertz gravitational-wave data analysis. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations

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Stein, Leo C. & Niels Warburton. (2020). Location of the last stable orbit in Kerr spacetime. Physical review. D. 101(6). 56 indexed citations

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Nagar, Alessandro, Francesco Messina, Chris Kavanagh, et al.. (2019). Factorization and resummation: A new paradigm to improve gravitational wave amplitudes. III. The spinning test-body terms. Physical review. D. 100(10). 20 indexed citations

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Heffernan, Anna, Adrian C. Ottewill, Niels Warburton, Barry Wardell, & Peter Diener. (2018). Accelerated motion and the self-force in Schwarzschild spacetime. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 35(19). 194001–194001. 10 indexed citations

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Warburton, Niels, et al.. (2017). Evolution of small-mass-ratio binaries with a spinning secondary. Physical review. D. 96(8). 44 indexed citations

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Warburton, Niels, et al.. (2016). Highly eccentric inspirals into a black hole. Physical review. D. 93(6). 54 indexed citations

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Akçay, Sarp, Alexandre Le Tiec, Leor Barack, Norichika Sago, & Niels Warburton. (2015). Comparison between self-force and post-Newtonian dynamics: Beyond circular orbits. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 91(12). 47 indexed citations

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Dolan, Sam R., Patrick Nolan, Adrian C. Ottewill, Niels Warburton, & Barry Wardell. (2015). Tidal invariants for compact binaries on quasicircular orbits. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 91(2). 54 indexed citations

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Wardell, Barry & Niels Warburton. (2015). Applying the effective-source approach to frequency-domain self-force calculations: Lorenz-gauge gravitational perturbations. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 92(8). 41 indexed citations

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Dolan, Sam R., Niels Warburton, Abraham I. Harte, et al.. (2014). Gravitational self-torque and spin precession in compact binaries. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 89(6). 75 indexed citations

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Isoyama, Soichiro, Leor Barack, Sam R. Dolan, et al.. (2014). Gravitational Self-Force Correction to the Innermost Stable Circular Equatorial Orbit of a Kerr Black Hole. Physical Review Letters. 113(16). 161101–161101. 68 indexed citations

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