Nils L. Vu

852 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 435 citations indexed

About

Nils L. Vu is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nils L. Vu has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 435 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 10 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 6 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Nils L. Vu's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (20 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (11 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (9 papers). Nils L. Vu is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (20 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (11 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (9 papers). Nils L. Vu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Nils L. Vu's co-authors include Nils Deppe, William Throwe, Jordan Moxon, Larry Kidder, Mark Scheel, Keefe Mitman, François Hébert, Saul A. Teukolsky, Sizheng Ma and Leo C. Stein and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical review. D and Classical and Quantum Gravity.

In The Last Decade

Nils L. Vu

23 papers receiving 413 citations

Hit Papers

Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 25 50 75 100
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.

  1. Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns
    2023 118 citations Keefe Mitman, Macarena Lagos et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nils L. Vu United States 11 378 190 34 24 23 24 435
Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung United States 10 538 1.4× 296 1.6× 27 0.8× 48 2.0× 53 2.3× 13 598
Roman Gold Germany 13 565 1.5× 242 1.3× 66 1.9× 20 0.8× 15 0.7× 21 605
William Throwe United States 15 602 1.6× 270 1.4× 73 2.1× 29 1.2× 33 1.4× 28 682
Sebastian H. Völkel Germany 13 339 0.9× 191 1.0× 31 0.9× 36 1.5× 31 1.3× 26 372
Keefe Mitman United States 12 463 1.2× 219 1.2× 62 1.8× 25 1.0× 26 1.1× 20 533
Xi-Long Fan China 12 707 1.9× 129 0.7× 51 1.5× 21 0.9× 32 1.4× 59 740
Sizheng Ma United States 15 530 1.4× 208 1.1× 63 1.9× 22 0.9× 27 1.2× 24 575
V. Gayathri United States 12 638 1.7× 106 0.6× 79 2.3× 15 0.6× 20 0.9× 26 662
P. B. Cameron United States 11 522 1.4× 183 1.0× 33 1.0× 12 0.5× 45 2.0× 18 539
Kuantay Boshkayev Kazakhstan 16 548 1.4× 320 1.7× 18 0.5× 51 2.1× 18 0.8× 59 580

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nils L. Vu

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mitman, Keefe, Harrison Siegel, Mark A. Scheel, et al.. (2025). Probing the ringdown perturbation in binary black hole coalescences with an improved quasinormal mode extraction algorithm. Physical review. D. 112(6). 5 indexed citations
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Pfeiffer, Harald, et al.. (2025). Quasistationary hair for binary black hole initial data in scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Physical review. D. 111(2). 1 indexed citations
3.
Cook, Gregory B., Larry Kidder, Harald Pfeiffer, et al.. (2025). Robustness of extracting quasinormal mode information from black hole merger simulations. Physical review. D. 112(2). 3 indexed citations
4.
Giesler, Matthew, Sizheng Ma, Keefe Mitman, et al.. (2025). Overtones and nonlinearities in binary black hole ringdowns. Physical review. D. 111(8). 13 indexed citations
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Ma, Sizheng, Jordan Moxon, Mark Scheel, et al.. (2025). Einstein–Klein–Gordon system via Cauchy-characteristic evolution: computation of memory and ringdown tail. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 42(5). 55006–55006. 2 indexed citations
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Stein, Leo C., Keefe Mitman, Scott E. Field, et al.. (2025). High-precision ringdown surrogate model for nonprecessing binary black holes. Physical review. D. 112(2). 4 indexed citations
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Siegel, Harrison, Keefe Mitman, M. Isi, et al.. (2025). Black hole spectroscopy for precessing binary black hole coalescences. Physical review. D. 111(6). 11 indexed citations
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Mitman, Keefe, Michael Boyle, Leo C. Stein, et al.. (2024). A review of gravitational memory and BMS frame fixing in numerical relativity. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 41(22). 223001–223001. 22 indexed citations
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Ma, Sizheng, Jordan Moxon, Mark Scheel, et al.. (2024). Fully relativistic three-dimensional Cauchy-characteristic matching for physical degrees of freedom. Physical review. D. 109(12). 8 indexed citations
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Ripley, Justin L., Frans Pretorius, Sizheng Ma, et al.. (2024). Nonlinear effects in black hole ringdown from scattering experiments: Spin and initial data dependence of quadratic mode coupling. Physical review. D. 109(10). 31 indexed citations
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Chen, Yitian, Michael Boyle, Nils Deppe, et al.. (2024). Improved frequency spectra of gravitational waves with memory in a binary-black-hole simulation. Physical review. D. 110(6). 8 indexed citations
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Barack, Leor, Harald Pfeiffer, Adam Pound, et al.. (2023). Worldtube excision method for intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals: Scalar-field model in 3+1 dimensions. Physical review. D. 108(2). 4 indexed citations
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Mitman, Keefe, Macarena Lagos, Leo C. Stein, et al.. (2023). Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns. Physical Review Letters. 130(8). 81402–81402. 118 indexed citations breakdown →
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Deppe, Nils, Larry Kidder, Saul A. Teukolsky, et al.. (2023). A positivity-preserving adaptive-order finite-difference scheme for GRMHD. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 40(24). 245014–245014. 2 indexed citations
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Yoo, J., Keefe Mitman, Vijay Varma, et al.. (2023). Numerical relativity surrogate model with memory effects and post-Newtonian hybridization. Physical review. D. 108(6). 27 indexed citations
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Ma, Sizheng, Qing‐Wen Wang, Nils Deppe, et al.. (2022). Gravitational-wave echoes from numerical-relativity waveforms via spacetime construction near merging compact objects. Physical review. D. 105(10). 14 indexed citations
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Vu, Nils L., S. Rodriguez, T. Wlodarczyk, et al.. (2022). High-accuracy numerical models of Brownian thermal noise in thin mirror coatings. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 40(2). 25015–25015. 2 indexed citations
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Vu, Nils L., Harald Pfeiffer, Nils Deppe, et al.. (2022). A scalable elliptic solver with task-based parallelism for the SpECTRE numerical relativity code. Physical review. D. 105(8). 7 indexed citations
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Zertuche, L. Magaña, Keefe Mitman, Leo C. Stein, et al.. (2022). High precision ringdown modeling: Multimode fits and BMS frames. Physical review. D. 105(10). 40 indexed citations
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Ma, Sizheng, Keefe Mitman, L. Sun, et al.. (2022). Quasinormal-mode filters: A new approach to analyze the gravitational-wave ringdown of binary black-hole mergers. Physical review. D. 106(8). 49 indexed citations

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