R. C. Essick

51.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
35 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

R. C. Essick is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, R. C. Essick has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 12 papers in Oceanography and 6 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in R. C. Essick's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (29 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (17 papers) and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (12 papers). R. C. Essick is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (29 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (17 papers) and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (12 papers). R. C. Essick collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. R. C. Essick's co-authors include Philippe Landry, Katerina Chatziioannou, D. E. Holz, Nevin N. Weinberg, S. Vitale, Isaac Legred, Sophia Han, Ingo Tews, E. Katsavounidis and M. Fishbach and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

R. C. Essick

34 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

Nonparametric constraints on neutron star matter with existing and upcoming gravitational wave and pulsar observations

2020 224 citations Philippe Landry, R. C. Essick et al. Physical review. D profile →
Impact of the PSR J0740+6620 radius constraint on the properties of high-density matter

2021 139 citations Isaac Legred, Katerina Chatziioannou 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
R. C. Essick United States	20	1.4k	362	300	251	133	35	1.4k
S. Nissanke Netherlands	25	2.2k 1.6×	236 0.7×	256 0.9×	596 2.4×	142 1.1×	43	2.3k
S. Babak France	20	1.9k 1.4×	221 0.6×	220 0.7×	482 1.9×	110 0.8×	37	2.0k
M. Bejger Poland	20	1.4k 1.1×	492 1.4×	287 1.0×	377 1.5×	151 1.1×	63	1.5k
I. S. Heng United Kingdom	17	1.0k 0.8×	184 0.5×	119 0.4×	259 1.0×	156 1.2×	64	1.1k
Shubhanshu Tiwari Switzerland	15	1.5k 1.1×	291 0.8×	180 0.6×	319 1.3×	101 0.8×	31	1.6k
G. Pratten United Kingdom	23	2.1k 1.6×	392 1.1×	292 1.0×	421 1.7×	75 0.6×	52	2.2k
C. P. L. Berry United Kingdom	24	2.4k 1.7×	177 0.5×	211 0.7×	686 2.7×	129 1.0×	48	2.5k
P. D. Lasky Australia	31	2.6k 1.9×	455 1.3×	295 1.0×	658 2.6×	173 1.3×	103	2.6k
A. Nitz Germany	26	2.0k 1.5×	383 1.1×	253 0.8×	356 1.4×	76 0.6×	55	2.0k
I. Cognard France	26	1.7k 1.3×	280 0.8×	313 1.0×	494 2.0×	176 1.3×	99	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R. C. Essick

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Toivonen, Andrew, Sushant Sharma Chaudhary, S. Antier, et al.. (2025). What to Expect: Kilonova Light Curve Predictions via Equation of State Marginalization. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 137(3). 34506–34506.

Legred, Isaac, et al.. (2025). Nonparametric extensions of nuclear equations of state: Probing the breakdown scale of relativistic mean-field theory. Physical review. D. 112(6). 1 indexed citations

Essick, R. C., et al.. (2025). Striking a Chord with Spectral Sirens: Multiple Features in the Compact Binary Population Correlate with H₀. The Astrophysical Journal. 980(1). 85–85. 6 indexed citations

Callister, T. A., R. C. Essick, & D. E. Holz. (2024). Neural network emulator of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo selection function. Physical review. D. 110(12). 3 indexed citations

Essick, R. C. & M. Fishbach. (2024). Ensuring Consistency between Noise and Detection in Hierarchical Bayesian Inference. The Astrophysical Journal. 962(2). 169–169. 27 indexed citations

Soni, S., E. Katsavounidis, R. C. Essick, et al.. (2023). QoQ: a Q-transform based test for gravitational wave transient events. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 41(1). 15012–15012. 1 indexed citations

Weinberg, Nevin N., et al.. (2023). Orbital Decay of Hot Jupiters due to Weakly Nonlinear Tidal Dissipation. The Astrophysical Journal. 960(1). 50–50. 17 indexed citations

Essick, R. C., Isaac Legred, Katerina Chatziioannou, Sophia Han, & Philippe Landry. (2023). Phase transition phenomenology with nonparametric representations of the neutron star equation of state. Physical review. D. 108(4). 31 indexed citations

Essick, R. C., Will M. Farr, M. Fishbach, D. E. Holz, & E. Katsavounidis. (2023). (An)isotropy measurement with gravitational wave observations. Physical review. D. 107(4). 12 indexed citations

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Legred, Isaac, Katerina Chatziioannou, R. C. Essick, & Philippe Landry. (2022). Implicit correlations within phenomenological parametric models of the neutron star equation of state. Physical review. D. 105(4). 27 indexed citations

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Essick, R. C., A. M. Farah, S. Galaudage, et al.. (2022). Probing Extremal Gravitational-wave Events with Coarse-grained Likelihoods. The Astrophysical Journal. 926(1). 34–34. 20 indexed citations

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Legred, Isaac, Katerina Chatziioannou, R. C. Essick, Sophia Han, & Philippe Landry. (2021). Impact of the PSR J0740+6620 radius constraint on the properties of high-density matter. Physical review. D. 104(6). 139 indexed citations breakdown →

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Essick, R. C., Geoffrey Mo, & E. Katsavounidis. (2021). A coincidence null test for Poisson-distributed events. Physical review. D. 103(4). 5 indexed citations

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Essick, R. C., Ingo Tews, Philippe Landry, Sanjay Reddy, & D. E. Holz. (2020). Direct astrophysical tests of chiral effective field theory at supranuclear densities. Physical review. C. 102(5). 87 indexed citations

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Arras, Phil, et al.. (2017). Tidal Dissipation in WASP-12. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 47 indexed citations

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Bécsy, B., P. Raffai, Neil J. Cornish, et al.. (2017). Parameter Estimation for Gravitational-wave Bursts with the BayesWave Pipeline. The Astrophysical Journal. 839(1). 15–15. 32 indexed citations

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Essick, R. C., S. Vitale, & Nevin N. Weinberg. (2016). Impact of the tidal p−g instability on the gravitational wave signal from coalescing binary neutron stars. Physical review. D. 94(10). 25 indexed citations

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Vitale, S., R. C. Essick, E. Katsavounidis, S. Klimenko, & G. Vedovato. (2016). On similarity of binary black hole gravitational-wave skymaps: to observe or to wait?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 466(1). L78–L82. 3 indexed citations

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Essick, R. C., S. Vitale, E. Katsavounidis, G. Vedovato, & S. Klimenko. (2015). LOCALIZATION OF SHORT DURATION GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE TRANSIENTS WITH THE EARLY ADVANCED LIGO AND VIRGO DETECTORS. The Astrophysical Journal. 800(2). 81–81. 29 indexed citations

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Biswas, R., Lindy Blackburn, Junwei Cao, et al.. (2013). Application of machine learning algorithms to the study of noise artifacts in gravitational-wave data. Physical Review Letters. 16 indexed citations

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