R. Cotesta

20.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
18 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

R. Cotesta is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Cotesta has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 3 papers in Geophysics and 2 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in R. Cotesta's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (18 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (14 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (11 papers). R. Cotesta is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (18 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (14 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (11 papers). R. Cotesta collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Italy. R. Cotesta's co-authors include Emanuele Berti, Vítor Cardoso, G. Carullo, Alessandra Buonanno, Serguei Ossokine, Sylvain Marsat, Ian Hinder, M. Pürrer, Vishal Baibhav and Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Physical review. D.

In The Last Decade

R. Cotesta

18 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Multipolar effective-one-body waveforms for precessing bi... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2020 2018 2023 2022 2023 50 100 150 200
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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.

  1. Multipolar effective-one-body waveforms for precessing binary black holes: Construction and validation
    2020 217 citations Serguei Ossokine, Alessandra Buonanno et al. Physical review. D profile →
  2. Enriching the symphony of gravitational waves from binary black holes by tuning higher harmonics
    2018 194 citations R. Cotesta, Alessandra Buonanno et al. Physical review. D profile →
  3. Nonlinear Effects in Black Hole Ringdown
    2023 116 citations Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Vishal Baibhav et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  4. Analysis of Ringdown Overtones in GW150914
    2022 105 citations R. Cotesta, G. Carullo et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  5. Agnostic black hole spectroscopy: Quasinormal mode content of numerical relativity waveforms and limits of validity of linear perturbation theory
    2023 95 citations Vishal Baibhav, Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
R. Cotesta United States 14 1.1k 375 153 83 60 18 1.1k
G. Carullo Italy 17 1.0k 1.0× 448 1.2× 141 0.9× 62 0.7× 68 1.1× 28 1.1k
Jonathan Blackman United States 11 917 0.9× 228 0.6× 173 1.1× 89 1.1× 78 1.3× 16 940
Jordan Moxon United States 19 862 0.8× 431 1.1× 86 0.6× 86 1.0× 40 0.7× 34 959
M. Mateu-Lucena Spain 10 813 0.8× 179 0.5× 165 1.1× 111 1.3× 56 0.9× 10 835
R. Jaume Spain 6 820 0.8× 172 0.5× 164 1.1× 113 1.4× 58 1.0× 6 840
Luisa T. Buchman United States 12 991 0.9× 342 0.9× 127 0.8× 73 0.9× 95 1.6× 19 1.0k
J. Calderón Bustillo Spain 17 854 0.8× 182 0.5× 122 0.8× 60 0.7× 62 1.0× 33 880
H. Estellés Spain 13 1.2k 1.1× 240 0.6× 239 1.6× 171 2.1× 84 1.4× 21 1.2k
Robert Owen United States 14 792 0.7× 353 0.9× 103 0.7× 67 0.8× 64 1.1× 19 822
A. Gopakumar India 22 1.3k 1.2× 423 1.1× 173 1.1× 140 1.7× 56 0.9× 40 1.3k

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Pacilio, Costantino, S. Bhagwat, & R. Cotesta. (2024). Simulation-based inference of black hole ringdowns in the time domain. Physical review. D. 110(8). 6 indexed citations
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Cheung, Mark Ho-Yeuk, Emanuele Berti, Vishal Baibhav, & R. Cotesta. (2024). Extracting linear and nonlinear quasinormal modes from black hole merger simulations. Physical review. D. 109(4). 47 indexed citations
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Cotesta, R., et al.. (2024). Intermediate-mass black hole binary parameter estimation with next-generation ground-based detector networks. Physical review. D. 110(10). 7 indexed citations
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Mehta, A. K., Alessandra Buonanno, R. Cotesta, et al.. (2023). Tests of general relativity with gravitational-wave observations using a flexible theory-independent method. Physical review. D. 107(4). 46 indexed citations
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Carullo, G., R. Cotesta, Emanuele Berti, & Vítor Cardoso. (2023). Carullo et al. Reply:. Physical Review Letters. 131(16). 169002–169002. 31 indexed citations
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Baibhav, Vishal, Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Emanuele Berti, et al.. (2023). Agnostic black hole spectroscopy: Quasinormal mode content of numerical relativity waveforms and limits of validity of linear perturbation theory. Physical review. D. 108(10). 95 indexed citations breakdown →
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Çalışkan, Mesut, et al.. (2023). Observability of lensing of gravitational waves from massive black hole binaries with LISA. Physical review. D. 107(4). 38 indexed citations
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Ng, Ken K. Y., et al.. (2023). Single-event likelihood of star cluster properties with LIGO-Virgo-Kagra binary black hole observations. Physical review. D. 108(8). 2 indexed citations
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Gerosa, Davide, et al.. (2023). Black-hole mergers in disklike environments could explain the observed q−χeff correlation. Physical review. D. 108(8). 26 indexed citations
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Çalışkan, Mesut, et al.. (2023). Probing wave-optics effects and low-mass dark matter halos with lensing of gravitational waves from massive black holes. Physical review. D. 108(12). 20 indexed citations
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Cheung, Mark Ho-Yeuk, Vishal Baibhav, Emanuele Berti, et al.. (2023). Nonlinear Effects in Black Hole Ringdown. Physical Review Letters. 130(8). 81401–81401. 116 indexed citations breakdown →
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Franciolini, Gabriele, R. Cotesta, Nicholas Loutrel, et al.. (2022). How to assess the primordial origin of single gravitational-wave events with mass, spin, eccentricity, and deformability measurements. Physical review. D. 105(6). 37 indexed citations
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Cotesta, R., G. Carullo, Emanuele Berti, & Vítor Cardoso. (2022). Analysis of Ringdown Overtones in GW150914. Physical Review Letters. 129(11). 111102–111102. 105 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cotesta, R., Sylvain Marsat, & M. Pürrer. (2020). Frequency-domain reduced-order model of aligned-spin effective-one-body waveforms with higher-order modes. Physical review. D. 101(12). 78 indexed citations
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Ossokine, Serguei, Alessandra Buonanno, Sylvain Marsat, et al.. (2020). Multipolar effective-one-body waveforms for precessing binary black holes: Construction and validation. Physical review. D. 102(4). 217 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cotesta, R., Alessandra Buonanno, A. Bohé, et al.. (2018). Enriching the symphony of gravitational waves from binary black holes by tuning higher harmonics. Physical review. D. 98(8). 194 indexed citations breakdown →
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Maselli, Andrea, Paolo Pani, R. Cotesta, et al.. (2017). Geodesic Models of Quasi-periodic-oscillations as Probes of Quadratic Gravity. The Astrophysical Journal. 843(1). 25–25. 40 indexed citations

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