Tassos Fragos

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Tassos Fragos is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Tassos Fragos has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 13 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Tassos Fragos's work include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (48 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (38 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (30 papers). Tassos Fragos is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (48 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (38 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (30 papers). Tassos Fragos collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Greece. Tassos Fragos's co-authors include A. Zezas, Bret Lehmer, Antara Basu‐Zych, Ying Qin, V. Kalogera, Jeff J. Andrews, Simone S. Bavera, G. Meynet, Emmanouil Zapartas and A. E. Hornschemeier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Tassos Fragos

72 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

The origin of spin in binary black holes

2020 172 citations Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos et al. Astronomy and Astrophysics profile →

Peers

Tassos Fragos

NHEP

INSTR

AMPO

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Barry McKernan United States

Daryl Haggard United States

Nicholas C. Stone United States

R. Salvaterra Italy

Elena M. Rossi Netherlands

D. Pooley United States

Sascha Trippe Germany

Tinggui Wang China

G. Leloudas Denmark

Paul C. Duffell United States

Barry McKernan United States

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2.3k ×1.0

484 ×1.0

NHEP

112 ×0.5

INSTR

56 ×0.8

AMPO

90 ×1.4

GEOPH

Citations per year, relative to Tassos Fragos Tassos Fragos (= 1×) peers Barry McKernan

Countries citing papers authored by Tassos Fragos

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tassos Fragos

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tassos Fragos

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tassos Fragos. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tassos Fragos based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Tassos Fragos. Tassos Fragos is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Rocha, Kyle A., V. Kalogera, Seth Gossage, et al.. (2025). Mass Transfer in Eccentric Orbits with Self-consistent Stellar Evolution. The Astrophysical Journal. 983(1). 39–39. 5 indexed citations

Kalogera, V., Jeff J. Andrews, Simone S. Bavera, et al.. (2025). Challenges in Forming Millisecond Pulsar–Black Holes from Isolated Binaries. The Astrophysical Journal. 982(1). 53–53. 2 indexed citations

Zapartas, Emmanouil, Ori D. Fox, Jing Su, et al.. (2025). The demographics of binary companions to stripped-envelope supernovae: confronting population synthesis models with observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 546(2). 1 indexed citations

Bavera, Simone S., Tassos Fragos, Matthias U. Kruckow, et al.. (2024). From ZAMS to merger: Detailed binary evolution models of coalescing neutron star – black hole systems at solar metallicity. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 683. A144–A144. 11 indexed citations

Kruckow, Matthias U., Jeff J. Andrews, Tassos Fragos, et al.. (2024). The formation of black holes in non-interacting isolated binaries. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 692. A141–A141. 5 indexed citations

Fragos, Tassos, Emmanouil Zapartas, Lixin Dai, et al.. (2024). Formation of wind-fed black hole high-mass X-ray binaries: The role of Roche-lobe-overflow post black hole formation. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 693. A27–A27. 5 indexed citations

Misra, Devina, Konstantinos Kovlakas, Tassos Fragos, et al.. (2023). X-ray luminosity function of high-mass X-ray binaries: Studying the signatures of different physical processes using detailed binary evolution calculations. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 672. A99–A99. 14 indexed citations

Kimball, C., Vicky Kalogera, Kyle A. Rocha, et al.. (2023). A Black Hole Kicked at Birth: MAXI J1305-704. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 952(2). L34–L34. 13 indexed citations

Kalogera, Vicky, C. P. L. Berry, Thomas J. Maccarone, et al.. (2023). Investigating the Lower Mass Gap with Low-mass X-Ray Binary Population Synthesis. The Astrophysical Journal. 954(2). 212–212. 13 indexed citations

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Misra, Devina, Konstantinos Kovlakas, Tassos Fragos, et al.. (2023). Exploring the nature of ultra-luminous X-ray sources across stellar population ages using detailed binary evolution calculations. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 682. A69–A69. 7 indexed citations

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Lehmer, Bret, Rafael T. Eufrasio, Antara Basu‐Zych, et al.. (2022). The Stellar-age Dependence of X-Ray Emission from Normal Star-forming Galaxies in the GOODS Fields. The Astrophysical Journal. 926(1). 28–28. 14 indexed citations

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Rocha, Kyle A., Jeff J. Andrews, C. P. L. Berry, et al.. (2022). Active Learning for Computationally Efficient Distribution of Binary Evolution Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 938(1). 64–64. 4 indexed citations

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Kovlakas, Konstantinos, Tassos Fragos, D. Schaerer, & Andrei Mesinger. (2022). The ionizing and heating power of ultraluminous X-ray sources under the geometrical beaming model. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 665. A28–A28. 11 indexed citations

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Kovlakas, Konstantinos, A. Zezas, Jeff J. Andrews, et al.. (2021). The Heraklion Extragalactic Catalogue (HECATE): a value-added galaxy catalogue for multimessenger astrophysics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506(2). 1896–1915. 24 indexed citations

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Lehmer, Bret, Rafael T. Eufrasio, Antara Basu‐Zych, et al.. (2021). The Metallicity Dependence of the High-mass X-Ray Binary Luminosity Function. The Astrophysical Journal. 907(1). 17–17. 62 indexed citations

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Misra, Devina, Tassos Fragos, Thomas M. Tauris, Emmanouil Zapartas, & David R. Aguilera-Dena. (2020). The origin of pulsating ultra-luminous X-ray sources: Low- and intermediate-mass X-ray binaries containing neutron star accretors. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 35 indexed citations

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Kovlakas, Konstantinos, A. Zezas, Jeff J. Andrews, et al.. (2020). A census of ultraluminous X-ray sources in the local Universe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 498(4). 4790–4810. 56 indexed citations

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Haemmerlé, L., P. Eggenberger, Sylvia Ekström, et al.. (2019). Stellar models and isochrones from low-mass to massive stars including pre-main sequence phase with accretion. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 18 indexed citations

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Sørensen, Mads Sølvsten, et al.. (2016). Unraveling the formation history of the black hole X-ray binary LMC X-3 from the zero age main sequence to the present. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 6 indexed citations

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Basu‐Zych, Antara, Bret Lehmer, A. E. Hornschemeier, et al.. (2013). The X-Ray Star Formation Story as Told by Lyman Break Galaxies in the 4 Ms CDF-S. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 52 indexed citations

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