Thomas W. Baumgarte

6.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
114 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Thomas W. Baumgarte is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas W. Baumgarte has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 42 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 11 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Thomas W. Baumgarte's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (104 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (68 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (47 papers). Thomas W. Baumgarte is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (104 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (68 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (47 papers). Thomas W. Baumgarte collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Thomas W. Baumgarte's co-authors include Stuart L. Shapiro, Masaru Shibata, Saul A. Teukolsky, Z. B. Etienne, Joshua A. Faber, Keisuke Taniguchi, Hans‐Thomas Janka, Gregory B. Cook, Andreas Bauswein and Yuk Tung Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

Thomas W. Baumgarte

109 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

Numerical integration of Einstein’s field equations 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 2010 250 500 750
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. Numerical integration of Einstein’s field equations
    1998 857 citations Thomas W. Baumgarte, Stuart L. Shapiro profile →
  2. Numerical Relativity
    2010 386 citations Thomas W. Baumgarte, Stuart L. Shapiro profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas W. Baumgarte United States 34 4.2k 1.8k 442 295 149 114 4.4k
Carlos Palenzuela Spain 39 3.9k 0.9× 1.7k 1.0× 307 0.7× 276 0.9× 120 0.8× 83 4.2k
Éric Gourgoulhon France 34 3.1k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 441 1.0× 338 1.1× 147 1.0× 103 3.3k
Yosef Zlochower United States 32 4.0k 1.0× 1.5k 0.8× 288 0.7× 175 0.6× 241 1.6× 64 4.1k
Denis Pollney United States 28 3.4k 0.8× 1.2k 0.7× 390 0.9× 273 0.9× 251 1.7× 47 3.5k
Manuela Campanelli United States 32 4.4k 1.0× 1.7k 1.0× 358 0.8× 199 0.7× 241 1.6× 71 4.5k
S. Bonazzola France 22 2.3k 0.6× 1.0k 0.6× 304 0.7× 280 0.9× 128 0.9× 84 2.6k
Ulrich Sperhake United States 38 4.8k 1.1× 2.1k 1.2× 356 0.8× 265 0.9× 279 1.9× 104 4.9k
Wolfgang Tichy United States 30 2.8k 0.7× 876 0.5× 465 1.1× 403 1.4× 154 1.0× 54 3.0k
M. D. Hannam Germany 28 3.3k 0.8× 958 0.5× 422 1.0× 273 0.9× 308 2.1× 31 3.3k
Yashwant Gupta India 35 3.4k 0.8× 1.7k 1.0× 241 0.5× 610 2.1× 81 0.5× 153 3.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Baumgarte, Thomas W. & Stuart L. Shapiro. (2025). Can Premature Collapse Form Black Holes in the Upper and Lower Mass Gaps?. Physical Review Letters. 135(19). 191401–191401. 1 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W. & Stuart L. Shapiro. (2025). Boosting the growth of intermediate-mass black holes: Collisions with massive stars. Physical review. D. 111(6). 3 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W. & Stuart L. Shapiro. (2024). Primordial black holes, gravitational wave beats, and the nuclear equation of state. Physical review. D. 110(2). 5 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W., et al.. (2024). Constraining the nuclear equation of state from orbits of primordial black holes inside neutron stars. Physical review. D. 110(6). 1 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W. & Stuart L. Shapiro. (2024). Primordial black holes captured by neutron stars: Simulations in general relativity. Physical review. D. 110(2). 6 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W. & Stuart L. Shapiro. (2024). Could long-period transients be powered by primordial black hole capture?. Physical review. D. 109(6). 5 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W., et al.. (2023). Critical Phenomena in the Collapse of Gravitational Waves. Physical Review Letters. 131(18). 181401–181401. 7 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W., Carsten Gundlach, & David Hilditch. (2023). Critical phenomena in the collapse of quadrupolar and hexadecapolar gravitational waves. Physical review. D. 107(8). 4 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W., et al.. (2023). Dynamical perturbations of black-hole punctures: Effects of slicing conditions. Physical review. D. 107(6). 3 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W. & David Hilditch. (2022). Shock-avoiding slicing conditions: Tests and calibrations. Physical review. D. 106(4). 10 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W. & H. P. de Oliveira. (2022). Bona-Masso slicing conditions and the lapse close to black-hole punctures. Physical review. D. 105(6). 9 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W., et al.. (2022). Bona-Massó slices of Reissner-Nordström spacetimes. Physical review. D. 106(10). 2 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W., et al.. (2021). Critical phenomena in the gravitational collapse of electromagnetic dipole and quadrupole waves. Physical review. D. 103(12). 7 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W. & Stuart L. Shapiro. (2021). Neutron stars harboring a primordial black hole: Maximum survival time. Physical review. D. 103(8). 12 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W., et al.. (2021). Accretion onto black holes inside neutron stars with piecewise-polytropic equations of state: Analytic and numerical treatments. Physical review. D. 104(12). 9 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W., et al.. (2021). Accretion onto a small black hole at the center of a neutron star. Physical review. D. 103(10). 26 indexed citations
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Etienne, Z. B., et al.. (2018). SENR/NRPy+: Numerical Relativity in Singular Curvilinear Coordinate Systems. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2018. 4 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W. & Carsten Gundlach. (2016). Critical Collapse of Rotating Radiation Fluids. Physical Review Letters. 116(22). 221103–221103. 22 indexed citations
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Baumgarte, Thomas W.. (2014). Numerical Relativity in Spherical Polar Coordinates. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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