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Research Interests
Professor Rasio's research spans a wide range of topics in theoretical astrophysics, including: exoplanets and planet formation; the dynamics of dense stellar systems (globular clusters, galactic nuclei, young star clusters); hydrodynamic stellar interactions (stellar collisions and mergers, binary coalescence, common envelope evolution); and relativistic astrophysics (neutron stars and black holes, gravitational waves, relativistic star clusters, radio pulsars). His most recent work has focused on the dynamics of tightly packed planetary systems, gravitational wave sources for laser-interferometer detectors (LIGO, LISA), and the formation of massive black holes through stellar dynamical processes.
Education/Academic qualification
Department of Physics, PhD, Cornell University
… → 1991
Department of Physics, MS, Cornell University
… → 1988
Applied Physics, Ingenieur Physicien (MS), Université libre de Bruxelles
… → 1985
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Preparing LISA for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Science
Fragione, G., Kalogera, V. & Rasio, F. A.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
9/15/21 → 9/14/24
Project: Research project
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Curie Global Fellowship Partnership Agreement
University of Padova, European Commission
10/3/18 → 10/2/20
Project: Research project
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MRI: Acquisition of a High-Performance Computing Cluster to Unveil the Sources of Gravitational Waves
Kalogera, V., Katsaggelos, A. K., Liao, W., Rasio, F. A., Larson, S. L. & Margutti, R.
8/15/17 → 7/31/19
Project: Research project
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Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters
Rasio, F. A., Chatterjee, S. & Kalogera, V.
6/1/17 → 5/31/21
Project: Research project
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Demographics of Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Dense Star Clusters
Fragione, G. & Rasio, F. A., Jul 1 2023, In: Astrophysical Journal. 951, 2, 129.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Growing black holes through successive mergers in galactic nuclei - I. Methods and first results
Atallah, D., Trani, A. A., Kremer, K., Weatherford, N. C., Fragione, G., Spera, M. & Rasio, F. A., Aug 1 2023, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 523, 3, p. 4227-4250 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Partial Tidal Disruptions of Main-sequence Stars by Intermediate-mass Black Holes
Kıroğlu, F., Lombardi, J. C., Kremer, K., Fragione, G., Fogarty, S. & Rasio, F. A., May 1 2023, In: Astrophysical Journal. 948, 2, 89.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Stellar Escape from Globular Clusters. I. Escape Mechanisms and Properties at Ejection
Weatherford, N. C., Kıroğlu, F., Fragione, G., Chatterjee, S., Kremer, K. & Rasio, F. A., Apr 1 2023, In: Astrophysical Journal. 946, 2, 104.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Compact Object Modeling in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae
Ye, C. S., Kremer, K., Rodriguez, C. L., Rui, N. Z., Weatherford, N. C., Chatterjee, S., Rasio, F. A. & Fragione, G., Jun 1 2022, In: Astrophysical Journal. 931, 2, 84.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access7 Scopus citations
Datasets
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ClusterMonteCarlo/CMC-COSMIC: Release Version of CMC
Rodriguez, C. L. (Creator), Coughlin, S. C. (Creator), Weatherford, N. C. (Creator), Seoane, P. A. (Creator), Breivik, K. (Creator), Chatterjee, S. (Creator), Fragione, G. (Creator), Kiroglu, F. (Creator), Kremer, K. (Creator), Rui, N. Z. (Creator), Ye, C. S. (Creator), Zevin, M. (Creator) & Rasio, F. A. (Creator), ZENODO, May 28 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4850884, https://zenodo.org/record/4850884
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NicholasRui/cmctoolkit: First release
Rui, N. Z. (Creator), Kremer, K. (Creator), Weatherford, N. C. (Creator), Chatterjee, S. (Creator), Rasio, F. A. (Creator), Rodriguez, C. L. (Creator) & Ye, C. S. (Creator), ZENODO, Mar 4 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4579951, https://zenodo.org/record/4579951
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Stellar parameters of nearby cool stars
Takeda, G. (Creator), Ford, E. B. (Creator), Sills, A. (Creator), Rasio, F. A. (Creator), Fischer, D. A. (Creator), Valenti, J. A. (Creator) & Ford, E. B. (Creator), Centre de Donnees Strasbourg (CDS), 2009
DOI: 10.26093/cds/vizier.21680297, https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/168/297
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