Frederic A Rasio

Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Physics PhD Program

Phone847 491 7904
Emailrasio@northwestern.edu

10935 Citations

Research output per year

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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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Grants

1 Active
34 Finished

Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters

Chatterjee, S., Kalogera, V. & Rasio, F. A.

National Science Foundation

6/1/17 → 5/31/20

Project: Research project

MRI: Acquisition of a High-Performance Computing Cluster to Unveil the Sources of Gravitational Waves

Kalogera, V., Katsaggelos, A. K., Larson, S. L., Liao, W., Margutti, R. & Rasio, F. A.

National Science Foundation

8/15/17 → 7/31/19

Project: Research project

Identifying Globular Clusters Hosting Large Numbers of Black Holes

Chatterjee, S. & Rasio, F. A.

Space Telescope Science Institute, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

10/1/16 → 12/31/17

Project: Research project

Understanding Gamma-Ray Emission from the Galactic Center: Constraining the Millisecond Pulsar Population

Kalogera, V. & Rasio, F. A.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

11/1/15 → 10/31/16

Project: Research project

Fellows On the Frontier 2015; September - 4, 2015; Evanston, IL

Rasio, F. A.

National Science Foundation

7/1/15 → 6/30/17

Project: Research project

Research Output

10935 Citations
167 Article
19 Conference contribution
4 Editorial
3 Conference article
8 More

Black holes: The next generation - Repeated mergers in dense star clusters and their gravitational-wave properties

Rodriguez, C. L., Zevin, M., Amaro-Seoane, P., Chatterjee, S., Kremer, K., Rasio, F. A. & Ye, C. S., Aug 27 2019, In : Physical Review D. 100, 4, 043027.