Eliot Quataert
Princeton University
Eliot Quataert is an American astronomer and theoretical astrophysicist. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2020, Quataert moved to Princeton University to become the Charles A. Young Professor of Astrophysical Sciences.
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Eliot Quataert is an American astronomer and theoretical astrophysicist. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2020, Quataert moved to Princeton University to become the Charles A. Young Professor of Astrophysical Sciences.
Affiliation
Princeton University
Top Publications
- Galaxies on FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments): stellar feedback explains cosmologically inefficient star formation (2014) - 1,479 citations
- A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant (2017) - 1,205 citations
- Origin of the heavy elements in binary neutron-star mergers from a gravitational-wave event (2017) - 1,203 citations
- Electromagnetic counterparts of compact object mergers powered by the radioactive decay of r-process nuclei (2010) - 1,189 citations
- FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation (2018) - 1,134 citations
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- Full name
- Eliot Quataert
- ORCID
- 0000-0001-9185-5044
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5000130235
Research interests
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
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- Galaxies on FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments): stellar feedback explains cosmologically inefficient star formation ↗2014 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society1,479OpenAlex citations
- 1,205OpenAlex citations
- 1,203OpenAlex citations
- Electromagnetic counterparts of compact object mergers powered by the radioactive decay of r-process nuclei ↗2010 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society1,189OpenAlex citations
- FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation ↗2018 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society1,134OpenAlex citations
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- Galaxies on FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments): stellar feedback explains cosmologically inefficient star formation ↗2014 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Electromagnetic counterparts of compact object mergers powered by the radioactive decay of r-process nuclei ↗2010 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation ↗2018 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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