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Zoheyr Doctor

Astrophysicist at Northwestern University

Wikidata names Daniel E. Holz as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata and ORCID.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Daniel E. Holz

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataDaniel E. Holz
2 steps up
stated by WikidataRobert M. Wald
3 steps up
stated by WikidataJohn Archibald Wheeler
4 steps up
stated by WikidataKarl Herzfeld

Education and career2

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until 2019
University of Chicago
studied
undated
Northwestern University
worked

Papers in OpenAlex275

2016most in 2026: 542026

275works

53,984citations

78h-index

157i10-index

last at Northwestern University

writes on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena

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GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
2017 · Physical Review Letters · 100 authors
cited 9,471
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GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs
2019 · Physical Review X · 100 authors
cited 3,517
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Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A
2017 · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 100 authors
cited 3,507
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GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2
2017 · Physical Review Letters · 100 authors
cited 2,483
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GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State
2018 · Physical Review Letters · 100 authors
cited 2,411
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GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First Half of the Third Observing Run
2021 · Physical Review X · 100 authors
cited 2,236
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GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence
2017 · Physical Review Letters · 100 authors
cited 2,147
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GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the Second Part of the Third Observing Run
2023 · Physical Review X · 100 authors
cited 1,757
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GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass ∼ 3.4 M ⊙
2020 · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 100 authors
cited 1,603
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GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M ⊙
2020 · Physical Review Letters · 100 authors
cited 1,305

the 25 most cited of 275

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Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817
2019 · Physical Review X · 100 authors
cited 1,263
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GW170608: Observation of a 19 Solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
2017 · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 100 authors
cited 1,229
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A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant
2017 · Nature · 100 authors
cited 1,198
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Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA
2018 · Living Reviews in Relativity · 100 authors
cited 1,134
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The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models
2017 · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 100 authors
cited 978
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Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO–Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
2021 · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 100 authors
cited 892
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Population of Merging Compact Binaries Inferred Using Gravitational Waves through GWTC-3
2023 · Physical Review X · 100 authors
cited 889
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Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1
2019 · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 100 authors
cited 816
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Tests of general relativity with binary black holes from the second LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog
2021 · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 100 authors
cited 760
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GW190412: Observation of a binary-black-hole coalescence with asymmetric masses
2020 · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 100 authors
cited 657
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Tests of General Relativity with GW170817
2019 · Physical Review Letters · 100 authors
cited 628
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Observation of Gravitational Waves from Two Neutron Star-Black Hole Coalescences
2021 · Institutional Repository of Leibniz Universität Hannover (Leibniz Universität Hannover) · 100 authors
cited 608
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The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Discovery of the Optical Counterpart Using the Dark Energy Camera
2017 · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 100 authors
cited 568
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GWTC-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run
2024 · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 100 authors
cited 496
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Upper limits on the isotropic gravitational-wave background from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo’s third observing run
2021 · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 100 authors
cited 417

Coauthors in OpenAlex122

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Vicky Kalogera
12 shared works
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B. Farr
11 shared works
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DANIEL E. HOLZ
9 shared works
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C. P. L. Berry
8 shared works
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S. Banagiri
8 shared works
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B. Edelman
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Jeff J. Andrews
6 shared works
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Meng Sun
6 shared works
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Kyle A. Rocha
5 shared works
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Seth Gossage
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@misc{academicancestry_Q121599780,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Zoheyr Doctor: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q121599780},
  note = {read on 2026-10-16}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 16). Zoheyr Doctor: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-16]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q121599780