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Robert Stein

California Institute of Technology · US
Area of research
Nuclear and High Energy Physics · Astronomy and Astrophysics
Research interest
Research interests include Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Neutrino Physics Research, Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena, and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae.
h-index
37
citations
9,083
works
299
NIH funding
primary concept
email

Recent publications

A Massive Black Hole 0.8 kpc from the Host Nucleus Revealed by the Offset Tidal Disruption Event AT2024tvd
The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2025cited by 18position: middledoi
Low-luminosity Type IIP Supernovae from the Zwicky Transient Facility Census of the Local Universe. I. Luminosity Function, Volumetric Rate
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2025cited by 9position: middledoi
Limits on the ejecta mass during the search for kilonovae associated with neutron star-black hole mergers: A case study of S230518h, GW230529, S230627c and the low-significance candidate S240422ed
Physical review. D/Physical review. D. 2025cited by 7position: middledoi
WINTER on S250206dm: A Near-infrared Search for an Electromagnetic Counterpart to a Gravitational-wave Event
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions years after a nearby tidal disruption event
Nature 2024cited by 69position: middledoi
Establishing accretion flares from supermassive black holes as a source of high-energy neutrinos
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024cited by 53position: middledoi
Collapsars as Sites of r-process Nucleosynthesis: Systematic Photometric Near-infrared Follow-up of Type Ic-BL Supernovae
The Astrophysical Journal 2024cited by 22position: middledoi
tdescore: An Accurate Photometric Classifier for Tidal Disruption Events
The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2024cited by 13position: firstdoi
Tidal Disruption Event Demographics with the Zwicky Transient Facility: Volumetric Rates, Luminosity Function, and Implications for the Local Black Hole Mass Function
The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2023cited by 186position: middledoi
A Data Science Platform to Enable Time-domain Astronomy
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2023cited by 75position: middledoi
Uncovering a population of gravitational lens galaxies with magnified standard candle SN Zwicky
Nature Astronomy 2023cited by 48position: middledoi
Neutrino follow-up with the Zwicky transient facility: results from the first 24 campaigns
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023cited by 21position: firstdoi
Enabling kilonova science with Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Astroparticle Physics 2023cited by 12position: middledoi
SN 2022joj: A Peculiar Type Ia Supernova Possibly Driven by an Asymmetric Helium-shell Double Detonation
The Astrophysical Journal 2023cited by 8position: middledoi
Candidate Tidal Disruption Event AT2019fdr Coincident with a High-Energy Neutrino
Physical Review Letters 2022cited by 127position: middledoi
A tidal disruption event coincident with a high-energy neutrino
DESY Publication Database (PUBDB) (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) 2021cited by 232position: first
Establishing accretion flares from massive black holes as a source of high-energy neutrinos
arXiv (Cornell University) 2021cited by 21position: middledoi
Discovery and confirmation of the shortest gamma-ray burst from a collapsar
Nature Astronomy 2021cited by 8position: middledoi
Kilonova Luminosity Function Constraints Based on Zwicky Transient Facility Searches for 13 Neutron Star Merger Triggers during O3
Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) 2020cited by 20position: middle
The First Tidal Disruption Flare in ZTF: From Photometric Selection to Multi-wavelength Characterization
The Astrophysical Journal 2019cited by 116position: middledoi

Grants

Ab Initio Models of Solar Activity
NSF1144506$37,4342012–2016PIRePORTER
The Quiet Sun Dynamo: Shallow versus Deep
NSF1141921$230,1812011–2015PIRePORTER
Convection, Oscillations and GONNNNG
NSF0605738$430,0182006–2012PIRePORTER
Convection, Oscillations and GONNNNG
NSF0205500$305,8522002–2007PIRePORTER
Solar Magneto-Convection Simulations
NSF9988111$108,0002000–2004PIRePORTER
Convection, Oscillations and GONNNNG
NSF9819799$210,0001999–2002PIRePORTER
Radiation Hydrodynamics of the Solar Atmosphere
NSF9616886$120,0001997–1999PIRePORTER
Convection, Oscillations and GONNNNG
NSF9521785$192,0011995–1999PIRePORTER
Heating and Dynamics of Stellar Chromospheres and Coronae
NSF8316231$133,2001984–1989PIRePORTER
Astrophysical Fluid Dynamic Studies
NSF7919465$40,0001979–1984PIRePORTER
Astrophysical Fluid Dynamic Studies
NSF7622479$38,6001977–1980PIRePORTER
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion: Legal Considerations
NSF7500280$142,4001975–1976PIRePORTER
Dynamics of Intestellar Cloud Condensation and of the Solar Atmosphere Oscillations
NSF7304550$29,0001974–1977PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Robert A. Simcoe · Massachusetts Institute of Technology2 papers (2023–2025)Suvi Gezari · Space Telescope Science Institute2 papers (2023–2024)M. M. Kasliwal · University of Minnesota, Twin Cities2 papers (2023–2025)A. Mahabal · California Institute of Technology2 papers (2023–2024)Mattia Bulla · University of Ferrara2 papers (2023–2025)Josiah Purdum · California Institute of Technology1 papers (2025–2025)Nathan P. Lourie · Massachusetts Institute of Technology1 papers (2025–2025)A. Palmese · Campbell Collaboration1 papers (2023–2023)Russ R. Laher · California Institute of Technology1 papers (2024–2024)Jamie Soon · Australian National University1 papers (2023–2023)Andrew Toivonen · University of Minnesota, Twin Cities1 papers (2023–2023)M. W. Coughlin · California Institute of Technology1 papers (2023–2023)Igor Andreoni · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill1 papers (2023–2023)Jill Juneau · Massachusetts Institute of Technology1 papers (2025–2025)M. Nicholl · University of Birmingham1 papers (2024–2024)Viraj Karambelkar · California Institute of Technology1 papers (2025–2025)Eric Burns · University of California, Berkeley1 papers (2023–2023)B. Rusholme · California Institute of Technology1 papers (2024–2024)Danielle Frostig · Massachusetts Institute of Technology1 papers (2025–2025)Tomás Ahumada · California Institute of Technology1 papers (2025–2025)