Research Impact:
41 Refereed Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals (5 in Physical Review Letters)
3491 Citations with an h-index of 29 (Google Scholar)
55 Invited and Contributed Talks, Colloquia, Seminars
Research Interests:
Neutron Star Astrophysics (equation of state; structure, composition and cooling processes; gravitational waves)
Nuclear Physics (relativistic mean-field & Skyrme Hartree-Fock models; nuclear symmetry energy; neutron distributions & neutron skin)
Gravitation (general relativity; braneworld; scalar-tensor theories) and Cosmology (string cosmology; dark energy; inflation)
Some Top Cited Publications:
Neutron skins and neutron stars in the multi-messenger era, F. J. Fattoyev, J. Piekarewicz and C. J. Horowitz, Physical Review Letters 120, 172702 (2018) [469 citations], Editor's Suggestion, Featured in Physics
Implications of PREX-2 on the equation of state of neutron-rich matter, Brendan T. Reed, F. J. Fattoyev, C. J. Horowitz, and J. Piekarewicz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 172503 (2021) [447 citations]
Relativistic effective interaction for nuclei, giant resonances, and neutron stars, F. J. Fattoyev, C. J. Horowitz, J. Piekarewicz, and G. Shen, Physical Review C 82, 055803 (2010) [407 citations]
Pulsar glitches: the crust may be enough, J. Piekarewicz, F. J. Fattoyev and C. J. Horowitz, Physical Review C 90, 015803 (2014) [148 citations]
GW190814: Impact of a 2.6 solar mass neutron star on the nucleonic equations of state, F. J. Fattoyev, C. J. Horowitz, J. Piekarewicz, and Brendan T. Reed, Physical Review C 102, 065805 (2020) [159 citations]
Constraining the high-density behavior of the nuclear symmetry energy with the tidal polarizability of neutron stars, F. J. Fattoyev, J. Carvajal, W. G. Newton, and B.-A. Li, Physical Review C 87, 015806 (2013) [126 citations]
Sensitivity of the moment of inertia of neutron stars to the equation of state of neutron-rich matter, F. J. Fattoyev and J. Piekarewicz, Physical Review C 82, 025810 (2010) [113 citations]
Using neutron star observations to determine crust thicknesses, moments of inertia, and tidal deformabilities, A. W. Steiner, S. Gandolfi, F. J. Fattoyev and W. G. Newton, Physical Review C 91, 015804 (2015) [131 citations]
Neutron skins and neutron stars, F. J. Fattoyev and J. Piekarewicz, Physical Review C 86, 015802 (2012) [106 citations]
Has a thick neutron skin in 208Pb been ruled out?, F. J. Fattoyev and J. Piekarewicz, Physical Review Letters 111, 162501 (2013) [101 citations]
Some Recent Publications:
Rapid neutrino cooling in the neutron star MXB 1659-29, Edward F. Brown, Andrew Cumming, F. J. Fattoyev, C. J. Horowitz, Dany Page, Sanjay Reddy, Physical Review Letters 120, 172702 (2018) [66 citations], Editor's Suggestion, Featured in Physics
Deep crustal heating by neutrinos from the surface of accreting neutron stars, F. J. Fattoyev, Edward F. Brown, Andrew Cumming, Alex Deibel, C. J. Horowitz, Bao-An Li, Zidu Lin, [6 citations], Submitted to Physical Review C (2017)
Quantum nuclear pasta and nuclear symmetry energy, F. J. Fattoyev, C. J. Horowitz, Bastian Schuetrumpf, Physical Review C 95, 055804 (2017) [43 citations]
A lower limit on the heat capacity of the neutron star core, Andrew Cumming, Edward F. Brown, F. J. Fattoyev, C. J. Horowitz, Dany Page, Sanjay Reddy, Physical Review C 95, 025806 (2017) [30 citations]
Quantum simulations of nuclei and nuclear pasta with the Multi-resolution ADaptive Numerical Environment for Scientific Simulations (MADNESS), I. Sagert, G. I. Fann, F. J. Fattoyev, S. Postnikov, C. J. Horowitz, Physical Review C 93, 055801 (2016) [23 citations]