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E. Sterl Phinney
American theoretical astrophysicistborn 1960
Supervised 12 doctoral students (13 students at any level) at California Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Martin Rees as doctoral advisor and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 3 other registers.
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Students13
- cited by a thesis record
Io K. Kleiser“Modeling Rapidly Fading Supernovae as Nickel-Free Core-Collapse Explosions of Extended Helium Stars”
2019 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Elena M. Murchikova“Astrophysical Applications of Quantum Mechanics”
2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Adam Sean Jermyn“The Atmospheric Dynamics of Pulsar Companions”
2015 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Christopher Wegg“The Dynamics of White Dwarfs, Black Holes and Stellar Cusps”
2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jason Nathaniel Bode“Black Hole Mergers and Their Electromagnetic Counterparts”
2011 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Michael David Hartl“Dynamics of Spinning Compact Binaries in General Relativity”
2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Sanjoy Sondhi Mahajan“Order of Magnitude Physics: A Textbook with Applications to the Retinal Rod and the Density of Prime Numbers”
1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Bradley Miles Stougaard Hansen“The ages, speeds and offspring of pulsars”
1996 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Steinn Sigurdsson“Dynamics of neutron stars and binaries in globular clusters or, Ménages à trois: revitalizing burnt out degenerates through partner swapping”
1992 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Maurice H. P. M. van Putten“MHD in divergence form : a computational method for astrophysical flow”
1992 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Lin Zuo“QSO Absorption Lines and the Ionizing Field at High Redshifts”
1992 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Paolo Severo Coppi“Radiative processes in active galactic nuclei”
1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Michael Coleman Miller“Radiative transfer in very strong magnetic fields”
1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
Advisors on Wikidata1
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidata
Students on Wikidata1
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidataborn 1964
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 WikidataMartin Rees
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataDennis W. Sciama
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataHarold Neville Vazeille Temperleystated by WikidataHermann Bondistated by WikidataPaul Dirac
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataArthur Eddingtonstated by WikidataHarold Jeffreysstated by WikidataRalph H. Fowler
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 13 people: 12 cited by thesis records, 1 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career3
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.
- until 1980
- until 1983studied
- from 1985
Sat beside the lineage85
committee member, not advisor
- cited by a thesis record
Peter John Scherbak“Unstable and Stable Mass Transfer in Stellar Binaries: From Common Envelopes to Circumbinary Outflows”
committee member · 2026 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yoonsoo Kim“Numerical Modeling of High-energy Transients from Black Holes and Neutron Stars”
committee member · 2025 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Nicholas Zhao Rui“Seismic Probes of Stellar Mergers and Magnetism”
committee member · 2025 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yashvi Sharma“Chasing Metamorphic Supernovae with Zwicky Transient Facility, SEDM-KP, and AI”
committee member · 2025 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Nadine Hany Soliman“Dust in Astrophysical Systems: Impacts on Dynamics, Plasma Physics, and Thermochemistry”
committee member · 2025 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Linhao Ma“Dissipative Dynamics of Stars, Planets, and Black Holes”
committee member · 2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kathryn Annette Plant“A New Sensor for Milky-Way Particle Accelerators: The Standalone-Radio Cosmic Ray Detector at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array”
committee member · 2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Samantha Chloe Wu“The Interplay of Waves and Stellar Evolution”
committee member · 2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Nitika Yadlapalli Yurk“Interferometric Millimeter Observations of the High Energy Universe”
committee member · 2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yang Zhang“Understanding the Plasma Universe through Laboratory Experiments and Related Models”
committee member · 2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Dillon Zhejun Dong“Shocks, Jets, and Emerging Nebulae: Direct Detection and Characterization of Extragalactic Radio Transients in the VLA Sky Survey”
committee member · 2023 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2023 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Christopher David Bochenek“The Progenitors of Fast Radio Bursts”
committee member · 2021 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Anna Yen Qin Ho“The Landscape of Relativistic Stellar Explosions”
committee member · 2021 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Aaron Benjamin Pearlman“Hunting for Fast Radio Transients in the Local Universe and Pulsars Toward the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy”
committee member · 2021 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jacob Edmund Jencson“Hunting for Hidden Explosions: Exploring the Transient Infrared Sky with the Spitzer Space Telescope”
committee member · 2020 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Young Dae Yoon“Probing the Progression, Properties, and Progenies of Magnetic Reconnection”
committee member · 2020 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Marin Mallory Anderson“Adventures Through Time and Phase Space: Characterizing the Dynamic Radio Sky, From MHz to GHz, From Seconds to Years”
committee member · 2019 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Michael William Eastwood“Searching for the Cosmic Dawn with the Hyperfine Structure Transition of Hydrogen”
committee member · 2019 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Io K. Kleiser“Modeling Rapidly Fading Supernovae as Nickel-Free Core-Collapse Explosions of Extended Helium Stars”
committee member · 2019 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Elena M. Murchikova“Astrophysical Applications of Quantum Mechanics”
committee member · 2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Rebecca Marie Jensen-Clem“A Toolbox for Exoplanet Exploration”
committee member · 2017 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Melodie Minyu Kao“Constraining Substellar Magnetic Dynamos using Brown Dwarf Radio Aurorae”
committee member · 2017 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
John Sebastian Pineda“Multiwavelength Characterization of the Brown Dwarf Auroral Phenomenon - Establishing the Nature of the Electrodynamic Engine”
committee member · 2017 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jacqueline Rose Villadsen“The Search for Stellar Coronal Mass Ejections”
committee member · 2017 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yi Cao“Cosmic Explosions: Observations Of Infant Hydrogen-Free Supernovae Towards An Understanding Of Their Parent Systems”
committee member · 2016 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Krzysztof Findeisen“New Insights from Aperiodic Variability of Young Stars”
committee member · 2015 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Casey John Handmer“Gauge Invariant Spectral Cauchy Characteristic Extraction of Gravitational Waves in Computational General Relativity”
committee member · 2015 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kunal Prakash Mooley“Exploring the Dynamic Radio Sky: The Search for Slow Transients with the VLA”
committee member · 2015 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Xiang Zhai“Experimental, Numerical and Analytical Studies of the MHD-Driven Plasma Jet, Instabilities and Waves”
committee member · 2015 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Shriharsh Prakash Tendulkar“Beyond the Blur: Construction and Characterization of the First Autonomous AO System and an AO Survev of Magnetar Proper Motions”
committee member · 2014 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
David Benjamin Levitan“Finding Needles in the Haystack: A Search for AM CVn Systems Using the Palomar Transient Factory”
committee member · 2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Christopher Wegg“The Dynamics of White Dwarfs, Black Holes and Stellar Cusps”
committee member · 2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Varun B. Bhalerao“Neutron Stars and NuSTAR: A Systematic Survey of Neutron Star Masses in High Mass X-ray Binaries & Characterization of CdZnTe Detectors for NuSTAR”
committee member · 2012 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Evan Patrick O'Connor“Topics in Core-Collapse Supernova Theory: The Formation of Black Holes and the Transport of Neutrinos”
committee member · 2012 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Joseph Lee Richards“The Radio Variability of Gamma-Ray Blazars”
committee member · 2012 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yacine Ali-Haimoud“A New Spin on Primordial Hydrogen Recombination and a Refined Model for Spinning Dust Radiation”
committee member · 2011 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jason Nathaniel Bode“Black Hole Mergers and Their Electromagnetic Counterparts”
committee member · 2011 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Mansi Manoj Kasliwal“Bridging the Gap: Elusive Explosions in the Local Universe”
committee member · 2011 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Milan Bogosavljević“Lyman Continuum and Lyman α Emission from Galaxies at High Redshift”
committee member · 2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Patrick Brian Cameron“The Formation and Evolution of Neutron Stars: Astrometry, Timing, and Transients”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Stephen Bradley Cenko“The Energetics and Environments of Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Ilya Mandel“The Three Ss of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Sources, Signals, Searches”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
George Dana Becker“A High-Resolution Study of the High-Redshift Intergalactic Medium”
committee member · 2007 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Hua Fang“Topics in Gravitational Physics: Tidal Coupling in Gravitational Wave Searches and Mach’s Principle”
committee member · 2007 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Geoffrey Mark Lovelace“Topics in Gravitational-Wave Physics”
committee member · 2007 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Alicia Margarita Soderberg“The Many Facets of Cosmic Explosions”
committee member · 2007 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Michael Henry Kesden“To the Horizon and Beyond:Weak Lensing of the CMB and Binary Inspirals into Horizonless Objects”
committee member · 2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
David Lior Ariel Kaplan“The Diversity of Neutron Stars: Nearby Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars and the Compact Central Objects in Supernova Remnants”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Richard William O'Shaughnessy“Topics in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Robert Andrew Simcoe“Observations of Intergalactic Heavy-Element Enrichment in the Early Universe”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Luke Sollitt“Ionic Charge States of Solar Energetic Particles”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Patricia Simcoe Udomprasert“H₀ from Cosmic Background Imager Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect in Nearby Clusters.”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
John Kenneth Cartwright“A Limit on the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation”
committee member · 2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Michael David Hartl“Dynamics of Spinning Compact Binaries in General Relativity”
committee member · 2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Byron Jacob Philhour“Measurement of the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Andrew Jordan Baker“Molecular Gas in Nearby Active Galactic Nuclei”
committee member · 2000 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 2000 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Sanjoy Sondhi Mahajan“Order of Magnitude Physics: A Textbook with Applications to the Retinal Rod and the Density of Prime Numbers”
committee member · 1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yanqin Wu“Excitation and Saturation of White Dwarf Pulsation”
committee member · 1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Robert A. Jr Knop“Spatially Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy of Seyfert Galaxies”
committee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Eanna E. Flanagan“Topics in general relativity : the hoop conjecture and theoretical aspects of gravitational wave detection”
committee member · 1994 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Garrett T. Biehle“Studies of stars with neutron cores and of x-ray binaries displaying quasi-periodic oscillations”
committee member · 1993 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Paolo Severo Coppi“Radiative processes in active galactic nuclei”
committee member · 1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Mingsheng Han“The I-band Tully-Fisher relation and large-scale motions in the universe”
committee member · 1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Blaise J. Canzian“Molecular Gas and Star Formation in the Central Regions of Virgo Spiral Galaxies”
committee member · 1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Steven Theodore Myers“A Search for Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background on Angular Scales of 1 to 30 Arcminutes”
committee member · 1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ulvi Hamit Yurtsever“Singularities and Horizons in the Collisions of Gravitational Waves”
committee member · 1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Michael Edward Zucker“Experiments with a Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Antenna”
committee member · 1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Mark Harold Finger“The Imaging of Extra-Galactic Low-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources: Prospects, Techniques, and Instrumentation”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Alain Cheyney Porter“Isophotometry of Brightest Elliptical Galaxies in Rich Clusters”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Sheryl Leigh Smith“A Search for Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Binary Stars Using the Caltech 40 Meter Gravity Wave Detector”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Haimin Wang“Magnetic Fields and Supergranule Velocity Fields on the Quiet Sun”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Kevin Robert Lind“Observations and Gas Dynamics of Extragalactic Radio Jets”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Robert Michael Rich“Abundances and Kinematics of K Giants in the Galactic Nuclear Bulge”
committee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral