Steven Balbus(1953)
AstronomySteven Balbus is a recipient of the Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2013) from United States. Their primary field is Astronomy. They were educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley. They have been affiliated with University of Oxford.
United StatesUniversity of Oxford
1
Major Awards
192
Publications
14,634
Citations
43
h-index
89
i10-index
76.2
Avg Citations/Paper
Awards & Recognition
Recent Publications
View all worksThe plunging region of a thin accretion disc around a Schwarzschild black hole
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society2025
3citations
A very simple derivation of the periastron advance to all post-Newtonian orders of perturbation in Schwarzschild geometry
American Journal of Physics2025
0citations
Determining the difference between local acceleration and local gravity: Applications of the equivalence principle to relativistic trajectories
American Journal of Physics2024
2citations
Open AccessThe dynamics of accretion flows near to the innermost stable circular orbit
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society2024
3citations
Open AccessComplete characterization of the orbital shapes of the noncircular Kerr geodesic solutions with circular orbit constants of motion
Physical Review D2023
15citations
Open AccessAccretion within the innermost stable circular orbit: analytical thermodynamic solutions in the adiabatic limit
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society2023
12citations
Open AccessTesting theories of accretion and gravity with super-extremal Kerr discs
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society2023
1citations
Open AccessFundamental scaling relationships revealed in the optical light curves of tidal disruption events
2023
49citations
Open AccessInspirals from the Innermost Stable Circular Orbit of Kerr Black Holes: Exact Solutions and Universal Radial Flow.
Physical Review Letters2022
20citations
Open AccessThe high energy probability distribution of accretion disc luminosity fluctuations
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society2022
3citations
Open AccessCareer History
Researcher
University of Oxford
Oxford, GB
External Profiles
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
Career Timeline
University of Oxford?–present
University of Virginia?–present
École Normale Supérieure?–present
Princeton University?–present
Academy Memberships
National Academy of Sciences (US)
Top Publications
The spectral evolution of disc dominated tidal disruption events
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society202084 citations
Fundamental scaling relationships revealed in the optical light curves of tidal disruption events
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society202376 citations
Long-term evolution of a magnetic massive merger product
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society202071 citations
ASASSN-15lh: a TDE about a maximally rotating 109 M⊙ black hole
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters202028 citations
Inspirals from the Innermost Stable Circular Orbit of Kerr Black Holes: Exact Solutions and Universal Radial Flow
Physical Review Letters202228 citations
Related Laureates
Other winners of the same award(s)
SW
Simon White
Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2024)
SK
Shrinivas Kulkarni
Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2024)
CB
Charles Bennett
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2023)
MB
Matthew Bailes
Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2023)
DL
Duncan Lorimer
Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2023)
MM
Maura McLaughlin
Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2023)
VK
Victoria Kaspi
Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2022)
Chryssa Kouveliotou
Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2022)
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