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Alan P. Lightman

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27

Publications

4.1K

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21

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1973

Active since

Affiliations

California Institute of Technology(Current)

Cornell University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

Alan P. Lightman is an author at California Institute of Technology specializing in engineering, cosmology, and physics.

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1973–2000

27

Publications

27

<i>Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Neutron Stars: The Physics of Compact Objects</i>

S. L. Shapiro, Saul A. Teukolsky, Alan P. Lightman · Physics Today · 1983 · 1.2K citations

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Black Holes in Binary Systems: Instability of Disk Accretion

Alan P. Lightman, Douglas M. Eardley · The Astrophysical Journal · 1974 · 579 citations

Effects of cold matter in active galactic nuclei - A broad hump in the X-ray spectra

Alan P. Lightman, T. R. White · The Astrophysical Journal · 1988 · 391 citations

Gravitational-Wave Observations as a Tool for Testing Relativistic Gravity

Douglas M. Eardley, David L. Lee, Alan P. Lightman · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 1973 · 278 citations

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Gravitational-Wave Observations as a Tool for Testing Relativistic Gravity

Douglas M. Eardley, David L. Lee, Alan P. Lightman et al. · Physical Review Letters · 1973 · 272 citations · Full text

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