
Barak Rom
I am a PhD candidate at the Hebrew University, supervised by Prof. Re’em Sari. I work on several topics in theoretical astrophysics, focusing on dynamical processes in the center of galaxies, high-energy transients, formation of TDEs and gravitational wave sources, and EMRIs waveform modeling.
Publications
- B. Rom, R. Sari, “Segregation in Nuclear Stellar Clusters: Rates and Mass Distributions of TDEs, QPEs, Plunges, and EMRIs”, Arxiv: 2502.13209 (submitted to ApJ).
- B. Rom, I. Linial, K. Kaur & R. Sari, “Dynamics around supermassive black holes: Extreme mass-ratio inspirals as gravitational-wave sources”, 2024, ApJ, 977, 7.
- B. Rom, R. Sari & D. Lai, “Formation of Merging Stellar-mass Black Hole Binaries by Gravitational-wave Emission in Active Galactic Nucleus Disks”,2024, ApJ, 964, 43.
- B. Rom, I. Linial & R. Sari, “Energy Flux and Particle Flux in Steady-state Solutions of Nuclear Star Clusters”, 2023, ApJ,951, 14.
- B. Rom & R. Sari, “Extreme Mass-Ratio Binary Black Hole Merger: Characteristics of the Test-Particle Limit”, 2022, PRD, 106, 104040.
- K. Kaur, B. Rom & R. Sari, “Semi-Analytical Fokker Planck Models for Nuclear Star Clusters”, arxiv:2406.07627 (Accepted for publication in ApJ).
- I. Strusberg, B. Rom & R. Sari, “Universal Waveform for Extreme mass ratio inspiral”. (in prep.).
Location
Racah Institute of Physics,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Edmond J. Safra Campus,
Jerusalem 9190401 Israel