Barak Rom

I am a Spitzer Fellow at Princeton University. I work on several topics in theoretical astrophysics, focusing on dynamical processes in the center of galaxies, high-energy transients, formation of TDEs and GW sources.

I completed my PhD in 2025 at the Astrophysics department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the supervision of Re’em Sari.

Publications

  • B. Rom, E. Quataert, “Red Giant Destruction by Stellar and Black Hole Collisions in Galactic Nuclei”, 2026, ApJ, 1007, 156.
  • B. Rom, R. Sari, “Dynamics in Nuclear Stellar Clusters: The Impact of Collisions and Disrupted Binaries”, 2026, ApJL, 1007, L2.
  • B. Rom, R. Sari, “Segregation in Nuclear Stellar Clusters: Rates and Mass Distributions of TDEs, QPEs, Plunges, and EMRIs”, 2025, ApJ, 146,11.
  • 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”, 2025, ApJ, 150,13.
  • I. Strusberg, B. Rom & R. Sari, “Universal Waveform for Extreme mass ratio inspiral”, 2025, arXiv:2505.07941.

CV & Contact

Please find my CV here

mail: barak.rom@princeton.edu

Location

Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA