Dr. Nicolas Yunes

Dr. Nicolas  Yunes

Contact Information

249 Loomis Laboratory
1110 W Green
M/C 704
Urbana, IL 61801
Professor of Physics

Research Interests

Gravity, black holes, neutron stars, gravitational waves

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Physics
Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Recent Publications

Alvarez, E., Perkins, S., Ravanedo, F., & Yunes, N. (2026). Dark matter clumps as sources of gravitational-wave glitches in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA data. Physical Review D, 113(4), Article 043058. https://doi.org/10.1103/JWBC-S8J1

Berti, E., Cardoso, V., Carullo, G., Abedi, J., Afshordi, N., Albanesi, S., Baibhav, V., Bhagwat, S., Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, J., Bonga, B., Bucciotti, B., Caneva Santoro, G., Cano, P. A., Capano, C., Ho-Yeuk Cheung, M., Chirenti, C., Cook, G. B., Ka-Wai Chung, A., De Amicis, M., ... Zhu, H. (2026). Black hole spectroscopy: from theory to experiment. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 43(12), Article 123001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae59e2

Cousins, B., Schumacher, K., Chung, A. K. W., Talbot, C., Callister, T., Holz, D. E., & Yunes, N. (2026). Stochastic Siren: Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Background Measurements of the Hubble Constant. Physical review letters, 136(10), Article 101003. https://doi.org/10.1103/4lzh-bm7y

Hegade, A. R. A., Kwon, K. J., Venumadhav, T., Yu, H., & Yunes, N. (2026). Relativistic and Dynamical Love Numbers. Physical review letters, 136(7), Article 071401. https://doi.org/10.1103/1wdp-6x27

Lam, K. K. H., Chung, A. K. W., & Yunes, N. (2026). Analytic and accurate approximate metrics for black holes with arbitrary rotation in beyond-Einstein gravity using spectral methods. Physical Review D, 113(2), Article 024030. https://doi.org/10.1103/txxb-z8bx

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