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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Astronomy

Dr. Nicolas Yunes

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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

Callister, T., Jenks, L., Holz, D. E., & Yunes, N. (2025). New probe of gravitational parity violation through nonobservation of the stochastic gravitational-wave background. Physical Review D, 111(4), Article 044041. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.044041

Chandramouli, R. S., Prokup, K., Berti, E., & Yunes, N. (2025). Systematic biases due to waveform mismodeling in parametrized post-Einsteinian tests of general relativity: The impact of neglecting spin precession and higher modes. Physical Review D, 111(4), Article 044026. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.044026

Lowrey, T., Yagi, K., & Yunes, N. (2025). Improved analytic Love-C relations for neutron stars. Physical Review D, 111(2), Article 024075. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.024075

Yunes, N., Siemens, X., & Yagi, K. (2025). Gravitational-wave tests of general relativity with ground-based detectors and pulsar-timing arrays. Living Reviews in Relativity, 28(1), Article 3. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41114-024-00054-9

Arredondo, J. N., Klein, A., & Yunes, N. (2024). Efficient gravitational-wave model for fully-precessing and moderately eccentric, compact binary inspirals. Physical Review D, 110(4), Article 044044. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.044044

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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Astronomy

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1002 W. Green Street

Urbana, IL 61801

217-333-3090

Email: astronomy@illinois.edu

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