researcher

K. Cheng

121 papers hereh-index 466.7k citations384 works total

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author position

first author24
middle author32
last author52

Across the 108 of 121 papers where every author was matched, so the position is known.

fields

astro-ph.HE61
astro-ph46
astro-ph.GA5
astro-ph.CO4
gr-qc3
astro-ph.SR1

same name

K. Cheng — 23 papers, h 10
K. Cheng — 15 papers, h 59
K. Cheng — 15 papers, h 6
K. Cheng — 12 papers, h 11
K. Cheng — 12 papers, h 34
K. Cheng — 10 papers, h 15

Either other researchers who publish under this name, or the same person where the external sources have not merged their records.

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activity

19952023

most citedConversion of neutron stars to strange stars as an origin of gamma-ray bursts

153 citations · 3.4k across the 121 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

Showing 1997Show all

2 papers · 1 filter

astro-ph1997★ 51 cited

Gravitational Waves from Phase Transition of Accreting Neutron Stars

K. S. Cheng, Z. G. Dai

We propose that when neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries accrete sufficient mass and become millisecond pulsars, the interiors of these stars may undergo phase transitions, wh…

astro-ph1997

A New Model for Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters

K. S. Cheng, Z. G. Dai

We consider a model in which the soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) result from young, magnetized strange stars with superconducting cores. As such a strange star spins down, the quan…