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most citedCausality Violations in Lovelock Theories

20 citations · 69 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

physics.geo-ph2025

Global Chlorophyll-\textit{a} Retrieval algorithm from Sentinel 2 Using Residual Deep Learning and Novel Machine Learning Water Classification

Yotam Sherf, Bar Efrati, Gabriel Rozman +1

We present the Global Water Classifier (GWC), a supervised, geospatially extensive Machine Learning (ML) classifier trained on Sen2Cor corrected Sentinel-2 surface reflectance data…

gr-qc2025

Hierarchical constraints on gravitational waves from horizonless compact objects

Rajrupa Mondal, Julian Westerweck, Yotam Sherf +2

We use the data of several promising gravitational wave observations to obtain increasingly stringent bounds on near-horizon deviations of their sources from the Kerr geometry. A r…

gr-qc2023

Discovering Love numbers through resonance excitation during extreme mass ratio inspirals

Shani Avitan, Ram Brustein, Yotam Sherf

General Relativity predicts that black holes do not possess an internal structure and consequently cannot be excited. This leads to a specific prediction about the waveform of grav…

gr-qc2021

Sub-atomic constraints on the Kerr geometry of GW150914

Julian Westerweck, Yotam Sherf, Collin D. Capano +1

We obtain stringent constraints on near-horizon deviations of a black hole from the Kerr geometry by performing a long-duration Bayesian analysis of the gravitational-wave data imm…

gr-qc2021★ 9 cited

Classical Love for Quantum Blackholes

Ram Brustein, Yotam Sherf

We present a method for comparing the classical and quantum calculations of the electric quadrupolar Love number and show that our previous derivation of the quantum Love num…

gr-qc2021★ 12 cited

Tidal-heating/viscous dissipation correspondence in black holes and viscous compact objects

Yotam Sherf

The effect of energy absorption during the binary evolution of Exotic-compact-objects (ECOs) is extensively studied. We review the underlying mechanism that provides the energy dis…

gr-qc2020★ 12 cited

Quantum Love

Ram Brustein, Yotam Sherf

The response of a gravitating object to an external tidal field is encoded in its Love numbers, which identically vanish for classical blackholes (BHs). Here we show, using standar…

hep-th2019★ 3 cited

Quantum State of Black-Holes Out of Equilibrium

Yotam Sherf

We study the properties of black-holes (BHs) that are out of equilibrium about the Hartle-Hawking (HH) vacuum state. We show how gravitational perturbations excite the vacuum state…

hep-th2019★ 6 cited

Emission Channels from Perturbed Quantum Black Holes

Ram Brustein, Yotam Sherf

We calculate the emission of gravitational waves, gravitons, photons and neutrinos from a perturbed Schwarzschild blackhole (BH). The perturbation can be due to either classical or…

gr-qc2018★ 7 cited

Hyperbolicity Constraints in Extended Gravity Theories

Yotam Sherf

We study the characteristic structure of the Einstein-Hilbert (EH) action when modifications of the form of , and are included. We show th…

hep-th2017★ 20 cited

Causality Violations in Lovelock Theories

Ram Brustein, Yotam Sherf

Higher-derivative gravity theories, such as Lovelock theories, generalize Einstein's general relativity (GR). Modifications to GR are expected when curvatures are near Planckian an…