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Researcher Evidence Record

Frans Pretorius

This bounded record lists 97 Pith paper rows and 0 imported work rows attributed to this corpus identity. The enumerated, non-disputed paper rows include gr-qc, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO work dated 1998 to 2026. The record describes sources and coverage; it makes no judgment about the person.

Compiled coverage vector

Measured lane counts only. Not a trust score or person verdict.

Enumerated paper scope: 4 fields (gr-qc, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO, +1 more) · 1998-2026 sources: authors, author_identifiers · paper_authors · author_works · current_verdicts · cited_works

A sourced case file for attributed work. It is neither a profile score nor a verdict about this researcher.

Attributed works

A bounded ledger from the Pith paper and imported-work queries. Counts and source confidence stay with each work.

  1. 2026 Pith paper

    Trapping, Irregular Waveforms, and Efficient Radiation in Ultra-relativistic Black Hole Encounters

    gr-qc provisional current review present

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    backfill
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: a current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  2. 2026 Pith paper

    A Nonlinear Endpoint of Charged Horizon Instabilities

    gr-qc provisional current review present

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: a current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  3. 2025 Pith paper

    Accumulation of Charge on an Extremal Black Hole's Event Horizon

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  4. 2024 Pith paper

    On turbulence for spacetimes with stable trapping

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 4 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  5. 2024 Pith paper

    Black Holes Inside and Out 2024: visions for the future of black hole physics

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    25
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 7 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  6. 2024 Pith paper

    Exploring Black Hole Mimickers: Electromagnetic and Gravitational Signatures of AdS Black Shells

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  7. 2024 Pith paper

    Imprints of Changing Mass and Spin on Black Hole Ringdown

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 6 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  8. 2024 Pith paper

    Nonlinear Effects In Black Hole Ringdown From Scattering Experiments I: spin and initial data dependence of quadratic mode coupling

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 7 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  9. 2023 Pith paper

    Challenges in Quasinormal Mode Extraction: Perspectives from Numerical solutions to the Teukolsky Equation

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  10. 2023 Pith paper

    A Survey of Gravitational Waves

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    1
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  11. 2022 Pith paper

    Causal, stable first-order viscous relativistic hydrodynamics with ideal gas microphysics

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 3 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  12. 2022 Pith paper

    Binary neutron star mergers in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 5 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  13. 2022 Pith paper

    Conservative finite volume scheme for first-order viscous relativistic hydrodynamics

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 2 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  14. 2021 Pith paper

    Dynamics and Observational Signatures of Shell-like Black Hole Mimickers

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 2 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  15. 2021 Pith paper

    Dynamical attractors in contracting spacetimes dominated by kinetically coupled scalar fields

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  16. 2021 Pith paper

    Projecting the likely importance of weak-interaction-driven bulk viscosity in neutron star mergers

    astro-ph.HE provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    7
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 5 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  17. 2021 Pith paper

    The Effects of Multiple Modes and Reduced Symmetry on the Rapidity and Robustness of Slow Contraction

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  18. 2021 Pith paper

    A numerical exploration of first-order relativistic hydrodynamics

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 2 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  19. 2021 Pith paper

    Ultralocality and Slow Contraction

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  20. 2020 Pith paper

    Spike behavior in the approach to spacetime singularities

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  21. 2020 Pith paper

    Numerical computation of second order vacuum perturbations of Kerr black holes

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 5 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  22. 2020 Pith paper

    Second Order Perturbations of Kerr Black Holes: Reconstruction of the Metric

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 5 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  23. 2020 Pith paper

    Robustness of slow contraction to cosmic initial conditions

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  24. 2020 Pith paper

    Supersmoothing through Slow Contraction

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 56 external cited by from pith
    • 2 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  25. 2020 Pith paper

    Dynamics of a Z2 symmetric EdGB gravity in spherical symmetry

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  26. 2020 Pith paper

    The rotating black hole interior: Insights from gravitational collapse in $AdS_3$ spacetime

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  27. 2019 Pith paper

    Scalarized Black Hole dynamics in Einstein dilaton Gauss-Bonnet Gravity

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  28. 2019 Pith paper

    Einstein-Vlasov Calculations of Structure Formation

    astro-ph.CO provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  29. 2019 Pith paper

    Binary neutron star mergers: Effects of spin and post-merger dynamics

    astro-ph.HE provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  30. 2019 Pith paper

    Gravitational Collapse in Einstein dilaton Gauss-Bonnet Gravity

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  31. 2019 Pith paper

    Hyperbolicity in Spherical Gravitational Collapse in a Horndeski Theory

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 2 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  32. 2018 Pith paper

    Stability and the Gauge Problem in Non-Perturbative Cosmology

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  33. 2018 Pith paper

    Black Hole Formation from the Collision of Plane-Fronted Gravitational Waves

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    1
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  34. 2018 Pith paper

    Evolution of Highly Eccentric Binary Neutron Stars Including Tidal Effects

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  35. 2017 Pith paper

    Gravitational wave spectroscopy of binary neutron star merger remnants with mode stacking

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    5
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  36. 2017 Pith paper

    Superradiant Instability and Backreaction of Massive Vector Fields around Kerr Black Holes

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 306 external cited by from pith
    • 7 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  37. 2017 Pith paper

    Black hole spectroscopy with coherent mode stacking

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    6
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 4 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  38. 2016 Pith paper

    Equation of state effects and one-arm spiral instability in hypermassive neutron stars formed in eccentric neutron star mergers

    astro-ph.HE provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  39. 2016 Pith paper

    Theoretical Physics Implications of the Binary Black-Hole Mergers GW150914 and GW151226

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 19 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  40. 2016 Pith paper

    Spontaneous Scalarization with Massive Fields

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 4 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  41. 2015 Pith paper

    Gravity-dominated unequal-mass black hole collisions

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  42. 2015 Pith paper

    Relativistic Simulations of Eccentric Binary Neutron Star Mergers: One-arm Spiral Instability and Effects of Neutron Star Spin

    astro-ph.HE provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  43. 2015 Pith paper

    One-arm Spiral Instability in Hypermassive Neutron Stars Formed by Dynamical-Capture Binary Neutron Star Mergers

    astro-ph.HE provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  44. 2015 Pith paper

    Eccentric mergers of black holes with spinning neutron stars

    astro-ph.HE provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  45. 2015 Pith paper

    Probing Strong Field Gravity Through Numerical Simulations

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 24 external cited by from pith
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  46. 2014 Pith paper

    Numerical Relativity and Astrophysics

    astro-ph.HE provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 6 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  47. 2014 Pith paper

    A Parametrized post-Einsteinian Framework for Gravitational Wave Bursts

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  48. 2014 Pith paper

    Detecting gravitational waves from highly eccentric compact binaries

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  49. 2013 Pith paper

    Black Hole Superradiance in Dynamical Spacetime

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  50. 2013 Pith paper

    Nonperturbative analysis of the evolution of cosmological perturbations through a nonsingular bounce

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  51. 2013 Pith paper

    Simulating extreme-mass-ratio systems in full general relativity

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  52. 2012 Pith paper

    Observing complete gravitational wave signals from dynamical capture binaries

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 101 external cited by from pith
    • 3 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  53. 2012 Pith paper

    Universality, maximum radiation and absorption in high-energy collisions of black holes with spin

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 5 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  54. 2012 Pith paper

    Gravitational waves and stalled satellites from massive galaxy mergers at z <= 1

    astro-ph.CO provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 87 external cited by from pith
    • 2 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  55. 2012 Pith paper

    The imminent detection of gravitational waves from massive black-hole binaries with pulsar timing arrays

    astro-ph.CO provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  56. 2012 Pith paper

    Ultrarelativistic black hole formation

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  57. 2012 Pith paper

    Dynamical Capture Binary Neutron Star Mergers

    astro-ph.HE provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  58. 2012 Pith paper

    Conformal Thin-Sandwich Solver for Generic Initial Data

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  59. 2012 Pith paper

    Detectable seismic consequences of the interaction of a primordial black hole with Earth

    astro-ph.CO provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  60. 2012 Pith paper

    NR/HEP: roadmap for the future

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    26
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  61. 2012 Pith paper

    Simulation of Asymptotically AdS5 Spacetimes with a Generalized Harmonic Evolution Scheme

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  62. 2011 Pith paper

    Hydrodynamics in full general relativity with conservative AMR

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  63. 2011 Pith paper

    Eccentric black hole-neutron star mergers: effects of black hole spin and equation of state

    astro-ph.HE provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 2 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  64. 2011 Pith paper

    Eccentric binary neutron star mergers

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    5
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  65. 2011 Pith paper

    Final State of Gregory-Laflamme Instability

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  66. 2011 Pith paper

    Gravitational Wave Tests of General Relativity with the Parameterized Post-Einsteinian Framework

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 10 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  67. 2011 Pith paper

    A Dynamical Systems Approach to Schwarzschild Null Geodesics

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  68. 2010 Pith paper

    Evaporation of 2-Dimensional Black Holes

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 2 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  69. 2010 Pith paper

    Surprises in the Evaporation of 2-Dimensional Black Holes

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 2 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  70. 2010 Pith paper

    Superkicks in ultrarelativistic encounters of spinning black holes

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  71. 2010 Pith paper

    Two-dimensional quantum black holes: Numerical methods

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  72. 2010 Pith paper

    Linear Stability Analysis and the Speed of Gravitational Waves in Dynamical Chern-Simons Modified Gravity

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 2 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  73. 2010 Pith paper

    Black Strings, Low Viscosity Fluids, and Violation of Cosmic Censorship

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 6 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  74. 2010 Pith paper

    Semianalytical estimates of scattering thresholds and gravitational radiation in ultrarelativistic black hole encounters

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    5
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 5 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  75. 2009 Pith paper

    Constraining the evolutionary history of Newton's constant with gravitational wave observations

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 2 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  76. 2009 Pith paper

    Comment on "Kerr Black Holes as Particle Accelerators to Arbitrarily High Energy"

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  77. 2009 Pith paper

    Fundamental Theoretical Bias in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics and the Parameterized Post-Einsteinian Framework

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 28 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  78. 2009 Pith paper

    Ultra Relativistic Particle Collisions

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 170 external cited by from pith
    • 5 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  79. 2009 Pith paper

    Status of NINJA: the Numerical INJection Analysis project

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    51
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  80. 2009 Pith paper

    Spikes in the Mixmaster regime of G_2 cosmologies

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    4
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  81. 2009 Pith paper

    Dynamical Chern-Simons Modified Gravity I: Spinning Black Holes in the Slow-Rotation Approximation

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    2
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 10 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  82. 2009 Pith paper

    Testing gravitational-wave searches with numerical relativity waveforms: Results from the first Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    51
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  83. 2008 Pith paper

    Evolution to a smooth universe in an ekpyrotic contracting phase with w > 1

    hep-th provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  84. 2007 Pith paper

    Binary Black Hole Coalescence

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    1
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 0 external cited by from arxiv_reference
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  85. 2007 Pith paper

    A data-analysis driven comparison of analytic and numerical coalescing binary waveforms: nonspinning case

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    7
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 2 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  86. 2007 Pith paper

    Black Hole Mergers and Unstable Circular Orbits

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    1
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 3 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  87. 2007 Pith paper

    Comparisons of binary black hole merger waveforms

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  88. 2006 Pith paper

    Learning about compact binary merger: the interplay between numerical relativity and gravitational-wave astronomy

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    5
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  89. 2006 Pith paper

    Inspiral, merger and ring-down of equal-mass black-hole binaries

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    3
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 24 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  90. 2006 Pith paper

    Simulation of Binary Black Hole Spacetimes with a Harmonic Evolution Scheme

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    1
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 179 external cited by from pith
    • 1 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  91. 2005 Pith paper

    Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Coupled Elliptic-Hyperbolic Systems

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    1
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  92. 2005 Pith paper

    Evolution of Binary Black Hole Spacetimes

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    1
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 17 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  93. 2004 Pith paper

    Numerical Relativity Using a Generalized Harmonic Decomposition

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    1
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 3 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  94. 2003 Pith paper

    Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Characteristic Codes

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    1
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  95. 2000 Pith paper

    Gravitational collapse in 2+1 dimensional AdS spacetime

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    1
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    • 4 pith inbound references from cited_work_pith_inbound_counts
  96. 1999 Pith paper

    Quantum interest for scalar fields in Minkowski spacetime

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    1
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.
  97. 1998 Pith paper

    Quasi-Spherical Light Cones of the Kerr Geometry

    gr-qc provisional measured, no current review

    Sources and evidence
    Authorship source
    arxiv_oai
    Printed name
    Frans Pretorius
    Author position
    1
    Identity state
    provisional
    Source confidence
    0.7
    Review coverage
    Measured: no current Pith review exists.
    Citation counts
    No source count is attached to this work row.

Evidence apparatus

The machinery behind this record. Every lane states whether Pith measured it, did not query it, could not reach it, or withheld it.

LaneStateObservedBoundary and source
identity Measured 2 Canonical identity row plus public typed identifiers.
source=authors, author_identifiers
papers Measured 97 of 97 bounded rows Rows attributed to this author UUID in the Pith corpus.
source=paper_authors
works Measured zero 0 of 0 bounded rows Imported works not duplicated by the paper ledger.
source=author_works
reviews Measured 2 of 97 bounded rows Coverage count only. No review outcome is projected onto the person.
source=current_verdicts
citations Measured 64 of 97 bounded rows Counts remain itemized by work and source.
source=cited_works
coauthors Measured 50 of 97 bounded rows Shared-work edges from admitted paper rows.
source=paper_authors
account Unavailable No public count of 1 bounded rows Account metadata is separate from corpus evidence.
source=users.author_id
Public identity sources
  • name variant
    Frans Pretorius
    backfill
    confidence 0.6
Enumerated research scope

Fields and dates come only from enumerated, non-disputed Pith paper rows. They do not claim career completeness.

  • gr-qc80 rows
  • astro-ph.HE9 rows
  • astro-ph.CO4 rows
  • hep-th4 rows
  • 19981 rows
  • 19991 rows
  • 20001 rows
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  • 20041 rows
  • 20052 rows
  • 20063 rows
  • 20074 rows
  • 20081 rows
  • 20098 rows
  • 20107 rows
  • 20116 rows
  • 201210 rows
  • 20133 rows
  • 20143 rows
  • 20155 rows
  • 20163 rows
  • 20173 rows
  • 20183 rows
  • 20195 rows
  • 20207 rows
  • 20216 rows
  • 20223 rows
  • 20232 rows
  • 20245 rows
  • 20251 rows
  • 20262 rows
Shared-work index
Record scope

The work queries are bounded. Missing rows may mean measured zero, an unavailable source, a query that did not run, or private data that Pith withheld. The lane table keeps those cases separate.

Paper findings remain attached to papers. They do not become findings about this researcher.