Dr. Ofek Birnholtz is the PI of Bar-Ilan's LIGO group, as part of the international LIGO Scientific Collaboration, with a focus on studying Gravitational Waves, and through them Astrophysical systems of Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and phenomena in General Relativity, and beyond.
Yehu I. Maimon, Alex B. Nielsen, Ofek Birnholtz, "Constraining Dirty Black Holes and pseudo-complex General Relativity with the Gravitational Waves Transient Catalog 3.0", https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10199
Daniel Rozental, Ofek Birnholtz, "κ-General-Relativity II: An Astrophysical Observable from a 2-Body system", https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18669
Yogesh Dandekar, Barak Kol, "Distribution of regularized three-body phase-volume", https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2501.02013
E. D. Emtsova, A. N. Petrov, A. V. Toporensky, "Mass and angular momentum for the Kerr black hole in TEGR and STEGR", https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10529
Daniel Rozental, Ofek Birnholtz, "κ-General-Relativity I: a Non-Commutative GR Theory with the κ-Minkowski Spacetime as its Flat Limit", https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11955
Elise M. Sänger, Soumen Roy, Michalis Agathos, Ofek Birnholtz et al., "Tests of General Relativity with GW230529: a neutron star merging with a lower mass-gap compact object", https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03568