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Milton Ruiz

Theoretical Astrophysicist &
Numerical Relativist

Milton Ruiz

I am a Research Scientist in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign currently studying compact binary mergers in magnetized environments, including binary black holes in gaseous disks, neutron star-black hole and neutron star binaries, and exotic objects such as ergostars and boson stars. The goal of my research is to predict and correlate observable gravitational waves and electromagnetic signatures from these events. Also, I am strongly interested in alternative theories of gravity and mathematical aspects of Numerical Relativity. I have been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA).

Milton Ruiz

Research

Gravitational
Waves

Electromagnetic
counterparts

Jets & sGRBs

Binary Mergers

Black Hole
Neutron Stars

Accretion disks

Exotic Objects

Ergostars

Boson Stars

Announcements

I will move to the University of Valencia (Spain) this summer as Distinguished Researcher (CIDEGENT - Plan GenT).

Posted on Feb 28th, 2021

Open PhD-Positions in Computational Astrophysics and Numerical Relativity in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Valencia through the CIDEGENT program to support Distinguished Researcher.

Posted on Feb 28th, 2021

Recent Publications

  1. New Horizons for Fundamental Physics with LISA.
    K. G. Arun et al.
    Living Reviews in Relativity 25:4 (2022).
  2. Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
    Amaro-Seoane et. al.
    Submitted to Living Reviews In Relativity (2022).
  3. Jet Launching from Binary Neutron Star Mergers: Incorporating Neutrino Transport and Magnetic Fields.
    L. Sun, M. Ruiz, S. L. Shapiro, A. Tsokaros.
    Phys. Rev. D 105, 104028 (2022).
  4. Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of self-consistent rotating neutron stars with mixed poloidal and toroidal magnetic fields.
    A. Tsokaros, M. Ruiz, S. L. Shapiro, K. Uryū.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 061101 (2022).
  5. Jet Launching from Merging Magnetized Binary Neutron Stars with Realistic Equations of State
    M. Ruiz, A. Tsokaros, S. L. Shapiro.
    Phys. Rev. D 104, 124049 (2021).

Ongoing Projects

Accretion disks around spin-precessing black hole binaries