Positions

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year Title
2022 Data-driven Expectations for Electromagnetic Counterpart Searches Based on LIGO/Virgo Public AlertsAstrophysical Journal.  924:54-54. 2022
2021 Estimating outflow masses and velocities in merger simulations: Impact of r-process heating and neutrino coolingPhysical Review D.  104. 2021
2021 Implementation of Monte Carlo Transport in the General Relativistic SpEC CodeAstrophysical Journal.  920:82-82. 2021
2021 The Relative Contribution to Heavy Metals Production from Binary Neutron Star Mergers and Neutron Star-Black Hole MergersAstrophysical Journal Letters.  920:L3-L3. 2021
2021 High-accuracy waveforms for black hole-neutron star systems with spinning black holesPhysical Review D.  103:064007. 2021
2020 Aligned-spin neutron-star–black-hole waveform model based on the effective-one-body approach and numerical-relativity simulationsPhysical Review D.  102:043023. 2020
2020 A Brief Overview of Black Hole-Neutron Star MergersFRONTIERS IN ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES.  7:46. 2020
2020 Estimates for disk and ejecta masses produced in compact binary mergersPhysical Review D.  101:103002. 2020
2020 Unequal mass binary neutron star simulations with neutrino transport: Ejecta and neutrino emissionPhysical Review D.  101:044053. 2020
2019 Smooth equations of state for high-accuracy simulations of neutron star binariesPhysical Review D.  100:104048. 2019
2019 Distinguishing the nature of comparable-mass neutron star binary systems with multimessenger observations: GW170817 case studyPhysical Review D.  100:063021. 2019
2019 Numerical simulations of neutron star-black hole binaries in the near-equal-mass regimePhysical Review D: Particles and fields Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology.  99:103025. 2019
2019 Imprints of r-process heating on fall-back accretion: distinguishing black hole–neutron star from double neutron star mergersMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.  485:4404-4412. 2019
2019 Gravitational waveforms from spectral Einstein code simulations: Neutron star-neutron star and low-mass black hole-neutron star binariesPhysical Review D: Particles and fields Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology.  99:044008. 2019
2019 Systematic effects from black hole-neutron star waveform model uncertainties on the neutron star equation of statePhysical Review D.  99:024049. 2019
2019 Long-term GRMHD simulations of neutron star merger accretion discs: implications for electromagnetic counterpartsMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.  482:3373-3393. 2019
2018 Elastic scattering in general relativistic ray tracing for neutrinosPhysical Review D.  98:103014. 2018
2018 Remnant baryon mass in neutron star-black hole mergers: Predictions for binary neutron star mimickers and rapidly spinning black holesPhysical Review D: Particles and fields Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology.  98:081501. 2018
2018 Black hole-neutron star mergers using a survey of finite-temperature equations of statePhysical Review D.  98:063009. 2018
2018 Evaluating radiation transport errors in merger simulations using a Monte Carlo algorithmPhysical Review D.  98:063007. 2018
2018 Evolution of the magnetized, neutrino-cooled accretion disk in the aftermath of a black hole-neutron star binary mergerPhysical Review D.  97:083014. 2018
2018 Monte Carlo closure for moment-based transport schemes in general relativistic radiation hydrodynamic simulationsMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.  475:4186-4207. 2018
2017 Signatures of hypermassive neutron star lifetimes on r-process nucleosynthesis in the disc ejecta from neutron star mergersMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.  472:904-918. 2017
2017 How important is non-ideal physics in simulations of sub-Eddington accretion on to spinning black holes?Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.  470:2240-2252. 2017
2017 Dynamics, nucleosynthesis, and kilonova signature of black hole-neutron star merger ejectaClassical and Quantum Gravity.  34:154001-154001. 2017
2017 SpECTRE: A task-based discontinuous Galerkin code for relativistic astrophysicsJournal of Computational Physics.  335:84-114. 2017
2017 grim: A Flexible, Conservative Scheme for Relativistic Fluid TheoriesAstrophysical Journal.  837:92-92. 2017
2017 Dynamical ejecta from precessing neutron star-black hole mergers with a hot, nuclear-theory based equation of stateClassical and Quantum Gravity.  34:044002-044002. 2017
2016 Impact of an improved neutrino energy estimate on outflows in neutron star merger simulationsPhysical Review D.  94:123016. 2016
2016 Initial data for black hole-neutron star binaries, with rotating starsClassical and Quantum Gravity.  33:225012-225012. 2016
2016 Simulations of inspiraling and merging double neutron stars using the Spectral Einstein CodePhysical Review D.  93:124062. 2016
2016 Initial data for high-compactness black hole-neutron star binariesClassical and Quantum Gravity.  33:105009-105009. 2016
2016 Effects of Neutron-Star Dynamic Tides on Gravitational Waveforms within the Effective-One-Body Approach.Physical Review Letters.  116:181101. 2016
2016 Gravitational waveforms for neutron star binaries from binary black hole simulationsPhysical Review D.  93:044064. 2016
2016 Evolution of accretion discs around a kerr black hole using extended magnetohydrodynamicsMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.  456:1332-1345. 2016
2016 Low mass binary neutron star mergers: Gravitational waves and neutrino emissionPhysical Review D: Particles and fields Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology.  93:044019. 2016
2015 Improvements to the construction of binary black hole initial dataClassical and Quantum Gravity.  32:245010-245010. 2015
2015 Binary neutron stars with arbitrary spins in numerical relativityPhysical Review D: Particles and fields Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology.  92:124012. 2015
2015 AN EXTENDED MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS MODEL FOR RELATIVISTIC WEAKLY COLLISIONAL PLASMASAstrophysical Journal.  810:162-162. 2015
2015 Post-merger evolution of a neutron star-black hole binary with neutrino transportPhysical Review D: Particles and fields Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology.  91:124021. 2015
2014 Evolution of linear warps in accretion discs and applications to protoplanetary discs in binariesMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.  445:1731-1744. 2014
2014 Magnetic effects on the low-T/vertical bar W vertical bar instability in differentially rotating neutron starsPhysical Review D: Particles and fields Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology.  90:104014. 2014
2014 Neutron star-black hole mergers with a nuclear equation of state and neutrino cooling: Dependence in the binary parametersPhysical Review D: Particles and fields Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology.  90:024026. 2014
2013 BLACK HOLE-NEUTRON STAR MERGERS WITH A HOT NUCLEAR EQUATION OF STATE: OUTFLOW AND NEUTRINO-COOLED DISK FOR A LOW-MASS, HIGH-SPIN CASEAstrophysical Journal.  776:47-47. 2013
2013 First direct comparison of nondisrupting neutron star-black hole and binary black hole merger simulationsPhysical Review D: Particles and fields Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology.  88:064017. 2013
2013 Massive disc formation in the tidal disruption of a neutron star by a nearly extremal black holeClassical and Quantum Gravity.  30:135004-135004. 2013
2013 Black-hole-neutron-star mergers at realistic mass ratios: Equation of state and spin orientation effectsPhysical Review D: Particles and fields Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology.  87:084006. 2013
2013 ASSEMBLY OF PROTOPLANETARY DISKS AND INCLINATIONS OF CIRCUMBINARY PLANETSAstrophysical Journal.  764:106-106. 2013
2012 Black-hole-neutron-star mergers: Disk mass predictionsPhysical Review D: Particles and fields Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology.  86:124007. 2012
2012 Black hole-neutron star mergers for 10 M-circle dot black holesPhysical Review D: Particles and fields Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology.  85:044015. 2012
2011 Evolution of spin direction of accreting magnetic protostars and spin-orbit misalignment in exoplanetary systemsMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.  412:2790-2798. 2011
2011 Evolution of spin direction of accreting magnetic protostars and spin-orbit misalignment in exoplanetary systems - II. Warped discsMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.  412:2799-2815. 2011
2011 Black hole-neutron star mergers: Effects of the orientation of the black hole spinPhysical Review D: Particles and fields Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology.  83:024005. 2011
2008 Evolving black hole-neutron star binaries in general relativity using pseudospectral and finite difference methodsPhysical Review D: Particles and fields Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology.  78:104015. 2008
2008 Initial data for black hole-neutron star binaries: A flexible, high-accuracy spectral methodPhysical Review D: Particles and fields Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology.  77:124051. 2008
Advancing the Landscape of Multimessenger Science in the Next Decade
Comparison of momentum transport models for numerical relativityPhysical Review D.  102:104050.
Erratum: Estimates for disk and ejecta masses produced in compact binary mergers [Phys. Rev. D 101 , 103002 (2020)]Physical Review D.  102.
Heating of Accretion-Disk Coronae and Jets by General Relativistic MHD TurbulenceJournal of Plasma Physics.  84.
Monte-Carlo Neutrino Transport in Neutron Star Merger SimulationsAstrophysical Journal Letters.  902:L27-L27.
Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Numerical relativity for next-generation gravitational-wave probes of fundamental physics
Spin effects on neutron star fundamental-mode dynamical tides: Phenomenology and comparison to numerical simulationsPhys. Rev. Research.  3:033129.
Statistical and systematic uncertainties in extracting the source properties of neutron star-black hole binaries with gravitational wavesPhysical Review D.  103:083001.

Conference Paper

Year Title
2010 Equation of state effects in black hole-neutron star mergersClassical and Quantum Gravity. 114106-114106. 2010

Teaching Activities

  • Astrophysics II Taught course 2022
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2022
  • Computational Physics Recit I Taught course 2021
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2021
  • Mathematical Physics Taught course 2021
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2021
  • General Physics II Taught course 2021
  • General Physics II Taught course 2021
  • General Physics II Recitation Taught course 2021
  • General Physics II Recitation Taught course 2021
  • Rsrch Exp/Physics Taught course 2021
  • Computational Physics Recit I Taught course 2020
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2020
  • General Relativity & Cosmology Taught course 2020
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2020
  • General Physics II Recitation Taught course 2020
  • General Relativity & Cosmology Taught course 2020
  • General Physics II Taught course 2019
  • General Relativity & Cosmology Taught course 2019
  • General Physics II Recitation Taught course 2018
  • Mathematical Physics Taught course 2018
  • General Physics II Recitation Taught course 2018
  • Mathematical Physics Taught course 2017
  • Education And Training

    Full Name

  • Francois Foucart