A. Bolton

36.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

A. Bolton is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Bolton has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 43 papers in Instrumentation and 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in A. Bolton's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (50 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (43 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (17 papers). A. Bolton is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (50 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (43 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (17 papers). A. Bolton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. A. Bolton's co-authors include Tommaso Treu, L. V. E. Koopmans, Leonidas A. Moustakas, Scott Burles, R. Gavazzi, Matthew W. Auger, Philip J. Marshall, Matteo Barnabè, S. Vegetti and O. Czoske and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

In The Last Decade

A. Bolton

61 papers receiving 4.7k citations

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THE SLOAN LENS ACS SURVEY. X. STELLAR, DYNAMICAL, AND TOTAL MASS CORRELATIONS OF MASSIVE EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES

2010 389 citations Matthew W. Auger, Tommaso Treu et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
A. Bolton United States	35	4.7k	2.6k	812	544	161	63	4.9k
R. Gavazzi France	35	4.7k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	748 0.9×	635 1.2×	154 1.0×	73	4.9k
Matthew W. Auger United States	40	5.0k 1.1×	2.2k 0.9×	808 1.0×	862 1.6×	134 0.8×	79	5.1k
S. Dye United Kingdom	33	4.7k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	407 0.5×	669 1.2×	187 1.2×	87	4.8k
M. Meneghetti Italy	35	3.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	373 0.5×	653 1.2×	111 0.7×	125	3.5k
F. Courbin Switzerland	36	4.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	799 1.0×	684 1.3×	178 1.1×	147	4.3k
R. M. Sharples United Kingdom	36	4.4k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	377 0.5×	479 0.9×	137 0.9×	146	4.8k
C. D. Fassnacht United States	39	4.5k 1.0×	1.4k 0.5×	781 1.0×	1.2k 2.2×	103 0.6×	123	4.7k
Marc Postman United States	36	3.7k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	339 0.4×	541 1.0×	156 1.0×	123	3.9k
E. Giallongo Italy	40	4.2k 0.9×	2.2k 0.9×	240 0.3×	667 1.2×	129 0.8×	117	4.4k
H. Kuntschner Germany	37	6.4k 1.4×	4.2k 1.6×	393 0.5×	338 0.6×	148 0.9×	135	6.5k

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Huang, Xiaosheng, et al.. (2025). ML-driven Strong Lens Discoveries: Down to θ _E ∼ 0 . ″ 03 and M _halo < 10 ¹¹ M _⊙. The Astrophysical Journal. 994(1). 117–117.

Huang, Xiaosheng, William Sheu, G. Aldering, et al.. (2022). GIGA-Lens: Fast Bayesian Inference for Strong Gravitational Lens Modeling. The Astrophysical Journal. 935(1). 49–49. 25 indexed citations

Dickinson, Mark, A. Bolton, Beth Willman, et al.. (2022). DRAW in the US Extremely large Telescope Program Platform. 13–13.

Matheson, T., Chien‐Hsiu Lee, Gautham Narayan, et al.. (2021). The ANTARES Astronomical Time-domain Event Broker. The Astronomical Journal. 161(3). 107–107. 41 indexed citations

Beebe‐Dimmer, Jennifer, Julie J. Ruterbusch, Kathleen A. Cooney, et al.. (2019). Racial differences in patterns of treatment among men diagnosed with de novo advanced prostate cancer: A SEER‐Medicare investigation. Cancer Medicine. 8(6). 3325–3335. 26 indexed citations

Marques-Chaves, R., I. Pérez‐Fournon, Y. Shu, et al.. (2019). Rest-frame UV properties of luminous strong gravitationally lensed Lyα emitters from the BELLS GALLERY Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 492(1). 1257–1278. 16 indexed citations

Smith, Arfon M., Rob Pike, William O’Mullane, et al.. (2019). Astronomy should be in the clouds. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51(7). 55. 2 indexed citations

Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., E. Pérez, Francisco Prada, et al.. (2017). The Dependence of Galaxy Clustering on Stellar-mass Assembly History for LRGs. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 848(1). L2–L2. 37 indexed citations

Marques-Chaves, R., I. Pérez‐Fournon, Y. Shu, et al.. (2017). Discovery of a Very Bright and Intrinsically Very Luminous, Strongly Lensed Lyα Emitting Galaxy at z = 2.82 in the BOSS Emission-Line Lens Survey*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 834(2). L18–L18. 12 indexed citations

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Large, David R., Gary Burnett, & A. Bolton. (2017). Augmenting Landmarks During the Head-Up Provision of In-Vehicle Navigation Advice. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 9(2). 18–38. 4 indexed citations

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Shu, Y., A. Bolton, Shude Mao, et al.. (2016). THE BOSS EMISSION-LINE LENS SURVEY. IV. SMOOTH LENS MODELS FOR THE BELLS GALLERY SAMPLE*. The Astrophysical Journal. 833(2). 264–264. 68 indexed citations

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Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Yiping Shu, A. Bolton, Joel R. Brownstein, & Benjamin J. Weiner. (2016). A steep slope and small scatter for the high-mass end of the L–σ relation atz∼ 0.55. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 456(3). 3265–3281. 13 indexed citations

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Bolton, A., Gary Burnett, & David R. Large. (2015). An investigation of augmented reality presentations of landmark-based navigation using a head-up display. Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham). 56–63. 56 indexed citations

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Brewer, Brendon J., Aaron A. Dutton, Tommaso Treu, et al.. (2012). The SWELLS survey - III. Disfavouring ‘heavy’ initial mass functions for spiral lens galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 422(4). 3574–3590. 35 indexed citations

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Barnabè, Matteo, Aaron A. Dutton, Philip J. Marshall, et al.. (2012). The SWELLS survey - IV. Precision measurements of the stellar and dark matter distributions in a spiral lens galaxy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 423(2). 1073–1088. 60 indexed citations

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Treu, Tommaso, Aaron A. Dutton, Matthew W. Auger, et al.. (2011). The SWELLS survey - I. A large spectroscopically selected sample of edge-on late-type lens galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 417(3). 1601–1620. 44 indexed citations

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Bolton, A., Tommaso Treu, L. V. E. Koopmans, et al.. (2008). The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. VII. Elliptical Galaxy Scaling Laws from Direct Observational Mass Measurements. The Astrophysical Journal. 684(1). 248–259. 126 indexed citations

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Gavazzi, R., Tommaso Treu, L. V. E. Koopmans, et al.. (2008). The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. VI. Discovery and Analysis of a Double Einstein Ring1. The Astrophysical Journal. 677(2). 1046–1059. 122 indexed citations

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Gavazzi, R., Tommaso Treu, Jason Rhodes, et al.. (2007). The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. IV. The Mass Density Profile of Early‐Type Galaxies out to 100 Effective Radii. The Astrophysical Journal. 667(1). 176–190. 285 indexed citations

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Bolton, A., et al.. (1996). The Augmented Cepstrum. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 2. 857–860. 1 indexed citations

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