A. Rest

33.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
120 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

A. Rest is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Rest has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 29 papers in Instrumentation and 28 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in A. Rest's work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (73 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (50 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (33 papers). A. Rest is often cited by papers focused on Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (73 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (50 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (33 papers). A. Rest collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Chile. A. Rest's co-authors include J. Tonry, S. J. Smartt, K. Smith, R. Kirshner, C. W. Stubbs, B. Stalder, L. Denneau, H. Weiland, Saurabh W. Jha and A. Heinze and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Applied Physics and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

A. Rest

105 papers receiving 3.1k citations

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

ATLAS: A High-cadence All-sky Survey System

2018 518 citations J. Tonry, L. Denneau et al. profile →
IMPROVED DARK ENERGY CONSTRAINTS FROM ∼100 NEW CfA SUPERNOVA TYPE Ia LIGHT CURVES

2009 503 citations Saurabh W. Jha, Patrick L. Kelly et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
A. Rest United States	30	3.0k	920	575	183	109	120	3.3k
Ralph Kraft United States	34	3.5k 1.2×	1.5k 1.7×	475 0.8×	109 0.6×	95 0.9×	213	3.7k
Robert A. Simcoe United States	33	3.4k 1.1×	789 0.9×	1.0k 1.8×	99 0.5×	77 0.7×	92	3.6k
K. C. Chambers United States	32	3.7k 1.2×	739 0.8×	972 1.7×	60 0.3×	136 1.2×	133	3.9k
G. Tagliaferri Italy	38	4.3k 1.4×	2.5k 2.7×	274 0.5×	178 1.0×	156 1.4×	301	4.7k
Kimihiko Nakajima Japan	27	2.3k 0.8×	388 0.4×	956 1.7×	171 0.9×	113 1.0×	85	2.6k
Yoshiaki Ono Japan	33	3.9k 1.3×	795 0.9×	1.8k 3.1×	217 1.2×	73 0.7×	76	4.2k
Tim Jenness United States	21	2.7k 0.9×	506 0.6×	659 1.1×	48 0.3×	107 1.0×	116	2.8k
John Wise United States	32	3.8k 1.3×	973 1.1×	867 1.5×	59 0.3×	62 0.6×	85	4.0k
Bram Venemans Germany	37	5.1k 1.7×	1.3k 1.4×	1.8k 3.1×	138 0.8×	40 0.4×	105	5.2k
A. Quirrenbach Germany	34	3.4k 1.1×	568 0.6×	1.1k 1.9×	149 0.8×	147 1.3×	263	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by A. Rest

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of A. Rest

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of A. Rest. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of A. Rest based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with A. Rest. A. Rest is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Bellini, Andrea, Enrico Vesperini, Mattia Libralato, et al.. (2025). The Internal Kinematics of NGC 2808 and Its Multiple Populations. The Astrophysical Journal. 986(1). 80–80. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jielai, Jeff Cooke, A. Rest, et al.. (2025). An optically led search for kilonovae to z∼0.3 with the Kilonova and Transients Programme (KNTraP). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 537(4). 3332–3348. 2 indexed citations

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Narayan, Gautham, Kaisey S. Mandel, Abhijit Saha, et al.. (2025). DAmodel: hierarchical Bayesian modelling of DA white dwarfs for spectrophotometric calibration. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540(1). 385–415. 1 indexed citations

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Axelrod, T. S., Abhijit Saha, T. Matheson, et al.. (2023). All-sky Faint DA White Dwarf Spectrophotometric Standards for Astrophysical Observatories: The Complete Sample. The Astrophysical Journal. 951(1). 78–78. 5 indexed citations

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Blair, William P., Kazimierz J. Borkowski, Parviz Ghavamian, et al.. (2022). Locating the CSM Emission within the Type Ia Supernova Remnant N103B. The Astrophysical Journal. 926(2). 207–207. 3 indexed citations

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Srivastav, Shubham, K. W. Smith, O. Mcbrien, et al.. (2021). ATLAS21dks (AT2021bmw): discovery of a candidate supernova in IC 4325 (68 Mpc). 48. 1–48.

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Srivastav, Shubham, S. J. Smartt, G. Leloudas, et al.. (2020). The Lowest of the Low: Discovery of SN 2019gsc and the Nature of Faint Iax Supernovae. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 892(2). L24–L24. 8 indexed citations

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Clocchiatti, A., et al.. (2020). Supersoft X-ray nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(3). 3234–3250. 3 indexed citations

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Kilpatrick, C. D., D. A. Coulter, C. Rojas-Bravo, et al.. (2019). LIGO/Virgo S190425z: Swope follow-up observations.. GRB Coordinates Network. 24212. 1.

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Graham, M. L., A. Rest, J. C. Wheeler, et al.. (2019). Discovery Frontiers of Explosive Transients: An ELT and LSST Perspective. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51(3). 339. 1 indexed citations

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Smartt, S. J., O. Mcbrien, K. W. Smith, et al.. (2019). ATLAS19mbg (AT2019gsc): discovery of an unusual faint blue transient in SBS 1436+529A (53 Mpc). 23. 1. 1 indexed citations

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Hounsell, Rebekah, D. Scolnic, R. J. Foley, et al.. (2018). Simulations of the WFIRST Supernova Survey and Forecasts of Cosmological Constraints. The Astrophysical Journal. 867(1). 23–23. 99 indexed citations

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Coulter, D. A., C. D. Kilpatrick, M. R. Siebert, et al.. (2017). LIGO/Virgo G298048: Potential optical counterpart discovered by Swope telescope. GRB Coordinates Network. 21529. 1. 6 indexed citations

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Chambers, K. C., H. Flewelling, M. Willman, et al.. (2015). The Pan-STARRS Survey for Transients (PSST) - first announcement and public release. ATel. 7153. 1. 3 indexed citations

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Foley, R. J., C. McCully, Saurabh W. Jha, et al.. (2014). POSSIBLE DETECTION OF THE STELLAR DONOR OR REMNANT FOR THE TYPE Iax SUPERNOVA 2008ha. The Astrophysical Journal. 792(1). 29–29. 42 indexed citations

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Saha, Abhijit, T. S. Axelrod, C. W. Stubbs, et al.. (2012). Establishing a Network of DA White Dwarf SED Standards. 12967.

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Jedicke, Robert, J. Tonry, Peter Vereš, et al.. (2012). ATLAS: Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System. 44. 5 indexed citations

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Berger, E., Kathy Roth, Alicia Soderberg, et al.. (2011). Exotic Explosions and Eruptions: Exploring a New Transient Phase-Space with Pan-STARRS. 164. 1 indexed citations

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Widenhorn, Ralf, Morley M. Blouke, A. Weber, A. Rest, & Erik Bodegom. (2002). <title>Temperature dependence of dark current in a CCD</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4669. 193–201. 70 indexed citations

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Stubbs, C. W., Kem H. Cook, Suzanne L. Hawley, et al.. (2001). A Next Generation Microlensing Survey of the LMC. 37. 1 indexed citations

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