Aaron D. Ludlow

5.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
56 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Aaron D. Ludlow is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron D. Ludlow has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 27 papers in Instrumentation and 14 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Aaron D. Ludlow's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (50 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (27 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (20 papers). Aaron D. Ludlow is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (50 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (27 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (20 papers). Aaron D. Ludlow collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Aaron D. Ludlow's co-authors include Julio F. Navarro, Carlos S. Frenk, Volker Springel, Adrian Jenkins, A. Helmi, Mark Vogelsberger, Jie Wang, Simon D. M. White, S. D. M. White and Raúl E. Angulo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Aaron D. Ludlow

53 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Aquarius Project: the subhaloes of galactic haloes

2008 1.2k citations Volker Springel, Jie Wang et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The diversity and similarity of simulated cold dark matter haloes

2009 517 citations Julio F. Navarro, Aaron D. Ludlow et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The mass–concentration–redshift relation of cold and warm dark matter haloes

2016 256 citations Aaron D. Ludlow, Sownak Bose et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aaron D. Ludlow United Kingdom	28	3.9k	1.7k	1.5k	325	122	56	4.2k
Francisco Prada Spain	29	4.0k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	265 0.8×	141 1.2×	89	4.2k
Joel R. Brownstein United States	32	3.5k 0.9×	852 0.5×	1.4k 1.0×	194 0.6×	100 0.8×	100	3.7k
Neal Dalal United States	30	3.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	962 0.6×	196 0.6×	113 0.9×	49	3.5k
T. H. Reiprich Germany	31	4.3k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	159 0.5×	84 0.7×	90	4.4k
S. Ettori Italy	44	5.7k 1.5×	1.8k 1.1×	1.7k 1.2×	201 0.6×	100 0.8×	178	5.8k
Vincent Desjacques Switzerland	35	3.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	867 0.6×	387 1.2×	183 1.5×	81	3.5k
Shea Garrison-Kimmel United States	40	4.5k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	173 0.5×	80 0.7×	50	4.7k
A. Finoguenov Germany	45	6.6k 1.7×	1.7k 1.0×	2.4k 1.6×	199 0.6×	131 1.1×	220	6.7k
Jorge Peñarrubia United Kingdom	33	4.0k 1.0×	852 0.5×	1.8k 1.2×	163 0.5×	66 0.5×	95	4.2k
Ashley J. Ross United States	28	3.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	748 0.5×	200 0.6×	93 0.8×	61	3.4k

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Ludlow, Aaron D., et al.. (2026). The Three Hundred Project: deducing the stellar splashback structure of galaxy clusters from their orbiting profiles. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 547(2).

Ludlow, Aaron D., et al.. (2025). The weak connection between the stellar haloes and merger histories of Milky Way-mass galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 542(2). 1673–1683.

Obreschkow, Danail, et al.. (2024). The active role of co-evolving haloes in stellar bar formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534(1). 313–324. 4 indexed citations

Lagos, Claudia del P., et al.. (2023). Identifying the discs, bulges, and intra-halo light of simulated galaxies through structural decomposition. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(2). 2624–2638. 17 indexed citations

Ludlow, Aaron D., et al.. (2023). Spurious heating of stellar motions by dark matter particles in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525(4). 5614–5630. 34 indexed citations

Borrow, Josh, Matthieu Schaller, Yannick M Bahé, et al.. (2023). The impact of stochastic modelling on the predictive power of galaxy formation simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526(2). 2441–2457. 21 indexed citations

Angulo, Raúl E., Aaron D. Ludlow, Matteo Zennaro, et al.. (2022). The cosmology dependence of the concentration–mass–redshift relation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 517(2). 2000–2011. 10 indexed citations

Santos-Santos, Isabel, Julio F. Navarro, Andrew Robertson, et al.. (2020). Baryonic clues to the puzzling diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 495(1). 58–77. 75 indexed citations

Lovell, Mark R., Wojciech A. Hellwing, Aaron D. Ludlow, et al.. (2020). Local group star formation in warm and self-interacting dark matter cosmologies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 498(1). 702–717. 14 indexed citations

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Ludlow, Aaron D., et al.. (2020). Pre-processing, group accretion, and the orbital trajectories of associated subhaloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 501(4). 5948–5963. 26 indexed citations

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Bekki, Kenji, et al.. (2020). The orbital evolution of UFDs and GCs in an evolving Galactic potential. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 500(3). 2937–2957. 11 indexed citations

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Ludlow, Aaron D., Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller, & R. G. Bower. (2020). Numerical convergence of hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation: the abundance and internal structure of galaxies and their cold dark matter haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 493(2). 2926–2951. 38 indexed citations

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Lovell, Mark R., David J Barnes, Yannick M Bahé, et al.. (2019). The signal of decaying dark matter with hydrodynamical simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485(3). 4071–4089. 7 indexed citations

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Benítez-Llambay, Alejandro, Carlos S. Frenk, Aaron D. Ludlow, & Julio F. Navarro. (2019). Baryon-induced dark matter cores in the eagle simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(2). 2387–2404. 85 indexed citations

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Ludlow, Aaron D., Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Matthieu Schaller, et al.. (2017). Mass-Discrepancy Acceleration Relation: A Natural Outcome of Galaxy Formation in Cold Dark Matter Halos. Physical Review Letters. 118(16). 161103–161103. 75 indexed citations

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Ludlow, Aaron D., Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Matthieu Schaller, et al.. (2016). The Mass-Discrepancy Acceleration Relation: a Natural Outcome of Galaxy Formation in CDM halos. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Jie, Julio F. Navarro, Carlos S. Frenk, et al.. (2011). Assembly history and structure of galactic cold dark matter haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 413(2). 1373–1382. 105 indexed citations

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Ludlow, Aaron D., Julio F. Navarro, Simon D. M. White, et al.. (2011). The density and pseudo-phase-space density profiles of cold dark matter haloes. Max Planck Digital Library. 49 indexed citations

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Navarro, Julio F., Aaron D. Ludlow, Volker Springel, et al.. (2008). The Diversity and Similarity of Cold Dark Matter Halos. arXiv (Cornell University). 55 indexed citations

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Springel, Volker, Simon D. M. White, Carlos S. Frenk, et al.. (2008). Prospects for detecting supersymmetric dark matter in the Galactic halo. Nature. 456(7218). 73–76. 154 indexed citations

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