Aaron Smith

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Aaron Smith is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron Smith has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 13 papers in Instrumentation and 12 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Aaron Smith's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (37 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (18 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (13 papers). Aaron Smith is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (37 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (18 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (13 papers). Aaron Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Aaron Smith's co-authors include Rahul Kannan, Mark Vogelsberger, Lars Hernquist, Enrico Garaldi, Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel, Volker Bromm, Abraham Loeb, Miloš Milosavljević and Josh Borrow and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

In The Last Decade

Aaron Smith

47 papers receiving 971 citations

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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.

Introducing the thesan project: radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the epoch of reionization

2021 160 citations Rahul Kannan, Enrico Garaldi et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aaron Smith United States	16	938	310	260	46	37	54	1.1k
Enrico Garaldi Germany	16	703 0.7×	274 0.9×	225 0.9×	30 0.7×	42 1.1×	40	821
John A. Regan Ireland	20	1.5k 1.6×	305 1.0×	409 1.6×	28 0.6×	45 1.2×	45	1.6k
Isabelle Pâris France	23	1.5k 1.6×	407 1.3×	325 1.3×	26 0.6×	38 1.0×	32	1.6k
L. Michel-Dansac France	27	1.7k 1.9×	717 2.3×	229 0.9×	49 1.1×	29 0.8×	47	1.8k
Anna–Christina Eilers United States	26	1.4k 1.4×	467 1.5×	291 1.1×	56 1.2×	40 1.1×	69	1.5k
I. Valtchanov Spain	22	1.1k 1.1×	380 1.2×	192 0.7×	15 0.3×	29 0.8×	68	1.1k
J. F. Macías–Pérez France	15	926 1.0×	99 0.3×	421 1.6×	49 1.1×	35 0.9×	66	1.0k
Marc Rafelski United States	25	1.7k 1.8×	613 2.0×	319 1.2×	39 0.8×	33 0.9×	91	1.8k
C. K. Xu United States	24	1.6k 1.7×	574 1.9×	251 1.0×	63 1.4×	36 1.0×	94	1.7k
John ZuHone United States	22	1.3k 1.4×	277 0.9×	390 1.5×	20 0.4×	46 1.2×	77	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aaron Smith

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Zier, Oliver, Aaron Smith, Mark Vogelsberger, et al.. (2025). High-redshift AGN population in radiation-hydrodynamics simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(1). 355–371. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Aaron, et al.. (2025). Lyman α resonant-line radiative transfer in expanding media. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541(1). 179–199. 1 indexed citations

Zier, Oliver, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, et al.. (2025). The thesan-zoom project: Population III star formation continues until the end of reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(1). 410–429. 3 indexed citations

McClymont, William, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith, et al.. (2025). The thesan-zoom project: burst, quench, repeat – unveiling the evolution of high-redshift galaxies along the star-forming main sequence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(1). 513–534. 7 indexed citations

Smith, Aaron, et al.. (2025). Lyman-α feedback prevails at Cosmic Dawn: implications for the first galaxies, stars, and star clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 537(2). 1646–1687. 7 indexed citations

Zier, Oliver, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, et al.. (2025). The thesan–zoom project: long-term imprints of external reionization on galaxy evolution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(1). 391–409. 3 indexed citations

Shen, Xuejian, Rahul Kannan, Ewald Puchwein, et al.. (2025). The thesan-zoom project: star formation efficiencies in high-redshift galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 545(4).

McClymont, William, Sandro Tacchella, Xihan Ji, et al.. (2025). Overmassive black holes in the early Universe can be explained by gas-rich, dark matter-dominated galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 545(1). 1 indexed citations

Shen, Xuejian, Mark Vogelsberger, Josh Borrow, et al.. (2024). The thesan project: galaxy sizes during the epoch of reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534(2). 1433–1458. 12 indexed citations

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Baes, M., et al.. (2024). TODDLERS: A new UV-millimeter emission library for star-forming regions. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 692. A79–A79. 2 indexed citations

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Garaldi, Enrico, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, et al.. (2024). The thesan project: public data release of radiation-hydrodynamic simulations matching reionization-era JWST observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530(4). 3765–3786. 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Yunchong, Mark Vogelsberger, Dong‐Woo Kim, et al.. (2023). X-ray scaling relations of early-type galaxies in IllustrisTNG and a new way of identifying backsplash objects. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(3). 6763–6778. 1 indexed citations

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Shen, Xuejian, Josh Borrow, Mark Vogelsberger, et al.. (2023). thesan-hr: galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization in warm dark matter, fuzzy dark matter, and interacting dark matter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(2). 2835–2857. 18 indexed citations

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Baes, M., Arjen van der Wel, Peter Camps, et al.. (2023). TODDLERS: a new UV–mm emission library for star-forming regions – I. Integration with SKIRT and public release. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526(3). 3871–3901. 8 indexed citations

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Sales, Laura V., Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger, et al.. (2023). Real and counterfeit cores: how feedback expands haloes and disrupts tracers of inner gravitational potential in dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(1). 461–479. 13 indexed citations

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Hassan, Sultan, Aaron Smith, Renyue Cen, et al.. (2023). Bridging the Gap between Cosmic Dawn and Reionization Favors Models Dominated by Faint Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 959(1). 2–2. 6 indexed citations

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Tacchella, Sandro, Aaron Smith, Rahul Kannan, et al.. (2022). Hαemission in local galaxies: star formation, time variability, and the diffuse ionized gas. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513(2). 2904–2929. 47 indexed citations

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Smith, Aaron, Rahul Kannan, Sandro Tacchella, et al.. (2022). The physics of Lyman-α escape from disc-like galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 517(1). 1–27. 35 indexed citations

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Qin, Wenzer, Katelin Schutz, Aaron Smith, et al.. (2022). Effective bias expansion for 21-cm cosmology in redshift space. Physical review. D. 106(12). 15 indexed citations

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Smith, Aaron, et al.. (2020). Resonant-line radiative transfer within power-law density profiles. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(3). 3925–3942. 10 indexed citations

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