Adam C. Carnall

5.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
46 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Adam C. Carnall is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Adam C. Carnall has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 30 papers in Instrumentation and 3 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Adam C. Carnall's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (40 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (30 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (22 papers). Adam C. Carnall is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (40 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (30 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (22 papers). Adam C. Carnall collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Adam C. Carnall's co-authors include R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, Romeel Davé, Fergus Cullen, D J McLeod, Callum T. Donnan, R Begley, Joshua S. Speagle, M. L. Hamadouche and Charlie Conroy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Adam C. Carnall

43 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Inferring the star formation histories of massive quiescent galaxies with bagpipes: evidence for multiple quenching mechanisms

2018 391 citations Adam C. Carnall, R. J. McLure et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
How to Measure Galaxy Star Formation Histories. II. Nonparametric Models

2019 253 citations Joel Leja, Adam C. Carnall et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The evolution of the galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts z ≃ 8 – 15 from deep JWST and ground-based near-infrared imaging

2022 249 citations Callum T. Donnan, D J McLeod et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
A massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.658

2023 96 citations Adam C. Carnall, R. J. McLure et al. Nature profile →

Peers

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Fergus Cullen United Kingdom

Yuichi Harikane Japan

Rhea–Silvia Remus Germany

Garreth Martin United Kingdom

Gergö Popping Germany

Andy D. Goulding United States

Gurtina Besla United States

S. Zaggia Italy

Adriano Agnello Germany

Chiara Spiniello Italy

Fergus Cullen United Kingdom

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867 ×0.9

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165 ×1.0

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69 ×1.1

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32 ×0.7

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Hamadouche, M. L., R. J. McLure, Adam C. Carnall, et al.. (2025). JWST PRIMER: strong evidence for the environmental quenching of low-mass galaxies out to z≃ 2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541(1). 463–475. 2 indexed citations

Cullen, Fergus, Adam C. Carnall, D. Scholte, et al.. (2025). The JWST EXCELS survey: an extremely metal-poor galaxy at z = 8.271 hosting an unusual population of massive stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540(3). 2176–2194. 8 indexed citations

Dunlop, J. S., R. J. McLure, D J McLeod, et al.. (2025). JWST PRIMER: a deep JWST study of all ALMA-detected galaxies in PRIMER COSMOS – dust-obscured star formation history back to z ≃ 7. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 545(2). 1 indexed citations

Arellano-Córdova, Karla Z., Fergus Cullen, Adam C. Carnall, et al.. (2025). The JWST EXCELS survey: direct estimates of C, N, and O abundances in two relatively metal-rich galaxies at z ≃ 5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540(4). 2991–3007. 5 indexed citations

Whitaker, Katherine E., John R. Weaver, Sam E. Cutler, et al.. (2024). Remarkably Compact Quiescent Candidates at 3 < z < 5 in JWST-CEERS. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 964(1). L10–L10. 9 indexed citations

Nersesian, Angelos, Rachel Bezanson, Arjen van der Wel, et al.. (2024). A Census of Star Formation Histories of Massive Galaxies at 0.6 < z < 1 from Spectrophotometric Modeling Using Bagpipes and Prospector. The Astrophysical Journal. 961(1). 118–118. 9 indexed citations

Heintz, K. E., D. Watson, Gabriel Brammer, et al.. (2024). Uncovering the physical origin of the prominent Lyman-α emission and absorption in GS9422 at z = 5.943. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 690. A70–A70. 5 indexed citations

Moresco, M., et al.. (2023). A new measurement of the expansion history of the Universe at z = 1.26 with cosmic chronometers in VANDELS. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 679. A96–A96. 32 indexed citations

Carnall, Adam C., R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, et al.. (2023). A massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.658. Nature. 619(7971). 716–719. 96 indexed citations breakdown →

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Carnall, Adam C., D J McLeod, R. J. McLure, et al.. (2023). A surprising abundance of massive quiescent galaxies at 3 <z< 5 in the first data fromJWSTCEERS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(3). 3974–3985. 69 indexed citations

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Cullen, Fergus, R. J. McLure, D J McLeod, et al.. (2023). The ultraviolet continuum slopes (β) of galaxies at z ≃ 8-16 from JWST and ground-based near-infrared imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(1). 14–23. 54 indexed citations

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Hamadouche, M. L., Adam C. Carnall, R. J. McLure, et al.. (2023). The connection between stellar mass, age, and quenching time-scale in massive quiescent galaxies atz≃ 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(4). 5400–5409. 3 indexed citations

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McLeod, D J, Callum T. Donnan, R. J. McLure, et al.. (2023). The galaxy UV luminosity function at z ≃ 11 from a suite of public JWST ERS, ERO, and Cycle-1 programs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(3). 5004–5022. 56 indexed citations

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Donnan, Callum T., D J McLeod, R. J. McLure, et al.. (2023). The abundance of z ≳ 10 galaxy candidates in the HUDF using deep JWST NIRCam medium-band imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(3). 4554–4561. 35 indexed citations

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Stanway, E. R., et al.. (2022). On the simultaneous modelling of dust and stellar populations for interpretation of galaxy properties. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 514(4). 5706–5724. 13 indexed citations

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Calabrò, Antonello, L. Guaita, L. Pentericci, et al.. (2022). The environmental dependence of the stellar and gas-phase mass–metallicity relation at 2 < z < 4. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 664. A75–A75. 9 indexed citations

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Carnall, Adam C., R Begley, D J McLeod, et al.. (2022). A first look at the SMACS0723 JWST ERO: spectroscopic redshifts, stellar masses, and star-formation histories. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 518(1). L45–L50. 50 indexed citations

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Hamadouche, M. L., Adam C. Carnall, R. J. McLure, et al.. (2022). A combined VANDELS and LEGA-C study: the evolution of quiescent galaxy size, stellar mass, and age from z = 0.6 to z = 1.3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 512(1). 1262–1274. 20 indexed citations

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Wild, Vivienne, et al.. (2021). Introducing a Real-time Interactive GUI Tool for Visualization of Galaxy Spectra. Research Notes of the AAS. 5(7). 171–171. 2 indexed citations

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Saxena, Aayush, Richard S. Ellis, Antonello Calabrò, et al.. (2021). The VANDELS Survey: new constraints on the high-mass X-ray binary populations in normal star-forming galaxies at 3 < z < 5.5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(4). 4798–4812. 9 indexed citations

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