Adam J. Burgasser

28.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
267 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

Adam J. Burgasser is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Adam J. Burgasser has authored 267 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 248 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 139 papers in Instrumentation and 25 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Adam J. Burgasser's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (241 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (143 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (139 papers). Adam J. Burgasser is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (241 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (143 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (139 papers). Adam J. Burgasser collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Adam J. Burgasser's co-authors include J. Davy Kirkpatrick, I. Neill Reid, Kelle L. Cruz, John E. Gizis, James Liebert, C. G. Tinney, C. C. Dahn, D. G. Monet, Dagny L. Looper and Adam Burrows and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Adam J. Burgasser

237 papers receiving 9.6k 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.

Temperate Earth-sized planets transiting a nearby ultracool dwarf star

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Adam J. Burgasser United States	58	9.9k	4.5k	759	679	636	267	10.2k
J. Davy Kirkpatrick United States	59	10.6k 1.1×	4.8k 1.1×	803 1.1×	843 1.2×	755 1.2×	197	11.1k
I. Neill Reid United States	54	10.3k 1.0×	4.8k 1.1×	717 0.9×	485 0.7×	561 0.9×	152	10.5k
F. Allard France	53	10.8k 1.1×	3.8k 0.8×	425 0.6×	1.1k 1.6×	815 1.3×	164	11.3k
David Charbonneau United States	46	8.6k 0.9×	3.2k 0.7×	297 0.4×	558 0.8×	494 0.8×	142	9.0k
D. Homeier Germany	39	6.0k 0.6×	2.4k 0.5×	265 0.3×	549 0.8×	344 0.5×	105	6.3k
A. Collier Cameron United Kingdom	51	9.8k 1.0×	2.7k 0.6×	392 0.5×	279 0.4×	284 0.4×	286	10.0k
C. Lovis Switzerland	56	8.7k 0.9×	3.0k 0.7×	307 0.4×	527 0.8×	718 1.1×	239	9.3k
S. K. Leggett United States	40	5.5k 0.6×	2.5k 0.5×	409 0.5×	424 0.6×	370 0.6×	121	5.7k
P. H. Hauschildt United States	45	7.6k 0.8×	2.2k 0.5×	310 0.4×	682 1.0×	491 0.8×	183	7.9k
T. Forveille France	49	7.9k 0.8×	2.4k 0.5×	254 0.3×	522 0.8×	380 0.6×	194	8.1k

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Salaris, M., L. R. Bedin, Simon Blouin, et al.. (2025). JWST imaging of omega Centauri. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 703. A156–A156.

Bedin, L. R., Mattia Libralato, M. Salaris, et al.. (2025). JWST Imaging of the Closest Globular Clusters—V. The White Dwarfs Cooling Sequence of M4. Astronomische Nachrichten. 346(2). 1 indexed citations

Bedin, L. R., D. Nardiello, Adam J. Burgasser, et al.. (2025). JWST imaging of omega Centauri. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 701. A169–A169. 1 indexed citations

Reylé, C., N. Lagarde, Adam J. Burgasser, et al.. (2024). Near-infrared spectroscopic characterisation of Gaia ultra-cool dwarf candidates. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 685. A6–A6. 1 indexed citations

Burgasser, Adam J., Roman Gerasimov, Kyle Kremer, et al.. (2024). Discovery of a Hypervelocity L Subdwarf at the Star/Brown Dwarf Mass Limit. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 971(1). L25–L25. 4 indexed citations

Gerasimov, Roman, et al.. (2024). The Spectral ANalog of Dwarfs (SAND): New Model Atmospheres with Varying Chemistry for Galactic Archaeology with Ultracool Dwarfs. Research Notes of the AAS. 8(5). 134–134. 5 indexed citations

Meisner, Aaron, Adam C. Schneider, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, et al.. (2023). Scarlet Spectra: Two Red L Dwarfs Revealed by SOAR. Research Notes of the AAS. 7(7). 144–144.

Theissen, Christopher A., Adam J. Burgasser, Emily C. Martin, et al.. (2022). Keck NIRES Spectral Standards for L, T, and Y Dwarfs. Research Notes of the AAS. 6(7). 151–151. 2 indexed citations

Gerasimov, Roman, et al.. (2022). Characterization of Population III Stars with Stellar Atmosphere and Evolutionary Modeling and Predictions of their Observability with the JWST. The Astronomical Journal. 165(1). 2–2. 25 indexed citations

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Hsu, Chih-Chun, Adam J. Burgasser, Christopher A. Theissen, et al.. (2021). The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project (BDKP). V. Radial and Rotational Velocities of T Dwarfs from Keck/NIRSPEC High-Resolution Spectroscopy. arXiv (Cornell University). 26 indexed citations

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Luca, A. De, B. Stelzer, Adam J. Burgasser, et al.. (2020). EXTraS discovery of an X-ray superflare from an L dwarf. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 13 indexed citations

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Martı́n, E. L., E. Solano, Adam J. Burgasser, et al.. (2020). Preparation of Euclid Legacy Science on Ultracool Dwarfs. 157. 1 indexed citations

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Hernández, J. I. Gónzalez, David S. Aguado, Carlos Allende Prieto, Adam J. Burgasser, & R. Rébolo. (2020). The Extreme CNO-enhanced Composition of the Primitive Iron-poor Dwarf Star J0815+4729*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 889(1). L13–L13. 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Z. H., Adam J. Burgasser, M. C. Gálvez-Ortiz, et al.. (2019). Primeval very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs – VI. Population properties of metal-poor degenerate brown dwarfs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 486(1). 1260–1282. 20 indexed citations

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Dupuy, Trent J., Adam L. Kraus, Christopher A. Theissen, et al.. (2019). Establishing an Empirical Substellar Sequence to Planetary Masses. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51(3). 469. 1 indexed citations

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Milone, A. P., L. R. Bedin, Jay Anderson, et al.. (2019). The HST Large Programme on NGC 6752 – II. Multiple populations at the bottom of the main sequence probed in NIR. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 484(3). 4046–4053. 29 indexed citations

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Bedin, L. R., M. Salaris, Jay Anderson, et al.. (2019). The HST large programme on NGC 6752 – III. Detection of the peak of the white dwarf luminosity function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(3). 3857–3865. 10 indexed citations

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Burgasser, Adam J., Dániel Apai, Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi, et al.. (2019). High-Resolution Spectroscopic Surveys of Ultracool Dwarf Stars & Brown Dwarfs. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51(3). 547.

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Wit, Julien de, Hannah R. Wakeford, Nikole K. Lewis, et al.. (2018). Atmospheric reconnaissance of the habitable-zone Earth-sized planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1. Nature Astronomy. 2(3). 214–219. 107 indexed citations

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Burgasser, Adam J., Kelle L. Cruz, Michael C. Cushing, et al.. (2009). SpeX Spectroscopy of Unresolved Very Low-Mass Binaries. I. Identification of Seventeen Candidate Binaries Straddling the L Dwarf/T Dwarf Transition. arXiv (Cornell University). 133 indexed citations

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