Alaina Henry

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Alaina Henry is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alaina Henry has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 21 papers in Instrumentation and 7 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alaina Henry's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (54 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (23 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (21 papers). Alaina Henry is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (54 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (23 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (21 papers). Alaina Henry collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Italy. Alaina Henry's co-authors include Crystal L. Martin, Alan Dressler, Gabriel Brammer, Matthew A. Malkan, Claudia Scarlata, Marijn Franx, Mattia Fumagalli, Pieter van Dokkum, Katherine E. Whitaker and Joel Leja and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

In The Last Decade

Alaina Henry

54 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

CONSTRAINING THE LOW-MASS SLOPE OF THE STAR FORMATION SEQUENCE AT 0.5 <z< 2.5

2014 459 citations Katherine E. Whitaker, Marijn Franx et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alaina Henry United States	21	1.7k	779	229	82	53	59	1.8k
Michael V. Maseda Netherlands	25	1.7k 1.0×	790 1.0×	262 1.1×	75 0.9×	75 1.4×	84	1.8k
Hanae Inami United States	25	1.5k 0.9×	671 0.9×	272 1.2×	70 0.9×	81 1.5×	55	1.6k
Takatoshi Shibuya Japan	18	1.5k 0.9×	655 0.8×	287 1.3×	65 0.8×	81 1.5×	36	1.5k
Göran Östlin Sweden	25	2.1k 1.2×	758 1.0×	300 1.3×	80 1.0×	81 1.5×	99	2.1k
Nimish P. Hathi United States	23	1.8k 1.0×	961 1.2×	197 0.9×	90 1.1×	92 1.7×	72	1.8k
Marc Rafelski United States	25	1.7k 1.0×	613 0.8×	319 1.4×	39 0.5×	59 1.1×	91	1.8k
Renske Smit United Kingdom	23	2.1k 1.2×	990 1.3×	317 1.4×	86 1.0×	105 2.0×	50	2.2k
Emma Curtis-Lake United Kingdom	16	1.4k 0.8×	738 0.9×	194 0.8×	92 1.1×	83 1.6×	32	1.4k
Fergus Cullen United Kingdom	23	1.7k 1.0×	867 1.1×	165 0.7×	45 0.5×	69 1.3×	62	1.7k
Matthew Bayliss United States	22	1.4k 0.8×	584 0.7×	186 0.8×	52 0.6×	133 2.5×	70	1.4k

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Wang, Xin, Tucker Jones, Ivana Barišić, et al.. (2025). MSA-3D: Metallicity Gradients in Galaxies at z ∼ 1 with JWST/NIRSpec Slit-stepping Spectroscopy. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 978(2). L39–L39. 6 indexed citations

Xu, Xinfeng, Alaina Henry, Timothy M. Heckman, et al.. (2025). Shining a Light on the Connections between Galactic Outflows Seen in Absorption and Emission Lines. The Astrophysical Journal. 984(1). 94–94. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Xin, Matthew A. Malkan, Tommaso Treu, et al.. (2025). MAMMOTH-MOSFIRE: Environmental Effects on Galaxy Interstellar Medium at z ∼ 2. The Astrophysical Journal. 993(2). 231–231.

Henry, Alaina, Valentin Mauerhofer, Timothy M. Heckman, et al.. (2025). A Simulated Galaxy Laboratory: Exploring the Observational Effects on UV Spectral Absorption Line Measurements. The Astrophysical Journal. 979(1). 64–64. 1 indexed citations

Gazagnes, Simon, John Chisholm, Ryan Endsley, et al.. (2025). A negligible contribution of two luminous z ∼ 7.5 galaxies to the ionizing photon budget of reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540(3). 2331–2348. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Xin, Yuguang Chen, Tucker Jones, et al.. (2025). Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XXV. Electron Density in the Interstellar Medium at 0.7 ≲ z ≲ 9.3 with NIRSpec High-resolution Spectroscopy*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 979(1). L13–L13. 6 indexed citations

Saldana-Lopez, Alberto, John Chisholm, Simon Gazagnes, et al.. (2025). Feedback and dynamical masses in high- z galaxies: the advent of high-resolution NIRSpec spectroscopy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(1). 132–151. 3 indexed citations

Revalski, Mitchell, Marc Rafelski, Alaina Henry, et al.. (2024). The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF). V. Characterizing the Mass–Metallicity Relation for Low-mass Galaxies at z ∼ 1–2. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(2). 228–228. 9 indexed citations

Jung, Intae, Henry C. Ferguson, Matthew Hayes, et al.. (2024). Constraints on the Lyman Continuum Escape from Low-mass Lensed Galaxies at 1.3 ≤ z ≤ 3.0. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(2). 175–175. 6 indexed citations

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Carr, Cody, Claudia Scarlata, Timothy M. Heckman, et al.. (2024). CLASSY. X. Highlighting Differences between Partial Covering and Semianalytic Modeling in the Estimation of Galactic Outflow Properties. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(1). 58–58. 5 indexed citations

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Berg, Danielle A., Simon Gazagnes, John Chisholm, et al.. (2024). CLASSY. XI. Tracing Neutral Gas Properties Using UV Absorption Lines and 21 cm Observations*. The Astrophysical Journal. 977(1). 104–104. 1 indexed citations

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Lemaux, B. C., Maruša Bradač, Austin Hoag, et al.. (2020). Spectroscopically Confirmed Lyα Emitters from Redshift 5 to 7 behind 10 Galaxy Cluster Lenses. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 26 indexed citations

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Orlitová, Ivana, Anne Verhamme, Alaina Henry, et al.. (2018). Puzzling Lyman-alpha line profiles in green pea galaxies. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 21 indexed citations

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Dickinson, H. J., Claudia Scarlata, L. Fortson, et al.. (2018). Galaxy Nurseries: Crowdsourced Analysis of Slitless Spectroscopic Data. Research Notes of the AAS. 2(3). 120–120.

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Wang, Xin, Tucker Jones, Tommaso Treu, et al.. (2017). The Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS). X. Sub-kiloparsec Resolution Gas-phase Metallicity Maps at Cosmic Noon behind the Hubble Frontier Fields Cluster MACS1149.6+2223. The Astrophysical Journal. 837(1). 89–89. 39 indexed citations

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Rutkowski, Michael, Claudia Scarlata, Alaina Henry, et al.. (2017). The Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction of Emission Line-selected z ∼ 2.5 Galaxies Is Less Than 15%. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 841(2). L27–L27. 41 indexed citations

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Huang, Kuang-Han, B. C. Lemaux, Austin Hoag, et al.. (2016). DETECTION of LYMAN-ALPHA EMISSION from A TRIPLY IMAGED z = 6.85 GALAXY behind MACS J2129.4-0741. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 22 indexed citations

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Sawicki, Marcin, Alaina Henry, Crystal L. Martin, Alan Dressler, & Patrick J. McCarthy. (2015). The faint-end slope of the redshift 5.7 Ly[alpha] luminosity function. Saint Mary's University Institutional Repository (Saint Mary's University). 17 indexed citations

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Jones, Tucker, Xin Wang, Tommaso Treu, et al.. (2015). THEGRISM LENS-AMPLIFIED SURVEY FROM SPACE(GLASS). II. GAS-PHASE METALLICITY AND RADIAL GRADIENTS IN AN INTERACTING SYSTEM ATZ≃ 2. The Astronomical Journal. 149(3). 107–107. 31 indexed citations

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Whitaker, Katherine E., Marijn Franx, Joel Leja, et al.. (2014). CONSTRAINING THE LOW-MASS SLOPE OF THE STAR FORMATION SEQUENCE AT 0.5 <z< 2.5. The Astrophysical Journal. 795(2). 104–104. 459 indexed citations breakdown →

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