Alejandro Vigna-Gómez

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Alejandro Vigna-Gómez is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 4 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Vigna-Gómez's work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (32 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (27 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (17 papers). Alejandro Vigna-Gómez is often cited by papers focused on Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (32 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (27 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (17 papers). Alejandro Vigna-Gómez collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Denmark and United Kingdom. Alejandro Vigna-Gómez's co-authors include Ilya Mandel, Coenraad J. Neijssel, S. P. Stevenson, S. E. de Mink, Jim W. Barrett, Dorottya Szécsi, Stephen Justham, Floor S. Broekgaarden, Bernhard Müller and S. Vinciguerra and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Vigna-Gómez

40 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

On the formation history of Galactic double neutron stars

2018 204 citations Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Coenraad J. Neijssel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The effect of the metallicity-specific star formation history on double compact object mergers

2019 192 citations Coenraad J. Neijssel, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez 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
Alejandro Vigna-Gómez Australia	20	1.5k	166	123	60	58	42	1.6k
Coenraad J. Neijssel United Kingdom	15	1.4k 0.9×	153 0.9×	92 0.7×	63 1.1×	58 1.0×	16	1.5k
Valeriya Korol United Kingdom	15	688 0.5×	92 0.6×	81 0.7×	37 0.6×	100 1.7×	31	719
Daniel J. D’Orazio United States	22	1.6k 1.1×	280 1.7×	35 0.3×	91 1.5×	37 0.6×	55	1.7k
Patrick M. Motl United States	16	932 0.6×	230 1.4×	97 0.8×	86 1.4×	21 0.4×	29	986
E. C. Ferrara United States	14	572 0.4×	212 1.3×	47 0.4×	58 1.0×	36 0.6×	36	612
Giacomo Fragione United States	25	1.8k 1.2×	209 1.3×	134 1.1×	68 1.1×	31 0.5×	73	1.9k
M. Branchesi Italy	17	934 0.6×	318 1.9×	67 0.5×	33 0.6×	28 0.5×	62	968
Dorottya Szécsi Germany	14	931 0.6×	87 0.5×	161 1.3×	29 0.5×	24 0.4×	26	976
Johan Samsing United States	18	1.8k 1.2×	229 1.4×	50 0.4×	194 3.2×	69 1.2×	47	1.8k
Andrei P. Igoshev United Kingdom	17	788 0.5×	133 0.8×	29 0.2×	95 1.6×	114 2.0×	36	815

Countries citing papers authored by Alejandro Vigna-Gómez

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Mandel, Ilya, Jeff Riley, Ryosuke Hirai, et al.. (2025). Rapid Stellar and Binary Population Synthesis with COMPAS: Methods Paper II. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 280(1). 43–43. 1 indexed citations

Tamborra, Irene, et al.. (2025). Identifying Thorne–Żytkow Objects through Neutrinos. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 984(1). L2–L2. 1 indexed citations

Vigna-Gómez, Alejandro, et al.. (2025). Prompt stellar and binary black hole mergers in tight triples. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 699. A272–A272. 3 indexed citations

Vigna-Gómez, Alejandro. (2025). The impact of natal kicks on black hole binaries. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 701. L3–L3. 1 indexed citations

Vigna-Gómez, Alejandro, Irene Tamborra, Ilya Mandel, et al.. (2024). Constraints on Neutrino Natal Kicks from Black-Hole Binary VFTS 243. Physical Review Letters. 132(19). 191403–191403. 25 indexed citations

Vigna-Gómez, Alejandro, et al.. (2024). Rethinking Thorne–Żytkow Object Formation: Assembly via Common Envelope in Field Binaries. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(2). 132–132. 8 indexed citations

Batta, Aldo, et al.. (2024). Rethinking Thorne–Żytkow Object Formation: The Fate of X-Ray Binary LMC X-4 and Implications for Ultra-long Gamma-Ray Bursts. The Astrophysical Journal. 977(2). 196–196. 5 indexed citations

Toonen, Silvia, et al.. (2023). Stellar triples with chemically homogeneously evolving inner binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(4). 9782–9809. 17 indexed citations

Aguilera-Dena, David R., Bernhard Müller, John Antoniadis, et al.. (2023). Stripped-envelope stars in different metallicity environments. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 671. A134–A134. 25 indexed citations

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Stevenson, S. P., et al.. (2022). Wide binary pulsars from electron-capture supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513(4). 6105–6110. 8 indexed citations

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Vigna-Gómez, Alejandro, Bin Liu, David R. Aguilera-Dena, et al.. (2022). Mergers prompted by dynamics in compact, multiple-star systems: a stellar-reduction case for the massive triple TIC 470710327. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 515(1). L50–L55. 8 indexed citations

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Vigna-Gómez, Alejandro, et al.. (2022). \nStellar response after stripping as a model for common-envelope outcomes. Radboud Repository (Radboud University). 25 indexed citations

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Aguilera-Dena, David R., N. Langer, John Antoniadis, et al.. (2022). Stripped-envelope stars in different metallicity environments. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 661. A60–A60. 20 indexed citations

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Broekgaarden, Floor S., E. Berger, Coenraad J. Neijssel, et al.. (2021). Impact of massive binary star and cosmic evolution on gravitational wave observations I: black hole–neutron star mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 508(4). 5028–5063. 113 indexed citations

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Nicholl, M., P. K. Blanchard, E. Berger, et al.. (2020). An extremely energetic supernova from a very massive star in a dense medium. Nature Astronomy. 4(9). 893–899. 26 indexed citations

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Broekgaarden, Floor S., Stephen Justham, S. E. de Mink, et al.. (2019). stroopwafel: simulating rare outcomes from astrophysical populations, with application to gravitational-wave sources. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 490(4). 5228–5248. 33 indexed citations

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Stevenson, S. P., J. Powell, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, et al.. (2019). The Impact of Pair-instability Mass Loss on the Binary Black Hole Mass Distribution. The Astrophysical Journal. 882(2). 121–121. 108 indexed citations

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Neijssel, Coenraad J., Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, S. P. Stevenson, et al.. (2019). The effect of the metallicity-specific star formation history on double compact object mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 490(3). 3740–3759. 192 indexed citations breakdown →

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Barrett, Jim W., S. M. Gaebel, Coenraad J. Neijssel, et al.. (2018). Accuracy of inference on the physics of binary evolution from gravitational-wave observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 477(4). 4685–4695. 76 indexed citations

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Stevenson, S. P., Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Ilya Mandel, et al.. (2017). Formation of the first three gravitational-wave observations through isolated binary evolution. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14906–14906. 204 indexed citations

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