Alessandro Sonnenfeld

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Sonnenfeld is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Sonnenfeld has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 37 papers in Instrumentation and 11 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Sonnenfeld's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (52 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (37 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (15 papers). Alessandro Sonnenfeld is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (52 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (37 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (15 papers). Alessandro Sonnenfeld collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Japan. Alessandro Sonnenfeld's co-authors include Tommaso Treu, Philip J. Marshall, S. H. Suyu, R. Gavazzi, L. V. E. Koopmans, Matthew W. Auger, Kenneth C. Wong, Cristian E. Rusu, F. Courbin and C. D. Fassnacht 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

Alessandro Sonnenfeld

54 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. H0LiCOW – V. New COSMOGRAIL time delays of HE 0435−1223:H0to 3.8 per cent precision from strong lensing in a flat ΛCDM model
    2016 286 citations V. Bonvin, F. Courbin 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Alessandro Sonnenfeld United States 21 1.7k 772 327 230 62 56 1.7k
G. Covone Italy 23 1.3k 0.8× 535 0.7× 158 0.5× 325 1.4× 73 1.2× 73 1.4k
Chiara Spiniello Italy 19 1.4k 0.8× 729 0.9× 195 0.6× 149 0.6× 52 0.8× 52 1.5k
Simon Birrer United States 26 1.9k 1.2× 637 0.8× 336 1.0× 566 2.5× 62 1.0× 75 2.1k
Adriano Agnello Germany 22 1.3k 0.8× 594 0.8× 154 0.5× 280 1.2× 36 0.6× 60 1.4k
Cristian E. Rusu Japan 20 1.3k 0.8× 436 0.6× 250 0.8× 278 1.2× 50 0.8× 29 1.4k
T. Schrabback Germany 24 1.8k 1.1× 835 1.1× 343 1.0× 288 1.3× 156 2.5× 57 1.9k
C. Tortora Italy 25 1.6k 1.0× 879 1.1× 158 0.5× 248 1.1× 105 1.7× 98 1.7k
M. James Jee United States 24 2.0k 1.2× 910 1.2× 157 0.5× 404 1.8× 75 1.2× 75 2.1k
S. H. Suyu Germany 29 2.8k 1.7× 1.1k 1.4× 604 1.8× 507 2.2× 93 1.5× 100 3.0k
M. Radovich Italy 24 1.7k 1.0× 774 1.0× 121 0.4× 299 1.3× 87 1.4× 102 1.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessandro Sonnenfeld

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All Works

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Sheu, William, Anowar J. Shajib, Tommaso Treu, et al.. (2025). Project Dinos II: redshift evolution of dark and luminous matter density profiles in strong-lensing elliptical galaxies across 0.1 < z < 0.9. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541(1). 1–27. 3 indexed citations
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Sonnenfeld, Alessandro, et al.. (2024). Constraining galaxy properties with complete samples of lenses. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 690. A390–A390. 1 indexed citations
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Taylor, Edward N., M. E. Cluver, Matthew Colless, et al.. (2024). Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Stellar-to-dynamical Mass Relation. II. Peculiar Velocities. The Astrophysical Journal. 970(2). 149–149.
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Shajib, Anowar J., Simon Birrer, Alessandro Sonnenfeld, et al.. (2024). Project Dinos I: A joint lensing–dynamics constraint on the deviation from the power law in the mass profile of massive ellipticals. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530(2). 1474–1505. 20 indexed citations
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Li, Rui, N. R. Napolitano, Ran Li, et al.. (2024). Multiband Analysis of Strong Gravitationally Lensed Post-blue Nugget Candidates from the Kilo-degree Survey. The Astrophysical Journal. 973(2). 145–145. 2 indexed citations
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More, Anupreeta, R. Cañameras, Anton T. Jaelani, et al.. (2024). Systematic comparison of neural networks used in discovering strong gravitational lenses. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533(1). 525–537. 7 indexed citations
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Sonnenfeld, Alessandro, Shangrong Li, Giulia Despali, et al.. (2023). Strong lensing selection effects. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 678. A4–A4. 7 indexed citations
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Leauthaud, Alexie, Grecco A. Oyarzún, Carlo Nipoti, et al.. (2022). The contribution ofin situandex situstar formation in early-type galaxies: MaNGA versus IllustrisTNG. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(4). 5651–5670. 20 indexed citations
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Jaelani, Anton T., Cristian E. Rusu, Issha Kayo, et al.. (2021). Survey of Gravitationally Lensed Objects in HSC Imaging (SuGOHI) – VII. Discovery and confirmation of three strongly lensed quasars†. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 502(1). 1487–1493. 19 indexed citations
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Shajib, Anowar J., Tommaso Treu, Simon Birrer, & Alessandro Sonnenfeld. (2021). Dark matter haloes of massive elliptical galaxies at z ∼ 0.2 are well described by the Navarro–Frenk–White profile. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 503(2). 2380–2405. 75 indexed citations
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Jaelani, Anton T., Anupreeta More, Alessandro Sonnenfeld, et al.. (2020). Discovery of an unusually compact lensed Lyman-break galaxy from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494(3). 3156–3165. 10 indexed citations
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Jaelani, Anton T., Anupreeta More, Masamune Oguri, et al.. (2020). Survey of Gravitationally lensed Objects in HSC Imaging (SuGOHI) – V. Group-to-cluster scale lens search from the HSC–SSP Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 495(1). 1291–1310. 31 indexed citations
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Sonnenfeld, Alessandro. (2020). A robust two-parameter description of the stellar profile of elliptical galaxies. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations
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Sonnenfeld, Alessandro, et al.. (2020). The cosmic evolution of the stellar mass–velocity dispersion relation of early-type galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 498(1). 1101–1120. 15 indexed citations
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Nipoti, Carlo, et al.. (2020). Stellar velocity dispersion and initial mass function gradients in dissipationless galaxy mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 499(1). 559–572. 8 indexed citations
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Sonnenfeld, Alessandro, Wenting Wang, & Neta A. Bahcall. (2019). Hyper Suprime-Cam view of the CMASS galaxy sample. Halo mass as a function of stellar mass, size, and Sérsic index. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 9 indexed citations
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Schuldt, S., S. H. Suyu, Akın Yıldırım, et al.. (2019). Inner dark matter distribution of the Cosmic Horseshoe (J1148+1930) with gravitational lensing and dynamics. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 20 indexed citations
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Rusu, Cristian E., Kenneth C. Wong, V. Bonvin, et al.. (2019). H0LiCOW XII. Lens mass model of WFI2033 − 4723 and blind measurement of its time-delay distance and H0. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 498(1). 1440–1468. 82 indexed citations
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Nipoti, Carlo, Alessandro Sonnenfeld, Alexie Leauthaud, et al.. (2019). The merger-driven evolution of massive early-type galaxies. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 15(S359). 62–66. 1 indexed citations
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Wong, Kenneth C., Alessandro Sonnenfeld, J. H. H. Chan, et al.. (2018). Survey of Gravitationally Lensed Objects in HSC Imaging (SuGOHI). II. Environments and Line-of-Sight Structure of Strong Gravitational Lens Galaxies to z ∼ 0.8. The Astrophysical Journal. 867(2). 107–107. 37 indexed citations

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