Alis J. Deason

6.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
66 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Alis J. Deason is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alis J. Deason has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 38 papers in Instrumentation and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Alis J. Deason's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (51 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (50 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (38 papers). Alis J. Deason is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (51 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (50 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (38 papers). Alis J. Deason collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Alis J. Deason's co-authors include Vasily Belokurov, S. E. Koposov, Denis Erkal, N. W. Evans, N. W. Evans, Robert J. J. Grand, Azadeh Fattahi, Carlos S. Frenk, Facundo A. Gómez and Federico Marinacci and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

In The Last Decade

Alis J. Deason

65 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Co-formation of the disc and the stellar halo★

2018 635 citations Vasily Belokurov, Denis Erkal et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The milky way total mass profile as inferred from Gaia DR2

2020 225 citations Alis J. Deason, Carlos S. Frenk et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The biggest splash

2020 201 citations Vasily Belokurov, Azadeh Fattahi et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers

Alis J. Deason

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Kareem El-Badry United States

Ralph Schönrich United Kingdom

P. J. McMillan Sweden

Richard de Grijs China

B. Lanzoni Italy

A. Pietrinferni Italy

Adrian M. Price-Whelan United States

D. B. Zucker Australia

Dougal Mackey Australia

C. Chiappini Germany

Kareem El-Badry United States

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1.7k ×0.9

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470 ×1.6

NHEP

135 ×1.6

78 ×0.9

SNP

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Countries citing papers authored by Alis J. Deason

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alis J. Deason

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McCarthy, Ian G., Andreea S. Font, Robert A. Crain, et al.. (2024). Global structure and kinematics of stellar haloes in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. Figshare.

Deason, Alis J., S. E. Koposov, Azadeh Fattahi, & Robert J. J. Grand. (2023). Unravelling the mass spectrum of destroyed dwarf galaxies with the metallicity distribution function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(4). 6091–6103. 5 indexed citations

Horta, Danny, Emily C. Cunningham, Robyn E. Sanderson, et al.. (2023). The proto-galaxy of Milky Way-mass haloes in the FIRE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(4). 9810–9825. 14 indexed citations

Navarrete, Camila, David S. Aguado, Vasily Belokurov, et al.. (2023). The 3D kinematics of stellar substructures in the periphery of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 523(3). 4720–4738. 3 indexed citations

McKinnon, Kevin, Emily C. Cunningham, Constance M. Rockosi, et al.. (2023). HALO7D. III. Chemical Abundances of Milky Way Halo Stars from Medium-resolution Spectra. The Astrophysical Journal. 951(1). 43–43. 2 indexed citations

Tacchella, Sandro, Charlie Conroy, S. M. Faber, et al.. (2022). Fast, Slow, Early, Late: Quenching Massive Galaxies at z ∼ 0.8. The Astrophysical Journal. 926(2). 134–134. 95 indexed citations

Belokurov, Vasily, Eugene Vasiliev, Alis J. Deason, et al.. (2022). Energy wrinkles and phase-space folds of the last major merger. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(4). 6200–6215. 34 indexed citations

Fattahi, Azadeh, et al.. (2022). Observing EAGLE galaxies with JWST: predictions for Milky Way progenitors and their building blocks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 516(3). 3861–3877. 2 indexed citations

Richstein, Hannah, Ekta Patel, Nitya Kallivayalil, et al.. (2022). Structural parameters and possible association of the Ultra-Faint Dwarfs Pegasus III and Pisces II from deep Hubble Space Telescope photometry. arXiv (Cornell University). 11 indexed citations

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Gonzalez, Anthony H., Thomas Connor, Alis J. Deason, et al.. (2021). Discovery of a possible splashback feature in the intracluster light of MACS J1149.5+2223. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 507(1). 963–970. 30 indexed citations

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Erkal, Denis, Alis J. Deason, Vasily Belokurov, et al.. (2021). Detection of the LMC-induced sloshing of the Galactic halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506(2). 2677–2684. 66 indexed citations

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Grand, Robert J. J., Daisuke Kawata, Vasily Belokurov, et al.. (2020). The dual origin of the Galactic thick disc and halo from the gas-rich Gaia–Enceladus Sausage merger. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(2). 1603–1618. 82 indexed citations

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Belokurov, Vasily, Alis J. Deason, Denis Erkal, et al.. (2019). The Pisces Plume and the Magellanic wake. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 488(1). L47–L52. 39 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Emily C., Alis J. Deason, Constance M. Rockosi, et al.. (2019). HALO7D I. The Line-of-sight Velocities of Distant Main-sequence Stars in the Milky Way Halo. The Astrophysical Journal. 876(2). 124–124. 15 indexed citations

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Simpson, Christine M., Ignacio D. Gargiulo, Facundo A. Gómez, et al.. (2019). Simulating cosmological substructure in the solar neighbourhood. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 490(1). L32–L37. 16 indexed citations

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Lancaster, Lachlan, S. E. Koposov, Vasily Belokurov, N. W. Evans, & Alis J. Deason. (2019). The halo’s ancient metal-rich progenitor revealed with BHB stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 486(1). 378–389. 60 indexed citations

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Fattahi, Azadeh, Vasily Belokurov, Alis J. Deason, et al.. (2019). The origin of galactic metal-rich stellar halo components with highly eccentric orbits. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 484(4). 4471–4483. 93 indexed citations

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Sohn, Sangmo Tony, Laura L. Watkins, Mark A. Fardal, et al.. (2018). Absolute Hubble Space Telescope Proper Motion (HSTPROMO) of Distant Milky Way Globular Clusters: Galactocentric Space Velocities and the Milky Way Mass. The Astrophysical Journal. 862(1). 52–52. 49 indexed citations

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Kallivayalil, Nitya, Andrew Wetzel, Jay Anderson, et al.. (2016). Milky Way Cosmology: Laying the Foundation for Full 6-D Dynamical Mapping of the Nearby Universe. 14734. 1 indexed citations

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Deason, Alis J., Vasily Belokurov, N. W. Evans, et al.. (2012). The cold veil of the Milky Way stellar halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 425(4). 2840–2853. 80 indexed citations

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