Ana Bonaca

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Ana Bonaca is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ana Bonaca has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 22 papers in Instrumentation and 2 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Ana Bonaca's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (38 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (22 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (18 papers). Ana Bonaca is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (38 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (22 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (18 papers). Ana Bonaca collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Ana Bonaca's co-authors include Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Charlie Conroy, Rohan P. Naidu, David W. Hogg, Dennis Zaritsky, Yuan-Sen Ting, Marla Geha, Phillip A. Cargile, Nelson Caldwell and Joshua S. Speagle and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Chemical Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ana Bonaca

37 papers receiving 990 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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. Kraken reveals itself – the merger history of the Milky Way reconstructed with the E-MOSAICS simulations
    2020 173 citations Ana Bonaca 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
Ana Bonaca United States 19 1.1k 554 77 38 33 43 1.2k
F. De Angeli United Kingdom 16 906 0.8× 489 0.9× 46 0.6× 21 0.6× 43 1.3× 34 952
E. Spitoni Italy 26 1.5k 1.4× 610 1.1× 131 1.7× 28 0.7× 34 1.0× 64 1.6k
R. Andrae Germany 12 784 0.7× 386 0.7× 47 0.6× 21 0.6× 54 1.6× 26 822
Laura L. Watkins United States 20 1.4k 1.3× 667 1.2× 105 1.4× 32 0.8× 35 1.1× 45 1.4k
Khyati Malhan France 19 1.1k 1.0× 594 1.1× 53 0.7× 22 0.6× 31 0.9× 36 1.1k
I. Puerari Mexico 18 1.0k 1.0× 454 0.8× 62 0.8× 40 1.1× 19 0.6× 56 1.1k
T. Ruiz-Lara Spain 22 1.2k 1.1× 663 1.2× 67 0.9× 21 0.6× 33 1.0× 45 1.2k
A. Buzzoni Italy 22 1.1k 1.0× 592 1.1× 65 0.8× 24 0.6× 30 0.9× 67 1.2k
R. Drimmel Italy 15 1.4k 1.3× 606 1.1× 69 0.9× 40 1.1× 78 2.4× 39 1.5k
G. Kordopatis France 18 1.2k 1.1× 579 1.0× 111 1.4× 36 0.9× 54 1.6× 56 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ana Bonaca

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ana Bonaca

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ana Bonaca. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ana Bonaca based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ana Bonaca. Ana Bonaca is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Besla, Gurtina, Nicolás Garavito-Camargo, Ekta Patel, et al.. (2025). Segue 2 Recently Collided with the Cetus-Palca Stream: New Opportunities to Constrain Dark Matter in an Ultra-faint Dwarf. The Astrophysical Journal. 979(2). 171–171. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, James W., David H. Weinberg, Guillermo A. Blanc, et al.. (2025). The Milky Way Radial Metallicity Gradient as an Equilibrium Phenomenon: Why Old Stars Are Metal Rich. The Astrophysical Journal. 988(1). 8–8. 1 indexed citations
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Bovy, Jo, et al.. (2025). Stream Members Only: Data-driven Characterization of Stellar Streams with Mixture Density Networks. The Astrophysical Journal. 980(2). 253–253. 2 indexed citations
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Zaritsky, Dennis, Vedant Chandra, Charlie Conroy, et al.. (2025). Untangling Magellanic Streams. The Open Journal of Astrophysics. 8. 1 indexed citations
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Bonaca, Ana, et al.. (2024). Slant, Fan, and Narrow: The Response of Stellar Streams to a Tilting Galactic Disk. The Astrophysical Journal. 969(1). 55–55. 4 indexed citations
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Limberg, Guilherme, Alexander P. Ji, Rohan P. Naidu, et al.. (2024). Extending the chemical reach of the H3 survey: detailed abundances of the dwarf-galaxy stellar stream Wukong/LMS-1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530(3). 2512–2525. 12 indexed citations
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Chandra, Vedant, Vadim A. Semenov, Hans‐Walter Rix, et al.. (2024). The Three-phase Evolution of the Milky Way. The Astrophysical Journal. 972(1). 112–112. 20 indexed citations
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Chandra, Vedant, Rohan P. Naidu, Charlie Conroy, et al.. (2023). Distant Echoes of the Milky Way’s Last Major Merger. The Astrophysical Journal. 951(1). 26–26. 18 indexed citations
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Chandra, Vedant, Rohan P. Naidu, Charlie Conroy, et al.. (2023). Discovery of the Magellanic Stellar Stream Out to 100 kpc. The Astrophysical Journal. 956(2). 110–110. 15 indexed citations
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Hwang, Hsiang-Chih, Yuan-Sen Ting, Charlie Conroy, et al.. (2022). Wide binaries from the H3 survey: the thick disc and halo have similar wide binary fractions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513(1). 754–767. 8 indexed citations
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Chandra, Vedant, Charlie Conroy, Nelson Caldwell, et al.. (2022). A Ghost in Boötes: The Least-Luminous Disrupted Dwarf Galaxy. The Astrophysical Journal. 940(2). 127–127. 3 indexed citations
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Naidu, Rohan P., Alexander P. Ji, Charlie Conroy, et al.. (2022). Evidence from Disrupted Halo Dwarfs that r-process Enrichment via Neutron Star Mergers is Delayed by ≳500 Myr. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 926(2). L36–L36. 47 indexed citations
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Han, J., Charlie Conroy, Benjamin D. Johnson, et al.. (2022). The Stellar Halo of the Galaxy is Tilted and Doubly Broken. The Astronomical Journal. 164(6). 249–249. 38 indexed citations
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Naidu, Rohan P., Charlie Conroy, Ana Bonaca, et al.. (2021). Reconstructing the Last Major Merger of the Milky Way with the H3 Survey. The Astrophysical Journal. 923(1). 92–92. 111 indexed citations
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Zaritsky, Dennis, Charlie Conroy, Rohan P. Naidu, et al.. (2020). Discovery of Magellanic Stellar Debris in the H3 Survey. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 905(1). L3–L3. 13 indexed citations
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Zaritsky, Dennis, Charlie Conroy, Huanian Zhang, et al.. (2020). A Lower Limit on the Mass of Our Galaxy from the H3 Survey. The Astrophysical Journal. 888(2). 114–114. 7 indexed citations
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Dokkum, Pieter van, Ana Bonaca, Allison Merritt, et al.. (2019). Dragonfly Imaging of the Galaxy NGC 5907: A Different View of the Iconic Stellar Stream. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 883(2). L32–L32. 23 indexed citations
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Conroy, Charlie, Ana Bonaca, Phillip A. Cargile, et al.. (2019). Mapping the Stellar Halo with the H3 Spectroscopic Survey. The Astrophysical Journal. 883(1). 107–107. 95 indexed citations
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Conroy, Charlie, Ana Bonaca, Rohan P. Naidu, et al.. (2018). They Might Be Giants: An Efficient Color-based Selection of Red Giant Stars. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 861(2). L16–L16. 6 indexed citations
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Basu, Sarbani, et al.. (2018). Investigating the Metallicity–Mixing-length Relation. The Astrophysical Journal. 858(1). 28–28. 40 indexed citations

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