Anna Frebel

10.0k citations

148 papers · 5.6k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 45

Impact in

Instrumentation top 0.2%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.2%
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Astro and Planetary Science
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

Papers in ⓘ

Instrumentation 66
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 66
Astronomy and Astrophysics 143
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 127
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 62
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 58
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena 28
- Astro and Planetary Science 19

Co-authors: John E. Norris (33 shared papers)Joshua D. Simon (21 shared papers)Alexander P. Ji (32 shared papers)Timothy C. Beers (43 shared papers)N. Christlieb (23 shared papers)Anirudh Chiti (22 shared papers)Evan N. Kirby (5 shared papers)M. Asplund (22 shared papers)
Journals: The Astrophysical Journal (50 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (24 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Letters (7 papers)Nature (6 papers)The Astronomical Journal (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States Australia Germany

In The Last Decade

Anna Frebel

137 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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The dark matter profile of the Milky Way inferred from its circular velocity curve 2024 · 59 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2015 Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

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1	Nucleosynthetic signatures of the first stars Nature ·Anna Frebel, Wako Aoki, N. Christlieb, Hiroyasu Ando, M. Asplund, P. S. Barklem, Timothy C. Beers, Kimmo Eriksson, C. Fechner, Masayuki Y. Fujimoto, Satoshi Honda, Toshitaka Kajino, Takeo Minezaki, K. Nomoto, John E. Norris, Sean G. Ryan, Masahide Takada‐Hidai, Stelios Tsangarides, Yuzuru Yoshii	2005	306
2	Near-Field Cosmology with Extremely Metal-Poor Stars Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Anna Frebel, John E. Norris Hit paper breakdown →	2015	298
3	A single low-energy, iron-poor supernova as the source of metals in the star SMSS J031300.36−670839.3 Nature ·S. Keller, M. S. Bessell, Anna Frebel, Andrew R. Casey, M. Asplund, Heather R. Jacobson, K. Lind, John E. Norris, David Yong, Alexander Heger, Z. Magic, G. S. Da Costa, B. Schmidt, P. Tisserand	2014	210
4	R-process enrichment from a single event in an ancient dwarf galaxy Nature ·Alexander P. Ji, Anna Frebel, Anirudh Chiti, Joshua D. Simon	2016	209
5	THE MOST METAL-POOR STARS. II. CHEMICAL ABUNDANCES OF 190 METAL-POOR STARS INCLUDING 10 NEW STARS WITH [Fe/H] ⩽ –3.5, , The Astrophysical Journal ·David Yong, John E. Norris, M. S. Bessell, N. Christlieb, M. Asplund, Timothy C. Beers, P. S. Barklem, Anna Frebel, Sean G. Ryan	2012	207
6	Uncovering Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Milky Way's Ultrafaint Dwarf Spheroidal Satellite Galaxies The Astrophysical Journal ·Evan N. Kirby, Joshua D. Simon, Marla Geha, Puragra Guhathakurta, Anna Frebel	2008	161
7	HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY OF EXTREMELY METAL-POOR STARS IN THE LEAST EVOLVED GALAXIES: URSA MAJOR II and COMA BERENICES The Astrophysical Journal ·Anna Frebel, Joshua D. Simon, Marla Geha, Beth Willman	2009	152
8	SEGUE 1: AN UNEVOLVED FOSSIL GALAXY FROM THE EARLY UNIVERSE The Astrophysical Journal ·Anna Frebel, Joshua D. Simon, Evan N. Kirby	2014	132
9	THE MOST METAL-POOR STARS. IV. THE TWO POPULATIONS WITH [Fe/H] ≲ –3.0 The Astrophysical Journal ·John E. Norris, David Yong, M. S. Bessell, N. Christlieb, M. Asplund, G. Gilmore, Rosemary F. Ġ. Wyse, Timothy C. Beers, P. S. Barklem, Anna Frebel, Sean G. Ryan	2012	125
10	HE 1327−2326, an Unevolved Star with [Fe/H] < −5.0. I. A Comprehensive Abundance Analysis The Astrophysical Journal ·Wako Aoki, Anna Frebel, N. Christlieb, John E. Norris, Timothy C. Beers, Takeo Minezaki, P. S. Barklem, Satoshi Honda, Masahide Takada‐Hidai, M. Asplund, Sean G. Ryan, Stelios Tsangarides, Kimmo Eriksson, A. Steinhauer, Constantine P. Deliyannis, K. Nomoto, M. Y. Fujimoto, Hiroyasu Ando, Yuzuru Yoshii, Toshitaka Kajino	2006	119
11	COMPLETE ELEMENT ABUNDANCES OF NINE STARS IN THE r-PROCESS GALAXY RETICULUM II DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Joshua D. Simon, Alexander P. Ji, Anna Frebel, Anirudh Chiti	2016	108
12	Linking dwarf galaxies to halo building blocks with the most metal-poor star in Sculptor Nature ·Anna Frebel, Evan N. Kirby, Joshua D. Simon	2010	105
13	The stellar content of the Hamburg/ESO survey Astronomy and Astrophysics ·N. Christlieb, T. Schörck, Anna Frebel, Timothy C. Beers, L. Wisotzki, D. Reimers	2008	102
14	From Nuclei to the Cosmos: Tracing Heavy-Element Production with the Oldest Stars Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science ·Anna Frebel	2018	100
15	HE 1327−2326, an Unevolved Star with [Fe/H]<−5.0. II. New 3D−1D Corrected Abundances from a Very Large Telescope UVES Spectrum The Astrophysical Journal ·Anna Frebel, R. Collet, Kimmo Eriksson, N. Christlieb, Wako Aoki	2008	94
16	AN ELEMENTAL ASSAY OF VERY, EXTREMELY, AND ULTRA-METAL-POOR STARS The Astrophysical Journal ·Terese T. Hansen, C. J. Hansen, N. Christlieb, Timothy C. Beers, David Yong, M. S. Bessell, Anna Frebel, A. E. García Pérez, Vinicius M. Placco, John E. Norris, M. Asplund	2015	86
17	Descendants of the first stars: the distinct chemical signature of second-generation stars Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Tilman Hartwig, Naoki Yoshida, Mattis Magg, Anna Frebel, Simon C. O. Glover, Facundo A. Gómez, Brendan F. Griffen, Miho N. Ishigaki, Alexander P. Ji, Ralf S. Klessen, Brian W. O’Shea, Nozomu Tominaga	2018	84
18	NEW HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS OF HEAVY ELEMENTS IN FOUR METAL-POOR STARS The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ·Ian U. Roederer, J. E. Lawler, Jennifer Sobeck, Timothy C. Beers, J. J. Cowan, Anna Frebel, Inese I. Ivans, H. Schatz, C. Sneden, Ian B. Thompson	2012	83
19	HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF EXTREMELY METAL-POOR STAR CANDIDATES FROM THE SKYMAPPER SURVEY DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Stefan Keller, Andrew R. Casey, M. Asplund, M. S. Bessell, (unknown), K. Lind, A. F. Marino, John E. Norris, B. Schmidt, P. Tisserand, Jennifer M. Walsh, David Yong, Heather R. Jacobson, Anna Frebel, José Martínez Peña, Qinqin Yu	2015	81
20	THE MOST METAL-POOR STARS. III. THE METALLICITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION AND CARBON-ENHANCED METAL-POOR FRACTION, , The Astrophysical Journal ·David Yong, John E. Norris, M. S. Bessell, N. Christlieb, M. Asplund, Timothy C. Beers, P. S. Barklem, Anna Frebel, Sean G. Ryan	2012	80

About Anna Frebel

Anna Frebel is a scholar working on Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Computational Mechanics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 148 papers that have together received 5.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (127 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (66 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (62 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (58 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (28 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (19 papers), Astronomical and nuclear sciences (12 papers) and Nuclear physics research studies (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (2.3k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (5.4k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (748 citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (85 citations) and Computational Mechanics (126 citations). Anna Frebel has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Frequent co-authors include John E. Norris, Joshua D. Simon, Alexander P. Ji, Timothy C. Beers, N. Christlieb, Anirudh Chiti, Evan N. Kirby, M. Asplund, David Yong and M. S. Bessell. Their work appears in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Nature and The Astronomical Journal.

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