Aurélien Hees

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Aurélien Hees is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Aurélien Hees has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 46 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 23 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Aurélien Hees's work include Nuclear physics research studies (32 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (29 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (16 papers). Aurélien Hees is often cited by papers focused on Nuclear physics research studies (32 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (29 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (16 papers). Aurélien Hees collaborates with scholars based in France, Netherlands and United States. Aurélien Hees's co-authors include P.W.M. Glaudemans, Peter Wolf, O. Minazzoli, C. Le Poncin-Lafitte, S. Bertone, A. M. Ghez, Tuan Do, Etienne Savalle, Benoît Famaey and S. Bize and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Aurélien Hees

83 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Testing General Relativity with Stellar Orbits around the Supermassive Black Hole in Our Galactic Center

2017 110 citations Aurélien Hees, Tuan Do et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Aurélien Hees	1.2k	1.1k	680	260	131	85	2.0k
Suresh Kumar	1.7k 1.5×	1.7k 1.6×	237 0.3×	124 0.5×	126 1.0×	89	2.3k
R. G. Moorhouse	1.6k 1.4×	825 0.8×	348 0.5×	177 0.7×	106 0.8×	73	2.2k
Yasunori Fujii	1.4k 1.2×	1.7k 1.6×	305 0.4×	248 1.0×	32 0.2×	136	2.1k
Tomohiro Fujita	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	296 0.4×	65 0.3×	65 0.5×	101	1.7k
Richard H. Cyburt	2.0k 1.7×	2.1k 1.9×	189 0.3×	84 0.3×	132 1.0×	23	2.8k
James H. Applegate	919 0.8×	1.8k 1.7×	210 0.3×	70 0.3×	91 0.7×	25	2.2k
C. Akerlof	981 0.8×	921 0.8×	209 0.3×	72 0.3×	88 0.7×	67	1.9k
Katsuhiko Sato	2.3k 2.0×	2.3k 2.1×	262 0.4×	136 0.5×	38 0.3×	113	3.1k
Gerard Jungman	3.3k 2.9×	2.5k 2.3×	377 0.6×	99 0.4×	112 0.9×	46	3.8k
Vigdor L. Teplitz	1.9k 1.6×	971 0.9×	300 0.4×	147 0.6×	39 0.3×	97	2.3k

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Wolf, Peter, et al.. (2025). Search for QCD Coupled Axion Dark Matter with Data from the MICROSCOPE Space Experiment. Physical Review Letters. 135(17). 171001–171001.

Hees, Aurélien, et al.. (2024). Violation of the equivalence principle induced by oscillating rest mass and transition frequency, and its detection in atom interferometers. Physical review. D. 110(3). 4 indexed citations

Desmond, Harry, Aurélien Hees, & Benoît Famaey. (2024). On the tension between the radial acceleration relation and Solar system quadrupole in modified gravity MOND. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530(2). 1781–1795. 11 indexed citations

Campbell, R., M. Morris, Tuan Do, et al.. (2023). The Swansong of the Galactic Center Source X7: An Extreme Example of Tidal Evolution near the Supermassive Black Hole. The Astrophysical Journal. 944(2). 136–136. 9 indexed citations

Chu, Devin S., Tuan Do, A. M. Ghez, et al.. (2023). Evidence of a Decreased Binary Fraction for Massive Stars within 20 milliparsecs of the Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center. The Astrophysical Journal. 948(2). 94–94. 11 indexed citations

Baland, Rose‐Marie, Aurélien Hees, Marie Yseboodt, Adrien Bourgoin, & S. Le Maistre. (2022). Relativistic contributions to the rotation of Mars. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 670. A29–A29. 3 indexed citations

Hartwig, Olaf, et al.. (2022). Time-delay interferometry without clock synchronization. Physical review. D. 105(12). 19 indexed citations

Minazzoli, O., et al.. (2022). Constraining massless dilaton theory at Solar system scales with the planetary ephemeris INPOP. Physical review. D. 105(4). 8 indexed citations

Savalle, Etienne, Aurélien Hees, Etienne Cantin, et al.. (2021). Searching for Dark Matter with an Optical Cavity and an Unequal-Delay Interferometer. Physical Review Letters. 126(5). 51301–51301. 44 indexed citations

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Bourgoin, Adrien, S. Bouquillon, Aurélien Hees, et al.. (2021). Constraining velocity-dependent Lorentz and CPT violations using lunar laser ranging. Physical review. D. 103(6). 11 indexed citations

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Hees, Aurélien, Tuan Do, B. M. Roberts, et al.. (2020). Search for a Variation of the Fine Structure Constant around the Supermassive Black Hole in Our Galactic Center. Physical Review Letters. 124(8). 81101–81101. 33 indexed citations

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Roberts, B. M., Aurélien Hees, Tuan Do, et al.. (2020). Search for a variation of the fine-structure constant around the supermassive Black Hole in our Galactic Center. 2020. 2 indexed citations

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Sakai, Shoko, Jessica R. Lu, A. M. Ghez, et al.. (2019). The Galactic Center: An Improved Astrometric Reference Frame for Stellar Orbits around the Supermassive Black Hole. The Astrophysical Journal. 873(1). 65–65. 17 indexed citations

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Guerlin, Christine, Aurélien Hees, Jay D. Tasson, et al.. (2019). New Test of Lorentz Invariance Using the MICROSCOPE Space Mission. Physical Review Letters. 123(23). 231102–231102. 18 indexed citations

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Martinez, Gregory D., Aurélien Hees, A. M. Ghez, et al.. (2019). Improving Orbit Estimates for Incomplete Orbits with a New Approach to Priors: with Applications from Black Holes to Planets. The Astronomical Journal. 158(1). 4–4. 19 indexed citations

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Naoz, Smadar, Clifford M. Will, E. Ramírez-Ruiz, et al.. (2019). A Hidden Friend for the Galactic Center Black Hole, Sgr A*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 888(1). L8–L8. 48 indexed citations

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Hees, Aurélien, Tuan Do, A. M. Ghez, et al.. (2019). An Adaptive Scheduling Tool to Optimize Measurements to Reach a Scientific Objective: Methodology and Application to Measurements of Stellar Orbits in the Galactic Center. The Astrophysical Journal. 880(2). 87–87. 2 indexed citations

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Naoz, Smadar, A. M. Ghez, Aurélien Hees, et al.. (2018). Confusing Binaries: The Role of Stellar Binaries in Biasing Disk Properties in the Galactic Center. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 853(2). L24–L24. 20 indexed citations

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Chu, Devin S., Tuan Do, Aurélien Hees, et al.. (2018). Investigating the Binarity of S0-2: Implications for Its Origins and Robustness as a Probe of the Laws of Gravity around a Supermassive Black Hole. The Astrophysical Journal. 854(1). 12–12. 29 indexed citations

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Witzel, Gunther, Breann Sitarski, A. M. Ghez, et al.. (2017). The Post-periapsis Evolution of Galactic Center Source G1: The Second Case of a Resolved Tidal Interaction with a Supermassive Black Hole. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29 indexed citations

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