Avi M. Mandell

7.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
88 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Avi M. Mandell is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Avi M. Mandell has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 32 papers in Instrumentation and 18 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Avi M. Mandell's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (55 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (41 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (32 papers). Avi M. Mandell is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (55 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (41 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (32 papers). Avi M. Mandell collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Avi M. Mandell's co-authors include Sean N. Raymond, D. P. O’Brien, Alessandro Morbidelli, K. J. Walsh, M. D. Smith, Gerónimo Villanueva, M. J. Mumma, B. P. Bonev, T. Hewagama and R. E. Novak and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Avi M. Mandell

77 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

A low mass for Mars from Jupiter’s early gas-driven migra... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2023 200 400 600
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. A low mass for Mars from Jupiter’s early gas-driven migration
    2011 729 citations Avi M. Mandell et al. Nature profile →
  2. No thick carbon dioxide atmosphere on the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c
    2023 108 citations Sebastian Zieba, Laura Kreidberg et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Avi M. Mandell
Renyu Hu United States
Y. Alibert Switzerland
Jérémy Leconte France
Robin Wordsworth United States
M. Podolak Israel
John Stansberry United States
Ravi Kopparapu United States
C. A. Griffith United States
Julianne I. Moses United States
John Lee Grenfell Germany
Renyu Hu United States
Avi M. Mandell
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Fields of papers citing papers by Avi M. Mandell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Avi M. Mandell

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Avi M. Mandell. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Avi M. Mandell 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 Avi M. Mandell. Avi M. Mandell 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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Komacek, Thaddeus D., Ravi Kopparapu, Thomas J. Fauchez, et al.. (2025). The Climates and Thermal Emission Spectra of Prime Nearby Temperate Rocky Exoplanet Targets. The Astrophysical Journal. 984(2). 181–181. 1 indexed citations
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Mandell, Avi M., et al.. (2024). The VSPEC Collection: A suite of utilities to model spectroscopic phase curves of 3D exoplanet atmospheres in the presence of stellar variability. Astronomy and Computing. 50. 100890–100890. 1 indexed citations
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Stark, Christopher C., Bertrand Mennesson, Steve Bryson, et al.. (2024). Paths to robust exoplanet science yield margin for the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems. 10(3). 11 indexed citations
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Stark, Christopher C., et al.. (2024). Optimized bandpasses for the Habitable Worlds Observatory’s exoEarth survey. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems. 10(1). 8 indexed citations
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Zieba, Sebastian, Laura Kreidberg, Elsa Ducrot, et al.. (2023). No thick carbon dioxide atmosphere on the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c. Nature. 620(7975). 746–749. 108 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lincowski, Andrew, Victoria Meadows, Sebastian Zieba, et al.. (2023). Potential Atmospheric Compositions of TRAPPIST-1 c Constrained by JWST/MIRI Observations at 15 μm. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 955(1). L7–L7. 31 indexed citations
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Lopez, Eric, et al.. (2022). The Exoplanet Modeling and Analysis Center at NASA Goddard. Research Notes of the AAS. 6(9). 185–185. 2 indexed citations
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Welbanks, Luis, Avi M. Mandell, Nikku Madhusudhan, et al.. (2021). The Hubble PanCET Program: A Metal-rich Atmosphere for the Inflated Hot Jupiter HAT-P-41b. The Astronomical Journal. 161(2). 51–51. 17 indexed citations
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Fauchez, Thomas J., Martin Turbet, Eric Wolf, et al.. (2019). TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). Motivations and protocol. 3 indexed citations
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Paganini, L., Gerónimo Villanueva, Lorenz Roth, et al.. (2019). A measurement of water vapour amid a largely quiescent environment on Europa. Nature Astronomy. 4(3). 266–272. 64 indexed citations
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Deming, Drake, Avi M. Mandell, Heather A. Knutson, et al.. (2019). Arizona State University Library Digital Repository (Arizona State University). 61 indexed citations
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Killen, R. M., et al.. (2018). The Sun was Likely Not a Fast Rotator: Using Lunar Moderate Volatile Depletion and Solar Analogue Activity From Kepler Data as Constraints. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations
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Villanueva, Gerónimo, Avi M. Mandell, Silvia Protopapa, et al.. (2017). Planetary Spectrum Generator (PSG): An Online Tool to Synthesize Spectra of Comets, Small Bodies, and (Exo)Planets. LPICo. 1989. 8006. 2 indexed citations
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Clark, P. E., Kenneth Brown, Dennis C. Reuter, et al.. (2016). Lunar Ice Cube Mission: Determining Lunar Water Dynamics with a First Generation Deep Space CubeSat. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 1043. 12 indexed citations
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Clark, P. E., R. J. MacDowall, D. Folta, et al.. (2015). Lunar Ice Cube: Determining Volatile Systematics Via Lunar Orbiting Cubesat. EPSC. 6 indexed citations
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Morris, Brett M., Avi M. Mandell, Daniel Angerhausen, et al.. (2015). Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy in the Near Infrared with Keck/MOSFIRE. 225. 1 indexed citations
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Stark, Christopher C., Aki Roberge, Avi M. Mandell, & Tyler D. Robinson. (2014). MAXIMIZING THE ExoEarth CANDIDATE YIELD FROM A FUTURE DIRECT IMAGING MISSION. The Astrophysical Journal. 795(2). 122–122. 82 indexed citations
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Deming, Drake, Ashlee Wilkins, Nikku Madhusudhan, et al.. (2012). Infrared Spectroscopy of the Transiting Exoplanets HD189733b and XO-1 Using Hubble WFC3 in Spatial Scan Mode. 219. 1 indexed citations
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Pontoppidan, K. M., E. F. van Dishoeck, Geoffrey A. Blake, et al.. (2011). Planet-forming regions at the highest spectral and spatial resolution with VLT–CRIRES. Max Planck Digital Library. 143. 32–36. 8 indexed citations

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