Bill Paxton

12.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
30 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Bill Paxton is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bill Paxton has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 6 papers in Instrumentation and 4 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Bill Paxton's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (23 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (16 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (14 papers). Bill Paxton is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (23 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (16 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (14 papers). Bill Paxton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Bill Paxton's co-authors include Matteo Cantiello, Aaron Dotter, Lars Bildsten, F. X. Timmes, R. H. D. Townsend, Charlie Conroy, Jieun Choi, Benjamin D. Johnson, Christopher Mankovich and Phil Arras and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Bill Paxton

30 papers receiving 6.8k 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.

MODULES FOR EXPERIMENTS IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (MESA): PLANETS, OSCILLATIONS, ROTATION, AND MASSIVE STARS

2013 2.2k citations Bill Paxton, Matteo Cantiello et al. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series profile →
MESA ISOCHRONES AND STELLAR TRACKS (MIST). I. SOLAR-SCALED MODELS

2016 1.5k citations Aaron Dotter, Matteo Cantiello et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics ( ): Convective Boundaries, Element Diffusion, and Massive Star Explosions

2018 1.3k citations Bill Paxton, Josiah Schwab et al. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series profile →
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Pulsating Variable Stars, Rotation, Convective Boundaries, and Energy Conservation

2019 1.1k citations Bill Paxton, R. Smolec et al. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bill Paxton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bill Paxton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bill Paxton 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 Bill Paxton. Bill Paxton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Prolonged Central Nervous System Response in a Patient With HER2 Mutant NSCLC Treated With First-Line Poziotinib 2020 ·JTO Clinical and Research Reports ·Nishan Tchekmedyian, Bill Paxton, François Lebel, (unknown), John V. Heymach	1
2	Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Pulsating Variable Stars, Rotation, Convective Boundaries, and Energy Conservation breakdown → 2019 ·The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ·Bill Paxton, R. Smolec, Josiah Schwab, Alfred Gautschy, Lars Bildsten, Matteo Cantiello, Aaron Dotter, R. Farmer, Jared A. Goldberg, Adam S. Jermyn, Shashi M. Kanbur, Pablo Marchant, Anne Thoul, R. H. D. Townsend, William M. Wolf, Michael Zhang, F. X. Timmes	1137
3	Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics ( ): Convective Boundaries, Element Diffusion, and Massive Star Explosions breakdown → 2018 ·The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ·Bill Paxton, Josiah Schwab, Evan B. Bauer, Lars Bildsten, С. И. Блинников, Paul C. Duffell, R. Farmer, Jared A. Goldberg, Pablo Marchant, E. I. Sorokina, Anne Thoul, R. H. D. Townsend, F. X. Timmes	1318
4	i-process Nucleosynthesis and Mass Retention Efficiency in He-shell Flash Evolution of Rapidly Accreting White Dwarfs 2017 ·The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Pavel A. Denissenkov, Falk Herwig, (unknown), Christian Ritter, M. Pignatari, Samuel Jones, Bill Paxton	62
5	Accretion-induced Collapse from Helium Star + White Dwarf Binaries 2017 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), Josiah Schwab, Lars Bildsten, Eliot Quataert, Bill Paxton	25
6	Super-Eddington stellar winds driven by near-surface energy deposition 2016 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Eliot Quataert, Rodrigo Fernández, Daniel Kasen, (unknown), Bill Paxton	72
7	AM CANUM VENATICORUM PROGENITORS WITH HELIUM STAR DONORS AND THE RESULTANT EXPLOSIONS 2015 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), Lars Bildsten, Pablo Marchant, Bill Paxton	27
8	DARK STARS: IMPROVED MODELS AND FIRST PULSATION RESULTS 2015 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Tanja Rindler-Daller, Μ. H. Montgomery, Katherine Freese, D. E. Winget, Bill Paxton	17
9	H ingestion into He-burning convection zones in super-AGB stellar models as a potential site for intermediate neutron-density nucleosynthesis 2015 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Samuel Jones, Christian Ritter, Falk Herwig, Chris L. Fryer, M. Pignatari, (unknown), Bill Paxton	72
10	The primordial and evolutionary abundance variations in globular-cluster stars: a problem with two unknowns 2015 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Pavel A. Denissenkov, Don A. VandenBerg, F. D. A. Hartwick, Falk Herwig, (unknown), Bill Paxton	38
11	Non-Invasive Prenatal Chromosomal Aneuploidy Testing - Clinical Experience: 100,000 Clinical Samples 2014 ·PLoS ONE ·Ron McCullough, (unknown), Xiaojun Guan, Jennifer A. Geis, (unknown), Amin R. Mazloom, Cosmin Deciu, Paul Oeth, Allan T. Bombard, Bill Paxton, Nilesh Dharajiya, Juan‐Sebastian Saldivar	94
12	ANGULAR MOMENTUM TRANSPORT WITHIN EVOLVED LOW-MASS STARS 2014 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Matteo Cantiello, Christopher Mankovich, Lars Bildsten, J. Christensen‐Dalsgaard, Bill Paxton	173
13	ADVANCED BURNING STAGES AND FATE OF 8-10M_☉STARS 2013 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Samuel Jones, Raphaël Hirschi, K. Nomoto, Tobias Fischer, F. X. Timmes, Falk Herwig, Bill Paxton, H. Toki, Tomoharu Suzuki, G. Martı́nez-Pinedo, Y. H. Lam, (unknown)	121
14	MODULES FOR EXPERIMENTS IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (MESA): PLANETS, OSCILLATIONS, ROTATION, AND MASSIVE STARS breakdown → 2013 ·The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ·Bill Paxton, Matteo Cantiello, Phil Arras, Lars Bildsten, Edward F. Brown, Aaron Dotter, Christopher Mankovich, Μ. H. Montgomery, Dennis Stello, F. X. Timmes, R. H. D. Townsend	2176
15	GYRE: A new open-source stellar oscillation code 2013 ·Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union ·R. H. D. Townsend, S. Teitler, Bill Paxton	2
16	ACOUSTIC SIGNATURES OF THE HELIUM CORE FLASH 2011 ·The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Lars Bildsten, Bill Paxton, Kevin L. Moore, Phillip Macias	32
17	LMXB AND IMXB EVOLUTION: I. THE BINARY RADIO PULSAR PSR J1614–2230 2011 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), S. Rappaport, Philipp Podsiadlowski, L. A. Nelson, Bill Paxton, (unknown)	84
18	Progenitors of electron-capture supernovae 2011 ·Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union ·Samuel Jones, Raphaël Hirschi, Falk Herwig, Bill Paxton, F. X. Timmes, K. Nomoto	1
19	MESA: Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics 2010 ·Astrophysics Source Code Library ·Bill Paxton, Lars Bildsten, Aaron Dotter, Falk Herwig, P. Lesaffre, F. X. Timmes	12
20	EZ to Evolve ZAMS Stars: A Program Derived from Eggleton’s Stellar Evolution Code 2004 ·Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific ·Bill Paxton	42

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