C. A. Pilachowski

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
145 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

C. A. Pilachowski is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, C. A. Pilachowski has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 66 papers in Instrumentation and 18 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in C. A. Pilachowski's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (120 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (66 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (63 papers). C. A. Pilachowski is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (120 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (66 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (63 papers). C. A. Pilachowski collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and Germany. C. A. Pilachowski's co-authors include A. N. Cox, C. Sneden, Christian I. Johnson, Heather R. Jacobson, Eileen D. Friel, Robert P. Kraft, J. J. Cowan, L. M. Hobbs, T. E. Armandroff and Debra L. Burris and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Astrophysical Journal and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

C. A. Pilachowski

133 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Allen's Astrophysical Quantities

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
C. A. Pilachowski United States	30	4.7k	1.7k	543	177	163	145	4.8k
P. Demarque United States	38	5.9k 1.3×	2.4k 1.4×	581 1.1×	148 0.8×	175 1.1×	181	6.1k
Jason W. Ferguson United States	23	4.4k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	504 0.9×	91 0.5×	275 1.7×	45	4.7k
A. N. Cox United States	21	4.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	336 0.6×	241 1.4×	231 1.4×	97	4.4k
I. Hubený United States	34	4.1k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	273 0.5×	142 0.8×	159 1.0×	114	4.3k
L. Casagrande Australia	38	5.3k 1.1×	2.6k 1.5×	409 0.8×	177 1.0×	177 1.1×	130	5.5k
N. Mowlavï Switzerland	31	5.8k 1.3×	2.3k 1.4×	441 0.8×	315 1.8×	127 0.8×	121	6.0k
H.‐G. Ludwig Germany	37	5.3k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	608 1.1×	175 1.0×	241 1.5×	210	5.6k
J. Andersen United States	37	7.4k 1.6×	3.1k 1.8×	701 1.3×	227 1.3×	227 1.4×	137	7.5k
F. Matteuccí Italy	49	8.6k 1.8×	2.8k 1.7×	821 1.5×	91 0.5×	114 0.7×	257	8.8k
C. Soubiran France	39	5.3k 1.1×	2.7k 1.6×	299 0.6×	284 1.6×	208 1.3×	111	5.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. A. Pilachowski

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All Works

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Arthur, S. J., et al.. (2024). Transitory Tidal Heating and Its Impact on Cluster Isochrones. The Astrophysical Journal. 967(1). 69–69. 1 indexed citations

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Pilachowski, C. A., et al.. (2024). Fluorine Abundances in Local Stellar Populations. The Astronomical Journal. 167(6). 291–291. 1 indexed citations

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Sneden, C., et al.. (2023). Chemical Compositions Of Red Giant Stars in the Old Open Cluster NGC 7789. The Astronomical Journal. 165(6). 245–245. 1 indexed citations

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Johnson, Christian I., A. Calamida, I. Ferraro, et al.. (2023). A Wide View of the Galactic Globular Cluster NGC 2808: Red Giant and Horizontal Branch Star Spatial Distributions. The Astronomical Journal. 166(1). 3–3. 1 indexed citations

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Sneden, C., et al.. (2023). M67 Blue Stragglers with High-resolution Infrared Spectroscopy. The Astronomical Journal. 166(4). 154–154. 5 indexed citations

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Pilachowski, C. A., Christian I. Johnson, R. Michael Rich, et al.. (2023). Blanco DECam Bulge Survey (BDBS). VI. Extinction Maps Toward Southern Galactic Bulge Globular Clusters. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(2). 126–126. 1 indexed citations

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Marchetti, Tommaso, Meridith Joyce, Christian I. Johnson, et al.. (2023). The Blanco DECam Bulge Survey (BDBS). Astronomy and Astrophysics. 682. A96–A96. 2 indexed citations

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Pilachowski, C. A., Christian I. Johnson, R. Michael Rich, et al.. (2022). Blanco DECam Bulge Survey (BDBS). VII. Multiple Populations in Globular Clusters of the Galactic Bulge. The Astrophysical Journal. 940(1). 76–76. 7 indexed citations

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Sandquist, Eric L., Matthew Shetrone, Samuel C. Barden, et al.. (2022). Evolved Eclipsing Binaries and the Age of the Open Cluster NGC 752*. The Astronomical Journal. 165(1). 6–6. 3 indexed citations

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Lim, Dongwook, Andreas Koch, Chul Chung, et al.. (2021). Blanco DECam Bulge Survey (BDBS). Astronomy and Astrophysics. 647. A34–A34. 10 indexed citations

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Pilachowski, C. A., et al.. (2021). The Galactic Chemical Evolution of Chlorine. The Astronomical Journal. 161(4). 183–183. 5 indexed citations

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Pilachowski, C. A., et al.. (2019). The Barium Abundance in the Young Star RZ Piscium. Research Notes of the AAS. 3(11). 170–170. 1 indexed citations

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Kastner, Joel H., et al.. (2017). Is the Young Star RZ Piscium Consuming Its Own (Planetary) Offspring?. The Astronomical Journal. 155(1). 33–33. 13 indexed citations

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Wilson, R. E., C. A. Pilachowski, & D. Terrell. (2017). THE M DWARF ECLIPSING BINARY CU CANCRI. The Astrophysical Journal. 835(2). 251–251. 6 indexed citations

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Johnson, Christian I., R. Michael Rich, C. A. Pilachowski, et al.. (2015). A SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS OF THE GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTER NGC 6273 (M19). The Astronomical Journal. 150(2). 63–63. 59 indexed citations

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Pilachowski, C. A. & C. Pace. (2015). THE ABUNDANCE OF FLUORINE IN NORMAL G AND K STARS OF THE GALACTIC THIN DISK. The Astronomical Journal. 150(3). 66–66. 16 indexed citations

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Cordero, M. J., C. J. Hansen, Christian I. Johnson, & C. A. Pilachowski. (2015). A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TWO 47 Tuc GIANT STARS WITH DIFFERENT s-PROCESS ENRICHMENT. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 808(1). L10–L10. 6 indexed citations

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Pilachowski, C. A.. (2000). Allen's Astrophysical Quantities, by Arthur N. Cox. 53(10). 77. 2 indexed citations

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Wallerstein, George, C. A. Pilachowski, & Hugh C. Harris. (1984). A search for evidence of the neon-sodium cycle in the Cepheid X Cygni. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 96. 613–613. 3 indexed citations

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Pilachowski, C. A., C. Sneden, & George Wallerstein. (1980). Metal Abundances in Eight More Globular Clusters. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 12. 802. 1 indexed citations

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