Charles C. Steidel

42.6k citations

238 papers · 24.5k indexed · 12 hit papers · h-index 77

Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.01%
Instrumentation top 0.01%
Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 0.1%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering top 5%
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics top 5%

Co-authors: Max Pettini Kurt L. Adelberger Alice E. Shapley Mark Dickinson Mauro Giavalisco Naveen A. Reddy Dawn K. Erb Henry C. Ferguson
Topics: Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (183 papers)Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (117 papers)Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (86 papers)
Cited by: Instrumentation Astronomy and Astrophysics Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Journals: Nature Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences The Astrophysical Journal
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Germany

In The Last Decade

Charles C. Steidel

229 papers receiving 23.8k 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.

Type Ia Supernova Discoveries atz> 1 from theHubble Space Telescope: Evidence for Past Deceleration and Constraints on Dark Energy Evolution

2004 2.7k citations Adam G. Riess, J. Tonry et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
High-redshift galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field: colour selection and star formation history to z 4

1996 1.1k citations Mark Dickinson, Charles C. Steidel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Lyman‐Break Galaxies at \documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{stmaryrd} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{portland,xspace} \usepackage{amsmath,amsxtra} \usepackage[OT2,OT1]{fontenc} \newcommand\cyr{ \renewcommand\rmdefault{wncyr} \renewcommand\sfdefault{wncyss} \renewcommand\encodingdefault{OT2} \normalfont \selectfont} \DeclareTextFontCommand{\textcyr}{\cyr} \pagestyle{empty} \DeclareMathSizes{10}{9}{7}{6} \begin{document} \landscape $z\gtrsim 4$ \end{document} and the Evolution of the Ultraviolet Luminosity Density at High Redshift

1999 816 citations Charles C. Steidel, Mark Dickinson et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Rest‐Frame Ultraviolet Spectra of \documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{stmaryrd} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{portland,xspace} \usepackage{amsmath,amsxtra} \usepackage[OT2,OT1]{fontenc} \newcommand\cyr{ \renewcommand\rmdefault{wncyr} \renewcommand\sfdefault{wncyss} \renewcommand\encodingdefault{OT2} \normalfont \selectfont} \DeclareTextFontCommand{\textcyr}{\cyr} \pagestyle{empty} \DeclareMathSizes{10}{9}{7}{6} \begin{document} \landscape $z\sim 3$ \end{document} Lyman Break Galaxies

2003 775 citations Alice E. Shapley, Charles C. Steidel et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Lyman Break Galaxies at z>4 and the Evolution of the UV Luminosity Density at High Redshift

1998 771 citations Charles C. Steidel, Mark Dickinson et al. profile →
THE STRUCTURE AND KINEMATICS OF THE CIRCUMGALACTIC MEDIUM FROM FAR-ULTRAVIOLET SPECTRA OFz≃ 2-3 GALAXIES

2010 659 citations Charles C. Steidel, Dawn K. Erb et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Rest-Frame Ultraviolet Spectra of z~3 Lyman Break Galaxies

2003 659 citations Alice E. Shapley, Charles C. Steidel et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The Mass‐Metallicity Relation atz≳2

2006 620 citations Dawn K. Erb, Alice E. Shapley et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The farthest known supernova: Support for an accelerating universe and a glimpse of the \nepoch of deceleration

2001 560 citations Adam G. Riess, P. Nugent et al. eScholarship (California Digital Library) profile →
The Rest‐Frame Optical Spectra of Lyman Break Galaxies: Star Formation, Extinction, Abundances, and Kinematics

2001 469 citations Alice E. Shapley, Charles C. Steidel et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
One Percent Determination of the Primordial Deuterium Abundance*

2018 308 citations Charles C. Steidel et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
SINFONI Integral Field Spectroscopy ofz∼ 2 UV‐selected Galaxies: Rotation Curves and Dynamical Evolution

2006 265 citations Dawn K. Erb, Alice E. Shapley et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

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1	Connecting the growth of galaxies to the large-scale environment in a massive node of the Cosmic Web at z ∼ 3 2025 ·Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Marta Galbiati,Sebastiano Cantalupo,Charles C. Steidel,Antonio Pensabene,(unknown),(unknown),Matteo Fossati,Matteo Fumagalli,Gwen C. Rudie,(unknown),Titouan Lazeyras,(unknown),(unknown)	3
2	A 100 Mpc² Structure Traced by Hyperluminous Galaxies around a Massive z = 2.85 Protocluster 2025 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown),S. C. Chapman,(unknown),F. Bertoldi,Christopher C. Hayward,Ryley Hill,Satoshi Kikuta,Yuichi Matsuda,Douglas Rennehan,D. Scott,Ian Smail,Charles C. Steidel	3
3	A giant disk galaxy two billion years after the Big Bang 2025 ·Nature Astronomy ·Weichen Wang,Sebastiano Cantalupo,Antonio Pensabene,Marta Galbiati,A. Travascio,Charles C. Steidel,Michael V. Maseda,Gabriele Pezzulli,(unknown),Matteo Fossati,Michele Fumagalli,(unknown),Titouan Lazeyras,Ruari Mackenzie,Jorryt Matthee,Themiya Nanayakkara,(unknown)	4
4	ADF22-WEB: A giant barred spiral starburst galaxy in the z = 3.1 SSA22 protocluster core 2025 ·Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan ·Hideki Umehata,Charles C. Steidel,Ian Smail,A. M. Swinbank,(unknown),D. J. Rosario,Bret Lehmer,Kouichiro Nakanishi,Mariko Kubo,Daisuke Iono,D. M. Alexander,Kotaro Kohno,Yoichi Tamura,R. J. Ivison,Toshiki Saito,Ikki Mitsuhashi,(unknown),(unknown)	6
5	Exploring the Relationship between Stellar Mass, Metallicity, and Star Formation Rate at z ∼ 2.3 in KBSS-MOSFIRE 2025 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown),Allison L. Strom,Tim B. Miller,Charles C. Steidel,Ryan F. Trainor,Gwen C. Rudie,(unknown)	7
6	Metals in Star-forming Galaxies with KCWI. I. Methodology and First Results on the Abundances of Iron, Magnesium, and Oxygen 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Zhuyun Zhuang,Evan N. Kirby,Charles C. Steidel,Mithi A. C. de los Reyes,(unknown),Nicha Leethochawalit,Minjung Park,Charlie Conroy,(unknown)	2
7	`ALPACA`: a new semi-analytical model for metal absorption lines emerging from clumpy galactic environments 2024 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown),Max Grönke,Charles C. Steidel	7
8	Lyman-α at cosmic noon I: Lyα spectral type selection ofz∼ 2 – 3 Lyman break galaxies with broadband imaging 2023 ·Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia ·G. J. Foran,Jeff Cooke,Naveen A. Reddy,Charles C. Steidel,Alice E. Shapley	0
9	The Circumgalactic Medium of Extreme Emission Line Galaxies at z∼2: Resolved Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer Modeling of Spatially Extended Lyα Emission in the KBSS-KCWI Survey* 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Dawn K. Erb,(unknown),Charles C. Steidel,Yuguang Chen,Max Grönke,Allison L. Strom,Ryan F. Trainor,Gwen C. Rudie	17
10	Dwarfs in Void Environments (DIVE): The Stellar Kinematics of Void Dwarf Galaxies Using the Keck Cosmic Web Imager 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Mithi A. C. de los Reyes,Evan N. Kirby,Zhuyun Zhuang,Charles C. Steidel,Yuguang Chen,Coral Wheeler	6
11	Empirical Constraints on Core-collapse Supernova Yields Using Very Metal-poor Damped Lyα Absorbers 2022 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown),Evan N. Kirby,Charles C. Steidel	5
12	ALMA Observations of Lyα Blob 1: Multiple Major Mergers and Widely Distributed Interstellar Media 2021 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Hideki Umehata,Ian Smail,Charles C. Steidel,Matthew Hayes,D. Scott,A. M. Swinbank,R. J. Ivison,(unknown),Mariko Kubo,Kouichiro Nakanishi,Yuichi Matsuda,Soh Ikarashi,Yoichi Tamura,J. E. Geach	6
13	Revisiting the gas kinematics in SSA22 Lyman-α Blob 1 with radiative transfer modelling in a multiphase, clumpy medium 2020 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown),Charles C. Steidel,Max Grönke,Yuguang Chen	19
14	The HDUV Survey: Six Lyman Continuum Emitter Candidates at z ∼ 2 Revealed by HST UV Imaging* 2017 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Rohan P. Naidu,Pascal A. Oesch,Naveen A. Reddy,B. Holden,Charles C. Steidel,Mireia Montes,Hakim Atek,R. J. Bouwens,C. M. Carollo,A. Cibinel,G. D. Illingworth,Ivo Labbé,D. Magee,L. Morselli,Erica J. Nelson,Pieter van Dokkum,Stephen M. Wilkins	26
15	ALMA Deep Field in SSA22: Source Catalog and Number Counts 2017 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Hideki Umehata,Yoichi Tamura,Kotaro Kohno,R. J. Ivison,Ian Smail,Bunyo Hatsukade,Kouichiro Nakanishi,Yuta Kato,Soh Ikarashi,Yuichi Matsuda,Seiji Fujimoto,Daisuke Iono,Minju Lee,Charles C. Steidel,Tomoki Saito,D. M. Alexander,Min S. Yun,Mariko Kubo	47
16	Design and development of MOSFIRE: the multi-object spectrometer for infrared exploration at the Keck Observatory 2010 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Ian S. McLean,Charles C. Steidel,Harland W. Epps,Keith Matthews,Sean M. Adkins,Nicholas P. Konidaris,Bob Weber,Ted Aliado,George Brims,John Canfield,John Cromer,Jason Fucik,Kristin Kulas,Gregory N. Mace,Ken Magnone,Héctor Rodríguez,Eric Wang,Jason Weiss	88
17	Kinematics and Formation Mechanisms of High-Redshift Galaxies 2009 ·David R. Law,S. Wright,Richard S. Ellis,Dawn K. Erb,Nicole Nesvadba,Charles C. Steidel,A. M. Swinbank	0
18	X-Ray Properties of Lyman Break Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field North Region 2002 ·NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) ·R. F. Mushotzky,K. A. Arnaud,Charles C. Steidel,Rogier A. Windhorst	72
19	California Extremely Large Telescope: Conceptual Design for a Thirty-Meter Telescope 2002 ·CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) ·Judith Cohen,Richard Dekany,S. G. Djorgovski,Richard S. Ellis,S. R. Kulkarni,Douglas G. MacMartin,K. Matthews,Richard M. Murray,S. Padin,W. L. W. Sargent,Charles C. Steidel,Keith Taylor,T. A. Tombrello	5
20	The farthest known supernova: Support for an accelerating universe and a glimpse of the \nepoch of decelerationbreakdown → 2001 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Adam G. Riess,P. Nugent,B. Schmidt,J. Tonry,Mark Dickinson,Ronald L. Gilliland,Rodger I. Thompson,Tamás Budavári,Stefano Casertano,A. Evans,A. V. Filippenko,Mario Livio,D. B. Sanders,Alice E. Shapley,Hyron Spinrad,Charles C. Steidel,Daniel Stern,J. Surace,Sylvain Veilleux	560

About Charles C. Steidel

Charles C. Steidel is a scholar working on Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, having authored 238 papers that have together received 24.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (183 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (117 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (86 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (8.9k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (24.1k citations) and Nuclear and High Energy Physics (5.9k citations). Charles C. Steidel has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Max Pettini, Kurt L. Adelberger, Alice E. Shapley, Mark Dickinson, Mauro Giavalisco, Naveen A. Reddy, Dawn K. Erb, Henry C. Ferguson, W. L. W. Sargent and Gwen C. Rudie. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Astrophysical Journal.

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