Charles C. Steidel

42.6k total citations · 12 hit papers
238 papers, 24.5k citations indexed

About

Charles C. Steidel is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles C. Steidel has authored 238 papers receiving a total of 24.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 215 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 117 papers in Instrumentation and 28 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Charles C. Steidel's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (183 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (117 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (86 papers). Charles C. Steidel is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (183 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (117 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (86 papers). Charles C. Steidel collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Charles C. Steidel's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Charles C. Steidel

229 papers receiving 23.8k 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.

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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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Charles C. Steidel United States	77	24.1k	8.9k	5.9k	804	753	238	24.5k
Mark Dickinson United States	80	26.6k 1.1×	12.2k 1.4×	5.6k 1.0×	854 1.1×	887 1.2×	288	27.2k
Mauro Giavalisco United States	60	15.9k 0.7×	6.9k 0.8×	3.9k 0.7×	574 0.7×	596 0.8×	149	16.2k
Joop Schaye Netherlands	85	24.7k 1.0×	10.5k 1.2×	6.3k 1.1×	438 0.5×	689 0.9×	419	25.5k
Henry C. Ferguson United States	65	15.7k 0.7×	6.7k 0.8×	4.0k 0.7×	469 0.6×	643 0.9×	243	16.0k
David J. Schlegel United States	51	19.7k 0.8×	7.6k 0.8×	3.4k 0.6×	429 0.5×	597 0.8×	138	20.4k
James S. Bullock United States	76	21.7k 0.9×	9.1k 1.0×	7.0k 1.2×	291 0.4×	783 1.0×	204	22.7k
Tom Theuns United Kingdom	76	18.1k 0.8×	8.0k 0.9×	4.2k 0.7×	263 0.3×	554 0.7×	246	18.6k
Julio F. Navarro Canada	72	23.9k 1.0×	11.0k 1.2×	6.0k 1.0×	288 0.4×	643 0.9×	246	24.8k
Adrian Jenkins United Kingdom	66	21.2k 0.9×	9.3k 1.0×	6.4k 1.1×	308 0.4×	613 0.8×	129	22.2k
Federico Marinacci United States	66	19.4k 0.8×	9.0k 1.0×	3.5k 0.6×	265 0.3×	593 0.8×	211	20.4k

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Galbiati, Marta, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Charles C. Steidel, et al.. (2025). Connecting the growth of galaxies to the large-scale environment in a massive node of the Cosmic Web at z ∼ 3. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 696. A95–A95. 3 indexed citations

Chapman, S. C., F. Bertoldi, Christopher C. Hayward, et al.. (2025). A 100 Mpc² Structure Traced by Hyperluminous Galaxies around a Massive z = 2.85 Protocluster. The Astrophysical Journal. 983(1). 69–69. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Weichen, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Antonio Pensabene, et al.. (2025). A giant disk galaxy two billion years after the Big Bang. Nature Astronomy. 9(5). 710–719. 4 indexed citations

Umehata, Hideki, Charles C. Steidel, Ian Smail, et al.. (2025). ADF22-WEB: A giant barred spiral starburst galaxy in the z = 3.1 SSA22 protocluster core. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan. 77(2). 432–445. 6 indexed citations

Strom, Allison L., et al.. (2025). Exploring the Relationship between Stellar Mass, Metallicity, and Star Formation Rate at z ∼ 2.3 in KBSS-MOSFIRE. The Astrophysical Journal. 984(2). 188–188. 7 indexed citations

Zhuang, Zhuyun, Evan N. Kirby, Charles C. Steidel, et al.. (2024). Metals in Star-forming Galaxies with KCWI. I. Methodology and First Results on the Abundances of Iron, Magnesium, and Oxygen. The Astrophysical Journal. 972(2). 182–182. 2 indexed citations

Grönke, Max, et al.. (2024). ALPACA: a new semi-analytical model for metal absorption lines emerging from clumpy galactic environments. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(1). 444–463. 7 indexed citations

Foran, G. J., Jeff Cooke, Naveen A. Reddy, Charles C. Steidel, & Alice E. Shapley. (2023). Lyman-α at cosmic noon I: Lyα spectral type selection ofz∼ 2 – 3 Lyman break galaxies with broadband imaging. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 40.

Erb, Dawn K., Charles C. Steidel, Yuguang Chen, et al.. (2023). 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*. The Astrophysical Journal. 953(1). 118–118. 17 indexed citations

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Reyes, Mithi A. C. de los, Evan N. Kirby, Zhuyun Zhuang, et al.. (2023). Dwarfs in Void Environments (DIVE): The Stellar Kinematics of Void Dwarf Galaxies Using the Keck Cosmic Web Imager. The Astrophysical Journal. 951(1). 52–52. 6 indexed citations

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Kirby, Evan N., et al.. (2022). Empirical Constraints on Core-collapse Supernova Yields Using Very Metal-poor Damped Lyα Absorbers. The Astrophysical Journal. 927(1). 64–64. 5 indexed citations

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Umehata, Hideki, Ian Smail, Charles C. Steidel, et al.. (2021). ALMA Observations of Lyα Blob 1: Multiple Major Mergers and Widely Distributed Interstellar Media. The Astrophysical Journal. 918(2). 69–69. 6 indexed citations

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Steidel, Charles C., et al.. (2020). Revisiting the gas kinematics in SSA22 Lyman-α Blob 1 with radiative transfer modelling in a multiphase, clumpy medium. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 502(2). 2389–2408. 19 indexed citations

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Naidu, Rohan P., Pascal A. Oesch, Naveen A. Reddy, et al.. (2017). The HDUV Survey: Six Lyman Continuum Emitter Candidates at z ∼ 2 Revealed by HST UV Imaging*. The Astrophysical Journal. 847(1). 12–12. 26 indexed citations

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Umehata, Hideki, Yoichi Tamura, Kotaro Kohno, et al.. (2017). ALMA Deep Field in SSA22: Source Catalog and Number Counts. The Astrophysical Journal. 835(1). 98–98. 47 indexed citations

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McLean, Ian S., Charles C. Steidel, Harland W. Epps, et al.. (2010). Design and development of MOSFIRE: the multi-object spectrometer for infrared exploration at the Keck Observatory. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7735. 77351E–77351E. 88 indexed citations

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Law, David R., S. Wright, Richard S. Ellis, et al.. (2009). Kinematics and Formation Mechanisms of High-Redshift Galaxies. 2010. 172.

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Mushotzky, R. F., K. A. Arnaud, Charles C. Steidel, & Rogier A. Windhorst. (2002). X-Ray Properties of Lyman Break Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field North Region. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 72 indexed citations

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Cohen, Judith, Richard Dekany, S. G. Djorgovski, et al.. (2002). California Extremely Large Telescope: Conceptual Design for a Thirty-Meter Telescope. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 112(6). 1177–1181. 5 indexed citations

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Riess, Adam G., P. Nugent, B. Schmidt, et al.. (2001). The farthest known supernova: Support for an accelerating universe and a glimpse of the \nepoch of deceleration. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 560 indexed citations breakdown →

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