Charlie Conroy

24.4k total citations · 8 hit papers
165 papers, 12.1k citations indexed

About

Charlie Conroy is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Charlie Conroy has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 12.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 159 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 98 papers in Instrumentation and 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Charlie Conroy's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (115 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (114 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (98 papers). Charlie Conroy is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (115 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (114 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (98 papers). Charlie Conroy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Charlie Conroy's co-authors include Risa H. Wechsler, Peter Behroozi, Benjamin D. Johnson, Martin White, James E. Gunn, Pieter van Dokkum, Jieun Choi, Aaron Dotter, Matteo Cantiello and Bill Paxton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Charlie Conroy

158 papers receiving 11.1k citations

Hit Papers

MESA ISOCHRONES AND STELLAR TRACKS (MIST). I. SOLAR... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2016 2013 2009 2019 2010 500 1000 1.5k
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. MESA ISOCHRONES AND STELLAR TRACKS (MIST). I. SOLAR-SCALED MODELS
    2016 1.5k citations Aaron Dotter, Charlie Conroy et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  2. THE AVERAGE STAR FORMATION HISTORIES OF GALAXIES IN DARK MATTER HALOS FROMz= 0-8
    2013 1.4k citations Peter Behroozi, Risa H. Wechsler et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  3. THE PROPAGATION OF UNCERTAINTIES IN STELLAR POPULATION SYNTHESIS MODELING. I. THE RELEVANCE OF UNCERTAIN ASPECTS OF STELLAR EVOLUTION AND THE INITIAL MASS FUNCTION TO THE DERIVED PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF GALAXIES
    2009 1.0k citations Charlie Conroy et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  4. UniverseMachine: The correlation between galaxy growth and dark matter halo assembly from z = 0−10
    2019 796 citations Peter Behroozi, Risa H. Wechsler et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  5. A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF UNCERTAINTIES AFFECTING THE STELLAR MASS-HALO MASS RELATION FOR 0 <z< 4
    2010 627 citations Peter Behroozi, Charlie Conroy et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  6. Galaxy evolution in groups and clusters: satellite star formation histories and quenching time-scales in a hierarchical Universe
    2013 399 citations Charlie Conroy et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  7. How to Measure Galaxy Star Formation Histories. II. Nonparametric Models
    2019 253 citations Joel Leja, Benjamin D. Johnson et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  8. A galaxy lacking dark matter
    2018 239 citations Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli et al. profile →

Peers

Charlie Conroy
J. Brinchmann Netherlands
Eric F. Bell United States
R. F. Peletier Netherlands
Matthieu Schaller Netherlands
S. F. Sánchez Mexico
Thorsten Naab Germany
A. Renzini Italy
Debora Sijacki United Kingdom
Robert A. Crain United Kingdom
Gustavo Bruzual France
J. Brinchmann Netherlands
Charlie Conroy
Citations per year, relative to Charlie Conroy Charlie Conroy (= 1×) peers J. Brinchmann

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Fields of papers citing papers by Charlie Conroy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Charlie Conroy

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Besla, Gurtina, Nicolás Garavito-Camargo, Ekta Patel, et al.. (2025). Segue 2 Recently Collided with the Cetus-Palca Stream: New Opportunities to Constrain Dark Matter in an Ultra-faint Dwarf. The Astrophysical Journal. 979(2). 171–171. 1 indexed citations
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Semenov, Vadim A., Charlie Conroy, Vedant Chandra, Lars Hernquist, & Dylan Nelson. (2024). Formation of Galactic Disks. I. Why Did the Milky Way’s Disk Form Unusually Early?. The Astrophysical Journal. 962(1). 84–84. 25 indexed citations
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Semenov, Vadim A., Charlie Conroy, Vedant Chandra, Lars Hernquist, & Dylan Nelson. (2024). Formation of Galactic Disks. II. The Physical Drivers of Disk Spin-up. The Astrophysical Journal. 972(1). 73–73. 5 indexed citations
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Davies, R. L., Sirio Belli, Minjung Park, et al.. (2024). JWST reveals widespread AGN-driven neutral gas outflows in massive z ~ 2 galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(3). 4976–4992. 25 indexed citations
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Limberg, Guilherme, Alexander P. Ji, Rohan P. Naidu, et al.. (2024). Extending the chemical reach of the H3 survey: detailed abundances of the dwarf-galaxy stellar stream Wukong/LMS-1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530(3). 2512–2525. 12 indexed citations
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Chandra, Vedant, Rohan P. Naidu, Charlie Conroy, et al.. (2023). Distant Echoes of the Milky Way’s Last Major Merger. The Astrophysical Journal. 951(1). 26–26. 18 indexed citations
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Rix, Hans‐Walter, Vedant Chandra, R. Andrae, et al.. (2022). The Poor Old Heart of the Milky Way. The Astrophysical Journal. 941(1). 45–45. 85 indexed citations
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Danieli, Shany, Pieter van Dokkum, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, et al.. (2022). NGC 5846-UDG1: A Galaxy Formed Mostly by Star Formation in Massive, Extremely Dense Clumps of Gas. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 927(2). L28–L28. 48 indexed citations
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Conroy, Charlie, et al.. (2022). Dataset 2 of 2: No peaks without valleys: The stable mass transfer channel for gravitational-wave sources in light of the neutron star-black hole mass gap.. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Chakrabarty, Deepto, Roberto Soria, M. C. B. Ashley, et al.. (2022). A Massive AGB Donor in Scutum X-1: Identification of the First Mira Variable in an X-Ray Binary. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 928(1). L8–L8. 1 indexed citations
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Naidu, Rohan P., Charlie Conroy, Ana Bonaca, et al.. (2021). Reconstructing the Last Major Merger of the Milky Way with the H3 Survey. The Astrophysical Journal. 923(1). 92–92. 111 indexed citations
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Zaritsky, Dennis, Charlie Conroy, Rohan P. Naidu, et al.. (2020). Discovery of Magellanic Stellar Debris in the H3 Survey. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 905(1). L3–L3. 13 indexed citations
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Behroozi, Peter, Charlie Conroy, Risa H. Wechsler, et al.. (2020). The Universe at z &gt; 10: predictions for JWST from the universemachine DR1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 499(4). 5702–5718. 90 indexed citations
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Kriek, Mariska, Sedona H. Price, Charlie Conroy, et al.. (2019). Stellar Metallicities and Elemental Abundance Ratios of z ∼ 1.4 Massive Quiescent Galaxies*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 880(2). L31–L31. 32 indexed citations
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Wasserman, Asher, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Jean P. Brodie, et al.. (2018). The SLUGGS Survey: The Inner Dark Matter Density Slope of the Massive Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1407. The Astrophysical Journal. 863(2). 130–130. 13 indexed citations
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Dokkum, Pieter van, Yotam Cohen, Shany Danieli, et al.. (2018). An Enigmatic Population of Luminous Globular Clusters in a Galaxy Lacking Dark Matter. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 856(2). L30–L30. 65 indexed citations
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Loeb, Abraham, et al.. (2018). A Model Connecting Galaxy Masses, Star Formation Rates, and Dust Temperatures across Cosmic Time. The Astrophysical Journal. 854(1). 36–36. 19 indexed citations
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Conroy, Charlie, Ana Bonaca, Rohan P. Naidu, et al.. (2018). They Might Be Giants: An Efficient Color-based Selection of Red Giant Stars. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 861(2). L16–L16. 6 indexed citations
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Dokkum, Pieter van, Yotam Cohen, Shany Danieli, et al.. (2018). A Revised Velocity for the Globular Cluster GC-98 in the Ultra Diffuse Galaxy NGC 1052-DF2. Research Notes of the AAS. 2(2). 54–54. 20 indexed citations
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Cook, B. A., Charlie Conroy, Annalisa Pillepich, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, & Lars Hernquist. (2016). THE INFORMATION CONTENT OF STELLAR HALOS: STELLAR POPULATION GRADIENTS AND ACCRETION HISTORIES IN EARLY-TYPE ILLUSTRIS GALAXIES. The Astrophysical Journal. 833(2). 158–158. 41 indexed citations

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