D. D. Thornton

1.5k total citations
23 papers, 784 citations indexed

About

D. D. Thornton is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, D. D. Thornton has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 784 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5 papers in Atmospheric Science and 4 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in D. D. Thornton's work include Planetary Science and Exploration (8 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (6 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (4 papers). D. D. Thornton is often cited by papers focused on Planetary Science and Exploration (8 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (6 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (4 papers). D. D. Thornton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. D. D. Thornton's co-authors include W. J. Welch, Alvin Cheung, C. H. Townes, D. M. Rank, William J. Welch, R. L. Plambeck, J. E. Carlstrom, G. T. Wrixon, M. C. H. Wright and J. R. Forster and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

D. D. Thornton

23 papers receiving 727 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
D. D. Thornton United States	10	529	335	280	188	61	23	784
M. M. Litvak United States	17	299 0.6×	309 0.9×	296 1.1×	241 1.3×	94 1.5×	44	711
N. W. Broten Canada	15	565 1.1×	438 1.3×	454 1.6×	170 0.9×	52 0.9×	47	971
W. J. Welch United States	19	1.3k 2.5×	758 2.3×	373 1.3×	367 2.0×	38 0.6×	54	1.6k
P. Bruston France	18	618 1.2×	163 0.5×	174 0.6×	221 1.2×	28 0.5×	43	771
E. L. Breig United States	16	403 0.8×	148 0.4×	211 0.8×	276 1.5×	43 0.7×	32	678
J. Keene United States	15	709 1.3×	330 1.0×	195 0.7×	236 1.3×	104 1.7×	31	880
A. Schadee United States	11	207 0.4×	186 0.6×	234 0.8×	159 0.8×	58 1.0×	26	548
P. G. Wannier United States	21	1.0k 1.9×	378 1.1×	261 0.9×	273 1.5×	39 0.6×	85	1.2k
Takashi Kasuga Japan	15	346 0.7×	196 0.6×	200 0.7×	95 0.5×	90 1.5×	81	646
F. Baas Netherlands	20	1.1k 2.1×	613 1.8×	446 1.6×	356 1.9×	25 0.4×	54	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. D. Thornton

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Thornton, D. D., et al.. (2020). Fiber Optics for Sub-Surface Strain Forecasting. 1–5. 2 indexed citations

Welch, W. J., et al.. (2000). Amplitude Calibration in Interferometry. 217. 309. 1 indexed citations

Mundy, Lee G., Leslie W. Looney, W. C. Erickson, et al.. (1996). Imaging the HL Tauri Disk at λ = 2.7 Millimeters with the BIMA Array. The Astrophysical Journal. 464(2). L169–L173. 67 indexed citations

Thornton, D. D., et al.. (1985). The Hat Creek millimeter-wave hybrid spectrometer for interferometry. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 97. 745–745. 7 indexed citations

Carlstrom, J. E., R. L. Plambeck, & D. D. Thornton. (1985). A Continuously Tunable 65--15-GHz Gunn Oscillator. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 33(7). 610–619. 60 indexed citations

Welch, W. J. & D. D. Thornton. (1985). An introduction to millimeter and submillimeter interferometry and a summary of the Hat Creek system. 53–64. 2 indexed citations

Baud, B., John H. Bieging, R. L. Plambeck, et al.. (1980). SiO Emission from the Orion Nebula. Symposium - International Astronomical Union. 87. 545–548. 1 indexed citations

Welch, William J., et al.. (1977). An interferometer for millimeter wavelengths.. 59(3). 379–385. 6 indexed citations

Janssen, M. A., R. E. Hills, D. D. Thornton, & William J. Welch. (1973). Venus: New Microwave Measurements Show No Atmospheric Water Vapor. Science. 179(4077). 994–997. 6 indexed citations

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Wrixon, G. T., W. J. Welch, & D. D. Thornton. (1971). The Spectrum of Jupiter at Millimeter Wavelengths. The Astrophysical Journal. 169. 171–171. 27 indexed citations

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Cheung, Alvin, D. M. Rank, C. H. Townes, D. D. Thornton, & W. J. Welch. (1969). Detection of Water in Interstellar Regions by its Microwave Radiation. Nature. 221(5181). 626–628. 216 indexed citations

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Cheung, Alvin, D. M. Rank, C. H. Townes, D. D. Thornton, & W. J. Welch. (1968). Detection of NH3Molecules in the Interstellar Medium by Their Microwave Emission. Physical Review Letters. 21(25). 1701–1705. 278 indexed citations

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Thornton, D. D., et al.. (1967). The microwave spectrum of venus in the frequency range 18–36 Gc/sec. Icarus. 6(1-3). 175–188. 9 indexed citations

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Welch, William J., et al.. (1967). Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Temperature at 1.5-cm Wavelength. Physical Review Letters. 18(24). 1068–1070. 26 indexed citations

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Welch, William J., et al.. (1966). Observations of Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury at 1.53 Centimeters. The Astrophysical Journal. 146. 799–799. 8 indexed citations

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Welch, W. J. & D. D. Thornton. (1965). Recent Planetary Observations at Wavelengths Near 1 cm.. The Astronomical Journal. 70. 149–149. 10 indexed citations

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Williams, D. R., W. J. Welch, & D. D. Thornton. (1965). Observations of Taurus A and the Quasi-Stellar Source 3C 273 at 1.53cm. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 77. 178–178. 2 indexed citations

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Welch, William J., D. D. Thornton, & S. Winter. (1965). The variation of lunar radio emission during an eclipse. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 70(12). 2793–2798. 5 indexed citations

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Thornton, D. D. & William J. Welch. (1964). Symposium on Radar and Radiometric Observations of Venus during the 1962 Conjunction: Radio emission from Venus at 8.35 MM. The Astronomical Journal. 69. 71–71. 8 indexed citations

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Thornton, D. D. & William J. Welch. (1963). 8.35 mm radio emission from Jupiter. Icarus. 2. 228–232. 18 indexed citations

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