Dániel Apai

7.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
157 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Dániel Apai is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Dániel Apai has authored 157 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 148 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 53 papers in Instrumentation and 15 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Dániel Apai's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (135 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (84 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (72 papers). Dániel Apai is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (135 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (84 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (72 papers). Dániel Apai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Dániel Apai's co-authors include Ilaria Pascucci, Gijs D. Mulders, M. Kasper, C. P. Dullemond, M. Bonnefoy, D. Mouillet, G. Chauvin, Th. Henning, Benjamin V. Rackham and A. Boccaletti and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Dániel Apai

144 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

A Giant Planet Imaged in the Disk of the Young Star β Pictoris

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dániel Apai United States	32	3.5k	983	370	308	256	157	3.7k
C. Moutou France	39	5.1k 1.4×	1.7k 1.8×	249 0.7×	351 1.1×	264 1.0×	189	5.2k
Ian J. M. Crossfield United States	27	2.5k 0.7×	739 0.8×	192 0.5×	184 0.6×	364 1.4×	82	2.7k
W. Brandner Germany	38	4.4k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	388 1.0×	538 1.7×	136 0.5×	240	4.6k
Simon Albrecht United States	28	2.9k 0.8×	936 1.0×	323 0.9×	145 0.5×	320 1.3×	67	3.0k
David Lafreniére Canada	29	3.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	131 0.4×	432 1.4×	150 0.6×	88	3.3k
M. Sterzik Chile	31	3.7k 1.0×	835 0.8×	400 1.1×	125 0.4×	146 0.6×	157	3.9k
G. Chauvin France	30	3.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	226 0.6×	494 1.6×	77 0.3×	136	4.0k
Suvrath Mahadevan United States	20	1.9k 0.5×	682 0.7×	137 0.4×	250 0.8×	236 0.9×	108	2.1k
A.‐M. Lagrange France	28	3.2k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	157 0.4×	413 1.3×	62 0.2×	122	3.3k
William D. Vacca United States	32	4.9k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	364 1.0×	185 0.6×	250 1.0×	114	5.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dániel Apai

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Salaris, M., L. R. Bedin, Simon Blouin, et al.. (2025). JWST imaging of omega Centauri. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 703. A156–A156.

Mazevet, S., et al.. (2025). Interior Convection Regime, Host Star Luminosity, and Predicted Atmospheric CO₂ Abundance in Terrestrial Exoplanets. The Astronomical Journal. 169(3). 125–125. 2 indexed citations

Bedin, L. R., D. Nardiello, Adam J. Burgasser, et al.. (2025). JWST imaging of omega Centauri. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 701. A169–A169. 1 indexed citations

Bedin, L. R., Adam J. Burgasser, Dániel Apai, et al.. (2024). HST astrometry of the closest brown dwarfs‐II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body. Astronomische Nachrichten. 345(1). 2 indexed citations

Libralato, Mattia, Roman Gerasimov, L. R. Bedin, et al.. (2024). JWST imaging of the closest globular clusters. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 690. A371–A371. 3 indexed citations

Gerasimov, Roman, L. R. Bedin, Adam J. Burgasser, et al.. (2024). JWST Imaging of the Closest Globular Clusters. II. Discovery of Brown Dwarfs in NGC 6397 and Measurement of Age from the Brown Dwarf Cooling Sequence, Using SANDee—A New Grid of Model Isochrones across the Hydrogen-burning Limit. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(1). 65–65. 8 indexed citations

Apai, Dániel, et al.. (2024). Scalable, Advanced Machine Learning Based Approaches for Stellar Flare Identification: Application to TESS Short-cadence Data and Analysis of a New Flare Catalog. The Astronomical Journal. 168(6). 234–234. 4 indexed citations

Hardegree-Ullman, Kevin K., et al.. (2023). Bioverse: A Comprehensive Assessment of the Capabilities of Extremely Large Telescopes to Probe Earth-like O₂ Levels in Nearby Transiting Habitable-zone Exoplanets. The Astronomical Journal. 165(6). 267–267. 26 indexed citations

Mazevet, S., et al.. (2023). Prospects for the characterization of habitable planets. Comptes Rendus Physique. 24(S2). 249–264. 2 indexed citations

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McGruder, Chima, Mercedes López‐Morales, James Kirk, et al.. (2022). ACCESS: Confirmation of a Clear Atmosphere for WASP-96b and a Comparison of Light Curve Detrending Techniques. The Astronomical Journal. 164(4). 134–134. 12 indexed citations

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Allen, Natalie H., Néstor Espinoza, Andrés Jordán, et al.. (2022). ACCESS: Tentative Detection of H₂O in the Ground-based Optical Transmission Spectrum of the Low-density Hot Saturn HATS-5b. The Astronomical Journal. 164(4). 153–153. 2 indexed citations

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Weaver, Ian C., Mercedes López‐Morales, Munazza K. Alam, et al.. (2021). ACCESS: An Optical Transmission Spectrum of the High-gravity Hot Jupiter HAT-P-23b. The Astronomical Journal. 161(6). 278–278. 10 indexed citations

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Meusinger, H., et al.. (2020). The galaxy population within the virial radius of the Perseus cluster. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 8 indexed citations

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Yan, F., Néstor Espinoza, Karan Molaverdikhani, et al.. (2020). LBT transmission spectroscopy of HAT-P-12b. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 642. A98–A98. 11 indexed citations

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Bedin, L. R., M. Salaris, R. Michael Rich, et al.. (2019). The HST Large Programme on NGC 6752. I. Serendipitous discovery of a dwarf Galaxy in background. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 484(1). L54–L58. 3 indexed citations

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Apai, Dániel, Alex Bixel, Benjamin V. Rackham, et al.. (2019). Nautilus: A Very Large-Aperture, Ultralight Space Telescope for Exoplanet Exploration, Time-domain Astrophysics, and Faint Objects. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51(7). 141. 3 indexed citations

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Metchev, Stanimir, Paulo A. Miles-Páez, Ε. Πάλλη, et al.. (2019). A Spitzer search for transiting exoplanets around ultra-cool dwarf stars viewed equator-on. 51. 1 indexed citations

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Bedin, L. R., M. Salaris, Jay Anderson, et al.. (2019). The HST large programme on NGC 6752 – III. Detection of the peak of the white dwarf luminosity function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(3). 3857–3865. 10 indexed citations

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Quanz, Sascha P., Stephan M. Birkmann, Dániel Apai, S. Wolf, & Thomas Henning. (2012). Resolving the inner regions of the HD 97048 circumstellar disk with VLT/NACO polarimetric differential imaging. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 15 indexed citations

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Gucsik, A., K. Ninagawa, Masahiro Kayama, et al.. (2011). Cathodoluminescence Characterization of the Forsterite in Kaba Meteorite: An Astromineralogical Application. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 1157. 2 indexed citations

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