David S. Spiegel

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

David S. Spiegel is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, David S. Spiegel has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 8 papers in Instrumentation and 2 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in David S. Spiegel's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (24 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (20 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (9 papers). David S. Spiegel is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (24 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (20 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (9 papers). David S. Spiegel collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. David S. Spiegel's co-authors include Hanno Rein, Adam Burrows, Jason Nordhaus, Kristen Menou, Caleb Scharf, Andrea Ferrara, Andrei Mesinger, Edwin L. Turner, Brian D. Metzger and L. Ibgui and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

David S. Spiegel

30 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. ias15: a fast, adaptive, high-order integrator for gravitational dynamics, accurate to machine precision over a billion orbits
    2014 403 citations Hanno Rein, David S. Spiegel Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David S. Spiegel United States 18 1.6k 241 160 145 70 30 1.7k
M. L. Khodachenko Austria 33 3.1k 2.0× 208 0.9× 133 0.8× 201 1.4× 57 0.8× 138 3.2k
Daniel C. Fabrycky United States 27 2.7k 1.7× 652 2.7× 83 0.5× 146 1.0× 37 0.5× 69 2.8k
Erik A. Petigura United States 22 2.7k 1.7× 653 2.7× 102 0.6× 141 1.0× 45 0.6× 70 2.7k
Cynthia S. Froning United States 21 1.6k 1.0× 295 1.2× 231 1.4× 138 1.0× 31 0.4× 77 1.7k
Rory Barnes United States 24 1.9k 1.2× 332 1.4× 47 0.3× 218 1.5× 29 0.4× 66 2.0k
Brad M. S. Hansen United States 25 2.2k 1.4× 481 2.0× 142 0.9× 123 0.8× 24 0.3× 47 2.3k
Konstantin Batygin United States 25 2.2k 1.4× 277 1.1× 57 0.4× 85 0.6× 17 0.2× 90 2.2k
J.‐M. Grießmeier France 21 1.3k 0.8× 86 0.4× 195 1.2× 70 0.5× 39 0.6× 61 1.3k
A. J. Penny United Kingdom 23 1.8k 1.1× 566 2.3× 91 0.6× 78 0.5× 41 0.6× 76 1.8k
Н. В. Еркаев Russia 33 3.3k 2.1× 158 0.7× 232 1.4× 183 1.3× 40 0.6× 173 3.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David S. Spiegel

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rein, Hanno, et al.. (2024). A new timestep criterion for N-body simulations. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 5 indexed citations
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Coughlin, Jeffrey L., et al.. (2016). Day-side z’–band emission and eccentricity of WASP-12b1. 6 indexed citations
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Fujii, Yuka, David S. Spiegel, Tony Mroczkowski, et al.. (2016). RADIO EMISSION FROM RED-GIANT HOT JUPITERS. The Astrophysical Journal. 820(2). 122–122. 13 indexed citations
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Brandt, Timothy D., Michael W. McElwain, M. Janson, et al.. (2016). CHARIS Science: Performance Simulations for the Subaru Telescope’s Third-Generation of Exoplanet Imaging Instrumentation. 4 indexed citations
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Brandt, Timothy D. & David S. Spiegel. (2014). Prospects for detecting oxygen, water, and chlorophyll on an exo-Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(37). 13278–13283. 23 indexed citations
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Rein, Hanno, Yuka Fujii, & David S. Spiegel. (2014). Some inconvenient truths about biosignatures involving two chemical species on Earth-like exoplanets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(19). 6871–6875. 17 indexed citations
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Nordhaus, Jason & David S. Spiegel. (2013). On the orbits of low-mass companions to white dwarfs and the fates of the known exoplanets. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 432(1). 500–505. 108 indexed citations
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Mesinger, Andrei, Andrea Ferrara, & David S. Spiegel. (2013). Signatures of X-rays in the early Universe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 431(1). 621–637. 158 indexed citations
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Metzger, Brian D., Dimitrios Giannios, & David S. Spiegel. (2012). Optical and X-ray transients from planet-star mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 425(4). 2778–2798. 52 indexed citations
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Spiegel, David S. & Edwin L. Turner. (2011). Life might be rare despite its early emergence on Earth: a Bayesian analysis of the probability of abiogenesis. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Nordhaus, Jason, Sarah Wellons, David S. Spiegel, Brian D. Metzger, & Eric G. Blackman. (2011). Formation of high-field magnetic white dwarfs from common envelopes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(8). 3135–3140. 74 indexed citations
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Spiegel, David S. & Edwin L. Turner. (2011). Bayesian analysis of the astrobiological implications of life’s early emergence on Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(2). 395–400. 65 indexed citations
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Kipping, David & David S. Spiegel. (2011). Detection of visible light from the darkest world. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 417(1). L88–L92. 37 indexed citations
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Spiegel, David S., Sean N. Raymond, Courtney D. Dressing, et al.. (2010). General Milankovitch Cycles. 430. 109. 1 indexed citations
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Spiegel, David S. & Adam Burrows. (2010). ATMOSPHERE AND SPECTRAL MODELS OF THEKEPLER-FIELD PLANETS HAT-P-7b AND TrES-2. The Astrophysical Journal. 722(1). 871–879. 29 indexed citations
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Spiegel, David S., Adam Burrows, L. Ibgui, I. Hubený, & John A. Milsom. (2009). MODELS OF NEPTUNE-MASS EXOPLANETS: EMERGENT FLUXES AND ALBEDOS. The Astrophysical Journal. 709(1). 149–158. 22 indexed citations
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Spiegel, David S., Kristen Menou, & Caleb Scharf. (2009). HABITABLE CLIMATES: THE INFLUENCE OF OBLIQUITY. The Astrophysical Journal. 691(1). 596–610. 76 indexed citations
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Spiegel, David S., Zoltán Haiman, & B. Scott Gaudi. (2007). On Constraining a Transiting Exoplanet’s Rotation Rate with Its Transit Spectrum. The Astrophysical Journal. 669(2). 1324–1335. 10 indexed citations
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Spiegel, David S., F. Paerels, & Caleb Scharf. (2007). A Possible Dearth of Hot Gas in Galaxy Groups at Intermediate Redshift. The Astrophysical Journal. 658(1). 288–298. 3 indexed citations
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Spiegel, David S., et al.. (2005). Can We Probe the Atmospheric Composition of an Extrasolar Planet from Its Reflection Spectrum in a High‐Magnification Microlensing Event?. The Astrophysical Journal. 628(1). 478–486. 3 indexed citations

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