Deborah Lokhorst

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 522 citations indexed

About

Deborah Lokhorst is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah Lokhorst has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 522 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 8 papers in Instrumentation and 6 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Deborah Lokhorst's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (15 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (13 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (8 papers). Deborah Lokhorst is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (15 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (13 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (8 papers). Deborah Lokhorst collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Deborah Lokhorst's co-authors include Roberto Abraham, Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli, Allison Merritt, Charlie Conroy, Jielai Zhang, Lamiya Mowla, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Jean P. Brodie and Yotam Cohen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Deborah Lokhorst

18 papers receiving 460 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.

A galaxy lacking dark matter

2018 239 citations Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Deborah Lokhorst Canada	10	488	233	83	46	17	23	522
Masafusa Onoue Japan	15	601 1.2×	226 1.0×	129 1.6×	25 0.5×	14 0.8×	43	655
Tim B. Miller United States	14	502 1.0×	265 1.1×	80 1.0×	34 0.7×	14 0.8×	28	547
Daichi Kashino Japan	16	572 1.2×	249 1.1×	75 0.9×	22 0.5×	10 0.6×	38	615
M. A. Troxel United States	11	454 0.9×	125 0.5×	102 1.2×	53 1.2×	19 1.1×	29	486
Callum T. Donnan United Kingdom	10	690 1.4×	397 1.7×	74 0.9×	27 0.6×	18 1.1×	21	737
M. Talia Italy	15	498 1.0×	196 0.8×	65 0.8×	25 0.5×	8 0.5×	29	513
Allison Merritt United States	12	662 1.4×	354 1.5×	107 1.3×	47 1.0×	12 0.7×	19	690
S. Bocquet Germany	12	542 1.1×	232 1.0×	145 1.7×	32 0.7×	10 0.6×	19	566
Rieko Momose Japan	13	625 1.3×	189 0.8×	145 1.7×	27 0.6×	9 0.5×	29	638
Ryan F. Trainor United States	12	554 1.1×	254 1.1×	84 1.0×	25 0.5×	14 0.8×	18	590

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Deborah Lokhorst

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Liu, Qing, Roberto Abraham, P. G. Martin, et al.. (2025). Fuzzy Galaxies or Cirrus? Decomposition of Galactic Cirrus in Deep Wide-field Images. The Astrophysical Journal. 979(2). 175–175. 4 indexed citations

Burchett, Joseph N., Deborah Lokhorst, Kevin France, et al.. (2025). Mapping galactic winds and small-scale structure in the circumgalactic medium with Habitable Worlds Observatory. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems. 11(4).

Lokhorst, Deborah, Imad Pasha, W. Paul Bowman, et al.. (2024). The Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper: completion of the 120-lens array. 96–96.

Bowman, W. Paul, Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, et al.. (2024). First Results from the Dragonfly Ultrawide Survey: The Largest 11 Quenched Diffuse Dwarf Galaxies in 3100 deg² with Spectroscopic Confirmation. The Astrophysical Journal. 976(1). 75–75. 4 indexed citations

Lokhorst, Deborah, Imad Pasha, W. Paul Bowman, et al.. (2024). Realizing the potential of the Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper: calibration methods and on-sky performance. 164–164.

Liu, Qing, Roberto Abraham, P. G. Martin, et al.. (2023). A Recipe for Unbiased Background Modeling in Deep Wide-field Astronomical Images. The Astrophysical Journal. 953(1). 7–7. 6 indexed citations

Lokhorst, Deborah, Roberto Abraham, Imad Pasha, et al.. (2022). A Giant Shell of Ionized Gas Discovered near M82 with the Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper Pathfinder. The Astrophysical Journal. 927(2). 136–136. 11 indexed citations

Keim, Michael A., Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli, et al.. (2022). Tidal Distortions in NGC1052-DF2 and NGC1052-DF4: Independent Evidence for a Lack of Dark Matter. The Astrophysical Journal. 935(2). 160–160. 24 indexed citations

Huang, Song, Alexie Leauthaud, John Moustakas, et al.. (2022). Reaching for the Edge I: probing the outskirts of massive galaxies with HSC, DECaLS, SDSS, and Dragonfly. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 515(4). 5335–5357. 19 indexed citations

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Liu, Qing, Roberto Abraham, Pieter van Dokkum, et al.. (2022). A Method to Characterize the Wide-angle Point-Spread Function of Astronomical Images. The Astrophysical Journal. 925(2). 219–219. 12 indexed citations

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Abraham, Roberto, et al.. (2022). Distributed aperture telescopes and the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. arXiv (Cornell University). 67–67. 1 indexed citations

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Lokhorst, Deborah, et al.. (2022). The Pathfinder Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper: pushing the limits for ultra-low surface brightness spectroscopy. arXiv (Cornell University). 64–64.

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Lokhorst, Deborah, et al.. (2022). The Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper: design and first light. 100–100. 1 indexed citations

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Miller, Tim B., Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli, et al.. (2021). The Dragonfly Wide Field Survey. II. Accurate Total Luminosities and Colors of Nearby Massive Galaxies and Implications for the Galaxy Stellar-mass Function. The Astrophysical Journal. 909(1). 74–74. 7 indexed citations

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Pasha, Imad, Deborah Lokhorst, Pieter van Dokkum, et al.. (2021). A Nascent Tidal Dwarf Galaxy Forming within the Northern H i Streamer of M82. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 923(2). L21–L21. 9 indexed citations

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Lokhorst, Deborah, Roberto Abraham, Pieter van Dokkum, Nastasha Wijers, & Joop Schaye. (2019). On the Detectability of Visible-wavelength Line Emission from the Local Circumgalactic and Intergalactic Medium. The Astrophysical Journal. 877(1). 4–4. 17 indexed citations

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Dokkum, Pieter van, Ana Bonaca, Allison Merritt, et al.. (2019). Dragonfly Imaging of the Galaxy NGC 5907: A Different View of the Iconic Stellar Stream. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 883(2). L32–L32. 23 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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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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Dokkum, Pieter van, Shany Danieli, Yotam Cohen, et al.. (2018). A galaxy lacking dark matter. Nature. 555(7698). 629–632. 239 indexed citations breakdown →

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