Denis Erkal

6.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
82 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Denis Erkal is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Denis Erkal has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 37 papers in Instrumentation and 7 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Denis Erkal's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (70 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (40 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (37 papers). Denis Erkal is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (70 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (40 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (37 papers). Denis Erkal collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Denis Erkal's co-authors include Vasily Belokurov, S. E. Koposov, Alis J. Deason, N. W. Evans, Jason L. Sanders, Jo Bovy, Prashin Jethwa, Eugene Vasiliev, Dougal Mackey and Ting S. Li and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

In The Last Decade

Denis Erkal

78 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Co-formation of the disc and the stellar halo★

2018 635 citations Vasily Belokurov, Denis Erkal et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The total mass of the Large Magellanic Cloud from its perturbation on the Orphan stream

2019 217 citations Denis Erkal, Vasily Belokurov et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Tango for three: Sagittarius, LMC, and the Milky Way

2020 181 citations Vasily Belokurov, Denis Erkal et al. 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						Papers	Cites
Denis Erkal United Kingdom	38	3.6k	1.6k	451	140	120	82	3.8k
Facundo A. Gómez Germany	46	4.9k 1.4×	2.2k 1.4×	617 1.4×	185 1.3×	100 0.8×	106	5.2k
Robert J. J. Grand Germany	43	4.8k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	678 1.5×	153 1.1×	112 0.9×	134	5.1k
Alis J. Deason United Kingdom	32	3.5k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	295 0.7×	85 0.6×	86 0.7×	66	3.7k
Ralph Schönrich United Kingdom	30	4.4k 1.2×	1.9k 1.2×	263 0.6×	123 0.9×	134 1.1×	52	4.5k
Eugene Vasiliev United Kingdom	24	2.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	190 0.4×	103 0.7×	82 0.7×	51	2.5k
Jason L. Sanders United Kingdom	28	2.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	280 0.6×	122 0.9×	71 0.6×	79	2.5k
Adrian M. Price-Whelan United States	28	2.3k 0.6×	987 0.6×	216 0.5×	74 0.5×	83 0.7×	90	2.5k
Kareem El-Badry United States	37	3.8k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	470 1.0×	78 0.6×	135 1.1×	122	4.0k
Elena Rasia Italy	28	2.5k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	508 1.1×	131 0.9×	54 0.5×	81	2.6k
Benoît Famaey France	38	5.0k 1.4×	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 2.5×	257 1.8×	74 0.6×	155	5.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Farihi, Jay, et al.. (2025). Carbon-enhanced dwarf stars are predominantly a halo population. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 543(1). 851–861. 1 indexed citations

Bonaca, Ana, et al.. (2024). Slant, Fan, and Narrow: The Response of Stellar Streams to a Tilting Galactic Disk. The Astrophysical Journal. 969(1). 55–55. 4 indexed citations

Erkal, Denis, et al.. (2024). One stream or two – exploring Andromeda’s North West stream. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 536(3). 2294–2312. 1 indexed citations

Li, Ting S., Joshua S. Speagle, G. E. Medina, et al.. (2024). The Power of High-precision Broadband Photometry: Tracing the Milky Way Density Profile with Blue Horizontal Branch Stars in the Dark Energy Survey. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(1). 81–81. 3 indexed citations

Chiti, Anirudh, Nora Shipp, Joshua D. Simon, et al.. (2024). Signatures of Tidal Disruption of the Hercules Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxy*. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(1). 33–33. 5 indexed citations

Koposov, S. E., Denis Erkal, Ting S. Li, et al.. (2023). S5: Probing the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds potentials with the 6D map of the Orphan–Chenab stream. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(4). 4936–4962. 60 indexed citations

Wan, Zhen, William H. Oliver, Geraint F. Lewis, et al.. (2022). Dynamics in the outskirts of four Milky Way globular clusters: it’s the tides that dominate. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 519(1). 192–207. 9 indexed citations

Eckner, Christopher, et al.. (2022). How do the dynamics of the Milky Way–Large Magellanic Cloud system affect gamma-ray constraints on particle dark matter?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(3). 4138–4158. 2 indexed citations

Petersen, Michael, Denis Erkal, Jorge Peñarrubia, et al.. (2022). The effect of the deforming dark matter haloes of the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Orphan–Chenab stream. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(1). 774–790. 43 indexed citations

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Shipp, Nora, Denis Erkal, A. Drlica-Wagner, et al.. (2021). Measuring the Mass of the Large Magellanic Cloud with Stellar Streams Observed by S ⁵. The Astrophysical Journal. 923(2). 149–149. 76 indexed citations

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Ji, Alexander P., S. E. Koposov, Ting S. Li, et al.. (2021). Kinematics of Antlia 2 and Crater 2 from the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S ⁵). The Astrophysical Journal. 921(1). 32–32. 55 indexed citations

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Casey, Andrew R., Alexander P. Ji, Terese T. Hansen, et al.. (2021). Signature of a Massive Rotating Metal-poor Star Imprinted in the Phoenix Stellar Stream*. The Astrophysical Journal. 921(1). 67–67. 4 indexed citations

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Banik, Nilanjan, et al.. (2021). Evidence of a population of dark subhaloes from Gaia and Pan-STARRS observations of the GD-1 stream. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 502(2). 2364–2380. 56 indexed citations

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Chiti, Anirudh, Anna Frebel, Joshua D. Simon, et al.. (2021). An extended halo around an ancient dwarf galaxy. Nature Astronomy. 5(4). 392–400. 56 indexed citations

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Erkal, Denis, Alis J. Deason, Vasily Belokurov, et al.. (2021). Detection of the LMC-induced sloshing of the Galactic halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506(2). 2677–2684. 66 indexed citations

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Carrera, R., et al.. (2020). Revealing the tidal scars of the Small Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 495(1). 98–113. 38 indexed citations

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Belokurov, Vasily, Alis J. Deason, Denis Erkal, et al.. (2019). The Pisces Plume and the Magellanic wake. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 488(1). L47–L52. 39 indexed citations

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Koposov, S. E., Douglas Boubert, Ting S. Li, et al.. (2019). Discovery of a nearby 1700 km s−1 star ejected from the Milky Way by Sgr A*. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 491(2). 2465–2480. 83 indexed citations

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Navarrete, Camila, Vasily Belokurov, M. Catelan, et al.. (2018). Stellar streams around the Magellanic Clouds in 4D. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 483(3). 4160–4174. 10 indexed citations

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Boubert, Douglas, Vasily Belokurov, Denis Erkal, & Giuliano Iorio. (2018). A Magellanic origin for the Virgo sub-structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 482(4). 4562–4569. 4 indexed citations

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