Dennis Zaritsky

20.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
227 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Dennis Zaritsky is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Dennis Zaritsky has authored 227 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 219 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 149 papers in Instrumentation and 10 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Dennis Zaritsky's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (174 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (149 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (145 papers). Dennis Zaritsky is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (174 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (149 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (145 papers). Dennis Zaritsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Dennis Zaritsky's co-authors include Jason Harris, Anthony H. Gonzalez, J. P. Huchra, Jr. Kennicutt Robert C., Douglas Clowe, Ann I. Zabludoff, Simon D. M. White, Maruša Bradač, Maxim Markevitch and C. Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Dennis Zaritsky

212 papers receiving 8.4k 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 Direct Empirical Proof of the Existence of Dark Matter

2006 1.2k citations Douglas Clowe, Anthony H. Gonzalez et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
H II regions and the abundance properties of spiral galaxies

1994 780 citations Dennis Zaritsky et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Distinct origins of environmentally quenched galaxies in the core and outer virialized regions of massive clusters at 0.8 < z < 1.5 2025 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Florian Sarron, Michael L. Balogh, Gregory Rudnick, Yannick M Bahé, (unknown), G. Castignani, Pierluigi Cerulo, Michael C. Cooper, R. Demarco, (unknown), Rose Finn, Ben Forrest, Adam Muzzin, Julie Nantais, Benedetta Vulcani, (unknown), Dennis Zaritsky	1
2	Segue 2 Recently Collided with the Cetus-Palca Stream: New Opportunities to Constrain Dark Matter in an Ultra-faint Dwarf 2025 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), Gurtina Besla, Nicolás Garavito-Camargo, Ekta Patel, Guillaume F. Thomas, Ana Bonaca, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Annika H. G. Peter, Dennis Zaritsky, Charlie Conroy	1
3	A Closer Look at an Unusual Ultradiffuse Galaxy^* 2025 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), Dennis Zaritsky, (unknown), Michael C. Cooper, Richard L. Donnerstein	0
4	Systematically Measuring Ultradiffuse Galaxies. VII. The H i Survey Overview 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Ananthan Karunakaran, (unknown), Kristine Spekkens, Dennis Zaritsky, Richard L. Donnerstein, Arjun Dey	2
5	Extending the chemical reach of the H3 survey: detailed abundances of the dwarf-galaxy stellar stream Wukong/LMS-1 2024 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Guilherme Limberg, Alexander P. Ji, Rohan P. Naidu, Anirudh Chiti, Silvia Rossi, S. A. Usman, Yuan-Sen Ting, Dennis Zaritsky, Ana Bonaca, (unknown), Joshua S. Speagle, Vedant Chandra, Charlie Conroy	12
6	Distant Echoes of the Milky Way’s Last Major Merger 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Vedant Chandra, Rohan P. Naidu, Charlie Conroy, Alexander P. Ji, Hans‐Walter Rix, Ana Bonaca, Phillip A. Cargile, J. Han, Benjamin D. Johnson, Yuan-Sen Ting, (unknown), Dennis Zaritsky	18
7	Systematically Measuring Ultradiffuse Galaxies (SMUDGes). IV. Ultradiffuse Satellites of Milky Way Analogs 2023 ·The Astronomical Journal ·(unknown), Dennis Zaritsky, Ananthan Karunakaran, Richard L. Donnerstein, David J. Sand	6
8	An enigmatic 380 kpc long linear collimated galactic tail 2023 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Dennis Zaritsky, (unknown), Yara L. Jaffé, Richard L. Donnerstein, Ananthan Karunakaran, (unknown), A. C. C. Lourenço, Kristine Spekkens, Ming Sun, Benedetta Vulcani	5
9	Dwarf galaxy discoveries from the KMTNet supernova programme – III. The Milky-Way analogue NGC 2997 group 2023 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Dae‐Sik Moon, Hong Soo Park, Dennis Zaritsky, Sang Chul Kim, Youngdae Lee, Ting S. Li, (unknown), (unknown), Sang-Mok Cha, Yongseok Lee	5
10	Discovery of the Magellanic Stellar Stream Out to 100 kpc 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Vedant Chandra, Rohan P. Naidu, Charlie Conroy, Ana Bonaca, Dennis Zaritsky, Phillip A. Cargile, Nelson Caldwell, Benjamin D. Johnson, J. Han, Yuan-Sen Ting	15
11	The Anisotropic Circumgalactic Medium of Massive Early-type Galaxies 2022 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Huanian Zhang, Dennis Zaritsky	10
12	Reconstructing the Last Major Merger of the Milky Way with the H3 Survey 2021 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Rohan P. Naidu, Charlie Conroy, Ana Bonaca, Dennis Zaritsky, Rainer Weinberger, Yuan-Sen Ting, Nelson Caldwell, Sandro Tacchella, J. Han, Joshua S. Speagle, Phillip A. Cargile	111
13	Discovery of a possible splashback feature in the intracluster light of MACS J1149.5+2223 2021 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Anthony H. Gonzalez, (unknown), Thomas Connor, Alis J. Deason, Megan Donahue, Mireia Montes, Ann I. Zabludoff, Dennis Zaritsky	30
14	Discovery of Magellanic Stellar Debris in the H3 Survey 2020 ·The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Dennis Zaritsky, Charlie Conroy, Rohan P. Naidu, Phillip A. Cargile, M. E. Putman, Gurtina Besla, Ana Bonaca, Nelson Caldwell, J. Han, Benjamin D. Johnson, Joshua S. Speagle, Yuan-Sen Ting	13
15	Hα Emission and the Dependence of the Circumgalactic Cool Gas Fraction on Halo Mass 2020 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Huanian Zhang, Xiaohu Yang, Dennis Zaritsky, Peter Behroozi, Jessica K. Werk	8
16	The intrinsic reddening of the Magellanic Clouds as traced by background galaxies – I. The bar and outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Cameron P. M. Bell, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Angus H. Wright, Stefano Rubele, David L. Nidever, (unknown), J. Th. van Loon, V. D. Ivanov, Smitha Subramanian, J. M. Oliveira, Richard de Grijs, (unknown), Yumi Choi, Dennis Zaritsky, Knut Olsen, Florian Niederhofer, (unknown), David Martínez‐Delgado, Ricardo R. Muñoz	6
17	Emission from the Ionized Gaseous Halos of Low-redshift Galaxies and Their Neighbors 2018 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Huanian Zhang, Dennis Zaritsky, Peter Behroozi	18
18	A Novel Method to Automatically Detect and Measure the Ages of Star Clusters in Nearby Galaxies: Application to the Large Magellanic Cloud 2017 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·T. Bitsakis, (unknown), Rosa A. González‐Lópezlira, (unknown), Gustavo Bruzual, S. Charlot, G. Maravelias, Dennis Zaritsky	11
19	ARE SOME MILKY WAY GLOBULAR CLUSTERS HOSTED BY UNDISCOVERED GALAXIES? 2016 ·The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Dennis Zaritsky, Denija Crnojević, David J. Sand	15
20	Weak lensing mass reconstructions of the ESO Distant Cluster Survey 2006 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Douglas Clowe, Petra Schneider, Alfonso Aragón‐Salamanca, M. N. Bremer, G. De Lucia, C. Halliday, P. Jablonka, B. Milvang‐Jensen, R. Pelló, Bianca M. Poggianti, Gregory Rudnick, R. P. Saglia, L. Simard, Simon D. M. White, Dennis Zaritsky	45

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