Dimitri Mihalas

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
118 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Dimitri Mihalas is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Dimitri Mihalas has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 25 papers in Instrumentation and 21 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Dimitri Mihalas's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (55 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (34 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (27 papers). Dimitri Mihalas is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (55 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (34 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (27 papers). Dimitri Mihalas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Dimitri Mihalas's co-authors include D. G. Hummer, L. H. Auer, B. W. Mihalas, Albert Fu, W. David Arnett, Werner Däppen, M. J. Seaton, Anil K. Pradhan, Yu Yan and James Binney and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

Dimitri Mihalas

110 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Foundations of Radiation Hydrodynamics

1986 531 citations Dimitri Mihalas, B. W. Mihalas et al. profile →
The equation of state for stellar envelopes. I - an occupation probability formalism for the truncation of internal partition functions

1988 416 citations D. G. Hummer, Dimitri Mihalas The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dimitri Mihalas United States	30	3.4k	680	644	552	509	118	4.5k
D. G. Hummer United States	35	3.6k 1.1×	654 1.0×	1.9k 2.9×	292 0.5×	477 0.9×	115	5.6k
J. Castor United States	23	3.5k 1.0×	376 0.6×	465 0.7×	338 0.6×	970 1.9×	68	4.3k
Lyman Spitzer United States	24	4.9k 1.5×	341 0.5×	1.6k 2.5×	358 0.6×	1.9k 3.8×	61	7.2k
J. W. Truran United States	35	3.8k 1.1×	344 0.5×	344 0.5×	427 0.8×	1.8k 3.6×	96	4.9k
D. Q. Lamb United States	26	3.5k 1.0×	837 1.2×	205 0.3×	396 0.7×	1.0k 2.0×	77	4.2k
W. David Arnett United States	42	5.3k 1.6×	461 0.7×	395 0.6×	384 0.7×	2.9k 5.6×	143	6.5k
James M. Stone United States	58	10.5k 3.1×	472 0.7×	444 0.7×	1.4k 2.6×	2.2k 4.4×	212	11.8k
W. Schmidt Germany	39	5.1k 1.5×	242 0.4×	752 1.2×	393 0.7×	1.6k 3.2×	265	6.7k
F. X. Timmes United States	34	8.8k 2.6×	1.5k 2.1×	458 0.7×	710 1.3×	2.5k 4.8×	121	10.3k
M. Schwarzschild United States	27	2.9k 0.9×	761 1.1×	256 0.4×	219 0.4×	516 1.0×	89	3.4k

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Mihalas, Dimitri & I. Hubený. (2014). Theory of Stellar Atmospheres: An Introduction to Astrophysical Non-equilibrium Quantitative Spectroscopic Analysis. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 13 indexed citations

Hubený, I., Dimitri Mihalas, & K. Werner. (2003). Stellar Atmosphere Modeling. ASPC. 288. 70 indexed citations

Mihalas, Dimitri. (2001). Fifty Years of Research on Stellar Atmospheres. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 18(3). 311–316. 1 indexed citations

Mihalas, Dimitri. (1999). Baade's Resolution of M32, NGC 205, and M31. The Astrophysical Journal. 359.

Mihalas, Dimitri, et al.. (1999). The quasi-stationary structure of radiating shock waves. II. The two-temperature fluid. Shock Waves. 9(6). 403–411. 8 indexed citations

Cheng, Baolian, et al.. (1997). Noh's constant-velocity shock problem revisited. Shock Waves. 7(5). 255–274. 23 indexed citations

Mihalas, Dimitri. (1992). The Opacity Project - Equation of State. 23. 127–132. 2 indexed citations

Mihalas, Dimitri, D. G. Hummer, B. W. Mihalas, & W. Daêppen. (1990). The equation of state for stellar envelopes. IV - Thermodynamic quantities and selected ionization fractions for six elemental mixes. The Astrophysical Journal. 350. 300–300. 61 indexed citations

Mihalas, Dimitri & K. H. A. Winkler. (1986). Radiation hydrodynamics in stars and compact objects : proceedings of Colloquium no. 89 of the International Astronomical Union held at Copenhagen University, June 11-20, 1985. Springer eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Mihalas, Dimitri. (1985). The computation of radiation transport using feautrier variables I. Static media. Journal of Computational Physics. 57(1). 1–25. 9 indexed citations

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Mihalas, Dimitri, James Binney, & Julia Barrow. (1982). Book-Review - Galactic Astronomy - ED.2. Nature. 295. 440.

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Mihalas, Dimitri, R. P. Weaver, & James G. Sanderson. (1982). On iterative solutions of the LTE model atmosphere problem. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 28(1). 53–59. 3 indexed citations

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Athay, R. G., Dimitri Mihalas, & R. A. Shine. (1975). An archetype hydrogen atmosphere problem. Solar Physics. 45(1). 15–23. 2 indexed citations

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Mihalas, Dimitri & D. G. Hummer. (1974). Theory of extended stellar atmospheres. I - Computational method and first results for static spherical models. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 28. 343–343. 16 indexed citations

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Mihalas, Dimitri. (1973). Analyses of light-ion spectra in stellar atmospheres. II. The calciumII K-line in B-stars.. The Astrophysical Journal. 179. 209–209. 9 indexed citations

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Mihalas, Dimitri & W. Luebke. (1971). A Non-Lte Picket-Fence Model in Radiative Equilibrium. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 153(2). 229–239. 1 indexed citations

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Auer, L. H. & Dimitri Mihalas. (1968). Line Formation with Non-Coherent Scattering by Electrons. II. Calculations with Model Atmospheres. The Astrophysical Journal. 153. 923–923. 7 indexed citations

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Mihalas, Dimitri. (1967). Statistical-Equilibrium Model Atmospheres for Early-Type Stars. I. Hydrogen Continua. The Astrophysical Journal. 149. 169–169. 29 indexed citations

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Mihalas, Dimitri, et al.. (1966). Studies of the Peculiar a Stars. III. Model-Atmosphere Line-Strength Calculations with Application to the A_{p} Stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 144. 25–25. 12 indexed citations

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Mihalas, Dimitri. (1965). Constant-Flux Convective Model Atmospheres.. The Astrophysical Journal. 141. 564–564. 11 indexed citations

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