Dylan Nelson

31.9k total citations · 20 hit papers
201 papers, 22.8k citations indexed

About

Dylan Nelson is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Dylan Nelson has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 22.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 187 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 90 papers in Instrumentation and 43 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Dylan Nelson's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (182 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (90 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (53 papers). Dylan Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (182 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (90 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (53 papers). Dylan Nelson collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Dylan Nelson's co-authors include Lars Hernquist, Mark Vogelsberger, Volker Springel, Shy Genel, Paul Torrey, Annalisa Pillepich, Federico Marinacci, Rainer Weinberger, Rüdiger Pakmor and Jill Naiman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Stroke.

In The Last Decade

Dylan Nelson

191 papers receiving 21.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Introducing the Illustris Project: simulating the coevolution of dark and visible matter in the Universe

2014 1.6k citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Simulating galaxy formation with the IllustrisTNG model

2017 1.4k citations Annalisa Pillepich, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: matter and galaxy clustering

2017 1.2k citations Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the stellar mass content of groups and clusters of galaxies

2017 1.2k citations Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the galaxy colour bimodality

2017 1.1k citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The IllustrisTNG simulations: public data release

2019 953 citations Dylan Nelson, Volker Springel et al. profile →
Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation

2014 917 citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. profile →
First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: a tale of two elements – chemical evolution of magnesium and europium

2018 894 citations Jill Naiman, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Simulating galaxy formation with black hole driven thermal and kinetic feedback

2016 879 citations Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: radio haloes and magnetic fields

2018 794 citations Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Introducing the Illustris project: the evolution of galaxy populations across cosmic time

2014 765 citations Shy Genel, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
First results from the TNG50 simulation: galactic outflows driven by supernovae and black hole feedback

2019 695 citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
First results from the TNG50 simulation: the evolution of stellar and gaseous discs across cosmic time

2019 608 citations Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The merger rate of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: a comparison with observations and semi-empirical models

2015 519 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The Illustris simulation: the evolving population of black holes across cosmic time

2015 459 citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The illustris simulation: Public data release

2015 372 citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. profile →
Supermassive black holes and their feedback effects in the IllustrisTNG simulation

2018 316 citations Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The stellar mass assembly of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: growth by mergers and the spatial distribution of accreted stars

2016 312 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The optical morphologies of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation: a comparison to Pan-STARRS observations

2018 296 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Gregory F. Snyder et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The star formation activity of IllustrisTNG galaxies: main sequence, UVJ diagram, quenched fractions, and systematics

2019 215 citations Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The multi-wavelength Tully-Fisher relation in the TNG50 cosmological simulation 2025 ·Astronomy and Astrophysics ·M. Baes, (unknown), (unknown), L. L. Leeuw, Dylan Nelson, Anastasia A Ponomareva, (unknown), (unknown), W. J. G. de Blok, (unknown), (unknown)	1
2	Numerical effects on the stripping of dark matter and stars in IllustrisTNG galaxy groups and clusters 2025 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Mark R. Lovell, Annalisa Pillepich, Christoph Engler, Dylan Nelson, (unknown), Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist	0
3	Formation of Galactic Disks. I. Why Did the Milky Way’s Disk Form Unusually Early? 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Vadim A. Semenov, Charlie Conroy, Vedant Chandra, Lars Hernquist, Dylan Nelson	25
4	ERGO-ML: comparing IllustrisTNG and HSC galaxy images via contrastive learning 2024 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Connor Bottrell, Annalisa Pillepich, Rhythm Shimakawa, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Dylan Nelson, (unknown)	9
5	Formation of Galactic Disks. II. The Physical Drivers of Disk Spin-up 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Vadim A. Semenov, Charlie Conroy, Vedant Chandra, Lars Hernquist, Dylan Nelson	5
6	The cooler past of the intracluster medium in TNG-cluster 2024 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Eric Rohr, Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson, Mohammadreza Ayromlou, Céline Péroux, Elad Zinger	6
7	Calibrating Cosmological Simulations with Implicit Likelihood Inference Using Galaxy Growth Observables 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), Shy Genel, B. D. Wandelt, Rachel S. Somerville, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Greg L. Bryan, Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Dylan Nelson, Ji-hoon Kim	15
8	Resonant scattering of the O vii X-ray emission line in the circumgalactic medium of TNG50 galaxies 2023 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Dylan Nelson, (unknown), Anna Ogorzałek, Maxim Markevitch, Ildar Khabibullin, E. Churazov, Irina Zhuravleva, Ákos Bogdán, Priyanka Chakraborty, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Ralph Kraft, Annalisa Pillepich, Arnab Sarkar, Gerrit Schellenberger, Yuanyuan Su, Nhut Truong, (unknown), Nastasha Wijers	14
9	The physical origins of gas in the circumgalactic medium using observationally motivated TNG50 mocks 2023 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Céline Péroux, (unknown), Dylan Nelson, E. M. Sadler, M. A. Zwaan, (unknown), (unknown)	19
10	Expectations of the Size Evolution of Massive Galaxies at 3 ≤ z ≤ 6 from the TNG50 Simulation: The CEERS/JWST View 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Luca Costantin, Pablo G. Pérez‐González, Jesús Vega-Ferrero, Laura Bisigello, F. Buitrago, Micaela B. Bagley, Nikko J. Cleri, Michael C. Cooper, Steven L. Finkelstein, Benne W. Holwerda, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Anton M. Koekemoer, Dylan Nelson, Casey Papovich, Annalisa Pillepich, Nor Pirzkal, Sandro Tacchella, (unknown)	26
11	Exploring the effect of baryons on the radial distribution of satellite galaxies with GAMA and IllustrisTNG 2022 ·Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex) ·Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson, Benne W. Holwerda	6
12	MUSE-ALMA Haloes – VIII. Statistical study of circumgalactic medium gas 2022 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Céline Péroux, (unknown), Ramona Augustin, Varsha P. Kulkarni, (unknown), M. A. Zwaan, Anne Klitsch, A. Hamanowicz, E. M. Sadler, A. D. Biggs, (unknown), Matthew Hayes, J. Christopher Howk, Glenn G. Kacprzak, H. Kuntschner, Dylan Nelson, Max Pettini	12
13	The evolution of the barred galaxy population in the TNG50 simulation 2022 ·BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca) ·Yetli Rosas-Guevara, Silvia Bonoli, Massimo Dotti, David Izquierdo–Villalba, Alessandro Lupi, Tommaso Zana, Matteo Bonetti, Dylan Nelson, Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist, Mark Vogelsberger	62
14	The stellar halos of ETGs in the IllustrisTNG simulations: The photometric and kinematic diversity of galaxies at large radii 2020 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·C. Pulsoni, Ortwin Gerhard, M. Arnaboldi, Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson, Lars Hernquist, Volker Springel	46
15	Evolution of the grain size distribution in Milky Way-like galaxies in post-processed IllustrisTNG simulations 2020 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Hiroyuki Hirashita, (unknown), Yen‐Ting Lin, Dylan Nelson, Andrew P. Cooper	10
16	Stellar property statistics of massive haloes from cosmological hydrodynamics simulations: common kernel shapes 2020 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Dhayaa Anbajagane, A. E. Evrard, Arya Farahi, David J Barnes, Klaus Dolag, Ian G. McCarthy, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich	22
17	Correlations between Black Holes and Host Galaxies in the Illustris and IllustrisTNG Simulations 2020 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Yuan Li, Mélanie Habouzit, Shy Genel, Rachel S. Somerville, Bryan A. Terrazas, Eric F. Bell, Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson, Rainer Weinberger, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Chung‐Pei Ma, Rüdiger Pakmor, Lars Hernquist, Mark Vogelsberger	26
18	A study of stellar orbit fractions: simulated IllustrisTNG galaxies compared to CALIFA observations 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·D. Xu, Ling Zhu, Robert J. J. Grand, Volker Springel, Shude Mao, Glenn van de Ven, (unknown), Yougang Wang, Annalisa Pillepich, Shy Genel, Dylan Nelson, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Rüdiger Pakmor, Rainer Weinberger, Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger, Paul Torrey, Jill Naiman, Lars Hernquist	25
19	Baryons in the Cosmic Web of IllustrisTNG – I: gas in knots, filaments, sheets, and voids 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Davidé Martizzi, Mark Vogelsberger, M. Celeste Artale, Markus Haider, Paul Torrey, Federico Marinacci, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, Rainer Weinberger, Lars Hernquist, Jill Naiman, Volker Springel	111
20	The optical morphologies of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation: a comparison to Pan-STARRS observations breakdown → 2018 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Gregory F. Snyder, Jennifer M. Lotz, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, Volker Springel, Shy Genel, Rainer Weinberger, Sandro Tacchella, Rüdiger Pakmor, Paul Torrey, Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger, Lars Hernquist, David A. Thilker	296

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