Erin Kara

8.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
133 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Erin Kara is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Erin Kara has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 131 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 48 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 12 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Erin Kara's work include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (127 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (49 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (47 papers). Erin Kara is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (127 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (49 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (47 papers). Erin Kara collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Erin Kara's co-authors include A. C. Fabian, C. S. Reynolds, Edward M. Cackett, M. L. Parker, P. Uttley, Dan Wilkins, William Alston, Abderahmen Zoghbi, A. Lohfink and D. J. Walton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Erin Kara

124 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Stacking X-Ray Observations of “Little Red Dots”: Implications for Their Active Galactic Nucleus Properties

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Erin Kara United States	34	3.0k	1.2k	360	193	122	133	3.2k
G. Miniutti Spain	40	4.5k 1.5×	1.6k 1.4×	494 1.4×	317 1.6×	203 1.7×	124	4.6k
N. Schartel Spain	22	3.3k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	172 0.5×	187 1.0×	96 0.8×	79	3.4k
M. Ehle Germany	23	2.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	177 0.5×	200 1.0×	93 0.8×	70	3.0k
Luigi Gallo Canada	33	3.7k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	320 0.9×	95 0.5×	172 1.4×	155	3.8k
D. R. Ballantyne United States	32	2.9k 1.0×	916 0.8×	257 0.7×	331 1.7×	109 0.9×	111	2.9k
Roberto Soria Australia	35	3.5k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	292 0.8×	290 1.5×	133 1.1×	164	3.6k
Francesco Tombesi United States	28	3.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	214 0.6×	94 0.5×	90 0.7×	118	3.7k
Matthew Middleton United Kingdom	32	3.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	385 1.1×	507 2.6×	151 1.2×	113	3.6k
B. Czerny Poland	30	3.8k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	255 0.7×	303 1.6×	151 1.2×	174	3.9k
P. Gandhi United Kingdom	34	3.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.2×	261 0.7×	181 0.9×	116 1.0×	195	4.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Chakraborty, Joheen, Erin Kara, R. Arcodia, et al.. (2025). Discovery of Quasiperiodic Eruptions in the Tidal Disruption Event and Extreme Coronal Line Emitter AT2022upj: Implications for the QPE/TDE Fraction and a Connection to ECLEs. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 983(2). L39–L39. 11 indexed citations

Chakraborty, Joheen, Matteo Bonetti, Alessia Franchini, et al.. (2025). Prospects for EMRI/MBH Parameter Estimation Using Quasiperiodic Eruption Timings: Short-timescale Analysis. The Astrophysical Journal. 992(1). 120–120.

Panagiotou, Christos, I. E. Papadakis, Erin Kara, et al.. (2025). Frequency-resolved Time Lags due to X-Ray Disk Reprocessing in AGN. The Astrophysical Journal. 983(2). 132–132. 1 indexed citations

Draghis, Paul A., et al.. (2025). A XRISM View of Relativistic Reflection in Cygnus X-1. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 995(1). L12–L12.

Noda, Hirofumi, Satoshi Yamada, Shoji Ogawa, et al.. (2025). Discovery of Powerful Multivelocity Ultrafast Outflows in the Starburst Merger Galaxy IRAS 05189–2524 with XRISM. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 993(2). L53–L53. 1 indexed citations

Cackett, Edward M., Rick Edelson, K. Horne, et al.. (2024). Connecting the X-Ray/UV Variability of Fairall 9 with NICER: A Possible Warm Corona. The Astrophysical Journal. 977(1). 77–77. 5 indexed citations

Liu, Tingting, Rick Edelson, J V Hernández Santisteban, et al.. (2024). Intensive Swift and LCO Monitoring of PG 1302–102: Active Galactic Nucleus Disk Reverberation Mapping of a Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidate. The Astrophysical Journal. 964(2). 167–167. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Jingyi, Erin Kara, J. Homan, et al.. (2024). Highly Coherent Quasiperiodic Oscillations in the “Heartbeat” Black Hole X-Ray Binary IGR J17091–3624. The Astrophysical Journal. 963(2). 118–118. 4 indexed citations

Giustini, M., G. Miniutti, R. Arcodia, et al.. (2024). Fragments of harmony amid apparent chaos: A closer look at the X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions of the galaxy RX J1301.9+2747. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 692. A15–A15. 14 indexed citations

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Burdge, Kevin B., Kareem El-Badry, Erin Kara, et al.. (2024). The black hole low-mass X-ray binary V404 Cygni is part of a wide triple. Nature. 635(8038). 316–320. 17 indexed citations

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Wang, Jingyi, Erin Kara, Javier A. García, et al.. (2024). The 2022 Outburst of IGR J17091–3624: Connecting the Exotic GRS 1915+105 to Standard Black Hole X-Ray Binaries. The Astrophysical Journal. 963(1). 14–14. 8 indexed citations

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Arcodia, R., F. E. Bauer, S. B. Cenko, et al.. (2024). Prospects for Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Science with AXIS. Universe. 10(8). 316–316. 3 indexed citations

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Pinto, C., Daniele Rogantini, S. Bianchi, et al.. (2023). Constraints on the ultrafast outflows in the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 1044 from high-resolution time- and flux-resolved spectroscopy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 523(2). 2158–2171. 2 indexed citations

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Rogantini, Daniele, et al.. (2022). TPHO: A Time-dependent Photoionization Model for AGN Outflows*. The Astrophysical Journal. 940(2). 122–122. 13 indexed citations

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Lewin, Collin, Erin Kara, Dan Wilkins, et al.. (2022). X-Ray Reverberation Mapping of Ark 564 Using Gaussian Process Regression. The Astrophysical Journal. 939(2). 109–109. 8 indexed citations

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Arcodia, R., G. Miniutti, G. Ponti, et al.. (2022). The complex time and energy evolution of quasi-periodic eruptions in eRO-QPE1. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 662. A49–A49. 47 indexed citations

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Ingram, Adam, Guglielmo Mastroserio, Edward Nathan, et al.. (2021). On measuring the Hubble constant with X-ray reverberation mapping of active galactic nuclei. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 509(1). 619–633. 5 indexed citations

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Komossa, S., D. Grupe, Luigi Gallo, et al.. (2020). Lifting the curtain: The Seyfert galaxy Mrk 335 emerges from deep low-state in a sequence of rapid flare events. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 3 indexed citations

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Buisson, D. J. K., A. C. Fabian, D. Barret, et al.. (2019). MAXI J1820+070 with NuSTAR I. An increase in variability frequency but a stable reflection spectrum: coronal properties and implications for the inner disc in black hole binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 490(1). 1350–1362. 63 indexed citations

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Zoghbi, Abderahmen, Edward M. Cackett, C. S. Reynolds, et al.. (2014). Observations of MCG-5-23-16 with Suzaku, XMM-Newton and Nustar:Disk Tomography and Compton Hump Reverberation. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 32 indexed citations

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