Fabio Pacucci

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Fabio Pacucci is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Fabio Pacucci has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 16 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 15 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Fabio Pacucci's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (53 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (36 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (17 papers). Fabio Pacucci is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (53 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (36 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (17 papers). Fabio Pacucci collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Japan. Fabio Pacucci's co-authors include Andrea Ferrara, Abraham Loeb, Andrei Mesinger, Marta Volonteri, Pratika Dayal, Xiaohui Fan, N. Cappelluti, R. Maiolino, J. S. Dunlop and S. Mineo 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

Fabio Pacucci

56 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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JWST CEERS and JADES Active Galaxies at z = 4–7 Violate the Local M _•–M _⋆ Relation at >3σ: Implications for Low-mass Black Holes and Seeding Models

2023 114 citations Fabio Pacucci, Stefano Carniani et al. The Astrophysical Journal Letters profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fabio Pacucci United States	24	1.6k	496	406	68	28	61	1.6k
John A. Regan Ireland	20	1.5k 1.0×	409 0.8×	305 0.8×	55 0.8×	28 1.0×	45	1.6k
Daniel J. Whalen United States	23	1.6k 1.0×	429 0.9×	287 0.7×	38 0.6×	19 0.7×	62	1.7k
Fabrizio Brighenti Italy	30	2.4k 1.6×	670 1.4×	506 1.2×	61 0.9×	25 0.9×	81	2.5k
J. Heidt Germany	22	1.3k 0.8×	615 1.2×	379 0.9×	41 0.6×	32 1.1×	72	1.4k
D. A. Rafferty Netherlands	23	1.8k 1.2×	839 1.7×	287 0.7×	34 0.5×	35 1.3×	47	1.9k
Jillian Bellovary United States	27	2.3k 1.5×	298 0.6×	515 1.3×	100 1.5×	19 0.7×	50	2.4k
Eli Visbal United States	20	1.5k 1.0×	599 1.2×	252 0.6×	66 1.0×	47 1.7×	37	1.6k
Sebastian Jester United States	17	2.0k 1.3×	588 1.2×	556 1.4×	50 0.7×	33 1.2×	25	2.1k
Benny Trakhtenbrot Chile	32	2.6k 1.7×	778 1.6×	506 1.2×	69 1.0×	25 0.9×	78	2.7k
Nicolas Laporte United Kingdom	21	1.1k 0.7×	169 0.3×	466 1.1×	61 0.9×	39 1.4×	46	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fabio Pacucci

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All Works

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Taylor, Anthony J., Óscar A. Chávez Ortiz, Steven L. Finkelstein, et al.. (2025). The Prevalence of Bursty Star Formation in Low-mass Galaxies at z = 1–7 from H α -to-UV Diagnostics. The Astrophysical Journal. 994(1). 14–14.

Nguyen, Dieu D., Elena Gallo, Kristina Nyland, et al.. (2025). Revisiting the Supermassive Black Hole Mass of NGC 7052 Using High Spatial Resolution Molecular Gas Observed with ALMA. The Astrophysical Journal. 992(2). 211–211.

Pacucci, Fabio & Abraham Loeb. (2025). Cosmic Outliers: Low-spin Halos Explain the Abundance, Compactness, and Redshift Evolution of the Little Red Dots. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 989(2). L19–L19. 6 indexed citations

Pacucci, Fabio & Abraham Loeb. (2024). The Redshift Evolution of the M _•–M _⋆ Relation for JWST’s Supermassive Black Holes at z > 4. The Astrophysical Journal. 964(2). 154–154. 32 indexed citations

Cappelluti, N., Adi Foord, Stefano Marchesi, et al.. (2024). Surveying the Onset and Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes at High-z with AXIS. Universe. 10(7). 276–276. 6 indexed citations

Foord, Adi, N. Cappelluti, Tingting Liu, et al.. (2024). Tracking Supermassive Black Hole Mergers from kpc to sub-pc Scales with AXIS. Universe. 10(6). 237–237. 5 indexed citations

Cappelluti, N., Fabio Pacucci, & G. Hasinger. (2024). Constraining Wind-driven Accretion onto Gaia BH3 with Chandra. The Astrophysical Journal. 973(2). 75–75. 6 indexed citations

Pacucci, Fabio, et al.. (2024). Detecting Wandering Intermediate-Mass Black Holes with AXIS in the Milky Way and Local Massive Galaxies. Universe. 10(5). 225–225. 2 indexed citations

Pacucci, Fabio, et al.. (2023). JWST CEERS and JADES Active Galaxies at z = 4–7 Violate the Local M _•–M _⋆ Relation at >3σ: Implications for Low-mass Black Holes and Seeding Models. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 957(1). L3–L3. 114 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jin, Xiangyu, Jinyi Yang, Xiaohui Fan, et al.. (2023). (Nearly) Model-independent Constraints on the Neutral Hydrogen Fraction in the Intergalactic Medium at z ∼ 5–7 Using Dark Pixel Fractions in Lyα and Lyβ Forests. The Astrophysical Journal. 942(2). 59–59. 55 indexed citations

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Fragione, Giacomo & Fabio Pacucci. (2023). Constraining the Properties of Black Hole Seeds from the Farthest Quasars. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 958(2). L24–L24. 7 indexed citations

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Pacucci, Fabio, Yueying Ni, & Abraham Loeb. (2023). Extreme Tidal Stripping May Explain the Overmassive Black Hole in Leo I: A Proof of Concept. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 956(2). L37–L37. 6 indexed citations

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Pacucci, Fabio & Abraham Loeb. (2022). Accretion from Winds of Red Giant Branch Stars May Reveal the Supermassive Black Hole in Leo I. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 940(2). L33–L33. 6 indexed citations

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Pacucci, Fabio, Mar Mezcua, & John A. Regan. (2021). The Active Fraction of Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 920(2). 134–134. 23 indexed citations

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Fan, Xiaohui, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang, et al.. (2019). The Discovery of a Gravitationally Lensed Quasar at z = 6.51. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 870(2). L11–L11. 46 indexed citations

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Shankar, Francesco, Mariangela Bernardi, K. M. Richardson, et al.. (2019). Black hole scaling relations of active and quiescent galaxies: Addressing selection effects and constraining virial factors. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485(1). 1278–1292. 54 indexed citations

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Pacucci, Fabio & Abraham Loeb. (2019). Most Lensed Quasars at z > 6 are Missed by Current Surveys. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 870(2). L12–L12. 16 indexed citations

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Pacucci, Fabio, Abraham Loeb, Mar Mezcua, & Ignacio Martín-Navarro. (2018). Glimmering in the Dark: Modeling the Low-mass End of the M_•–σ Relation and of the Quasar Luminosity Function. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 864(1). L6–L6. 25 indexed citations

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Yue, Bin, Andrea Ferrara, Fabio Pacucci, & Kazuyuki Omukai. (2017). Triggering the Formation of Direct Collapse Black Holes by Their Congeners. The Astrophysical Journal. 838(2). 111–111. 12 indexed citations

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Pacucci, Fabio, Priyamvada Natarajan, Marta Volonteri, N. Cappelluti, & C. M. Urry. (2017). Conditions for Optimal Growth of Black Hole Seeds. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 850(2). L42–L42. 47 indexed citations

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