Federico Lelli

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Federico Lelli is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Federico Lelli has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 33 papers in Instrumentation and 6 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Federico Lelli's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (67 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (40 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (33 papers). Federico Lelli is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (67 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (40 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (33 papers). Federico Lelli collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Italy. Federico Lelli's co-authors include Stacy McGaugh, James M. Schombert, Filippo Fraternali, Marc Verheijen, Marcel S. Pawlowski, Oliver Müller, Arianna Di Cintio, Pengfei Li, Helmut Jerjen and Harley Katz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Federico Lelli

68 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Radial Acceleration Relation in Rotationally Supported Galaxies

2016 348 citations Stacy McGaugh, Federico Lelli et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Federico Lelli United States	26	2.2k	895	536	134	90	74	2.3k
Gregory B. Poole Australia	25	2.2k 1.0×	885 1.0×	540 1.0×	96 0.7×	58 0.6×	57	2.3k
Ignacio Martín-Navarro Spain	29	2.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	825 1.5×	139 1.0×	73 0.8×	92	2.5k
Carlo Nipoti Italy	27	1.8k 0.8×	812 0.9×	282 0.5×	103 0.8×	77 0.9×	89	1.8k
Elena Rasia Italy	28	2.5k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	508 0.9×	131 1.0×	57 0.6×	81	2.6k
Andrea Lapi Italy	25	2.0k 0.9×	714 0.8×	481 0.9×	66 0.5×	77 0.9×	140	2.0k
Rachael L. Beaton United States	28	2.5k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	358 0.7×	51 0.4×	135 1.5×	100	2.6k
Glenn G. Kacprzak United States	28	2.4k 1.1×	850 0.9×	429 0.8×	62 0.5×	91 1.0×	105	2.4k
Till Sawala United Kingdom	25	2.3k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	803 1.5×	103 0.8×	55 0.6×	36	2.4k
Marcel S. Pawlowski Germany	25	2.3k 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	437 0.8×	73 0.5×	43 0.5×	75	2.4k
Anja von der Linden United States	27	2.5k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	644 1.2×	66 0.5×	100 1.1×	48	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Federico Lelli

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lelli, Federico, C. De Breuck, Allison W. S. Man, et al.. (2024). Gas dynamics in an AGN-host galaxy at z ≃ 2.6: Regular rotation, noncircular motions, and mass models. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 693. A91–A91. 2 indexed citations

Bacchini, Cecilia, Carlo Nipoti, Giuliano Iorio, et al.. (2024). A 3D view on the local gravitational instability of cold gas discs in star-forming galaxies at 0 ≲ z ≲ 5. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 687. A115–A115. 6 indexed citations

Man, Allison W. S., Federico Lelli, C. De Breuck, et al.. (2024). Molecular Gas Mass Measurements of an Active, Starburst Galaxy at z ≈ 2.6 Using ALMA Observations of the [C i], CO, and Dust Emission. The Astrophysical Journal. 977(2). 251–251. 3 indexed citations

Davis, Timothy A., Martin Bureau, Michele Cappellari, et al.. (2023). A fundamental plane of black hole accretion at millimetre wavelengths. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 528(1). L76–L82. 2 indexed citations

Lelli, Federico, C. Feruglio, F. Fiore, et al.. (2023). Dynamical signature of a stellar bulge in a quasar-host galaxy at z ≃ 6. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 671. A44–A44. 6 indexed citations

Davis, Timothy A., Michele Cappellari, Martin Bureau, et al.. (2023). WISDOM project – XIV. SMBH mass in the early-type galaxies NGC 0612, NGC 1574, and NGC 4261 from CO dynamical modelling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 522(4). 6170–6195. 16 indexed citations

Li, Pengfei, Marcel S. Pawlowski, Federico Lelli, et al.. (2023). Measuring galaxy cluster mass profiles into the low-acceleration regime with galaxy kinematics. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 677. A24–A24. 15 indexed citations

Müller, Oliver, Federico Lelli, Benoît Famaey, et al.. (2022). The Cen A galaxy group: Dynamical mass and missing baryons. univOAK (4 institutions : Université de Strasbourg, Université de Haute Alsace, INSA Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire de Strasbourg). 15 indexed citations

Marasco, Antonino, Francesco Belfiore, G. Cresci, et al.. (2022). Shaken, but not expelled: Gentle baryonic feedback from nearby starburst dwarf galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 670. A92–A92. 42 indexed citations

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Davis, Timothy A., Jindra Gensior, Martin Bureau, et al.. (2022). WISDOM Project – X. The morphology of the molecular ISM in galaxy centres and its dependence on galaxy structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 512(1). 1522–1540. 26 indexed citations

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Querejeta, Miguel, Federico Lelli, Eva Schinnerer, et al.. (2021). ALMA resolves giant molecular clouds in a tidal dwarf galaxy. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 8 indexed citations

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Lelli, Federico, Enrico M. Di Teodoro, Filippo Fraternali, et al.. (2021). A massive stellar bulge in a regularly rotating galaxy 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang.. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 70 indexed citations

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Müller, Oliver, Marcel S. Pawlowski, Federico Lelli, et al.. (2021). The coherent motion of Cen A dwarf satellite galaxies remains a challenge for ΛCDM cosmology. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 7 indexed citations

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Lelli, Federico, et al.. (2020). From spirals to lenticulars: Evidence from the rotation curves and mass models of three early-type galaxies. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 12 indexed citations

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Lelli, Federico, et al.. (2020). A first attempt to differentiate between modified gravity and modified inertia with galaxy rotation curves. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 22 indexed citations

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Müller, Oliver, M. Rejkuba, Marcel S. Pawlowski, et al.. (2019). The dwarf galaxy satellite system of Centaurus A. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 61 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Thomas, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Florian Niederhofer, et al.. (2019). IAU volume 14 issue 353 Cover and Front matter. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 14(S353). f1–f25. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Pengfei, Federico Lelli, Stacy McGaugh, & James M. Schombert. (2018). Fitting the radial acceleration relation to individual SPARC galaxies. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 107 indexed citations

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Lelli, Federico, Filippo Fraternali, & Marc Verheijen. (2014). Evolution of dwarf galaxies: a dynamical perspective. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 25 indexed citations

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Lelli, Federico, Marc Verheijen, & Filippo Fraternali. (2014). Dynamics of starbursting dwarf galaxies. III. A H I study of 18 nearby objects. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 82 indexed citations

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