Gerald Cecil

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Gerald Cecil is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerald Cecil has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 16 papers in Instrumentation and 16 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Gerald Cecil's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (29 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (28 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (20 papers). Gerald Cecil is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (29 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (28 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (20 papers). Gerald Cecil collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Chile. Gerald Cecil's co-authors include Joss Bland‐Hawthorn, Sylvain Veilleux, R. Brent Tully, A. S. Wilson, A. V. Filippenko, Jon A. Morse, M. A. Dopita, Brent Groves, David Pimentel and Tadeusz W. Patzek and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Optics Express.

In The Last Decade

Gerald Cecil

61 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Galactic Winds

2005 910 citations Sylvain Veilleux, Gerald Cecil et al. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gerald Cecil United States	24	2.3k	607	438	91	76	66	2.5k
L. Silva Italy	30	4.3k 1.9×	482 0.8×	2.1k 4.7×	104 1.1×	41 0.5×	77	4.6k
R. A. Watson United Kingdom	16	637 0.3×	264 0.4×	75 0.2×	40 0.4×	91 1.2×	60	865
Tucker Jones United States	25	1.6k 0.7×	170 0.3×	642 1.5×	99 1.1×	13 0.2×	74	1.8k
D. A. Allen Australia	19	736 0.3×	119 0.2×	147 0.3×	41 0.5×	28 0.4×	78	1.1k
P. Jagannathan United States	13	935 0.4×	673 1.1×	76 0.2×	13 0.1×	6 0.1×	31	1.1k
V. Reglero Spain	18	1.4k 0.6×	453 0.7×	27 0.1×	25 0.3×	59 0.8×	98	1.5k
Yue Wu China	16	732 0.3×	45 0.1×	342 0.8×	62 0.7×	22 0.3×	68	993
S. Giarrusso Italy	13	242 0.1×	207 0.3×	66 0.2×	56 0.6×	48 0.6×	46	562
Thomas W. Murphy United States	13	480 0.2×	91 0.1×	41 0.1×	130 1.4×	5 0.1×	42	648
В. Б. Ильин Russia	16	366 0.2×	26 0.0×	43 0.1×	177 1.9×	114 1.5×	96	777

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerald Cecil

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20 of 20 papers shown

Veilleux, Sylvain, M. Meléndez, Gerald Cecil, et al.. (2021). Exploring the dust content of galactic haloes with Herschel – IV. NGC 3079. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 508(4). 4902–4918. 9 indexed citations

Heathcote, Steve, César Briceño, Gerald Cecil, et al.. (2018). The SOAR telescope atmospheric dispersion corrector. 2871. 144–144. 2 indexed citations

Bland‐Hawthorn, Joss, Julia J. Bryant, Gordon Robertson, et al.. (2011). Hexabundles: imaging fiber arrays for low-light astronomical applications. Optics Express. 19(3). 2649–2649. 81 indexed citations

Bland‐Hawthorn, Joss, Julia J. Bryant, Gordon Robertson, et al.. (2010). Hexabundles: imaging fibre arrays for low-light astronomical applications. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7735. 773541–773541. 2 indexed citations

Morgan, Douglas R., et al.. (2008). Biochromoendoscopy: molecular imaging with capsule endoscopy for detection of adenomas of the GI tract. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 68(3). 520–527. 28 indexed citations

Pimentel, David, Tadeusz W. Patzek, & Gerald Cecil. (2007). Ethanol Production: Energy, Economic, and Environmental Losses. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 189. 25–41. 97 indexed citations

Veilleux, Sylvain, Gerald Cecil, & Joss Bland‐Hawthorn. (2005). Galactic Winds. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 43(1). 769–826. 910 indexed citations breakdown →

Cecil, Gerald. (2005). Programs for laser-AO assisted integral-field spectrometers on ionized flows. New Astronomy Reviews. 49(10-12). 553–568.

Veilleux, Sylvain, P. L. Shopbell, David S. N. Rupke, Joss Bland‐Hawthorn, & Gerald Cecil. (2003). A Search for Very Extended Ionized Gas in Nearby Starburst and Active Galaxies. The Astronomical Journal. 126(5). 2185–2208. 56 indexed citations

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Cecil, Gerald, Sylvain Veilleux, Brent Groves, & M. A. Dopita. (2002). A Chandra/ACIS & HST/STIS Study of Well Resolved Outflow/ISM Interactions in NGC 3079 & NGC 1068. AAS. 200. 1 indexed citations

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Bland‐Hawthorn, Joss, J. F. Gallimore, L. J. Tacconi, et al.. (1997). The Ringberg Standards for NGC 1068. Astrophysics and Space Science. 248(1-2). 9–19. 78 indexed citations

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Bland‐Hawthorn, Joss, S. L. Lumsden, G. Mark Voit, Gerald Cecil, & Jon C. Weisheit. (1997). Strict Limits on the Ionizing Luminosity in NGC 1068 from Jet-Axis Molecular Clouds. Astrophysics and Space Science. 248(1-2). 177–190. 16 indexed citations

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Tsvetanov, Z., Jon A. Morse, A. S. Wilson, & Gerald Cecil. (1996). Complex Gaseous Structure in the Nucleus of NGC 5252. The Astrophysical Journal. 458. 172–172. 14 indexed citations

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Statler, Thomas S., T. Smecker-Hane, & Gerald Cecil. (1996). The Post-Merger Elliptical NGC 1700: Stellar Kinematic Fields to Four Effective Radii. The Astronomical Journal. 111. 1512–1512. 18 indexed citations

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Cecil, Gerald, A. S. Wilson, & C. G. De Pree. (1995). Hot shocked gas along the jets of NGC 4258 (M106). The Astrophysical Journal. 440. 181–181. 29 indexed citations

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Hartigan, Patrick, Jon A. Morse, Steve Heathcote, & Gerald Cecil. (1993). Observations of entrainment and time variability in the HH 47 jet. The Astrophysical Journal. 414. L121–L121. 18 indexed citations

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Cecil, Gerald, A. S. Wilson, & R. Brent Tully. (1992). The braided jets in the spiral galaxy NGC 4258. The Astrophysical Journal. 390. 365–365. 64 indexed citations

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Cecil, Gerald. (1991). Kinematics of the helical nuclear jets of NGC 4258. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 103. 894–894. 1 indexed citations

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Cecil, Gerald, J. Bland, & R. Brent Tully. (1990). Imaging spectrophotometry of ionized gas in NGC 1068. I - Kinematics of the narrow-line region. The Astrophysical Journal. 355. 70–70. 57 indexed citations

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Cecil, Gerald, et al.. (1984). Spatially resolved high-velocity outflow from the nucleus of M51. The Astrophysical Journal. 287. 131–131.

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