Hakim Atek

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Hakim Atek is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hakim Atek has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 35 papers in Instrumentation and 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Hakim Atek's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (48 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (35 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (13 papers). Hakim Atek is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (48 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (35 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (13 papers). Hakim Atek collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Switzerland. Hakim Atek's co-authors include D. Schaerer, Johan Richard, Jean‐Paul Kneib, Anne Verhamme, D. Kunth, Matthew Hayes, J. M. Más-Hesse, C. Tapken, Mathilde Jauzac and H. Ebeling and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Hakim Atek

48 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Revealing galaxy candidates out to z ∼ 16 with JWST observations of the lensing cluster SMACS0723

2022 127 citations Hakim Atek, Marko Shuntov et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hakim Atek France	28	2.6k	1.3k	437	270	164	48	2.7k
Andrew J. Bunker United Kingdom	36	3.3k 1.3×	1.7k 1.3×	528 1.2×	169 0.6×	170 1.0×	104	3.4k
R. A. A. Bowler United Kingdom	28	2.8k 1.1×	1.5k 1.2×	395 0.9×	147 0.5×	136 0.8×	54	2.9k
Brian Siana United States	38	3.4k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	495 1.1×	163 0.6×	195 1.2×	90	3.5k
E. R. Stanway United Kingdom	35	3.3k 1.3×	1.4k 1.1×	471 1.1×	129 0.5×	126 0.8×	96	3.4k
Mark Dijkstra United States	32	3.0k 1.1×	905 0.7×	930 2.1×	130 0.5×	137 0.8×	70	3.1k
Jorryt Matthee Netherlands	34	2.8k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	468 1.1×	111 0.4×	150 0.9×	95	3.0k
C. Gronwall United States	27	2.5k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	410 0.9×	125 0.5×	120 0.7×	129	2.5k
G. R. Meurer United States	27	3.8k 1.4×	1.7k 1.3×	356 0.8×	144 0.5×	134 0.8×	81	3.9k
M. Yoshida Japan	31	3.2k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	690 1.6×	168 0.6×	121 0.7×	143	3.3k
D. Magee United States	30	3.2k 1.2×	1.9k 1.5×	417 1.0×	153 0.6×	120 0.7×	47	3.2k

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Jung, Intae, Henry C. Ferguson, Matthew Hayes, et al.. (2024). Constraints on the Lyman Continuum Escape from Low-mass Lensed Galaxies at 1.3 ≤ z ≤ 3.0. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(2). 175–175. 6 indexed citations

Chemerynska, Iryna, Hakim Atek, Pratika Dayal, et al.. (2024). The Extreme Low-mass End of the Mass–Metallicity Relation at z ∼ 7. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 976(1). L15–L15. 11 indexed citations

Wang, Bingjie, Joel Leja, Hakim Atek, et al.. (2024). Quantifying the Effects of Known Unknowns on Inferred High-redshift Galaxy Properties: Burstiness, IMF, and Nebular Physics. The Astrophysical Journal. 963(1). 74–74. 28 indexed citations

Steinhardt, Charles L., Christian Kragh Jespersen, Brenda Frye, et al.. (2024). Efficient Survey Design for Finding High-redshift Galaxies with JWST. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(1). 23–23. 4 indexed citations

Boyett, Kristan, Andrew J. Bunker, Jacopo Chevallard, et al.. (2024). Emission-line galaxies at z ∼ 1 from near-IR HST slitless spectroscopy: metallicities, star formation rates, and redshift confirmations from VLT/FORS2 spectroscopy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534(1). 814–842. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Xinfeng, Alaina Henry, Timothy M. Heckman, et al.. (2023). The Low-redshift Lyman Continuum Survey: Optically Thin and Thick Mg ii Lines as Probes of Lyman Continuum Escape. The Astrophysical Journal. 943(2). 94–94. 12 indexed citations

Atek, Hakim, Lukas J. Furtak, Pascal A. Oesch, et al.. (2022). The star formation burstiness and ionizing efficiency of low-mass galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 511(3). 4464–4479. 42 indexed citations

Furtak, Lukas J., Marko Shuntov, Hakim Atek, et al.. (2022). Constraining the physical properties of the first lensed z ∼ 9 − 16 galaxy candidates with JWST. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 519(2). 3064–3075. 32 indexed citations

Bouwens, R. J., Pascal A. Oesch, Mauro Stefanon, et al.. (2021). New determinations of the UV luminosity functions from z ~ 9 to 2 show a remarkable consistency with halo growth and a constant star formation efficiency. Figshare. 5 indexed citations

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Furtak, Lukas J., Hakim Atek, M. D. Lehnert, Jacopo Chevallard, & S. Charlot. (2020). How robustly can we constrain the low-mass end of the z ∼ 6−7 stellar mass function? The limits of lensing models and stellar population assumptions in the Hubble Frontier Fields. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 501(2). 1568–1590. 25 indexed citations

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Reddy, Naveen A., Pascal A. Oesch, R. J. Bouwens, et al.. (2018). The HDUV Survey: A Revised Assessment of the Relationship between UV Slope and Dust Attenuation for High-redshift Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 853(1). 56–56. 125 indexed citations

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Naidu, Rohan P., Pascal A. Oesch, Naveen A. Reddy, et al.. (2017). The HDUV Survey: Six Lyman Continuum Emitter Candidates at z ∼ 2 Revealed by HST UV Imaging*. The Astrophysical Journal. 847(1). 12–12. 26 indexed citations

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Natarajan, Priyamvada, Urmila Chadayammuri, Mathilde Jauzac, et al.. (2017). Mapping substructure in the HST Frontier Fields cluster lenses and in cosmological simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 468(2). 1962–1980. 61 indexed citations

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Jauzac, Mathilde, Johan Richard, Marceau Limousin, et al.. (2016). Hubble Frontier Fields: predictions for the return of SN Refsdal with the MUSE and GMOS spectrographs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 457(2). 2029–2042. 57 indexed citations

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Laporte, Nicolas, A. Streblyanska, B. Clément, et al.. (2014). The first Frontier Fields cluster: 4.5μm excess in az~ 8 galaxy candidate in Abell 2744. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 562. L8–L8. 21 indexed citations

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Atek, Hakim, D. Kunth, D. Schaerer, et al.. (2013). Influence of physical galaxy properties on Lyαescape in star-forming galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 561. A89–A89. 29 indexed citations

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Hayes, Matthew, Göran Östlin, D. Schaerer, et al.. (2010). Escape of about five per cent of Lyman-α photons from high-redshift star-forming galaxies. Nature. 464(7288). 562–565. 104 indexed citations

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Östlin, Göran, Matthew Hayes, D. Kunth, et al.. (2009). THE LYMAN ALPHA MORPHOLOGY OF LOCAL STARBURST GALAXIES: RELEASE OF CALIBRATED IMAGES. The Astronomical Journal. 138(3). 923–940. 78 indexed citations

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Atek, Hakim, D. Schaerer, & D. Kunth. (2009). Origin of Lyα absorption in nearby starbursts and implications for other galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 502(3). 791–801. 17 indexed citations

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Atek, Hakim, et al.. (2008). On the detectability of Lyα emission in star forming galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 488(2). 491–509. 73 indexed citations

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