Howard Isaacson

28.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
165 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Howard Isaacson is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Howard Isaacson has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 161 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 49 papers in Instrumentation and 7 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Howard Isaacson's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (136 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (92 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (84 papers). Howard Isaacson is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (136 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (92 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (84 papers). Howard Isaacson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Howard Isaacson's co-authors include Andrew W. Howard, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Debra A. Fischer, John Asher Johnson, Erik A. Petigura, Lauren M. Weiss, Benjamin J. Fulton, Jason T. Wright, Evan Sinukoff and Ian J. M. Crossfield and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Howard Isaacson

151 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. The California-Kepler Survey. III. A Gap in the Radius Distribution of Small Planets*
    2017 650 citations Benjamin J. Fulton, Erik A. Petigura et al. The Astronomical Journal profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Howard Isaacson 4.6k 1.4k 192 169 165 165 4.7k
I. Hubený 4.1k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 273 1.4× 159 0.9× 245 1.5× 114 4.3k
S. G. Sousa 4.6k 1.0× 1.9k 1.3× 333 1.7× 154 0.9× 98 0.6× 133 4.7k
I. Ramírez 4.8k 1.0× 1.8k 1.3× 401 2.1× 99 0.6× 127 0.8× 78 4.9k
X. Bonfıls 4.6k 1.0× 1.8k 1.2× 96 0.5× 153 0.9× 302 1.8× 105 4.7k
J. Southworth 5.1k 1.1× 2.2k 1.6× 155 0.8× 96 0.6× 159 1.0× 190 5.2k
Leslie Hebb 3.6k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 76 0.4× 112 0.7× 198 1.2× 76 3.7k
S. Bagnulo 4.7k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 103 0.5× 116 0.7× 243 1.5× 222 4.9k
T. Mazeh 5.0k 1.1× 1.9k 1.4× 201 1.0× 85 0.5× 91 0.6× 166 5.2k
Lars A. Buchhave 2.7k 0.6× 954 0.7× 94 0.5× 99 0.6× 179 1.1× 83 2.8k
D. Ségransan 5.1k 1.1× 2.1k 1.5× 124 0.6× 139 0.8× 205 1.2× 138 5.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Howard Isaacson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Howard Isaacson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Howard Isaacson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Howard Isaacson based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Howard Isaacson. Howard Isaacson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Howard, Andrew W., et al.. (2024). The ∼50 Myr Old TOI-942c is Likely on an Aligned, Coplanar Orbit and Losing Mass. The Astronomical Journal. 168(5). 194–194. 2 indexed citations
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Petigura, Erik A., et al.. (2024). Automated Scheduling of Doppler Exoplanet Observations at Keck Observatory. The Astronomical Journal. 167(3). 122–122.
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Yee, Samuel W., Erik A. Petigura, Howard Isaacson, et al.. (2024). Additional Doppler Monitoring Corroborates HAT-P-11c as a Planet. Research Notes of the AAS. 8(7). 187–187. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Songhu, Joshua N. Winn, Erik A. Petigura, et al.. (2024). A Larger Sample Confirms Small Planets around Hot Stars Are Misaligned ∗. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 968(1). L2–L2. 6 indexed citations
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Ng, Cherry, S. Croft, Andrew Siemion, et al.. (2023). A deep-learning search for technosignatures from 820 nearby stars. Nature Astronomy. 19 indexed citations
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Isaacson, Howard, et al.. (2023). The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: A Laser Search Pipeline for the Automated Planet Finder. The Astronomical Journal. 165(3). 114–114. 7 indexed citations
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Kane, Stephen R., Michelle L. Hill, Paul A. Dalba, et al.. (2023). Revised Properties and Dynamical History for the HD 17156 System. The Astronomical Journal. 165(6). 252–252. 1 indexed citations
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Endl, Michael, Paul Robertson, William D. Cochran, et al.. (2022). A Jupiter Analog Orbiting The Nearby M Dwarf GJ 463. The Astronomical Journal. 164(6). 238–238. 6 indexed citations
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Rice, Malena, Songhu Wang, Xian-Yu Wang, et al.. (2022). A Tendency Toward Alignment in Single-star Warm-Jupiter Systems. The Astronomical Journal. 164(3). 104–104. 30 indexed citations
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Sheikh, Sofia Z., Danny C. Price, David R. DeBoer, et al.. (2021). Analysis of the Breakthrough Listen signal of interest blc1 with a technosignature verification framework. Nature Astronomy. 5(11). 1153–1162. 22 indexed citations
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Montesinos, B., C. Eiroa, J. Lillo-Box, et al.. (2019). HR 10: a main-sequence binary with circumstellar envelopes around both components. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations
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Yahalomi, Daniel A., Yossi Shvartzvald, Eric Agol, et al.. (2019). The Mass of the White Dwarf Companion in the Self-lensing Binary KOI-3278: Einstein versus Newton. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 4 indexed citations
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Chontos, Ashley, Daniel Huber, David W. Latham, et al.. (2019). University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham). 3 indexed citations
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Hillenbrand, Lynne A., Adam A. Miller, John M. Carpenter, et al.. (2019). PTF14jg: The Remarkable Outburst and Post-burst Evolution of a Previously Anonymous Galactic Star. The Astrophysical Journal. 874(1). 82–82. 18 indexed citations
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Wright, Jason T., et al.. (2018). HD 4915: A Maunder Minimum Candidate. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 863(2). L26–L26. 10 indexed citations
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Enriquez, J. Emilio, Andrew Siemion, Griffin Foster, et al.. (2017). The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: 1.1–1.9 GHz Observations of 692 Nearby Stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 849(2). 104–104. 68 indexed citations
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Johnson, John Asher, Erik A. Petigura, Benjamin J. Fulton, et al.. (2017). The California-Kepler Survey. II. Precise Physical Properties of 2025 Kepler Planets and Their Host Stars*. The Astronomical Journal. 154(3). 108–108. 95 indexed citations
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Morris, Brett M., Suzanne L. Hawley, Leslie Hebb, et al.. (2017). Chromospheric Activity of HAT-P-11: An Unusually Active Planet-hosting K Star. The Astrophysical Journal. 848(1). 58–58. 10 indexed citations
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Sinukoff, Evan, Andrew W. Howard, Erik A. Petigura, et al.. (2016). ELEVEN MULTIPLANET SYSTEMS FROM K2 CAMPAIGNS 1 AND 2 AND THE MASSES OF TWO HOT SUPER-EARTHS. University of Southern Queensland ePrints (University of Southern Queensland). 23 indexed citations
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Sanchis-Ojeda, Roberto, Joshua N. Winn, Fei Dai, et al.. (2015). A LOW STELLAR OBLIQUITY FOR WASP-47, A COMPACT MULTIPLANET SYSTEM WITH A HOT JUPITER AND AN ULTRA-SHORT PERIOD PLANET. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 812(1). L11–L11. 21 indexed citations

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