James Aird

6.4k citations

66 papers · 2.6k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 28

Impact in

Instrumentation top 1%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Astronomy and Astrophysics top 1%
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

Papers in ⓘ

Astronomy and Astrophysics 62
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena 57
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 44
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 20
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research 4
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 3
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories 3
Instrumentation 25
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 25

Co-authors: Alison L. Coil (20 shared papers)A. Georgakakis (15 shared papers)K. Nandra (12 shared papers)Kenneth C. Wong (7 shared papers)Guangtun Zhu (7 shared papers)Richard J. Cool (7 shared papers)John Moustakas (7 shared papers)Michael R. Blanton (7 shared papers)
Journals: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (39 papers)The Astrophysical Journal (12 papers)Astronomy and Astrophysics (2 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters (2 papers)Nature Astronomy (1 paper)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Germany

In The Last Decade

James Aird

63 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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The evolution of the X-ray luminosity functions of unabsorbed and absorbed AGNs out to z∼ 5 2015 · 233 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2015 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2013 The Astrophysical Journal

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1	PRIMUS: CONSTRAINTS ON STAR FORMATION QUENCHING AND GALAXY MERGING, AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE STELLAR MASS FUNCTION FROMz= 0-1 The Astrophysical Journal ·John Moustakas, Alison L. Coil, James Aird, Michael R. Blanton, Richard J. Cool, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Alexander J. Mendez, Kenneth C. Wong, Guangtun Zhu, S. Arnouts Hit paper breakdown →	2013	321
2	The evolution of the X-ray luminosity functions of unabsorbed and absorbed AGNs out to z∼ 5 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·James Aird, Alison L. Coil, A. Georgakakis, K. Nandra, Guillermo Barro, Pablo G. Pérez‐González Hit paper breakdown →	2015	233
3	PRIMUS: THE DEPENDENCE OF AGN ACCRETION ON HOST STELLAR MASS AND COLOR The Astrophysical Journal ·James Aird, Alison L. Coil, John Moustakas, Michael R. Blanton, Scott Burles, Richard J. Cool, Daniel J. Eisenstein, M. Stephen M. Smith, Kenneth C. Wong, Guangtun Zhu	2012	184
4	OBSCURATION-DEPENDENT EVOLUTION OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI The Astrophysical Journal ·Johannes Büchner, A. Georgakakis, K. Nandra, Murray Brightman, Marie-Luise Menzel, Teng Liu, Li-Ting Hsu, M. Salvato, C. Rangel, James Aird, A. Merloni, Nicholas P. Ross	2015	174
5	A remarkably flat relationship between the average star formation rate and AGN luminosity for distant X-ray AGN Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·F. Stanley, C. M. Harrison, D. M. Alexander, A. M. Swinbank, James Aird, A. Del Moro, Ryan C. Hickox, James Mullaney	2015	126
6	X-rays across the galaxy population – II. The distribution of AGN accretion rates as a function of stellar mass and redshift Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·James Aird, Alison L. Coil, A. Georgakakis	2017	124
7	ALMA and Herschel reveal that X-ray-selected AGN and main-sequence galaxies have different star formation rate distributions Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters ·James Mullaney, D. M. Alexander, James Aird, E. Bernhard, E. Daddi, A. Del Moro, Mark Dickinson, D. Elbaz, C. M. Harrison, S. Juneau, Daizhong Liu, M. Pannella, D. J. Rosario, P. Santini, M. Sargent, C. Schreiber, J. M. Simpson, F. Stanley	2015	88
8	X-rays across the galaxy population – I. Tracing the main sequence of star formation Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·James Aird, Alison L. Coil, A. Georgakakis	2016	78
9	X-rays across the galaxy population – III. The incidence of AGN as a function of star formation rate Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·James Aird, Alison L. Coil, A. Georgakakis	2019	77
10	PRIMUS: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STAR FORMATION AND AGN ACCRETION The Astrophysical Journal ·Mojegan Azadi, James Aird, Alison L. Coil, John Moustakas, Alexander J. Mendez, Michael R. Blanton, Richard J. Cool, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Kenneth C. Wong, Guangtun Zhu	2015	66
11	Observational constraints on the specific accretion-rate distribution of X-ray-selected AGNs Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·A. Georgakakis, James Aird, Andreas Schulze, T. Dwelly, M. Salvato, K. Nandra, A. Merloni, Donald P. Schneider	2017	64
12	X-ray detected AGN in SDSS dwarf galaxies Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Keir L Birchall, M. G. Watson, James Aird	2020	64
13	The mean star formation rates of unobscured QSOs: searching for evidence of suppressed or enhanced star formation Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·F. Stanley, D. M. Alexander, C. M. Harrison, D. J. Rosario, L. Wang, James Aird, N. Bourne, L. Dunne, S. Dye, S. Eales, K. K. Knudsen, M. J. Michałowski, E. Valiante, G. de Zotti, Cristina Furlanetto, R. J. Ivison, S. Maddox, M. W. L. Smith	2017	62
14	Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester) ·Mojegan Azadi, Alison L. Coil, James Aird, Naveen A. Reddy, Alice E. Shapley, William R. Freeman, Mariska Kriek, Gene C. K. Leung, Bahram Mobasher, Sedona H. Price, Ryan L. Sanders, Irene Shivaei, Brian Siana	2017	62
15	The X-ray luminosity function of active galactic nuclei in the redshift intervalz=3-5 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·A. Georgakakis, James Aird, Johannes Büchner, M. Salvato, M.-L. Menzel, W. N. Brandt, Ian D. McGreer, T. Dwelly, G. Mountrichas, Constandina Koki, I. Georgantopoulos, Li-Ting Hsu, A. Merloni, Teng Liu, K. Nandra, Nicholas P. Ross	2015	59
16	Compton thick active galactic nuclei in Chandra surveys Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Murray Brightman, K. Nandra, M. Salvato, Li-Ting Hsu, James Aird, C. Rangel	2014	56
17	PRIMUS: INFRARED AND X-RAY AGN SELECTION TECHNIQUES AT 0.2 <z< 1.2 The Astrophysical Journal ·Alexander J. Mendez, Alison L. Coil, James Aird, Aleksandar M. Diamond‐Stanic, John Moustakas, Michael R. Blanton, Richard J. Cool, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Kenneth C. Wong, Guangtun Zhu	2013	56
18	Excess AGN activity in the z= 2.30 Protocluster in HS 1700+64 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·J. Digby-North, K. Nandra, E. S. Laird, Charles C. Steidel, A. Georgakakis, M. Bogosavljević, Dawn K. Erb, Alice E. Shapley, Naveen A. Reddy, James Aird	2010	49
19	Trinity I: self-consistently modelling the dark matter halo–galaxy–supermassive black hole connection from z = 0–10 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Haowen Zhang, Peter Behroozi, Marta Volonteri, Joseph Silk, Xiaohui Fan, Philip F. Hopkins, Jinyi Yang, James Aird	2022	46
20	A selection effect boosting the contribution from rapidly spinning black holes to the cosmic X-ray background Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·R. V. Vasudevan, A. C. Fabian, C. S. Reynolds, James Aird, Thomas Dauser, Luigi Gallo	2016	44

About James Aird

James Aird is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 66 papers that have together received 2.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (57 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (44 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (25 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (20 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (15 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (4 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (3 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (1.0k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (2.5k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (578 citations), Statistics and Probability (48 citations) and Global and Planetary Change (73 citations). James Aird has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Alison L. Coil, A. Georgakakis, K. Nandra, Kenneth C. Wong, Guangtun Zhu, Richard J. Cool, John Moustakas, Michael R. Blanton, Daniel J. Eisenstein and Alexander J. Mendez. Their work appears in journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters and Nature Astronomy.

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