Jens Thomas

4.0k total citations
61 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Jens Thomas is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jens Thomas has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 35 papers in Instrumentation and 9 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Jens Thomas's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (55 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (35 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (19 papers). Jens Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (55 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (35 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (19 papers). Jens Thomas collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Canada. Jens Thomas's co-authors include R. Bender, R. P. Saglia, Karl Gebhardt, Peter Erwin, Chung‐Pei Ma, Jenny E. Greene, John P. Blakeslee, N. Nowak, Nicholas J. McConnell and Stephanie Rusli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Jens Thomas

59 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jens Thomas Germany 29 2.5k 1.3k 297 252 116 61 2.6k
Davor Krajnović Germany 28 3.1k 1.2× 1.8k 1.4× 211 0.7× 176 0.7× 128 1.1× 76 3.1k
Michael D. Gladders United States 30 2.6k 1.1× 1.3k 1.0× 377 1.3× 208 0.8× 77 0.7× 102 2.7k
A. J. Baker United States 31 3.2k 1.3× 993 0.8× 426 1.4× 110 0.4× 78 0.7× 102 3.3k
B. Husemann Germany 31 2.8k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 361 1.2× 120 0.5× 144 1.2× 86 2.8k
P. Amram France 32 3.0k 1.2× 1.4k 1.1× 322 1.1× 119 0.5× 122 1.1× 140 3.1k
A. Saintonge United Kingdom 32 2.9k 1.1× 1.3k 1.0× 292 1.0× 70 0.3× 109 0.9× 75 2.9k
Ivelina Momcheva United States 24 2.4k 1.0× 1.4k 1.1× 237 0.8× 115 0.5× 80 0.7× 53 2.5k
Roelof S. de Jong United States 29 2.6k 1.0× 1.4k 1.1× 151 0.5× 103 0.4× 109 0.9× 77 2.6k
M. Kissler‐Patig Germany 37 3.7k 1.5× 1.9k 1.5× 146 0.5× 247 1.0× 94 0.8× 131 3.8k
Ignacio Ferreras United Kingdom 30 2.7k 1.1× 1.8k 1.4× 190 0.6× 126 0.5× 91 0.8× 118 2.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jens Thomas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jens Thomas

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rantala, Antti, et al.. (2024). The supermassive black hole merger-driven evolution of high-redshift red nuggets into present-day cored early-type galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 535(1). 1202–1227. 7 indexed citations
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Thomas, Jens, et al.. (2024). The VIRUS-dE Survey. II. Cuspy and Round Halos in Dwarf Ellipticals—A Result of Early Assembly?. The Astrophysical Journal. 976(1). 17–17. 2 indexed citations
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Thomas, Jens, et al.. (2023). Detailed Shapes of the Line-of-sight Velocity Distributions in Massive Early-type Galaxies from Nonparametric Spectral Models. The Astrophysical Journal. 948(2). 79–79. 6 indexed citations
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Seth, Anil C., Peter Erwin, Victor P. Debattista, et al.. (2023). Composite Bulges. III. A Study of Nuclear Star Clusters in Nearby Spiral Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 958(1). 100–100. 5 indexed citations
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Thomas, Jens, et al.. (2023). The Isotropic Center of NGC 5419—A Core in Formation?. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(1). 15–15. 5 indexed citations
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Thomas, Jens, et al.. (2022). Accuracy and precision of triaxial orbit models – II. Viewing angles, shape, and orbital structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 517(3). 3445–3458. 7 indexed citations
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Thomas, Jens, et al.. (2022). Accuracy and precision of triaxial orbit models I: SMBH mass, stellar mass, and dark-matter halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 519(2). 2004–2016. 8 indexed citations
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Ma, Chung‐Pei, Nicholas J. McConnell, Jonelle L. Walsh, et al.. (2019). The MASSIVE Survey XIII. Spatially Resolved Stellar Kinematics in the Central 1 kpc of 20 Massive Elliptical Galaxies with the GMOS-North Integral Field Spectrograph. The Astrophysical Journal. 878(1). 57–57. 10 indexed citations
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Corsini, E. M., L. Morelli, S. Zarattini, et al.. (2018). Fossil group origins. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 618. A172–A172. 15 indexed citations
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Jensen, Joseph B., et al.. (2018). The MASSIVE Survey. IX. Photometric Analysis of 35 High-mass Early-type Galaxies with HST WFC3/IR*. The Astrophysical Journal. 856(1). 11–11. 25 indexed citations
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Corsini, E. M., L. Morelli, S. Zarattini, et al.. (2018). Fossil group origins IX. Probing the formation of fossil galaxy groups with stellar population gradients of their central galaxies. arXiv (Cornell University). 8 indexed citations
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Goulding, Andy D., Jenny E. Greene, Chung‐Pei Ma, et al.. (2016). THE MASSIVE SURVEY. IV. THE X-RAY HALOS OF THE MOST MASSIVE EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES IN THE NEARBY UNIVERSE. The Astrophysical Journal. 826(2). 167–167. 67 indexed citations
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Thomas, Jens, Chung‐Pei Ma, Nicholas J. McConnell, et al.. (2016). A 17-billion-solar-mass black hole in a group galaxy with a diffuse core. Nature. 532(7599). 340–342. 88 indexed citations
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Mazzalay, X., Jens Thomas, R. P. Saglia, et al.. (2016). The supermassive black hole and double nucleus of the core elliptical NGC 5419. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 462(3). 2847–2860. 13 indexed citations
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Ma, Chung‐Pei, Jenny E. Greene, Nicholas J. McConnell, et al.. (2014). THE MASSIVE SURVEY. I. A VOLUME-LIMITED INTEGRAL-FIELD SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF THE MOST MASSIVE EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES WITHIN 108 Mpc. The Astrophysical Journal. 795(2). 158–158. 143 indexed citations
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Saglia, R. P., et al.. (2010). Radially extended kinematics and stellar populations of the massive ellipticals NGC 1600, NGC 4125, and NGC 7619. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 516. A4–A4. 28 indexed citations
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Thomas, Jens, R. Jesseit, R. P. Saglia, et al.. (2009). The flattening and the orbital structure of early-type galaxies and collisionlessN-body binary disc mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 393(2). 641–652. 35 indexed citations
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Wegner, G., E. M. Corsini, R. P. Saglia, et al.. (2002). Spatially resolved spectroscopy of Coma cluster early-type galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 395(3). 753–759. 10 indexed citations
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Thomas, Jens & Hartmut Schulz. (2001). Incompatibility of a comoving Lyαforest with supernova-Ia luminosity distances. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 371(1). 1–10. 2 indexed citations
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Thomas, Jens & Hartmut Schulz. (2001). Classification of multifluid CP world models. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 366(2). 395–406. 2 indexed citations

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