K. C. Freeman

44.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
401 papers, 16.5k citations indexed

About

K. C. Freeman is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, K. C. Freeman has authored 401 papers receiving a total of 16.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 367 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 229 papers in Instrumentation and 26 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in K. C. Freeman's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (297 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (229 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (177 papers). K. C. Freeman is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (297 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (229 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (177 papers). K. C. Freeman collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Germany. K. C. Freeman's co-authors include Joss Bland‐Hawthorn, Lyman Spitzer, M. Arnaboldi, John E. Norris, Ortwin Gerhard, C. Carignan, P. Kruit, B. K. Gibson, L. Staveley‐Smith and H. C. Ford and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

K. C. Freeman

382 papers receiving 15.8k 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.

On the Disks of Spiral and so Galaxies

1970 1.2k citations K. C. Freeman The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The New Galaxy: Signatures of Its Formation

2002 665 citations K. C. Freeman, Joss Bland‐Hawthorn profile →
Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters

1988 573 citations K. C. Freeman et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of K. C. Freeman

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Chasing the impact of the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus merger on the formation of the Milky Way thick disc 2023 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters ·Ioana Ciucă, Daisuke Kawata, Yuan-Sen Ting, Robert J. J. Grand, A. Miglio, Michael Hayden, Junichi Baba, Francesca Fragkoudi, Stephanie Monty, Sven Buder, K. C. Freeman	36
2	The Andromeda Galaxy’s Last Major Merger: Constraints from the survey of Planetary Nebulae 2022 ·Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union ·Souradeep Bhattacharya, M. Arnaboldi, Ortwin Gerhard, Nelson Caldwell, Chiaki Kobayashi, F. Hammer, (unknown), K. C. Freeman, Johanna Hartke, Alan W. McConnachie	0
3	Galactic seismology: joint evolution of impact-triggered stellar and gaseous disc corrugations 2022 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Thor Tepper-García, Joss Bland‐Hawthorn, K. C. Freeman	20
4	The GALAH survey and symbiotic stars – I. Discovery and follow-up of 33 candidate accreting-only systems 2021 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·U. Munari, G. Traven, N. Masetti, P. Valisa, (unknown), Franz-Josef Hambsch, (unknown), Klemen Čotar, (unknown), K. C. Freeman, Geraint F. Lewis, Sarah L. Martell, Sanjib Sharma, Jeffrey D. Simpson, Yuan-Sen Ting, Robert A. Wittenmyer, D. B. Zucker	18
5	A2A: 21 000 bulge stars from the ARGOS survey with stellar parameters on the APOGEE scale 2021 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·(unknown), Ortwin Gerhard, Melissa Ness, (unknown), K. C. Freeman, Joss Bland‐Hawthorn	12
6	Mapping the tilt of the Milky Way bulge velocity ellipsoids with ARGOS and Gaia DR2 2021 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Iulia T. Simion, Juntai Shen, S. E. Koposov, Melissa Ness, K. C. Freeman, Joss Bland‐Hawthorn, Geraint F. Lewis	11
7	The GALAH survey: chemodynamics of the solar neighbourhood 2020 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Michael Hayden, Joss Bland‐Hawthorn, Sanjib Sharma, K. C. Freeman, Janez Kos, Sven Buder, Borja Anguiano, M. Asplund, Boquan Chen, Gayandhi M De Silva, S. Khanna, Jane Lin, Jonathan Horner, Sarah L. Martell, Yuan-Sen Ting, Rosemary F. Ġ. Wyse, D. B. Zucker, T. Zwitter	49
8	The halo of M 105 and its group environment as traced by planetary nebula populations 2020 ·Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Johanna Hartke, M. Arnaboldi, Ortwin Gerhard, L. Coccato, C. Pulsoni, K. C. Freeman, M. R. Merrifield, (unknown), Konrad Kuijken	11
9	The survey of planetary nebulae in Andromeda (M 31) 2019 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Souradeep Bhattacharya, M. Arnaboldi, Ortwin Gerhard, Alan W. McConnachie, Nelson Caldwell, Johanna Hartke, K. C. Freeman	22
10	The GALAH Survey: Chemically tagging the Fimbulthul stream to the globular cluster ω Centauri 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Jeffrey D. Simpson, Sarah L. Martell, (unknown), Jonathan Horner, Rosemary F. Ġ. Wyse, Yuan-Sen Ting, M. Asplund, Joss Bland‐Hawthorn, Sven Buder, Gayandhi M De Silva, K. C. Freeman, Janez Kos, Geraint F. Lewis, K. Lind, Sanjib Sharma, D. B. Zucker, T. Zwitter, Klemen Čotar, P. L. Cottrell, Thomas Nordlander	9
11	Three dynamically distinct stellar populations in the halo of M49 2018 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Johanna Hartke, M. Arnaboldi, Ortwin Gerhard, Adriano Agnello, A. Longobardi, L. Coccato, C. Pulsoni, K. C. Freeman, M. R. Merrifield	21
12	The halo of M 49 and its environment as traced by planetary nebulae populations 2017 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Johanna Hartke, M. Arnaboldi, A. Longobardi, Ortwin Gerhard, K. C. Freeman, Sadanori Okamura, Fumiaki Nakata	20
13	Weighing the local dark matter with RAVE red clump stars 2014 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·O. Bienaymé, Benoît Famaey, A. Siebert, K. C. Freeman, B. K. Gibson, G. Gilmore, E. K. Grebel, Joss Bland‐Hawthorn, G. Kordopatis, U. Munari, Julio F. Navarro, Q. A. Parker, W. Reid, G. M. Seabroke, A. Siviero, Matthias Steinmetz, Fred Watson, Rosemary F. Ġ. Wyse, T. Zwitter	70
14	CARBON-ENHANCED METAL-POOR STARS: CEMP-sand CEMP-no SUBCLASSES IN THE HALO SYSTEM OF THE MILKY WAY 2014 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·D. Carollo, K. C. Freeman, Timothy C. Beers, Vinicius M. Placco, Jason Tumlinson, Sarah L. Martell	45
15	The Planetary Nebula Spectrograph survey of S0 galaxy kinematics 2013 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·A. Cortesi, M. Arnaboldi, L. Coccato, M. R. Merrifield, Ortwin Gerhard, S. P. Bamford, Aaron J. Romanowsky, N. R. Napolitano, N. G. Douglas, Konrad Kuijken, M. Capaccioli, K. C. Freeman, Ana L. Chies-Santos, Vincenzo Pota	23
16	Counter-dispersed slitless-spectroscopy technique:planetary nebula velocities in the halo of NGC 1399 2010 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·(unknown), M. Arnaboldi, K. C. Freeman, Ortwin Gerhard, L. Coccato, Payel Das	20
17	The edge of the M 87 halo and the kinematics of the diffuse light in the Virgo cluster core 2009 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Michelle Doherty, M. Arnaboldi, Payel Das, Ortwin Gerhard, J. A. L. Aguerri, Robin Ciardullo, John J. Feldmeier, K. C. Freeman, George H. Jacoby, Giuseppe Murante	44
18	Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies and Stellar Clusters: Conference Summary 2008 ·Msngr ·K. C. Freeman	1
19	Dark matter in the inner parts of barred galaxies: The \n data \n 2005 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Isabel Pérez, I. Márquez, K. C. Freeman, R. Fux	2
20	The Stellar Content of Rich Young Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud 1988 ·Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society ·R. A. W. Elson, S. Michael Fall, K. C. Freeman	1

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