K. D. Alexander

9.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

K. D. Alexander is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, K. D. Alexander has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 20 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 4 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in K. D. Alexander's work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (38 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (27 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (22 papers). K. D. Alexander is often cited by papers focused on Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (38 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (27 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (22 papers). K. D. Alexander collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. K. D. Alexander's co-authors include E. Berger, Tarraneh Eftekhari, R. Margutti, R. D. Saxton, A. M. Read, R. Chornock, Peter K. G. Williams, Brian D. Metzger, G. Miniutti and V. Ashley Villar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

K. D. Alexander

44 papers receiving 847 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.

Nine-hour X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions from a low-mass black hole galactic nucleus

2019 182 citations G. Miniutti, R. D. Saxton et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
K. D. Alexander United States	19	980	381	57	48	20	51	1.1k
M. Giustini Spain	20	1.1k 1.1×	387 1.0×	87 1.5×	80 1.7×	6 0.3×	40	1.2k
M. Nicholl United Kingdom	25	1.5k 1.6×	483 1.3×	49 0.9×	22 0.5×	12 0.6×	90	1.6k
R. Arcodia Germany	16	665 0.7×	176 0.5×	72 1.3×	47 1.0×	5 0.3×	37	740
Dheeraj R. Pasham United States	16	761 0.8×	280 0.7×	72 1.3×	52 1.1×	3 0.1×	48	833
Paz Beniamini United States	28	1.8k 1.8×	564 1.5×	58 1.0×	20 0.4×	11 0.6×	81	1.8k
E. Troja United States	25	1.8k 1.8×	590 1.5×	52 0.9×	24 0.5×	14 0.7×	95	1.8k
A. Corsi United States	18	1.3k 1.3×	479 1.3×	39 0.7×	13 0.3×	10 0.5×	60	1.3k
S. Vadawale India	15	598 0.6×	249 0.7×	30 0.5×	57 1.2×	12 0.6×	90	676
P. Abolmasov Russia	11	596 0.6×	155 0.4×	128 2.2×	68 1.4×	5 0.3×	32	615
Wen‐fai Fong United States	26	2.1k 2.2×	657 1.7×	45 0.8×	18 0.4×	15 0.8×	61	2.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Alexander, K. D., et al.. (2026). A Python API for OTTER. The Journal of Open Source Software. 11(118). 9516–9516. 1 indexed citations

Alexander, K. D., et al.. (2026). The Open mulTiwavelength Transient Event Repository (OTTER): Infrastructure Release and Tidal Disruption Event Catalog. The Astrophysical Journal. 999(2). 243–243.

Goodwin, A J, Andrew Mummery, T. Laskar, et al.. (2025). A Second Radio Flare from the Tidal Disruption Event AT2020vwl: A Delayed Outflow Ejection?. The Astrophysical Journal. 981(2). 122–122. 4 indexed citations

Margutti, R., Joe Bright, P. K. Blanchard, et al.. (2025). Constraints on Relativistic Jets from the Fast X-Ray Transient 210423 Using Prompt Radio Follow-up Observations. The Astrophysical Journal. 980(1). 92–92. 2 indexed citations

Giustini, M., G. Miniutti, R. Arcodia, et al.. (2024). Fragments of harmony amid apparent chaos: A closer look at the X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions of the galaxy RX J1301.9+2747. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 692. A15–A15. 14 indexed citations

Cendes, Y., E. Berger, K. D. Alexander, et al.. (2024). Ubiquitous Late Radio Emission from Tidal Disruption Events. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(2). 185–185. 32 indexed citations

Alexander, K. D., R. Margutti, M. H. Wieringa, et al.. (2024). The Peculiar Radio Evolution of the Tidal Disruption Event ASASSN-19bt. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(1). 18–18. 8 indexed citations

Eftekhari, Tarraneh, Alexander Tchekhovskoy, K. D. Alexander, et al.. (2024). Late-time X-Ray Observations of the Jetted Tidal Disruption Event AT2022cmc: The Relativistic Jet Shuts Off. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(2). 149–149. 5 indexed citations

Liodakis, Ioannis, K. I. I. Koljonen, D. Blinov, et al.. (2023). Optical polarization from colliding stellar stream shocks in a tidal disruption event. Science. 380(6645). 656–658. 10 indexed citations

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Escorial, Alicia Rouco, Wen‐fai Fong, E. Berger, et al.. (2023). The Jet Opening Angle and Event Rate Distributions of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts from Late-time X-Ray Afterglows. The Astrophysical Journal. 959(1). 13–13. 26 indexed citations

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Berger, E., Garrett K. Keating, R. Margutti, et al.. (2023). Millimeter Observations of the Type II SN 2023ixf: Constraints on the Proximate Circumstellar Medium. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 951(2). L31–L31. 19 indexed citations

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Miniutti, G., M. Giustini, R. Arcodia, et al.. (2022). Repeating tidal disruptions in GSN 069: Long-term evolution and constraints on quasi-periodic eruptions’ models. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 670. A93–A93. 60 indexed citations

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Laskar, T., Alicia Rouco Escorial, Genevieve Schroeder, et al.. (2022). The First Short GRB Millimeter Afterglow: The Wide-angled Jet of the Extremely Energetic SGRB 211106A. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 935(1). L11–L11. 16 indexed citations

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Kilpatrick, C. D., Wen‐fai Fong, P. K. Blanchard, et al.. (2022). Hubble Space Telescope Observations of GW170817: Complete Light Curves and the Properties of the Galaxy Merger of NGC 4993. The Astrophysical Journal. 926(1). 49–49. 15 indexed citations

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Alexander, K. D., Genevieve Schroeder, K. Paterson, et al.. (2021). A Late-time Galaxy-targeted Search for the Radio Counterpart of GW190814. The Astrophysical Journal. 923(1). 66–66. 22 indexed citations

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Miniutti, G., K. D. Alexander, S. Bianchi, et al.. (2020). Quasi-Periodic Eruptions (QPEs) in GSN 069. 16062. 1 indexed citations

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Laskar, T., Shivani Bhandari, Genevieve Schroeder, et al.. (2019). GRB 190829A: ATCA cm-band detection. GRB Coordinates Network. 25676. 1. 2 indexed citations

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Gómez, Sebastián, G. Hosseinzadeh, P. S. Cowperthwaite, et al.. (2019). A Galaxy-targeted Search for the Optical Counterpart of the Candidate NS–BH Merger S190814bv with Magellan. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 884(2). L55–L55. 28 indexed citations

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Gómez, Sebastián, G. Hosseinzadeh, E. Berger, et al.. (2019). LIGO/Virgo S190814bv : Magellan IMACS Spectrum of AT2019npv classified as a Type Ib supernova. GRB Coordinates Network. 25483. 1.

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Alexander, K. D., R. Margutti, P. K. Blanchard, et al.. (2018). A Decline in the X-Ray through Radio Emission from GW170817 Continues to Support an Off-axis Structured Jet. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 863(2). L18–L18. 112 indexed citations

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