Katherine A. Suess

5.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 772 citations indexed

About

Katherine A. Suess is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Katherine A. Suess has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 772 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 27 papers in Instrumentation and 1 paper in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Katherine A. Suess's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (32 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (27 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (19 papers). Katherine A. Suess is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (32 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (27 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (19 papers). Katherine A. Suess collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Netherlands. Katherine A. Suess's co-authors include Rachel Bezanson, Erica J. Nelson, Joel Leja, Gabriel Brammer, Pieter van Dokkum, Katherine E. Whitaker, Ivo Labbé, Bingjie Wang, Elijah P. Mathews and Mauro Stefanon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Katherine A. Suess

31 papers receiving 591 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A population of red candidate massive galaxies ~600 Myr after the Big Bang

2023 281 citations Ivo Labbé, Pieter van Dokkum et al. profile →
RUBIES: Evolved Stellar Populations with Extended Formation Histories at z ∼ 7–8 in Candidate Massive Galaxies Identified with JWST/NIRSpec

2024 56 citations Bingjie Wang, Joel Leja et al. The Astrophysical Journal Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katherine A. Suess United States	14	708	384	93	27	22	36	772
Seiji Fujimoto Japan	14	764 1.1×	357 0.9×	113 1.2×	24 0.9×	15 0.7×	54	835
Kristen B. W. McQuinn United States	21	1.1k 1.5×	519 1.4×	82 0.9×	28 1.0×	21 1.0×	56	1.1k
I-Ting Ho United States	15	807 1.1×	280 0.7×	57 0.6×	18 0.7×	20 0.9×	25	840
Masafusa Onoue Japan	15	601 0.8×	226 0.6×	129 1.4×	25 0.9×	14 0.6×	43	655
Joel Roediger Canada	14	556 0.8×	353 0.9×	81 0.9×	28 1.0×	14 0.6×	27	606
Ken Mawatari Japan	10	718 1.0×	297 0.8×	119 1.3×	25 0.9×	14 0.6×	22	750
Toshinobu Takagi Japan	16	661 0.9×	308 0.8×	119 1.3×	25 0.9×	32 1.5×	54	688
I. S. Konstantopoulos United States	17	876 1.2×	429 1.1×	58 0.6×	21 0.8×	14 0.6×	37	892
M. Grossi Italy	17	670 0.9×	279 0.7×	162 1.7×	24 0.9×	14 0.6×	35	740
H. Salas Chile	4	674 1.0×	282 0.7×	88 0.9×	33 1.2×	15 0.7×	7	702

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Spilker, Justin, Katherine E. Whitaker, Desika Narayanan, et al.. (2025). Unusually High Gas-to-dust Ratios Observed in High-redshift Quiescent Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 993(2). L40–L40.

Suess, Katherine A., Mariska Kriek, David J. Setton, et al.. (2025). SQuIGG L → E: Observational Evidence of Low Ongoing Star Formation Rates in Gas-rich Post-starburst Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 981(1). 60–60. 1 indexed citations

Spilker, Justin, Rachel Bezanson, Robert Feldmann, et al.. (2025). Quenching through Tidal Gas Removal: Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Tidal Tails of z ∼ 0.7 Post-starburst Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 990(2). 166–166. 1 indexed citations

Nelson, Erica J., Tim B. Miller, Rachel Bezanson, et al.. (2024). JWST Reveals Bulge-dominated Star-forming Galaxies at Cosmic Noon. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 974(2). L28–L28. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Bingjie, Joel Leja, Anna de Graaff, et al.. (2024). RUBIES: Evolved Stellar Populations with Extended Formation Histories at z ∼ 7–8 in Candidate Massive Galaxies Identified with JWST/NIRSpec. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 969(1). L13–L13. 56 indexed citations breakdown →

Whitaker, Katherine E., Ivelina Momcheva, Sam E. Cutler, et al.. (2024). 3D-DASH: The Evolution of Size, Shape, and Intrinsic Scatter in Populations of Young and Old Quiescent Galaxies at 0.5 < z < 3. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(1). 99–99. 3 indexed citations

Kriek, Mariska, Katherine A. Suess, Charlie Conroy, et al.. (2024). The Heavy Metal Survey: The Evolution of Stellar Metallicities, Abundance Ratios, and Ages of Massive Quiescent Galaxies since z ∼ 2. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(2). 234–234. 9 indexed citations

Whitaker, Katherine E., John R. Weaver, Sam E. Cutler, et al.. (2024). Remarkably Compact Quiescent Candidates at 3 < z < 5 in JWST-CEERS. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 964(1). L10–L10. 9 indexed citations

Wang, Bingjie, Joel Leja, Hakim Atek, et al.. (2024). Quantifying the Effects of Known Unknowns on Inferred High-redshift Galaxy Properties: Burstiness, IMF, and Nebular Physics. The Astrophysical Journal. 963(1). 74–74. 28 indexed citations

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Kriek, Mariska, Alice E. Shapley, Ryan L. Sanders, et al.. (2024). Stacking and Analyzing MOSDEF Galaxies by Spectral Types: Implications for Dust Geometry and Galaxy Evolution. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(2). 187–187. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Po-Feng, Rachel Bezanson, Francesco D’Eugenio, et al.. (2023). Stars, Gas, and Star Formation of Distant Post-starburst Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 955(1). 75–75. 7 indexed citations

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Martorano, Marco, Arjen van der Wel, Eric F. Bell, et al.. (2023). Rest-frame Near-infrared Radial Light Profiles up to z = 3 from JWST/NIRCam: Wavelength Dependence of the Sérsic Index. The Astrophysical Journal. 957(1). 46–46. 12 indexed citations

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Giménez-Arteaga, Clara, Pascal A. Oesch, Gabriel Brammer, et al.. (2023). Spatially Resolved Properties of Galaxies at 5 < z < 9 in the SMACS 0723 JWST ERO Field. The Astrophysical Journal. 948(2). 126–126. 33 indexed citations

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Suess, Katherine A., Christina C. Williams, Brant Robertson, et al.. (2023). Minor Merger Growth in Action: JWST Detects Faint Blue Companions around Massive Quiescent Galaxies at 0.5 ≤ z ≤ 3.0. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 956(2). L42–L42. 15 indexed citations

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Setton, David J., Rachel Bezanson, Jenny E. Greene, et al.. (2023). Merger Signatures are Common, but not Universal, in Massive, Recently Quenched Galaxies at z ∼ 0.7. The Astrophysical Journal. 949(1). 5–5. 8 indexed citations

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Baggen, Josephine F. W., Pieter van Dokkum, Ivo Labbé, et al.. (2023). Sizes and Mass Profiles of Candidate Massive Galaxies Discovered by JWST at 7 < z < 9: Evidence for Very Early Formation of the Central ∼100 pc of Present-day Ellipticals. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 955(1). L12–L12. 37 indexed citations

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Spilker, Justin, Katherine A. Suess, David J. Setton, et al.. (2022). Star Formation Suppression by Tidal Removal of Cold Molecular Gas from an Intermediate-redshift Massive Post-starburst Galaxy. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 936(1). L11–L11. 16 indexed citations

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Suess, Katherine A., Joel Leja, Benjamin D. Johnson, et al.. (2022). Recovering the Star Formation Histories of Recently Quenched Galaxies: The Impact of Model and Prior Choices. The Astrophysical Journal. 935(2). 146–146. 40 indexed citations

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Setton, David J., Rachel Bezanson, Jenny E. Greene, et al.. (2022). The Compact Structures of Massive z ∼ 0.7 Post-starburst Galaxies in the SQuIGGLE Sample. The Astrophysical Journal. 931(1). 51–51. 15 indexed citations

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Miller, Tim B., Katherine E. Whitaker, Erica J. Nelson, et al.. (2022). Early JWST Imaging Reveals Strong Optical and NIR Color Gradients in Galaxies at z ∼ 2 Driven Mostly by Dust. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 941(2). L37–L37. 16 indexed citations

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