Ken J. Shen

3.5k total citations
45 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Ken J. Shen is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken J. Shen has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 4 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Ken J. Shen's work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (42 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (33 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (16 papers). Ken J. Shen is often cited by papers focused on Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (42 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (33 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (16 papers). Ken J. Shen collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Ken J. Shen's co-authors include Lars Bildsten, Nevin N. Weinberg, G. Nelemans, Eliot Quataert, Dean M. Townsley, Brian D. Metzger, M. L. Graham, M. Sullivan, P. Nugent and C. A. Haswell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Ken J. Shen

42 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers

Ken J. Shen
J. L. Racusin United States
Rebekah Hounsell United States
S. E. Woosley United States
Tamara Bogdanović United States
M. R. Drout United States
P. W. A. Roming United States
E. Gosset Belgium
Kevin B. Burdge United States
Peter W. A. Roming United States
P. Kerry United Kingdom
J. L. Racusin United States
Ken J. Shen
Citations per year, relative to Ken J. Shen Ken J. Shen (= 1×) peers J. L. Racusin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ken J. Shen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ken J. Shen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ken J. Shen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ken J. Shen. Ken J. Shen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shen, Ken J.. (2025). The Evolution of Hypervelocity Supernova Survivors and the Outcomes of Interacting Double White Dwarf Binaries. The Astrophysical Journal. 982(1). 6–6. 4 indexed citations
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Hollands, Mark, Ken J. Shen, R. Raddi, et al.. (2025). Spectroscopic and kinematic analyses of a warm survivor of a D6 supernova. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541(3). 2231–2245. 3 indexed citations
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Werner, K., Kareem El-Badry, B. T. Gänsicke, & Ken J. Shen. (2024). Ultraviolet spectroscopy of the supernova Ia hypervelocity runaway white dwarf J0927−6335. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 689. L6–L6. 2 indexed citations
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Bauer, Evan B., Rüdiger Pakmor, Ken J. Shen, et al.. (2024). Supernova shocks cannot explain the inflated state of hypervelocity runaways from white dwarf binaries. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 693. A114–A114. 3 indexed citations
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Townsley, Dean M., et al.. (2024). Type Ia Supernovae Can Arise from the Detonations of Both Stars in a Double Degenerate Binary. The Astrophysical Journal. 972(2). 200–200. 18 indexed citations
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Shen, Ken J., et al.. (2024). Almost All Carbon/Oxygen White Dwarfs Can Host Double Detonations. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(1). 127–127. 14 indexed citations
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Shen, Ken J., Simon Blouin, & Katelyn Breivik. (2023). The Q Branch Cooling Anomaly Can Be Explained by Mergers of White Dwarfs and Subgiant Stars. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 955(2). L33–L33. 19 indexed citations
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Shen, Ken J., Vedant Chandra, Evan B. Bauer, et al.. (2023). The fastest stars in the Galaxy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 21 indexed citations
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Pignatari, M., Richard J. Stancliffe, C. Travaglio, et al.. (2023). Type Ia Supernova Nucleosynthesis: Metallicity-dependent Yields. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 268(1). 8–8. 6 indexed citations
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Belloni, Diogo, et al.. (2023). Evidence for saturated and disrupted magnetic braking from samples of detached close binaries with M and K dwarfs. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 682. A33–A33. 11 indexed citations
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Graur, Or, Robert Fisher, I. R. Seitenzahl, et al.. (2022). The late-time light curves of Type Ia supernovae: confronting models with observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 515(3). 3703–3715. 8 indexed citations
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Shields, J., Wolfgang Kerzendorf, Matthew W. Hosek, et al.. (2022). Searching for a Hypervelocity White Dwarf SN Ia Companion: A Proper-motion Survey of SN 1006. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 933(2). L31–L31. 13 indexed citations
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Chandra, Vedant, Hsiang-Chih Hwang, Nadia L. Zakamska, et al.. (2021). The SNIa Runaway LP 398-9: Detection of Circumstellar Material and Surface Rotation. arXiv (Cornell University). 11 indexed citations
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Metzger, Brian D., Yossef Zenati, Laura Chomiuk, Ken J. Shen, & Jay Strader. (2021). Transients from the Cataclysmic Deaths of Cataclysmic Variables. The Astrophysical Journal. 923(1). 100–100. 15 indexed citations
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El-Badry, Kareem, Eliot Quataert, Hans‐Walter Rix, et al.. (2021). LAMOST J0140355 + 392651: an evolved cataclysmic variable donor transitioning to become an extremely low-mass white dwarf. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(2). 2051–2073. 19 indexed citations
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Hoadley, Keri, D. Christopher Martin, Brian D. Metzger, et al.. (2020). A blue ring nebula from a stellar merger several thousand years ago. Nature. 587(7834). 387–391. 11 indexed citations
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Graham, M. L., Chelsea Harris, P. Nugent, et al.. (2019). Delayed Circumstellar Interaction for Type Ia SN 2015cp Revealed by an HST Ultraviolet Imaging Survey. The Astrophysical Journal. 871(1). 62–62. 26 indexed citations
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Zingale, M., Chris L. Fryer, Aimee Hungerford, et al.. (2019). MMA SAG: Thermonuclear Supernovae. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 51(3). 259.
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Rosenthal, Lee J., Ken J. Shen, Gregg Hallinan, et al.. (2018). A Search For Pulsations in the Optical Light Curve of the Nova ASASSN-17hx. The Astrophysical Journal. 869(1). 7–7. 2 indexed citations
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Metzger, Brian D., Ken J. Shen, & Nicholas C. Stone. (2017). Secular dimming of KIC 8462852 following its consumption of a planet. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 468(4). 4399–4407. 26 indexed citations

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