Kyle B. Westfall

7.8k total citations
48 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Kyle B. Westfall is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kyle B. Westfall has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 28 papers in Instrumentation and 4 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Kyle B. Westfall's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (41 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (28 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (27 papers). Kyle B. Westfall is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (41 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (28 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (27 papers). Kyle B. Westfall collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Kyle B. Westfall's co-authors include Matthew A. Bershady, Marc Verheijen, Niv Drory, David R. Andersen, R. A. Swaters, Thomas P. K. Martinsson, Kevin Bundy, D. Thomas, Francesco Belfiore and David R. Law and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

In The Last Decade

Kyle B. Westfall

44 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kyle B. Westfall United States 21 1.8k 876 136 95 61 48 1.8k
C. J. Walcher Germany 25 1.8k 1.0× 868 1.0× 117 0.9× 80 0.8× 72 1.2× 39 1.8k
David B. Fisher United States 28 2.2k 1.2× 1.0k 1.2× 134 1.0× 89 0.9× 92 1.5× 80 2.2k
Gergö Popping Germany 25 1.7k 1.0× 738 0.8× 221 1.6× 73 0.8× 50 0.8× 69 1.8k
E. Ricciardelli Spain 17 2.0k 1.1× 1.3k 1.4× 121 0.9× 79 0.8× 70 1.1× 22 2.0k
S. Juneau United States 26 2.2k 1.3× 1.2k 1.4× 213 1.6× 70 0.7× 59 1.0× 46 2.3k
P. Prugniel France 20 1.5k 0.8× 756 0.9× 117 0.9× 63 0.7× 49 0.8× 42 1.5k
Fergus Cullen United Kingdom 23 1.7k 0.9× 867 1.0× 165 1.2× 69 0.7× 29 0.5× 62 1.7k
D. Mast Spain 19 1.4k 0.8× 658 0.8× 95 0.7× 53 0.6× 83 1.4× 40 1.4k
M. Lyubenova Germany 26 1.4k 0.8× 874 1.0× 78 0.6× 68 0.7× 61 1.0× 62 1.5k
Michael V. Maseda Netherlands 25 1.7k 0.9× 790 0.9× 262 1.9× 75 0.8× 42 0.7× 84 1.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kyle B. Westfall

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rubin, Kate H. R., Kyle B. Westfall, Claudia Maraston, et al.. (2025). Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV MaStar: Quantification and Abatement of Interstellar Absorption in the Largest Empirical Stellar Spectral Library. The Astrophysical Journal. 981(1). 31–31.
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Bershady, Matthew A., David R. Law, Kyle B. Westfall, et al.. (2024). SDSS-IV MaNGA: calibration of astrophysical line-widths in the Hα region using HexPak observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(3). 5377–5393. 1 indexed citations
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Faber, S. M., David C. Koo, Shude Mao, et al.. (2024). SDSS-IV MaNGA: stellar rotational support in disc galaxies versus central surface density and stellar population age. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533(2). 2026–2047. 1 indexed citations
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Doppmann, Greg, Kyle B. Westfall, Debora Pelliccia, et al.. (2024). Robust Support for Semi-automated Reductions of Keck/NIRSPEC Data Using PypeIt. Research Notes of the AAS. 8(10). 271–271. 1 indexed citations
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Oyarzún, Grecco A., Kevin Bundy, Kyle B. Westfall, et al.. (2023). SDSS-IV MaNGA: The Effect of Stellar Mass and Halo Mass on the Assembly Histories of Satellite Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 947(1). 13–13. 5 indexed citations
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Ji, Xihan, Renbin Yan, Kevin Bundy, et al.. (2022). The need for multicomponent dust attenuation in modeling nebular emission: Constraints from SDSS-IV MaNGA. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 670. A125–A125. 5 indexed citations
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Law, David R., Francesco Belfiore, Matthew A. Bershady, et al.. (2022). SDSS-IV MaNGA: Understanding Ionized Gas Turbulence Using Integral Field Spectroscopy of 4500 Star-forming Disk Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 928(1). 58–58. 19 indexed citations
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Bundy, Kevin, David R. Law, Nick MacDonald, et al.. (2022). The Stability of Fiber Spectrographs in the Faint-source Regime. The Astronomical Journal. 164(3). 94–94.
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Law, David R., Xihan Ji, Francesco Belfiore, et al.. (2021). SDSS-IV MaNGA: Refining Strong Line Diagnostic Classifications Using Spatially Resolved Gas Dynamics. The Astrophysical Journal. 915(1). 35–35. 42 indexed citations
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Roy, Namrata, Kevin Bundy, Kate H. R. Rubin, et al.. (2021). Signatures of Inflowing Gas in Red Geyser Galaxies Hosting Radio Active Galactic Nuclei. The Astrophysical Journal. 919(2). 145–145. 9 indexed citations
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Law, David R., et al.. (2021). SDSS-IV MaNGA: Modeling the spectral line-spread function to subpercent accuracy. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 62 indexed citations
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Bundy, Kevin, et al.. (2021). A Novel Framework for Modeling Weakly Lensing Shear Using Kinematics and Imaging at Moderate Redshift. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Shetty, Shravan, Matthew A. Bershady, Kyle B. Westfall, et al.. (2020). Stellar Population Synthesis with Distinct Kinematics: Multiage Asymmetric Drift in SDSS-IV MaNGA Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 901(2). 101–101. 11 indexed citations
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Prochaska, J. X., Joseph F. Hennawi, Kyle B. Westfall, et al.. (2020). PypeIt: The Python Spectroscopic Data Reduction Pipeline. The Journal of Open Source Software. 5(56). 2308–2308. 165 indexed citations
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Belfiore, Francesco, Kyle B. Westfall, Adam Schaefer, et al.. (2019). The Data Analysis Pipeline for the SDSS-IV MaNGA IFU Galaxy Survey: Emission-line Modeling. The Astronomical Journal. 158(4). 160–160. 164 indexed citations
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Belfiore, Francesco, R. Maiolino, Christy Tremonti, et al.. (2017). SDSS IV MaNGA – metallicity and nitrogen abundance gradients in local galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 469(1). 151–170. 207 indexed citations
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Davis, Benjamin L., Daniel Kennefick, Julia Kennefick, et al.. (2015). A FUNDAMENTAL PLANE OF SPIRAL STRUCTURE IN DISK GALAXIES. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 802(1). L13–L13. 27 indexed citations
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Martinsson, Thomas P. K., Marc Verheijen, Matthew A. Bershady, et al.. (2015). The DiskMass Survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 585. A99–A99. 28 indexed citations
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Martinsson, Thomas P. K., Marc Verheijen, Kyle B. Westfall, et al.. (2013). The DiskMass Survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 557. A130–A130. 77 indexed citations
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Martinsson, Thomas P. K., Marc Verheijen, Kyle B. Westfall, et al.. (2013). The DiskMass Survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 557. A131–A131. 125 indexed citations

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