Lars Hernquist

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 725 citations indexed

About

Lars Hernquist is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lars Hernquist has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 725 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 4 papers in Instrumentation and 4 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Lars Hernquist's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (10 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (4 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (4 papers). Lars Hernquist is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (10 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (4 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (4 papers). Lars Hernquist collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Lars Hernquist's co-authors include Mark Vogelsberger, Volker Springel, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Shy Genel, Paul Torrey, Annalisa Pillepich, Jeremy Heyl, Dylan Nelson, Laura V. Sales and Qirong Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Physical review. D and Apollo (University of Cambridge).

In The Last Decade

Lars Hernquist

11 papers receiving 691 citations

Hit Papers

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  1. The stellar mass assembly of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: growth by mergers and the spatial distribution of accreted stars
    2016 312 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lars Hernquist United States 8 671 421 85 60 39 13 725
Sarah Wellons United States 17 1.0k 1.5× 547 1.3× 136 1.6× 38 0.6× 52 1.3× 28 1.1k
A. E. Sansom United Kingdom 17 938 1.4× 478 1.1× 85 1.0× 33 0.6× 23 0.6× 55 958
A. Burkert Germany 10 967 1.4× 506 1.2× 98 1.2× 40 0.7× 39 1.0× 13 993
I. Zolotukhin Russia 9 818 1.2× 355 0.8× 89 1.0× 36 0.6× 17 0.4× 17 835
Katherine L. Rhode United States 21 1.5k 2.2× 619 1.5× 166 2.0× 58 1.0× 41 1.1× 50 1.5k
D. Corre France 8 762 1.1× 280 0.7× 116 1.4× 33 0.6× 27 0.7× 11 788
Håkon Dahle Norway 19 937 1.4× 385 0.9× 141 1.7× 75 1.3× 21 0.5× 45 959
Y. C. Liang China 14 766 1.1× 423 1.0× 65 0.8× 23 0.4× 24 0.6× 36 798
C. Kehrig Spain 23 1.2k 1.8× 449 1.1× 96 1.1× 32 0.5× 35 0.9× 51 1.2k
Solange Ramírez United States 17 1.4k 2.1× 664 1.6× 112 1.3× 41 0.7× 25 0.6× 46 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Lars Hernquist

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lars Hernquist

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Lars Hernquist. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Lars Hernquist. The network helps show where Lars Hernquist may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lars Hernquist

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lars Hernquist. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lars Hernquist 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 Lars Hernquist. Lars Hernquist is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Hernández‐Aguayo, César, Volker Springel, Sownak Bose, et al.. (2025). The MillenniumTNG project: impact of massive neutrinos on the cosmic large-scale structure and the distribution of galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540(4). 3642–3660.
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Sorini, Daniele, Sownak Bose, Rüdiger Pakmor, et al.. (2024). The impact of baryons on the internal structure of dark matter haloes from dwarf galaxies to superclusters in the redshift range 0 < z < 7. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 536(1). 728–751. 7 indexed citations
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Ferlito, Fulvio, Volker Springel, Martin Reinecke, et al.. (2024). Ray-tracing versus Born approximation in full-sky weak lensing simulations of the MillenniumTNG project. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533(3). 3209–3221. 4 indexed citations
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Hadzhiyska, Boryana, et al.. (2024). Examining Lyman-alpha emitters through simulations in anticipation of the DESI-II survey. Physical review. D. 110(10). 3 indexed citations
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Trčka, Ana, M. Baes, Peter Camps, et al.. (2022). UV to submillimetre luminosity functions of TNG50 galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 516(3). 3728–3749. 21 indexed citations
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Boylan-Kolchin, Michael, et al.. (2016). The mass profile of the Milky Way to the virial radius from the Illustris simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 461(4). 3483–3493. 26 indexed citations
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Mocz, Philip, Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel, et al.. (2016). A moving mesh unstaggered constrained transport scheme for magnetohydrodynamics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 463(1). 477–488. 36 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Gómez, Vicente, Annalisa Pillepich, Laura V. Sales, et al.. (2016). The stellar mass assembly of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: growth by mergers and the spatial distribution of accreted stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 458(3). 2371–2390. 312 indexed citations breakdown →
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Genel, Shy, S. Michael Fall, Lars Hernquist, et al.. (2015). GALACTIC ANGULAR MOMENTUM IN THE ILLUSTRIS SIMULATION: FEEDBACK AND THE HUBBLE SEQUENCE. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 154 indexed citations
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Pillepich, Annalisa, Laura V. Sales, Shy Genel, et al.. (2015). Modelling galactic conformity with the colour–halo age relation in the Illustris simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 455(1). 185–198. 35 indexed citations
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Sales, Laura V., Annalisa Pillepich, Rubén Sánchez-Janssen, et al.. (2015). On the assembly of dwarf galaxies in clusters and their efficient formation of globular clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 455(3). 2323–2336. 52 indexed citations
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Heyl, Jeremy & Lars Hernquist. (1997). Birefringence and dichroism of the QED vacuum. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 30(18). 6485–6492. 74 indexed citations
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Hernquist, Lars, et al.. (1988). An Environment for Experiments in Stellar Dynamics. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 20. 706. 1 indexed citations

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