Laura V. Sales

7.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
94 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Laura V. Sales is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura V. Sales has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 57 papers in Instrumentation and 9 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Laura V. Sales's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (84 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (57 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (43 papers). Laura V. Sales is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (84 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (57 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (43 papers). Laura V. Sales collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Laura V. Sales's co-authors include Mark Vogelsberger, Paul Torrey, Volker Springel, Julio F. Navarro, Lars Hernquist, Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson, Shy Genel, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez and Federico Marinacci and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Laura V. Sales

91 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

The merger rate of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: a comparison with observations and semi-empirical models

2015 519 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The illustris simulation: Public data release

2015 372 citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. profile →
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 →
Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies

2022 131 citations Laura V. Sales, Andrew Wetzel et al. Nature Astronomy profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laura V. Sales United States	39	4.7k	2.7k	649	248	202	94	4.9k
James W. Trayford United Kingdom	30	4.4k 0.9×	2.4k 0.9×	665 1.0×	197 0.8×	234 1.2×	54	4.5k
L. Cortese Australia	46	6.0k 1.3×	2.9k 1.1×	511 0.8×	201 0.8×	148 0.7×	187	6.2k
Gregory F. Snyder United States	29	3.9k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	536 0.8×	235 0.9×	271 1.3×	54	4.1k
Sukyoung K. Yi South Korea	40	5.7k 1.2×	3.3k 1.2×	496 0.8×	206 0.8×	235 1.2×	142	5.9k
Christopher C. Hayward United States	47	5.6k 1.2×	2.4k 0.9×	804 1.2×	187 0.8×	125 0.6×	136	5.8k
John Moustakas United States	38	5.7k 1.2×	2.4k 0.9×	594 0.9×	169 0.7×	135 0.7×	108	5.8k
A. S. G. Robotham Australia	37	4.0k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	575 0.9×	166 0.7×	249 1.2×	153	4.1k
F. Bournaud France	48	6.8k 1.5×	3.3k 1.2×	461 0.7×	228 0.9×	184 0.9×	112	6.9k
Arjen van der Wel United States	42	5.0k 1.1×	3.4k 1.2×	448 0.7×	209 0.8×	238 1.2×	131	5.2k
Benne W. Holwerda United States	36	3.8k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	412 0.6×	169 0.7×	189 0.9×	180	4.0k

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Narayanan, Desika, Daniel P. Stark, Steven L. Finkelstein, et al.. (2025). The Ultraviolet Slopes of Early Universe Galaxies: The Impact of Bursty Star Formation, Dust, and Nebular Continuum Emission. The Astrophysical Journal. 982(1). 7–7. 9 indexed citations

Navarro, Julio F., et al.. (2025). The Environmental Quenching Mechanisms of Field Dwarf Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 985(1). 86–86. 4 indexed citations

Sales, Laura V., et al.. (2024). Star formation beyond galaxies: widespread in-situ formation of intra-cluster stars. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 6 indexed citations

Sales, Laura V., et al.. (2024). Large Dark Matter Content and Steep Metallicity Profile Predicted for Ultradiffuse Galaxies Formed in High-spin Halos. The Astrophysical Journal. 977(2). 169–169. 5 indexed citations

Narayanan, Desika, Sidney Lower, Paul Torrey, et al.. (2024). Outshining by Recent Star Formation Prevents the Accurate Measurement of High-z Galaxy Stellar Masses. The Astrophysical Journal. 961(1). 73–73. 30 indexed citations

Sales, Laura V., et al.. (2023). Origin and evolution of ultradiffuse galaxies in different environments. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 522(1). 1033–1048. 31 indexed citations

Rodríguez-Gómez, Vicente, Annalisa Pillepich, V. Ávila-Reese, et al.. (2023). The growth of brightest cluster galaxies in the TNG300 simulation: dissecting the contributions from mergers andin situstar formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(1). 800–817. 25 indexed citations

Sales, Laura V. & Julio F. Navarro. (2023). Planes of satellites no longer in tension with ΛCDM. Nature Astronomy. 7(4). 376–377. 3 indexed citations

Li, Zhi, Min Du, Victor P. Debattista, et al.. (2023). How Nested Bars Enhance, Modulate, and Are Destroyed by Gas Inflows. The Astrophysical Journal. 958(1). 77–77. 7 indexed citations

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Toloba, Elisa, Laura V. Sales, Sungsoon Lim, et al.. (2023). The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXXV. First Kinematical Clues of Overly Massive Dark Matter Halos in Several Ultradiffuse Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. The Astrophysical Journal. 951(1). 77–77. 17 indexed citations

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Sales, Laura V., Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger, et al.. (2023). Real and counterfeit cores: how feedback expands haloes and disrupts tracers of inner gravitational potential in dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(1). 461–479. 13 indexed citations

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Li, Hui, Mark Vogelsberger, Greg L. Bryan, et al.. (2022). Formation and evolution of young massive clusters in galaxy mergers: the SMUGGLE view. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 514(1). 265–279. 40 indexed citations

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Tacchella, Sandro, Aaron Smith, Rahul Kannan, et al.. (2022). Hαemission in local galaxies: star formation, time variability, and the diffuse ionized gas. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513(2). 2904–2929. 47 indexed citations

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Sales, Laura V., Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, et al.. (2022). Modelling globular clusters in the TNG50 simulation: predictions from dwarfs to giant galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(2). 2453–2470. 10 indexed citations

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Santos-Santos, Isabel, Laura V. Sales, Azadeh Fattahi, & Julio F. Navarro. (2022). Satellite mass functions and the faint end of the galaxy mass–halo mass relation in LCDM. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 515(3). 3685–3697. 14 indexed citations

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Smith, Aaron, Rahul Kannan, Sandro Tacchella, et al.. (2022). The physics of Lyman-α escape from disc-like galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 517(1). 1–27. 35 indexed citations

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Sales, Laura V., et al.. (2020). Simulating the spatial distribution and kinematics of globular clusters within galaxy clusters in illustris. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 493(4). 5357–5368. 24 indexed citations

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Pal, Kuntal, Laura V. Sales, & José Wudka. (2019). Ultralight Thomas-Fermi dark matter. Physical review. D. 100(8). 6 indexed citations

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Sales, Laura V., Andrew Wetzel, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, et al.. (2019). Dark and luminous satellites of LMC-mass galaxies in the FIRE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489(4). 5348–5364. 29 indexed citations

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Torrey, Paul, Gregory F. Snyder, Mark Vogelsberger, et al.. (2015). Synthetic galaxy images and spectra from the Illustris simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 447(3). 2753–2771. 100 indexed citations

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