Lea A. Hirsch

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

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Lea A. Hirsch is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Lea A. Hirsch has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 10 papers in Instrumentation and 2 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Lea A. Hirsch's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (20 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (11 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (11 papers). Lea A. Hirsch is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (20 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (11 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (11 papers). Lea A. Hirsch collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Chile. Lea A. Hirsch's co-authors include Andrew W. Howard, Benjamin J. Fulton, Erik A. Petigura, Lauren M. Weiss, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Howard Isaacson, Evan Sinukoff, John Asher Johnson, Phillip A. Cargile and Leslie Hebb and has published in prestigious journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy and Astrophysics and The Astronomical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Lea A. Hirsch

19 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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 California-Kepler Survey. III. A Gap in the Radius Distribution of Small Planets*

2017 650 citations Benjamin J. Fulton, Erik A. Petigura et al. The Astronomical Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lea A. Hirsch United States	13	1.2k	368	78	76	43	22	1.3k
Evan Sinukoff United States	14	1.3k 1.1×	371 1.0×	88 1.1×	76 1.0×	47 1.1×	22	1.4k
Johanna Teske United States	19	1.0k 0.8×	352 1.0×	47 0.6×	53 0.7×	49 1.1×	62	1.1k
Leslie A. Rogers United States	18	1.3k 1.1×	277 0.8×	112 1.4×	93 1.2×	55 1.3×	45	1.3k
Yu. V. Pakhomov Russia	12	1.0k 0.8×	318 0.9×	51 0.7×	74 1.0×	84 2.0×	42	1.1k
A. S. Bonomo Italy	20	1.1k 0.9×	342 0.9×	46 0.6×	96 1.3×	32 0.7×	49	1.1k
Soko Matsumura United States	19	1.4k 1.1×	223 0.6×	42 0.5×	64 0.8×	26 0.6×	32	1.4k
P. Nutzman United States	8	757 0.6×	280 0.8×	51 0.7×	104 1.4×	25 0.6×	10	791
Daniel Thorngren United States	16	869 0.7×	223 0.6×	41 0.5×	120 1.6×	22 0.5×	40	936
N. Piskunov Sweden	8	1.4k 1.1×	397 1.1×	56 0.7×	52 0.7×	58 1.3×	11	1.4k
Jeffrey Van Cleve United States	12	858 0.7×	224 0.6×	63 0.8×	101 1.3×	18 0.4×	23	904

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Rosa, Robert J. De, E. Nielsen, Z. Wahhaj, et al.. (2023). Direct imaging discovery of a super-Jovian around the young Sun-like star AF Leporis. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 672. A94–A94. 31 indexed citations

Hirsch, Lea A., et al.. (2023). Improving MCMC Convergence for Joint Astrometry and Radial Velocity Orbit-fits Through Reparameterization. Research Notes of the AAS. 7(6). 121–121.

Savel, Arjun B., et al.. (2022). SImMER: A Pipeline for Reducing and Analyzing Images of Stars. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 134(1042). 124501–124501.

Lester, Kathryn V., Rachel A. Matson, Steve B. Howell, et al.. (2021). Speckle Observations of TESS Exoplanet Host Stars. II. Stellar Companions at 1–1000 au and Implications for Small Planet Detection. The Astronomical Journal. 162(2). 75–75. 18 indexed citations

Blunt, Sarah, Jason Wang, Isabel Angelo, et al.. (2020). orbitize!: A Comprehensive Orbit-fitting Software Package for the High-contrast Imaging Community. The Astronomical Journal. 159(3). 89–89. 70 indexed citations

Fulton, Benjamin J., Lee J. Rosenthal, Andrew W. Howard, Lea A. Hirsch, & Howard Isaacson. (2019). Frequency of Gaseous Planets Beyond the Ice Line. 51.

Rosa, Robert J. De, Thomas M. Esposito, Lea A. Hirsch, et al.. (2019). The Possible Astrometric Signature of a Planetary-mass Companion to the Nearby Young Star TW Piscis Austrini (Fomalhaut B): Constraints from Astrometry, Radial Velocities, and Direct Imaging. The Astronomical Journal. 158(6). 225–225. 4 indexed citations

Kane, Stephen R., Paul A. Dalba, Zhexing Li, et al.. (2019). Detection of Planetary and Stellar Companions to Neighboring Stars via a Combination of Radial Velocity and Direct Imaging Techniques. The Astronomical Journal. 157(6). 252–252. 20 indexed citations

Bowler, Brendan P., Trent J. Dupuy, Michael Endl, et al.. (2018). Orbit and Dynamical Mass of the Late-T Dwarf GL 758 B*. The Astronomical Journal. 155(4). 159–159. 25 indexed citations

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Soto, M. G., Matías R. Díaz, J. S. Jenkins, et al.. (2018). K2-237 b and K2-238 b: discovery and characterization of two new transiting hot Jupiters from K2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 478(4). 5356–5365. 9 indexed citations

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Furlan, Elise, David R. Ciardi, Mark E. Everett, et al.. (2017). THE KEPLER FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATION PROGRAM. I. A CATALOG OF COMPANIONS TO KEPLER STARS FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING. The Astronomical Journal. 153(2). 71–71. 70 indexed citations

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Petigura, Erik A., Andrew W. Howard, Geoffrey W. Marcy, et al.. (2017). The California-Kepler Survey. I. High-resolution Spectroscopy of 1305 Stars Hosting Kepler Transiting Planets^*. The Astronomical Journal. 154(3). 107–107. 149 indexed citations

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Johnson, John Asher, Erik A. Petigura, Benjamin J. Fulton, et al.. (2017). The California-Kepler Survey. II. Precise Physical Properties of 2025 Kepler Planets and Their Host Stars^*. The Astronomical Journal. 154(3). 108–108. 95 indexed citations

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Weiss, Lauren M., Katherine M. Deck, Evan Sinukoff, et al.. (2017). New Insights on Planet Formation in WASP-47 from a Simultaneous Analysis of Radial Velocities and Transit Timing Variations. The Astronomical Journal. 153(6). 265–265. 22 indexed citations

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Hirsch, Lea A., David R. Ciardi, Andrew W. Howard, et al.. (2017). Assessing the Effect of Stellar Companions from High-resolution Imaging of Kepler Objects of Interest. The Astronomical Journal. 153(3). 117–117. 23 indexed citations

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Howell, Steve B., Mark E. Everett, Elliott P. Horch, et al.. (2016). SPECKLE IMAGING EXCLUDES LOW-MASS COMPANIONS ORBITING THE EXOPLANET HOST STAR TRAPPIST-1. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 829(1). L2–L2. 15 indexed citations

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Wittrock, Justin M., Stephen R. Kane, Elliott P. Horch, et al.. (2016). STELLAR COMPANIONS TO THE EXOPLANET HOST STARS HD 2638 AND HD 164509. The Astronomical Journal. 152(5). 149–149. 8 indexed citations

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Fulton, Benjamin J., Andrew Howard, Lauren M. Weiss, et al.. (2015). The APF Fifty: A Robotic Search for Earth’s Nearest Neighbors. 47. 1 indexed citations

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Herter, T., William D. Vacca, Joseph D. Adams, et al.. (2013). Data Reduction and Early Science Calibration for FORCAST, A Mid-Infrared Camera for SOFIA. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 125(933). 1393–1404. 32 indexed citations

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Adams, Joseph D., T. Herter, G. E. Gull, et al.. (2012). The FORCAST mid-infrared facility instrument and in-flight performance on SOFIA. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8446. 844616–844616. 3 indexed citations

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