Lily Whitler

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 460 citations indexed

About

Lily Whitler is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lily Whitler has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 460 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 4 papers in Instrumentation and 1 paper in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Lily Whitler's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (13 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (6 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (5 papers). Lily Whitler is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (13 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (6 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (5 papers). Lily Whitler collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Denmark. Lily Whitler's co-authors include Ryan Endsley, S. Charlot, Michael W. Topping, Zuyi Chen, Daniel P. Stark, Adèle Plat, Charlotte Mason, Dan Stark, John Chisholm and Mengtao Tang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Lily Whitler

13 papers receiving 392 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.

  1. A JWST/NIRCam study of key contributors to reionization: the star-forming and ionizing properties of UV-faint z ∼ 7−8 galaxies
    2023 88 citations Ryan Endsley, Daniel P. Stark et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers

Lily Whitler
Zuyi Chen United States
Lukas J. Furtak Israel
Victoria Strait United States
Alice Deconto Machado Spain
Yoshinobu Fudamoto Japan
Jasleen Matharu United States
Samuel Lai Australia
Zhen-Yi Cai China
J. T. Allen Australia
Arnab Sarkar United States
Zuyi Chen United States
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Fields of papers citing papers by Lily Whitler

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lily Whitler

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lily Whitler. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lily Whitler 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 Lily Whitler. Lily Whitler 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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Tang, Mengtao, Dan Stark, Adèle Plat, et al.. (2025). JWST/NIRSpec Observations of High-ionization Emission Lines in Galaxies at High Redshift. The Astrophysical Journal. 991(2). 217–217. 2 indexed citations
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Endsley, Ryan, John Chisholm, Dan Stark, Michael W. Topping, & Lily Whitler. (2025). The Burstiness of Star Formation at z ∼ 6: A Huge Diversity in the Recent Star Formation Histories of Very UV-faint Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 987(2). 189–189. 6 indexed citations
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Woodrum, Charity, Marcia Rieke, Zhiyuan Ji, et al.. (2024). Using JADES NIRCam photometry to investigate the dependence of stellar mass inferences on the IMF in the early universe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(42). e2317375121–e2317375121. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Zuyi, Daniel P. Stark, Charlotte Mason, et al.. (2024). JWST spectroscopy of z ∼ 5–8 UV-selected galaxies: new constraints on the evolution of the Ly α escape fraction in the reionization era. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(4). 7052–7075. 30 indexed citations
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Whitler, Lily, Daniel P. Stark, Ryan Endsley, et al.. (2024). Insight from JWST/Near Infrared Camera into galaxy overdensities around bright Lyman-alpha emitters during reionization: implications for ionized bubbles at z ∼ 9. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(2). 855–872. 17 indexed citations
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Tang, Mengtao, Daniel P. Stark, Zuyi Chen, et al.. (2023). JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of z = 7–9 star-forming galaxies with CEERS: new insight into bright Lyα emitters in ionized bubbles. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526(2). 1657–1686. 72 indexed citations
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Endsley, Ryan, Daniel P. Stark, Lily Whitler, et al.. (2023). A JWST/NIRCam study of key contributors to reionization: the star-forming and ionizing properties of UV-faint z ∼ 7−8 galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(2). 2312–2330. 88 indexed citations breakdown →
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Whitler, Lily, Daniel P. Stark, Ryan Endsley, et al.. (2023). Star formation histories of UV-luminous galaxies at z ≃ 6.8: implications for stellar mass assembly at early cosmic times. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 519(4). 5859–5881. 55 indexed citations
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Chen, Zuyi, Dan Stark, Ryan Endsley, et al.. (2022). JWST/NIRCam observations of stars and H ii regions in z ≃ 6–8 galaxies: properties of star-forming complexes on 150 pc scales. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(4). 5607–5619. 29 indexed citations
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Whitler, Lily, et al.. (2022). On the ages of bright galaxies ∼500 Myr after the big bang: insights into star formation activity at z ≳ 15 with JWST. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 519(1). 157–171. 40 indexed citations
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Topping, Michael W., Daniel P. Stark, Ryan Endsley, et al.. (2022). Searching for Extremely Blue UV Continuum Slopes at z = 7–11 in JWST/NIRCam Imaging: Implications for Stellar Metallicity and Ionizing Photon Escape in Early Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 941(2). 153–153. 53 indexed citations
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Whitler, Lily, Charlotte Mason, Mark Dijkstra, et al.. (2020). The impact of scatter in the galaxy UV luminosity to halo mass relation on Ly α visibility during the epoch of reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 495(4). 3602–3613. 58 indexed citations
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Heesen, V., Lily Whitler, P. Schmidt, et al.. (2019). Warped diffusive radio halo around the quiescent spiral edge-on galaxy NGC 4565. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 7 indexed citations

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