Lina Necib

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 829 citations indexed

About

Lina Necib is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Lina Necib has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 829 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 19 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 10 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Lina Necib's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (21 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (19 papers) and Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (17 papers). Lina Necib is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (21 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (19 papers) and Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (17 papers). Lina Necib collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Lina Necib's co-authors include Jesse Thaler, Mariangela Lisanti, Yanou Cui, Kaustubh Agashe, Ian Moult, Anna Frebel, Vasily Belokurov, Gordan Krnjaic, P. Machado and Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Lina Necib

37 papers receiving 761 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 dark matter profile of the Milky Way inferred from its circular velocity curve

2024 59 citations Lina Necib, Anna Frebel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers

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Claudio Llinares Norway

Ian Lewis United States

Zhongxu Zhai China

Nabila Aghanim France

M. Sánchez‐Conde Spain

Keir K. Rogers United Kingdom

A. Drabent Germany

Daniel Gilman United States

Mathew S. Madhavacheril United States

Kaiki Taro Inoue Japan

Claudio Llinares Norway

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360 ×0.7

NHEP

645 ×1.2

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79 ×0.6

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21 ×0.5

AMPO

18 ×0.4

AI

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Countries citing papers authored by Lina Necib

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lina Necib

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lina Necib

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

All Works

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Moreno, Jorge, Robert Feldmann, Joanna M. Piotrowska, et al.. (2025). Effects of Galactic Environment on Size and Dark Matter Content in Low-mass Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 983(2). 93–93. 4 indexed citations

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Boylan-Kolchin, Michael, James S. Bullock, Philip F. Hopkins, et al.. (2025). Central densities of dark matter haloes in fire-2 simulations of low-mass galaxies with cold dark matter and self-interacting dark matter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 543(3). 1995–2005.

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Shipp, Nora, et al.. (2025). StreamGen: Connecting Populations of Streams and Shells to Their Host Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 990(2). 162–162. 1 indexed citations

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Necib, Lina, et al.. (2025). Decoding the Galactic Twirl: The Downfall of Milky Way–Mass Galaxy Rotation Curves in the FIRE Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 994(1). 128–128.

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Loebman, Sarah, et al.. (2025). OTI on FIRE: Testing the Efficacy of Orbital Torus Imaging to Recover the Galactic Potential. The Astrophysical Journal. 993(1). 29–29.

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Chiti, Anirudh, Nora Shipp, Joshua D. Simon, et al.. (2024). Signatures of Tidal Disruption of the Hercules Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxy*. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(1). 33–33. 5 indexed citations

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Shen, Xuejian, Philip F. Hopkins, Lina Necib, et al.. (2024). Dissipative Dark Matter on FIRE. II. Observational Signatures and Constraints from Local Dwarf Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(1). 131–131. 8 indexed citations

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Nguyên, Tri, et al.. (2024). Synthetic Gaia DR3 Surveys from the FIRE Cosmological Simulations of Milky Way-mass Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(1). 108–108. 5 indexed citations

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Necib, Lina, et al.. (2024). The Escape Velocity Profile of the Milky Way from Gaia DR3. The Astrophysical Journal. 972(1). 70–70. 11 indexed citations

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Sanderson, Robyn E., Sukanya Chakrabarti, Andrew Wetzel, et al.. (2024). The Imprint of Dark Matter on the Galactic Acceleration Field. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(2). 223–223. 4 indexed citations

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Shih, David, Matthew R. Buckley, & Lina Necib. (2024). Via Machinae 2.0: Full-sky, model-agnostic search for stellar streams in Gaia DR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(4). 4745–4767. 7 indexed citations

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Necib, Lina, et al.. (2023). High-resolution Chemical Abundances of the Nyx Stream. The Astrophysical Journal. 955(2). 129–129. 5 indexed citations

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Horta, Danny, Emily C. Cunningham, Robyn E. Sanderson, et al.. (2023). The Observable Properties of Galaxy Accretion Events in Milky Way–like Galaxies in the FIRE-2 Cosmological Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 943(2). 158–158. 20 indexed citations

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Horta, Danny, Emily C. Cunningham, Robyn E. Sanderson, et al.. (2023). The proto-galaxy of Milky Way-mass haloes in the FIRE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(4). 9810–9825. 14 indexed citations

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Bullock, James S., Zachary Hafen, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, et al.. (2022). Amplified J-factors in the Galactic Centre for velocity-dependent dark matter annihilation in FIRE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513(1). 55–70. 16 indexed citations

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Shen, Xuejian, Philip F. Hopkins, Lina Necib, et al.. (2021). Dissipative dark matter on FIRE – I. Structural and kinematic properties of dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506(3). 4421–4445. 31 indexed citations

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Chiti, Anirudh, Anna Frebel, Joshua D. Simon, et al.. (2021). An extended halo around an ancient dwarf galaxy. Nature Astronomy. 5(4). 392–400. 56 indexed citations

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Herzog-Arbeitman, Jonah, Mariangela Lisanti, Piero Madau, & Lina Necib. (2018). Empirical Determination of Dark Matter Velocities Using Metal-Poor Stars. Physical Review Letters. 120(4). 41102–41102. 33 indexed citations

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Krnjaic, Gordan, P. Machado, & Lina Necib. (2018). Distorted neutrino oscillations from time varying cosmic fields. Physical review. D. 97(7). 57 indexed citations

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Agashe, Kaustubh, Yanou Cui, Lina Necib, & Jesse Thaler. (2014). (In)direct detection of boosted dark matter. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2014(10). 62–62. 137 indexed citations

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