Matthew A. Bershady

16.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
115 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Matthew A. Bershady is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew A. Bershady has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 76 papers in Instrumentation and 16 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Matthew A. Bershady's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (89 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (76 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (60 papers). Matthew A. Bershady is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (89 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (76 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (60 papers). Matthew A. Bershady collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and United Kingdom. Matthew A. Bershady's co-authors include Christopher J. Conselice, David R. Andersen, Marc Verheijen, Anna Jangren, Kyle B. Westfall, L. W. Ramsey, Justin Harker, Niv Drory, Kevin Bundy and Mark Dickinson 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

Matthew A. Bershady

107 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

SparsePak: A Formatted Fiber Field Unit for the WIYN Telescope Bench Spectrograph. I. Design, Construction, and Calibration

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthew A. Bershady United States	37	4.8k	2.5k	479	317	250	115	5.1k
Niv Drory United States	39	4.9k 1.0×	2.9k 1.2×	329 0.7×	254 0.8×	181 0.7×	174	5.1k
Jennifer M. Lotz United States	40	5.1k 1.1×	3.0k 1.2×	395 0.8×	247 0.8×	414 1.7×	73	5.3k
Arjen van der Wel United States	42	5.0k 1.0×	3.4k 1.3×	448 0.9×	245 0.8×	238 1.0×	131	5.2k
N. R. Napolitano Italy	38	4.0k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	350 0.7×	238 0.8×	190 0.8×	169	4.2k
Roberto Abraham Canada	42	6.0k 1.2×	3.5k 1.4×	669 1.4×	331 1.0×	359 1.4×	157	6.2k
John P. Blakeslee United States	47	7.2k 1.5×	3.7k 1.5×	677 1.4×	403 1.3×	227 0.9×	140	7.3k
S. Dye United Kingdom	33	4.7k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	669 1.4×	407 1.3×	187 0.7×	87	4.8k
John Moustakas United States	38	5.7k 1.2×	2.4k 1.0×	594 1.2×	200 0.6×	135 0.5×	108	5.8k
Jeffrey A. Newman United States	44	5.9k 1.2×	3.0k 1.2×	757 1.6×	256 0.8×	262 1.0×	118	6.1k
Gabriel Brammer United States	40	6.7k 1.4×	4.0k 1.6×	616 1.3×	285 0.9×	159 0.6×	206	6.9k

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Bershady, Matthew A., David R. Law, Kyle B. Westfall, et al.. (2024). SDSS-IV MaNGA: calibration of astrophysical line-widths in the Hα region using HexPak observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(3). 5377–5393. 1 indexed citations

Bershady, Matthew A., et al.. (2024). Early commissioning results of slit mask integral field units on the Southern African Large Telescope. 101–101.

Klimenko, V. V., Varsha P. Kulkarni, David A. Wake, et al.. (2023). The Baryonic Content of Galaxies Mapped by MaNGA and the Gas Around Them. The Astrophysical Journal. 954(2). 115–115. 4 indexed citations

Bundy, Kevin, David R. Law, Nick MacDonald, et al.. (2022). The Stability of Fiber Spectrographs in the Faint-source Regime. The Astronomical Journal. 164(3). 94–94.

Law, David R., Francesco Belfiore, Matthew A. Bershady, et al.. (2022). SDSS-IV MaNGA: Understanding Ionized Gas Turbulence Using Integral Field Spectroscopy of 4500 Star-forming Disk Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 928(1). 58–58. 19 indexed citations

Geda, Robel, et al.. (2022). PetroFit: A Python Package for Computing Petrosian Radii and Fitting Galaxy Light Profiles. The Astronomical Journal. 163(5). 202–202. 20 indexed citations

Ji, Xihan, Renbin Yan, Kevin Bundy, et al.. (2022). The need for multicomponent dust attenuation in modeling nebular emission: Constraints from SDSS-IV MaNGA. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 670. A125–A125. 5 indexed citations

Bershady, Matthew A., et al.. (2022). Optimum telescope focal ratios for microlens-to-fiber coupled integral field spectrographs. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

Law, David R., et al.. (2021). SDSS-IV MaNGA: Modeling the spectral line-spread function to subpercent accuracy. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 62 indexed citations

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Law, David R., Xihan Ji, Francesco Belfiore, et al.. (2021). SDSS-IV MaNGA: Refining Strong Line Diagnostic Classifications Using Spatially Resolved Gas Dynamics. The Astrophysical Journal. 915(1). 35–35. 42 indexed citations

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Shetty, Shravan, Matthew A. Bershady, Kyle B. Westfall, et al.. (2020). Stellar Population Synthesis with Distinct Kinematics: Multiage Asymmetric Drift in SDSS-IV MaNGA Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 901(2). 101–101. 11 indexed citations

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Boardman, Nicholas Fraser, Gail Zasowski, Jeffrey A. Newman, et al.. (2020). Are the Milky Way and Andromeda unusual? A comparison with Milky Way and Andromeda analogues. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 498(4). 4943–4954. 15 indexed citations

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Krishnarao, Dhanesh, Christy Tremonti, Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, et al.. (2020). The Effect of Bars on the Ionized ISM: Optical Emission Lines from Milky Way Analogs. The Astrophysical Journal. 898(2). 116–116. 13 indexed citations

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Conroy, Charlie, David R. Law, Pieter van Dokkum, et al.. (2020). Spectroscopic Constraints on the Buildup of Intracluster Light in the Coma Cluster. The Astrophysical Journal. 894(1). 32–32. 16 indexed citations

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Mingozzi, Matilde, Francesco Belfiore, G. Cresci, et al.. (2020). SDSS IV MaNGA: Metallicity and ionisation parameter in local star-forming galaxies from Bayesian fitting to photoionisation models. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 55 indexed citations

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Belfiore, Francesco, Kyle B. Westfall, Adam Schaefer, et al.. (2019). The Data Analysis Pipeline for the SDSS-IV MaNGA IFU Galaxy Survey: Emission-line Modeling. The Astronomical Journal. 158(4). 160–160. 164 indexed citations

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Wang, Enci, Cheng Li, Ting Xiao, et al.. (2018). SDSS-IV MaNGA: Star Formation Cessation in Low-redshift Galaxies. I. Dependence on Stellar Mass and Structural Properties. The Astrophysical Journal. 856(2). 137–137. 36 indexed citations

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Belfiore, Francesco, R. Maiolino, Kevin Bundy, et al.. (2018). SDSS IV MaNGA – sSFR profiles and the slow quenching of discs in green valley galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 477(3). 3014–3029. 120 indexed citations

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Law, David R., Renbin Yan, Matthew A. Bershady, et al.. (2015). OBSERVING STRATEGY FOR THE SDSS-IV/MaNGA IFU GALAXY SURVEY. The Astronomical Journal. 150(1). 19–19. 260 indexed citations

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Schechtman-Rook, Andrew & Matthew A. Bershady. (2013). NEAR-INFRARED DETECTION OF A SUPER-THIN DISK IN NGC 891. The Astrophysical Journal. 773(1). 45–45. 14 indexed citations

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