Michael M. Shara

13.3k total citations
257 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Michael M. Shara is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael M. Shara has authored 257 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 241 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 87 papers in Instrumentation and 61 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Michael M. Shara's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (163 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (104 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (87 papers). Michael M. Shara is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (163 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (104 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (87 papers). Michael M. Shara collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Michael M. Shara's co-authors include A. F. J. Moffat, Sébastien Lépine, R. Michael Rich, David Zurek, Maggel Deetlefs, Kenneth R. Seddon, Jarrod R. Hurley, Dina Prialnik, Laurent Drissen and Mario Livio and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Michael M. Shara

241 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael M. Shara United States 42 5.6k 1.8k 637 559 348 257 6.2k
R. Schödel Germany 44 5.6k 1.0× 703 0.4× 133 0.2× 1.3k 2.3× 165 0.5× 189 6.1k
Sun Kwok Canada 38 5.1k 0.9× 1.1k 0.6× 159 0.2× 154 0.3× 16 0.0× 250 5.5k
L. Origlia Italy 34 3.1k 0.5× 1.6k 0.9× 76 0.1× 162 0.3× 22 0.1× 153 3.4k
D. J. Lennon Spain 47 6.4k 1.1× 2.8k 1.6× 303 0.5× 170 0.3× 33 0.1× 198 6.7k
Paul Hickson Canada 23 1.6k 0.3× 653 0.4× 81 0.1× 244 0.4× 146 0.4× 158 2.2k
Michael Ireland Australia 36 3.6k 0.6× 1.3k 0.7× 210 0.3× 66 0.1× 26 0.1× 233 4.3k
Theodore P. Snow United States 36 4.0k 0.7× 224 0.1× 72 0.1× 213 0.4× 26 0.1× 169 5.0k
D. A. García–Hernández Spain 31 3.2k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 118 0.2× 240 0.4× 8 0.0× 184 3.6k
Kenneth H. Hinkle United States 31 2.9k 0.5× 732 0.4× 132 0.2× 200 0.4× 11 0.0× 134 3.5k
L. Decin Belgium 38 4.1k 0.7× 802 0.5× 98 0.2× 93 0.2× 14 0.0× 219 4.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael M. Shara

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mohamed, Shakir, et al.. (2025). 3D hydrodynamic simulations of white dwarf-main-sequence star collisions – II. Off-centre collisions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 538(3). 1384–1396.
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Shara, Michael M., Kenneth M. Lanzetta, D. Valls‐Gabaud, et al.. (2024). Introducing the Condor Array Telescope – III. The expansion and age of the shell of the dwarf nova Z Camelopardalis, and detection of a second, larger shell. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(1). 212–223. 6 indexed citations
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Iłkiewicz, Krystian, J. Mikołajewska, Michael M. Shara, Jacqueline K. Faherty, & Simone Scaringi. (2024). Ancient Nova Shells of RX Pup Indicate Evolution of Mass Transfer Rate. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 972(1). L14–L14. 4 indexed citations
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Lanzetta, Kenneth M., et al.. (2024). Introducing the Condor array telescope II – deep imaging observations of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 5907 and the NGC 5866 Group: yet another view of the iconic stellar stream. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(1). 197–211. 3 indexed citations
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Darnley, M. J., et al.. (2024). On an apparent dearth of recurrent nova super-remnants in the Local Group. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(2). 3531–3548. 7 indexed citations
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Shara, Michael M., Kenneth M. Lanzetta, D. Valls‐Gabaud, et al.. (2024). Introducing the Condor Array Telescope – IV. A possible nova super-remnant surrounding the putative recurrent nova KT Eridani. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(1). 224–235. 9 indexed citations
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Mohamed, Shakir, et al.. (2024). 3D hydrodynamic simulations of white dwarf–main-sequence star collisions – I. Head-on collisions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534(4). 3637–3653. 1 indexed citations
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Shara, Michael M., et al.. (2023). Possible Detection of the Progenitor of the Type II Supernova SN 2023ixf. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 953(1). L14–L14. 34 indexed citations
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Shara, Michael M., et al.. (2022). Novae in M51: a new, much higher rate from multi-epoch HST data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(4). 5279–5297. 6 indexed citations
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Subramaniam, Annapurni, Aaron M. Geller, C. Knigge, et al.. (2019). Detection of White Dwarf companions to Blue Straggler Stars from UVIT observations of M67. ePrints@IISc (Indian Institute of Science). 4 indexed citations
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Shara, Michael M., David Zurek, Bradley E. Schaefer, et al.. (2015). HSTIMAGES FLASH IONIZATION OF OLD EJECTA BY THE 2011 ERUPTION OF RECURRENT NOVA T PYXIDIS. The Astrophysical Journal. 805(2). 148–148. 9 indexed citations
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Shara, Michael M., Steven M. Crawford, D. Vanbeveren, et al.. (2015). The spin rates and flattening of O stars in WR + O binaries. I. Motivation, methodology and first results from SALT. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Nadeau, P. A., D. S. Ebel, George E. Harlow, et al.. (2013). Putting teachers-to-be in the field and the lab: Hands-on research at the American Museum of Natural History. AGUFM. 2013. 1 indexed citations
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Faherty, Jacqueline K., Adam J. Burgasser, Kelle L. Cruz, Michael M. Shara, & Fabian Walter. (2007). The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project (BDKP). American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts. 211. 10 indexed citations
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Lloyd, James P., Rebecca Oppenheimer, Andrew Digby, et al.. (2003). The Lyot project: toward exoplanet images and spectroscopy. ESASP. 539. 513–518.
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Shara, Michael M.. (2002). When Stars Collide. Scientific American. 287(5). 44–51.
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Hartkopf, William I., Brian D. Mason, Douglas R. Gies, et al.. (1999). ICCD Speckle Observations of Binary Stars. XXII. A Survey of Wolf-Rayet Starsfor Close Visual Companions. The Astronomical Journal. 118(1). 509–514. 14 indexed citations
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Moffat, A. F. J., Michael M. Shara, Lindsey F. Smith, et al.. (1998). Searching the Galaxy for Wolf-Rayet stars.. JRASC. 92(6). 312. 1 indexed citations
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Lasker, B. M., B. McLean, Michael M. Shara, et al.. (1989). Sky surveys: the STScI program for the 1990s. 37. 15. 1 indexed citations
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Shara, Michael M., Dina Prialnik, & G. Shaviv. (1977). Non-ejecting novae as EUV sources.. A&A. 61(3). 363–367. 1 indexed citations

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