Michele Cappellari

32.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
204 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

Michele Cappellari is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michele Cappellari has authored 204 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 190 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 117 papers in Instrumentation and 26 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Michele Cappellari's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (177 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (117 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (97 papers). Michele Cappellari is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (177 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (117 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (97 papers). Michele Cappellari collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Michele Cappellari's co-authors include Éric Emsellem, P. T. de Zeeuw, Richard M. McDermid, Martin Bureau, M. Sarzi, H. Kuntschner, Roland Bacon, J. Falcón‐Barroso, R. F. Peletier and Davor Krajnović and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Reviews of Modern Physics and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Michele Cappellari

193 papers receiving 11.2k citations

Hit Papers

Parametric Recovery of Line‐of‐Sight Velocity Distributio... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 2016 2006 2006 2007 400 800 1.2k
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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. Parametric Recovery of Line‐of‐Sight Velocity Distributions from Absorption‐Line Spectra of Galaxies via Penalized Likelihood
    2004 1.3k citations Michele Cappellari, Éric Emsellem profile →
  2. Improving the full spectrum fitting method: accurate convolution with Gauss–Hermite functions
    2016 811 citations Michele Cappellari Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  3. The SAURON project--IV. The mass-to-light ratio, the virial mass estimator and the Fundamental Plane of elliptical and lenticular galaxies
    2006 644 citations Michele Cappellari, Martin Bureau et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  4. The SAURON project--V. Integral-field emission-line kinematics of 48 elliptical and lenticular galaxies
    2006 507 citations M. Sarzi, Martin Bureau et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  5. The SAURON project - IX. A kinematic classification for early-type galaxies
    2007 475 citations Michele Cappellari, Martin Bureau et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  6. The SAURON project - X. The orbital anisotropy of elliptical and lenticular galaxies: revisiting the (V/ ,  ) diagram with integral-field stellar kinematics
    2007 366 citations Michele Cappellari, Éric Emsellem et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  7. Full spectrum fitting with photometry in ppxf: stellar population versus dynamical masses, non-parametric star formation history and metallicity for 3200 LEGA-C galaxies at redshift z ≈ 0.8
    2023 107 citations Michele Cappellari Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers

Michele Cappellari
J. Falcón‐Barroso Spain
Glenn van de Ven Germany
R. F. Peletier Netherlands
Éric Emsellem France
P. T. de Zeeuw Netherlands
Thorsten Naab Germany
S. F. Sánchez Mexico
M. Sarzi United Kingdom
Karl Gebhardt United States
Charlie Conroy United States
J. Falcón‐Barroso Spain
Michele Cappellari
Citations per year, relative to Michele Cappellari Michele Cappellari (= 1×) peers J. Falcón‐Barroso

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michele Cappellari

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cappellari, Michele. (2025). PowerBin: fast adaptive data binning with Centroidal Power Diagrams. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(2). 1432–1446.
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Shajib, Anowar J., et al.. (2025). An accurate measurement of the spectral resolution of the JWST Near Infrared Spectrograph. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 702. L12–L12.
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Treu, Tommaso, et al.. (2025). Spatially Resolved Kinematics of SLACS Lens Galaxies. I. Data and Kinematic Classification. The Astrophysical Journal. 990(1). 51–51. 2 indexed citations
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Galan, A., et al.. (2025). GPU-Accelerated Gravitational Lensing and Dynamical (GLaD) modeling for cosmology and galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 701. A280–A280.
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Sheu, William, Anowar J. Shajib, Tommaso Treu, et al.. (2025). Project Dinos II: redshift evolution of dark and luminous matter density profiles in strong-lensing elliptical galaxies across 0.1 < z < 0.9. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541(1). 1–27. 3 indexed citations
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Shajib, Anowar J., et al.. (2025). TDCOSMO. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 703. A117–A117. 4 indexed citations
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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
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Scognamiglio, Diana, Chiara Spiniello, M. Radovich, et al.. (2024). INSPIRE: INvestigating Stellar Population In RElics – VII. The local environment of ultra-compact massive galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534(2). 1597–1608.
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Zhu, Kai, Michele Cappellari, Ran Li, et al.. (2023). MaNGA DynPop – III. Stellar dynamics versus stellar population relations in 6000 early-type and spiral galaxies: Fundamental Plane, mass-to-light ratios, total density slopes, and dark matter fractions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(1). 706–730. 16 indexed citations
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Röttgering, H. J. A., et al.. (2023). MaNGA integral-field stellar kinematics of LoTSS radio galaxies: Luminous radio galaxies tend to be slow rotators. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 673. A12–A12. 1 indexed citations
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Davis, Timothy A., Martin Bureau, Michele Cappellari, et al.. (2023). A fundamental plane of black hole accretion at millimetre wavelengths. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 528(1). L76–L82. 2 indexed citations
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Davis, Timothy A., Martin Bureau, Michele Cappellari, et al.. (2023). WISDOM Project - XVI. The link between circumnuclear molecular gas reservoirs and active galactic nucleus fuelling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(1). 319–336. 5 indexed citations
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Davis, Timothy A., Michele Cappellari, Martin Bureau, et al.. (2023). WISDOM project – XIV. SMBH mass in the early-type galaxies NGC 0612, NGC 1574, and NGC 4261 from CO dynamical modelling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 522(4). 6170–6195. 16 indexed citations
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Hayden-Pawson, Connor, Mirko Curti, R. Maiolino, et al.. (2022). The KLEVER survey: nitrogen abundances at z ∼ 2 and probing the existence of a fundamental nitrogen relation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 512(2). 2867–2889. 22 indexed citations
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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
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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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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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Kuntschner, H., et al.. (2012). A way to deal with the fringe-like pattern in VIMOS-IFU data. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 9 indexed citations

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