Nicholas J. McConnell

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

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Nicholas J. McConnell is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas J. McConnell has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 11 papers in Instrumentation and 3 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Nicholas J. McConnell's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (13 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (11 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (7 papers). Nicholas J. McConnell is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (13 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (11 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (7 papers). Nicholas J. McConnell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Nicholas J. McConnell's co-authors include Chung‐Pei Ma, John P. Blakeslee, Jens Thomas, Jenny E. Greene, Jeremy D. Murphy, James R. Graham, Ryan Janish, Tod R. Lauer, D. O. Richstone and Karl Gebhardt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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Nicholas J. McConnell

18 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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REVISITING THE SCALING RELATIONS OF BLACK HOLE MASSES AND HOST GALAXY PROPERTIES

2013 748 citations Nicholas J. McConnell, Chung‐Pei Ma The Astrophysical Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas J. McConnell United States	13	1.6k	663	276	107	84	18	1.6k
Anne-Marie Weijmans United Kingdom	17	1.3k 0.8×	772 1.2×	131 0.5×	65 0.6×	48 0.6×	32	1.4k
V. A. Kilborn Australia	21	1.4k 0.8×	641 1.0×	201 0.7×	45 0.4×	35 0.4×	47	1.4k
Eyal Neistein Germany	9	1.4k 0.9×	687 1.0×	165 0.6×	36 0.3×	62 0.7×	9	1.4k
Silvia Pellegrini Italy	24	1.8k 1.1×	454 0.7×	450 1.6×	37 0.3×	57 0.7×	69	1.8k
V. Casasola Italy	21	1.3k 0.8×	304 0.5×	151 0.5×	53 0.5×	62 0.7×	54	1.3k
Y. Roehlly France	12	1.2k 0.7×	540 0.8×	156 0.6×	47 0.4×	38 0.5×	17	1.2k
M. Bogosavljević United States	10	1.3k 0.8×	410 0.6×	289 1.0×	47 0.4×	49 0.6×	17	1.3k
A. L. Melchior France	16	1.1k 0.7×	540 0.8×	114 0.4×	50 0.5×	51 0.6×	42	1.1k
Andisheh Mahdavi United States	20	1.2k 0.7×	454 0.7×	359 1.3×	47 0.4×	39 0.5×	30	1.3k
Maximilian Fabricius Germany	16	897 0.6×	429 0.6×	99 0.4×	102 1.0×	50 0.6×	42	981

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18 of 18 papers shown

Ma, Chung‐Pei, Nicholas J. McConnell, Jonelle L. Walsh, et al.. (2019). The MASSIVE Survey XIII. Spatially Resolved Stellar Kinematics in the Central 1 kpc of 20 Massive Elliptical Galaxies with the GMOS-North Integral Field Spectrograph. The Astrophysical Journal. 878(1). 57–57. 10 indexed citations

McConnell, Nicholas J., et al.. (2019). Preparing an Inclusive Astronomy Community through Effective Professional Development. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51(7). 250. 1 indexed citations

Knust, F., J. Greiner, Hendrik van Eerten, et al.. (2017). Long optical plateau in the afterglow of the short GRB 150424A with extended emission. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 607. A84–A84. 20 indexed citations

Knust, F., J. Greiner, Hendrik van Eerten, et al.. (2017). Long optical plateau in the afterglow of the short GRB 150424A with extended emission - Evidence for energy injection by a magnetar?. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 607(11). 7 indexed citations

Veale, Melanie, Chung‐Pei Ma, Jenny E. Greene, et al.. (2017). The MASSIVE Survey – VII. The relationship of angular momentum, stellar mass and environment of early-type galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 471(2). 1428–1445. 66 indexed citations

Goulding, Andy D., Jenny E. Greene, Chung‐Pei Ma, et al.. (2016). THE MASSIVE SURVEY. IV. THE X-RAY HALOS OF THE MOST MASSIVE EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES IN THE NEARBY UNIVERSE. The Astrophysical Journal. 826(2). 167–167. 67 indexed citations

Thomas, Jens, Chung‐Pei Ma, Nicholas J. McConnell, et al.. (2016). A 17-billion-solar-mass black hole in a group galaxy with a diffuse core. Nature. 532(7599). 340–342. 88 indexed citations

Veale, Melanie, Chung‐Pei Ma, Jens Thomas, et al.. (2016). The MASSIVE Survey – V. Spatially resolved stellar angular momentum, velocity dispersion, and higher moments of the 41 most massive local early-type galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 464(1). 356–384. 70 indexed citations

McConnell, Nicholas J.. (2016). The Effect of Spatial Gradients in Stellar Mass-to-Light Ratio on Black Hole Mass Measurements. Texas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library). 13 indexed citations

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Perley, D. A. & Nicholas J. McConnell. (2015). GRB 150424A: Keck detection of optical afterglow.. GCN. 17745. 1. 2 indexed citations

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Davis, Timothy A., Jenny E. Greene, Chung‐Pei Ma, et al.. (2015). The MASSIVE survey – III. Molecular gas and a broken Tully–Fisher relation in the most massive early-type galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 455(1). 214–226. 38 indexed citations

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Ma, Chung‐Pei, Jenny E. Greene, Nicholas J. McConnell, et al.. (2014). THE MASSIVE SURVEY. I. A VOLUME-LIMITED INTEGRAL-FIELD SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF THE MOST MASSIVE EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES WITHIN 108 Mpc. The Astrophysical Journal. 795(2). 158–158. 143 indexed citations

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McConnell, Nicholas J. & Chung‐Pei Ma. (2013). REVISITING THE SCALING RELATIONS OF BLACK HOLE MASSES AND HOST GALAXY PROPERTIES. The Astrophysical Journal. 764(2). 184–184. 748 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rosa, Robert J. De, J. Patience, A. Vigan, et al.. (2012). The Volume-limited A-Star (VAST) survey - II. Orbital motion monitoring of A-type star multiples. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 422(4). 2765–2785. 24 indexed citations

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McConnell, Nicholas J.. (2012). Black Hole Masses in Nearby Brightest Cluster Galaxies. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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McConnell, Nicholas J., Chung‐Pei Ma, Jeremy D. Murphy, et al.. (2012). DYNAMICAL MEASUREMENTS OF BLACK HOLE MASSES IN FOUR BRIGHTEST CLUSTER GALAXIES AT 100 Mpc. The Astrophysical Journal. 756(2). 179–179. 84 indexed citations

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McConnell, Nicholas J., Chung‐Pei Ma, Karl Gebhardt, et al.. (2011). Two ten-billion-solar-mass black holes at the centres of giant elliptical galaxies. Nature. 480(7376). 215–218. 226 indexed citations

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McConnell, Nicholas J., James R. Graham, Karl Gebhardt, et al.. (2011). THE BLACK HOLE MASS IN THE BRIGHTEST CLUSTER GALAXY NGC 6086. The Astrophysical Journal. 728(2). 100–100. 26 indexed citations

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