Peter Doherty

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 642 citations indexed

About

Peter Doherty is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Doherty has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 642 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 9 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Peter Doherty's work include CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors (11 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (9 papers) and Infrared Target Detection Methodologies (8 papers). Peter Doherty is often cited by papers focused on CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors (11 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (9 papers) and Infrared Target Detection Methodologies (8 papers). Peter Doherty collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Chile. Peter Doherty's co-authors include C. W. Stubbs, J. Tonry, E. A. Magnier, James P. Morgan, R. J. Wainscoat, K. W. Hodapp, N. Kaiser, P. A. Price, W. S. Burgett and Rolf‐Peter Kudritzki and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) and Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)).

In The Last Decade

Peter Doherty

18 papers receiving 597 citations

Hit Papers

THE Pan-STARRS1 PHOTOMETRIC SYSTEM 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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. THE Pan-STARRS1 PHOTOMETRIC SYSTEM
    2012 497 citations J. Tonry, C. W. Stubbs et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Doherty United States 9 551 172 87 74 66 20 642
Richard Dekany United States 13 415 0.8× 146 0.8× 59 0.7× 109 1.5× 44 0.7× 51 500
Stephen A. Smee United States 7 693 1.3× 366 2.1× 65 0.7× 99 1.3× 35 0.5× 40 806
C. F. Claver United States 9 349 0.6× 174 1.0× 36 0.4× 82 1.1× 31 0.5× 35 440
Maximilian Fabricius Germany 16 897 1.6× 429 2.5× 53 0.6× 102 1.4× 32 0.5× 42 981
O. L. Lupie United States 12 700 1.3× 97 0.6× 33 0.4× 44 0.6× 28 0.4× 37 741
Rebecca Bernstein United States 12 546 1.0× 200 1.2× 41 0.5× 86 1.2× 20 0.3× 22 632
Toshinori Maihara Japan 18 600 1.1× 220 1.3× 66 0.8× 110 1.5× 18 0.3× 62 713
Paola Amico Germany 10 283 0.5× 119 0.7× 66 0.8× 117 1.6× 49 0.7× 36 381
Suijian Xue China 16 524 1.0× 150 0.9× 80 0.9× 89 1.2× 14 0.2× 43 608
J. G. Robertson Australia 14 433 0.8× 183 1.1× 36 0.4× 85 1.1× 32 0.5× 46 489

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Doherty

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Doherty

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Peter Doherty. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Peter Doherty. The network helps show where Peter Doherty may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Doherty

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Coughlin, M. W., T. M. C. Abbott, C. F. Claver, et al.. (2016). A collimated beam projector for precise telescope calibration. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9910. 99100V–99100V. 9 indexed citations
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Rasmussen, Andrew, Craig Lage, P. Antilogus, et al.. (2016). High fidelity point-spread function retrieval in the presence of electrostatic, hysteretic pixel response. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9915. 99151A–99151A. 2 indexed citations
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O’Connor, P., P. Antilogus, Peter Doherty, et al.. (2016). Integrated system tests of the LSST raft tower modules. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9915. 99150X–99150X. 9 indexed citations
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Astier, P., et al.. (2015). Evidence for self-interaction of charge distribution in charge-coupled devices. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 20 indexed citations
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Riot, Vincent, K. Arndt, C. F. Claver, et al.. (2014). The guider and wavefront curvature sensor subsystem for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9147. 914774–914774. 1 indexed citations
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Doherty, Peter, P. Antilogus, P. Astier, et al.. (2014). Electro-optical testing of fully depleted CCD image sensors for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope camera. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9154. 915418–915418. 7 indexed citations
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Rasmussen, Andrew, P. Antilogus, P. Astier, et al.. (2014). A framework for modeling the detailed optical response of thick, multiple segment, large format sensors for precision astronomy applications. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9150. 915017–915017. 4 indexed citations
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Kubánek, P., M. Prouza, I. Kotov, et al.. (2012). Use of RTS2 for LSST multiple channel CCD characterisation. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8451. 84512T–84512T. 3 indexed citations
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Cramer, Claire, Steven W. Brown, Keith R. Lykke, et al.. (2012). Tunable laser techniques for improving the precision of observational astronomy. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8450. 84500S–84500S. 1 indexed citations
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O’Connor, P., I. Kotov, Peter Z. Takacs, et al.. (2012). Development of the LSST raft tower modules. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8453. 84530L–84530L. 8 indexed citations
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Tonry, J., C. W. Stubbs, Peter Doherty, et al.. (2012). THE Pan-STARRS1 PHOTOMETRIC SYSTEM. The Astrophysical Journal. 750(2). 99–99. 497 indexed citations breakdown →
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Acedo, Eloy de Lera, Paul F. Scott, Peter Doherty, et al.. (2012). SKA AA-low front-end developments (At Cambridge University). Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 616–620. 13 indexed citations
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Lykke, Keith R., John T. Woodward, J. Tonry, et al.. (2010). Precise Throughput Determination of the PanSTARRS Telescope and the Gigapixel Imager using a Calibrated Silicon Photodiode and a Tunable Laser: Initial Results. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 42 indexed citations
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Woodward, John T., Steven W. Brown, Keith R. Lykke, et al.. (2010). Spectroradiometric calibration of telescopes using laser illumination of flat field screens. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7737. 77372A–77372A. 1 indexed citations
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Burke, Barry E., J. Tonry, Michael Cooper, et al.. (2007). Orthogonal transfer arrays for the Pan-STARRS gigapixel camera. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6501. 650107–650107. 10 indexed citations
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Burke, Barry E., J. Tonry, Michael Cooper, et al.. (2004). The orthogonal-transfer array: a new CCD architecture for astronomy. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5499. 185–185. 13 indexed citations
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Stubbs, C. W., Peter Doherty, & Alan H. Diercks. (1998). Method for extending the dynamic range of CCD instruments. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3301. 75–75.
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Lo, Shun S., et al.. (1994). <title>Thinned 4096x4096 CCD mosaic</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2172. 175–179. 1 indexed citations
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Doherty, Peter, et al.. (1993). <title>High-speed precision slow-scan CCD cameras</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1901. 46–63.
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Doherty, Peter, P. Sutcliffe, & Gary R. Sims. (1992). <title>High-performance dual-speed multiport CCD camera</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1656. 315–326. 1 indexed citations

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