Peter Senchyna

1.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
17 papers, 617 citations indexed

About

Peter Senchyna is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Senchyna has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 617 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5 papers in Instrumentation and 1 paper in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Peter Senchyna's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (13 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (10 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (10 papers). Peter Senchyna is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (13 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (10 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (10 papers). Peter Senchyna collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Netherlands. Peter Senchyna's co-authors include Daniel P. Stark, S. Charlot, Jacopo Chevallard, Tucker Jones, Alba Vidal-García, Ramesh Mainali, Adèle Plat, Julia Gutkin, Aida Wofford and A. Feltre and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Peter Senchyna

16 papers receiving 500 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.

Metal-poor star formation at z > 6 with JWST: new insight into hard radiation fields and nitrogen enrichment on 20 pc scales

2024 72 citations Michael W. Topping, Daniel P. Stark et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
GN-z11 in Context: Possible Signatures of Globular Cluster Precursors at Redshift 10

2024 50 citations Peter Senchyna, Adèle Plat et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Deep Rest-UV JWST/NIRSpec Spectroscopy of Early Galaxies: The Demographics of C iv and N-emitters in the Reionization Era

2025 22 citations Michael W. Topping, Dan Stark et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Senchyna United States	12	563	204	46	25	23	17	617
Adèle Plat France	11	463 0.8×	204 1.0×	45 1.0×	20 0.8×	10 0.4×	17	524
M. Talia Italy	15	498 0.9×	196 1.0×	65 1.4×	25 1.0×	14 0.6×	29	513
Aida Wofford United States	14	791 1.4×	270 1.3×	62 1.3×	26 1.0×	35 1.5×	34	816
Ryan F. Trainor United States	12	554 1.0×	254 1.2×	84 1.8×	25 1.0×	21 0.9×	18	590
Kristin Kulas United States	5	392 0.7×	202 1.0×	39 0.8×	35 1.4×	23 1.0×	9	426
M. Ginolfi Italy	15	546 1.0×	203 1.0×	71 1.5×	18 0.7×	10 0.4×	48	583
M. L. García-Vargas Spain	13	580 1.0×	226 1.1×	45 1.0×	44 1.8×	12 0.5×	58	632
Ramesh Mainali United States	13	879 1.6×	352 1.7×	99 2.2×	39 1.6×	56 2.4×	16	928
Alba Vidal-García France	13	825 1.5×	316 1.5×	70 1.5×	26 1.0×	37 1.6×	19	848
J. L. Gach France	11	396 0.7×	193 0.9×	28 0.6×	22 0.9×	34 1.5×	21	433

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17 of 17 papers shown

Xu, Xinfeng, Alaina Henry, Timothy M. Heckman, et al.. (2025). Shining a Light on the Connections between Galactic Outflows Seen in Absorption and Emission Lines. The Astrophysical Journal. 984(1). 94–94. 1 indexed citations

Topping, Michael W., Dan Stark, Peter Senchyna, et al.. (2025). Deep Rest-UV JWST/NIRSpec Spectroscopy of Early Galaxies: The Demographics of C iv and N-emitters in the Reionization Era. The Astrophysical Journal. 980(2). 225–225. 22 indexed citations breakdown →

Tang, Mengtao, Dan Stark, Adèle Plat, et al.. (2025). JWST/NIRSpec Observations of High-ionization Emission Lines in Galaxies at High Redshift. The Astrophysical Journal. 991(2). 217–217. 2 indexed citations

Berg, Danielle A., Bethan L. James, Karla Z. Arellano-Córdova, et al.. (2025). Under Pressure: Decoding the Effect of High Densities on Derived Nebular Properties. The Astrophysical Journal. 995(2). 204–204. 2 indexed citations

Topping, Michael W., Daniel P. Stark, Peter Senchyna, et al.. (2024). Metal-poor star formation at z > 6 with JWST: new insight into hard radiation fields and nitrogen enrichment on 20 pc scales. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(4). 3301–3322. 72 indexed citations breakdown →

Senchyna, Peter, Adèle Plat, Daniel P. Stark, et al.. (2024). GN-z11 in Context: Possible Signatures of Globular Cluster Precursors at Redshift 10. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(1). 92–92. 50 indexed citations breakdown →

Katz, Harley, Alexander P. Ji, O. Grace Telford, & Peter Senchyna. (2024). Early Bright Galaxies from Helium Enhancements in High-Redshift Star Clusters. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 2 indexed citations

Tang, Mengtao, Daniel P. Stark, Zuyi Chen, et al.. (2023). JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of z = 7–9 star-forming galaxies with CEERS: new insight into bright Lyα emitters in ionized bubbles. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526(2). 1657–1686. 72 indexed citations

Chen, Yuguang, Tucker Jones, Ryan L. Sanders, et al.. (2023). Accurate oxygen abundance of interstellar gas in Mrk 71 from optical and infrared spectra. Nature Astronomy. 7(7). 771–778. 11 indexed citations

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Weisz, Daniel R., Peter Senchyna, Yumi Choi, et al.. (2022). A Panchromatic Study of Massive Stars in the Extremely Metal-poor Local Group Dwarf Galaxy Leo A*. The Astrophysical Journal. 941(2). 206–206. 10 indexed citations

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Senchyna, Peter, Daniel P. Stark, S. Charlot, et al.. (2022). Direct Constraints on the Extremely Metal-poor Massive Stars Underlying Nebular C iv Emission from Ultra-deep HST/COS Ultraviolet Spectroscopy. The Astrophysical Journal. 930(2). 105–105. 24 indexed citations

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Senchyna, Peter, Dan Stark, S. Charlot, et al.. (2021). Ultraviolet spectra of extreme nearby star-forming regions: Evidence for an overabundance of very massive stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 503(4). 6112–6135. 36 indexed citations

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Senchyna, Peter, Daniel P. Stark, Jordan Mirocha, et al.. (2020). High-mass X-ray binaries in nearby metal-poor galaxies: on the contribution to nebular He ii emission. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494(1). 941–957. 56 indexed citations

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Senchyna, Peter & Daniel P. Stark. (2019). Photometric identification and MMT spectroscopy of new extremely metal-poor galaxies: towards a better understanding of young stellar populations at low metallicity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 484(1). 1270–1284. 22 indexed citations

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Senchyna, Peter, Daniel P. Stark, Jacopo Chevallard, et al.. (2019). Extremely metal-poor galaxies with HST/COS: laboratories for models of low-metallicity massive stars and high-redshift galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(3). 3492–3506. 56 indexed citations

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Chevallard, Jacopo, S. Charlot, Peter Senchyna, et al.. (2018). Physical properties and H-ionizing-photon production rates of extreme nearby star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 479(3). 3264–3273. 59 indexed citations

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Senchyna, Peter, Daniel P. Stark, Alba Vidal-García, et al.. (2017). Ultraviolet spectra of extreme nearby star-forming regions – approaching a local reference sample for JWST. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 472(3). 2608–2632. 120 indexed citations

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