Phil Cigan

1.7k total citations
30 papers, 712 citations indexed

About

Phil Cigan is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Phil Cigan has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 712 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 12 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 2 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Phil Cigan's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (21 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (15 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (15 papers). Phil Cigan is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (21 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (15 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (15 papers). Phil Cigan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Phil Cigan's co-authors include Bruce G. Elmegreen, Deidre A. Hunter, E. Brinks, Megan Johnson, L. M. Young, Andreas Schruba, V. Heesen, Caroline E. Simpson, S. Maddox and Se–Heon Oh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Phil Cigan

25 papers receiving 664 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Phil Cigan United States 13 692 170 149 21 19 30 712
I. Oteo United Kingdom 16 690 1.0× 218 1.3× 140 0.9× 13 0.6× 25 1.3× 30 715
Rajeshwari Dutta India 13 433 0.6× 111 0.7× 134 0.9× 15 0.7× 25 1.3× 34 461
Andrew Emerick United States 11 488 0.7× 139 0.8× 188 1.3× 10 0.5× 11 0.6× 15 611
F. Cusano Italy 17 628 0.9× 261 1.5× 78 0.5× 35 1.7× 29 1.5× 48 663
G. Petitpas United States 18 833 1.2× 132 0.8× 216 1.4× 49 2.3× 18 0.9× 44 846
Aileen A. O’Donoghue United States 6 725 1.0× 239 1.4× 76 0.5× 15 0.7× 17 0.9× 9 741
Bjorn Emonts Spain 19 1.1k 1.5× 207 1.2× 332 2.2× 21 1.0× 23 1.2× 67 1.1k
Rodrigo Herrera-Camus United States 18 845 1.2× 200 1.2× 64 0.4× 41 2.0× 21 1.1× 50 864
M. Grossi Italy 17 670 1.0× 279 1.6× 162 1.1× 10 0.5× 24 1.3× 35 740
Alexander J. Richings United Kingdom 15 836 1.2× 217 1.3× 194 1.3× 30 1.4× 26 1.4× 29 885

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Fields of papers citing papers by Phil Cigan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Phil Cigan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Phil Cigan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Phil Cigan 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 Phil Cigan. Phil Cigan 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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Hunter, Deidre A., Bruce G. Elmegreen, L. K. Hunt, et al.. (2025). Stellar Populations and Molecular Gas Composition in the Low-metallicity Environment of WLM. The Astronomical Journal. 169(6). 301–301.
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Макаров, В. В., et al.. (2024). Partial Alignment of Astrometric Position Excursions of International Celestial Reference Frame Quasars with Radio Jet Structures. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 977(1). L14–L14. 1 indexed citations
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Макаров, В. В., et al.. (2024). Robust 1-norm Periodograms for Analysis of Noisy Non-Gaussian Time Series with Irregular Cadences: Application to VLBI Astrometry of Quasars. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 136(5). 54503–54503. 3 indexed citations
4.
Johnson, Megan, Nathan J. Secrest, M. Gliozzi, et al.. (2024). FRAMEx. V. Radio Spectral Shape at Central Subparsec Region of Active Galactic Nuclei. The Astrophysical Journal. 961(1). 109–109. 4 indexed citations
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Cigan, Phil, В. В. Макаров, Nathan J. Secrest, et al.. (2024). Metrics of Astrometric Variability in the International Celestial Reference Frame. I. Statistical Analysis and Selection of the Most Variable Sources. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 274(2). 28–28. 5 indexed citations
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Fischer, Travis C., Megan Johnson, A. J. van der Horst, et al.. (2024). VLA FRAMEx. I. Wideband Radio Properties of the AGN in NGC 4388. The Astrophysical Journal. 961(2). 230–230. 4 indexed citations
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Johnson, Megan, et al.. (2022). FRAMEx. III. Radio Emission in the Immediate Vicinity of Radio-quiet AGNs. The Astrophysical Journal. 936(1). 76–76. 9 indexed citations
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Secrest, Nathan J., et al.. (2022). FRAMEx. II. Simultaneous X-Ray and Radio Variability in Active Galactic Nuclei—The Case of NGC 2992. The Astrophysical Journal. 927(1). 18–18. 9 indexed citations
9.
Zabel, Nikki, Timothy A. Davis, M. W. L. Smith, et al.. (2021). AlFoCS  + F3D – II. Unexpectedly low gas-to-dust ratios in the Fornax galaxy cluster. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 502(4). 4723–4742. 7 indexed citations
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Johnson, Megan, et al.. (2021). Imaging Sources in the Third Realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame. arXiv (Cornell University). 12 indexed citations
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Hunter, Deidre A., et al.. (2021). A Search for Correlations between Turbulence and Star Formation in LITTLE THINGS Dwarf Irregular Galaxies. The Astronomical Journal. 161(4). 175–175. 10 indexed citations
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Fischer, Travis C., Nathan J. Secrest, Megan Johnson, et al.. (2021). Fundamental Reference AGN Monitoring Experiment (FRAMEx). I. Jumping Out of the Plane with the VLBA. The Astrophysical Journal. 906(2). 88–88. 26 indexed citations
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Gomez, H. L., M. Matsuura, M. W. L. Smith, et al.. (2020). A complete catalogue of dusty supernova remnants in the Galactic plane. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 493(2). 2706–2744. 20 indexed citations
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Whitworth, A. P., K. A. Marsh, Phil Cigan, et al.. (2019). The dust in M31. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489(4). 5436–5452. 18 indexed citations
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Larsson, Josefin, J. Spyromilio, Claes Fransson, et al.. (2019). A Three-dimensional View of Molecular Hydrogen in SN 1987A. The Astrophysical Journal. 873(1). 15–15. 4 indexed citations
16.
Smith, M. W. L., E. Ibar, S. Maddox, et al.. (2017). The Herschel–ATLAS Data Release 2, Paper I. Submillimeter and Far-infrared Images of the South and North Galactic Poles: The Largest Herschel Survey of the Extragalactic Sky. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 233(2). 26–26. 26 indexed citations
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Vis, Pieter De, H. L. Gomez, S. Maddox, et al.. (2017). Using dust, gas and stellar mass-selected samples to probe dust sources and sinks in low-metallicity galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 471(2). 1743–1765. 58 indexed citations
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Fahrion, Katja, D. Cormier, Frank Bigiel, et al.. (2016). Disentangling the ISM phases of the dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 using [C ii] SOFIA/GREAT observations. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 599. A9–A9. 17 indexed citations
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Cigan, Phil, L. M. Young, D. Cormier, et al.. (2016). HERSCHEL SPECTROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS OF LITTLE THINGS DWARF GALAXIES. The Astronomical Journal. 151(1). 14–14. 25 indexed citations
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Rubio, M., Bruce G. Elmegreen, Deidre A. Hunter, et al.. (2015). Dense cloud cores revealed by CO in the low metallicity dwarf galaxy WLM. Nature. 525(7568). 218–221. 45 indexed citations

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