R. J. Foley

47.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
185 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

R. J. Foley is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, R. J. Foley has authored 185 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 175 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 41 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 27 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in R. J. Foley's work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (163 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (68 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (67 papers). R. J. Foley is often cited by papers focused on Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (163 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (68 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (67 papers). R. J. Foley collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. R. J. Foley's co-authors include A. V. Filippenko, R. Chornock, Weidong Li, Nathan Smith, Saurabh W. Jha, J. M. Silverman, M. Ganeshalingam, Douglas C. Leonard, J. S. Bloom and M. Modjaz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

R. J. Foley

162 papers receiving 5.1k citations

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Nearby supernova rates from the Lick Observatory Supernova Search - II. The observed luminosity functions and fractions of supernovae in a complete sample

2011 390 citations R. Chornock, A. V. Filippenko et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The Type II SN 2025pht in NGC 1637: A Red Supergiant with Carbon-rich Circumstellar Dust as the First JWST Detection of a Supernova Progenitor Star 2025 ·The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·C. D. Kilpatrick, (unknown), Kyle W. Davis, M. R. Drout, R. J. Foley, Alexander Gagliano, W. V. Jacobson-Galán, (unknown), K. Taggart, (unknown)	0
2	SN 2022oqm: A Bright and Multipeaked Calcium-rich Transient 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), L. Izzo, Yossef Zenati, R. J. Foley, J. C. Wheeler, C. R. Angus, (unknown), Katie Auchettl, I Bíró, (unknown), (unknown), Thomas de Boer, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), C. Gall, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), N. Khetan, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	2
3	The Type II-P Supernova 2019mhm and Constraints on its Progenitor System 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), C. D. Kilpatrick, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, Anthony L. Piro, A. Rest, C. Rojas-Bravo	3
4	Late-time Hubble Space Telescope Observations of AT 2018cow. I. Further Constraints on the Fading Prompt Emission and Thermal Properties 50–60 days Post-discovery 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Y. Chen, M. R. Drout, Anthony L. Piro, C. D. Kilpatrick, R. J. Foley, C. Rojas-Bravo, K. Taggart, M. R. Siebert, M. Magee	4
5	Late-time Hubble Space Telescope Observations of AT 2018cow. II. Evolution of a UV-bright Underlying Source 2–4 Yr Post-discovery 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Y. Chen, M. R. Drout, Anthony L. Piro, C. D. Kilpatrick, R. J. Foley, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. Magee	10
6	An Asymmetric Double-degenerate Type Ia Supernova Explosion with a Surviving Companion Star 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·M. R. Siebert, R. J. Foley, Yossef Zenati, G. Dimitriadis, (unknown), (unknown), Kyle W. Davis, K. Taggart, C. Rojas-Bravo	6
7	Spectropolarimetry of the Type Ia SN 2019ein rules out significant global asphericity of the ejecta 2022 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Kishore C. Patra, Yi Yang, Thomas G. Brink, Peter Höflich, Lifan Wang, A. V. Filippenko, Daniel Kasen, D. Baade, R. J. Foley, Justyn R. Maund, WeiKang Zheng, T. Hung, Aleksandar Cikota, J. C. Wheeler, Mattia Bulla	8
8	Updated Photometry of the Yellow Supergiant Progenitor and Late-time Observations of the Type IIb Supernova SN 2016gkg 2022 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·C. D. Kilpatrick, D. A. Coulter, R. J. Foley, Anthony L. Piro, A. Rest, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert	11
9	Still Brighter than Pre-explosion, SN 2012Z Did Not Disappear: Comparing Hubble Space Telescope Observations a Decade Apart 2022 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·C. McCully, Saurabh W. Jha, R. Scalzo, D. A. Howell, R. J. Foley, (unknown), Zheng-Wei Liu, G. Hosseinzadeh, Lars Bildsten, Adam G. Riess, R. Kirshner, G. H. Marion, (unknown)	20
10	Tidal Disruption Event Hosts Are Green and Centrally Concentrated: Signatures of a Post-merger System 2021 ·The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Erica Hammerstein, Suvi Gezari, Sjoert van Velzen, S. B. Cenko, Nathaniel Roth, Charlotte Ward, Sara Frederick, T. Hung, M. J. Graham, R. J. Foley, Eric C. Bellm, (unknown), A. J. Drake, Thomas Kupfer, Russ R. Laher, A. Mahabal, Frank J. Masci, Reed Riddle, C. Rojas-Bravo, Roger M. Smith	48
11	Ca hnk: The Calcium-rich Transient Supernova 2016hnk from a Helium Shell Detonation of a Sub-Chandrasekhar White Dwarf 2020 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·W. V. Jacobson-Galán, Abigail Polin, R. J. Foley, G. Dimitriadis, C. D. Kilpatrick, R. Margutti, D. A. Coulter, Saurabh W. Jha, D. O. Jones, R. Kirshner, Y. C. Pan, Anthony L. Piro, A. Rest, C. Rojas-Bravo	15
12	An Empirical Study of Contamination in Deep, Rapid, and Wide-field Optical Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Events 2018 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·P. S. Cowperthwaite, E. Berger, A. Rest, R. Chornock, D. Scolnic, Peter K. G. Williams, Wen‐fai Fong, M. R. Drout, R. J. Foley, R. Margutti, R. Lunnan, Brian D. Metzger, Eliot Quataert	4
13	Simulations of the WFIRST Supernova Survey and Forecasts of Cosmological Constraints 2018 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Rebekah Hounsell, D. Scolnic, R. J. Foley, R. Keßler, Vivian Miranda, Arturo Avelino, R. C. Bohlin, A. V. Filippenko, J. Frieman, Saurabh W. Jha, Patrick L. Kelly, R. Kirshner, Kaisey S. Mandel, A. Rest, Adam G. Riess, S. Rodney, Louis-Gregory Strolger	99
14	LIGO/Virgo G298048: Potential optical counterpart discovered by Swope telescope 2017 ·GRB Coordinates Network ·D. A. Coulter, C. D. Kilpatrick, M. R. Siebert, R. J. Foley, B. J. Shappee, M. R. Drout, (unknown), Anthony L. Piro, A. Rest	6
15	DISCOVERY AND COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SPT-CL J2106-5844, THE MOST MASSIVE KNOWN CLUSTER AT z > 1 2015 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·R. J. Foley, (unknown)	15
16	Spectroscopic Classifications of PSN J15053007+0138024 with Keck 2015 ·ATel ·Saurabh W. Jha, (unknown), R. J. Foley	0
17	POSSIBLE DETECTION OF THE STELLAR DONOR OR REMNANT FOR THE TYPE Iax SUPERNOVA 2008ha 2014 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·R. J. Foley, C. McCully, Saurabh W. Jha, Lars Bildsten, Wen‐fai Fong, Gautham Narayan, A. Rest, M. Stritzinger	42
18	Supernova 2007ax in NGC 2577 2007 ·S. Blondin, A. V. Filippenko, R. J. Foley, (unknown), Luc Dessart, A. Vaz	1
19	The properties of V838 Monocerotis in 2002 November 2006 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Ya. V. Pavlenko, J. Th. van Loon, A. Evans, M. T. Rushton, (unknown), A. V. Filippenko, R. J. Foley, Wenyu Li, B. Smalley, (unknown)	4
20	GRB 060512: Keck redshift. 2006 ·GRB Coordinates Network ·J. S. Bloom, R. J. Foley, (unknown), D. A. Perley	3

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