Rahul Kannan

3.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
80 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Rahul Kannan is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rahul Kannan has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 30 papers in Instrumentation and 14 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Rahul Kannan's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (64 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (30 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (28 papers). Rahul Kannan is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (64 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (30 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (28 papers). Rahul Kannan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Rahul Kannan's co-authors include Mark Vogelsberger, Lars Hernquist, Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor, Federico Marinacci, Aaron Smith, Enrico Garaldi, Paul Torrey, R. McKinnon and Sownak Bose and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

In The Last Decade

Rahul Kannan

75 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Introducing the thesan project: radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the epoch of reionization

2021 160 citations Rahul Kannan, Enrico Garaldi et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The MillenniumTNG Project: the hydrodynamical full physics simulation and a first look at its galaxy clusters

2023 96 citations Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The impact of UV variability on the abundance of bright galaxies at z ≥ 9

2023 82 citations Xuejian Shen, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers

Rahul Kannan

INSTR

NHEP

SNP

Cameron Hummels United States

Jeremy Bailin United States

Max Grönke United States

Britton Smith United States

A. Pallottini Italy

Stephen Gwyn Canada

T K Chan United States

Dale D. Kocevski United States

J. L. Donley United States

M. Gaspari United States

Cameron Hummels United States

Rahul Kannan

2.2k ×1.1

635 ×0.8

INSTR

609 ×1.3

NHEP

63 ×0.7

SNP

57 ×0.8

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Countries citing papers authored by Rahul Kannan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rahul Kannan

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

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Sullivan, James M., Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, Mikhail M. Ivanov, et al.. (2025). High-redshift millennium and astrid galaxies in effective field theory at the field level. Physical review. D. 112(8). 3 indexed citations

Zier, Oliver, Aaron Smith, Mark Vogelsberger, et al.. (2025). High-redshift AGN population in radiation-hydrodynamics simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(1). 355–371. 1 indexed citations

Zier, Oliver, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, et al.. (2025). The thesan-zoom project: Population III star formation continues until the end of reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(1). 410–429. 3 indexed citations

McClymont, William, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith, et al.. (2025). The thesan-zoom project: burst, quench, repeat – unveiling the evolution of high-redshift galaxies along the star-forming main sequence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(1). 513–534. 7 indexed citations

Zier, Oliver, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, et al.. (2025). The thesan–zoom project: long-term imprints of external reionization on galaxy evolution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(1). 391–409. 3 indexed citations

Shen, Xuejian, Rahul Kannan, Ewald Puchwein, et al.. (2025). The thesan-zoom project: star formation efficiencies in high-redshift galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 545(4).

Jamieson, Drew, Eiichiro Komatsu, Sownak Bose, et al.. (2024). Statistics of thermal gas pressure as a probe of cosmology and galaxy formation. Physical review. D. 109(6). 3 indexed citations

Shen, Xuejian, Mark Vogelsberger, Josh Borrow, et al.. (2024). The thesan project: galaxy sizes during the epoch of reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534(2). 1433–1458. 12 indexed citations

Cadiou, Corentin, Simon D. M. White, Volker Springel, et al.. (2024). Evolution of cosmic filaments in the MTNG simulation. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 684. A63–A63. 23 indexed citations

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Garaldi, Enrico, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, et al.. (2024). The thesan project: public data release of radiation-hydrodynamic simulations matching reionization-era JWST observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530(4). 3765–3786. 13 indexed citations

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Contreras, Sergio, Raúl E. Angulo, Volker Springel, et al.. (2023). The MillenniumTNG Project: inferring cosmology from galaxy clustering with accelerated N-body scaling and subhalo abundance matching. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(2). 2489–2506. 25 indexed citations

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Bose, Sownak, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Monica Barrera, et al.. (2023). The MillenniumTNG Project: the large-scale clustering of galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(2). 2579–2593. 20 indexed citations

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Shen, Xuejian, Josh Borrow, Mark Vogelsberger, et al.. (2023). thesan-hr: galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization in warm dark matter, fuzzy dark matter, and interacting dark matter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(2). 2835–2857. 18 indexed citations

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Sales, Laura V., Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger, et al.. (2023). Real and counterfeit cores: how feedback expands haloes and disrupts tracers of inner gravitational potential in dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(1). 461–479. 13 indexed citations

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Hassan, Sultan, Aaron Smith, Renyue Cen, et al.. (2023). Bridging the Gap between Cosmic Dawn and Reionization Favors Models Dominated by Faint Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 959(1). 2–2. 6 indexed citations

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Tacchella, Sandro, Aaron Smith, Rahul Kannan, et al.. (2022). Hαemission in local galaxies: star formation, time variability, and the diffuse ionized gas. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513(2). 2904–2929. 47 indexed citations

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Smith, Aaron, Rahul Kannan, Sandro Tacchella, et al.. (2022). The physics of Lyman-α escape from disc-like galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 517(1). 1–27. 35 indexed citations

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Kannan, Rahul, Mark Vogelsberger, Federico Marinacci, et al.. (2021). Dust entrainment in galactic winds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 503(1). 336–343. 24 indexed citations

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Kannan, Rahul, Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger, et al.. (2020). Simulating the interstellar medium of galaxies with radiative transfer, non-equilibrium thermochemistry, and dust. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 499(4). 5732–5748. 40 indexed citations

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Obreja, Aura, Andrea V. Macciò, Benjamin P. Moster, et al.. (2019). Local photoionization feedback effects on galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 490(2). 1518–1538. 14 indexed citations

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