Robyn E. Sanderson

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Robyn E. Sanderson is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robyn E. Sanderson has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 33 papers in Instrumentation and 6 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Robyn E. Sanderson's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (43 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (37 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (33 papers). Robyn E. Sanderson is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (43 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (37 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (33 papers). Robyn E. Sanderson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Robyn E. Sanderson's co-authors include Andrew Wetzel, Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Philip F. Hopkins, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, James S. Bullock, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Dušan Kereš, A. Helmi, Eliot Quataert and A. Lamberts and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Journal of Membrane Science.

In The Last Decade

Robyn E. Sanderson

59 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Not so lumpy after all: modelling the depletion of dark matter subhaloes by Milky Way-like galaxies

2017 233 citations Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Andrew Wetzel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robyn E. Sanderson United States	21	1.5k	591	244	49	42	64	1.6k
Anna–Christina Eilers United States	26	1.4k 0.9×	467 0.8×	291 1.2×	16 0.3×	40 1.0×	69	1.5k
Long Wang China	23	1.5k 1.0×	441 0.7×	85 0.3×	34 0.7×	41 1.0×	66	1.7k
E. J. Murphy United States	26	2.7k 1.8×	489 0.8×	678 2.8×	43 0.9×	28 0.7×	109	2.9k
B. McLean United States	18	1.3k 0.9×	470 0.8×	274 1.1×	87 1.8×	31 0.7×	82	1.5k
Peter Mitchell United Kingdom	27	1.9k 1.3×	985 1.7×	327 1.3×	45 0.9×	69 1.6×	57	2.4k
Rohan P. Naidu United States	22	1.5k 1.0×	718 1.2×	168 0.7×	14 0.3×	38 0.9×	62	1.6k
C. Ferrari France	22	1.2k 0.8×	312 0.5×	466 1.9×	12 0.2×	27 0.6×	66	1.4k
P. Richter Germany	29	2.1k 1.4×	286 0.5×	494 2.0×	67 1.4×	52 1.2×	87	2.4k
Kem H. Cook United States	18	880 0.6×	367 0.6×	94 0.4×	212 4.3×	23 0.5×	47	1.2k
Chris Loken United States	14	743 0.5×	239 0.4×	202 0.8×	48 1.0×	50 1.2×	18	1.1k

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Chakrabarti, Sukanya, et al.. (2025). A Map of the Outer Gas Disk of the Galaxy with Direct Distances from Young Stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 988(2). 217–217. 2 indexed citations

Garavito-Camargo, Nicolás, Robyn E. Sanderson, Martin D. Weinberg, et al.. (2025). Shaping the Milky Way: The Interplay of Mergers and Cosmic Filaments. The Astrophysical Journal. 988(2). 190–190. 4 indexed citations

Sanderson, Robyn E., Nicolás Garavito-Camargo, Andrew Wetzel, et al.. (2024). Efficient and Accurate Force Replay in Cosmological-baryonic Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 977(1). 23–23. 6 indexed citations

Sanderson, Robyn E., et al.. (2024). Generating synthetic star catalogs from simulated datafor next-gen observatories with py-ananke. The Journal of Open Source Software. 9(102). 6234–6234. 1 indexed citations

Nguyên, Tri, et al.. (2024). Synthetic Gaia DR3 Surveys from the FIRE Cosmological Simulations of Milky Way-mass Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(1). 108–108. 5 indexed citations

Wetzel, Andrew, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Robyn E. Sanderson, et al.. (2024). Testing the near-far connection with FIRE simulations: inferring the stellar mass function of the proto-Local Group at z > 6 using the fossil record of present-day galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533(1). 1059–1074. 1 indexed citations

Carrillo, Andreia, et al.. (2023). The Relationship between Age, Metallicity, and Abundances for Disk Stars in a Simulated Milky Way. The Astrophysical Journal. 942(1). 35–35. 17 indexed citations

Horta, Danny, Emily C. Cunningham, Robyn E. Sanderson, et al.. (2023). The Observable Properties of Galaxy Accretion Events in Milky Way–like Galaxies in the FIRE-2 Cosmological Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 943(2). 158–158. 20 indexed citations

Sanderson, Robyn E., Daniel Huber, Andrew Wetzel, et al.. (2023). Orientations of Dark Matter Halos in FIRE-2 Milky Way–mass Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 958(1). 44–44. 7 indexed citations

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Horta, Danny, Emily C. Cunningham, Robyn E. Sanderson, et al.. (2023). The proto-galaxy of Milky Way-mass haloes in the FIRE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(4). 9810–9825. 14 indexed citations

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Hey, Daniel, Daniel Huber, B. J. Shappee, et al.. (2023). The Far Side of the Galactic Bar/Bulge Revealed through Semi-regular Variables. The Astronomical Journal. 166(6). 249–249. 14 indexed citations

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Beaton, Rachael L., Suzanne Werner, A. W. Mitschang, et al.. (2022). APOGEE-centric Ananke Simulations in a SciServer SQL Database. Research Notes of the AAS. 6(6). 125–125. 1 indexed citations

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Kado-Fong, Erin, Robyn E. Sanderson, Jenny E. Greene, et al.. (2022). The In Situ Origins of Dwarf Stellar Outskirts in FIRE-2. The Astrophysical Journal. 931(2). 152–152. 9 indexed citations

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Sanderson, Robyn E., Omid Sameie, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, et al.. (2022). Shapes of Milky-Way-mass galaxies with self-interacting dark matter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 516(2). 2389–2405. 17 indexed citations

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Sameie, Omid, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Robyn E. Sanderson, et al.. (2021). The central densities of Milky Way-mass galaxies in cold and self-interacting dark matter models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 507(1). 720–729. 41 indexed citations

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Rossi, Elena M., Robyn E. Sanderson, Elena Sellentin, et al.. (2021). Galactic potential constraints from clustering in action space of combined stellar stream data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 502(3). 4170–4193. 31 indexed citations

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Bullock, James S., Andrew Wetzel, Robyn E. Sanderson, et al.. (2020). Stars made in outflows may populate the stellar halo of the Milky Way. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494(2). 1539–1559. 22 indexed citations

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Garrison-Kimmel, Shea, Philip F. Hopkins, Andrew Wetzel, et al.. (2019). The Local Group on FIRE: dwarf galaxy populations across a suite of hydrodynamic simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 487(1). 1380–1399. 148 indexed citations

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Garrison-Kimmel, Shea, Andrew Wetzel, Philip F. Hopkins, et al.. (2019). Star formation histories of dwarf galaxies in the FIRE simulations: dependence on mass and Local Group environment. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489(4). 4574–4588. 96 indexed citations

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Miller, Bryan W., Tomás Ahumada, Thomas H. Puzia, et al.. (2017). The Extended Baryonic Halo of NGC 3923. Galaxies. 5(3). 29–29. 3 indexed citations

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