Ronald E. Taam

8.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
141 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Ronald E. Taam is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ronald E. Taam has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 26 papers in Geophysics and 16 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Ronald E. Taam's work include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (84 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (59 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (47 papers). Ronald E. Taam is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (84 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (59 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (47 papers). Ronald E. Taam collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Germany. Ronald E. Taam's co-authors include S. E. Woosley, Natalia Ivanova, W. H. G. Lewin, J. van Paradijs, H. C. Spruit, Eric L. Sandquist, Krzysztof Belczyński, B. Fryxell, V. Kalogera and Frederic A. Rasio and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Journal of Computational Physics.

In The Last Decade

Ronald E. Taam

138 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Common envelope evolution: where we stand and how we can move forward

2013 659 citations Natalia Ivanova, Orsola De Marco et al. profile →
Compact Object Modeling with the StarTrack Population Synthesis Code

2007 468 citations Krzysztof Belczyński, V. Kalogera et al. profile →
X-ray bursts

1993 420 citations Ronald E. Taam et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ronald E. Taam United States	36	5.1k	796	786	425	194	141	5.3k
F. Verbunt Netherlands	35	4.7k 0.9×	699 0.9×	583 0.7×	458 1.1×	177 0.9×	158	4.8k
J. E. Pringle United Kingdom	38	5.1k 1.0×	560 0.7×	983 1.3×	222 0.5×	271 1.4×	97	5.3k
E. P. J. van den Heuvel Netherlands	34	4.0k 0.8×	683 0.9×	823 1.0×	207 0.5×	217 1.1×	133	4.2k
P. C. Joss United States	27	3.0k 0.6×	632 0.8×	479 0.6×	250 0.6×	107 0.6×	95	3.1k
C. Knigge United Kingdom	37	4.7k 0.9×	431 0.5×	904 1.2×	586 1.4×	186 1.0×	221	4.8k
J. P. Halpern United States	44	6.4k 1.2×	721 0.9×	2.1k 2.7×	315 0.7×	112 0.6×	221	6.5k
C. O. Heinke United States	42	5.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	276 0.6×	318 1.6×	201	5.2k
Q. Daniel Wang United States	36	4.2k 0.8×	278 0.3×	1.7k 2.2×	390 0.9×	91 0.5×	194	4.3k
Krzysztof Belczyński Poland	45	7.2k 1.4×	389 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	530 1.2×	86 0.4×	140	7.4k
Thomas J. Maccarone United States	37	5.3k 1.0×	487 0.6×	1.5k 1.9×	362 0.9×	433 2.2×	256	5.4k

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Marchant, Pablo, K. M. W. Pappas, C. P. L. Berry, et al.. (2021). The role of mass transfer and common envelope evolution in the formation of merging binary black holes. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 113 indexed citations

Pan, K., P. M. Ricker, & Ronald E. Taam. (2016). EVOLUTION OF POST-IMPACT REMNANT HELIUM STARS IN TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA REMNANTS WITHIN THE SINGLE-DEGENERATE SCENARIO. 23 indexed citations

Kim, Hyosun, Sheng‐Yuan Liu, Naomi Hirano, et al.. (2015). HIGH-RESOLUTION CO OBSERVATION OF THE CARBON STAR CIT 6 REVEALING THE SPIRAL STRUCTURE AND A NASCENT BIPOLAR OUTFLOW. The Astrophysical Journal. 814(1). 61–61. 18 indexed citations

Kim, Hyosun & Ronald E. Taam. (2011). The Interaction of Planets and Brown Dwarfs with AGB Stellar Winds. AIP conference proceedings. 49–55. 1 indexed citations

Taam, Ronald E., et al.. (2011). THE CENTRAL REGION OF THE NEARBY SEYFERT 2 GALAXY NGC 4945: A PAIR OF SPIRALS. The Astrophysical Journal. 731(1). 15–15. 5 indexed citations

Sluys, Marc van der, et al.. (2010). Masses and Envelope Binding Energies of Primary Stars at the Onset of a Common Envelope. AIP conference proceedings. 13–18. 1 indexed citations

Willems, Bart, Ronald E. Taam, U. Kolb, G. Dubus, & Eric L. Sandquist. (2007). Theoretical Orbital Period Distributions of Cataclysmic Variables above the Period Gap: Effects of Circumbinary Disks. The Astrophysical Journal. 657(1). 465–481. 15 indexed citations

Marco, Orsola De, Eric L. Sandquist, Mordecai‐Mark Mac Low, Falk Herwig, & Ronald E. Taam. (2003). Wolf-Rayet Central Stars and the Binary Evolution Channel. Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México). 18. 24–30. 6 indexed citations

Ivanova, Natalia, Krzysztof Belczyński, V. Kalogera, Frederic A. Rasio, & Ronald E. Taam. (2003). The Role of Helium Stars in the Formation of Double Neutron Stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 592(1). 475–485. 79 indexed citations

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Spruit, H. C. & Ronald E. Taam. (2001). Circumbinary Disks and Cataclysmic Variable Evolution. The Astrophysical Journal. 548(2). 900–907. 56 indexed citations

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Taam, Ronald E., et al.. (1996). Double-Core Evolution. IX. The Infall of a Main-Sequence Star through the Envelope of Its Intermediate-Mass Red Giant Companion. The Astrophysical Journal. 458. 692–692. 21 indexed citations

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Taam, Ronald E., et al.. (1996). A population synthesis study of low-mass X-ray binary systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 281(2). 552–564. 10 indexed citations

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Spruit, H. C. & Ronald E. Taam. (1993). An instability associated with a magnetosphere-disk interaction. The Astrophysical Journal. 402. 593–593. 112 indexed citations

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Pinto, Philip A., Ronald E. Taam, & J. M. Laming. (1991). A New Model for X-Ray Burst Absorption Lines. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 23(4). 1320. 1 indexed citations

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McMillan, Stephen L. W., Ronald E. Taam, & P. N. McDermott. (1990). On the formation of red giant binaries by tidal capture. The Astrophysical Journal. 354. 190–190. 8 indexed citations

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McDermott, P. N. & Ronald E. Taam. (1989). On the disrupted magnetic braking model for the period gap of cataclysmic variables. The Astrophysical Journal. 342. 1019–1019. 40 indexed citations

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Fryxell, B., Ronald E. Taam, & Stephen L. W. McMillan. (1987). Numerical simulations of adiabatic axisymmetric accretion flow. I - A new mechanism for the formation of jets. The Astrophysical Journal. 315. 536–536. 13 indexed citations

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London, Richard A., Ronald E. Taam, & W. M. Howard. (1987). Model Atmospheres for X-ray Bursting Neutron Stars. Symposium - International Astronomical Union. 125. 251–251. 1 indexed citations

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Stahler, Steven W., Frank H. Shu, & Ronald E. Taam. (1981). The evolution of protostars. III - The accretion envelope. The Astrophysical Journal. 248. 727–727. 32 indexed citations

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Taam, Ronald E.. (1980). The long-term evolution of accreting carbon white dwarfs. The Astrophysical Journal. 242. 749–749. 47 indexed citations

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