Ryan M. Lau

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 355 citations indexed

About

Ryan M. Lau is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan M. Lau has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 355 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5 papers in Computational Mechanics and 3 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Ryan M. Lau's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (24 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (20 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (18 papers). Ryan M. Lau is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (24 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (20 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (18 papers). Ryan M. Lau collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Australia. Ryan M. Lau's co-authors include M. M. Kasliwal, Hongru Du, Lauren Gardner, Béatrice Garcia, Jeremy Ratcliff, David Zhang, Sayeed Choudhury, Jason D. Williams, Ensheng Dong and Aaron J. Katz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Ryan M. Lau

31 papers receiving 319 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ryan M. Lau United States	9	200	46	42	31	26	41	355
Vanessa Böhm United States	6	122 0.6×	35 0.8×	17 0.4×	26 0.8×	6 0.2×	9	192
George Stein United States	7	211 1.1×	58 1.3×	17 0.4×	26 0.8×	6 0.2×	10	301
M. B. Purver United Kingdom	10	425 2.1×	93 2.0×	206 4.9×	100 3.2×	26 1.0×	12	717
Amaury Thiabaud Switzerland	10	311 1.6×	17 0.4×	41 1.0×	7 0.2×	28 1.1×	15	393
Subhabrata Majumdar United States	12	186 0.9×	75 1.6×	21 0.5×	7 0.2×	12 0.5×	26	359
Katherine Rosenfeld United States	11	1.0k 5.1×	8 0.2×	44 1.0×	63 2.0×	23 0.9×	17	1.1k
Gunnar Rø Norway	12	62 0.3×	87 1.9×	162 3.9×	77 2.5×	57 2.2×	27	394
F. Alvarado Chile	11	263 1.3×	9 0.2×	31 0.7×	2 0.1×	45 1.7×	67	385
M. Fitzpatrick United States	5	165 0.8×	13 0.3×	9 0.2×	3 0.1×	16 0.6×	13	267

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Monnier, John D., Yinuo Han, M. F. Corcoran, et al.. (2025). Revealing the Accelerating Wind in the Inner Region of Colliding-wind Binary WR 112. The Astronomical Journal. 170(4). 218–218.

Pope, Benjamin, Peter Tuthill, Yinuo Han, et al.. (2025). The Serpent Eating Its Own Tail: Dust Destruction in the Apep Colliding Wind Nebula. The Astrophysical Journal. 994(1). 121–121. 1 indexed citations

Taniguchi, Kotomi, Ryan M. Lau, Takashi Onaka, et al.. (2025). The Aromatic Infrared Bands around the Wolf–Rayet Binary WR 140 Revealed by JWST. The Astrophysical Journal. 993(1). 104–104.

Lau, Ryan M., J. Jencson, Colette Salyk, et al.. (2025). Revealing a Main-sequence Star that Consumed a Planet with JWST. The Astrophysical Journal. 983(2). 87–87. 3 indexed citations

Han, Yinuo, J. R. Callingham, Ryan M. Lau, et al.. (2025). The Formation and Evolution of Dust in the Colliding-wind Binary Apep Revealed by JWST. The Astrophysical Journal. 994(1). 122–122. 1 indexed citations

Richardson, Noel D., P. M. Williams, Grant M. Hill, et al.. (2024). The Long-period Spectroscopic Orbit and Dust Creation in the Wolf–Rayet Binary System WR 125. The Astrophysical Journal. 969(2). 140–140. 1 indexed citations

Izumi, Natsuko, Michael E. Ressler, Ryan M. Lau, et al.. (2024). Overview Results of JWST Observations of Star-forming Clusters in the Extreme Outer Galaxy. The Astronomical Journal. 168(2). 68–68. 2 indexed citations

Yan, Lin, J. Jencson, C. Fremling, et al.. (2024). WTP 19aalnxx: Discovery of a Bright Mid-infrared Transient in the Emerging Class of Low-luminosity Supernovae Revealed by Delayed Circumstellar Interaction. The Astrophysical Journal. 976(2). 230–230. 3 indexed citations

Richardson, Noel D., P. M. Williams, В. И. Шенаврин, et al.. (2023). FORCASTing the Spectroscopic Dust Properties of the WC+O Binary WR 137 with SOFIA. The Astrophysical Journal. 956(2). 109–109. 3 indexed citations

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Lau, Ryan M., Jason Wang, M. Hankins, et al.. (2023). From Dust to Nanodust: Resolving Circumstellar Dust from the Colliding-wind Binary Wolf-Rayet 140. The Astrophysical Journal. 951(2). 89–89. 5 indexed citations

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Chakrabarty, Deepto, Roberto Soria, M. C. B. Ashley, et al.. (2022). A Massive AGB Donor in Scutum X-1: Identification of the First Mira Variable in an X-Ray Binary. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 928(1). L8–L8. 1 indexed citations

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Lau, Ryan M., L. Burtscher, C. Packham, et al.. (2022). IR 2022: An infrared-bright future for ground-based IR observatories in the era of JWST. Nature Astronomy. 6(7). 772–773. 3 indexed citations

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Lau, Ryan M., et al.. (2022). Detection of a Broad 8 μm UIR Feature in the Mid-infrared Spectrum of WR 125 Observed with Subaru/COMICS. The Astrophysical Journal. 930(2). 116–116. 4 indexed citations

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Sakon, Itsuki, Takashi Onaka, Yuki Kimura, et al.. (2021). On the Nature of Organic Dust in Novae. The Astrophysical Journal. 917(2). 103–103. 11 indexed citations

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De, Kishalay, M. C. B. Ashley, M. M. Kasliwal, et al.. (2021). Second Timescale Photometry of the Very Fast Nova V1674 Her with Palomar Gattini-IR. Research Notes of the AAS. 5(10). 244–244. 1 indexed citations

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Karambelkar, Viraj, M. M. Kasliwal, P. Tisserand, et al.. (2021). Census of R Coronae Borealis Stars. I. Infrared Light Curves from Palomar Gattini IR. The Astrophysical Journal. 910(2). 132–132. 13 indexed citations

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Hankins, M., Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Kishalay De, et al.. (2020). Palomar Gattini-IR discovery and spectroscopic classification of a highly reddened YSO in outburst. The astronomer's telegram. 13902. 1.

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Han, Yinuo, Peter Tuthill, Ryan M. Lau, et al.. (2020). The extreme colliding-wind system Apep: resolved imagery of the central binary and dust plume in the infrared. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 498(4). 5604–5619. 12 indexed citations

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Hankins, M., Kishalay De, M. M. Kasliwal, et al.. (2019). Near-infrared brightening of MAXI J1820+070/ ASASSN18ey detected with Palomar Gattini-IR. The astronomer's telegram. 13044. 1.

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Jencson, J., M. M. Kasliwal, S. M. Adams, et al.. (2018). . Liverpool John Moores University. 5 indexed citations

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