S. Aigrain

18.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
134 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

S. Aigrain is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, S. Aigrain has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 127 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 63 papers in Instrumentation and 13 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in S. Aigrain's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (123 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (63 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (49 papers). S. Aigrain is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (123 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (63 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (49 papers). S. Aigrain collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. S. Aigrain's co-authors include Neale P. Gibson, F. Pont, Stephen Roberts, A. McQuillan, Michael A. Osborne, Vinesh Rajpaul, Steven Reece, H. Parviainen, David K. Sing and Gregory W. Henry and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

S. Aigrain

126 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.

Gaussian processes for time-series modelling

2013 372 citations Neale P. Gibson, S. Aigrain et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
S. Aigrain United Kingdom	41	4.7k	1.9k	489	364	282	134	5.3k
Neale P. Gibson United Kingdom	32	2.7k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	466 1.0×	334 0.9×	108 0.4×	75	3.3k
Daniel Foreman-Mackey United States	27	3.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	121 0.2×	169 0.5×	169 0.6×	84	3.6k
Michael L. Norman United States	57	9.5k 2.0×	1.1k 0.6×	376 0.8×	241 0.7×	985 3.5×	208	10.5k
Tom Abel United States	52	8.8k 1.9×	1.7k 0.9×	191 0.4×	146 0.4×	291 1.0×	133	9.4k
Robert H. Lupton United States	42	7.9k 1.7×	3.5k 1.8×	113 0.2×	55 0.2×	275 1.0×	114	8.4k
David W. Hogg United States	51	9.4k 2.0×	4.4k 2.3×	74 0.2×	79 0.2×	311 1.1×	192	10.0k
R. C. Bohlin United States	36	9.4k 2.0×	3.1k 1.6×	706 1.4×	484 1.3×	309 1.1×	244	10.1k
M. Lombardi Italy	38	3.3k 0.7×	614 0.3×	396 0.8×	627 1.7×	31 0.1×	147	4.4k
A. J. Banday Germany	31	6.2k 1.3×	530 0.3×	133 0.3×	38 0.1×	148 0.5×	72	7.0k
Greg L. Bryan United States	46	6.6k 1.4×	1.4k 0.7×	124 0.3×	70 0.2×	295 1.0×	173	7.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of S. Aigrain

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Klein, Baptiste, S. Aigrain, M. Cretignier, et al.. (2025). Using Doppler imaging to model stellar activity and search for planets around Sun-like stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 542(4). 2714–2732.

Tkachenko, A., C. Aerts, S. Aigrain, et al.. (2025). MOCKA – A PLATO mock asteroseismic catalogue: Simulations for gravity-mode oscillators. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 694. A185–A185. 1 indexed citations

Cretignier, M., et al.. (2024). Stellar surface information from the Ca ii H&K lines – II. Defining better activity proxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 535(3). 2562–2584. 1 indexed citations

Klein, Baptiste, S. Aigrain, M. Cretignier, et al.. (2024). Investigating stellar activity through eight years of Sun-as-a-star observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 531(4). 4238–4262. 9 indexed citations

Cretignier, M., X. Dumusque, S. Aigrain, & F. Pepe. (2023). YARARA V2: Reaching sub-m s⁻¹ precision over a decade using PCA on line-by-line radial velocities. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 678. A2–A2. 15 indexed citations

Taylor, Jake, Vivien Parmentier, Michael R. Line, et al.. (2021). How does thermal scattering shape the infrared spectra of cloudy exoplanets? A theoretical framework and consequences for atmospheric retrievals in the JWST era. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506(1). 1309–1332. 18 indexed citations

Gillen, Edward, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, J. R. Stauffer, et al.. (2020). Mon-735: a new low-mass pre-main-sequence eclipsing binary in NGC 2264. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 495(2). 1531–1548. 5 indexed citations

Irwin, P. G. J., Vivien Parmentier, Jake Taylor, et al.. (2020). 2.5D retrieval of atmospheric properties from exoplanet phase curves: application to WASP-43b observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 493(1). 106–125. 50 indexed citations

Lanza, A. F., et al.. (2019). Stellar activity and rotation of the planet host Kepler-17 from long-term space-borne photometry. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 13 indexed citations

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Parmentier, Vivien, T. M. Evans, Laura Kreidberg, et al.. (2019). Seeing through the haze of two mini-Neptunes with Spitzer. 14325.

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Eisner, Nora L., Benjamin Pope, S. Aigrain, et al.. (2019). A Ghost in the Toast: TESS Background Light Produces a False “Transit” Across τ Ceti. Research Notes of the AAS. 3(10). 145–145.

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Gillen, Edward, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Trevor J. David, et al.. (2017). New Low-mass Eclipsing Binary Systems in Praesepe Discovered by K2. The Astrophysical Journal. 849(1). 11–11. 36 indexed citations

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Lohr, M. E., A. J. Norton, Edward Gillen, et al.. (2015). The doubly eclipsing quintuple low-mass star system 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 18 indexed citations

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David, Trevor J., J. R. Stauffer, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, et al.. (2015). HII 2407: AN ECLIPSING BINARY REVEALED BY K2 OBSERVATIONS OF THE PLEIADES. The Astrophysical Journal. 814(1). 62–62. 4 indexed citations

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Angus, Ruth, S. Aigrain, & Daniel Foreman-Mackey. (2015). Probabilistic stellar rotation periods with Gaussian processes. 29. 2258396. 1 indexed citations

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Tumlinson, Jason, Sara Seager, Julianne J. Dalcanton, et al.. (2015). Beyond JWST: Science Drivers for the Next Great UVOIR Space Telescope. 225. 1 indexed citations

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Sing, David K., Hannah R. Wakeford, A. P. Showman, et al.. (2014). HST hot-Jupiter transmission spectral survey: detection of potassium in WASP-31b along with a cloud deck and Rayleigh scattering. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 446(3). 2428–2443. 106 indexed citations

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Sing, David K., A. Lecavelier des Étangs, Jonathan J. Fortney, et al.. (2013). HST hot-Jupiter transmission spectral survey: evidence for aerosols and lack of TiO in the atmosphere of WASP-12b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 436(4). 2956–2973. 122 indexed citations

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Bonomo, A. S., Pierre-Yves Chabaud, M. Deleuil, et al.. (2012). Detection of Neptune-size planetary candidates with CoRoT data. Comparison with the planet occurrence rate derived from Kepler. arXiv (Cornell University). 547. 6 indexed citations

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Lanza, A. F., A. S. Bonomo, I. Pagano, et al.. (2010). Photospheric activity, rotation, and star-planet interaction of the planet-hosting star CoRoT-6. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 26 indexed citations

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