S. E. Koposov

43.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
146 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

S. E. Koposov is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, S. E. Koposov has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 139 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 71 papers in Instrumentation and 6 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in S. E. Koposov's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (129 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (71 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (67 papers). S. E. Koposov is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (129 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (71 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (67 papers). S. E. Koposov collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. S. E. Koposov's co-authors include Vasily Belokurov, Denis Erkal, N. W. Evans, Alis J. Deason, G. Torrealba, N. W. Evans, Matthew G. Walker, M. J. Irwin, Jason L. Sanders and GyuChul Myeong and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

S. E. Koposov

143 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

Co-formation of the disc and the stellar halo★ 2015 2026 2018 2022 2018 2015 2020 2019 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Co-formation of the disc and the stellar halo★
    2018 635 citations Vasily Belokurov, Denis Erkal et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  2. BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD: DISCOVERY OF NINE ULTRA FAINT SATELLITES IN THE VICINITY OF THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS
    2015 311 citations S. E. Koposov, Vasily Belokurov et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  3. Unresolved stellar companions with Gaia DR2 astrometry
    2020 241 citations Vasily Belokurov, Zephyr Penoyre et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  4. The total mass of the Large Magellanic Cloud from its perturbation on the Orphan stream
    2019 217 citations Denis Erkal, Vasily Belokurov et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
S. E. Koposov United Kingdom 48 6.8k 3.4k 757 236 160 146 7.0k
Steven R. Majewski United States 57 9.2k 1.4× 4.7k 1.4× 479 0.6× 249 1.1× 147 0.9× 218 9.4k
E. K. Grebel Germany 55 10.2k 1.5× 4.7k 1.4× 848 1.1× 222 0.9× 187 1.2× 291 10.3k
Rodrigo Ibata France 56 11.1k 1.6× 5.3k 1.6× 999 1.3× 207 0.9× 239 1.5× 265 11.4k
Jon A. Holtzman United States 49 6.9k 1.0× 2.8k 0.8× 664 0.9× 173 0.7× 139 0.9× 150 7.2k
Alan W. McConnachie Canada 40 6.0k 0.9× 3.3k 1.0× 533 0.7× 158 0.7× 100 0.6× 177 6.3k
B. K. Gibson Australia 49 8.6k 1.3× 2.9k 0.8× 1.3k 1.7× 165 0.7× 205 1.3× 237 8.9k
Vasily Belokurov United Kingdom 61 10.9k 1.6× 5.2k 1.5× 1.3k 1.7× 365 1.5× 303 1.9× 233 11.4k
Matthias Steinmetz Germany 49 7.4k 1.1× 3.4k 1.0× 1.1k 1.4× 192 0.8× 412 2.6× 162 7.6k
Kathryn V. Johnston United States 42 5.4k 0.8× 2.7k 0.8× 312 0.4× 106 0.4× 184 1.1× 121 5.6k
Geraint F. Lewis Australia 51 9.6k 1.4× 4.2k 1.2× 1.2k 1.6× 148 0.6× 227 1.4× 335 9.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Serenelli, Aldo, et al.. (2024). The Prince and the Pauper: Evidence for the early high-redshift formation of the Galactic α-poor disc population. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 683. A74–A74. 5 indexed citations
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Simon, Joshua D., Ting S. Li, Alexander P. Ji, et al.. (2024). Eridanus III and DELVE 1: Carbon-rich Primordial Star Clusters or the Smallest Dwarf Galaxies?*. The Astrophysical Journal. 976(2). 256–256. 6 indexed citations
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Smith, Leigh C., P. W. Lucas, S. E. Koposov, et al.. (2024). VIRAC2: NIR astrometry and time series photometry for 500M+ stars from the VVV and VVVX surveys. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 536(4). 3707–3738. 5 indexed citations
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Pace, Andrew B., S. E. Koposov, Matthew G. Walker, et al.. (2023). The kinematics, metallicities, and orbits of six recently discovered Galactic star clusters with Magellan/M2FS spectroscopy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526(1). 1075–1094. 7 indexed citations
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Petersen, Michael, Denis Erkal, Jorge Peñarrubia, et al.. (2022). The effect of the deforming dark matter haloes of the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Orphan–Chenab stream. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(1). 774–790. 43 indexed citations
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Walker, Matthew G., et al.. (2022). Two-point Separation Functions for Modeling Wide Binary Systems in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 929(1). 77–77. 4 indexed citations
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Shipp, Nora, Denis Erkal, A. Drlica-Wagner, et al.. (2021). Measuring the Mass of the Large Magellanic Cloud with Stellar Streams Observed by S 5. The Astrophysical Journal. 923(2). 149–149. 76 indexed citations
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Pace, Andrew B., Matthew G. Walker, S. E. Koposov, et al.. (2021). Spectroscopic Confirmation of the Sixth Globular Cluster in the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy*. The Astrophysical Journal. 923(1). 77–77. 18 indexed citations
9.
Ji, Alexander P., S. E. Koposov, Ting S. Li, et al.. (2021). Kinematics of Antlia 2 and Crater 2 from the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S 5). The Astrophysical Journal. 921(1). 32–32. 55 indexed citations
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Casey, Andrew R., Alexander P. Ji, Terese T. Hansen, et al.. (2021). Signature of a Massive Rotating Metal-poor Star Imprinted in the Phoenix Stellar Stream*. The Astrophysical Journal. 921(1). 67–67. 4 indexed citations
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Huang, Kuan‐Wei & S. E. Koposov. (2021). Identifying RR Lyrae in the ZTF DR3 data set. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 510(3). 3575–3588. 5 indexed citations
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Simion, Iulia T., Juntai Shen, S. E. Koposov, et al.. (2021). Mapping the tilt of the Milky Way bulge velocity ellipsoids with ARGOS and Gaia DR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 502(2). 1740–1752. 11 indexed citations
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Penoyre, Zephyr, Vasily Belokurov, N. W. Evans, Andrew Everall, & S. E. Koposov. (2020). Binary deviations from single object astrometry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 495(1). 321–337. 60 indexed citations
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Belokurov, Vasily, Alis J. Deason, Denis Erkal, et al.. (2019). The Pisces Plume and the Magellanic wake. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 488(1). L47–L52. 39 indexed citations
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Laporte, Chervin F. P., Vasily Belokurov, S. E. Koposov, M. C. Smith, & V. Hill. (2019). Chemodynamical properties of the Anticentre Stream: a surviving disc fossil from a past satellite interaction. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 492(1). L61–L65. 29 indexed citations
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Koposov, S. E., Douglas Boubert, Ting S. Li, et al.. (2019). Discovery of a nearby 1700 km s−1 star ejected from the Milky Way by Sgr A*. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 491(2). 2465–2480. 83 indexed citations
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Rau, Markus Michael, S. E. Koposov, Hy Trac, & Rachel Mandelbaum. (2019). Calibrating long-period variables as standard candles with machine learning. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 484(1). 409–421. 9 indexed citations
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Navarrete, Camila, Vasily Belokurov, M. Catelan, et al.. (2018). Stellar streams around the Magellanic Clouds in 4D. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 483(3). 4160–4174. 10 indexed citations
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Weisz, Daniel R., S. E. Koposov, Andrew E. Dolphin, et al.. (2016). A HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE STUDY OF THE ENIGMATIC MILKY WAY HALO GLOBULAR CLUSTER CRATER*. The Astrophysical Journal. 822(1). 32–32. 31 indexed citations
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Shanks, T., Vasily Belokurov, S. M. Croom, et al.. (2013). VST ATLAS first science results.. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 16 indexed citations

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