S. J. McSweeney

693 total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 270 citations indexed

About

S. J. McSweeney is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, S. J. McSweeney has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 270 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 13 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 4 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in S. J. McSweeney's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (21 papers), Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (19 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (13 papers). S. J. McSweeney is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (21 papers), Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (19 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (13 papers). S. J. McSweeney collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and India. S. J. McSweeney's co-authors include N. D. R. Bhat, N. Hurley‐Walker, Timothy J. Galvin, Arash Bahramian, S. M. Ord, P. J. Hancock, John Morgan, G. Heald, G. E. Anderson and S. E. Tremblay and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

S. J. McSweeney

19 papers receiving 225 citations

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A radio transient with unusually slow periodic emission

2022 101 citations N. Hurley‐Walker, Arash Bahramian et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
S. J. McSweeney Australia	9	251	105	31	21	21	27	270
Franz Kirsten Sweden	10	246 1.0×	79 0.8×	17 0.5×	16 0.8×	18 0.9×	17	260
A. V. Bilous Netherlands	9	305 1.2×	92 0.9×	36 1.2×	54 2.6×	12 0.6×	19	312
Jumei Yao China	8	195 0.8×	56 0.5×	17 0.5×	14 0.7×	17 0.8×	19	213
S. J. Dang China	9	213 0.8×	66 0.6×	75 2.4×	48 2.3×	19 0.9×	52	229
Chenchen Miao China	8	140 0.6×	53 0.5×	22 0.7×	18 0.9×	13 0.6×	29	162
M. A. Krishnakumar India	10	224 0.9×	64 0.6×	48 1.5×	25 1.2×	24 1.1×	22	233
A. Ganguly India	6	381 1.5×	154 1.5×	43 1.4×	10 0.5×	9 0.4×	7	392
E. B. Fomalont United States	5	215 0.9×	71 0.7×	27 0.9×	24 1.1×	11 0.5×	8	225
B. Marcote Netherlands	13	322 1.3×	118 1.1×	14 0.5×	12 0.6×	11 0.5×	34	336

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McSweeney, S. J., J. T. Moseley, N. Hurley‐Walker, et al.. (2025). Discovery of an RRAT-like Pulsar via Its Single Pulses in a Murchison Widefield Array Imaging Survey. The Astrophysical Journal. 981(2). 143–143.

Hurley‐Walker, N., S. J. McSweeney, Chia Min Tan, et al.. (2025). Investigating four new candidate redback pulsars discovered in the image plane. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 42.

Sokołowski, M., et al.. (2025). 100 000 Crab giant pulses at 215 MHz detected with an SKA-Low prototype station. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 42.

Horvath, Christopher, N. Hurley‐Walker, S. J. McSweeney, Timothy J. Galvin, & John Morgan. (2025). A long period transient search method for the Murchison Widefield Array. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 42. 1 indexed citations

Bhat, N. D. R., Bradley W. Meyers, S. J. McSweeney, et al.. (2025). The Southern-sky MWA Rapid Two-metre (SMART) pulsar survey—III. A census of millisecond pulsars at 154 MHz. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 42.

McSweeney, S. J., N. Hurley‐Walker, Christopher Horvath, et al.. (2025). A new long-period radio transient: discovery of pulses repeating every 1.16 h from ASKAP J175534.9−252749.1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 542(1). 203–214. 4 indexed citations

Bhat, N. D. R., et al.. (2024). Increasing the detectability of long-period and nulling pulsars in next-generation pulsar surveys. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 41. 1 indexed citations

Rea, N., N. Hurley‐Walker, Vanessa Graber, et al.. (2024). Long-period Radio Pulsars: Population Study in the Neutron Star and White Dwarf Rotating Dipole Scenarios. The Astrophysical Journal. 961(2). 214–214. 21 indexed citations

Hurley‐Walker, N., S. J. McSweeney, Arash Bahramian, et al.. (2024). A 2.9 hr Periodic Radio Transient with an Optical Counterpart. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 976(2). L21–L21. 18 indexed citations

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Sokołowski, M., Danny C. Price, G. Sleap, et al.. (2024). A commensal Fast Radio Burst search pipeline for the Murchison Widefield Array. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 41. 1 indexed citations

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Sokołowski, M., et al.. (2024). High-time resolution GPU imager for FRB searches at low radio frequencies. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 41.

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Anderson, G. E., K. Gourdji, M. Sokołowski, et al.. (2023). MWA rapid follow-up of gravitational wave transients: Prospects for detecting prompt radio counterparts. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 40. 1 indexed citations

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McSweeney, S. J., et al.. (2023). PSR J0026−1955: A curious case of evolutionary subpulse drifting and nulling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(2). 2684–2697. 5 indexed citations

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Sutinjo, Adrian, et al.. (2022). System equivalent flux density of a low-frequency polarimetric phased array interferometer. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 660. A134–A134. 4 indexed citations

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Bhat, N. D. R., et al.. (2022). MWA tied-array processing IV: A multi-pixel beamformer for pulsar surveys and ionospheric corrected localisation. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 39. 4 indexed citations

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Hurley‐Walker, N., Arash Bahramian, S. J. McSweeney, et al.. (2022). A radio transient with unusually slow periodic emission. Nature. 601(7894). 526–530. 101 indexed citations breakdown →

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McSweeney, S. J., N. D. R. Bhat, P. J. Hancock, et al.. (2022). Independent discovery of a nulling pulsar with unusual sub-pulse drifting properties with the Murchison Widefield Array. arXiv (Cornell University). 8 indexed citations

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Bhat, N. D. R., M. Sokołowski, S. J. McSweeney, et al.. (2021). Discovery of a Steep-spectrum Low-luminosity Pulsar with the Murchison Widefield Array. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 911(2). L26–L26. 13 indexed citations

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Bhat, N. D. R., S. M. Ord, S. E. Tremblay, S. J. McSweeney, & S. J. Tingay. (2016). SCINTILLATION ARCS IN LOW-FREQUENCY OBSERVATIONS OF THE TIMING-ARRAY MILLISECOND PULSAR PSR J0437–4715. The Astrophysical Journal. 818(1). 86–86. 30 indexed citations

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Ord, S. M., et al.. (2015). SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATIONS OF GIANT PULSES FROM THE CRAB PULSAR, WITH THE MURCHISON WIDEFIELD ARRAY AND PARKES RADIO TELESCOPE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GIANT PULSE EMISSION MECHANISM. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 6 indexed citations

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