Sandro Tacchella

18.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
117 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Sandro Tacchella is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandro Tacchella has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 58 papers in Instrumentation and 8 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Sandro Tacchella's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (96 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (58 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (55 papers). Sandro Tacchella is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (96 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (58 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (55 papers). Sandro Tacchella collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Sandro Tacchella's co-authors include C. M. Carollo, Mark Vogelsberger, Lars Hernquist, Avishai Dekel, Federico Marinacci, Neven Čaplar, Dylan Nelson, Sharon Lapiner, Daniel Ceverino and Annalisa Pillepich and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sandro Tacchella

106 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The optical morphologies of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation: a comparison to Pan-STARRS observations

2018 296 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Gregory F. Snyder et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Evidence for mature bulges and an inside-out quenching phase 3 billion years after the Big Bang

2015 154 citations Sandro Tacchella, A. Renzini et al. profile →
The impact of UV variability on the abundance of bright galaxies at z ≥ 9

2023 82 citations Mark Vogelsberger, Sandro Tacchella 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						Papers	Cites
Sandro Tacchella United States	34	3.3k	1.9k	293	122	103	117	3.5k
Daniel Ceverino United States	34	4.0k 1.2×	2.2k 1.2×	341 1.2×	159 1.3×	93 0.9×	68	4.1k
Joel Leja United States	28	2.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	314 1.1×	88 0.7×	89 0.9×	90	2.9k
Rachel Bezanson United States	27	3.0k 0.9×	2.0k 1.1×	208 0.7×	106 0.9×	138 1.3×	91	3.1k
Peter H. Johansson Finland	31	3.0k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	326 1.1×	127 1.0×	133 1.3×	71	3.1k
Barbara Catinella Australia	36	3.9k 1.2×	1.9k 1.0×	525 1.8×	139 1.1×	89 0.9×	102	4.0k
M. Arnaboldi Germany	37	3.9k 1.2×	2.3k 1.2×	268 0.9×	116 1.0×	158 1.5×	165	4.0k
M. Boquien France	34	4.3k 1.3×	1.6k 0.8×	500 1.7×	179 1.5×	130 1.3×	133	4.5k
Desika Narayanan United States	39	4.8k 1.5×	1.8k 1.0×	561 1.9×	131 1.1×	120 1.2×	116	5.0k
Sébastien Peirani France	32	3.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	588 2.0×	133 1.1×	126 1.2×	81	3.2k
Kenji Bekki Australia	36	5.1k 1.6×	2.6k 1.4×	281 1.0×	140 1.1×	87 0.8×	221	5.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Sandro Tacchella

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sandro Tacchella

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All Works

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Tacchella, Sandro, et al.. (2025). Decoding the variability in the star formation histories of z ∼ 0.8 galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 539(4). 2891–2909.

Ji, Xihan, R. Maiolino, G. J. Ferland, et al.. (2025). JADES – the small blue bump in GN-z11: insights into the nuclear region of a galaxy at z = 10.6. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541(3). 2134–2161. 3 indexed citations

Taylor, Anthony J., Óscar A. Chávez Ortiz, Steven L. Finkelstein, et al.. (2025). The Prevalence of Bursty Star Formation in Low-mass Galaxies at z = 1–7 from H α -to-UV Diagnostics. The Astrophysical Journal. 994(1). 14–14.

Turner, C. S., Sandro Tacchella, Francesco D’Eugenio, et al.. (2025). Age-dating early quiescent galaxies: high star formation efficiency, but consistent with direct, higher-redshift observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 537(2). 1826–1848. 8 indexed citations

Li, Zhaozhou, Avishai Dekel, Kartick C. Sarkar, et al.. (2024). Feedback-free starbursts at cosmic dawn. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 690. A108–A108. 39 indexed citations

Tacchella, Sandro, et al.. (2024). Stochastic prior for non-parametric star-formation histories. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 532(4). 4002–4025. 7 indexed citations

Woodrum, Charity, Marcia Rieke, Zhiyuan Ji, et al.. (2024). Using JADES NIRCam photometry to investigate the dependence of stellar mass inferences on the IMF in the early universe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(42). e2317375121–e2317375121. 3 indexed citations

Davies, R. L., Sirio Belli, Minjung Park, et al.. (2024). JWST reveals widespread AGN-driven neutral gas outflows in massive z ~ 2 galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(3). 4976–4992. 25 indexed citations

Nelson, Erica J., et al.. (2024). A Size Estimate for Galaxy GN-z11. Research Notes of the AAS. 8(1). 29–29. 2 indexed citations

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Hainline, Kevin, Francesco D’Eugenio, Fengwu Sun, et al.. (2024). JADES: Spectroscopic Confirmation and Proper Motion for a T-Dwarf at 2 kpc. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(1). 31–31. 1 indexed citations

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Shimasaku, Kazuhiro, Sandro Tacchella, Makoto Ando, et al.. (2023). HINOTORI I: The nature of rejuvenation galaxies. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan. 76(1). 1–26. 5 indexed citations

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Mathews, Elijah P., Joel Leja, Joshua S. Speagle, et al.. (2023). As Simple as Possible but No Simpler: Optimizing the Performance of Neural Net Emulators for Galaxy SED Fitting. The Astrophysical Journal. 954(2). 132–132. 8 indexed citations

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Rujopakarn, W., Christina C. Williams, E. Daddi, et al.. (2023). JWST and ALMA Imaging of Dust-obscured, Massive Substructures in a Typical z ∼ 3 Star-forming Disk Galaxy. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 948(1). L8–L8. 12 indexed citations

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Lapiner, Sharon, Avishai Dekel, Jonathan Freundlich, et al.. (2023). Wet compaction to a blue nugget: a critical phase in galaxy evolution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 522(3). 4515–4547. 40 indexed citations

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Costantin, Luca, Pablo G. Pérez‐González, Jesús Vega-Ferrero, et al.. (2023). Expectations of the Size Evolution of Massive Galaxies at 3 ≤ z ≤ 6 from the TNG50 Simulation: The CEERS/JWST View. The Astrophysical Journal. 946(2). 71–71. 26 indexed citations

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Tacchella, Sandro, Aaron Smith, Rahul Kannan, et al.. (2022). Hαemission in local galaxies: star formation, time variability, and the diffuse ionized gas. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513(2). 2904–2929. 47 indexed citations

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Naidu, Rohan P., Charlie Conroy, Ana Bonaca, et al.. (2021). Reconstructing the Last Major Merger of the Milky Way with the H3 Survey. The Astrophysical Journal. 923(1). 92–92. 111 indexed citations

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Suzuki, Tomoko L., Masato Onodera, Tadayuki Kodama, et al.. (2021). Dust, Gas, and Metal Content in Star-forming Galaxies at z ∼ 3.3 Revealed with ALMA and Near-IR Spectroscopy. The Astrophysical Journal. 908(1). 15–15. 10 indexed citations

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Morselli, L., G. Rodighiero, A Enia, et al.. (2020). A panchromatic spatially resolved analysis of nearby galaxies – II. The main sequence – gas relation at sub-kpc scale in grand-design spirals. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 496(4). 4606–4623. 35 indexed citations

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Rodríguez-Gómez, Vicente, Gregory F. Snyder, Jennifer M. Lotz, et al.. (2018). The optical morphologies of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation: a comparison to Pan-STARRS observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 483(3). 4140–4159. 296 indexed citations breakdown →

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