Sarah Wellons

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sarah Wellons is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Wellons has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 11 papers in Instrumentation and 7 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Sarah Wellons's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (23 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (11 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (11 papers). Sarah Wellons is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (23 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (11 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (11 papers). Sarah Wellons collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Sarah Wellons's co-authors include Paul Torrey, Chung‐Pei Ma, Mark Vogelsberger, Annalisa Pillepich, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Dylan Nelson, Shy Genel, Volker Springel, Philip F. Hopkins and Laura V. Sales and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Wellons

28 papers receiving 966 citations

Hit Papers

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  1. The stellar mass assembly of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: growth by mergers and the spatial distribution of accreted stars
    2016 312 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Annalisa Pillepich 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
Sarah Wellons United States 17 1.0k 547 136 52 40 28 1.1k
Y. Roehlly France 12 1.2k 1.1× 540 1.0× 156 1.1× 38 0.7× 30 0.8× 17 1.2k
Anne-Marie Weijmans United Kingdom 17 1.3k 1.3× 772 1.4× 131 1.0× 48 0.9× 28 0.7× 32 1.4k
B. Épinat France 21 1.3k 1.3× 602 1.1× 107 0.8× 60 1.2× 35 0.9× 54 1.3k
Martin Sparre Germany 19 1.3k 1.3× 542 1.0× 198 1.5× 53 1.0× 33 0.8× 36 1.3k
M. Cano-Díaz Mexico 15 1.0k 1.0× 525 1.0× 86 0.6× 57 1.1× 26 0.7× 18 1.1k
Marc S. Seigar United States 17 974 1.0× 465 0.9× 108 0.8× 44 0.8× 62 1.6× 37 1000
F. F. Rosales-Ortega Spain 18 938 0.9× 368 0.7× 101 0.7× 49 0.9× 25 0.6× 42 976
C. Kehrig Spain 23 1.2k 1.2× 449 0.8× 96 0.7× 35 0.7× 21 0.5× 51 1.2k
Eyal Neistein Germany 9 1.4k 1.4× 687 1.3× 165 1.2× 62 1.2× 29 0.7× 9 1.4k
Lars Hernquist United States 8 671 0.7× 421 0.8× 85 0.6× 39 0.8× 37 0.9× 13 725

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Wellons

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Wellons

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All Works

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Cochrane, R. K., Philip F. Hopkins, Iryna S. Butsky, et al.. (2025). Hooks, Lines, and Sinkers: How Active Galactic Nucleus Feedback and Cosmic-Ray Transport Shape the Far-infrared–Radio Correlation of Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 980(1). 135–135. 2 indexed citations
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Hopkins, Philip F., Kung-Yi Su, Norman Murray, et al.. (2025). Zooming In On The Multi-Phase Structure of Magnetically-Dominated Quasar Disks: Radiation From Torus to ISCO Across Accretion Rates. The Open Journal of Astrophysics. 8. 2 indexed citations
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Rennehan, Douglas, Rachel S. Somerville, Christopher C. Hayward, et al.. (2025). Diverse dark matter profiles in fire dwarfs: black holes, cosmic rays and the cusp–core enigma. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540(2). 1928–1950. 2 indexed citations
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Faucher‐Giguère, Claude‐André, Sarah Wellons, Philip F. Hopkins, et al.. (2024). Effects of Multichannel Active Galactic Nuclei Feedback in FIRE Cosmological Simulations of Massive Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 973(2). 149–149. 7 indexed citations
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Hopkins, Philip F., Jonathan Squire, Kung-Yi Su, et al.. (2024). FORGE’d in FIRE II: The Formation of Magnetically-Dominated Quasar Accretion Disks from Cosmological Initial Conditions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 26 indexed citations
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Anglés‐Alcázar, Daniel, Christopher C. Hayward, R. K. Cochrane, et al.. (2024). Dense stellar clump formation driven by strong quasar winds in the FIRE cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530(3). 2795–2809. 6 indexed citations
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Hopkins, Philip F., Michael Y Grudić, Kung-Yi Su, et al.. (2024). FORGE'd in FIRE: Resolving the End of Star Formation and Structure of AGN Accretion Disks from Cosmological Initial Conditions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 23 indexed citations
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Faucher‐Giguère, Claude‐André, Jonathan Stern, Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar, et al.. (2023). Stellar feedback-regulated black hole growth: driving factors from nuclear to halo scales. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(1). 722–739. 18 indexed citations
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Anglés‐Alcázar, Daniel, Christopher C. Hayward, R. K. Cochrane, et al.. (2023). Local positive feedback in the overall negative: the impact of quasar winds on star formation in the FIRE cosmological simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(3). 3446–3463. 26 indexed citations
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Cochrane, R. K., Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar, Christopher C. Hayward, et al.. (2023). The impact of AGN-driven winds on physical and observable galaxy sizes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 523(2). 2409–2421. 22 indexed citations
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Nelson, Erica J., Katherine A. Suess, Minjung Park, et al.. (2023). The first quiescent galaxies in TNG300. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 522(2). 3138–3144. 14 indexed citations
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Whitaker, Katherine E., Joel Leja, Guillaume Mahler, et al.. (2021). Recent Star Formation in a Massive Slowly Quenched Lensed Quiescent Galaxy at z = 1.88. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 907(1). L8–L8. 17 indexed citations
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Su, Kung-Yi, Philip F. Hopkins, Greg L. Bryan, et al.. (2021). Which AGN jets quench star formation in massive galaxies?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 507(1). 175–204. 49 indexed citations
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Hopkins, Philip F., Sarah Wellons, Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, & Michael Y Grudić. (2021). Why do black holes trace bulges (& central surface densities), instead of galaxies as a whole?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 510(1). 630–638. 21 indexed citations
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Gurvich, Alexander B., Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Alexander J. Richings, et al.. (2020). Pressure balance in the multiphase ISM of cosmologically simulated disc galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 498(3). 3664–3683. 39 indexed citations
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Whitaker, Katherine E., Gabriel Brammer, Guillaume Mahler, et al.. (2020). REQUIEM-2D Methodology: Spatially Resolved Stellar Populations of Massive Lensed Quiescent Galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope 2D Grism Spectroscopy. The Astrophysical Journal. 900(2). 184–184. 12 indexed citations
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Wellons, Sarah, Paul Torrey, Chung‐Pei Ma, et al.. (2015). The diverse evolutionary paths of simulated high-zmassive, compact galaxies toz= 0. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 456(1). 1030–1048. 75 indexed citations
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Torrey, Paul, Sarah Wellons, Francisco B. C. Machado, et al.. (2015). An analysis of the evolving comoving number density of galaxies in hydrodynamical simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 454(3). 2770–2786. 49 indexed citations
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Wellons, Sarah, Alicia Soderberg, & Roger A. Chevalier. (2012). RADIO OBSERVATIONS REVEAL UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTELLAR ENVIRONMENTS FOR SOME TYPE Ibc SUPERNOVA PROGENITORS. The Astrophysical Journal. 752(1). 17–17. 41 indexed citations
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Nordhaus, Jason, Sarah Wellons, David S. Spiegel, Brian D. Metzger, & Eric G. Blackman. (2011). Formation of high-field magnetic white dwarfs from common envelopes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(8). 3135–3140. 74 indexed citations

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