Scott Tremaine

35.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
206 papers, 22.4k citations indexed

About

Scott Tremaine is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott Tremaine has authored 206 papers receiving a total of 22.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 177 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 51 papers in Instrumentation and 33 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Scott Tremaine's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (101 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (76 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (51 papers). Scott Tremaine is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (101 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (76 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (51 papers). Scott Tremaine collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Scott Tremaine's co-authors include James Binney, Peter Goldreich, D. O. Richstone, Tod R. Lauer, John Kormendy, Alan Dressler, Karl Gebhardt, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, R. Bender and Carl J. Grillmair and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Scott Tremaine

196 papers receiving 21.5k citations

Hit Papers

Galactic Dynamics 1979 2026 1994 2010 2008 1998 2002 2017 1980 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k

Peers

Scott Tremaine
James E. Gunn United States
Thomas Quinn United States
Jeremiah P. Ostriker United States
James Binney United Kingdom
Eliot Quataert United States
Philip F. Hopkins United States
James E. Gunn United States
Scott Tremaine
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Frankel, Neige, et al.. (2025). Iron Snails: Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Spiral Abundance Patterns. The Astrophysical Journal. 987(1). 81–81.
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Frankel, Neige, Jo Bovy, Scott Tremaine, & David W. Hogg. (2023). Vertical motion in the Galactic disc: unwinding the snail. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(4). 5917–5926. 23 indexed citations
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Tremaine, Scott, Neige Frankel, & Jo Bovy. (2023). The origin and fate of the Gaia phase-space snail. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(1). 114–123. 27 indexed citations
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Hadden, Sam & Scott Tremaine. (2023). Scattered disc dynamics: the mapping approach. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(2). 3054–3075. 11 indexed citations
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Fouvry, Jean-Baptiste, Walter Dehnen, Scott Tremaine, & Ben Bar-Or. (2022). Secular Dynamics around a Supermassive black hole via Multipole Expansion. The Astrophysical Journal. 931(1). 8–8. 5 indexed citations
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Bar-Or, Ben, Jean-Baptiste Fouvry, & Scott Tremaine. (2019). Relaxation in a Fuzzy Dark Matter Halo. The Astrophysical Journal. 871(1). 28–28. 100 indexed citations
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Hui, Lam, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Scott Tremaine, & Edward Witten. (2016). On the hypothesis that cosmological dark matter is composed of ultra-light bosons. arXiv (Cornell University). 16 indexed citations
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Lissauer, Jack J., Rebekah I. Dawson, & Scott Tremaine. (2014). Advances in exoplanet science from Kepler. Nature. 513(7518). 336–344. 52 indexed citations
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Jurić, Mario & Scott Tremaine. (2008). Dynamical Relaxation by Planet-Planet Interactions as the Origin of Exoplanet Eccentricity Distribution. ASPC. 398. 295. 1 indexed citations
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Peter, Annika H. G. & Scott Tremaine. (2008). Dynamics of WIMPs in the solar system and implications for detection. arXiv (Cornell University). 61. 1 indexed citations
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Jurić, Mario & Scott Tremaine. (2007). The Eccentricity Distribution of Extrasolar Planets. arXiv (Cornell University).
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Lauer, Tod R., Karl Gebhardt, D. Richstone, S. M. Faber, & Scott Tremaine. (2006). The Most Massive Black Holes in the Local Universe. 254.
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Richstone, Douglas, Karl Gebhardt, R. Bender, et al.. (2004). Black Hole Mass Determinations From Orbit Superposition Models are Reliable. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 1 indexed citations
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Tremaine, Scott, et al.. (1997). A map for eccentric orbits in non-axisymmetric potentials. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 292(4). 905–919. 24 indexed citations
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Kormendy, John, R. Bender, John Magorrian, et al.. (1996). Spectroscopic Evidence for a Massive Black Hole in NGC 4486B. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 189(4). 1422–1423. 1 indexed citations
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Earn, David J. D. & Scott Tremaine. (1992). Exact numerical studies of Hamiltonian maps: Iterating without roundoff error. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena. 56(1). 1–22. 32 indexed citations
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Quinlan, Gerald D., David W. Hogg, & Scott Tremaine. (1991). Dynamical limits on dark mass in the outer solar system.. JRASC. 85(4). 187. 6 indexed citations
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Heisler, Julia, Scott Tremaine, P. R. Weissman, & R. Greenberg. (1991). Sky Distributions of Oort Cloud Comets During and Outside of Showers. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 22. 553. 1 indexed citations
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Binney, James & Scott Tremaine. (1988). Book-Review - Galactic Dynamics. Observatory. 109. 219. 1 indexed citations
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Heisler, Julia & Scott Tremaine. (1985). The Influence of the Galactic Tidal Field on the Oort Comet Cloud.. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 17. 726. 3 indexed citations

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