Scott Tremaine

35.8k citations
206 papers · 22.4k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 66
Topics
Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (101 papers)Astro and Planetary Science (76 papers)Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (51 papers)

In The Last Decade

Scott Tremaine

196 papers receiving 21.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers

Scott Tremaine
Comparison fields: 5 of 106
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 20.8k
  • Instrumentation 4.5k
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 4.2k
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 1.5k
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1.0k
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Countries citing papers authored by Scott Tremaine

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Fields of papers citing papers by Scott Tremaine

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott Tremaine

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Scott Tremaine. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Scott Tremaine based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Scott Tremaine. Scott Tremaine is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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On the hypothesis that cosmological dark matter is composed of ultra-light bosons
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Dynamical Relaxation by Planet-Planet Interactions as the Origin of Exoplanet Eccentricity Distribution
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Dynamics of WIMPs in the solar system and implications for detection
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The Eccentricity Distribution of Extrasolar Planets
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The Most Massive Black Holes in the Local Universe
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Black Hole Mass Determinations From Orbit Superposition Models are Reliable
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Spectroscopic Evidence for a Massive Black Hole in NGC 4486B
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Dynamical limits on dark mass in the outer solar system.
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Sky Distributions of Oort Cloud Comets During and Outside of Showers
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Book-Review - Galactic Dynamics
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The Influence of the Galactic Tidal Field on the Oort Comet Cloud.
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About Scott Tremaine

Scott Tremaine is a scholar working on Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 206 papers that have together received 22.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (101 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (76 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (51 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (4.5k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (20.8k citations) and Nuclear and High Energy Physics (4.2k citations). Scott Tremaine has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Frequent 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. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

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