Simon Birrer

10.3k citations

75 papers · 2.1k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 26

Impact in

Instrumentation top 1%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Astronomy and Astrophysics top 1%
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations

Papers in ⓘ

Instrumentation 31
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 30
Astronomy and Astrophysics 64
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena 58
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories 20
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 18
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 11
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 11

Co-authors: Tommaso Treu (37 shared papers)A. Amara (5 shared papers)Alexandre Réfrégier (3 shared papers)Daniel Gilman (10 shared papers)Anna Nierenberg (10 shared papers)Anowar J. Shajib (21 shared papers)Andrew Benson (6 shared papers)Dominique Sluse (18 shared papers)
Journals: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (23 papers)Astronomy and Astrophysics (13 papers)The Astrophysical Journal (11 papers)Space Science Reviews (3 papers)Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Switzerland Japan

In The Last Decade

Simon Birrer

70 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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H0LiCOW – IX. Cosmographic analysis of the doubly imaged quasar SDSS 1206+4332 and a new measurement of the Hubble constant 2019 · 243 citations

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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1	H0LiCOW – IX. Cosmographic analysis of the doubly imaged quasar SDSS 1206+4332 and a new measurement of the Hubble constant Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Simon Birrer, Tommaso Treu, Cristian E. Rusu, V. Bonvin, C. D. Fassnacht, J. H. H. Chan, Adriano Agnello, Anowar J. Shajib, Geoff C.-F. Chen, Matthew W. Auger, F. Courbin, Stefan Hilbert, Dominique Sluse, S. H. Suyu, Kenneth C. Wong, Philip J. Marshall, B. C. Lemaux, G. Meylan Hit paper breakdown →	2019	243
2	lenstronomy: Multi-purpose gravitational lens modelling software package Physics of the Dark Universe ·Simon Birrer, A. Amara	2018	172
3	Warm dark matter chills out: constraints on the halo mass function and the free-streaming length of dark matter with eight quadruple-image strong gravitational lenses Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Daniel Gilman, Simon Birrer, Anna Nierenberg, Tommaso Treu, Xiaolong Du, Andrew Benson	2019	166
4	GRAVITATIONAL LENS MODELING WITH BASIS SETS The Astrophysical Journal ·Simon Birrer, A. Amara, Alexandre Réfrégier	2015	94
5	The Mass Relations between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies at 1 < z < 2 with HST-WFC3 eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Xuheng Ding, J. D. Silverman, Tommaso Treu, Andreas Schulze, Malte Schramm, Simon Birrer, Daeseong Park, K. Jahnkę, Vardha N. Bennert, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Anton M. Koekemoer, Matthew A. Malkan, D. B. Sanders	2020	91
6	Probing dark matter structure down to 107 solar masses: flux ratio statistics in gravitational lenses with line-of-sight haloes Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Daniel Gilman, Simon Birrer, Tommaso Treu, Anna Nierenberg, Andrew Benson	2019	84
7	H0LiCOW XII. Lens mass model of WFI2033 − 4723 and blind measurement of its time-delay distance and H0 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Cristian E. Rusu, Kenneth C. Wong, V. Bonvin, Dominique Sluse, S. H. Suyu, C. D. Fassnacht, J. H. H. Chan, Stefan Hilbert, Matthew W. Auger, Alessandro Sonnenfeld, Simon Birrer, F. Courbin, Tommaso Treu, Geoff C.-F. Chen, A. Halkola, L. V. E. Koopmans, Philip J. Marshall, Anowar J. Shajib	2019	82
8	Dark matter haloes of massive elliptical galaxies at z ∼ 0.2 are well described by the Navarro–Frenk–White profile Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Anowar J. Shajib, Tommaso Treu, Simon Birrer, Alessandro Sonnenfeld	2021	75
9	Lensing substructure quantification in RXJ1131-1231: a 2 keV lower bound on dark matter thermal relic mass Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics ·Simon Birrer, A. Amara, Alexandre Réfrégier	2017	75
10	The mass-sheet degeneracy and time-delay cosmography: analysis of the strong lens RXJ1131-1231 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics ·Simon Birrer, A. Amara, Alexandre Réfrégier	2016	66
11	TDCOSMO Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Anowar J. Shajib, Pritom Mozumdar, Geoff C.-F. Chen, Tommaso Treu, Michele Cappellari, Shawn Knabel, S. H. Suyu, Vardha N. Bennert, J. Frieman, Dominique Sluse, Simon Birrer, F. Courbin, C. D. Fassnacht, Lizvette Villafaña, P. R. Williams	2023	62
12	Strong lensing signatures of self-interacting dark matter in low-mass haloes Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Daniel Gilman, Jo Bovy, Tommaso Treu, Anna Nierenberg, Simon Birrer, Andrew Benson, Omid Sameie	2021	53
13	TDCOSMO Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Simon Birrer, Tommaso Treu	2021	52
14	Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program: A Mass-dependent Slope of the Galaxy Size−Mass Relation at z < 1 The Astrophysical Journal ·Lalitwadee Kawinwanichakij, J. D. Silverman, Xuheng Ding, Angelo George, Ivana Damjanov, Marcin Sawicki, Masayuki Tanaka, Dan S. Taranu, Simon Birrer, Song Huang, Junyao Li, Masato Onodera, Takatoshi Shibuya, Naoki Yasuda	2021	50
15	The Hubble constant determined through an inverse distance ladder including quasar time delays and Type Ia supernovae Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·S. Taubenberger, S. H. Suyu, Eiichiro Komatsu, Inh Jee, Simon Birrer, V. Bonvin, F. Courbin, Cristian E. Rusu, Anowar J. Shajib, Kenneth C. Wong	2019	43
16	Probing the nature of dark matter by forward modelling flux ratios in strong gravitational lenses Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Daniel Gilman, Simon Birrer, Tommaso Treu, Charles R. Keeton, Anna Nierenberg	2018	41
17	A Local Baseline of the Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Active Galaxies. IV. Correlations Between M _BH and Host Galaxy σ, Stellar Mass, and Luminosity The Astrophysical Journal ·Vardha N. Bennert, Tommaso Treu, Xuheng Ding, Isak Stomberg, Simon Birrer, Tomas Snyder, Matthew A. Malkan, Andrew W. Stephens, Matthew W. Auger	2021	41
18	Constraints on the mass–concentration relation of cold dark matter haloes with 11 strong gravitational lenses Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters ·Daniel Gilman, Xiaolong Du, Andrew Benson, Simon Birrer, Anna Nierenberg, Tommaso Treu	2019	36
19	Time-Delay Cosmography: Measuring the Hubble Constant and Other Cosmological Parameters with Strong Gravitational Lensing Space Science Reviews ·Simon Birrer, Martin Millon, Dominique Sluse, A. J. Shajib, F. Courbin, Stephen W. Erickson, L. V. E. Koopmans, S. H. Suyu, Tommaso Treu	2024	32
20	Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Models from Strong Gravitational Lensing, Milky Way Satellites, and the Lyman-α Forest Physical Review Letters ·Ioana A. Zelko, Tommaso Treu, Kevork N. Abazajian, Daniel Gilman, Andrew Benson, Simon Birrer, Anna Nierenberg, Alexander Kusenko	2022	29

About Simon Birrer

Simon Birrer is a scholar working on Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, having authored 75 papers that have together received 2.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (58 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (30 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (20 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (18 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (18 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (11 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (11 papers) and Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (637 citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (1.9k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (566 citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (336 citations) and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (72 citations). Simon Birrer has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Tommaso Treu, A. Amara, Alexandre Réfrégier, Daniel Gilman, Anna Nierenberg, Anowar J. Shajib, Andrew Benson, Dominique Sluse, F. Courbin and Xiaolong Du. Their work appears in journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Astrophysical Journal, Space Science Reviews and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences.

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