Simon D. M. White

96.1k total citations · 36 hit papers
358 papers, 52.0k citations indexed

About

Simon D. M. White is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon D. M. White has authored 358 papers receiving a total of 52.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 336 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 189 papers in Instrumentation and 59 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Simon D. M. White's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (305 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (189 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (102 papers). Simon D. M. White is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (305 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (189 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (102 papers). Simon D. M. White collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Simon D. M. White's co-authors include Carlos S. Frenk, Guinevere Kauffmann, Volker Springel, Adrian Jenkins, Julio F. Navarro, G. Efstathiou, M. J. Rees, Timothy M. Heckman, J. Brinchmann and Christy Tremonti and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Simon D. M. White

347 papers receiving 50.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars

2005 2.9k citations Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White et al. profile →
Core condensation in heavy halos: a two-stage theory for galaxy formation and clustering

1978 2.3k citations Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The host galaxies of active galactic nuclei

2003 2.3k citations Guinevere Kauffmann, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The evolution of large-scale structure in a universe dominated by cold dark matter

1985 2.2k citations Carlos S. Frenk, Simon D. M. White et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The Origin of the Mass‐Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star‐forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

2004 2.1k citations Guinevere Kauffmann, Simon D. M. White et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The physical properties of star-forming galaxies in the low-redshift Universe

2004 1.9k citations Simon D. M. White, Guinevere Kauffmann et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Galaxy formation through hierarchical clustering

1991 1.4k citations Simon D. M. White, Carlos S. Frenk The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The many lives of active galactic nuclei: Cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies

2006 1.4k citations Darren Croton, Volker Springel et al. Figshare profile →
Stable clustering, the halo model and non-linear cosmological power spectra

2003 1.2k citations Adrian Jenkins, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The formation and evolution of galaxies within merging dark matter haloes*

1993 1.1k citations Guinevere Kauffmann, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: calibration of subgrid physics and model variations

2015 1.1k citations Carlos S. Frenk, Adrian Jenkins et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The mass function of dark matter haloes

2001 999 citations Adrian Jenkins, Carlos S. Frenk et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Galactic star formation and accretion histories from matching galaxies to dark matter haloes

2012 940 citations Benjamin P. Moster, Thorsten Naab et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology

2011 793 citations Qi Guo, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The dependence of star formation history and internal structure on stellar mass for 10⁵low-redshift galaxies

2003 766 citations Guinevere Kauffmann, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The inner structure of CDM haloes -- I. A numerical convergence study

2003 695 citations Julio F. Navarro, Adrian Jenkins et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The inner structure of ΛCDM haloes - III. Universality and asymptotic slopes

2004 692 citations Julio F. Navarro, Adrian Jenkins et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Galaxy Formation and Evolution

2010 635 citations H. J. Mo, Simon D. M. White et al. profile →
How do galaxies populate dark matter haloes?

2010 528 citations Qi Guo, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Present‐Day Growth of Black Holes and Bulges: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Perspective

2004 527 citations Guinevere Kauffmann, Simon D. M. White et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The diversity and similarity of simulated cold dark matter haloes

2009 517 citations Julio F. Navarro, Aaron D. Ludlow et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The baryon content of galaxy clusters: a challenge to cosmological orthodoxy

1993 517 citations Simon D. M. White, Julio F. Navarro et al. profile →
The statistics of CDM halo concentrations

2007 504 citations Liang Gao, Julio F. Navarro et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The host galaxies of radio-loud active galactic nuclei: mass dependences, gas cooling and active galactic nuclei feedback

2005 462 citations Guinevere Kauffmann, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Galaxy formation in the Planck cosmology – I. Matching the observed evolution of star formation rates, colours and stellar masses

2015 453 citations Bruno Henriques, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The subhalo populations of ΛCDM dark haloes

2004 440 citations Liang Gao, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The APOSTLE simulations: solutions to the Local Group's cosmic puzzles

2016 428 citations Carlos S. Frenk, Julio F. Navarro et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The large-scale structure of the Universe

2006 424 citations Volker Springel, Carlos S. Frenk et al. profile →
The Auriga Project: the properties and formation mechanisms of disc galaxies across cosmic time

2017 423 citations Robert J. J. Grand, Facundo A. Gómez et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The Contribution of Health Literacy to Disparities in Self-Rated Health Status and Preventive Health Behaviors in Older Adults

2009 406 citations Simon D. M. White et al. profile →
SIMULATIONS ON A MOVING MESH: THE CLUSTERED FORMATION OF POPULATION III PROTOSTARS

2011 301 citations Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The unexpected diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves

2015 296 citations Julio F. Navarro, Carlos S. Frenk et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
emerge – an empirical model for the formation of galaxies since z ∼ 10

2018 288 citations Benjamin P. Moster, Thorsten Naab et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The haloes of bright satellite galaxies in a warm dark matter universe

2012 275 citations Carlos S. Frenk, Liang Gao et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Universal structure of dark matter haloes over a mass range of 20 orders of magnitude

2020 169 citations Jie Wang, Sownak Bose et al. profile →
The MillenniumTNG Project: the hydrodynamical full physics simulation and a first look at its galaxy clusters

2023 96 citations Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Limits on dark matter annihilation in prompt cusps from the isotropic gamma-ray background 2024 ·Physical review. D ·M. Délos, Michael Korsmeier, Axel Widmark, Carlos Blanco, Tim Linden, Simon D. M. White	7
2	The influence of baryons on low-mass haloes 2024 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Sownak Bose, Carlos S. Frenk, Liang Gao, Adrian Jenkins, Shihong Liao, Volker Springel, Jie Wang, Simon D. M. White	1
3	Evolution of cosmic filaments in the MTNG simulation 2024 ·Astronomy and Astrophysics ·(unknown), Corentin Cadiou, (unknown), Simon D. M. White, Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Sownak Bose, Fulvio Ferlito, Lars Hernquist, Rahul Kannan, Monica Barrera, (unknown), César Hernández‐Aguayo	23
4	The MillenniumTNG Project: inferring cosmology from galaxy clustering with accelerated N-body scaling and subhalo abundance matching 2023 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Sergio Contreras, Raúl E. Angulo, Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Lars Hernquist, Rüdiger Pakmor, Rahul Kannan, César Hernández‐Aguayo, Monica Barrera, Fulvio Ferlito, Ana María Delgado, Sownak Bose, Carlos S. Frenk	25
5	The MillenniumTNG Project: the large-scale clustering of galaxies 2023 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Sownak Bose, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Monica Barrera, (unknown), Fulvio Ferlito, Carlos S. Frenk, César Hernández‐Aguayo, Lars Hernquist, Rahul Kannan, Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White	20
6	Disc instability and bar formation: view from the IllustrisTNG simulations 2022 ·IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome) ·David Izquierdo–Villalba, Silvia Bonoli, Yetli Rosas-Guevara, Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White, Tommaso Zana, Massimo Dotti, Daniele Spinoso, Matteo Bonetti, Alessandro Lupi	27
7	L-GALAXIES 2020: The evolution of radial metallicity profiles and global metallicities in disc galaxies 2021 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Robert M. Yates, Bruno Henriques, Jian Fu, Guinevere Kauffmann, P. Thomas, Qi Guo, Simon D. M. White, P. Schady	43
8	A Tidally Induced Global Corrugation Pattern in an External Disk Galaxy Similar to the Milky Way 2021 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Facundo A. Gómez, S. Torres-Flores, (unknown), Antonela Monachesi, Simon D. M. White, (unknown), Robert J. J. Grand, Federico Marinacci, Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel, Carlos S. Frenk, P. Amram, B. Épinat, C. Mendes de Oliveira	10
9	The globular cluster system of the Auriga simulations 2020 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Robert J. J. Grand, Facundo A. Gómez, Federico Marinacci, Rüdiger Pakmor, Wilma H Trick, (unknown), Simon D. M. White	11
10	emerge – empirical constraints on the formation of passive galaxies 2020 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Benjamin P. Moster, Thorsten Naab, Simon D. M. White	38
11	Dynamical Models for the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal in a ΛCDM Universe 2019 ·OakTrust (Texas A&M University Libraries) ·Louis E. Strigari, Carlos S. Frenk, Simon D. M. White	12
12	Gas accretion and galactic fountain flows in the Auriga cosmological simulations: angular momentum and metal redistribution 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Robert J. J. Grand, Freeke van de Voort, Jolanta Zjupa, Francesca Fragkoudi, Facundo A. Gómez, Guinevere Kauffmann, Federico Marinacci, Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White	78
13	L-GALAXIES 2020: Spatially resolved cold gas phases, star formation, and chemical enrichment in galactic discs 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Bruno Henriques, Robert M. Yates, Jian Fu, Qi Guo, Guinevere Kauffmann, Chaichalit Srisawat, P. Thomas, Simon D. M. White	85
14	The origin of the mass scales for maximal star formation efficiency and quenching: the critical role of supernovae 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Bruno Henriques, Simon D. M. White, S. J. Lilly, Eric F. Bell, Asa F. L. Bluck, Bryan A. Terrazas	32
15	Assembly history and structure of galactic cold dark matter haloes 2011 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Jie Wang, Julio F. Navarro, Carlos S. Frenk, Simon D. M. White, Volker Springel, Adrian Jenkins, A. Helmi, Aaron D. Ludlow, Mark Vogelsberger	105
16	Weak lensing mass reconstructions of the ESO Distant Cluster Survey 2006 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Douglas Clowe, Petra Schneider, Alfonso Aragón‐Salamanca, M. N. Bremer, G. De Lucia, C. Halliday, P. Jablonka, B. Milvang‐Jensen, R. Pelló, Bianca M. Poggianti, Gregory Rudnick, R. P. Saglia, L. Simard, Simon D. M. White, Dennis Zaritsky	45
17	The many lives of active galactic nuclei: Cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies breakdown → 2006 ·Figshare ·Darren Croton, Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White, G. De Lucia, Carlos S. Frenk, Liang Gao, Adrian Jenkins, Guinevere Kauffmann, Julio F. Navarro, Naoki Yoshida	1355
18	The soft X-ray properties of quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 2006 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Shiyin Shen, Simon D. M. White, H. J. Mo, W. Voges, Guinevere Kauffmann, Christy Tremonti, Scott F. Anderson	18
19	Stacking clusters in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey 2003 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Matthias Bartelmann, Simon D. M. White	9
20	Tidal interactions and the merging of galaxies 1980 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences ·Simon D. M. White	1

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