T. M. Bania

6.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
101 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

T. M. Bania is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, T. M. Bania has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 22 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 17 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in T. M. Bania's work include Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (70 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (43 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (21 papers). T. M. Bania is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (70 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (43 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (21 papers). T. M. Bania collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. T. M. Bania's co-authors include Dana S. Balser, Robert T. Rood, L. D. Anderson, D. P. Clemens, James M. Jackson, J. M. Dickey, T. L. Wilson, C. Watson, M. R. Meade and S. Stolovy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

T. M. Bania

97 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

GLIMPSE. I. AnSIRTFLegacy Project to Map the Inner Galaxy

2003 783 citations Robert A. Benjamin, T. M. Bania et al. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific profile →
The Wavelength Dependence of Interstellar Extinction from 1.25 to 8.0 μm Using GLIMPSE Data

2005 500 citations B. A. Whitney, M. G. Wolfire et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
T. M. Bania United States	29	3.4k	582	557	425	277	101	3.6k
A. A. Stark United States	29	3.4k 1.0×	538 0.9×	613 1.1×	355 0.8×	358 1.3×	102	3.5k
T. M. Dame United States	28	3.1k 0.9×	504 0.9×	763 1.4×	239 0.6×	322 1.2×	75	3.3k
F. Palla Italy	37	4.9k 1.4×	855 1.5×	407 0.7×	560 1.3×	290 1.0×	136	5.1k
Robert A. Benjamin United States	27	4.0k 1.1×	545 0.9×	566 1.0×	619 1.5×	235 0.8×	87	4.0k
C. Krämer Germany	34	4.0k 1.2×	728 1.3×	319 0.6×	511 1.2×	374 1.4×	122	4.2k
Ye Xu China	25	2.8k 0.8×	615 1.1×	395 0.7×	346 0.8×	243 0.9×	108	2.8k
S. L. Lumsden United Kingdom	31	3.2k 0.9×	608 1.0×	336 0.6×	485 1.1×	208 0.8×	105	3.2k
M. R. Meade United States	30	4.9k 1.4×	700 1.2×	447 0.8×	858 2.0×	309 1.1×	89	5.0k
M. J. Claussen United States	31	3.1k 0.9×	714 1.2×	570 1.0×	237 0.6×	246 0.9×	119	3.1k
R. Chini Germany	28	3.4k 1.0×	739 1.3×	355 0.6×	503 1.2×	247 0.9×	193	3.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of T. M. Bania

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bania, T. M., et al.. (2024). The Most Sensitive Radio Recombination Line Measurements Ever Made of the Galactic Warm Ionized Medium. The Astrophysical Journal. 972(2). 192–192.

Anderson, L. D., et al.. (2023). The GBT Diffuse Ionized Gas Survey (GDIGS): Discrete Sources. The Astrophysical Journal. 959(2). 110–110. 1 indexed citations

Anderson, L. D., et al.. (2023). Methods for Averaging Spectral Line Data. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 135(1053). 114504–114504. 1 indexed citations

Balser, Dana S., et al.. (2022). Do All Low-Mass Stars Undergo Extra Mixing Processes?. The Astrophysical Journal. 936(2). 168–168. 2 indexed citations

Bania, T. M. & Dana S. Balser. (2021). Green Bank Telescope Observations of ³He⁺: Planetary Nebulae. The Astrophysical Journal. 910(1). 73–73. 2 indexed citations

Anderson, L. D., et al.. (2020). The GBT Diffuse Ionized Gas Survey: Tracing the Diffuse Ionized Gas around the Giant Hii Region W43. The Astrophysical Journal. 889(2). 96–96. 6 indexed citations

Dickey, J. M., C. Jordan, Dana S. Balser, et al.. (2019). The Southern H ii Region Discovery Survey. I. The Bright Catalog. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 240(2). 24–24. 7 indexed citations

Anderson, L. D., et al.. (2019). A Galactic Plane Defined by the Milky Way H ii Region Distribution. The Astrophysical Journal. 871(2). 145–145. 17 indexed citations

Anderson, L. D., et al.. (2018). Hydrogen Radio Recombination Line Emission from M51 and NGC 628. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 130(990). 84101–84101. 9 indexed citations

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Balser, Dana S. & T. M. Bania. (2018). Green Bank Telescope Observations of ³He⁺: H ii Regions. The Astronomical Journal. 156(6). 280–280. 7 indexed citations

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Balser, Dana S., et al.. (2018). Kinematic Distances: A Monte Carlo Method. The Astrophysical Journal. 856(1). 52–52. 62 indexed citations

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Anderson, L. D., et al.. (2017). Diffuse Ionized Gas in the Milky Way Disk. The Astrophysical Journal. 849(2). 117–117. 5 indexed citations

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Balser, Dana S., et al.. (2017). KDUtils: Kinematic Distance Utilities. ascl. 1 indexed citations

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Bania, T. M., et al.. (2016). TMBIDL: Single dish radio astronomy data reduction package. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 3 indexed citations

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Simon, R., J. M. Jackson, T. M. Bania, D. P. Clemens, & M. H. Heyer. (2005). The Distribution of MSX Infrared Dark Clouds in the inner Milky Way. Astronomische Nachrichten. 326(7). 668.

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Churchwell, E., T. M. Bania, Robert A. Benjamin, et al.. (2004). The SIRTF Galactic Plane Survey. 146. 2 indexed citations

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Jackson, James M., et al.. (2001). The Antarctic Infrared Observatory AIRO. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts. 199. 1 indexed citations

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Simon, R., J. M. Jackson, D. P. Clemens, et al.. (1999). The BU-FCRAO Milky Way Galactic Ring Survey II. Kinematics and Correlation with the Optical and Infrared. AAS. 194. 1 indexed citations

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Kuchar, T. A. & T. M. Bania. (1990). H I emission-absorption experiments toward Galactic H II regions. The Astrophysical Journal. 352. 192–192. 12 indexed citations

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Bania, T. M.. (1975). Observations of Carbon Monoxide in the Inner Galaxy. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 7. 514.

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