Thomas J. Maccarone

12.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
256 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Thomas J. Maccarone is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas J. Maccarone has authored 256 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 248 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 79 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 21 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas J. Maccarone's work include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (223 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (102 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (84 papers). Thomas J. Maccarone is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (223 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (102 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (84 papers). Thomas J. Maccarone collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Thomas J. Maccarone's co-authors include Stephen E. Zepf, J. C. A. Miller‐Jones, Arunav Kundu, P. Coppi, R. P. Fender, Elena Gallo, Jay Strader, A. Zezas, Katherine L. Rhode and Laura Chomiuk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Thomas J. Maccarone

234 papers receiving 5.1k citations

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Compact Object Modeling with the StarTrack Population Synthesis Code

2007 468 citations Krzysztof Belczyński, A. Zezas et al. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas J. Maccarone United States	37	5.3k	1.5k	487	433	362	256	5.4k
Jerome A. Orosz United States	40	4.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	396 0.8×	618 1.4×	537 1.5×	115	4.4k
G. Ponti Italy	34	4.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	330 0.7×	489 1.1×	188 0.5×	190	4.7k
C. Knigge United Kingdom	37	4.7k 0.9×	904 0.6×	431 0.9×	186 0.4×	586 1.6×	221	4.8k
J. P. Lasota France	41	5.7k 1.1×	1.6k 1.0×	872 1.8×	454 1.0×	177 0.5×	184	5.9k
M. Gilfanov Russia	37	5.0k 0.9×	2.0k 1.3×	381 0.8×	276 0.6×	326 0.9×	275	5.1k
D. Steeghs United Kingdom	35	5.1k 1.0×	900 0.6×	571 1.2×	481 1.1×	425 1.2×	245	5.1k
Roberto Soria Australia	35	3.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	290 0.6×	292 0.7×	187 0.5×	164	3.6k
Yoshihiro Ueda Japan	39	5.6k 1.1×	2.1k 1.3×	267 0.5×	347 0.8×	835 2.3×	186	5.8k
Omer Blaes United States	32	3.5k 0.7×	985 0.6×	315 0.6×	236 0.5×	153 0.4×	82	3.6k
Shin Mineshige Japan	31	4.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	493 1.0×	261 0.6×	131 0.4×	177	4.5k

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Heinke, C. O., et al.. (2025). Catalog of Outbursts of Neutron Star Low-mass X-Ray Binaries. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 279(2). 57–57. 1 indexed citations

Russell, T. D., N. Degenaar, J. van den Eijnden, et al.. (2024). Thermonuclear explosions on neutron stars reveal the speed of their jets. Nature. 627(8005). 763–766. 11 indexed citations

Maccarone, Thomas J., S. M. Ransom, T. E. Clarke, et al.. (2024). A VLITE Search for Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters: Discovery of a Pulsar in GLIMPSE-C01. The Astrophysical Journal. 969(1). 30–30. 3 indexed citations

Aydi, E., K. V. Sokolovsky, Jay Strader, et al.. (2024). Spectro-photometric follow-up of the outbursting AM CVn system ASASSN-21br. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 532(4). 4205–4216. 2 indexed citations

Migliori, Giulia, R. Margutti, Brian D. Metzger, et al.. (2024). Roaring to Softly Whispering: X-Ray Emission after ∼3.7 yr at the Location of the Transient AT2018cow and Implications for Accretion-powered Scenarios*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 963(1). L24–L24. 8 indexed citations

Eijnden, J. van den, N. Degenaar, T. D. Russell, et al.. (2021). A new radio census of neutron star X-ray binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 507(3). 3899–3922. 41 indexed citations

Strader, Jay, Laura Chomiuk, Evangelia Tremou, et al.. (2020). The MAVERIC Survey: Radio Catalogs and Source Counts from Deep Very Large Array Imaging of 25 Galactic Globular Clusters. The Astrophysical Journal. 903(1). 73–73. 14 indexed citations

Gandhi, P., A. R. Rao, P. A. Charles, et al.. (2020). A period-dependent spatial scatter of Galactic black hole transients. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 496(1). L22–L27. 16 indexed citations

Scaringi, Simone, Colin Littlefield, Noel Castro Segura, et al.. (2020). EX draconis: using eclipses to separate outside-in and inside-out outbursts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494(4). 4656–4664. 6 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yue, C. O. Heinke, H. N. Cohn, et al.. (2020). A deep Chandra survey for faint X-ray sources in the Galactic globular cluster M30, and searches for optical and radio counterparts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 499(3). 3338–3355. 11 indexed citations

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Santander, M., S. Buson, Ke Fang, et al.. (2019). A Unique Messenger to Probe Active Galactic Nuclei: High-Energy Neutrinos. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51(3). 228.

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Scaringi, Simone, S. Rappaport, Zhuchang Zhan, et al.. (2019). The eclipsing accreting white dwarf Z chameleontis as seen with TESS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(3). 4149–4160. 10 indexed citations

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Eijnden, J. van den, N. Degenaar, R. Wijnands, et al.. (2018). VLA radio detection of the very-faint X-ray transient IGR J17285-2922. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 11487. 1.

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Koljonen, K. I. I., Thomas J. Maccarone, Michael L. McCollough, et al.. (2018). The hypersoft state of Cygnus X–3. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 612. A27–A27. 25 indexed citations

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Yukita, Mihoko, A. Ptak, A. E. Hornschemeier, et al.. (2017). Identification of the Hard X-Ray Source Dominating the E > 25 keV Emission of the Nearby Galaxy M31. The Astrophysical Journal. 838(1). 47–47. 5 indexed citations

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Tetarenko, B. E., Arash Bahramian, J. C. A. Miller‐Jones, et al.. (2016). THE FIRST LOW-MASS BLACK HOLE X-RAY BINARY IDENTIFIED IN QUIESCENCE OUTSIDE OF A GLOBULAR CLUSTER. The Astrophysical Journal. 825(1). 10–10. 36 indexed citations

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D’Ago, G., M. Paolillo, G. Fabbiano, et al.. (2014). Luminosity function of low-mass X-ray binaries in the globular cluster system of NGC 1399. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 567. A2–A2. 6 indexed citations

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Markoff, Sera, Michael A. Nowak, F. K. Baganoff, et al.. (2012). Sgr A*: Quiescent But Not Atypical -- A Comparison With A0620-00. AAS. 219.

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Charles, P. A., et al.. (2011). Swift J053041.9-665426, the new LMC X-ray transient, has a variable optical counterpart. The astronomer's telegram. 3751. 1. 1 indexed citations

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Maccarone, Thomas J. & P. Coppi. (2003). Spectral fits to the 1999 Aql X-1 outburst data. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 55 indexed citations

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