Thomas S. -Y. Lai

915 total citations
13 papers, 47 citations indexed

About

Thomas S. -Y. Lai is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas S. -Y. Lai has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 47 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 3 papers in Instrumentation and 3 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Thomas S. -Y. Lai's work include Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (11 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (9 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (5 papers). Thomas S. -Y. Lai is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (11 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (9 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (5 papers). Thomas S. -Y. Lai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Thomas S. -Y. Lai's co-authors include Adolf N. Witt, Ken Crawford, J. Cami, C. Álvarez, J. D. Smith, Daniel A. Dale, Evan D. Skillman, B. T. Draine, Miranda Caputo and L. Armus and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

In The Last Decade

Thomas S. -Y. Lai

8 papers receiving 39 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas S. -Y. Lai United States	3	38	8	6	5	5	13	47
Sacha Foschino France	3	20 0.5×	9 1.1×	3 0.5×	7 1.4×		3	31
M. Cordier United States	2	23 0.6×	15 1.9×		5 1.0×	4 0.8×	5	38
Takuya Suenaga Japan	4	65 1.7×	3 0.4×	16 2.7×	4 0.8×	2 0.4×	8	90
Qiuyi Luo China	6	42 1.1×	7 0.9×		10 2.0×	2 0.4×	11	51
T. Buey France	3	17 0.4×	7 0.9×		2 0.4×		3	21
Taketo Nagasaki Japan	3	16 0.4×	7 0.9×		3 0.6×		7	22
M. De Santis Italy	5	17 0.4×	3 0.4×		4 0.8×	4 0.8×	8	75
D. Mouillet France	3	69 1.8×	11 1.4×		3 0.6×		6	73
P. Maat Netherlands	4	18 0.5×	11 1.4×		3 0.6×		8	27
B. Wang United States	4	25 0.7×	4 0.5×	2 0.3×			6	43

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas S. -Y. Lai

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13 of 13 papers shown

Sajina, Anna, Alexandra Pope, H. W. W. Spoon, et al.. (2025). Halfway to the Peak: Ice Absorption Bands at z ≈ 0.5 with JWST MIRI/MRS. The Astrophysical Journal. 985(2). 201–201.

Lai, Thomas S. -Y., J. D. Smith, L. Armus, et al.. (2025). Resolving Emission from Small Dust Grains in the Blue Compact Dwarf II Zw 40 with JWST. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 991(2). L56–L56. 1 indexed citations

Gao, Yuman, et al.. (2025). Autonomous Exploration With Terrestrial-Aerial Bimodal Vehicles. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 10(10). 9987–9994. 1 indexed citations

Putte, Dries Van De, E. Peeters, Karl D. Gordon, et al.. (2025). PDRs4All. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 701. A111–A111.

Cheng, Yun-Ting, Brandon S. Hensley, & Thomas S. -Y. Lai. (2025). Feature Intensity Mapping: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission from All Galaxies Across Cosmic Time. The Astrophysical Journal. 993(1). 30–30.

Yoon, Ilsang, Brandon S. Hensley, Thomas S. -Y. Lai, et al.. (2025). Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the high-redshift universe: prospect of the PRIMA FIRESS low-resolution spectroscopy. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems. 11(3).

Vulcani, Benedetta, Tommaso Treu, Matthew A. Malkan, et al.. (2024). Not just PAH_3.3: Why galaxies turn red in the near-infrared. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 693. A204–A204.

Smith, J. D., B. T. Draine, Aditya Togi, et al.. (2024). The Impact of an Active Galactic Nucleus on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission in Galaxies: The Case of Ring Galaxy NGC 4138. The Astrophysical Journal. 965(1). 75–75. 2 indexed citations

Smith, J. D., Karin Sandström, B. T. Draine, et al.. (2024). The Metallicity Dependence of PAH Emission in Galaxies. I. Insights from Deep Radial Spitzer Spectroscopy. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(1). 20–20. 12 indexed citations

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Lai, Thomas S. -Y., J. D. Smith, E. Peeters, et al.. (2024). Spectroscopic Constraints on the Mid-infrared Attenuation Curve. I. Attenuation Model Using Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission. The Astrophysical Journal. 967(2). 83–83. 2 indexed citations

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Caputo, Miranda, et al.. (2024). The 3D geometry of reflection nebulae IC 59 and IC 63 with their illuminating star gamma Cas. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(2). 1680–1687. 2 indexed citations

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Lai, Thomas S. -Y., Adolf N. Witt, C. Álvarez, & J. Cami. (2020). Are the carriers of diffuse interstellar bands and extended red emission the same?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 492(4). 5853–5864. 13 indexed citations

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Lai, Thomas S. -Y., Adolf N. Witt, & Ken Crawford. (2017). Extended red emission in IC59 and IC63. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 469(4). 4933–4948. 14 indexed citations

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