William A. Dawson

2.3k total citations
41 papers, 618 citations indexed

About

William A. Dawson is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, William A. Dawson has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 618 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 9 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 8 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in William A. Dawson's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (25 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (13 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (10 papers). William A. Dawson is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (25 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (13 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (10 papers). William A. Dawson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. William A. Dawson's co-authors include David Wittman, R. J. van Weeren, M. James Jee, M. Brüggen, H. J. A. Röttgering, David Sobral, Nathan Golovich, Andra Stroe, F. de Gasperin and B. C. Lemaux and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Neurology and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

William A. Dawson

37 papers receiving 565 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William A. Dawson United States 16 561 247 177 38 26 41 618
Emmanuel Schaan United States 12 450 0.8× 173 0.7× 88 0.5× 50 1.3× 22 0.8× 32 494
Olivera Rakic Netherlands 5 784 1.4× 183 0.7× 260 1.5× 27 0.7× 27 1.0× 5 796
Vithal Tilvi United States 13 681 1.2× 138 0.6× 318 1.8× 27 0.7× 39 1.5× 19 698
Intae Jung United States 13 483 0.9× 65 0.3× 243 1.4× 18 0.5× 23 0.9× 30 516
Isak Wold United States 12 432 0.8× 97 0.4× 191 1.1× 15 0.4× 16 0.6× 27 456
David Izquierdo–Villalba Italy 13 499 0.9× 78 0.3× 176 1.0× 16 0.4× 10 0.4× 30 537
Ali Ahmad Khostovan United States 11 465 0.8× 95 0.4× 209 1.2× 16 0.4× 40 1.5× 20 485
Sourav Mitra India 14 613 1.1× 251 1.0× 151 0.9× 21 0.6× 22 0.8× 21 635
Alejo Martínez‐Sansigre United Kingdom 16 1.0k 1.8× 300 1.2× 388 2.2× 7 0.2× 12 0.5× 26 1.0k
Daichi Kashino Japan 16 572 1.0× 75 0.3× 249 1.4× 22 0.6× 22 0.8× 38 615

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William A. Dawson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Meyers, J., M. Schneider, Julia Ebert, et al.. (2025). SSAPy - Space Situational Awareness for Python. The Journal of Open Source Software. 10(111). 8147–8147.
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McGill, Peter, et al.. (2025). On Finding Black Holes in Photometric Microlensing Surveys. The Astrophysical Journal. 981(2). 183–183. 5 indexed citations
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McGill, Peter, Scott Perkins, William A. Dawson, et al.. (2024). Astrometric Microlensing by Primordial Black Holes with the Roman Space Telescope. The Astrophysical Journal. 965(2). 138–138. 8 indexed citations
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Ho, Ming-Feng, Scott Perkins, Simeon Bird, et al.. (2024). Investigating the mixing between two black hole populations in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA GWTC-3. Physical review. D. 110(6). 1 indexed citations
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Perkins, Scott, Peter McGill, William A. Dawson, et al.. (2024). Disentangling the Black Hole Mass Spectrum with Photometric Microlensing Surveys. The Astrophysical Journal. 961(2). 179–179. 6 indexed citations
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Dawson, William A., Michael S. Medford, Jessica R. Lu, et al.. (2024). Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter Simulations Using PopSyCLE. The Astrophysical Journal. 970(2). 169–169. 2 indexed citations
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McGill, Peter, N. W. Evans, Leigh C. Smith, et al.. (2024). Spatially resolved microlensing time-scale distributions across the Galactic bulge with the VVV survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(2). 1308–1320. 4 indexed citations
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Golovich, Nathan, William A. Dawson, Jessica R. Lu, et al.. (2022). A Reanalysis of Public Galactic Bulge Gravitational Microlensing Events from OGLE-III and -IV. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 260(1). 2–2. 9 indexed citations
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Jee, M. James, David Wittman, W. Forman, et al.. (2021). Exemplary Merging Clusters: Weak-lensing and X-Ray Analysis of the Double Radio Relic, Merging Galaxy Clusters MACS J1752.0+4440 and ZWCL 1856.8+6616. The Astrophysical Journal. 918(2). 72–72. 21 indexed citations
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Medford, Michael S., Jessica R. Lu, William A. Dawson, et al.. (2020). Gravitational Microlensing Event Statistics for the Zwicky Transient Facility. The Astrophysical Journal. 897(2). 144–144. 4 indexed citations
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Golovich, Nathan, William A. Dawson, David Wittman, et al.. (2019). Merging Cluster Collaboration: Optical and Spectroscopic Survey of a Radio-selected Sample of 29 Merging Galaxy Clusters. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 240(2). 39–39. 30 indexed citations
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Lu, Jessica R., et al.. (2019). Primordial Black Hole Microlensing: The Einstein Crossing Time Distribution. Research Notes of the AAS. 3(4). 58–58. 7 indexed citations
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Gennaro, G. Di, R. J. van Weeren, Felipe Andrade-Santos, et al.. (2019). Evidence for a Merger-induced Shock Wave in ZwCl 0008.8+5215 with Chandra and Suzaku. The Astrophysical Journal. 873(1). 64–64. 16 indexed citations
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Golovich, Nathan, R. J. van Weeren, William A. Dawson, M. James Jee, & David Wittman. (2017). MC2: Multiwavelength and Dynamical Analysis of the Merging Galaxy Cluster ZwCl 0008.8+5215: An Older and Less Massive Bullet Cluster. The Astrophysical Journal. 838(2). 110–110. 29 indexed citations
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Sobral, David, Andra Stroe, William A. Dawson, et al.. (2015). MC2: boosted AGN and star formation activity in CIZA J2242.8+5301, a massive post-merger cluster at z = 0.19★. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 450(1). 630–645. 40 indexed citations
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Dawson, William A.. (2014). MCMAC: Monte Carlo Merger Analysis Code. ascl. 1 indexed citations
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Gasperin, F. de, Carmelo Evoli, M. Brüggen, et al.. (2014). Discovery of the supernova remnant G351.0-5.4. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 568. A107–A107. 4 indexed citations
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Wittman, David & William A. Dawson. (2012). CONSTRAINING SOURCE REDSHIFT DISTRIBUTIONS WITH GRAVITATIONAL LENSING. The Astrophysical Journal. 756(2). 140–140.
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Gelikonov, Grigory V., Valentin M. Gelikonov, Felix I. Feldchtein, et al.. (1997). Two-color-in-one-interferometer OCT system for bioimaging. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1 indexed citations
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Dawson, William A.. (1965). Phytoplankton Data From the Chukchi Sea, 1959-1962. ResearchWorks at the University of Washington (University of Washington). 1 indexed citations

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