William M. J. Best

1.9k total citations
32 papers, 617 citations indexed

About

William M. J. Best is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, William M. J. Best has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 617 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 17 papers in Instrumentation and 5 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in William M. J. Best's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (28 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (21 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (17 papers). William M. J. Best is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (28 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (21 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (17 papers). William M. J. Best collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. William M. J. Best's co-authors include Jonathan P. Williams, Michael C. Liu, Trent J. Dupuy, E. A. Magnier, Zhoujian Zhang, Brendan P. Bowler, Mark S. Marley, Aniket Sanghi, S. K. Leggett and Michael R. Line 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

William M. J. Best

31 papers receiving 509 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 M. J. Best United States 14 592 185 127 68 45 32 617
A. Cotera United States 15 939 1.6× 167 0.9× 127 1.0× 46 0.7× 38 0.8× 39 956
M. R. Samal India 17 675 1.1× 95 0.5× 170 1.3× 70 1.0× 23 0.5× 49 689
Katelyn Allers United States 15 632 1.1× 184 1.0× 89 0.7× 83 1.2× 40 0.9× 37 658
Miki Ishii Japan 15 630 1.1× 125 0.7× 138 1.1× 56 0.8× 36 0.8× 63 648
B. A. Sargent United States 14 907 1.5× 189 1.0× 149 1.2× 34 0.5× 17 0.4× 37 923
C.‐H. Rosie Chen United States 16 615 1.0× 92 0.5× 90 0.7× 35 0.5× 27 0.6× 46 632
R. Köhler Germany 21 1.1k 1.9× 287 1.6× 150 1.2× 24 0.4× 56 1.2× 65 1.1k
Christian Howard United States 12 723 1.2× 185 1.0× 172 1.4× 54 0.8× 30 0.7× 15 745
V. Roccatagliata Germany 17 779 1.3× 135 0.7× 137 1.1× 34 0.5× 34 0.8× 48 798
J. M. Jackson United States 8 724 1.2× 123 0.7× 143 1.1× 67 1.0× 15 0.3× 17 729

Countries citing papers authored by William M. J. Best

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Fields of papers citing papers by William M. J. Best

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William M. J. Best

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William M. J. Best. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William M. J. Best based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with William M. J. Best. William M. J. Best is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vedantham, H. K., C. Bassa, J. R. Callingham, et al.. (2025). Strongly polarised radio pulses from a new white-dwarf-hosting long-period transient. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 699. A341–A341. 3 indexed citations
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Vedantham, H. K., C. Bassa, J. R. Callingham, et al.. (2025). Strongly polarised radio pulses from a new white-dwarf-hosting long-period transient. ArXiv.org. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhoujian, Sagnick Mukherjee, Michael C. Liu, et al.. (2024). Disequilibrium Chemistry, Diabatic Thermal Structure, and Clouds in the Atmosphere of COCONUTS-2b. The Astronomical Journal. 169(1). 9–9. 5 indexed citations
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Sanghi, Aniket, Michael C. Liu, Trent J. Dupuy, et al.. (2024). Ultracool Dwarf Absolute Magnitude Versus Spectral Type Relations for Euclid and Roman Near-infrared Filters. Research Notes of the AAS. 8(5). 137–137. 1 indexed citations
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Best, William M. J., Aniket Sanghi, Michael C. Liu, E. A. Magnier, & Trent J. Dupuy. (2024). A Volume-limited Sample of Ultracool Dwarfs. II. The Substellar Age and Mass Functions in the Solar Neighborhood. The Astrophysical Journal. 967(2). 115–115. 13 indexed citations
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Limbach, Mary Anne, Melinda Soares-Furtado, Andrew Vanderburg, et al.. (2023). The TEMPO Survey. I. Predicting Yields of Transiting Exosatellites, Moons, and Planets from a 30 days Survey of Orion with the Roman Space Telescope. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 135(1043). 14401–14401. 6 indexed citations
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Sanghi, Aniket, Michael C. Liu, William M. J. Best, et al.. (2023). Ultracool Dwarf Absolute Magnitude versus Spectral Type Relations for JWST NIRCam Filters. Research Notes of the AAS. 7(9). 194–194. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Ya-Lin, Brendan P. Bowler, Patrick Sheehan, et al.. (2022). ALMA Discovery of a Disk around the Planetary-mass Companion SR 12 c. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 930(1). L3–L3. 12 indexed citations
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Best, William M. J., et al.. (2022). Using Old and New Approaches: Determining Physical Properties of Brown Dwarfs with Empirical Relations and Machine Learning Models. arXiv (Cornell University). 5 indexed citations
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Best, William M. J., et al.. (2022). Updated Spectral Type Polynomials for Ultracool Dwarfs with CatWISE Photometry. Research Notes of the AAS. 6(12). 265–265. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhoujian, Michael C. Liu, Mark S. Marley, Michael R. Line, & William M. J. Best. (2021). Uniform Forward-modeling Analysis of Ultracool Dwarfs. II. Atmospheric Properties of 55 Late-T Dwarfs. The Astrophysical Journal. 921(1). 95–95. 31 indexed citations
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Best, William M. J., et al.. (2021). Photometric Properties of L and T Dwarf Binaries. Research Notes of the AAS. 5(12). 286–286. 1 indexed citations
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Vos, Johanna M., Beth Biller, Katelyn Allers, et al.. (2020). Spitzer Variability Properties of Low-gravity L Dwarfs. The Astronomical Journal. 160(1). 38–38. 37 indexed citations
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Line, Michael R., Zhoujian Zhang, Adam C. Schneider, et al.. (2020). A Uniform Retrieval Analysis of Ultra-cool Dwarfs. IV. A Statistical Census from 50 Late T-dwarfs. arXiv (Cornell University). 18 indexed citations
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Best, William M. J., Michael C. Liu, E. A. Magnier, & Trent J. Dupuy. (2020). The Hawaii Infrared Parallax Program. IV. A Comprehensive Parallax Survey of L0–T8 Dwarfs with UKIRT. The Astronomical Journal. 159(6). 257–257. 47 indexed citations
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Deacon, N. R., E. A. Magnier, Michael C. Liu, et al.. (2017). 2MASS 0213+3648 C: A wide T3 benchmark companion to an an active, old M dwarf binary. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. stx065–stx065. 11 indexed citations
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Best, William M. J., Michael C. Liu, Trent J. Dupuy, & E. A. Magnier. (2017). The Young L Dwarf 2MASS J11193254−1137466 Is a Planetary-mass Binary. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 843(1). L4–L4. 24 indexed citations
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Petigura, Erik A., Joshua E. Schlieder, Ian J. M. Crossfield, et al.. (2015). TWO TRANSITING EARTH-SIZE PLANETS NEAR RESONANCE ORBITING A NEARBY COOL STAR. The Astrophysical Journal. 811(2). 102–102. 21 indexed citations
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Williams, Jonathan P. & William M. J. Best. (2014). A PARAMETRIC MODELING APPROACH TO MEASURING THE GAS MASSES OF CIRCUMSTELLAR DISKS. The Astrophysical Journal. 788(1). 59–59. 141 indexed citations
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Best, William M. J., Michael C. Liu, E. A. Magnier, et al.. (2013). A SEARCH FOR L/T TRANSITION DWARFS WITH Pan-STARRS1 ANDWISE: DISCOVERY OF SEVEN NEARBY OBJECTS INCLUDING TWO CANDIDATE SPECTROSCOPIC VARIABLES. The Astrophysical Journal. 777(2). 84–84. 14 indexed citations

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