A. Rest

36.4k citations

131 papers · 3.6k · 3 hit papers · h-index 31

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Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.5%
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
Instrumentation top 1%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research

Papers in

Astronomy and Astrophysics 103
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 79
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 53
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 35
- Astro and Planetary Science 13
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena 12
Instrumentation 33
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 32

Co-authors: J. Tonry (24 shared papers)K. Smith (8 shared papers)S. J. Smartt (23 shared papers)C. W. Stubbs (25 shared papers)R. Kirshner (10 shared papers)B. Stalder (20 shared papers)L. Denneau (19 shared papers)A. Heinze (18 shared papers)
Journals: The Astrophysical Journal (32 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (22 papers)The Astronomical Journal (9 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Letters (7 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States France Chile

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A. Rest

113 papers receiving 3.3k citations

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ATLAS: A High-cadence All-sky Survey System 2018 · 564 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
2018 The Astronomical Journal
2009 The Astrophysical Journal

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1	ATLAS: A High-cadence All-sky Survey System Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific ·J. Tonry, L. Denneau, A. Heinze, B. Stalder, K. Smith, S. J. Smartt, C. W. Stubbs, H. Weiland, A. Rest Hit paper breakdown →	2018	564
2	IMPROVED DARK ENERGY CONSTRAINTS FROM ∼100 NEW CfA SUPERNOVA TYPE Ia LIGHT CURVES The Astrophysical Journal ·M. Hicken, W. M. Wood‐Vasey, S. Blondin, Peter Challis, Saurabh W. Jha, Patrick L. Kelly, A. Rest, R. Kirshner Hit paper breakdown →	2009	535
3	A First Catalog of Variable Stars Measured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) The Astronomical Journal ·A. Heinze, J. Tonry, L. Denneau, H. Flewelling, B. Stalder, A. Rest, K. Smith, S. J. Smartt, H. Weiland Hit paper breakdown →	2018	205
4	WFPC2 Images of the Central Regions of Early-Type Galaxies. I. The Data The Astronomical Journal ·A. Rest, Frank C. van den Bosch, Walter Jaffe, H. D. Tran, Z. Tsvetanov, H. C. Ford, J. Davies, Joanna Schafer	2001	155
5	Simulations of the WFIRST Supernova Survey and Forecasts of Cosmological Constraints The Astrophysical Journal ·Rebekah Hounsell, D. Scolnic, R. J. Foley, R. Keßler, Vivian Miranda, Arturo Avelino, R. C. Bohlin, A. V. Filippenko, J. Frieman, Saurabh W. Jha, Patrick L. Kelly, R. Kirshner, Kaisey S. Mandel, A. Rest, Adam G. Riess, S. Rodney, Louis-Gregory Strolger	2018	106
6	Galaxy cores as relics of black hole mergers Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Miloš Milosavljević, David Merritt, A. Rest, Frank C. van den Bosch	2002	101
7	Light echoes from ancient supernovae in the Large Magellanic Cloud Nature ·A. Rest, N. B. Suntzeff, Knut Olsen, J. L. Prieto, R. Chris Smith, D. L. Welch, A. C. Becker, Marcel Bergmann, A. Clocchiatti, Kem H. Cook, Arti Garg, M. E. Huber, G. Miknaitis, D. Minniti, S. Nikolaev, C. W. Stubbs	2005	82
8	Type Ia Supernovae Are Good Standard Candles in the Near Infrared: Evidence from PAIRITEL The Astrophysical Journal ·W. M. Wood‐Vasey, Andrew S. Friedman, J. S. Bloom, M. Hicken, M. Modjaz, R. Kirshner, D. Starr, Cullen H. Blake, E. Falco, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, P. Challis, S. Blondin, Kaisey S. Mandel, A. Rest	2008	82
9	<title>Temperature dependence of dark current in a CCD</title> Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Ralf Widenhorn, Morley M. Blouke, A. Weber, A. Rest, Erik Bodegom	2002	76
10	THE BLANCO COSMOLOGY SURVEY: DATA ACQUISITION, PROCESSING, CALIBRATION, QUALITY DIAGNOSTICS, AND DATA RELEASE The Astrophysical Journal ·S. Desai, R. Armstrong, J. J. Mohr, D. R. Semler, (unknown), E. Bertin, S. Allam, Wayne Barkhouse, G. Bazin, E. Buckley‐Geer, Michael C. Cooper, Sarah M. Hansen, F. W. High, H. Lin, Yen‐Ting Lin, Chow‐Choong Ngeow, A. Rest, Jie Song, D. L. Tucker, A. Zenteno	2012	76
11	Uniformity of (V−Near‐Infrared) Color Evolution of Type Ia Supernovae and Implications for Host Galaxy Extinction Determination The Astrophysical Journal ·K. Krisciunas, N. C. Hastings, Karen Loomis, R. McMillan, A. Rest, Adam G. Riess, C. W. Stubbs	2000	75
12	No signature of ejecta interaction with a stellar companion in three type Ia supernovae Nature ·Rob P. Olling, R. F. Mushotzky, E. Shaya, A. Rest, P. Garnavich, B. Tucker, Daniel Kasen, S. Margheim, A. V. Filippenko	2015	66
13	Should Type Ia Supernova Distances Be Corrected for Their Local Environments? The Astrophysical Journal ·D. O. Jones, Adam G. Riess, D. Scolnic, Y. C. Pan, Emily Cooper Johnson, D. A. Coulter, K. Dettman, Michael M. Foley, R. J. Foley, M. E. Huber, Saurabh W. Jha, C. D. Kilpatrick, R. Kirshner, A. Rest, A. S. B. Schultz, M. R. Siebert	2018	66
14	Pan-STARRS Pixel Processing: Detrending, Warping, Stacking The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ·C. Waters, E. A. Magnier, P. A. Price, K. C. Chambers, W. S. Burgett, P. W. Draper, H. Flewelling, K. W. Hodapp, M. E. Huber, Robert Jedicke, N. Kaiser, Rolf‐Peter Kudritzki, Robert H. Lupton, N. Metcalfe, A. Rest, William E. Sweeney, J. Tonry, R. J. Wainscoat, W. M. Wood‐Vasey	2020	56
15	Light echoes reveal an unexpectedly cool η Carinae during its nineteenth-century Great Eruption Nature ·A. Rest, J. L. Prieto, N. R. Walborn, Nathan Smith, Federica Bianco, R. Chornock, D. L. Welch, D. A. Howell, M. E. Huber, R. J. Foley, Wen‐fai Fong, B. Sinnott, Howard E. Bond, Rory Smith, I. Toledo, D. Minniti, Kaisey S. Mandel	2012	54
16	Light echoes from the plateau in Eta Carinae’s Great Eruption reveal a two-stage shock-powered event Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Nathan Smith, Jennifer E. Andrews, A. Rest, Federica Bianco, J. L. Prieto, (unknown), D. J. James, R. Chris Smith, G. Strampelli, A. Zenteno	2018	53
17	A cool and inflated progenitor candidate for the Type Ib supernova 2019yvr at 2.6 yr before explosion Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·C. D. Kilpatrick, M. R. Drout, Katie Auchettl, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, D. O. Jones, L. M. DeMarchi, K. Decker French, C. Gall, J. Hjorth, W. V. Jacobson-Galán, R. Margutti, Anthony L. Piro, E. Ramírez-Ruiz, A. Rest, C. Rojas-Bravo	2021	49
18	Optical and Infrared Photometry of the Type I[CLC]a[/CLC] Supernovae 1999[CLC]da[/CLC], 1999[CLC]dk[/CLC], 1999[CLC]gp[/CLC], 2000[CLC]bk[/CLC], and 2000[CLC]ce[/CLC] The Astronomical Journal ·K. Krisciunas, M. M. Phillips, C. W. Stubbs, A. Rest, G. Miknaitis, Adam G. Riess, N. B. Suntzeff, Miguel Roth, S. E. Persson, Wendy L. Freedman	2001	48
19	The host galaxy and late-time evolution of the superluminous supernova PTF12dam Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·T. W. Chen, S. J. Smartt, Anders Jerkstrand, M. Nicholl, Fabio Bresolin, R. Kotak, J. Polshaw, A. Rest, Rolf‐Peter Kudritzki, Zheng Zheng, N. Elias–Rosa, K. Smith, C. Inserra, D. E. Wright, E. Kankare, T. Kangas, M. Fraser	2015	46
20	POSSIBLE DETECTION OF THE STELLAR DONOR OR REMNANT FOR THE TYPE Iax SUPERNOVA 2008ha The Astrophysical Journal ·R. J. Foley, C. McCully, Saurabh W. Jha, Lars Bildsten, Wen‐fai Fong, Gautham Narayan, A. Rest, M. Stritzinger	2014	45

About A. Rest

A. Rest is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Computational Mechanics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, having authored 131 papers that have together received 3.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (79 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (53 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (35 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (32 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (20 papers), Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation (15 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (13 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (3.2k citations), Instrumentation (599 citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (993 citations), Computational Mechanics (115 citations) and Aerospace Engineering (104 citations). A. Rest has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Chile. Frequent co-authors include J. Tonry, K. Smith, S. J. Smartt, C. W. Stubbs, R. Kirshner, B. Stalder, L. Denneau, A. Heinze, H. Weiland and Saurabh W. Jha. Their work appears in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astronomical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

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