C. McCarthy

6.1k citations

38 papers · 3.2k · 2 hit papers · h-index 23

Impact in

Instrumentation top 1%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.5%
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Astro and Planetary Science
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations

Papers in

Astronomy and Astrophysics 35
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 34
- Astro and Planetary Science 22
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 21
Instrumentation 16
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 16

Co-authors: R. Paul Butler (21 shared papers)Steven S. Vogt (3 shared papers)Geoffrey W. Marcy (16 shared papers)B. Zuckerman (8 shared papers)C. G. Tinney (19 shared papers)H. R. A. Jones (14 shared papers)A. J. Penny (13 shared papers)Jason T. Wright (7 shared papers)
Journals: The Astrophysical Journal (15 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (4 papers)The Astronomical Journal (3 papers)Astronomy and Astrophysics (2 papers)Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Australia United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

C. McCarthy

36 papers receiving 3.1k citations

C. McCarthy's Hit Papers

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Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets 2006 · 538 citations

What are hit papers?

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.

2006 The Astrophysical Journal
1996 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

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1	Attaining Doppler Precision of 3 M s-1 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific ·R. P. Butler, G. W. Marcy, Eric Williams, C. McCarthy, P. Dosanjh, Steven S. Vogt Hit paper breakdown →	1996	589
2	Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets The Astrophysical Journal ·R. Paul Butler, Jason T. Wright, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Debra A. Fischer, Steven S. Vogt, C. G. Tinney, H. R. A. Jones, Brad Carter, John Asher Johnson, C. McCarthy, A. J. Penny Hit paper breakdown →	2006	538
3	Submillimetre images of dusty debris around nearby stars Nature ·W. S. Holland, J. S. Greaves, B. Zuckerman, R. A. Webb, C. McCarthy, I. M. Coulson, D. M. Walther, (unknown), W. K. Gear, Ian Robson	1998	284
4	Discovery of Seven T Tauri Stars and a Brown Dwarf Candidatein the Nearby TW Hydrae Association The Astrophysical Journal ·R. A. Webb, B. Zuckerman, I. Platais, J. Patience, R. J. White, M. Schwartz, C. McCarthy	1999	256
5	A Dust Ring around ε Eridani: Analog to the Young Solar System The Astrophysical Journal ·J. S. Greaves, W. S. Holland, G. H. Moriarty‐Schieven, Tim Jenness, W. R. F. Dent, B. Zuckerman, C. McCarthy, R. A. Webb, H. M. Butner, W. K. Gear, H. J. Walker	1998	206
6	Five Planets Orbiting 55 Cancri The Astrophysical Journal ·Debra A. Fischer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt, G. Laughlin, Gregory W. Henry, David Abouav, Kathryn M. G. Peek, Jason T. Wright, John Asher Johnson, C. McCarthy, Howard Isaacson	2008	155
7	Solar‐like Oscillations in α Centauri B The Astrophysical Journal ·H. Kjeldsen, T. R. Bedding, R. Paul Butler, J. Christensen‐Dalsgaard, L. L. Kiss, C. McCarthy, Geoffrey W. Marcy, C. G. Tinney, Jason T. Wright	2005	143
8	Constraining the difference in convective blueshift between the components ofαCentauri with precise radial velocities Astronomy and Astrophysics ·D. Pourbaix, David L. Nidever, C. McCarthy, R. Paul Butler, C. G. Tinney, Geoffrey W. Marcy, H. R. A. Jones, A. J. Penny, Brad Carter, F. Bouchy, F. Pepe, J. B. Hearnshaw, J. Skuljan, D. J. Ramm, Dudley Charles Kent	2002	98
9	The Brown Dwarf Desert at 75-1200 AU The Astronomical Journal ·C. McCarthy, B. Zuckerman	2004	91
10	A Candidate Substellar Companion to CD −33°7795 (TWA 5) The Astrophysical Journal ·Patrick Lowrance, C. McCarthy, E. E. Becklin, B. Zuckerman, Glenn Schneider, R. A. Webb, Dean C. Hines, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, D. W. Koerner, F. J. Low, Roland Meier, Marcia Rieke, B. A. Smith, R. J. Terrile, Rodger I. Thompson	1999	89
11	Submillimeter Observations of an Asymmetric Dust Disk around Fomalhaut The Astrophysical Journal ·W. S. Holland, J. S. Greaves, W. R. F. Dent, M. C. Wyatt, B. Zuckerman, R. A. Webb, C. McCarthy, I. M. Coulson, E. I. Robson, W. K. Gear	2003	81
12	Oscillation Frequencies and Mode Lifetimes in α Centauri A The Astrophysical Journal ·T. R. Bedding, H. Kjeldsen, R. Paul Butler, C. McCarthy, Geoffrey W. Marcy, S. J. O’Toole, C. G. Tinney, Jason T. Wright	2004	79
13	Ultra-High-Precision Velocity Measurements of Oscillations in Centauri A The Astrophysical Journal ·R. Paul Butler, T. R. Bedding, H. Kjeldsen, C. McCarthy, S. J. O’Toole, C. G. Tinney, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Jason T. Wright	2003	76
14	An activity catalogue of southern stars Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·J. S. Jenkins, H. R. A. Jones, C. G. Tinney, R. Paul Butler, C. McCarthy, Geoffrey W. Marcy, D. J. Pinfield, Brad Carter, A. J. Penny	2006	70
15	Extrasolar planets around HD 196050, HD 216437 and HD 160691 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·H. R. A. Jones, R. Paul Butler, Geoffrey W. Marcy, C. G. Tinney, A. J. Penny, C. McCarthy, Brad Carter	2002	61
16	Four New Planets Orbiting Metal‐enriched Stars The Astrophysical Journal ·C. G. Tinney, R. Paul Butler, Geoffrey W. Marcy, H. R. A. Jones, A. J. Penny, C. McCarthy, Brad Carter, J. C. Bond	2003	44
17	Echelle spectroscopy of Ca II HK activity in Southern Hemisphere planet search targets Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·C. G. Tinney, C. McCarthy, H. R. A. Jones, R. Paul Butler, B. D. Carter, Geoffrey W. Marcy, A. J. Penny	2002	42
18	Two Extrasolar Planets from the Anglo‐Australian Planet Search The Astrophysical Journal ·C. G. Tinney, R. Paul Butler, Geoffrey W. Marcy, H. R. A. Jones, A. J. Penny, C. McCarthy, Brad Carter	2002	39
19	Multiple Companions to HD 154857 and HD 160691 The Astrophysical Journal ·C. McCarthy, R. Paul Butler, C. G. Tinney, H. R. A. Jones, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Brad Carter, A. J. Penny, Debra A. Fischer	2004	38
20	An exoplanet in orbit around 1 Gruis Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·H. R. A. Jones, R. Paul Butler, C. G. Tinney, G. W. Marcy, A. J. Penny, C. McCarthy, B. D. Carter	2003	34

About C. McCarthy

C. McCarthy is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering and Ecology, having authored 38 papers that have together received 3.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (34 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (22 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (21 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (16 papers), Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation (2 papers), Heat Transfer and Optimization (1 paper), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (1 paper) and Heat Transfer Mechanisms (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (900 citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (3.1k citations), Spectroscopy (130 citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (96 citations) and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (178 citations). C. McCarthy has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt, Geoffrey W. Marcy, B. Zuckerman, C. G. Tinney, H. R. A. Jones, A. J. Penny, Jason T. Wright, R. P. Butler and P. Dosanjh. Their work appears in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astronomical Journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

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