Robert Parsons

9.6k citations

150 papers · 6.0k · 2 hit papers · h-index 38

Impact in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 5%
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Neutrino Physics Research
Astronomy and Astrophysics top 2%
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 141
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena 132
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena 66
- Neutrino Physics Research 17
- Particle Detector Development and Performance 15
Astronomy and Astrophysics 109
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 68
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 38
- Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology 24
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research 22

Co-authors: James Hinton (11 shared papers)Alison M. W. Mitchell (10 shared papers)Stefan Ohm (2 shared papers)Ruben Lopez-Coto (5 shared papers)Gwenael Giacinti (2 shared papers)Stefan Funk (2 shared papers)Vikas Joshi (2 shared papers)Koji Noda (1 shared paper)
Journals: Astronomy and Astrophysics (43 papers)Astroparticle Physics (13 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (12 papers)Physical Review Letters (9 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Letters (6 papers)
Partner nations: Germany France South Africa

In The Last Decade

Robert Parsons

146 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Robert Parsons's Hit Papers

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The H.E.S.S. Galactic plane survey 2018 · 287 citations

What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2018 Astronomy and Astrophysics
2011 Experimental Astronomy

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1	Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy Experimental Astronomy ·Marcos Daniel Actis, Gaetano Agnetta, Felix Aharonian, A. G. Akhperjanian, Jelena M Aleksic, E. Aliu, D. Allan, I. Allekotte Hit paper breakdown →	2011	633
2	Measurement of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers above 10 18 eV Physical Review Letters ·J. Abraham, Pedro T. Abreu, M. Aglietta, E. J. Ahn, D. Allard, I. Allekotte, Jeff Allen, Jaime Álvarez-Muñiz	2010	334
3	Measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 1018 eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory Physics Letters B ·J. Abraham, Pedro T. Abreu, M. Aglietta, E. J. Ahn, D. Allard, Jeff Allen, Jaime Álvarez-Muñiz, M. Ambrosio	2010	301
4	The H.E.S.S. Galactic plane survey Astronomy and Astrophysics ·H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski, Felix Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, E. O. Angüner, M. Arakawa, M. Arrieta, Michael Backes Hit paper breakdown →	2018	287
5	A very-high-energy component deep in the γ-ray burst afterglow Nature ·H. Abdalla, Rémi Adam, Felix Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, E. O. Angüner, M. Arakawa, C. Arcaro, C. Armand	2019	208
6	Search for Dark Matter Annihilations towards the Inner Galactic Halo from 10 Years of Observations with H.E.S.S. Physical Review Letters ·Hamed M. Abdallah, A. Abramowski, Felix Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, A. G. Akhperjanian, E. Angüner, M. Arrieta, Pierre Aubert	2016	204
7	Measurement of the Proton-Air Cross Section at s=57 TeV with the Pierre Auger Observatory Physical Review Letters ·Pedro T. Abreu, M. Aglietta, E. J. Ahn, I. F. M. Albuquerque, D. Allard, I. Allekotte, Jeff Allen, P. Allison	2012	173
8	Search for TeV Gamma-ray Emission from GRB 100621A, an extremely bright GRB in X-rays, with H.E.S.S. Astronomy and Astrophysics ·A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, A. G. Akhperjanian, E. Angüner, Gisela Anton, S. Balenderan, A. Balzer	2014	167
9	Monte Carlo design studies for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Astroparticle Physics ·Konrad Bernlöhr, Anna Barnacka, Yvonne Becherini, E. Carmona, P. Colin, G. Decerprit, Federico Di Pierro, F. Dubois	2012	164
10	Search for Photon-Linelike Signatures from Dark Matter Annihilations with H.E.S.S. Physical Review Letters ·A. Abramowski, Fabio Acero, Felix Aharonian, A. G. Akhperjanian, Gisela Anton, S. Balenderan, A. Balzer, Anna Barnacka	2013	159
11	Trigger and aperture of the surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·J. Abraham, Pedro T. Abreu, M. Aglietta, E. J. Ahn, D. Allard, I. Allekotte, J. Allen, Jaime Álvarez-Muñiz	2010	141
12	A Monte Carlo template based analysis for air-Cherenkov arrays Astroparticle Physics ·Robert Parsons, James Hinton	2014	140
13	Constraints on axionlike particles with H.E.S.S. from the irregularity of the PKS 2155 − 304 energy spectrum Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·A. Abramowski, Fabio Acero, Felix Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, A. G. Akhperjanian, E. Angüner, Gisela Anton, S. Balenderan	2013	117
14	Search for γ -Ray Line Signals from Dark Matter Annihilations in the Inner Galactic Halo from 10 Years of Observations with H.E.S.S. Physical Review Letters ·Hamed M. Abdallah, A. Abramowski, Felix Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, E. O. Angüner, Masanori Arakawa, M. Arrieta, Pierre Aubert	2018	99
15	H.E.S.S. observations of RX J1713.7-3946 with improved angular and spectral resolution; evidence for gamma-ray emission extending beyond the X-ray emitting shell DESY (CERN, DESY, Fermilab, IHEP, and SLAC) ·A. Balzer, A. Abramowski, Felix Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, A. G. Akhperjanian, T. Andersson, E. O. Angüner, M. Arrieta	2016	82
16	Halo fraction in TeV-bright pulsar wind nebulae Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Gwenael Giacinti, Alison M. W. Mitchell, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Vikas Joshi, Robert Parsons, James Hinton	2020	82
17	H.E.S.S. discovery of VHEγ-rays from the quasar PKS 1510−089 Astronomy and Astrophysics ·A. Abramowski, Fabio Acero, Felix Aharonian, A. G. Akhperjanian, Gisela Anton, S. Balenderan, A. Balzer, Anna Barnacka	2013	76
18	Search for dark matter annihilation signatures in H.E.S.S. observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·A. Abramowski, Felix Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, A. G. Akhperjanian, E. Angüner, Michael Backes, S. Balenderan, A. Balzer	2014	73
19	Time-resolved hadronic particle acceleration in the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi Science ·Felix Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, E. O. Angüner, Halim Ashkar, Michael Backes, Vardan Baghmanyan, Victor Barbosa Martins, Rowan Batzofin	2022	71
20	Diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission with H.E.S.S. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·A. Abramowski, Felix Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, A. G. Akhperjanian, E. O. Angüner, Michael Backes, S. Balenderan, A. Balzer	2014	67

About Robert Parsons

Robert Parsons is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Radiation, Instrumentation and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, having authored 150 papers that have together received 6.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (132 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (68 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (66 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (38 papers), Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (24 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (22 papers), Neutrino Physics Research (17 papers) and Particle Detector Development and Performance (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (5.4k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (4.0k citations), Instrumentation (82 citations), Radiation (116 citations) and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (107 citations). Robert Parsons has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, France and South Africa. Frequent co-authors include James Hinton, Alison M. W. Mitchell, Stefan Ohm, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Gwenael Giacinti, Stefan Funk, Vikas Joshi, Koji Noda, Giacomo Principe and Sami Caroff. Their work appears in journals such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astroparticle Physics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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