X. Bonfıls

17.9k citations

106 papers · 4.9k · 3 hit papers · h-index 41

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Instrumentation top 0.5%
- 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

Papers in

Astronomy and Astrophysics 104
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 101
- Astro and Planetary Science 61
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 59
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 4
Instrumentation 55
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 55

Co-authors: S. Udry (66 shared papers)N. C. Santos (54 shared papers)T. Forveille (52 shared papers)X. Delfosse (47 shared papers)C. Lovis (46 shared papers)F. Pepe (42 shared papers)D. Queloz (31 shared papers)M. Mayor (36 shared papers)
Journals: Astronomy and Astrophysics (45 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (5 papers)Nature (3 papers)The Astrophysical Journal (2 papers)The Astronomical Journal (2 papers)
Partner nations: France Switzerland Portugal

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X. Bonfıls

100 papers receiving 4.6k citations

X. Bonfıls's Hit Papers

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A super-Earth transiting a nearby low-mass star 2009 · 411 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.

2009 Nature
2009 Astronomy and Astrophysics
2007 Astronomy and Astrophysics

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1	A super-Earth transiting a nearby low-mass star Nature ·David Charbonneau, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, Jonathan Irwin, Christopher J. Burke, P. Nutzman, Lars A. Buchhave, C. Lovis, X. Bonfıls, David W. Latham, S. Udry, Ruth Murray‐Clay, Matthew J. Holman, E. Falco, Joshua N. Winn, D. Queloz, F. Pepe, M. Mayor, X. Delfosse, T. Forveille Hit paper breakdown →	2009	411
2	The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets Astronomy and Astrophysics ·S. Udry, X. Bonfıls, X. Delfosse, T. Forveille, M. Mayor, C. Perrier, F. Bouchy, C. Lovis, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, Jean‐Loup Bertaux Hit paper breakdown →	2007	281
3	A giant comet-like cloud of hydrogen escaping the warm Neptune-mass exoplanet GJ 436b Nature ·D. Ehrenreich, V. Bourrier, P. J. Wheatley, A. Lecavelier des Étangs, G. Hébrard, S. Udry, X. Bonfıls, X. Delfosse, Jean-Michel Désert, David K. Sing, A. Vidal‐Madjar	2015	242
4	The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets Astronomy and Astrophysics ·M. Mayor, X. Bonfıls, T. Forveille, X. Delfosse, S. Udry, Jean‐Loup Bertaux, H. Beust, F. Bouchy, C. Lovis, F. Pepe, C. Perrier, D. Queloz, N. C. Santos Hit paper breakdown →	2009	217
5	Disentangling between stellar activity and planetary signals Astronomy and Astrophysics ·I. Boisse, F. Bouchy, G. Hébrard, X. Bonfıls, N. C. Santos, S. Vauclair	2011	147
6	The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets Astronomy and Astrophysics ·X. Bonfıls, M. Mayor, X. Delfosse, T. Forveille, M. Gillon, C. Perrier, S. Udry, F. Bouchy, C. Lovis, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, N. C. Santos, Jean‐Loup Bertaux	2007	141
7	The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets Astronomy and Astrophysics ·X. Bonfıls, T. Forveille, X. Delfosse, S. Udry, M. Mayor, C. Perrier, F. Bouchy, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, Jean‐Loup Bertaux	2005	140
8	Metallicity of M dwarfs I. A photometric calibration and impact on the mass-luminosity relation at the bottom of the main sequence arXiv (Cornell University) ·X. Bonfıls, X. Delfosse, S. Udry, N. C. Santos, T. Forveille, D. Ségransan	2005	140
9	TW Hydrae: evidence of stellar spots instead of a Hot Jupiter Astronomy and Astrophysics ·N. Huélamo, P. Figueira, X. Bonfıls, N. C. Santos, F. Pepe, M. Gillon, Rui Azevedo, Travis Barman, M. Argudo–Fernández, E. Di Folco, E. W. Guenther, C. Lovis, C. Melo, D. Queloz, S. Udry	2008	135
10	The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. VI. A Neptune-mass planet around the nearby M dwarf Gl 581 ArXiv.org ·X. Bonfıls, T. Forveille, X. Delfosse, S. Udry, M. Mayor, C. Perrier, F. Bouchy, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, Jean‐Loup Bertaux	2005	118
11	SWEET-Cat: A catalogue of parameters for Stars With ExoplanETs Astronomy and Astrophysics ·N. C. Santos, S. G. Sousa, Annelies Mortier, V. Neves, V. Adibekyan, M. Tsantaki, E. Delgado Mena, X. Bonfıls, G. Israelian, M. Mayor, S. Udry	2013	109
12	Metallicity of M dwarfs I. A photometric calibration and impact on the mass-luminosity relation at the bottom of the main sequence HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) ·X. Bonfıls, X. Delfosse, S. Udry, N. C. Santos, T. Forveille, D. Ségransan	2005	103
13	Hint of a transiting extended atmosphere on 55 Cancri b Astronomy and Astrophysics ·D. Ehrenreich, V. Bourrier, X. Bonfıls, A. Lecavelier des Étangs, G. Hébrard, David K. Sing, P. J. Wheatley, A. Vidal‐Madjar, X. Delfosse, S. Udry, T. Forveille, C. Moutou	2012	101
14	The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. X. A m sin i = 11 M_â planet around the nearby spotted M dwarf GJ 674 X. Bonfıls, M. Mayor, X. Delfosse, T. Forveille, M. Gillon, C. Perrier, S. Udry, F. Bouchy, C. Lovis, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, N. C. Santos, Jean‐Loup Bertaux	2007	97
15	Accurate Spitzer infrared radius measurement for the hot Neptune GJ 436b Astronomy and Astrophysics ·M. Gillon, Brice-Olivier Demory, Travis Barman, X. Bonfıls, T. Mazeh, F. Pont, S. Udry, M. Mayor, D. Queloz	2007	96
16	Long-term magnetic activity of a sample of M-dwarf stars from the HARPS program Astronomy and Astrophysics ·J. Gomes da Silva, N. C. Santos, X. Bonfıls, X. Delfosse, T. Forveille, S. Udry	2011	94
17	The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets Astronomy and Astrophysics ·F. Pepe, M. Mayor, D. Queloz, W. Benz, X. Bonfıls, F. Bouchy, G. Lo Curto, C. Lovis, D. Mégevand, C. Moutou, D. Naef, G. Rupprecht, N. C. Santos, J. P. Sivan, D. Sosnowska, S. Udry	2004	80
18	Magnetic activity in the HARPS M dwarf sample Astronomy and Astrophysics ·N. Astudillo-Defru, X. Delfosse, X. Bonfıls, T. Forveille, C. Lovis, Julien Rameau	2016	78
19	SOAP Astronomy and Astrophysics ·I. Boisse, X. Bonfıls, N. C. Santos	2012	75
20	Planetary detection limits taking into account stellar noise Astronomy and Astrophysics ·X. Dumusque, N. C. Santos, S. Udry, C. Lovis, X. Bonfıls	2011	74

About X. Bonfıls

X. Bonfıls is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Mechanics, having authored 106 papers that have together received 4.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (101 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (61 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (59 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (55 papers), Scientific Research and Discoveries (7 papers), Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation (5 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (5 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (1.8k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (4.7k citations), Atmospheric Science (309 citations), Spectroscopy (216 citations) and Geophysics (162 citations). X. Bonfıls has collaborated with scholars based in France, Switzerland and Portugal. Frequent co-authors include S. Udry, N. C. Santos, T. Forveille, X. Delfosse, C. Lovis, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, M. Mayor, F. Bouchy and C. Perrier. Their work appears in journals such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and The Astronomical Journal.

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