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Eric Emsellem

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Physics

D-Index
125
Citations
59769
World Ranking
665
National Ranking
55

Eric Emsellem publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eric Emsellem sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 566 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Eric Emsellem D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eric Emsellem sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 125 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Overview

Eric Emsellem is affiliated with the European Southern Observatory in Germany. Their research primarily falls within the broad domain of Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. The work further extends to subfields including Instrumentation, Spectroscopy, Computational Mechanics, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

Their research covers a range of topics related to galaxies, star formation, and astronomical phenomena. Main topics include:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation

Eric Emsellem has contributed to a number of recent papers, with selected examples including:

  • "The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 Data" (2022), published in the Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
  • "PHANGS-ALMA: Arcsecond CO(2-1) Imaging of Nearby Star-forming Galaxies" (2021), published in IrInSubria (University of Insubria)
  • "The PHANGS-MUSE survey" (2022), published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • "Distances to PHANGS galaxies: New tip of the red giant branch measurements and adopted distances" (2020), published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "Molecular Gas Properties on Cloud Scales across the Local Star-forming Galaxy Population" (2020), published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • The Astrophysical Journal

Collaborations have been a significant aspect of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Thomas G. Williams
  • E. Schinnerer
  • Adam K. Leroy
  • Ralf S. Klessen
  • Kathryn Grasha

Best Publications

  • Parametric Recovery of Line‐of‐Sight Velocity Distributions from Absorption‐Line Spectra of Galaxies via Penalized Likelihood

    Michele Cappellari;Eric Emsellem

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies and the Distant Universe

    Michael R. Blanton;Matthew A. Bershady;Bela Abolfathi;Franco D. Albareti;Franco D. Albareti

  • The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The SAURON project - IV. The mass-to-light ratio, the virial mass estimator and the Fundamental Plane of elliptical and lenticular galaxies

    M Cappellari;R Bacon;M Bureau;MC Damen

  • Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

    Kevin Bundy;Matthew A. Bershady;David R. Law;Renbin Yan

  • The ATLAS3D project – I. A volume-limited sample of 260 nearby early-type galaxies: science goals and selection criteria

    Michele Cappellari;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Davor Krajnović;Richard M. Mcdermid

  • The ATLAS3D project – XX. Mass–size and mass–σ distributions of early-type galaxies: bulge fraction drives kinematics, mass-to-light ratio, molecular gas fraction and stellar initial mass function

    Michele Cappellari;Richard M. McDermid;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • The MUSE second-generation VLT instrument

    R. Bacon;M. Accardo;L. Adjali;H. Anwand

  • The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

    Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andres Almeida

  • The SAURON project—V. Integral-field emission-line kinematics of 48 elliptical and lenticular galaxies

    Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Reynier F. Peletier;Reynier F. Peletier;Richard M. McDermid

  • The SAURON project – IX. A kinematic classification for early‐type galaxies

    Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Michele Cappellari;Davor Krajnović;Glenn Van De Ven;Glenn Van De Ven

  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series

    P. Serra;Raffaella Morganti;Thomas Oosterloo;K. Alatalo

  • The ATLAS3D project – III. A census of the stellar angular momentum within the effective radius of early‐type galaxies: unveiling the distribution of fast and slow rotators

    Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Davor Krajnović;Katherine Alatalo

  • The SAURON project – I. The panoramic integral-field spectrograph

    Roland Bacon;Yannick Copin;G. Monnet;Bryan W. Miller

  • The SAURON project. II. Sample and early results

    P.T. de Zeeuw;M. Bureau;E. Emsellem;R. Bacon

  • The SAURON project -- X. The orbital anisotropy of elliptical and lenticular galaxies: revisiting the (V/sigma,epsilon) diagram with integral-field stellar kinematics

    M. Cappellari;E. Emsellem;R. Bacon;M. Bureau

  • Systematic variation of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies

    Michele Cappellari;Richard M. McDermid;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • The ATLAS3D project XV: benchmark for early-type galaxies scaling relations from 260 dynamical models: mass-to-light ratio, dark matter, fundamental plane and mass plane

    Michele Cappellari;Nicholas Scott;Nicholas Scott;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • The SAURON project — II. Sample and early results

    P. Tim de Zeeuw;M. Bureau;Eric Emsellem;R. Bacon

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard M. McDermid
Richard M. McDermid Macquarie University
Michele Cappellari
Michele Cappellari University of Oxford
Pierre-Alain Duc
Pierre-Alain Duc University of Strasbourg
Marc Sarzi
Marc Sarzi Armagh Observatory
Roger L. Davies
Roger L. Davies University of Oxford
Harald Kuntschner
Harald Kuntschner European Southern Observatory
Martin Bureau
Martin Bureau University of Oxford
Frédéric Bournaud
Frédéric Bournaud University of Paris-Saclay
P. T. de Zeeuw
P. T. de Zeeuw Leiden University
Tom Oosterloo
Tom Oosterloo Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy

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