2026 Peter Nugent: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	150	292	279	172	164	1202	149345

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149345

Overview

Peter Nugent is affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Physics and Astronomy, with an extensive body of work spanning 242 publications in the field. Within this area, their specialization includes several subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Instrumentation, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main topics of research covered by Peter Nugent encompass Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research.

Peter Nugent has published numerous papers in a variety of scientific journals and venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

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

Among the recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Peter Nugent are:

Bright, Months-long Stellar Outbursts Announce the Explosion of Interaction-powered Supernovae, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal
First cosmology results using type Ia supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: the effect of host galaxy properties on supernova luminosity, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
GROWTH on S190814bv: Deep Synoptic Limits on the Optical/Near-infrared Counterpart to a Neutron Star-Black Hole Merger, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal
The complex circumstellar environment of supernova 2023ixf, 2024, Nature
ZTF Early Observations of Type Ia Supernovae. II. First Light, the Initial Rise, and Time to Reach Maximum Brightness, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

M. M. Kasliwal
L. Galbany
J. Sollerman
J. Johansson
A. Goobar

Best Publications

Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae

S. Perlmutter;G. Aldering;G. Goldhaber;R.A. Knop

31897
Citations
Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae

S. Perlmutter;S. Perlmutter;G. Aldering;G. Goldhaber;G. Goldhaber;R. A. Knop

23053
Citations
Discovery of a supernova explosion at half the age of the Universe

S. Perlmutter;S. Perlmutter;G. Aldering;M. Della Valle;S. Deustua;S. Deustua

3707
Citations
Discovery of a Supernova Explosion at Half the Age of the Universe and its Cosmological Implications

S. Perlmutter;G. Aldering;M. Della Valle;S. Deustua

2878
Citations
New Constraints on $\Omega_M$, $\Omega_\Lambda$, and w from an Independent Set of Eleven High-Redshift Supernovae Observed with HST

R. A. Knop;G. Aldering;R. Amanullah;P. Astier

2296
Citations
New Constraints on ΩM, ΩΛ, and w from an Independent Set of 11 High-Redshift Supernovae Observed with the Hubble Space Telescope*

R. A. Knop;R. A. Knop;G. Aldering;G. Aldering;R. Amanullah;P. Astier

2220
Citations
Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old and Combined Supernova Datasets

M.Kowalski;D.Rubin;G.Aldering;R.J.Agostinho

2050
Citations
Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old, and Combined Supernova Data Sets

M. Kowalski;D. Rubin;D. Rubin;G. Aldering;R. J. Agostinho

2013
Citations
The Palomar Transient Factory: System Overview, Performance and First Results

N. M. Law;S. R. Kulkarni;R. G. Dekany;E. O. Ofek

1754
Citations
The zwicky transient facility: System overview, performance, and first results

Eric C. Bellm;Shrinivas R. Kulkarni;Matthew J. Graham;Richard Dekany

1561
Citations
SPECTRA AND HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE LIGHT CURVES OF SIX TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE AT 0.511 <z< 1.12 AND THE UNION2 COMPILATION ∗

Rahman Amanullah;Chris Lidman;D. Rubin;D. Rubin;G. Aldering

1549
Citations
The Palomar Transient Factory: system overview, performance and first results

Nicholas M. Law;Shrinivas R. Kulkarni;Richard G. Dekany;Eran O. Ofek

1414
Citations
Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys.

Arjun Dey;David J. Schlegel;Dustin Lang;Robert Blum

1409
Citations
Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing

T. M. C. Abbott;F. B. Abdalla;A. Alarcon;J. Aleksić

1333
Citations
The Farthest Known Supernova: Support for an Accelerating Universe and a Glimpse of the Epoch of Deceleration*

Adam G. Riess;Peter E. Nugent;Ronald L. Gilliland;Brian P. Schmidt

1309
Citations
Electromagnetic counterparts of compact object mergers powered by the radioactive decay of r‐process nuclei

B. D. Metzger;G. Martínez-Pinedo;S. Darbha;E. Quataert

1236
Citations
A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese;F. Acernese

1162
Citations
Long γ-ray bursts and core-collapse supernovae have different environments

A. S. Fruchter;A. J. Levan;A. J. Levan;A. J. Levan;L. Strolger;L. Strolger;P. M. Vreeswijk

1075
Citations
The farthest known supernova: Support for an accelerating universe and a glimpse of the epoch of deceleration

Adam G. Riess;Peter E. Nugent;Brian P. Schmidt;John Tonry

1031
Citations
The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

Amir Aghamousa;Jessica Aguilar;Steve Ahlen

698
Citations