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Pieter G. van Dokkum

Pieter G. van Dokkum

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Physics
USA
2026

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Physics

D-Index
185
Citations
104909
World Ranking
99
National Ranking
69

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award

Overview

Pieter G. van Dokkum is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Physics and Astronomy, with extensive work in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as areas within Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's work is concentrated on several key topics including Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena; Astronomy and Astrophysical Research; Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae; Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing; Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies; and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations.

Over the course of their career, Pieter G. van Dokkum has published numerous papers, appearing frequently in several scholarly venues. Notably, these include arXiv (Cornell University), The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, and Nature.

Recent significant publications are:

  • A population of red candidate massive galaxies ~600 Myr after the Big Bang, 2023, Nature
  • Two Remarkably Luminous Galaxy Candidates at z ≈ 10-12 Revealed by JWST, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Little Red Dots: An Abundant Population of Faint Active Galactic Nuclei at z ∼ 5 Revealed by the EIGER and FRESCO JWST Surveys, 2024, The Astrophysical Journal
  • UNCOVER Spectroscopy Confirms the Surprising Ubiquity of Active Galactic Nuclei in Red Sources at z > 5, 2024, The Astrophysical Journal
  • UNCOVER: The Growth of the First Massive Black Holes from JWST/NIRSpec-Spectroscopic Redshift Confirmation of an X-Ray Luminous AGN at z = 10.1, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Pieter G. van Dokkum often collaborates with a group of frequent co-authors including Gabriel Brammer, Rachel Bezanson, Joel Leja, Katherine E. Whitaker, and Erica J. Nelson.

Best Publications

  • UV Luminosity Functions at redshifts z~4 to z~10: 10000 Galaxies from HST Legacy Fields

    R. J. Bouwens;G. D. Illingworth;P. A. Oesch;M. Trenti

  • EAZY: A Fast, Public Photometric Redshift Code

    Gabriel B. Brammer;Pieter G. van Dokkum;Paolo Coppi

  • UV luminosity functions at redshifts z ∼ 4 to z ∼ 10: 10,000 galaxies from HST legacy fields

    R.J. Bouwens;R.J. Bouwens;G.D. Illingworth;P.A. Oesch;P.A. Oesch;M. Trenti

  • The Star Formation Mass Sequence Out to z = 2.5

    Katherine E. Whitaker;Pieter G. van Dokkum;Gabriel Brammer;Marijn Franx

  • Detection of Quiescent Galaxies in a Bicolor Sequence from Z = 0-2

    Rik J. Williams;Ryan F. Quadri;Marijn Franx;Pieter van Dokkum

  • An ultra-deep near-infrared spectrum of a compact quiescent galaxy at z=2.2

    Mariska Kriek;Pieter G. van Dokkum;Ivo Labbé;Marijn Franx

  • UV Luminosity Functions from 132 z~7 and z~8 Lyman-Break Galaxies in the ultra-deep HUDF09 and wide-area ERS WFC3/IR Observations

    R. J. Bouwens;G. D. Illingworth;P. A. Oesch;I. Labbe

  • 3D-HST+CANDELS: THE EVOLUTION OF THE GALAXY SIZE–MASS DISTRIBUTION SINCE z = 3

    A. van der Wel;M. Franx;P.G. van Dokkum;R.E. Skelton

  • The Growth of Massive Galaxies Since z = 2

    Pieter G. van Dokkum;Pieter G. van Dokkum;Katherine E. Whitaker;Katherine E. Whitaker;Gabriel Brammer;Gabriel Brammer;Marijn Franx

  • Confirmation of the Remarkable Compactness of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z ~ 2.3: Early-Type Galaxies Did not Form in a Simple Monolithic Collapse* **

    Pieter G. van Dokkum;Marijn Franx;Mariska Kriek;Bradford Holden

  • THE EVOLUTION OF THE STELLAR MASS FUNCTIONS OF STAR-FORMING AND QUIESCENT GALAXIES TO z = 4 FROM THE COSMOS/UltraVISTA SURVEY*

    Adam Muzzin;Danilo Marchesini;Mauro Stefanon;Marijn Franx

  • 3D-HST WFC3-selected Photometric Catalogs in the Five CANDELS/3D-HST Fields: Photometry, Photometric Redshifts, and Stellar Masses

    Rosalind E. Skelton;Katherine E. Whitaker;Ivelina G. Momcheva;Gabriel B. Brammer

  • The 3D-HST Survey: Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/G141 grism spectra, redshifts, and emission line measurements for $\sim 100,000$ galaxies

    Ivelina G. Momcheva;Gabriel B. Brammer;Pieter G. van Dokkum;Rosalind E. Skelton

  • A Substantial Population of Low-Mass Stars in Luminous Elliptical Galaxies

    Pieter G. van Dokkum;Charlie Conroy;Charlie Conroy

  • THE STELLAR INITIAL MASS FUNCTION IN EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES FROM ABSORPTION LINE SPECTROSCOPY. II. RESULTS

    Charlie Conroy;Charlie Conroy;Pieter G. van Dokkum

  • CONSTRAINING THE LOW-MASS SLOPE OF THE STAR FORMATION SEQUENCE AT 0.5 < z < 2.5

    Katherine E. Whitaker;Marijn Franx;Joel Leja;Pieter G. van Dokkum

  • A Significant Population of Red, Near-IR Selected High Redshift Galaxies

    Marijn Franx;Ivo Labbe;Gregory Rudnick;Pieter G. van Dokkum

  • The afterglow, redshift and extreme energetics of the γ-ray burst of 23 January 1999

    [No Value] Kulkarni;SG Djorgovski;SC Odewahn;JS Bloom

  • Ultraviolet Luminosity Functions from 132 z ~ 7 and z ~ 8 Lyman-break Galaxies in the Ultra-deep HUDF09 and Wide-area Early Release Science WFC3/IR Observations

    R. J. Bouwens;R. J. Bouwens;G. D. Illingworth;P. A. Oesch;I. Labbé

  • UV Luminosity Functions at redshifts z~4 to z~10: 11000 Galaxies from HST Legacy Fields

    R. J. Bouwens;G. D. Illingworth;P. A. Oesch;M. Trenti

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel B. Brammer
Gabriel B. Brammer University of Copenhagen
Mariska Kriek
Mariska Kriek University of California, Berkeley
Danilo Marchesini
Danilo Marchesini Tufts University
Charlie Conroy
Charlie Conroy Harvard University
Garth D. Illingworth
Garth D. Illingworth University of California, Santa Cruz
David A. Wake
David A. Wake The Open University
Ivo Labbe
Ivo Labbe Swinburne University of Technology
Eric Gawiser
Eric Gawiser Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Marijn Franx
Marijn Franx Leiden University
Daniel D. Kelson
Daniel D. Kelson Carnegie Institution for Science

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