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Rachel S. Somerville

Rachel S. Somerville

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

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118
Citations
63722
World Ranking
604
National Ranking
367

Physics

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121
Citations
62445
World Ranking
775
National Ranking
419

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Rachel S. Somerville is affiliated with the Flatiron Institute in the United States. Their research is concentrated in the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a substantial focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. The body of work includes studies in Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, as well as Artificial Intelligence applied in relevant contexts.

Somerville's research addresses several main topics within their field. These include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena; Astronomy and Astrophysical Research; Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae; Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies; Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena; and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations.

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative work include L. Y. Aaron Yung, Steven L. Finkelstein, Casey Papovich, Micaela B. Bagley, and Anton M. Koekemoer.

The scientist has published extensively in a variety of scholarly venues. The most common publication venues are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Among recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Somerville are:

  • CEERS Key Paper. I. An Early Look into the First 500 Myr of Galaxy Formation with JWST, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z ∼ 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • CEERS Epoch 1 NIRCam Imaging: Reduction Methods and Simulations Enabling Early JWST Science Results, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • The relationship between black hole mass and galaxy properties: examining the black hole feedback model in IllustrisTNG, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • On the Stellar Populations of Galaxies at z = 9-11: The Growth of Metals and Stellar Mass at Early Times, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal

Best Publications

  • Structural impact

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  • CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey - The Hubble Space Telescope Observations, Imaging Data Products and Mosaics

    Anton M. Koekemoer;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson;Norman A. Grogin

  • Profiles of dark haloes: evolution, scatter and environment

    James S. Bullock;James S. Bullock;Tsafrir S. Kolatt;Tsafrir S. Kolatt;Yair Sigad;Rachel S. Somerville;Rachel S. Somerville

  • The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: Initial Results From Optical and Near-Infrared Imaging

    M. Giavalisco

  • CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey

    Norman A. Grogin;Dale D. Kocevski;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson

  • Star Formation in AEGIS Field Galaxies since z = 1.1: The Dominance of Gradually Declining Star Formation, and the Main Sequence of Star-forming Galaxies

    K. G. Noeske;B. J. Weiner;S. M. Faber;Casey J. Papovich

  • Semi-analytic modelling of galaxy formation: The local Universe

    Rachel S. Somerville;Rachel S. Somerville;Joel R. Primack

  • A semi-analytic model for the co-evolution of galaxies, black holes and active galactic nuclei

    Rachel S. Somerville;Philip F. Hopkins;Thomas J. Cox;Brant E. Robertson

  • Constraints on the relationship between stellar mass and halo mass at low and high redshift

    Benjamin P. Moster;Rachel S. Somerville;Rachel S. Somerville;Christian Maulbetsch;Frank C. van den Bosch

  • The Hubble Ultra Deep Field

    Steven V. W. Beckwith;Steven V. W. Beckwith;Massimo Stiavelli;Anton M. Koekemoer;John A. R. Caldwell;John A. R. Caldwell

  • Extragalactic background light inferred from AEGIS galaxy-SED-type fractions

    A. Domínguez;A. Domínguez;J. R. Primack;D. J. Rosario;F. Prada

  • Physical Models of Galaxy Formation in a Cosmological Framework

    Rachel S. Somerville;Romeel Davé

  • LCDM-based models for the Milky Way and M31 I: Dynamical Models

    Anatoly Klypin;HongSheng Zhao;Rachel S. Somerville

  • The nature of high-redshift galaxies

    Rachel S. Somerville;Rachel S. Somerville;Joel R. Primack;S. M. Faber

  • The Evolution of the Galaxy Rest-Frame Ultraviolet Luminosity Function Over the First Two Billion Years

    Steven Lyle Finkelstein;Russell E. Ryan;Casey Papovich;Mark Dickinson

  • (Open Access) Supercapacitor and supercapattery as emerging electrochemical energy stores

    Unknown

  • CANDELS: The progenitors of compact quiescent galaxies at z~2

    Guillermo Barro;S. M. Faber;Pablo G. Perez-Gonzalez;David C. Koo

  • Can Photoionization Squelching Resolve the Substructure Crisis

    Rachel S. Somerville

  • GEMS: Galaxy Evolution from Morphologies and SEDs

    Hans-Walter Rix;Marco Barden;Steven V. W. Beckwith;Eric F. Bell

  • Semi-analytic modelling of the extragalactic background light and consequences for extragalactic gamma-ray spectra

    Rudy C. Gilmore;Rudy C. Gilmore;Rachel S. Somerville;Rachel S. Somerville;Joel R. Primack;Alberto Domínguez

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel H. McIntosh
Daniel H. McIntosh University of Missouri–Kansas City
Eric F. Bell
Eric F. Bell University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Knud Jahnke
Knud Jahnke Max Planck Society
Shardha Jogee
Shardha Jogee The University of Texas at Austin
Steven V. W. Beckwith
Steven V. W. Beckwith University of California, Berkeley
Klaus Meisenheimer
Klaus Meisenheimer Max Planck Society
Henry C. Ferguson
Henry C. Ferguson Space Telescope Science Institute
Catherine Heymans
Catherine Heymans University of Edinburgh
Chien Y. Peng
Chien Y. Peng Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
Joel R. Primack
Joel R. Primack University of California, Santa Cruz

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