Simon Birrer

Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2016–2025

A researcher in the Science corpus: 15 papers; trusts 7 researchers and is trusted by 0 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Astronomy and Astrophysics — 1,749 citations into it
• Nuclear and High Energy Physics — 729 citations into it
• Instrumentation — 539 citations into it
• Probabilistic & Bayesian Methods — 11 citations into it

Whom Simon Birrer trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. M. Cappellari
2. T. Treu
3. Sherry H. Suyu
4. M. Oguri
5. Daniel Foreman-Mackey
6. Leon V. E. Koopmans
7. T. Collett
8. Volker Springel
9. M. Auger
10. Alexandre Refregier

Who trusts Simon Birrer overall

1. Jian-Ping Hu
2. K. Pandey
3. Paul Shah
4. Fa-yin Wang
5. S. Vagnozzi
6. Anowar J. Shajib

Papers from Simon Birrer's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers Simon Birrer trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars (Nature)
2. Stellar population synthesis at the resolution of 2003
3. Galactic Stellar and Substellar Initial Mass Function
4. The hierarchical formation of the brightest cluster galaxies
5. First-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters
6. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
7. SEVEN-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE (WMAP) OBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
8. The many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colour
9. Parametric Recovery of Line‐of‐Sight Velocity Distributions from Absorption‐Line Spectra of Galaxies via Penalized Likelihood
10. THE BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF SDSS-III

Their papers

• Quantitative evaluation of gender bias in astronomical publications from citation counts (2016) — 415 citations
• The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics (2025) — 283 citations
• Cosmology Intertwined: A Review of the Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Associated with the Cosmological Tensions and Anomalies (2022) — 1,069 citations
• Unveiling the Universe with emerging cosmological probes (2022) — 264 citations
• Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing (2021) — 411 citations
• Cosmology Intertwined II: The Hubble Constant Tension (2020) — 468 citations
• Cosmology Intertwined III: $f \sigma_8$ and $S_8$ (2020) — 288 citations
• TDCOSMO IV: Hierarchical time-delay cosmography -- joint inference of the Hubble constant and galaxy density profiles (2020) — 260 citations
• A SHARP view of H0LiCOW: H0 from three time-delay gravitational lens systems with adaptive optics imaging (2019) — 177 citations
• The Mass Relations between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies at 1 < z < 2 with HST-WFC3 (2019) — 137 citations
• TDCOSMO. I. An exploration of systematic uncertainties in the inference of $H_0$ from time-delay cosmography (2019) — 155 citations
• Warm dark matter chills out: constraints on the halo mass function and the free-streaming length of dark matter with eight quadruple-image strong gravitational lenses (2019) — 183 citations
• H0LiCOW – XIII. A 2.4 per cent measurement of H0 from lensed quasars: 5.3σ tension between early- and late-Universe probes (2019) — 935 citations
• STRIDES: a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408−5354 (2019) — 164 citations
• H0LiCOW – IX. Cosmographic analysis of the doubly imaged quasar SDSS 1206+4332 and a new measurement of the Hubble constant (2018) — 305 citations