38 total, including 32 refereed/submitted and 6 white papers. 1500+ citations, h-index: 19

The most up-to-date list of my publications can be found at ADS.

Daggers (†) denote work led by students I advised or co-advised.

Major Contributor

Includes work in which I was a major contributor to the analysis and/or writing.

32. Taylor, E., Read, J. I., Orkney, M. D. A., Kim, S. Y., and 4 coauthors. “The emergence of globular clusters and globular cluster-like dwarfs”, accepted to Nature (8/2025)

31. Dropulic, A.†, Shipp, N., Kim, S. Y., and 3 coauthors. “StreamGen: Connecting Populations of Streams and Shells to Their Host Galaxies”, accepted to ApJ (7/2025), arXiv/astro-ph: 2409.13810

30. Kim, S. Y., Read, J. I., Rey, M. P., and 6 coauthors. “EDGE: Predictable Scatter in the Stellar Mass–Halo Mass Relation of Dwarf Galaxies”, submitted to MNRAS, arXiv/astro-ph: 2408.15214

29. Kim, S. Y., Peter, A. H. G., “The Milky Way satellite velocity function is a sharp probe of small-scale structure problems”, arXiv/astro-ph: 2106.09050

28. Kim, S. Y., Turner, N. J. “X-Ray Ionization of Planet-Opened Gaps in Protostellar Disks”, 2020, ApJ, 889, 159

27. Kim, S. Y., Peter, A. H. G., Hargis, J. R. “Missing Satellites Problem: Completeness Corrections to the Number of Satellite Galaxies in the Milky Way are Consistent with Cold Dark Matter Predictions”, 2018, Physical Review Letters, 121, 211302 (“Editors’ Suggestion”)

26. Kim, S. Y., Peter, A. H. G., Wittman, D. “In the Wake of Dark Giants: New Signatures of Dark Matter Self-Interactions in Equal Mass Mergers of Galaxy Clusters”, 2017, MNRAS, 469, 1414

Co-Authored

25. Danieli, S., Kado-Fong, E., Huang, S., and 32 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y., “Merian: A Wide-Field Imaging Survey of Dwarf Galaxies at z ~ 0.06-0.10”, accepted to ApJ (8/2025), arXiv/astro-ph: 2410.01884

24. Rey, M. P., Taylor, E., Gray, E. I., Kim, S. Y., and 13 coauthors, “EDGE: the emergence of dwarf galaxy scaling relations from cosmological radiation-hydrodynamics simulations”, 2025, MNRAS, 541, 1195

23. Mancera Pi~na, P. E., Read, J. I., Kim, S. Y., and 5 coauthors, “The galaxy-halo connection of disc galaxies over six orders of magnitude in stellar mass”, 2025, A&A, 699, A311

22. Gray, E. I., Read, J. I., Taylor, E., and 8 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y., “EDGE: A new model for Nuclear Star Cluster formation in dwarf galaxies”, 2025, MNRAS, 539, 1167

21. Hussein, A., Necib, L., Kaplinghat, M., Kim, S. Y., and 4 coauthors, “Theoretical Predictions for the Inner Dark Matter Distribution in the Milky Way Informed by Simulations”, submitted to the Physical Review (1/2025), arXiv/astro-ph: 2405.19286

20. Muni, C., Pontzen, A., Read, J. I., and 5 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y., “EDGE: Dark Matter Core Creation Depends on the Timing of Star Formation”, 2025, MNRAS, 536, 314

19. Esteban, I., Peter, A. H. G., Kim, S. Y., “Milky Way satellite velocities reveal the dark matter power spectrum at small scales”, 2024, PRD, 110, 123013

18. Rey, M. P., Orkney, M. D. A., Read, J. I., and 6 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y., “EDGE: Dark matter or astrophysics? Breaking dark matter heating degeneracies with H I rotation in faint dwarf galaxies”, 2024, MNRAS, 529, 2379

17. Goater, A., Read, J. I., Noel, N. E. D., and 9 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y., “EDGE: The direct link between mass growth history and the extended stellar haloes of the faintest dwarf galaxies”, 2024, MNRAS, 525, 3516

16. Orkney, M. D. A., Taylor, E., Read, J. I., and 5 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y., “EDGE: the shape of dark matter haloes in the faintest galaxies”, 2023, MNRAS, 525, 3516

15. Doliva-Dolinsky, A., Martin, N. F., Yuan, Z., and 8 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y., “The PAndAS View of the Andromeda Satellite System. IV. Global Properties”, 2023, ApJ, 952, 72

14. Shipp, N., Panithanpaisal, N., Necib, L., and 18 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y., “Streams on FIRE: Populations of Detectable Stellar Streams in the Milky Way and FIRE”, 2023, ApJ, 949, 44

13. Charles, E. J. E., Collins, M. L. M., Rich, R. M., and 7 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y., “Andromeda XXV—a dwarf galaxy with a low central dark matter density”, 2023, MNRAS, 521, 3527

12. Orkney, M. D. A., Read, J. I., Agertz, O., and 6 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y., “EDGE: the puzzling ellipticity of Eridanus II’s star cluster and its implications for dark matter at the heart of an ultra-faint dwarf”, 2022, MNRAS, 515, 185

11. Zeng, C. Z.†, Peter, A. H. G., Du, X., and 5 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y.. “Core-collapse, evaporation and tidal effects: the life story of a self-interacting dark matter subhalo”, 2022, MNRAS, 513, 4845

10. Rey, M. P., Pontzen, A., Agertz, O., and 5 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y., “EDGE: What shapes the relationship between H I and stellar observables in faint dwarf galaxies?”, 2022, MNRAS, 511, 5672

9. Orkney, M. D. A., Read, J. I., Rey, M. P., and 6 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y., “EDGE: two routes to dark matter core formation in ultra-faint dwarfs”, 2021, MNRAS, 504, 3509

8. Horne, K., De Rosa, G., Peterson, B. M., and 152 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y. “Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. IX. Velocity-Delay Maps for Broad Emission Lines in NGC 5548”, 2021, ApJ, 907, 76

7. Williams, P.R., Pancoast, A., Treu, T., and 155 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y. “Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. XII. Broad-line Region Modeling of NGC 5548”, 2020, ApJ, 902,~74

6. Kriss, G. A., De Rosa, G., Ely, J., and 164 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y. “Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. VIII. Time Variability of Emission and Absorption in NGC 5548 Based on Modeling the Ultraviolet Spectrum”, 2019, ApJ, 881, 153

5. De Rosa, G., Fausnaugh, M. M., Grier, C. J., and 99 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y. “Velocity-Resolved Reverberation Mapping of Five Bright Seyfert 1 Galaxies”, 2018, ApJ, 866, 133

4. Fausnaugh, M. M., Starkey, D. A., Horne, K., and 69 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y. “Continuum Reverberation Mapping of the Accretion Disks in Two Seyfert 1 Galaxies”, 2018, ApJ, 854, 107

3. Mathur, S., Gupta, A., Page, K., and 147 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y. “Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. VII. Understanding the UV anomaly in NGC 5548 with X-Ray Spectroscopy”, 2017, ApJ, 846, 55

2. Fausnaugh, M. M., Grier, C. J., Bentz, M. C. and 69 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y. “Reverberation Mapping of Optical Emission Lines in Five Active Galaxies”, 2017, ApJ, 840, 97

1. Pei, L., Fausnaugh, M. M., Barth, A. J., and 153 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y. “Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. V. Optical Spectroscopic Campaign and Emission-Line Analysis for NGC 5548”, 2017, ApJ, 837, 131

White Papers

6. Bechtol, K., Birrer, S., Cyr-Racine, F.-Y., and 40 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y. “Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Dark Matter Physics from Halo Measurements”, 2022, arXiv/astro-ph:2203.07354

5. Mao, Y.-Y., Peter, A. H. G., Adhikari, S., and 30 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y. “Snowmass2021: Vera C. Rubin Observatory as a Flagship Dark Matter Experiment”, 2022, arXiv/astro-ph:2203.07252

4. Banerjee, A., Boddy, K. K., Cyr-Racine, F.-Y., and 15 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y. “Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Cosmological Simulations for Dark Matter Physics”, 2022, arXiv/astro-ph:2203.07049

3. Li, T., Kaplinghat, M., Pace, A. B., and 54 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y. “Dark Matter Physics with Wide Field Spectroscopic Surveys”, 2019, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 51, 252

2. The MSE Science Team, Babusiaux, C., Bergemann, M., and 261 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y. “The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer, 2019 edition”, 2019, arXiv/astro-ph:1904.04907

1. Li, T., Kaplinghat, M., Bechtol, K., and 27 coauthors, including Kim, S. Y. “Astrophysical Tests of Dark Matter with Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer”, 2019, arXiv/astro-ph:1903.03155