E. E. Becklin

14.7k citations

264 papers · 9.2k · 2 hit papers · h-index 49

Impact in

Astronomy and Astrophysics top 1%
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Astro and Planetary Science
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
Instrumentation top 2%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research

Papers in

Astronomy and Astrophysics 232
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 152
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 106
- Astro and Planetary Science 58
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 43
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena 35
Instrumentation 82
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 81

Co-authors: Gerry X. Neugebauer (59 shared papers)Ben Zuckerman (41 shared papers)Mark Morris (32 shared papers)Andrea Ghez (31 shared papers)Keith Matthews (36 shared papers)C. G. Wynn‐Williams (41 shared papers)Angelle Tanner (5 shared papers)S. D. Hornstein (6 shared papers)
Journals: The Astrophysical Journal (128 papers)The Astronomical Journal (14 papers)Nature (8 papers)Advances in Space Research (6 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Letters (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany France

In The Last Decade

E. E. Becklin

254 papers receiving 8.8k citations

E. E. Becklin's Hit Papers

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Stellar Orbits around the Galactic Center Black Hole 2005 · 482 citations

What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2005 The Astrophysical Journal
1998 Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside E. E. Becklin, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	Design and development of NIRSPEC: a near-infrared echelle spectrograph for the Keck II telescope Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Ian S. McLean, E. E. Becklin, Oddvar O. Bendiksen, George Brims, John Canfield, Donald F. Figer, James Richard Graham, J. Hare Hit paper breakdown →	1998	506
2	High Proper‐Motion Stars in the Vicinity of Sagittarius A: Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy The Astrophysical Journal* ·Andrea Ghez, B. Klein, Mark Morris, E. E. Becklin	1998	482
3	Stellar Orbits around the Galactic Center Black Hole The Astrophysical Journal ·Andrea Ghez, Samir Salim, S. D. Hornstein, Angelle Tanner, Jessica R. Lu, Mark Morris, E. E. Becklin, Gaspard Duchêne Hit paper breakdown →	2005	482
4	The First Measurement of Spectral Lines in a Short-Period Star Bound to the Galaxy’s Central Black Hole: A Paradox of Youth The Astrophysical Journal ·Andrea Ghez, Gaspard Duchêne, Keith Matthews, S. D. Hornstein, Angelle Tanner, James Larkin, Mark Morris, E. E. Becklin	2003	463
5	The accelerations of stars orbiting the Milky Way's central black hole Nature ·Andrea Ghez, Mark Morris, E. E. Becklin, Angelle Tanner, Ted Kremenek	2000	258
6	EARLY SCIENCE WITH SOFIA, THE STRATOSPHERIC OBSERVATORY FOR INFRARED ASTRONOMY The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Eric T. Young, E. E. Becklin, Pamela M. Marcum, Thomas L. Roellig, James M. De Buizer, T. Herter, Rolf Guesten, Edward W. Dunham	2012	215
7	Excess infrared radiation from a white dwarf—an orbiting brown dwarf? Nature ·Ben Zuckerman, E. E. Becklin	1987	203
8	Variable Infrared Emission from the Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way The Astrophysical Journal ·Andrea Ghez, Shelley A. Wright, Keith Matthews, David Thompson, David Le Mignant, Angelle Tanner, S. D. Hornstein, Mark Morris	2004	193
9	Infrared Observations of the Galactic Center The Astrophysical Journal ·E. E. Becklin, Gerry X. Neugebauer	1968	193
10	NICMOS Imaging of the HR 4796A Circumstellar Disk The Astrophysical Journal ·Glenn Schneider, B. A. Smith, E. E. Becklin, David W. Koerner, Roland Meier, Dean C. Hines, Patrick Lowrance, R. J. Terrile	1999	171
11	A low-temperature companion to a white dwarf star Nature ·E. E. Becklin, Ben Zuckerman	1988	165
12	High Resolution Mid-Infrared Imaging of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies The Astronomical Journal ·B. T. Soifer, Gerry X. Neugebauer, Keith Matthews, Eiichi Egami, E. E. Becklin, Alycia J. Weinberger, Michael E. Ressler, Michael W Werner	2000	156
13	H2and CO Emission from Disks around T Tauri and Herbig Ae Pre–Main‐Sequence Stars and from Debris Disks around Young Stars: Warm and Cold Circumstellar Gas The Astrophysical Journal ·W.‐F. Thi, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Geoffrey A. Blake, Gerd‐Jan van Zadelhoff, Jochen M. M. Horn, E. E. Becklin, Vince G. Mannings, Anneila I. Sargent	2001	150
14	Low‐Luminosity Companions to White Dwarfs The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ·Jay Farihi, E. E. Becklin, Ben Zuckerman	2005	140
15	Testing General Relativity with Stellar Orbits around the Supermassive Black Hole in Our Galactic Center Physical Review Letters ·Aurélien Hees, Tuan Do, Andrea Ghez, Gregory David Martinez, Smadar Naoz, E. E. Becklin, A. Boehle, Samantha Chappell	2017	135
16	The Shortest-Known–Period Star Orbiting Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole Science ·L. Meyer, Andrea Ghez, Rainer Schoedel, S. Yelda, A. Boehle, Jessica R. Lu, Tuan Do, Mark Morris	2012	126
17	Observations of an Infrared Star in the Orion Nebula The Astrophysical Journal ·E. E. Becklin, Gerry X. Neugebauer	1967	116
18	Absolute spectral energy distribution of quasi-stellar objects from 0.3 to 10 microns The Astrophysical Journal ·Gerry X. Neugebauer, J. Beverly Oke, E. E. Becklin, Keith Matthews	1979	112
19	The Rest-Frame Optical Spectrum of MS 1512−[CLC]c[/CLC]B58 The Astrophysical Journal ·Harry I. Teplitz, Ian S. McLean, E. E. Becklin, Donald F. Figer, Andrea M. Gilbert, James Richard Graham, James Larkin, Nancy A. Levenson	2000	101
20	A Dusty Disk around GD 362, a White Dwarf with a Uniquely High Photospheric Metal Abundance The Astrophysical Journal ·E. E. Becklin, Jay Farihi, M. A. Jura, Inseok Song, Alycia J. Weinberger, Ben Zuckerman	2005	99

About E. E. Becklin

E. E. Becklin is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Computational Mechanics, Atmospheric Science and Aerospace Engineering, having authored 264 papers that have together received 9.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (152 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (106 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (81 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (58 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (43 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (35 papers), Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation (34 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (25 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (8.7k citations), Instrumentation (1.4k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (1.3k citations), Spectroscopy (873 citations) and Atmospheric Science (542 citations). E. E. Becklin has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Frequent co-authors include Gerry X. Neugebauer, Ben Zuckerman, Mark Morris, Andrea Ghez, Keith Matthews, C. G. Wynn‐Williams, Angelle Tanner, S. D. Hornstein, Ian S. McLean and Alycia J. Weinberger. Their work appears in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, The Astronomical Journal, Nature, Advances in Space Research and The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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