Robert Becker
Impact in
- Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.5%
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Instrumentation top 1%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Papers in
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- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena 92
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 78
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 75
- Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology 42
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 41
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- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena 64
- Co-authors
- Richard L. White (79 shared papers)D. J. Helfand (54 shared papers)Michael D. Gregg (39 shared papers)Michael A. Strauss (10 shared papers)Xiaohui Fan (8 shared papers)Gordon T. Richards (12 shared papers)Mark Lacy (10 shared papers)Sally A. Laurent‐Muehleisen (12 shared papers)
- Journals
- The Astrophysical Journal (92 papers)The Astronomical Journal (59 papers)Journal of Instrumentation (14 papers)Physics Letters B (13 papers)Nature (9 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesGermanySwitzerland
In The Last Decade
Robert Becker
301 papers receiving 17.0k citations
Robert Becker's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 175
- Astronomy and Astrophysics 15.2k
- Instrumentation 3.1k
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics 7.4k
- Radiation 443
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 709
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Co-authors
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The FIRST Survey: Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimeters Hit paper breakdown → | 1995 | 1973 |
| 2 | Constraining the Evolution of the Ionizing Background and the Epoch of Reionization withz ~ 6 Quasars. II. A Sample of 19 Quasars Hit paper breakdown → | 2006 | 1025 |
| 3 | A Catalog of 1.4 GHz Radio Sources from the FIRST Survey Hit paper breakdown → | 1997 | 760 |
| 4 | First Result from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station: Precision Measurement of the Positron Fraction in Primary Cosmic Rays of 0.5–350 GeV Hit paper breakdown → | 2013 | 721 |
| 5 | A Survey of [CLC][ITAL]z[/ITAL][/CLC] > 5.8 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. Discovery of Three New Quasars and the Spatial Density of Luminous Quasars at [CLC][ITAL]z[/ITAL][/CLC] ∼ 6 Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 662 |
| 6 | Evidence for Reionization at [ITAL][CLC]z[/CLC][/ITAL] ∼ 6: Detection of a Gunn-Peterson Trough in a [ITAL][CLC]z[/CLC][/ITAL] = 6.28 Quasar Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 616 |
| 7 | A Survey of [CLC][ITAL]z[/ITAL][/CLC] ] 5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. II. Discovery of Three Additional Quasars at [CLC][ITAL]z[/ITAL][/CLC] ] 6 Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 539 |
| 8 | 2002 | 359 | |
| 9 | 2002 | 354 | |
| 10 | 2006 | 337 | |
| 11 | 2002 | 324 | |
| 12 | 1979 | 294 | |
| 13 | 2001 | 253 | |
| 14 | 2002 | 251 | |
| 15 | 2016 | 231 | |
| 16 | 2000 | 219 | |
| 17 | 2007 | 217 | |
| 18 | 2006 | 210 | |
| 19 | 2003 | 197 | |
| 20 | 2000 | 196 |
About Robert Becker
Robert Becker is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Instrumentation, Radiation and Computational Mechanics, having authored 316 papers that have together received 17.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (92 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (78 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (75 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (64 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (46 papers), Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (42 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (41 papers) and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation (35 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (15.2k citations), Instrumentation (3.1k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (7.4k citations), Radiation (443 citations) and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (709 citations). Robert Becker has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Richard L. White, D. J. Helfand, Michael D. Gregg, Michael A. Strauss, Xiaohui Fan, Gordon T. Richards, Mark Lacy, Sally A. Laurent‐Muehleisen, James E. Gunn and Donald P. Schneider. Their work appears in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, The Astronomical Journal, Journal of Instrumentation, Physics Letters B and Nature.
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