Bahram Mobasher

41.8k citations
205 papers · 9.8k · 1 hit paper · h-index 52

Impact in

  • Instrumentation top 0.1%
    • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.1%
    • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
    • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
    • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
    • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
    • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
    • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations

Papers in

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 193
    • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena 173
    • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 71
    • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 54
    • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 49
    • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 23
    • Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology 17
  • Instrumentation 116
    • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 116
Co-authors
Mark Dickinson (22 shared papers)Mauro Giavalisco (14 shared papers)Henry C. Ferguson (19 shared papers)Adam G. Riess (7 shared papers)Mario Livio (3 shared papers)J. Tonry (2 shared papers)L. Strolger (2 shared papers)Charles C. Steidel (4 shared papers)
Journals
The Astrophysical Journal (86 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (57 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (9 papers)The Astronomical Journal (9 papers)Astronomy and Astrophysics (4 papers)
Partner nations
United StatesUnited KingdomGermany

In The Last Decade

Bahram Mobasher

194 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

Type Ia Supernova Discoveries atz> 1 from theHubble Space Telescope: Evidence for Past Deceleration and Constraints on Dark Energy Evolution 2004 · 2.7k citations
2.7k0+7+14Years since publication50010001.5k2.0k2.5k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

  • it has ≥500 total citations;
  • it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
  • it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.
  1. 2004 The Astrophysical Journal

Peers

Bahram Mobasher
Comparison fields: 5 of 70
  • Instrumentation 3.6k
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 9.6k
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 3.0k
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 351
  • Oceanography 166
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Type Ia Supernova Discoveries atz> 1 from theHubble Space Telescope: Evidence for Past Deceleration and Constraints on Dark Energy Evolution
The Astrophysical Journal ·Adam G. Riess, L. Strolger, J. Tonry, Stefano Casertano, Henry C. Ferguson, Bahram Mobasher, Peter Challis, A. V. Filippenko, Saurabh W. Jha, Weidong Li, R. Chornock, R. Kirshner, B. Leibundgut, Mark Dickinson, Mario Livio, Mauro Giavalisco, Charles C. Steidel, N. Benı́tez, Z. Tsvetanov
Hit paper breakdown →		20042699
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The COSMOS Survey: Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys Observations and Data Processing
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ·Anton M. Koekemoer, (unknown), D. Calzetti, P. Capak, Mauro Giavalisco, Jean‐Paul Kneib, Alexie Leauthaud, O. Le Fèvre, H. J. McCracken, R. Massey, Bahram Mobasher, Jason Rhodes, N. Scoville, P. L. Shopbell
2007312
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Evolution of the Bar Fraction in COSMOS: Quantifying the Assembly of the Hubble Sequence
The Astrophysical Journal ·Kartik Sheth, D. M. Elmegreen, Bruce G. Elmegreen, P. Capak, Roberto Abraham, E. Athanassoula, Richard S. Ellis, Bahram Mobasher, M. Salvato, Eva Schinnerer, Nicholas Z. Scoville, L. Spalsbury, Linda E. Strubbe, C. M. Carollo, R. Michael Rich, Andrew A. West
2008250
4
SPECTROSCOPIC CONFIRMATION OF THREEz-DROPOUT GALAXIES ATz= 6.844-7.213: DEMOGRAPHICS OF Lyα EMISSION INz∼ 7 GALAXIES
The Astrophysical Journal ·Yoshiaki Ono, Masami Ouchi, Bahram Mobasher, Mark Dickinson, Kyle Penner, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Benjamin J. Weiner, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Kimihiko Nakajima, Hooshang Nayyeri, Daniel Stern, Nobunari Kashikawa, Hyron Spinrad
2011226
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THE MOSDEF SURVEY: MEASUREMENTS OF BALMER DECREMENTS AND THE DUST ATTENUATION CURVE AT REDSHIFTSz∼ 1.4–2.6
The Astrophysical Journal ·Naveen A. Reddy, Mariska Kriek, Alice E. Shapley, William R. Freeman, Brian Siana, Alison L. Coil, Bahram Mobasher, Sedona H. Price, Ryan L. Sanders, Irene Shivaei
2015218
6
EVIDENCE FOR PopIII-LIKE STELLAR POPULATIONS IN THE MOST LUMINOUS LyαEMITTERS AT THE EPOCH OF REIONIZATION: SPECTROSCOPIC CONFIRMATION
The Astrophysical Journal ·David Sobral, Jorryt Matthee, Behnam Darvish, D. Schaerer, Bahram Mobasher, H. J. A. Röttgering, Sérgio M. Santos, Shoubaneh Hemmati
2015182
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THE RELATION BETWEEN STAR FORMATION RATE AND STELLAR MASS FOR GALAXIES AT 3.5 ⩽z⩽ 6.5 IN CANDELS
The Astrophysical Journal ·Brett Salmon, Casey Papovich, Steven L. Finkelstein, Vithal Tilvi, Kristian Finlator, Peter Behroozi, T. Dahlén, Romeel Davé, Avishai Dekel, Mark Dickinson, Henry C. Ferguson, Mauro Giavalisco, James P. Long, Yu Lu, Bahram Mobasher, Naveen A. Reddy, Rachel S. Somerville, Risa H. Wechsler
2015159
8
NEWLY QUENCHED GALAXIES AS THE CAUSE FOR THE APPARENT EVOLUTION IN AVERAGE SIZE OF THE POPULATION
The Astrophysical Journal ·C. M. Carollo, T. J. Bschorr, A. Renzini, S. J. Lilly, P. Capak, A. Cibinel, O. Ilbert, Masato Onodera, N. Z. Scoville, Ewan Cameron, Bahram Mobasher, D. B. Sanders, Yoshiaki Taniguchi
2013154
9
Observations of the Hubble Deep Field with the Infrared Space Observatory - V. Spectral energy distributions, starburst models and star formation history
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·M. Rowan-Robinson, Robert G. Mann, Seb Oliver, A. Efstathiou, Nicholas R. Eaton, P. Goldschmidt, Bahram Mobasher, S. Serjeant, T. J. Sumner, L. Danese, D. Elbaz, A. Franceschini, E. Egami, M. Kontizas, A. Lawrence, R. G. McMahon, H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen, I. Pérez‐Fournon, J. I. González‐Serrano
1997149
10
High‐Redshift Supernova Rates
The Astrophysical Journal ·T. Dahlén, L. Strolger, Adam G. Riess, Bahram Mobasher, Ranga‐Ram Chary, Christopher J. Conselice, Henry C. Ferguson, A. S. Fruchter, Mauro Giavalisco, Mario Livio, Piero Madau, N. Panagia, J. Tonry
2004135
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A massive protocluster of galaxies at a redshift of z ≈ 5.3
Nature ·P. Capak, Dominik A. Riechers, N. Z. Scoville, C. L. Carilli, P. Cox, R. Neri, Brant Robertson, M. Salvato, Eva Schinnerer, Lin Yan, G. W. Wilson, Min S. Yun, F. Civano, M. Elvis, A. Karim, Bahram Mobasher, Johannes Staguhn
2011129
12
ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS HOST GALAXY MORPHOLOGIES IN COSMOS
The Astrophysical Journal ·J. M. Gabor, C. D. Impey, K. Jahnkę, Brooke Simmons, Jonathan R. Trump, Anton M. Koekemoer, M. Brusa, N. Cappelluti, Eva Schinnerer, V. Smolčić, M. Salvato, Jason Rhodes, Bahram Mobasher, P. Capak, R. Massey, Alexie Leauthaud, N. Z. Scoville
2009129
13
The MOSDEF survey: direct-method metallicities and ISM conditions at z ∼ 1.5–3.5
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Ryan L. Sanders, Alice E. Shapley, Naveen A. Reddy, Mariska Kriek, Brian Siana, Alison L. Coil, Bahram Mobasher, Irene Shivaei, William R. Freeman, Mojegan Azadi, Sedona H. Price, Gene C. K. Leung, Tara Fetherolf, Laura de Groot, Tom Zick, Francesca M. Fornasini, Guillermo Barro
2019117
14
The stellar mass function of star-forming galaxies and the mass-dependent SFR function since z = 2.23 from HiZELS
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·David Sobral, P. N. Best, Ian Smail, Bahram Mobasher, J. P. Stott, D. Nisbet
2013112
15
A Comparison of the Galaxy Populations in the Coma and Distant Clusters: The Evolution of k+a Galaxies and the Role of the Intracluster Medium
The Astrophysical Journal ·Bianca M. Poggianti, Terry Bridges, Yutaka Komiyama, Masafumi Yagi, Dave Carter, Bahram Mobasher, Sadanori Okamura, Nobunari Kashikawa
2004111
16
Deep ATLAS Radio Observations of the Chandra Deep Field?South/SpitzerWide?Area Infrared Extragalactic Field
The Astronomical Journal ·R. P. Norris, J. Afonso, P. N. Appleton, Brian J. Boyle, P. Ciliegi, S. M. Croom, Minh Huynh, Carole Jackson, Anton M. Koekemoer, Carol J. Lonsdale, E. Middelberg, Bahram Mobasher, Seb Oliver, M. Polletta, Brian Siana, Ian Smail, Maxim Voronkov
2006111
17
Identification of the brightest Lyα emitters at z = 6.6: implications for the evolution of the luminosity function in the reionization era
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Jorryt Matthee, David Sobral, Sérgio M. Santos, H. J. A. Röttgering, Behnam Darvish, Bahram Mobasher
2015101
18
The DEIMOS 10K Spectroscopic Survey Catalog of the COSMOS Field∗
The Astrophysical Journal ·G. Hasinger, P. Capak, M. Salvato, A. J. Barger, L. L. Cowie, Andreas L. Faisst, Shoubaneh Hemmati, Y. Kakazu, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Daniel Masters, Bahram Mobasher, Hooshang Nayyeri, D. B. Sanders, N. Z. Scoville, Hyewon Suh, Charles L. Steinhardt, F. W. Yang
2018101
19
The Evolution of Disk Galaxies in the GOODS-South Field: Number Densities and Size Distribution
The Astrophysical Journal ·Swara Ravindranath, Henry C. Ferguson, Christopher J. Conselice, Mauro Giavalisco, Mark Dickinson, E. Chatzichristou, D. F. de Mello, S. Michael Fall, Jonathan P. Gardner, Norman A. Grogin, A. E. Hornschemeier, Shardha Jogee, Anton M. Koekemoer, C. Kretchmer, Mario Livio, Bahram Mobasher, Rachel S. Somerville
200498
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Evolution of the Frequency of Luminous (≥ \documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{stmaryrd} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{portland,xspace} \usepackage{amsmath,amsxtra} \usepackage[OT2,OT1]{fontenc} \newcommand\cyr{ \renewcommand\rmdefault{wncyr} \renewcommand\sfdefault{wncyss} \renewcommand\encodingdefault{OT2} \normalfont \selectfont} \DeclareTextFontCommand{\textcyr}{\cyr} \pagestyle{empty} \DeclareMathSizes{10}{9}{7}{6} \begin{document} \landscape $L^{}_{V}$ \end{document} ) Close Galaxy Pairs at z < 1.2 in the COSMOS Field
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ·Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, D. B. Sanders, N. Z. Scoville, D. Calzetti, P. Capak, Anton M. Koekemoer, Bahram Mobasher, Takashi Murayama, M. Salvato, S. Sasaki, Yuki Taniguchi
200796

About Bahram Mobasher

Bahram Mobasher is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 205 papers that have together received 9.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (173 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (116 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (71 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (54 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (49 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (25 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (23 papers) and Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (3.6k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (9.6k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (3.0k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (351 citations) and Oceanography (166 citations). Bahram Mobasher has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Mark Dickinson, Mauro Giavalisco, Henry C. Ferguson, Adam G. Riess, Mario Livio, J. Tonry, L. Strolger, Charles C. Steidel, Stefano Casertano and A. V. Filippenko. Their work appears in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, The Astronomical Journal and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

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