Gary Bower

8.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Gary Bower is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary Bower has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 11 papers in Instrumentation and 5 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Gary Bower's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (18 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (11 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (10 papers). Gary Bower is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (18 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (11 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (10 papers). Gary Bower collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Gary Bower's co-authors include D. O. Richstone, Richard F. Green, Karl Gebhardt, Tod R. Lauer, John Kormendy, R. Bender, Alan Dressler, John Magorrian, Scott Tremaine and S. M. Faber and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series and The Astronomical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Gary Bower

23 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centers

1998 2.3k citations John Magorrian, Scott Tremaine et al. The Astronomical Journal profile →
The Slope of the Black Hole Mass versus Velocity Dispersion Correlation

2002 1.5k citations Scott Tremaine, Karl Gebhardt et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gary Bower United States	18	4.7k	1.5k	1.1k	188	186	23	4.8k
Jason Pinkney United States	15	3.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	661 0.6×	147 0.8×	151 0.8×	23	3.3k
Sadegh Khochfar United Kingdom	32	3.5k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	534 0.5×	158 0.8×	112 0.6×	91	3.6k
J. W. Sulentic United States	33	3.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	699 0.7×	93 0.5×	135 0.7×	174	3.6k
Isaac Shlosman United States	34	4.4k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	552 0.5×	76 0.4×	162 0.9×	87	4.5k
M. Brusa Italy	41	5.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	118 0.6×	91 0.5×	150	5.3k
G. Cresci Italy	38	4.5k 1.0×	1.7k 1.2×	581 0.6×	88 0.5×	108 0.6×	110	4.7k
Dmitry Bizyaev United States	30	3.7k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	453 0.4×	97 0.5×	114 0.6×	129	3.8k
V. Mainieri Germany	40	4.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	130 0.7×	71 0.4×	107	5.0k
Joseph C. Shields United States	33	3.5k 0.7×	882 0.6×	649 0.6×	146 0.8×	69 0.4×	93	3.6k
Ezequiel Treister Chile	34	3.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	906 0.9×	111 0.6×	69 0.4×	89	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Gary Bower

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gary Bower

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gary Bower

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gary Bower. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gary Bower based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Gary Bower. Gary Bower is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Gebhardt, Karl, Tod R. Lauer, Jason Pinkney, et al.. (2007). The Black Hole Mass and Extreme Orbital Structure in NGC 1399. The Astrophysical Journal. 671(2). 1321–1328. 38 indexed citations

Bender, R., John Kormendy, Gary Bower, et al.. (2005). HSTSTIS Spectroscopy of the Triple Nucleus of M31: Two Nested Disks in Keplerian Rotation around a Supermassive Black Hole. The Astrophysical Journal. 631(1). 280–300. 151 indexed citations

Nelson, Charles H., Richard F. Green, Gary Bower, Karl Gebhardt, & D. Weistrop. (2004). The Relationship Between Black Hole Mass and Velocity Dispersion in Seyfert 1 Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 615(2). 652–661. 82 indexed citations

Pinkney, Jason, Karl Gebhardt, R. Bender, et al.. (2003). Kinematics of 10 Early‐Type Galaxies fromHubble Space Telescopeand Ground‐based Spectroscopy. The Astrophysical Journal. 596(2). 903–929. 88 indexed citations

Tremaine, Scott, Karl Gebhardt, R. Bender, et al.. (2002). The Slope of the Black Hole Mass versus Velocity Dispersion Correlation. The Astrophysical Journal. 574(2). 740–753. 1542 indexed citations breakdown →

Ruiz, José Rafael, D. M. Crenshaw, S. B. Kraemer, et al.. (2001). Kinematics of the Narrow-Line Region in the Seyfert 2 Galaxy Markarian 3. The Astronomical Journal. 122(6). 2961–2968. 41 indexed citations

Gebhardt, Karl, Tod R. Lauer, John Kormendy, et al.. (2001). M33: A Galaxy with No Supermassive Black Hole. The Astronomical Journal. 122(5). 2469–2476. 136 indexed citations

Bower, Gary, R. F. Green, R. Bender, et al.. (2001). Evidence of a Supermassive Black Hole in the Galaxy NGC 1023 from the Nuclear Stellar Dynamics. The Astrophysical Journal. 550(1). 75–86. 39 indexed citations

Bower, Gary, A. S. Wilson, Timothy M. Heckman, et al.. (2000). The Stellar Dynamics in the Centers of the LINER Galaxies M81 and NGC 3998. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts. 197. 1 indexed citations

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Quillen, Alice C. & Gary Bower. (1999). M84: A Warp Caused by Jet‐induced Pressure Gradients?. The Astrophysical Journal. 522(2). 718–726. 14 indexed citations

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Bower, Gary, R. F. Green, A. C. Danks, et al.. (1998). Kinematics of the Nuclear Ionized Gas in the Radio Galaxy M84 (NGC 4374). The Astrophysical Journal. 492(2). L111–L114. 68 indexed citations

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Magorrian, John, Scott Tremaine, D. O. Richstone, et al.. (1998). The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centers. The Astronomical Journal. 115(6). 2285–2305. 2314 indexed citations breakdown →

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Simpson, Chris, A. S. Wilson, Gary Bower, et al.. (1997). A One‐sided Ionization Cone in the Seyfert 2 Galaxy NGC 5643. The Astrophysical Journal. 474(1). 121–128. 38 indexed citations

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Falcke, H., A. S. Wilson, Chris Simpson, & Gary Bower. (1996). Helical Strands in the Jetlike Narrow-Line Region of ESO 428-G14. The Astrophysical Journal. 470(1). L31–L34. 24 indexed citations

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Bower, Gary, A. S. Wilson, Timothy M. Heckman, & D. O. Richstone. (1996). Double-Peaked Broad Emission Lines in the Nucleus of M81. The Astronomical Journal. 111. 1901–1901. 54 indexed citations

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Bower, Gary, A. S. Wilson, Jon A. Morse, et al.. (1995). Radio and Emission-Line Jets in the Type 2 Seyfert Galaxy Markarian 1066 (UGC 2456). The Astrophysical Journal. 454. 106–106. 37 indexed citations

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Mulchaey, John S., A. S. Wilson, Gary Bower, et al.. (1994). Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 2110. The Astrophysical Journal. 433. 625–625. 28 indexed citations

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Bower, Gary, A. S. Wilson, John S. Mulchaey, et al.. (1994). Hubble Space Telescope images of the Seyfert galaxies NGC 5929 and MCG 8-11-11. The Astronomical Journal. 107. 1686–1686. 20 indexed citations

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Mulchaey, J., A. S. Wilson, Gary Bower, et al.. (1993). HST Imaging of the Seyfert 2 Galaxy NGC 2110. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 182. 826. 1 indexed citations

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Bower, Gary, D. O. Richstone, G. D. Bothun, & Timothy M. Heckman. (1993). A search for dead quasars among nearby luminous galaxies. I - The stellar kinematics in the nuclei of NGC 2613, NGC 4699, NGC 5746, and NGC 7331. The Astrophysical Journal. 402. 76–76. 10 indexed citations

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