John B. Lester

979 total citations
48 papers, 623 citations indexed

About

John B. Lester is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, John B. Lester has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 623 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 23 papers in Instrumentation and 8 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in John B. Lester's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (41 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (23 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (18 papers). John B. Lester is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (41 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (23 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (18 papers). John B. Lester collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. John B. Lester's co-authors include Hilding R. Neilson, Dimitar Sasselov, R. O. Gray, Robert L. Kurucz, A. K. Dupree, C. Tycner, C. Ian Short, Arsen R. Hajian, Shashi M. Kanbur and Chow‐Choong Ngeow and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

In The Last Decade

John B. Lester

45 papers receiving 600 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John B. Lester Canada 15 593 257 67 48 24 48 623
M. Zhao United States 12 545 0.9× 192 0.7× 69 1.0× 39 0.8× 15 0.6× 22 583
Inwoo Han South Korea 14 500 0.8× 149 0.6× 45 0.7× 35 0.7× 39 1.6× 50 548
R. P. Kudritzki Germany 15 880 1.5× 365 1.4× 50 0.7× 54 1.1× 17 0.7× 83 912
A. R. Upgren United States 13 582 1.0× 272 1.1× 37 0.6× 76 1.6× 15 0.6× 87 619
P. A. Ianna United States 16 975 1.6× 490 1.9× 66 1.0× 106 2.2× 14 0.6× 53 988
G. Knispel France 3 594 1.0× 272 1.1× 62 0.9× 27 0.6× 13 0.5× 4 628
P. Montegriffo Italy 11 518 0.9× 288 1.1× 32 0.5× 22 0.5× 13 0.5× 23 550
Robert J. Siverd United States 14 866 1.5× 333 1.3× 42 0.6× 77 1.6× 25 1.0× 34 901
B. W. Bopp United States 17 904 1.5× 248 1.0× 33 0.5× 105 2.2× 10 0.4× 90 953
D. E. Mkrtichian Ukraine 18 838 1.4× 341 1.3× 29 0.4× 65 1.4× 15 0.6× 94 888

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John B. Lester

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Neilson, Hilding R., John B. Lester, & Fabien Baron. (2022). Limb darkening and planetary transits. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 662. A38–A38. 1 indexed citations
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Neilson, Hilding R. & John B. Lester. (2013). Spherically-symmetric model stellar atmospheres and limb darkening. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 554. A98–A98. 27 indexed citations
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Neilson, Hilding R. & John B. Lester. (2013). Spherically symmetric model stellar atmospheres and limb darkening. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 556. A86–A86. 19 indexed citations
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Lester, John B., et al.. (2013). Indicators of Mass in Spherical Stellar Atmospheres. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 125(926). 335–343. 3 indexed citations
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Neilson, Hilding R. & John B. Lester. (2012). Using limb darkening to measure fundamental parameters of stars. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations
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Neilson, Hilding R. & John B. Lester. (2011). Limb darkening in spherical stellar atmospheres. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 12 indexed citations
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Neilson, Hilding R. & John B. Lester. (2008). On the Enhancement of Mass Loss in Cepheids Due to Radial Pulsation. The Astrophysical Journal. 684(1). 569–587. 55 indexed citations
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Neilson, Hilding R. & John B. Lester. (2008). Determining parameters of cool giant stars by modeling spectrophotometric and interferometric observations using the SAtlas program. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 490(2). 807–810. 12 indexed citations
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Neilson, Hilding R. & John B. Lester. (2008). ON THE ENHANCEMENT OF MASS LOSS IN CEPHEIDS DUE TO RADIAL PULSATION. II. THE EFFECT OF METALLICITY. The Astrophysical Journal. 690(2). 1829–1838. 11 indexed citations
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Tycner, C., John B. Lester, Arsen R. Hajian, et al.. (2005). Properties of the Hα‐emitting Circumstellar Regions of Be Stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 624(1). 359–371. 45 indexed citations
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Tycner, C., Arsen R. Hajian, David Mozurkewich, et al.. (2003). A Method for Internal Calibration of Optical Interferometer Data and Application to the Circumstellar Envelope of Cassiopeiae. The Astronomical Journal. 125(6). 3378–3388. 12 indexed citations
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Evans, Nancy Remage, et al.. (1996). The Temperature of the Supergiant gamma Per. The Astronomical Journal. 111. 2099–2099. 8 indexed citations
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Sasselov, Dimitar & John B. Lester. (1994). The Chromospheric Structure of Classical Cepheids: Constraints from the He i lambda 10830 Line. The Astrophysical Journal. 423. 795–795. 15 indexed citations
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Sasselov, Dimitar, et al.. (1991). Line splitting in classical Cepheids.. JRASC. 85. 202. 1 indexed citations
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Rogers, C. D. F., et al.. (1990). A Program for Spherically Extended Line Blanketed Model Atmospheres. ASPC. 230(2). 371–379. 2 indexed citations
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Sasselov, Dimitar, et al.. (1989). Infrared spectroscopy of Cepheids - Peculiar velocity structure and its effect on radii and distances. The Astrophysical Journal. 337. L29–L29. 8 indexed citations
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Lester, John B., et al.. (1984). Effective temperatures and surface gravities of metallic-line A stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 281. 723–723. 17 indexed citations
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Lester, John B., et al.. (1980). The energy distributions of classical metallic-line stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 238. 210–210. 2 indexed citations
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Lester, John B.. (1979). Spectral variations of the helium-rich star HD 64740. The Astrophysical Journal. 233. 644–644. 1 indexed citations
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Lester, John B.. (1976). An analysis of the ultraviolet spectrum of the helium-rich star HR 3089. The Astrophysical Journal. 210. 153–153. 3 indexed citations

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