M. S. Bessell

20.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
254 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

M. S. Bessell is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, M. S. Bessell has authored 254 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 238 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 130 papers in Instrumentation and 27 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in M. S. Bessell's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (221 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (130 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (118 papers). M. S. Bessell is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (221 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (130 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (118 papers). M. S. Bessell collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Germany. M. S. Bessell's co-authors include J. M. Brett, Inseok Song, B. Zuckerman, John E. Norris, Hwankyung Sung, M. Asplund, N. Christlieb, P. R. Wood, Timothy C. Beers and P. S. Barklem and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

M. S. Bessell

241 papers receiving 11.1k 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.

JHKLM photometry - Standard systems, passbands, and intrinsic colors

1988 1.2k citations M. S. Bessell, J. M. Brett profile →
UBVRI passbands

1990 675 citations M. S. Bessell profile →
UBVRI photometry. II - The Cousins VRI system, its temperature and absolute flux calibration, and relevance for two-dimensional photometry

1979 463 citations M. S. Bessell profile →
An absolutely calibratedT_effscale from the infrared flux method

2010 387 citations L. Casagrande, M. S. Bessell et al. Astronomy and Astrophysics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. S. Bessell Australia	56	11.1k	4.3k	783	517	460	254	11.4k
Ronald L. Gilliland United States	44	7.5k 0.7×	2.7k 0.6×	894 1.1×	283 0.5×	493 1.1×	184	8.0k
P. B. Stetson Canada	54	11.8k 1.1×	5.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	457 0.9×	559 1.2×	250	12.3k
R. Gratton Italy	54	11.3k 1.0×	5.6k 1.3×	1.4k 1.7×	458 0.9×	535 1.2×	328	12.2k
Geoffrey C. Clayton United States	33	10.1k 0.9×	2.6k 0.6×	1.1k 1.5×	221 0.4×	375 0.8×	174	10.4k
Steven S. Vogt United States	54	8.6k 0.8×	2.8k 0.6×	381 0.5×	257 0.5×	436 0.9×	144	8.9k
Geoffrey W. Marcy United States	67	15.1k 1.4×	4.6k 1.1×	652 0.8×	360 0.7×	642 1.4×	223	15.5k
A. de Koter Netherlands	60	12.2k 1.1×	3.3k 0.8×	474 0.6×	352 0.7×	291 0.6×	237	12.5k
Eric Agol United States	43	7.1k 0.6×	2.1k 0.5×	948 1.2×	243 0.5×	384 0.8×	147	7.3k
P. H. Hauschildt United States	45	7.6k 0.7×	2.2k 0.5×	490 0.6×	310 0.6×	491 1.1×	183	7.9k
G. Gilmore United Kingdom	63	13.9k 1.3×	6.1k 1.4×	1.7k 2.1×	373 0.7×	391 0.8×	277	14.4k

Countries citing papers authored by M. S. Bessell

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Fields of papers citing papers by M. S. Bessell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. S. Bessell

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All Works

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Nordlander, Thomas, L. Casagrande, G. S. Da Costa, et al.. (2025). The rise of the Milky Way Disk through EMP stars. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 42.

Nordlander, Thomas, et al.. (2024). High-resolution spectroscopic study of extremely metal-poor stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(1). 1065–1080. 5 indexed citations

Nordlander, Thomas, et al.. (2023). The SkyMapper search for extremely metal-poor stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(1). 577–582. 4 indexed citations

Costa, G. S. Da, M. S. Bessell, Thomas Nordlander, et al.. (2023). Spectroscopic follow-up of statistically selected extremely metal-poor star candidates from GALAH DR3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(1). 917–924. 4 indexed citations

Onken, Christopher A., Christian Wolf, Péter Németh, et al.. (2022). A Roche lobe-filling hot subdwarf and white dwarf binary: possible detection of an ejected common envelope. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 515(3). 3370–3382. 11 indexed citations

Phan-Bao, N., et al.. (2020). Sporadic and intense accretion in a 1 Myr-old brown dwarf candidate. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 6 indexed citations

Tisserand, P., Geoffrey C. Clayton, M. S. Bessell, et al.. (2020). A plethora of new R Coronae Borealis stars discovered from a dedicated spectroscopic follow-up survey. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations

Cordoni, G., G. S. Da Costa, David Yong, et al.. (2020). Exploring the Galaxy’s halo and very metal-weak thick disc with SkyMapper and Gaia DR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 503(2). 2539–2561. 35 indexed citations

Marino, A. F., G. S. Da Costa, Andrew R. Casey, et al.. (2019). Keck HIRES spectroscopy of SkyMapper commissioning survey candidate extremely metal-poor stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485(4). 5153–5167. 13 indexed citations

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Murphy, Simon J., W. A. Lawson, Christopher A. Onken, et al.. (2019). THOR 42: A touchstone ∼24 Myr-old eclipsing binary spanning the fully-convective boundary. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 8 indexed citations

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Lawson, W. A., Simon J. Murphy, C. G. Tinney, Michael Ireland, & M. S. Bessell. (2016). Completing the census of young stars near the Sun with the FunnelWeb spectroscopic survey. 228. 1 indexed citations

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Bessell, M. S., R. Collet, Stefan Keller, et al.. (2015). NUCLEOSYNTHESIS IN A PRIMORDIAL SUPERNOVA: CARBON AND OXYGEN ABUNDANCES IN SMSS J031300.36–670839.3. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 806(1). L16–L16. 60 indexed citations

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Casagrande, L., Chris Flynn, & M. S. Bessell. (2013). M dwarfs: effective temperatures, radii and metallicities. 57 indexed citations

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Rajpurohit, A. S., C. Reylé, F. Allard, et al.. (2013). The effective temperature scale of M dwarfs. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 87 indexed citations

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Li, Haining, N. Christlieb, John E. Norris, et al.. (2010). The stellar content of the Hamburg/ESO survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 521. A10–A10. 23 indexed citations

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Phan-Bao, N. & M. S. Bessell. (2006). Spectroscopic distances of nearby ultracool dwarfs. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 20 indexed citations

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Chauvin, G., A.‐M. Lagrange, B. Zuckerman, et al.. (2005). A companion to AB Pic at the planet/brown dwarf boundary. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 115 indexed citations

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Salvo, M., et al.. (2004). Supernova 2004fx in MCG -02-14-3. IAUC. 8434. 2.

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Salvo, M., M. S. Bessell, & B. Schmidt. (2003). Supernova 2003hn in NGC 1448. IAUC. 8187. 1. 1 indexed citations

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Bessell, M. S., J. M. Brett, M. Scholz, & P. R. Wood. (1989). Colors of extended static model photospheres of M giants. Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series. 77(1). 1–30. 4 indexed citations

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