Michael C. Cooper

21.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
140 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Michael C. Cooper is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael C. Cooper has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 83 papers in Instrumentation and 15 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Michael C. Cooper's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (117 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (83 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (57 papers). Michael C. Cooper is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (117 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (83 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (57 papers). Michael C. Cooper collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Michael C. Cooper's co-authors include Jeffrey A. Newman, Alison L. Coil, Benjamin J. Weiner, Christopher J. Conselice, David C. Koo, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Marc Davis, Renbin Yan, Richard S. Ellis and S. M. Faber and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

In The Last Decade

Michael C. Cooper

128 papers receiving 6.0k citations

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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.

UBIQUITOUS OUTFLOWS IN DEEP2 SPECTRA OF STAR-FORMING GALAXIES ATz= 1.4

2009 363 citations Benjamin J. Weiner, Alison L. Coil et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael C. Cooper United States	46	6.0k	3.5k	652	368	253	140	6.2k
Benjamin J. Weiner United States	42	5.9k 1.0×	3.1k 0.9×	718 1.1×	277 0.8×	277 1.1×	112	6.0k
Christopher N. A. Willmer United States	39	5.0k 0.8×	2.9k 0.8×	541 0.8×	337 0.9×	245 1.0×	113	5.2k
Alison L. Coil United States	48	7.4k 1.2×	3.6k 1.0×	998 1.5×	341 0.9×	295 1.2×	165	7.5k
G. De Lucia Italy	37	6.4k 1.1×	4.1k 1.2×	696 1.1×	383 1.0×	272 1.1×	104	6.5k
I. K. Baldry United Kingdom	34	4.9k 0.8×	2.9k 0.8×	564 0.9×	521 1.4×	286 1.1×	103	5.1k
S. Charlot France	2	5.7k 0.9×	3.3k 0.9×	492 0.8×	227 0.6×	185 0.7×	3	5.8k
Michael L. Balogh Canada	35	6.0k 1.0×	3.7k 1.1×	595 0.9×	480 1.3×	346 1.4×	91	6.1k
Bianca M. Poggianti Italy	45	7.0k 1.2×	4.6k 1.3×	526 0.8×	443 1.2×	249 1.0×	181	7.1k
Arjen van der Wel United States	42	5.0k 0.8×	3.4k 1.0×	448 0.7×	230 0.6×	209 0.8×	131	5.2k
Roberto Abraham Canada	42	6.0k 1.0×	3.5k 1.0×	669 1.0×	333 0.9×	209 0.8×	157	6.2k

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Sarron, Florian, Michael L. Balogh, Gregory Rudnick, et al.. (2025). Distinct origins of environmentally quenched galaxies in the core and outer virialized regions of massive clusters at 0.8 < z < 1.5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541(1). 409–428. 1 indexed citations

Zaritsky, Dennis, et al.. (2025). A Closer Look at an Unusual Ultradiffuse Galaxy^*. The Astrophysical Journal. 989(2). 154–154.

Cooper, Michael C., et al.. (2025). Caught in the Act of Quenching? – A Population of Post-Starburst Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies. The Open Journal of Astrophysics. 8.

Hatch, N. A., Yannick M Bahé, Michael L. Balogh, et al.. (2025). Insights into environmental quenching at z ∼ 1: an enhancement of faint, low-mass passive galaxies in clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 539(4). 3058–3076. 2 indexed citations

Cooper, Michael C., Steven L. Finkelstein, Intae Jung, et al.. (2024). Deeper than DEEP: a spectroscopic survey of z > 3 Ly α emitters in the Extended Groth Strip. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(4). 5624–5632.

Forrest, Ben, B. C. Lemaux, Ekta A. Shah, et al.. (2024). Environmental Effects on the Stellar Mass Function in a z ∼ 3.3 Overdensity of Galaxies in the COSMOS Field*. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(2). 169–169. 8 indexed citations

Forrest, Ben, Michael C. Cooper, Adam Muzzin, et al.. (2024). MAGAZ3NE: Massive, Extremely Dusty Galaxies at z ∼ 2 Lead to Photometric Overestimation of Number Densities of the Most Massive Galaxies at 3 < z < 4*. The Astrophysical Journal. 977(1). 51–51. 3 indexed citations

Xie, Lizhi, G. De Lucia, Fabio Fontanot, et al.. (2024). The First Quenched Galaxies: When and How?. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 966(1). L2–L2. 14 indexed citations

Costantin, Luca, Pablo G. Pérez‐González, Jesús Vega-Ferrero, et al.. (2023). Expectations of the Size Evolution of Massive Galaxies at 3 ≤ z ≤ 6 from the TNG50 Simulation: The CEERS/JWST View. The Astrophysical Journal. 946(2). 71–71. 26 indexed citations

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Cooper, Michael C., Michael L. Balogh, Gregory Rudnick, et al.. (2023). When the well runs dry: modelling environmental quenching of high-mass satellites in massive clusters at z ≳ 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526(3). 3716–3729. 8 indexed citations

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Cooper, Michael C., Michael L. Balogh, Timothy Carleton, et al.. (2022). The GOGREEN survey: constraining the satellite quenching time-scale in massive clusters at z ≳ 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 515(4). 5479–5494. 10 indexed citations

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Reeves, Andrew M M, Michael L. Balogh, R. F. J. van der Burg, et al.. (2021). The GOGREEN survey: dependence of galaxy properties on halo mass at z > 1 and implications for environmental quenching. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506(3). 3364–3384. 16 indexed citations

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Forrest, Ben, Marianna Annunziatella, Gillian Wilson, et al.. (2020). An Extremely Massive Quiescent Galaxy at z = 3.493: Evidence of Insufficiently Rapid Quenching Mechanisms in Theoretical Models*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 890(1). L1–L1. 57 indexed citations

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Lee, Kyoung-Soo, Arjun Dey, Nicola Malavasi, et al.. (2019). A Census of Galaxy Constituents in a Coma Progenitor Observed at z > 3. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 13 indexed citations

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Graus, Andrew S, James S. Bullock, Alex Fitts, et al.. (2019). A predicted correlation between age gradient and star formation history in FIRE dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 490(1). 1186–1201. 28 indexed citations

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Cooper, Michael C., et al.. (2018). The suppression of star formation on the smallest scales: what role does environment play?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 483(3). 4031–4039. 46 indexed citations

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Oh, Semyeong, John S. Mulchaey, Jong-Hak Woo, et al.. (2014). THE ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS POPULATION IN X-RAY-SELECTED GALAXY GROUPS AT 0.5 < Z < 1.1. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 13 indexed citations

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Gerke, Brian F., Jeffrey A. Newman, Jennifer M. Lotz, et al.. (2006). The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: AEGIS observations of a Dual AGN at z = 0.7. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 35 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Karoline M., R. Michael Rich, David B. Reitzel, et al.. (2005). Dynamics and Metallicities of Red Giant Stars in the Metal-Rich Spheroid of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts. 207.

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Cooper, Michael C., et al.. (2003). Environmental Dependence of Galaxy Properties at z ∼ 0 to z ∼ 1. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts. 203.

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