Benjamin P. Koester, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI 
Area:
Observational Astrophysics

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2024 Castle SD, Byrd WC, Koester BP, Pearson MI, Bonem E, Caporale N, Cwik S, Denaro K, Fiorini S, Li Y, Mead C, Rypkema H, Sweeder RD, Valdivia Medinaceli MB, Whitcomb KM, et al. Systemic advantage has a meaningful relationship with grade outcomes in students' early STEM courses at six research universities. International Journal of Stem Education. 11: 14. PMID 38404757 DOI: 10.1186/s40594-024-00474-7  0.45
2020 Sharon K, Bayliss MB, Dahle H, Dunham SJ, Florian MK, Gladders MD, Johnson TL, Mahler G, Paterno-Mahler R, Rigby JR, Whitaker KE, Akhshik M, Koester BP, Murray K, Remolina González JD, et al. Strong Lens Models for 37 Clusters of Galaxies from the SDSS Giant Arcs Survey The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 247: 12. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/Ab5F13  0.705
2020 Israel U, Koester BP, McKay TA. Campus Connections: Student and Course Networks in Higher Education Innovative Higher Education. 45: 135-151. DOI: 10.1007/S10755-019-09497-3  0.495
2017 Matz RL, Koester BP, Fiorini S, Grom G, Shepard L, Stangor CG, Weiner B, McKay TA. Patterns of Gendered Performance Differences in Large Introductory Courses at Five Research Universities Aera Open. 3: 233285841774375. DOI: 10.1177/2332858417743754  0.509
2014 Rykoff ES, Rozo E, Busha MT, Cunha CE, Finoguenov A, Evrard A, Hao J, Koester BP, Leauthaud A, Nord B, Pierre M, Reddick R, Sadibekova T, Sheldon ES, Wechsler RH. RedMaPPer. I. Algorithm and SDSS DR8 catalog Astrophysical Journal. 785. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/785/2/104  0.819
2013 Dahle H, Gladders MD, Sharon K, Bayliss MB, Wuyts E, Abramson LE, Koester BP, Groeneboom N, Brinckmann TE, Kristensen MT, Lindholmer MO, Nielsen A, Krogager JK, Fynbo JPU. SDSS J2222+2745: A gravitationally lensed sextuple quasar with a maximum image separation of 15.″1 discovered in the Sloan Giant Arcs Survey Astrophysical Journal. 773. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/773/2/146  0.456
2013 Gladders MD, Rigby JR, Sharon K, Wuyts E, Abramson LE, Dahle H, Persson SE, Monson AJ, Kelson DD, Benford DJ, Murphy D, Bayliss MB, Finkelstein KD, Koester BP, Bans A, et al. SGAS 143845.1+145407: A big, cool starburst at redshift 0.816 Astrophysical Journal. 764. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/764/2/177  0.522
2012 Oguri M, Bayliss MB, Dahle H, Sharon K, Gladders MD, Natarajan P, Hennawi JF, Koester BP. Combined strong and weak lensing analysis of 28 clusters from the Sloan Giant Arcs Survey Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 420: 3213-3239. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2966.2011.20248.X  0.667
2012 Meyers J, Aldering G, Barbary K, Barrientos LF, Brodwin M, Dawson KS, Deustua S, Doi M, Eisenhardt P, Faccioli L, Fakhouri HK, Fruchter AS, Gilbank DG, Gladders MD, Goldhaber G, ... ... Koester B, et al. The Hubble Space Telescope cluster supernova survey. III. Correlated properties of TYPEIa supernovae and their hosts at 0.9 < z < 1.46 Astrophysical Journal. 750. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/750/1/1  0.494
2012 Miller ED, Rykoff ES, Dupke RA, Mendes De Oliveira C, Lopes De Oliveira R, Proctor RN, Garmire GP, Koester BP, McKay TA. Finding fossil groups: Optical identification and x-ray confirmation Astrophysical Journal. 747. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/747/2/94  0.742
2012 Rykoff ES, Koester BP, Rozo E, Annis J, Evrard AE, Hansen SM, Hao J, Johnston DE, McKay TA, Wechsler RH. Robust optical richness estimation with reduced scatter Astrophysical Journal. 746. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/746/2/178  0.795
2012 Sharon K, Gladders MD, Rigby JR, Wuyts E, Koester BP, Bayliss MB, Barrientos LF. Source-plane reconstruction of the bright lensed galaxy RCSGA 032727-132609 Astrophysical Journal. 746. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/746/2/161  0.439
2012 Suzuki N, Rubin D, Lidman C, Aldering G, Amanullah R, Barbary K, Barrientos LF, Botyanszki J, Brodwin M, Connolly N, Dawson KS, Dey A, Doi M, Donahue M, Deustua S, ... ... Koester B, et al. The Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey. V. Improving the dark-energy constraints above z > 1 and building an early-type-hosted supernova sample Astrophysical Journal. 746. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/746/1/85  0.562
2012 Barbary K, Aldering G, Amanullah R, Brodwin M, Connolly N, Dawson KS, Doi M, Eisenhardt P, Faccioli L, Fadeyev V, Fakhouri HK, Fruchter AS, Gilbank DG, Gladders MD, Goldhaber G, ... ... Koester B, et al. The Hubble space telescope cluster supernova survey. VI. the volumetric type Ia supernova rate in high-redshift galaxy clusters Astrophysical Journal. 745. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/745/1/31  0.579
2012 Tinker JL, Sheldon ES, Wechsler RH, Becker MR, Rozo E, Zu Y, Weinberg DH, Zehavi I, Blanton MR, Busha MT, Koester BP. Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and the mass-to-number ratio of galaxy clusters Astrophysical Journal. 745. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/745/1/16  0.781
2011 Bayliss MB, Gladders MD, Oguri M, Hennawi JF, Sharon K, Koester BP, Dahle H. The redshift distribution of giant arcs in the Sloan Giant Arcs Survey Astrophysical Journal Letters. 727. DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/727/1/L26  0.53
2011 Bayliss MB, Hennawi JF, Gladders MD, Koester BP, Sharon K, Dahle H, Oguri M. Gemini/GMOS spectroscopy of 26 strong-lensing-selected galaxy cluster cores Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series. 193. DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/193/1/8  0.688
2011 Rozo E, Rykoff E, Koester B, Nord B, Wu HY, Evrard A, Wechsler R. Extrinsic sources of scatter in the richness-mass relation of galaxy clusters Astrophysical Journal. 740. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/740/2/53  0.696
2011 Gralla MB, Sharon K, Gladders MD, Marrone DP, Barrientos LF, Bayliss M, Bonamente M, Bulbul E, Carlstrom JE, Culverhouse T, Gilbank DG, Greer C, Hasler N, Hawkins D, Hennessy R, ... ... Koester B, et al. Sunyaev-zel'dovich effect observations of strong lensing galaxy clusters: Probing the overconcentration problem Astrophysical Journal. 737. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/737/2/74  0.636
2011 Jee MJ, Dawson KS, Hoekstra H, Perlmutter S, Rosati P, Brodwin M, Suzuki N, Koester B, Postman M, Lubin L, Meyers J, Stanford SA, Barbary K, Barrientos F, Eisenhardt P, et al. Scaling relations and overabundance of massive clusters at z ≳ 1 from weak-lensing studies with the hubble space telescope Astrophysical Journal. 737. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/737/2/59  0.635
2010 Niederste-Ostholt M, Strauss MA, Dong F, Koester BP, McKay TA. Alignment of brightest cluster galaxies with their host clusters Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 405: 2023-2036. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2966.2010.16597.X  0.781
2010 Koester BP, Gladders MD, Hennawi JF, Sharon K, Wuyts E, Rigby JR, Bayliss MB, Dahle H. Two lensed z ≃ 3 Lyman break galaxies discovered in the SDSS Giant Arcs Survey Astrophysical Journal Letters. 723: L73-L77. DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/723/1/L73  0.545
2010 Hao J, McKay TA, Koester BP, Rykoff ES, Rozo E, Annis J, Wechsler RH, Evrard A, Siege SR, Becker M, Busha M, Gerdes D, Johnston DE, Sheldon E. A GMBCG galaxy cluster catalog of 55,424 rich clusters from SDSS DR7 Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series. 191: 254-274. DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/191/2/254  0.846
2010 Wuyts E, Barrientos LF, Gladders MD, Sharon K, Bayliss MB, Carrasco M, Gilbank D, Yee HKC, Koester BP, Muñoz R. A bright, spatially extended lensed galaxy at z = 1.7 behind the cluster RCS2 032727-132623 Astrophysical Journal. 724: 1182-1192. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/724/2/1182  0.538
2010 Bayliss MB, Wuyts E, Sharon K, Gladders MD, Hennawi JF, Koester BP, Dahle H. Two lensed Lyman-α emitting galaxies at z ∼ 5 Astrophysical Journal. 720: 1559-1568. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/720/2/1559  0.445
2010 Rozo E, Wechsler RH, Rykoff ES, Annis JT, Becker MR, Evrard AE, Frieman JA, Hansen SM, Hao J, Johnston DE, Koester BP, McKay TA, Sheldon ES, Weinberg DH. Cosmological constraints from the sloan digital sky survey maxbcg cluster catalog Astrophysical Journal. 708: 645-660. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/708/1/645  0.845
2009 Rozo E, Ccapp, Wechsler RH, Kipac MP, Rykoff ES, Uc SB, Annis JT, Becker MR, Kicp C, Evrard AE, MMU, Frieman JA, Hansen SM, Uc SC, Hao J, ... ... Koester BP, et al. Cosmological Constraints from the SDSS maxBCG Cluster Catalog The Astrophysical Journal. 708: 645-660. DOI: 10.2172/962101  0.813
2009 Sheldon ES, Johnston DE, Masjedi M, McKay TA, Blanton MR, Scranton R, Wechsler RH, Koester BP, Hansen SM, Frieman JA, Annis J. Cross-correlation weak lensing of sdss galaxy clusters. III. mass-to-light ratios Astrophysical Journal. 703: 2232-2248. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/703/2/2232  0.772
2009 Sheldon ES, Johnston DE, Scranton R, Koester BP, McKay TA, Oyaizu H, Cunha C, Lima M, Lin H, Frieman JA, Wechsler RH, Annis J, Mandelbaum R, Bahcall NA, Fukugita M. Cross-correlation weak lensing of sdss galaxy clusters. I. measurements Astrophysical Journal. 703: 2217-2231. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/703/2/2217  0.824
2009 Rozo E, Rykoff ES, Koester BP, McKay T, Hao J, Evrard A, Wechsler RH, Hansen S, Sheldon E, Johnston D, Becker M, Annis J, Bleem L, Scranton R. Improvement of the richness estimates of maxBCG clusters Astrophysical Journal. 703: 601-613. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/703/1/601  0.804
2009 Hao J, Koester BP, McKay TA, Rykoff ES, Rozo E, Evrard A, Annis J, Becker M, Busha M, Gerdes D, Johnston DE, Sheldon E, Wechsler RH. Precision measurements of the cluster red sequence using an error-corrected gaussian mixture model Astrophysical Journal. 702: 745-758. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/702/1/745  0.816
2009 Hansen SM, Sheldon ES, Wechsler RH, Koester BP. The galaxy content of sdss clusters and groups Astrophysical Journal. 699: 1333-1353. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/699/2/1333  0.822
2009 Oguri M, Hennawi JF, Gladders MD, Dahle H, Natarajan P, Dalal N, Koester BP, Sharon K, Bayliss M. Subaru weak lensing measurements of four strong lensing clusters: Are lensing clusters overconcentrated? Astrophysical Journal. 699: 1038-1052. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/699/2/1038  0.638
2009 Rozo E, Rykoff ES, Evrard A, Becker M, McKay T, Wechsler RH, Koester BP, Hao J, Hansen S, Sheldon E, Johnston D, Annis J, Frieman J. Constraining the scatter in the mass-richness relation of maxbcg clusters with weak lensing and x-ray data Astrophysical Journal. 699: 768-781. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/699/1/768  0.839
2009 Dawson KS, Aldering G, Amanullah R, Barbary K, Barrientos LF, Brodwin M, Connolly N, Dey A, Doi M, Donahue M, Eisenhardt P, Ellingson E, Faccioli L, Fadeyev V, Fakhouri HK, ... ... Koester B, et al. An intensive hubble space telescope survey for z>1 type Ia supernovae by targeting galaxy clusters Astronomical Journal. 138: 1271-1283. DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/138/5/1271  0.589
2009 Muñoz RP, Barrientos LF, Koester BP, Gilbank DG, Gladders MD, Yee HKC. The growth of the red-sequence in clusters since ≃1 Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 5: 88-88. DOI: 10.1017/S1743921310008410  0.651
2008 Rykoff ES, Evrard AE, McKay TA, Becker MR, Johnston DE, Koester BP, Nord B, Rozo E, Sheldon ES, Stanek R, Wechsler RH. The Lx-M relation of clusters of galaxies Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 387: L28-L32. DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-3933.2008.00476.X  0.787
2008 Hennawi JF, Gladders MD, Oguri M, Dalal N, Koester B, Natarajan P, Strauss MA, Inada N, Kayo I, Lin H, Lampeitl H, Annis J, Bahcall NA, Schneider DP. A new survey for giant arcs Astronomical Journal. 135: 664-681. DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/135/2/664  0.636
2008 Rykoff ES, McKay TA, Becker MR, Evrard A, Johnston DE, Koester BP, Rozo E, Sheldon ES, Wechsler RH. Measuring the mean and scatter of the X-ray luminosity - Optical richness relation for maxBCG galaxy clusters Astrophysical Journal. 675: 1106-1124. DOI: 10.1086/527537  0.842
2007 Chelouche D, Koester BP, Bowen DV. The dust content of galaxy clusters Astrophysical Journal. 671: L000-L000. DOI: 10.1086/525251  0.651
2007 Becker MR, McKay TA, Koester B, Wechsler RH, Rozo E, Evrard A, Johnston D, Sheldon E, Annis J, Lau E, Nichol R, Miller C. The mean and scatter of the velocity dispersion-optical richness relation for maxBCG galaxy clusters Astrophysical Journal. 669: 905-928. DOI: 10.1086/521920  0.813
2007 Koester BP, McKay TA, Annis J, Wechsler RH, Evrard AE, Rozo E, Bleem L, Sheldon ES, Johnston D. MaxBCG: A red-sequence galaxy cluster finder Astrophysical Journal. 660: 221-238. DOI: 10.1086/512092  0.845
2007 Koester BP, McKay TA, Annis J, Wechsler RH, Evrard A, Bleem L, Becker M, Johnston D, Sheldon E, Nichol R, Miller C, Scranton R, Bahcall N, Barentine J, Brewington H, et al. A MaxBCG catalog of 13,823 galaxy clusters from the sloan digital sky survey Astrophysical Journal. 660: 239-255. DOI: 10.1086/509599  0.849
2006 Bloom JS, Prochaska JX, Pooley D, Blake CH, Foley RJ, Jha S, Ramirez-Ruiz E, Granot J, Filippenko AV, Sigurdsson S, Barth AJ, Chen HW, Cooper MC, Falco EE, Gal RR, ... ... Koester BP, et al. Closing in on a short-hard burst progenitor: Constraints from early-time optical imaging and spectroscopy of a possible host galaxy of GRB 050509b Astrophysical Journal. 638: 354-368. DOI: 10.1086/498107  0.419
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