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Leonidas A. Moustakas is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their primary research area is within Physics and Astronomy, with a total of 66 publications contributing to the field.

The scientist's work spans several subfields including:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Instrumentation
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Aerospace Engineering

Main topics covered in Moustakas's research are diverse and include:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
  • Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena

Recent significant publications reflect a focus on astrophysical phenomena and observational astronomy. Notable papers include:

  • "Lensed Type Ia Supernova 'Encore' at z = 2: The First Instance of Two Multiply Imaged Supernovae in the Same Host Galaxy," 2024, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • "JWST Photometric Time-delay and Magnification Measurements for the Triply Imaged Type Ia 'SN H0pe' at z = 1.78," 2024, The Astrophysical Journal
  • "Forecasts for Galaxy Formation and Dark Matter Constraints from Dwarf Galaxy Surveys," 2024, The Astrophysical Journal
  • "Faint objects in motion: the new frontier of high precision astrometry," 2021, Experimental Astronomy
  • "," 2020, Portsmouth Research Portal (University of Portsmouth)

The scientist frequently publishes in several key venues, indicating consistent contributions to astrophysical literature. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems

Collaboration appears significant in Moustakas's research, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Tommaso Treu
  • Saurabh W. Jha
  • S. H. Suyu
  • Simon Birrer
  • J. M. Diego

Best Publications

  • CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey - The Hubble Space Telescope Observations, Imaging Data Products and Mosaics

    Anton M. Koekemoer;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson;Norman A. Grogin

  • The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: Initial Results From Optical and Near-Infrared Imaging

    M. Giavalisco

  • CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey

    Norman A. Grogin;Dale D. Kocevski;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson

  • The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: Initial results from optical and near-infrared imaging

    M. Giavalisco;H. C. Ferguson;H. C. Ferguson;A. M. Koekemoer;M. Dickinson;M. Dickinson

  • Candels: The cosmic assembly near-infrared deep extragalactic legacy survey - The hubble space telescope observations, imaging data products, and mosaics

    Anton M. Koekemoer;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson;Norman A. Grogin

  • Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH): An Overview

    Marc Postman;Dan Coe;Narciso Benitez;Larry Bradley

  • PASSIVELY EVOLVING EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES AT 1.4 z 2.5 IN THE HUBBLE ULTRA DEEP FIELD

    E. Daddi;A. Renzini;N. Pirzkal;Andrea Cimatti

  • THE CLUSTER LENSING AND SUPERNOVA SURVEY WITH HUBBLE: AN OVERVIEW

    Marc Postman;Dan Coe;Narciso Benítez;Larry Bradley

  • Cosmological Simulations with Self-Interacting Dark Matter I: Constant Density Cores and Substructure

    Miguel Rocha;Annika H. G. Peter;James S. Bullock;Manoj Kaplinghat

  • The All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey(AEGIS) Data Sets

    M. Davis;P. Guhathakurta;N. P. Konidaris;J. A. Newman

  • The Rest-Frame UV Luminosity Density of Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshifts z>3.5

    M. Giavalisco;M. Dickinson;H. C. Ferguson;S. Ravindranath

  • The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. III. The Structure and Formation of Early-Type Galaxies and Their Evolution since z ≈ 1

    Leon V. E. Koopmans;Tommaso Treu;Adam S. Bolton;Adam S. Bolton;Scott Burles

  • The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. I. A large spectroscopically selected sample of massive early-type lens galaxies

    Adam S. Bolton;Adam S. Bolton;Scott Burles;Leon V. E. Koopmans;Tommaso Treu;Tommaso Treu

  • THE SLOAN LENS ACS SURVEY. X. STELLAR, DYNAMICAL, AND TOTAL MASS CORRELATIONS OF MASSIVE EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES

    M. W. Auger;T. Treu;A. S. Bolton;R. Gavazzi;R. Gavazzi

  • The Rest-Frame Ultraviolet Luminosity Density of Star-forming Galaxies at Redshifts z > 3.5

    M. Giavalisco;M. Dickinson;M. Dickinson;H. C. Ferguson;H. C. Ferguson;S. Ravindranath

  • The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. IV. The Mass Density Profile of Early-Type Galaxies out to 100 Effective Radii

    Raphaël Gavazzi;Tommaso Treu;Jason D. Rhodes;Léon V. E. Koopmans

  • The size evolution of high-redshift galaxies

    Henry C. Ferguson;Henry C. Ferguson;Mark Dickinson;Mark Dickinson;Mauro Giavalisco;Claudia Kretchmer

  • The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. V. The Full ACS Strong-Lens Sample

    Adam S. Bolton;Scott Burles;Leon V. E. Koopmans;Tommaso Treu

  • The Structure & Dynamics of Massive Early-type Galaxies: On Homology, Isothermality and Isotropy inside one Effective Radius

    L.V.E. Koopmans;A. Bolton;T. Treu;O. Czoske

  • CLASH: THREE STRONGLY LENSED IMAGES OF A CANDIDATE z ≈ 11 GALAXY

    Dan Coe;Adi Zitrin;Mauricio Carrasco;Mauricio Carrasco;Xinwen Shu

Frequent Co-Authors

Anton M. Koekemoer
Anton M. Koekemoer Space Telescope Science Institute
Tom Broadhurst
Tom Broadhurst University of the Basque Country
Marc Postman
Marc Postman Space Telescope Science Institute
Mario Nonino
Mario Nonino National Institute for Astrophysics
Massimo Meneghetti
Massimo Meneghetti National Institute for Astrophysics
Megan Donahue
Megan Donahue Michigan State University
Keiichi Umetsu
Keiichi Umetsu Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica
Henry C. Ferguson
Henry C. Ferguson Space Telescope Science Institute
John Moustakas
John Moustakas Siena College
Tommaso Treu
Tommaso Treu University of California, Los Angeles

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