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Overview

Ralf Bender is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has a significant body of work in physics and astronomy. Their main research contributions span a variety of subfields including astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, atomic and molecular physics and optics, nuclear and high energy physics, and computational mechanics.

The scientist's research topics focus extensively on galaxies, including their formation, evolution, and related phenomena. Other key areas of work include astronomy and astrophysical research, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, as well as gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. Additional topics covered are astrophysical phenomena and observations, plus astronomical observations and instrumentation.

Bender's publication record features frequent contributions to notable venues such as:

  • Lebensmittel Zeitung
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Recent papers demonstrate active involvement in the field, including the following works:

  • Euclidpreparation, 2022, published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Euclid preparation, 2020, published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Euclid Spectroscopic Image Simulations and Reconstruction, 2024, published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Euclid, 2024, published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Euclid preparation: IX. EuclidEmulator2 - power spectrum emulation with massive neutrinos and self-consistent dark energy perturbations, 2021, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Bender has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including:

  • C. Carbone
  • S. Cavuoti
  • E. Franceschi
  • E. Branchini
  • V. Capobianco

Best Publications

  • The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centres

    John Magorrian;Scott Tremaine;Douglas Richstone;Ralf Bender

  • The Demography of massive dark objects in galaxy centers

    John Magorrian;Scott Tremaine;Scott Tremaine;Douglas Richstone;Ralf Bender

  • A Relationship between Nuclear Black Hole Mass and Galaxy Velocity Dispersion

    Karl Gebhardt;Ralf Bender;Gary Bower;Alan Dressler

  • THE SLOPE OF THE BLACK HOLE MASS VERSUS VELOCITY DISPERSION CORRELATION

    Scott Tremaine;Karl Gebhardt;Ralf Bender;Gary Bower

  • The M-σ and M-L Relations in Galactic Bulges, and Determinations of Their Intrinsic Scatter

    Kayhan Gültekin;Douglas D.O. Richstone;Karl Gebhardt;Tod Lauer

  • The epochs of early-type galaxy formation as a function of environment

    D. Thomas;C. Maraston;R. Bender;C. Mendes de Oliveira

  • The M-sigma and M-L Relations in Galactic Bulges and Determinations of their Intrinsic Scatter

    Kayhan Gultekin;Douglas O. Richstone;Karl Gebhardt;Tod R. Lauer

  • Euclid Definition Study Report

    R. Laureijs;J. Amiaux;S. Arduini;J.-L. Auguères

  • The Epochs of Early-Type Galaxy Formation as a Function of Environment

    Daniel Thomas;Claudia Maraston;Ralf Bender;Claudia Mendes de Oliveira

  • The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys

    K. C. Chambers;E. A. Magnier;N. Metcalfe;H. A. Flewelling

  • Dynamically hot galaxies. I - Structural properties

    Ralf Bender;David Burstein;S. M. Faber

  • First-year Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) Supernova Results: Hubble Diagram and Cosmological Parameters

    Richard Kessler;Andrew Becker;David Cinabro;Jake Vanderplas

  • STRUCTURE AND FORMATION OF ELLIPTICAL AND SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES

    John Kormendy;David B. Fisher;Mark E. Cornell;Ralf Bender

  • Stellar population models of Lick indices with variable element abundance ratios

    Daniel Thomas;Claudia Maraston;Ralf Bender

  • First-Year Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Results: Hubble Diagram and Cosmological Parameters

    Richard Kessler;Andrew C. Becker;David Cinabro;Jake Vanderplas

  • The sloan digital sky survey-II supernova survey: technical summary

    Joshua A. Frieman;Joshua A. Frieman;Bruce Bassett;Andrew Becker;Changsu Choi

  • Black Hole Mass Estimates from Reverberation Mapping and from Spatially Resolved Kinematics

    Karl Gebhardt;Karl Gebhardt;John Kormendy;Luis C. Ho;Ralf Bender

  • The KMOS^3D Survey: design, first results, and the evolution of galaxy kinematics from 0.7<z<2.7

    E. Wisnioski;N.M. Förster Schreiber;S. Wuyts;E. Wuyts

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Technical Summary

    Joshua A. Frieman;B. Bassett;A. Becker;C. Choi

  • Dynamical Family Properties and Dark Halo Scaling Relations of Giant Elliptical Galaxies

    Ortwin Gerhard;Andi Kronawitter;R. P. Saglia;Ralf Bender

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto P. Saglia
Roberto P. Saglia Max Planck Society
Karl Gebhardt
Karl Gebhardt The University of Texas at Austin
John Kormendy
John Kormendy The University of Texas at Austin
Claudia Maraston
Claudia Maraston University of Portsmouth
Reinhard Genzel
Reinhard Genzel Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Daniel Thomas
Daniel Thomas University of Portsmouth
Niv Drory
Niv Drory The University of Texas at Austin
Douglas O. Richstone
Douglas O. Richstone University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Tod R. Lauer
Tod R. Lauer National Science Foundation
Bodo L. Ziegler
Bodo L. Ziegler University of Vienna

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