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D-Index
216
Citations
252660
World Ranking
12
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
  • 2021 - Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, American Astronomical Society

Overview

Robert H. Lupton is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of physics and astronomy. Their research primarily spans multiple subfields, including astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, atomic and molecular physics and optics, computational mechanics, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's main topics of work include galaxies-covering formation, evolution, and phenomena-astronomy and astrophysical research, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, cosmology and gravitation theories, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, as well as astronomical observations and instrumentation.

Robert H. Lupton has published a significant number of papers, with recent publications as follows:

  • Third data release of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (2021), Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
  • Pan-STARRS Pixel Processing: Detrending, Warping, Stacking (2020), The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 results: Cosmology from cosmic shear power spectra (2023), Physical Review D
  • Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 results: Cosmology from cosmic shear two-point correlation functions (2023), Physical Review D
  • Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 results: Cosmology from galaxy clustering and weak lensing with HSC and SDSS using the minimal bias model (2023), Physical Review D

Frequent co-authors of Lupton include P. A. Price, Masahiro Takada, Hitoshi Murayama, Michael A. Strauss, and Masayuki Tanaka.

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review D, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, and Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX.

In addition to journal publications, Robert H. Lupton has contributed to book literature with a publication through Princeton University Press titled Statistics in Theory and Practice (2020).

Award recognition includes receiving the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics from the American Astronomical Society in 2021.

Best Publications

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

    D. G. York

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical summary

    Donald G. York;J. Adelman;John E. Anderson;Scott F. Anderson

  • The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Kevork N. Abazajian;Jennifer K. Adelman-Mccarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam

  • Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP

    Max Tegmark;Max Tegmark;Michael Abram Strauss;Michael R. Blanton;Kevork Abazajian

  • Detection of the baryon acoustic peak in the large-scale correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Idit Zehavi;David W. Hogg;Roman Scoccimarro

  • LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

    Željko Ivezić;Steven M. Kahn;J. Anthony Tyson;Bob Abel

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release

    C. Stoughton;R. H. Lupton;M. Bernardi;M. R. Blanton

  • The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

    Shadab Alam;Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;F. Anders

  • Sloan digital sky survey: Early data release

    Chris Stoughton;Robert H. Lupton;Mariangela Bernardi;Michael R. Blanton;Michael R. Blanton

  • The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

  • The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • Composite Quasar Spectra From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Daniel E. Vanden Berk

  • Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Main Galaxy Sample

    Michael A. Strauss;David H. Weinberg;Robert H. Lupton;Vijay K. Narayanan

  • The 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    James E. Gunn;Walter A. Siegmund;Edward J. Mannery;Russell E. Owen

  • SDSS-III: MASSIVE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS OF THE DISTANT UNIVERSE, THE MILKY WAY, AND EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEMS

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

  • The clustering of galaxies in the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: Baryon acoustic oscillations in the data release 9 spectroscopic galaxy sample

    Lauren Anderson;Élric Aubourg;Stephen Bailey;Florian Beutler

  • THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL POWER SPECTRUM OF GALAXIES FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY

    Max Tegmark;Michael R. Blanton;Michael A. Strauss;Fiona Hoyle

  • The 3D power spectrum of galaxies from the SDSS

    M Tegmark;M Blanton;M Strauss;F Hoyle

Frequent Co-Authors

James E. Gunn
James E. Gunn Princeton University
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University
Michael A. Strauss
Michael A. Strauss University of Oklahoma
István Csabai
István Csabai Eötvös Loránd University
Donald G. York
Donald G. York University of Chicago
Gillian R. Knapp
Gillian R. Knapp Princeton University
David J. Schlegel
David J. Schlegel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Masataka Fukugita
Masataka Fukugita University of Tokyo
Gordon T. Richards
Gordon T. Richards Drexel University
Xiaohui Fan
Xiaohui Fan University of Arizona

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