Publications of Ralf Bender

Kormendy, J.; Fisher, D. B.; Cornell, M. E.; Bender, R.: Structure and formation of elliptical and spheroidal galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 182 (1), pp. 216 - 309 (2009)

Lee, C.-H.; Riffeser, A.; Seitz, S.; Bender, R.: Finite-source effects in microlensing: a precise, easy to implement, fast and numerically stable formalism. The Astrophysical Journal 695 (1), pp. 200 - 207 (2009)

Thomas, J.; Jesseit, R.; Saglia, R. P.; Bender, R.; Burkert, A.; Corsini, E. M.; Gebhardt, K.; Magorrian, J.; Naab, T.; Thomas, D. et al.; Wegner, G.: The flattening and the orbital structure of early-type galaxies and collisionless N-body binary disc mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 393 (2), pp. 641 - 652 (2009)

Kormendy, J.; Bender, R.: Correlations between supermassive black holes, velocity dispersions and mass deficits in elliptical galaxies with cores. The Astrophysical Journal 691 (2), pp. L142 - L146 (2009)

Thomas, J.; Saglia, R. P.; Bender, R.; Thomas, D.; Gebhardt, K.; Magorrian, J.; Corsini, E. M.; Wegner, G.: Dark matter scaling relations and the assembly epoch of coma early-type galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal 691 (1), pp. 770 - 782 (2009)

Maraston, C.; Nieves Colmárez, L.; Bender, R.; Thomas, D.: Absorption line indices in the UV - I. Empirical and theoretical stellar population models. Astronomy & Astrophysics 493 (2), pp. 425 - 444 (2009)

Nowak, N.; Saglia, R. P.; Thomas, J.; Bender, R.; Davies, R. I.; Gebhardt, K.: The supermassive black hole of Fornax A. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 391 (4), pp. 1629 - 1649 (2008)

Riffeser, A.; Seitz, S.; Bender, R.: The M31 microlensing event WeCAPP-GL1/POINT-AGAPE-S3: Evidence for a MACHO component in the dark halo of M31? The Astrophysical Journal 684 (2), pp. 1093 - 1109 (2008)

Zheng, C.; Romani, R. W.; Sako, M.; Marriner, J.; Bassett, B.; Becker, A.; Choi, C.; Cinabro, D.; DeJongh, F.; Depoy, D. L. et al.; Dilday, B.; Doi, M.; Frieman, J. A.; Garnavich, P. M.; Hogan, C. J.; Holtzman, J.; Im, M.; Jha, S.; Kessler, R.; Konishi, K.; Lampeitl, H.; Marshall, J. L.; McGinnis, D.; Miknaitis, G.; Nichol, R. C.; Prieto, J. L.; Riess, A. G.; Richmond, M. W.; Schneider, D. P.; Smith, M.; Takanashi, N.; Tokita, K.; van der Heyden, K.; Yasuda, N.; Assef, R. J.; Barentine, J.; Bender, R.; Blandford, R. D.; Bremer, M.; Brewington, H.; Collins, C. A.; Crotts, A.; Dembicky, J.; Eastman, J.; Edge, A.; Elson, E.; Eyler, M. E.; Filippenko, A. V.; Foley, R. J.; Frank, S.; Goobar, A.; Harvanek, M.; Hopp, U.; Ihara, Y.; Kahn, S.; Ketzeback, W.; Kleinman, S. J.; Kollatschny, W.; Krzesinski, J.; Leloudas, G.; Long, D. C.; Lucey, J.; Malanushenko, E.; Malanushenko, V.; McMillan, R. J.; Morgan, C. W.; Morokuma, T.; Nitta, A.; Ostman, L.; Pan, K.; Romer, A. K.; Saurage, G.; Schlesinger, K.; Snedden, S. A.; Sollerman, J.; Stritzinger, M.; Watson, L. C.; Watters, S.; Wheeler, J. C.; York, D.: First-year spectroscopy for the sloan digital sky survey - II. Supernova survey. Astronomical Journal 135 (5), pp. 1766 - 1784 (2008)

Corsini, E. M.; Wegner, G.; Saglia, R. P.; Thomas, J.; Bender, R.; Thomas, D.: Spatially resolved spectroscopy of Coma Cluster early-type galaxies - IV. Completing the data set. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 175 (2), pp. 462 - 484 (2008)

Frieman, J. A.; Bassett, B.; Becker, A.; Choi, C.; Cinabro, D.; DeJongh, F.; Depoy, D. L.; Dilday, B.; Doi, M.; Garnavich, P. M. et al.; Hogan, C. J.; Holtzman, J.; Im, M.; Jha, S.; Kessler, R.; Konishi, K.; Lampeitl, H.; Marriner, J.; Marshall, J. L.; McGinnis, D.; Miknaitis, G.; Nichol, R. C.; Prieto, J. L.; Riess, A. G.; Richmond, M. W.; Romani, R.; Sako, M.; Schneider, D. P.; Smith, M.; Takanashi, N.; Tokita, K.; van der Heyden, K.; Yasuda, N.; Zheng, C.; Adelman-McCarthy, J.; Annis, J.; Assef, R. J.; Barentine, J.; Bender, R.; Blandford, R. D.; Boroski, W. N.; Bremer, M.; Brewington, H.; Collins, C. A.; Crotts, A.; Dembicky, J.; Eastman, J.; Edge, A.; Edmondson, E.; Elson, E.; Eyler, M. E.; Filippenko, A. V.; Foley, R. J.; Frank, S.; Goobar, A.; Gueth, T.; Gunn, J. E.; Harvanek, M.; Hopp, U.; Ihara, Y.; Ivezic, Z.; Kahn, S.; Kaplan, J.; Kent, S.; Ketzeback, W.; Kleman, S. J.; Kollatschny, W.; Kron, R. G.; Krzesinski, J.; Lamenti, D.; Leloudas, G.; Lin, H.; Long, D. C.; Lucey, J.; Lupton, R. H.; Malanushenko, E.; Malanushenko, V.; McMillan, R. J.; Mendez, J.; Morgan, C. W.; Morokuma, T.; Nitta, A.; Ostman, L.; Pan, K.; Rockosi, C. M.; Romer, A. K.; Ruiz-Lapuente, P.; Saurage, G.; Schlesinger, K.; Snedden, S. A.; Sollerman, J.; Stoughton, C.; Stritzinger, M.; SubbaRao, M.; Tucker, D.; Vaisanen, P.; Watson, L. C.; Watters, S.; Wheeler, J. C.; Yanny, B.; York, D.: The sloan digital sky survey-II supernova survey: technical summary. Astronomical Journal 135 (1), pp. 338 - 347 (2008)

Thomas, J.; Saglia, R. P.; Bender, R.; Thomas, D.; Gebhardt, K.; Magorrian, J.; Corsini, E. M.; Wegner, G.: Dynamical modelling of luminous and dark matter in 17 Coma early-type galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 382 (2), pp. 657 - 684 (2007)

Thomas, J.; Jesseit, R.; Naab, T.; Saglia, R. P.; Burkert, A.; Bender, R.: Axisymmetric orbit models of N-body merger remnants: a dependency of reconstructed mass on viewing angle. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 381 (4), pp. 1672 - 1696 (2007)

Brusa, M.; Zamorani, G.; Comastri, A.; Hasinger, G.; Cappelluti, N.; Civano, F.; Finoguenov, A.; Mainieri, V.; Salvato, M.; Vignali, C. et al.; Elvis, M.; Fiore, F.; Gilli, R.; Impey, C. D.; Lilly, S. J.; Mignoli, M.; Silverman, J.; Trump, J.; Urry, C. M.; Bender, R.; Capak, P.; Huchra, J. P.; Kneib, J. P.; Koekemoer, A.; Leauthaud, A.; Lehmann, I.; Massey, R.; Matute, I.; McCarthy, P. J.; McCracken, H. J.; Rhodes, J.; Scoville, N. Z.; Taniguchi, Y.; Thompson, D.: The XMM-Newton wide-field survey in the COSMOS field - III. Optical identification and multiwavelength properties of a large sample of X-ray-selected sources. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 172 (1), pp. 353 - 367 (2007)

Nowak, N.; Saglia, R. P.; Thomas, J.; Bender, R.; Pannella, M.; Gebhardt, K.; Davies, R. I.: The supermassive black hole in NGC 4486a detected with SINFONI at the very large telescope. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 379 (3), pp. 909 - 914 (2007)

Feulner, G.; Goranova, Y.; Hopp, U.; Gabasch, A.; Bender, R.; Botzler, C. S.; Drory, N.: The Munich Near-Infrared Cluster Survey – IX. Galaxy evolution to z ~ 2 from optically selected catalogues. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 378 (2), pp. 429 - 448 (2007)

Tapken, C.; Appenzeller, I.; Gabasch, A.; Heidt, J.; Hopp, U.; Bender, R.; Noll, S.; Seitz, S.; Richling, S.: The puzzle of the Lyα galaxies: new results from the VLT. The Messenger 128, pp. 51 - 55 (2007)

Pietsch, W.; Haberl, F.; Sala, G.; Stiele, H.; Hornoch, K.; Riffeser, A.; Fliri, J.; Bender, R.; Bühler, S.; Burwitz, V. et al.; Greiner, J.; Seitz, S.: X-ray monitoring of optical novae in M 31 from July 2004 to February 2005. Astronomy & Astrophysics 465 (2), pp. 375 - 392 (2007)

Nesvadba, N. P. H.; Lehnert, M. D.; Genzel, R.; Eisenhauer, F.; Baker, A. J.; Seitz, S.; Davies, R.; Lutz, D.; Tacconi, L.; Tecza, M. et al.; Bender, R.; Abuter, R.: Intense star formation and feedback at high redshift: spatially resolved properties of the z = 2.6 submillimeter galaxy SMM J14011+0252. Astrophysical Journal 658 (2 Part 1), pp. 725 - 737 (2007)

Longhetti, M.; Saracco, P.; Severgnini, P.; Della Ceca, R.; Mannucci, F.; Bender, R.; Drory, N.; Feulner, G.; Hopp, U.: The Kormendy relation of massive elliptical galaxies at z ~ 1.5: evidence for size evolution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 374 (2), pp. 614 - 626 (2007)