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According to Wikipedia, Paul L. Schechter is an American astronomer and observational cosmologist. He is the William A. M. Burden Professor of Astrophysics, Emeritus, at MIT. Schechter received his bachelor's degree from Cornell in 1968, and his Ph.D. degree from Caltech in 1975. He held postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Arizona, then went to Harvard as an assistant professor. He moved to his present position at MIT in 1988. Schechter was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2003.

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Formation of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies by Self-Similar Gravitational Condensation (1974) (3724)
An analytic expression for the luminosity function for galaxies (1976) (2115)
DOPHOT, A CCD PHOTOMETRY PROGRAM: DESCRIPTION AND TESTS (1993) (668)
The Las Campanas Redshift Survey (1996) (458)
The kinematic properties of faint elliptical galaxies. (1983) (392)
A million cubic megaparsec void in Bootes (1981) (321)
The Luminosity Function of Galaxies in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (1996) (248)
Pharmacokinetics of tacrolimus in liver transplant patients (1995) (225)
The Quadruple Gravitational Lens PG 1115+080: Time Delays and Models (1996) (196)
Quasar Microlensing at High Magnification and the Role of Dark Matter: Enhanced Fluctuations and Suppressed Saddle Points (2002) (191)
The Velocity Dispersion Function of Early-Type Galaxies (2003) (183)
The velocity field in the local supercluster (1982) (154)
Mass-to-light ratios for elliptical galaxies. (1980) (151)
FIRE: A Facility Class Near-Infrared Echelle Spectrometer for the Magellan Telescopes (2013) (147)
X-Ray and Optical Flux Ratio Anomalies in Quadruply Lensed Quasars. I. Zooming in on Quasar Emission Regions (2006) (146)
SIZES AND TEMPERATURE PROFILES OF QUASAR ACCRETION DISKS FROM CHROMATIC MICROLENSING (2010) (140)
Suppression of T-lymphocyte cytotoxicity following exposure to sinusoidally amplitude-modulated fields. (1983) (117)
Size Is Everything: Universal Features of Quasar Microlensing with Extended Sources (2004) (113)
Velocity dispersions for 13 galaxies. (1977) (105)
The Power Spectrum of Galaxy Clustering in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (1996) (103)
On the universality of microlensing in quadruple gravitational lenses (1995) (100)
Survey of the Bootes void (1987) (85)
Loose Groups of Galaxies in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (1997) (81)
HE 0435-1223 : a wide separation quadruple QSO and gravitational lens (2002) (80)
FIRE: a near-infrared cross-dispersed echellette spectrometer for the Magellan telescopes (2008) (76)
The Las Campanas Redshift Survey galaxy—galaxy autocorrelation function (1996) (76)
SDSS J092455.87+021924.9: An Interesting Gravitationally Lensed Quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003) (73)
WFI J2026−4536 and WFI J2033−4723: Two New Quadruple Gravitational Lenses (2003) (72)
Differential Microlensing of the Continuum and Broad Emission Lines in SDSS J0924+0219, the Most Anomalous Lensed Quasar (2005) (67)
Evidence for dynamical subsystems in elliptical galaxies (1988) (65)
Deep survey of galaxies (1983) (65)
Observations of the internal dynamics of 12 elliptical galaxies (1979) (61)
The Time Delay of the Quadruple Quasar RX J0911.4+0551 (2002) (59)
The Shape and Scale of Galactic Rotation from Cepheid Kinematics (1997) (58)
A CALIBRATION OF THE STELLAR MASS FUNDAMENTAL PLANE AT z ∼ 0.5 USING THE MICRO-LENSING-INDUCED FLUX RATIO ANOMALIES OF MACRO-LENSED QUASARS,, (2014) (58)
External Shear in Quadruply Imaged Lens Systems (2002) (58)
THE ORTHOGONAL TRANSFER CCD (1997) (57)
The Omega dependence of peculiar velocities induced by spherical density perturbations (1990) (57)
THE DARK-MATTER FRACTION IN THE ELLIPTICAL GALAXY LENSING THE QUASAR PG 1115+080 (2008) (55)
The Lens Redshift and Galaxy Environment for HE 0435−1223 (2004) (55)
A study of field galaxies. II - The luminosity function and space distribution of galaxies (1979) (54)
Relative contributions of bulge and disk to the luminosity density of the universe (1987) (52)
The lensing galaxy in MG 0414+0534 (1993) (51)
A study of field galaxies. I. Redshifts and photometry of a complete sample of galaxies. (1978) (51)
Erratum: Is every strong lens model unhappy in its own way? Uniform modelling of a sample of 13 quadruply+ imaged quasars (2018) (50)
Velocity dispersions in the bulges of spiral galaxies. (1979) (49)
X-RAY AND OPTICAL FLUX RATIO ANOMALIES IN QUADRUPLY LENSED QUASARS. II. MAPPING THE DARK MATTER CONTENT IN ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES (2011) (49)
The First FIRST Gravitationally Lensed Quasar: FBQ 0951+2635 (1997) (47)
A Strong X-Ray Flux Ratio Anomaly in the Quadruply Lensed Quasar PG 1115+080 (2006) (45)
The FIRE infrared spectrometer at Magellan: construction and commissioning (2010) (45)
H I maps of S0 galaxies with polar rings (1987) (44)
Discovery of two gravitationally lensed quasars in the Dark Energy Survey (2015) (42)
The Hubble Constant from Gravitational Lens Time Delays (2004) (42)
Qualitative Aspects of Quasar Microlensing with Two Mass Components: Magnification Patterns and Probability Distributions (2004) (40)
PMN J0134–0931: A Gravitationally Lensed Quasar with Unusual Radio Morphology (2001) (40)
DES meets Gaia: discovery of strongly lensed quasars from a multiplet search (2017) (38)
Active optics on the Baade 6.5-m (Magellan I) Telescope (2002) (37)
Microlensing of Relativistic Knots in the Quasar HE 1104–1805 AB (2002) (37)
HE 0047-1756: A new gravitationally lensed double QSO (2004) (37)
The STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) 2016 follow-up campaign – I. Overview and classification of candidates selected by two techniques (2018) (36)
Minor-Axis Rotation in Elliptical Galaxies (1989) (34)
SDSS J024634.11−082536.2: A New Gravitationally Lensed Quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005) (34)
Survey of Gravitationally Lensed Objects in HSC Imaging (SuGOHI) – VII. Discovery and confirmation of three strongly lensed quasars† (2018) (34)
PMN J1838−3427: A New Gravitationally Lensed Quasar (2000) (34)
PMN J1632−0033: A New Gravitationally Lensed Quasar (2001) (33)
Generic Misalignment Aberration Patterns in Wide-Field Telescopes (2010) (32)
First Lensed Quasar Systems from the VST-ATLAS Survey: One Quad, Two Doubles, and Two Pairs of Lensless Twins (2016) (31)
Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Interim Report (2011) (30)
SDSS J1335+0118: A New Two-Image Gravitational Lens (2003) (29)
SDSS J0806+2006 and SDSS J1353+1138: Two New Gravitationally Lensed Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005) (29)
NGC 2685 - Spindle or pancake (1978) (28)
Remark on the Statistical Significance of Flares in Poisson Count Data (1974) (28)
The surface-brightness fluctuation distance of NGC 5128 (1990) (27)
Detection of binaries with projected separations as large as 0.1 parsec (1984) (26)
Chandra Detects a Rapid Flare in the Gravitationally Lensed Mini-Broad Absorption Line QSO RX J0911.4+0551 (2001) (26)
Velocity and velocity dispersion profiles in NGC 3115 (1982) (24)
Distances to Nearby Galaxies: Combining Fragmentary Data Using Four Different Methods (1995) (23)
A Nearly Symmetric Double-Image Gravitational Lens (2000) (23)
Quasar lenses and pairs in the VST-ATLAS and Gaia (2017) (23)
The STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) 2016 follow-up campaign. II. New quasar lenses from double component fitting. (2018) (23)
Analytic Expressions for Mean Magnification by a Quadrupole Gravitational Lens (2002) (22)
Gamma velocities of 58 faint Milky Way Cepheids (1992) (21)
The STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) 2017/2018 follow-up campaign: discovery of 10 lensed quasars and 10 quasar pairs (2019) (21)
Chandra X-Ray Observations of the Quadruply Lensed Quasar RX J0911.4+0551 (2001) (21)
MEASURING GRAVITATIONAL LENSING FLEXION IN A1689 USING AN ANALYTIC IMAGE MODEL (2011) (21)
A Close-Separation Double Quasar Lensed by a Gas-rich Galaxy (2000) (21)
Northern Milky Way carbon stars - New candidates, JHK photometry, and radial velocities (1989) (20)
CTQ 414: A New Gravitational Lens (1999) (20)
CTQ 327: A New Gravitational Lens (2003) (19)
Mass and Dust in the Disk of a Spiral Lens Galaxy (2003) (19)
JHK Photometry for 54 Southern Milky Way Cepheids (1992) (19)
Telescope Optics and Weak Lensing: PSF Patterns due to Low Order Aberrations (2008) (18)
Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope WFIRST (2012) (18)
The effect of massive disks on bulge isophotes (1981) (17)
Method for determining maximum-likelihood distance moduli for groups of galaxies (1976) (17)
Strip-Mining the Southern Sky: Scratching the Surface (1992) (17)
Models of the Strongly Lensed Quasar DES J0408-5354 (2017) (17)
WHITHER THE LSR : ANTICENTER CARBON STAR VELOCITIES (1994) (17)
A Quadruply Lensed SN Ia: Gaining a Time-Delay...Losing a Standard Candle (2017) (16)
HE 1113-0641: THE SMALLEST-SEPARATION QUADRUPLE LENS IDENTIFIED BY A GROUND-BASED OPTICAL TELESCOPE (2007) (15)
The Mean Number of Extra Microimage Pairs for Macrolensed Quasars (2002) (15)
On the solar motion with respect to external galaxies. (1977) (15)
NGC 4650A : the rotation of the diffuse stellar component. (1984) (13)
The Gravitational Lens Candidate FBQ 1633+3134 (2000) (12)
New central velocity dispersions for the bulges of 53 spiral and S0 Galaxies. (1983) (12)
Serendipitous discovery of quadruply imaged quasars: Two diamonds (2017) (12)
The mass of the isolated elliptical NGC 720 as determined from the dynamics of its companions (1986) (11)
CTQ 839: Candidate for the Smallest Projected Separation Binary Quasar (2000) (11)
A scanned CCD search for Cepheids and other variables in Crux and Centaurus (1991) (11)
On the Significance of the Luminosities of First-Ranked Members of Sparse Groups of Galaxies (1976) (10)
Detection of the Galaxy Lensing the Doubly Imaged Quasar SBS 1520+530 (1998) (10)
What Makes Quadruply Lensed Quasars Quadruple? (2021) (8)
Further studies on hepatic stimulatory substance (SS) after partial hepatectomy. (1980) (8)
Quasar Lensing (2002) (8)
The quest for the golden lens (1997) (8)
The intrinsic shapes of elliptical galaxies. (1987) (7)
Even Simpler Modeling of Quadruply Lensed Quasars (and Random Quartets) Using Witt's Hyperbola (2019) (7)
A CATALOG OF QSO CANDIDATES FROM A BVRI CCD SURVEY OF THE NORTH ECLIPTIC POLE (1993) (7)
The dark matter content of lensing galaxies at 1.5 R_e (2003) (7)
The DoPHOT two-dimensional photometry program. (1989) (6)
Gravitational Lensing: Recent Progress and Future Goals - Conference Summary (1999) (6)
A Malmquist-like bias in the inferred areas of diamond caustics and the resulting bias in inferred time delays for gravitationally lensed quasars (2021) (6)
Another Quadruply Lensed Quasar from the VST-ATLAS Survey (2018) (6)
Gravitationally lensed quasars in Gaia – IV. 150 new lenses, quasar pairs, and projected quasars (2022) (6)
Robust modeling of quadruply lensed quasars (and random quartets) using Witt's hyperbola (2018) (5)
STRIDES: Automated uniform models for 30 quadruply imaged quasars (2022) (5)
“Worst-case” Microlensing in the Identification and Modeling of Lensed Quasars (2021) (4)
A Deep Pencil Beam Survey of the Distribution of Galaxies in PHOENIX (1990) (4)
The GMT ground-layer AO experiment at the Magellan telescopes (2004) (4)
The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Optical Monitoring of the Gravitationally Lensed Quasar HE1104-1805 in 1997-2002 (2003) (4)
A Search for Distant Galactic Cepheids toward l = 60° (1997) (3)
First lensed quasar system(s) from the VST-ATLAS survey: one quad and three nearly identical pairs (2016) (3)
The luminosity function for galaxies and the clustering of galaxies (1975) (3)
A1254-1230: A NEW POLAR-RING GALAXY (1993) (3)
New axes for the fundamental plane (2015) (3)
Scanned CCD V and I Photometry at the South Galactic Pole (1996) (3)
Strong Lensing Studies with the LSST (2004) (2)
Magnifications of paired micro-images emerging from a micro-lensing critical curve (2018) (2)
Carbon Stars at 2R 0 and the Rotation of the Milky Way (1988) (2)
Generic misalignment aberration patterns and the subspace of benign misalignment (2012) (2)
A DOUBLED DOUBLE HOT SPOT IN J0816+5003 AND THE LOGARITHMIC SLOPE OF THE LENSING POTENTIAL (2010) (2)
A New Quadruple-image Gravitational Lens in an Edge-on Disk Galaxy at z = 0.0956 (2018) (2)
High-resolution imaging follow-up of doubly imaged quasars (2020) (1)
A Refined Black Hole Mass for the X-ray Transient GRS 1009-45 (2011) (1)
The Las Campanas Fibre Optic Redshift Survey (1995) (1)
Finding quadruply imaged quasars with machine learning. I. Methods (2021) (1)
Flux Ratio Anomalies: Micro- and Milli-lensing (2003) (1)
Tales Within Tales and Cutoffs Within Cutoffs: What Sets the Mass Scale for Galaxies? (2001) (1)
Remote Observing Experiments At Kitt Peak National Observatory (1982) (1)
The Las Campanas Deep Redshift Survey (1993) (1)
Reply to letter by Henkin (1980) (1)
The Magellan Telescopes: a performance update (2010) (1)
Texture of the universe (1984) (1)
0 O ct 2 00 1 PMN J 1632 – 0033 : A new gravitationally lensed quasar (2008) (0)
VizieR Online Data Catalog: Las Campanas Redshift Survey (Shectman+ 1996) (1997) (0)
Multicolor optical mosaics of M31 (1991) (0)
The Las Campanas Deep Redshift Survey: A Progress Report (1992) (0)
A Taxonomy for the Configurations of Quadruply Lensed Quasars (2022) (0)
A pr 2 00 1 PMN J 1632 – 0033 : A strong gravitational lens candidate (2008) (0)
Dynamics of the Nucleus of M31 (1977) (0)
MISSING LENSED IMAGES AND THE GALAXY DISK MASS IN CXOCY J220132.8-320144 (2012) (0)
PMN J2004-1349: A new gravitationally lensed quasar (2000) (0)
Dark Matter Determinations from Chandra Observations of Quadruply Lensed Quasars (2009) (0)
H_0 from gravitational lenses: recent results (2000) (0)
The Texture of the Universea a (1984) (0)
Measuring Gravitational Lensing Flexion with an Analytic Image Model (2010) (0)
New axes for the stellar mass fundamental plane (2015) (0)
Cosmic Acceleration: Standard Candles and Standard Rulers (2012) (0)
Carbon star reddenings and low latitude H I column densities (1991) (0)
A ug 2 00 2 Quasar Lensing (2002) (0)
A southern VLA-based gravitational lens search (1999) (0)
The Distance to the Galactic Center From Cepheid Kinematics (1994) (0)
The Contribution of Faint, Failed and Defunct Stars to the "Stellar" Masses of Galaxies (2017) (0)
The Gravitational Lens Candidate FBQ 1633 (2000) (0)
A visual guide to planetary microlensing (2010) (0)
Evidence for dark matter (2008) (0)
Ju n 20 02 Microlensing of Relativistic Knots in the Quasar HE 1104 − 1805 (2002) (0)
The Quadruple Image Configurations of Asymptotically Circular Gravitational Lenses (2022) (0)
Burrell Schmidt Users Note (1981) (0)
[Diagnostic aspects of IgA-fibronectin in serum of patients with IgA nephropathy]. (1995) (0)
Chandra X-ray Observations of the Quadruply Lensed Quasar RX J 0911 . 4 + 0551 (2001) (0)
[Pregnancy and delivery in portal hypertension]. (1986) (0)
Using Microlensing to Investigate Macro-Models of the Supernova iPTF16geu (2017) (0)
1981JUN Colloquia at KPNO (1981) (0)
VizieR Online Data Catalog: LCRS loose groups of galaxies (Tucker+, 2000) (2001) (0)
TheVariability Of PG11l5+080 (1996) (0)
Models of the strongly lensed quasar (2019) (0)
D ec 2 00 3 WFI J 2026 − 4536 and WFI J 2033 − 4723 : Two New Quadruple Gravitational Lenses 1 (2003) (0)
Minor Planet Observations [304 Las Campanas Observatory] (2011) (0)
Erratum: "a Study of Field Galaxies. I [ASTRON. J. 83, 1549 (1978)] (1979) (0)
DISTANCES TO NEARBY GALAXIES : COMBININGFRAGMENTARY DATA USING FOUR (2007) (0)
Part 4 Times Delays and Hubble Constant (2005) (0)
The Nature of Elliptical Galaxies: Conference Summary (1997) (0)
Major Issues Remaining (2007) (0)
Large-scale Color-segregation in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (2007) (0)
The Relative Masses of the Milky Way’s Components, the Ostriker-Caldwell Approach, and Differential Rotation Beyond the Solar Circle (1987) (0)
The Magellan Telescopes : A Performance Update Citation (2010) (0)
Dark matter and the missing images of cx2201-3201 (2005) (0)
Strong Lensing Science Collaboration input to the on-sky commissioning of the Vera Rubin Observatory (2021) (0)
Groups of Galaxies in the Las Campanas Survey Slice at delta =-6deg (1993) (0)
How Ought One Parameterize the Milky Way (1996) (0)
The Gravitational Lens Candidate FBQ 1633 + 3134 1 (0)
PMN J1632-0033: A strong gravitational lens candidate (2001) (0)
Limits to the accuracy of ground-based optical monitoring of multiply-lensed QSOs: A case study (1993) (0)
The Variability Of PG1115+080 (1996) (0)
02 07 25 0 v 1 1 1 Ju l 2 00 2 Active Optics on the Baade 6 . 5m ( Magellan I ) Telescope (2008) (0)
Galactic Structure from Cepheid Kinematics (1992) (0)
A ug 2 00 0 PMN J 1838 – 3427 : A new gravitationally lensed quasar 1 (2000) (0)
Examining motion of the LSR using anticenter carbon stars (2008) (0)
2002 VB131, 2003 UN284 (2004) (0)
Clustering as a Function of Galaxy Color in the Las Campanas Deep Redshift Survey (1991) (0)
Erratum: “PMN J1632−0033: A New Gravitationally Lensed Quasar” [Astron. J. 123, 10 (2002)] (2002) (0)
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SDSS J 092455 . 87 + 021924 . 9 : an Interesting Gravitationally Lensed Quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (0)
The Kinematics of the Local Supercluster (1983) (0)
William H. Wright's Early Planetary Photography in the Near Infrared and Near Ultraviolet (1991) (0)
CHANDRA Resolves the Variable Gravitational Lens System RXJ0911.4\+0551; Constraining H0 within a Single X-ray Observation. (2000) (0)
Galaxies: What do we know and how do we know it? (2006) (0)
Galactic Mergers: Major Issues Remaining (1990) (0)
The Baryonic Mass-to-Light Ratio in Elliptical Galaxies Measured from the Static Gravitational Micro-Lensing of Multiply Imaged Quasars (2009) (0)
Stellar masses calibrated with micro-lensed quasars (2014) (0)
Differential Microlensing of the Continuum and Broad Emission Lines in the Most Anomalous Lensed Quasar (2005) (0)
The Galaxy-Galaxy Autocorrelation Function for the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (1995) (0)

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