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Adam G. Riess

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372
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Overview

Adam G. Riess is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States and specializes in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their primary research focuses on Astronomy and Astrophysics, with significant contributions also in Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, as well as Computational Mechanics.

The topics most frequently addressed in Riess's work include gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, astronomy and astrophysical research, galaxies' formation, evolution, and phenomena, cosmology and gravitation theories, astrophysics and cosmic phenomena, and pulsars and gravitational waves research.

Riess has a notable record of publications in several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include arXiv (Cornell University), The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and Astroparticle Physics.

Some of Riess's recent papers are as follows:

  • A Comprehensive Measurement of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant with 1 km s−1 Mpc−1 Uncertainty from the Hubble Space Telescope and the SH0ES Team, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • The Pantheon+ Analysis: Cosmological Constraints, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Pantheon+ Analysis: The Full Data Set and Light-curve Release, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
  • Snowmass2021 - Letter of interest cosmology intertwined II: The hubble constant tension, 2021, Astroparticle Physics
  • Cosmology intertwined III: fσ8 and S8, 2021, Astroparticle Physics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Riess include:

  • D. Scolnic
  • Lucas M. Macri
  • Stefano Casertano
  • Wenlong Yuan
  • Gagandeep S. Anand

Best Publications

  • Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant

    Adam G. Riess;Alexei V. Filippenko;Peter Challis;Alejandro Clocchiatti

  • Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant

    Adam G. Riess;Alexei V. Filippenko;Peter Challis;Alejandro Clocchiattia

  • Type Ia Supernova Discoveries at z>1 From the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for Past Deceleration and Constraints on Dark Energy Evolution

    Adam G. Riess;Louis-Gregory Strolger;John Tonry;Stefano Casertano

  • 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

  • Type Ia supernova discoveries at z > 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for past deceleration and constraints on dark energy evolution

    Adam G. Riess;Louis-Gregory Strolger;John Tonry;Stefano Casertano

  • 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

  • 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 Complete Light-curve Sample of Spectroscopically Confirmed SNe Ia from Pan-STARRS1 and Cosmological Constraints from the Combined Pantheon Sample

    D. M. Scolnic;D. O. Jones;A. Rest;A. Rest;Y. C. Pan

  • A 2.4% DETERMINATION OF THE LOCAL VALUE OF THE HUBBLE CONSTANT*

    Adam G. Riess;Adam G. Riess;Lucas M. Macri;Samantha L. Hoffmann;Dan Scolnic;Dan Scolnic

  • Cosmological Results from High-z Supernovae* **

    John L. Tonry;Brian P. Schmidt;Brian Barris;Pablo Candia

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

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

  • New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae at z ≥ 1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy*

    Adam G. Riess;Adam G. Riess;Louis Gregory Strolger;Stefano Casertano;Henry C. Ferguson

  • Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid Standards Provide a 1% Foundation for the Determination of the Hubble Constant and Stronger Evidence for Physics beyond ΛCDM

    Adam G. Riess;Adam G. Riess;Stefano Casertano;Stefano Casertano;Wenlong Yuan;Lucas M. Macri

  • The High-Z Supernova Search: Measuring Cosmic Deceleration and Global Curvature of the Universe Using Type Ia Supernovae*

    Brian P. Schmidt;Nicholas B. Suntzeff;M. M. Phillips;Robert A. Schommer

  • 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

  • Improved cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the SDSS-II and SNLS supernova samples

    M. Betoule;R. Kessler;J. Guy;J. Guy;J. Mosher

  • Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid Standards Provide a 1% Foundation for the Determination of the Hubble Constant and Stronger Evidence for Physics Beyond LambdaCDM

    Adam G. Riess;Stefano Casertano;Wenlong Yuan;Lucas M. Macri

  • A 3% Solution: Determination of the Hubble Constant with the Hubble Space Telescope and Wide Field Camera 3

    Adam G. Riess;Adam G. Riess;Lucas Macri;Stefano Casertano;Hubert Lampeitl

  • 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 High-Z Supernova Search: Measuring Cosmic Deceleration and Global Cur vature of the Universe Using Type Ia Supernovae

    Brian P. Schmidt;Nicholas B. Suntzeff;M. M. Phillips;Robert A. Schommer

Frequent Co-Authors

Saurabh Jha
Saurabh Jha Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Robert P. Kirshner
Robert P. Kirshner Harvard University
Ryan J. Foley
Ryan J. Foley University of California, Santa Cruz
Christopher W. Stubbs
Christopher W. Stubbs Harvard University
Jesper Sollerman
Jesper Sollerman Stockholm University
Peter M. Garnavich
Peter M. Garnavich University of Notre Dame
Alexei V. Filippenko
Alexei V. Filippenko University of California, Berkeley
Brian P. Schmidt
Brian P. Schmidt Australian National University
Thomas Matheson
Thomas Matheson National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Lab
Joshua A. Frieman
Joshua A. Frieman University of Chicago

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