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Bruce A. Bassett is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on Physics and Astronomy and significant contributions to Computer Science.

Their work covers several subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace Engineering, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • GNSS positioning and interference
  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

Bassett has contributed to a range of scientific articles published in various venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Notable recent papers published by Bruce A. Bassett include:

  • The Dark Energy Survey: Cosmology Results with ∼1500 New High-redshift Type Ia Supernovae Using the Full 5 yr Data Set (2024, The Astrophysical Journal Letters)
  • The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment: 256-Element Array Status and Overview (2021, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Cosmological Analysis and Systematic Uncertainties (2024, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • The Dark Energy Survey: Cosmology Results With ~1500 New High-redshift Type Ia Supernovae Using The Full 5-year Dataset (2024, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Deep learning improves identification of Radio Frequency Interference (2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)

Bassett frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Chris Finlay
  • Nadeem Oozeer
  • M. Kunz
  • A. Carnero Rosell
  • Dillon Brout

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies

    Max Tegmark;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Michael A. Strauss;David H. Weinberg

  • Inflation dynamics and reheating

    Bruce A. Bassett;Shinji Tsujikawa;David Wands

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

    Richard Kessler;Andrew Becker;David Cinabro;Jake Vanderplas

  • Adiabatic and entropy perturbations from inflation

    Christopher Gordon;David Wands;Bruce A. Bassett;Roy Maartens

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

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

  • Chaotic inflation on the brane

    Roy Maartens;David Wands;Bruce A. Bassett;Imogen P. C. Heard

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

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

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

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

  • Age-dating luminous red galaxies observed with the Southern African Large Telescope

    A. L. Ratsimbazafy;A. L. Ratsimbazafy;S. I. Loubser;S. M. Crawford;C. M. Cress;C. M. Cress

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Search Algorithm and Follow-up Observations

    Masao Sako;B. Bassett;A. Becker;D. Cinabro

  • The Peculiar SN 2005hk: Do Some Type Ia Supernovae Explode as Deflagrations?

    M. M. Phillips;W. Li;J. A. Frieman;S. I. Blinnikov

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Search Algorithm and Follow-up Observations

    Masao Sako;Masao Sako;Bruce A. Bassett;Andrew Becker;David Cinabro

  • Dynamical dark energy or simply cosmic curvature

    Chris Clarkson;Marina Cortês;Marina Cortês;Bruce Bassett

  • Gravito-electromagnetism

    Roy Maartens;Bruce A. Bassett

  • A General Test of the Copernican Principle

    Chris Clarkson;Bruce Bassett;Teresa Hui-Ching Lu

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II: Photometry and Supernova Ia Light Curves from the 2005 data

    Jon A. Holtzman;John Marriner;Richard Kessler;Masao Sako

  • Foundations of observing dark energy dynamics with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe

    Pier Stefano Corasaniti;M. Kunz;David Parkinson;E.J. Copeland

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua A. Frieman
Joshua A. Frieman University of Chicago
Robert C. Nichol
Robert C. Nichol University of Surrey
Jesper Sollerman
Jesper Sollerman Stockholm University
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University
Adam G. Riess
Adam G. Riess Johns Hopkins University
Peter M. Garnavich
Peter M. Garnavich University of Notre Dame
Saurabh Jha
Saurabh Jha Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jennifer L. Marshall
Jennifer L. Marshall Texas A&M University
Maximilian Stritzinger
Maximilian Stritzinger Aarhus University
Ariel Goobar
Ariel Goobar Stockholm University

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