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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For outstanding contributions to the experimental study and understanding of mixing and CP violation in the neutral B meson system, and for the development of data modeling and analysis software used throughout the high energy physics community
  • 2003 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

D. Kirkby is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research is concentrated within the broad domain of Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their work spans numerous topics including:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
  • Scientific Research and Discoveries
  • Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing

Kirkby has published extensively, with important contributions featured in several scientific journals. Frequent venues for their papers include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • The Astronomical Journal
  • Physical Review D
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

Some of their recent publications are:

  • DESI 2024 VI: cosmological constraints from the measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations, 2025, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • DESI 2024 IV: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman alpha forest, 2025, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • The Spectroscopic Data Processing Pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, 2023, The Astronomical Journal
  • DESI 2024 III: baryon acoustic oscillations from galaxies and quasars, 2025, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • The Robotic Multiobject Focal Plane System of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), 2022, The Astronomical Journal

Collaboration appears to be an integral part of their research, with frequent co-authors including Axel de la Macorra, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, S. P. Ahlen, J. E. Forero-Romero, and G. Tarlé.

Kirkby has received recognition from professional organizations, notably being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007 with a citation highlighting contributions to the experimental study and understanding of mixing and CP violation in the neutral B meson system, as well as the development of data modeling and analysis software widely used in the high energy physics community. They were also honored as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Review of Particle Physics

    C. Amsler;M. Doser;M. Antonelli;D. M. Asner

  • Review of Particle Physics

    K. Nakamura;K. Hagiwara;K. Hikasa;H. Murayama;H. Murayama;H. Murayama

  • Review of particle physics. Particle Data Group

    S. Eidelman;G. Hohler;R.S. Chivukula;N.P. Tkachenko

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

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

  • The Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

    A. M. Price-Whelan;B. M. Sipőcz;H. M. Günther

  • The BABAR detector

    B. Aubert;A. Bazan;A. Boucham;D. Boutigny

  • The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package

    A. M. Price-Whelan;B. M. Sipőcz;H. M. Günther

  • 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

  • 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 clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

    Shadab Alam;Metin Ata;Stephen Bailey;Florian Beutler

  • Review of Particle Physics (2006)

    W M Yao;P Richardson;Andrew R Liddle;J Womersley

  • 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 Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

    Hiroaki Aihara;Carlos Allende Prieto;Deokkeun An

  • 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;Carlos Allende Prieto;F. Anders

  • THE BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF SDSS-III

    Kyle S. Dawson;David J. Schlegel;Christopher P. Ahn;Scott F. Anderson

  • The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

    Hiroaki Aihara;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;Deokkeun An;Scott F. Anderson

  • The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Christopher P. Ahn;Rachael Alexandroff;Carlos Allende Prieto;Friedrich Anders

  • The ninth data release of the sloan digital sky survey: First spectroscopic data from the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey

    Christopher P. Ahn;Rachael Alexandroff;Carlos Allende Prieto;Scott F. Anderson

  • Review of Particle Physics, 2008-2009

    Claude Amsler;P Richardson;O Zenin;L Garren

Frequent Co-Authors

A. Seiden
A. Seiden University of California, Santa Cruz
C. Hearty
C. Hearty University of British Columbia
J. D. Richman
J. D. Richman University of California, Santa Barbara
W. H. Toki
W. H. Toki Colorado State University
F. C. Porter
F. C. Porter California Institute of Technology
A. Roodman
A. Roodman Stanford University
Corrado Angelini
Corrado Angelini University of Padua
B. N. Ratcliff
B. N. Ratcliff Stanford University
R. Waldi
R. Waldi University of Rostock
D. G. Hitlin
D. G. Hitlin California Institute of Technology

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