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Overview

David A. Wake is affiliated with The Open University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Computational Mechanics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The primary focus areas of their scientific work include:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
  • Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation

Wake has collaborated frequently with several co-authors throughout their career. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Stijn Wuyts
  • Sam E. Cutler
  • Gabriel Brammer
  • Ivelina Momcheva
  • Katherine E. Whitaker

Their research has been published prominently across a range of scientific venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by David A. Wake include:

  • SDSS-IV MaNGA: the indispensable role of bars in enhancing the central star formation of low-z galaxies (2020), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Spectroscopic Constraints on the Buildup of Intracluster Light in the Coma Cluster (2020), The Astrophysical Journal
  • Dust attenuation, dust content, and geometry of star-forming galaxies (2023), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • SDSS-IV MaNGA: How the stellar populations of passive central galaxies depend on stellar and halo mass (2022), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • 3D-DASH: The Widest Near-infrared Hubble Space Telescope Survey (2022), The Astrophysical Journal

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies and the Distant Universe

    Michael R. Blanton;Matthew A. Bershady;Bela Abolfathi;Franco D. Albareti;Franco D. Albareti

  • 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

  • The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

    Michael R. Blanton;Matthew A. Bershady;Bela Abolfathi;Franco D. Albareti

  • Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

    Kevin Bundy;Matthew A. Bershady;David R. Law;Renbin Yan

  • 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;Carlos Allende Prieto;Friedrich Anders;Friedrich Anders

  • 3D-HST+CANDELS: THE EVOLUTION OF THE GALAXY SIZE–MASS DISTRIBUTION SINCE z = 3

    A. van der Wel;M. Franx;P.G. van Dokkum;R.E. Skelton

  • The Growth of Massive Galaxies Since z = 2

    Pieter G. van Dokkum;Pieter G. van Dokkum;Katherine E. Whitaker;Katherine E. Whitaker;Gabriel Brammer;Gabriel Brammer;Marijn Franx

  • The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

    Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andres Almeida

Frequent Co-Authors

Dmitry Bizyaev
Dmitry Bizyaev New Mexico State University
Daniel Thomas
Daniel Thomas University of Portsmouth
Robert C. Nichol
Robert C. Nichol University of Surrey
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University
Claudia Maraston
Claudia Maraston University of Portsmouth
Joel R. Brownstein
Joel R. Brownstein University of Utah
Karen L. Masters
Karen L. Masters Haverford College
Daniel J. Eisenstein
Daniel J. Eisenstein Harvard University
David J. Schlegel
David J. Schlegel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kevin Bundy
Kevin Bundy University of California, Santa Cruz

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