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  • 2014 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For leadership of, and fundamental technical contributions to high precision measurements of the expansion history of the Universe by carrying out massive galaxy redshift surveys to detect baryon acoustic oscillations

Overview

David J. Schlegel is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research contributions are primarily situated within the broad field of Physics and Astronomy, with extensive work across several subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's topics of focus cover a wide range of areas related to galactic and cosmological research. These include:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors
  • Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing

David J. Schlegel's recent publications include:

  • The CatWISE2020 Catalog (2021) in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • The DESI Bright Galaxy Survey: Final Target Selection, Design, and Validation (2023) in The Astronomical Journal
  • Target Selection and Validation of DESI Luminous Red Galaxies (2023) in The Astronomical Journal
  • The Spectroscopic Data Processing Pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (2023) in The Astronomical Journal
  • Target Selection and Validation of DESI Quasars (2023) in The Astrophysical Journal

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, with notable collaboration counts as follows:

  • Axel de la Macorra (148 publications)
  • Aaron Meisner (146 publications)
  • G. Tarlé (146 publications)
  • Satya Gontcho A Gontcho (143 publications)
  • S. P. Ahlen (139 publications)

David J. Schlegel's work has been published in a variety of venues, with the most frequent including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 70 publications
  • Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics with 42 publications
  • The Astrophysical Journal with 20 publications
  • The Astronomical Journal with 18 publications
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society with 14 publications

The scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2014. The citation for this award noted their leadership and technical contributions to precise measurements of the expansion history of the Universe through extensive galaxy redshift surveys aimed at detecting baryon acoustic oscillations.

Best Publications

  • Maps of Dust IR Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and CMBR Foregrounds

    D. J. Schlegel;D. P. Finkbeiner;Marc Davis

  • Maps of Dust Infrared Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Foregrounds

    David J. Schlegel;Douglas P. Finkbeiner;Marc Davis

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

    D. G. York

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical summary

    Donald G. York;J. Adelman;John E. Anderson;Scott F. Anderson

  • 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

  • Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP

    Max Tegmark;Max Tegmark;Michael Abram Strauss;Michael R. Blanton;Kevork Abazajian

  • Detection of the baryon acoustic peak in the large-scale correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Idit Zehavi;David W. Hogg;Roman Scoccimarro

  • The Origin of the Mass--Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star-Forming Galaxies in the SDSS

    C. A. Tremonti;T. M. Heckman;G. Kauffmann;J. Brinchmann

  • The Origin of the Mass-Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star-forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Christy A. Tremonti;Christy A. Tremonti;Timothy M. Heckman;Guinevere Kauffmann;Jarle Brinchmann

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release

    C. Stoughton;R. H. Lupton;M. Bernardi;M. R. Blanton

  • 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

  • Sloan digital sky survey: Early data release

    Chris Stoughton;Robert H. Lupton;Mariangela Bernardi;Michael R. Blanton;Michael R. Blanton

  • 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

  • The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • 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 Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • 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

  • Composite Quasar Spectra From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Daniel E. Vanden Berk

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University
Daniel J. Eisenstein
Daniel J. Eisenstein Harvard University
Michael A. Strauss
Michael A. Strauss University of Oklahoma
James E. Gunn
James E. Gunn Princeton University
Adam D. Myers
Adam D. Myers University of Wyoming
Robert H. Lupton
Robert H. Lupton Princeton University
Robert C. Nichol
Robert C. Nichol University of Surrey
Donald G. York
Donald G. York University of Chicago
Kyle S. Dawson
Kyle S. Dawson University of Utah
Michael R. Blanton
Michael R. Blanton New York University

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