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Citations
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523
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Physics in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Francisco Prada is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and has a significant body of work primarily in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research extensively covers subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their research topics focus on several areas including:

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

Francisco Prada has contributed articles to a variety of scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

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

Recent notable publications include:

  • The Uchuu simulations: Data Release 1 and dark matter halo concentrations, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The DESI Bright Galaxy Survey: Final Target Selection, Design, and Validation, 2023, The Astronomical Journal
  • Target Selection and Validation of DESI Luminous Red Galaxies, 2023, The Astronomical Journal
  • The Spectroscopic Data Processing Pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, 2023, The Astronomical Journal
  • The clustering of DESI-like luminous red galaxies using photometric redshifts, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Throughout their career, Francisco Prada has collaborated frequently with a set of coauthors including:

  • G. Tarlé
  • Satya Gontcho A Gontcho
  • Axel de la Macorra
  • S. P. Ahlen
  • Aaron Meisner

Best Publications

  • WHERE ARE THE MISSING GALACTIC SATELLITES

    Anatoly A. Klypin;Andrey V. Kravtsov;Octavio Valenzuela;Francisco Prada

  • 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

  • A Survey of z>5.8 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey I: Discovery of Three New Quasars and the Spatial Density of Luminous Quasars at z~6

    Xiaohui Fan;Vijay K. Narayanan;Robert H. Lupton;Michael A. Strauss

  • 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

  • A Survey of z > 5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. II. Discovery of Three Additional Quasars at z > 6

    Xiaohui Fan;Xiaohui Fan;Michael A. Strauss;Donald P. Schneider;Robert H. Becker;Robert H. Becker

  • A Survey of z > 5.8 quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey I: Discovery of three new quasars and the spatial density of luminous quasars at z ~ 6

    Xiaohui Fan;Vijay K. Narayanan;Robert H. Lupton;Michael Abram Strauss

Frequent Co-Authors

E. Lorenz
E. Lorenz Max Planck Society
Diego F. Torres
Diego F. Torres Institute of Space Sciences
Mariano Moles
Mariano Moles Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón
Stefano Covino
Stefano Covino National Institute for Astrophysics
Fabrizio Tavecchio
Fabrizio Tavecchio National Institute for Astrophysics
Reiko Orito
Reiko Orito University of Tokushima
Artemio Herrero
Artemio Herrero University of La Laguna
Michael Backes
Michael Backes University of Oxford
Will J. Percival
Will J. Percival University of Waterloo
Pierre Colin
Pierre Colin Max Planck Society

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