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Overview

Gillian R. Knapp is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and specializes in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans a total of 31 publications, with a primary focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, and Geophysics as subfields. The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies; Astro and Planetary Science; Astronomy and Astrophysical Research; Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations; and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

Their recent publications include studies published between 2020 and 2022, appearing in professional peer-reviewed journals. Significant papers include:

  • Direct-imaging Discovery and Dynamical Mass of a Substellar Companion Orbiting an Accelerating Hyades Sun-like Star with SCExAO/CHARIS, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • SEGUE-2: Old Milky Way Stars Near and Far, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • SCExAO/CHARIS High-contrast Imaging of Spirals and Darkening Features in the HD 34700 A Protoplanetary Disk, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal
  • SCExAO/CHARIS Near-infrared Integral Field Spectroscopy of the HD 15115 Debris Disk, 2020, The Astronomical Journal
  • Multiband Imaging of the HD 36546 Debris Disk: A Refined View from SCExAO/CHARIS, 2021, The Astronomical Journal

Common venues for their publications include:

  • The Astronomical Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Frequent collaborators with whom Gillian R. Knapp has published multiple works, typically with ten or more joint papers, include:

  • Thayne Currie
  • Timothy D. Brandt
  • Olivier Guyon
  • Nemanja Jovanović
  • Michael W. McElwain

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release

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

  • Structural impact

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  • 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 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    James E. Gunn;Walter A. Siegmund;Edward J. Mannery;Russell E. Owen

  • 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 THREE-DIMENSIONAL POWER SPECTRUM OF GALAXIES FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY

    Max Tegmark;Michael R. Blanton;Michael A. Strauss;Fiona Hoyle

  • Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Main Galaxy Sample

    Michael A. Strauss;David H. Weinberg;Robert H. Lupton;Vijay K. Narayanan

  • Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 Galaxy Sample

    Will J. Percival;Beth A. Reid;Beth A. Reid;Beth A. Reid;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Neta Bahcall

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric Camera

    J. E. Gunn;M. Carr;C. Rockosi;C. Rockosi;M. Sekiguchi;M. Sekiguchi

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

    Hiroaki Aihara;Carlos Allende Prieto;Deokkeun An

  • Color Separation of Galaxy Types in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data

    Iskra Strateva;Zeljko Ivezic;Gillian R. Knapp;Vijay K. Narayanan

  • 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 Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: I. Stellar Number Density Distribution

    Mario Juric;Zeljko Ivezic;Alyson Brooks;Robert H. Lupton

  • Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University
James E. Gunn
James E. Gunn Princeton University
Robert H. Lupton
Robert H. Lupton Princeton University
Michael A. Strauss
Michael A. Strauss University of Oklahoma
David J. Schlegel
David J. Schlegel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Donald G. York
Donald G. York University of Chicago
Motohide Tamura
Motohide Tamura University of Tokyo
István Csabai
István Csabai Eötvös Loránd University
Masataka Fukugita
Masataka Fukugita University of Tokyo
Xiaohui Fan
Xiaohui Fan University of Arizona

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