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  • 1967 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Jay Anderson is affiliated with the Space Telescope Science Institute in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a total of 254 publications. Their research spans several subfields, including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computational Mechanics, and General Health Professions.

The primary topics of Anderson's research include stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, astronomy and astrophysical research, astrophysics and star formation studies, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, astrophysical phenomena and observations, adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, and astro and planetary science.

Anderson has been involved in research published in a variety of scientific venues, with frequent contributions to arXiv (Cornell University), The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Nature.

Their recent papers include:

  • The James Webb Space Telescope Mission, 2023, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  • A highly magnified star at redshift 6.2, 2022, Nature
  • The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. XXIII. Proper-motion Catalogs and Internal Kinematics, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
  • JWST-TST DREAMS: Quartz Clouds in the Atmosphere of WASP-17b, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Anderson has collaborated frequently with several scientists, including Andrea Bellini, Mattia Libralato, L. R. Bedin, Andrew A. Cole, and Roeland P. van der Marel, with collaboration counts ranging from 21 to 36 publications each.

Among awards, Jay Anderson is a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, recognized in 1967.

Best Publications

  • Metallicities on the Double Main Sequence of omega Centauri Imply Large Helium Enhancement

    Giampaolo Piotto;Sandro Villanova;Luigi R. Bedin;Raffaele Gratton

  • ω Centauri: The Population Puzzle Goes Deeper

    Luigi R. Bedin;Giampaolo Piotto;Jay Anderson;Santi Cassisi

  • The occurrence and mass distribution of close-in super-Earths, Neptunes, and Jupiters.

    Andrew W. Howard;Geoffrey W. Marcy;John Asher Johnson;Debra A. Fischer

  • The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. I. Overview of the Project and Detection of Multiple Stellar Populations

    G. Piotto;G. Piotto;A. P. Milone;L. R. Bedin;J. Anderson

  • Third-Epoch Magellanic Cloud Proper Motions I: HST/WFC3 data and Orbit Implications

    Nitya Kallivayalil;Roeland P. van der Marel;Gurtina Besla;Jay Anderson

  • The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. I. Overview and Clusters without Previous Hubble Space Telescope Photometry

    Ata Sarajedini;Luigi R. Bedin;Brian Chaboyer;Aaron Dotter

  • The Exoplanet Orbit Database

    J. T. Wright;O. Fakhouri;G. W. Marcy;E. Han

  • An ACS Survey of Globular Clusters V: Star Catalog for Each Cluster

    Jay Anderson;Ata Sarajedini;Luigi R. Bedin;Ivan R. King

  • Metallicities on the double main sequence of ω centauri imply large helium enhancement

    Giampaolo Piotto;Sandro Villanova;Luigi R. Bedin;Luigi R. Bedin;Raffaele Gratton

  • THIRD-EPOCH MAGELLANIC CLOUD PROPER MOTIONS. I. HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE/WFC3 DATA AND ORBIT IMPLICATIONS

    Nitya Kallivayalil;Nitya Kallivayalil;Roeland P. van der Marel;Gurtina Besla;Jay Anderson

  • The ACS survey of galactic globular clusters. VII. Relative ages

    Antonio Marín-Franch;Antonio Marín-Franch;Antonio Aparicio;Giampaolo Piotto;Alfred Rosenberg

  • New Parallaxes of Galactic Cepheids from Spatially Scanning the Hubble Space Telescope: Implications for the Hubble Constant

    Adam G. Riess;Adam G. Riess;Stefano Casertano;Stefano Casertano;Wenlong Yuan;Wenlong Yuan;Lucas Macri

  • THE ACS SURVEY OF GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS. IX. HORIZONTAL BRANCH MORPHOLOGY AND THE SECOND PARAMETER PHENOMENON

    Aaron Dotter;Ata Sarajedini;Jay Anderson;Antonio Aparicio

  • Toward High‐Precision Astrometry with WFPC2. I. Deriving an Accurate Point‐Spread Function

    Jay Anderson;Ivan R. King

  • The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic globular clusters – IX. The Atlas of multiple stellar populations

    A. P. Milone;G. Piotto;A. Renzini;A. F. Marino

  • Multiple stellar populations in Magellanic Clouds clusters. I. An ordinary feature for intermediate age globulars in the LMC

    A. P. Milone;L. R. Bedin;G. Piotto;J. Anderson

  • The Acs Survey of Globular Clusters. V. Generating a Comprehensive Star Catalog for each Cluster

    Jay Anderson;Ata Sarajedini;Luigi R. Bedin;Ivan R. King

  • The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. I. Overview of the Project and Detection of Multiple Stellar Populations

    Giampaolo Piotto;Giampaolo Piotto;Antonino Milone;Luigi Bedin;J. Anderson

  • The ACS survey of Galactic globular clusters. XII. Photometric binaries along the main sequence

    A. P. Milone;A. P. Milone;A. P. Milone;G. Piotto;G. Piotto;L. R. Bedin;L. R. Bedin;A. Aparicio;A. Aparicio

  • The Frontier Fields: Survey Design and Initial Results

    J. M. Lotz;A. Koekemoer;D. Coe;N. Grogin

Frequent Co-Authors

Roeland P. van der Marel
Roeland P. van der Marel Space Telescope Science Institute
Antonino Milone
Antonino Milone University of Padua
Alvio Renzini
Alvio Renzini National Institute for Astrophysics
Antonio Aparicio
Antonio Aparicio University of La Laguna
David P. Bennett
David P. Bennett Goddard Space Flight Center
Howard E. Bond
Howard E. Bond Pennsylvania State University
Manuela Zoccali
Manuela Zoccali Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Maurizio Salaris
Maurizio Salaris Liverpool John Moores University
Ata Sarajedini
Ata Sarajedini University of Florida
Jeff A. Valenti
Jeff A. Valenti Space Telescope Science Institute

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