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Joseph F. Hennawi is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their primary research area is in Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their subfields of study include Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Applied Mathematics.

The main topics of Joseph F. Hennawi's research encompass:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Scientific Research and Discoveries

The scientist has published extensively across several frequent venues, including:

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

Notable recent papers by Joseph F. Hennawi include:

  • "PypeIt: The Python Spectroscopic Data Reduction Pipeline" (2020), published in The Journal of Open Source Software
  • "Hydrogen reionization ends by z = 5.3: Lyman-α optical depth measured by the XQR-30 sample" (2022), published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "Probing Early Supermassive Black Hole Growth and Quasar Evolution with Near-infrared Spectroscopy of 37 Reionization-era Quasars at 6.3 ≤ z ≤ 7.64" (2021), published in The Astrophysical Journal
  • "pypeit/PypeIt: Release 1.0.0" (2020), published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "The X-SHOOTER/ALMA Sample of Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization. I. NIR Spectral Modeling, Iron Enrichment, and Broad Emission Line Properties" (2020), published in The Astrophysical Journal

Joseph F. Hennawi's research collaborations are reflected in frequent co-authorship with several scientists, including:

  • Frederick B. Davies
  • Feige Wang
  • Anna-Christina Eilers
  • Jinyi Yang
  • Eduardo Bañados

Best Publications

  • 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

  • An 800-million-solar-mass black hole in a significantly neutral Universe at a redshift of 7.5

    Eduardo Bañados;Bram P. Venemans;Chiara Mazzucchelli;Emanuele P. Farina

  • Near - infrared photometry and spectroscopy of L and T dwarfs: The Effects of temperature, clouds, and gravity

    Gillian R. Knapp;Sandy K. Leggett;Xiaohui Fan;Mark S. Marley

  • Clustering of High Redshift ($z\ge 2.9$) Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Yue Shen;Michael A. Strauss;Masamune Oguri;Joseph F. Hennawi

  • A Survey of z>5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III: Discovery of Five Additional Quasars

    Xiaohui Fan;Joseph F. Hennawi;Gordon T. Richards;Michael A. Strauss

  • A Survey of z > 5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. IV. Discovery of Seven Additional Quasars* **

    Xiaohui Fan;Xiaohui Fan;Michael A. Strauss;Gordon T. Richards;Gordon T. Richards;Joseph F. Hennawi

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: ninth data release

    Isabelle Pâris;Patrick Petitjean;Eric Aubourg;Stephen Bailey

  • The SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Quasar Target Selection for Data Release Nine

    Nicholas P. Ross;Adam D. Myers;Erin S. Sheldon;Christophe Yèche

  • Clustering of High Redshift (Z >= 2.9) Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Yue Shen;Michael Abram Strauss;Masamune Oguri;Masamune Oguri;Joseph F. Hennawi

  • Binary Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Evidence for Excess Clustering on Small Scales

    Joseph F. Hennawi;Michael A. Strauss;Masamune Oguri;Naohisa Inada

  • A cosmic web filament revealed in Lyman-α emission around a luminous high-redshift quasar

    Sebastiano Cantalupo;Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia;J. Xavier Prochaska;J. Xavier Prochaska;Joseph F. Hennawi

  • A Luminous Quasar at Redshift 7.642

    Feige Wang;Jinyi Yang;Xiaohui Fan;Joseph F. Hennawi;Joseph F. Hennawi

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: ninth data release

    I. Pĝris;I. Pĝris;P. Petitjean;É Aubourg;S. Bailey

  • Binary Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Evidence for Excess Clustering on Small Scales

    Joseph F. Hennawi;Joseph F. Hennawi;Michael Abram Strauss;Masamune Oguri;Masamune Oguri;Naohisa Inada

  • Physical Properties of 15 Quasars at z ≳ 6.5

    C. Mazzucchelli;Eduardo Bañados;Eduardo Bañados;B. P. Venemans;R. Decarli

  • The clustering of intermediate redshift quasars as measured by the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

    Martin White;Adam D. Myers;Nicholas P. Ross;David J. Schlegel

  • THE SDSS-III BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY: QUASAR TARGET SELECTION FOR DATA RELEASE NINE

    Nicholas P. Ross;Nicholas P. Ross;Adam D. Myers;Adam D. Myers;Erin S. Sheldon;Christophe Yèche

  • Quantitative constraints on the reionization history from the igm damping wing signature in two quasars at z > 7

    Frederick B. Davies;Joseph F. Hennawi;Joseph F. Hennawi;Eduardo Bañados;Zarija Lukić

  • Characterizing the cluster lens population

    Joseph F. Hennawi;Joseph F. Hennawi;Neal Krishnakant Dalal;Paul Bode;Jeremiah P. Ostriker

  • Physical properties of 15 quasars at $z\gtrsim 6.5$

    C. Mazzucchelli;E. Bañados;B. P. Venemans;R. Decarli

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Xavier Prochaska
J. Xavier Prochaska University of California, Santa Cruz
Xiaohui Fan
Xiaohui Fan University of Arizona
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University
Masamune Oguri
Masamune Oguri Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
Fabian Walter
Fabian Walter Max Planck Society
Adam D. Myers
Adam D. Myers University of Wyoming
Bram Venemans
Bram Venemans Max Planck Society
Michael A. Strauss
Michael A. Strauss University of Oklahoma
Gordon T. Richards
Gordon T. Richards Drexel University
David J. Schlegel
David J. Schlegel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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