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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1997 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation In recognition of his many contributions in the application of particle physics to earlyuniverse cosmology

Overview

Joshua A. Frieman is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

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

Frequent publication venues for Joshua A. Frieman include:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors such as:

  • L. N. da Costa
  • J. Carretero
  • A. Carnero Rosell
  • D. Gruen
  • J. García-Bellido

Recent papers by Joshua A. Frieman include:

  • "Constraints on Dark Matter Properties from Observations of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies" (2021, Physical Review Letters)
  • "Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological constraints from cluster abundances and weak lensing" (2020, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.)
  • "STRIDES: a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408−5354" (2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
  • "The SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey" (2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series)
  • "Milky Way Satellite Census. II. Galaxy-Halo Connection Constraints Including the Impact of the Large Magellanic Cloud" (2020, The Astrophysical Journal)

Joshua A. Frieman has received recognition in the form of several fellowships including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2004)
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) (1997), with a citation noting contributions in the application of particle physics to early-universe cosmology

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Composite Quasar Spectra From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Daniel E. Vanden Berk

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

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

  • The 3D power spectrum of galaxies from the SDSS

    M Tegmark;M Blanton;M Strauss;F Hoyle

  • Composite Quasar Spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Daniel E. Vanden Berk;Gordon T. Richards;Amanda Bauer;Michael A. Strauss

  • 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

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

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

  • Improved cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the SDSS-II and SNLS supernova samples

    M. Betoule;R. Kessler;J. Guy;J. Guy;J. Mosher

  • Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe

    Joshua A. Frieman;Joshua A. Frieman;Michael S. Turner;Dragan Huterer

  • Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert A. Gruendl
Robert A. Gruendl University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marcelle Soares-Santos
Marcelle Soares-Santos Brandeis University
B. Flaugher
B. Flaugher Fermilab
K. Honscheid
K. Honscheid The Ohio State University
Robert C. Nichol
Robert C. Nichol University of Surrey
Felipe Menanteau
Felipe Menanteau University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jennifer L. Marshall
Jennifer L. Marshall Texas A&M University
Enrique Gaztanaga
Enrique Gaztanaga Spanish National Research Council
D. W. Gerdes
D. W. Gerdes University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Juan Garcia-Bellido
Juan Garcia-Bellido Autonomous University of Madrid

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