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  • 1995 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Michael A. Strauss is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States and specializes primarily in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans various subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Across these areas, Strauss has contributed extensively to the scientific literature.

Their recent publications include work on observational cosmology and astrophysical surveys. Notable papers are:

  • Third data release of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (2021, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan)
  • Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 results: Cosmology from cosmic shear power spectra (2023, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.)
  • Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 results: Cosmology from cosmic shear two-point correlation functions (2023, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.)
  • Optimization of the Observing Cadence for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: A Pioneering Process of Community-focused Experimental Design (2021, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series)
  • Detection of stellar light from quasar host galaxies at redshifts above 6 (2023, Nature)

Strauss's main research topics cover areas such as:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies

Frequent collaborators include the following researchers:

  • Yoshiki Toba
  • Masafusa Onoue
  • Masatoshi Imanishi
  • Yoshiki Matsuoka
  • K. Iwasawa

The most common publication venues for Strauss's work are:

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

In addition to research articles, Strauss has published a book titled A Brief Welcome to the Universe with Princeton University Press in 2021.

Michael A. Strauss was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1995.

Best Publications

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical summary

    Donald G. York;J. Adelman;John E. Anderson;Scott F. Anderson

  • The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A.A. Abdelalim

  • 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

  • LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

    Željko Ivezić;Steven M. Kahn;J. Anthony Tyson;Bob Abel

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release

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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • Performance of the ATLAS Trigger System in 2010

    G. Aad;G. Aad;B. Abbott;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Expected performance of the ATLAS experiment - detector, trigger and physics

    G. Aad;E. Abat;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • 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

  • 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

  • Topological cell clustering in the ATLAS calorimeters and its performance in LHC Run 1

    Georges Aad;Alexander Kupco;Peter Davison;Samuel Webb

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

    Hiroaki Aihara;Carlos Allende Prieto;Deokkeun An

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaushik De
Kaushik De The University of Texas at Arlington
Tobias Golling
Tobias Golling University of Geneva

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