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W. M. Wood-Vasey is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their work predominantly focuses on Astronomy and Astrophysics, with contributions also spanning Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, as well as Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Wood-Vasey's research covers multiple main topics including Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors, and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, most frequently in arXiv (Cornell University) with 11 publications. Other notable publication venues include The Astrophysical Journal with 5 publications, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society with 4, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series with 1, and Journal of Affective Disorders with 1.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Wood-Vasey are the following:

  • "Pan-STARRS Pixel Processing: Detrending, Warping, Stacking" (2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series)
  • "Cosmological Results from the RAISIN Survey: Using Type Ia Supernovae in the Near Infrared as a Novel Path to Measure the Dark Energy Equation of State" (2022, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • "Are Type Ia Supernovae in Rest-frame H Brighter in More Massive Galaxies?" (2021, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • "SNIa Cosmology Analysis Results from Simulated LSST Images: From Difference Imaging to Constraints on Dark Energy" (2022, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • "A Spitzer survey of Deep Drilling Fields to be targeted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time" (2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)

Wood-Vasey collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • C. W. Walter
  • D. Scolnic
  • Katrin Heitmann
  • L. Galbany
  • Rachel Mandelbaum

Best Publications

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 Complete Light-curve Sample of Spectroscopically Confirmed SNe Ia from Pan-STARRS1 and Cosmological Constraints from the Combined Pantheon Sample

    D. M. Scolnic;D. O. Jones;A. Rest;A. Rest;Y. C. Pan

  • New Constraints on $\Omega_M$, $\Omega_\Lambda$, and w from an Independent Set of Eleven High-Redshift Supernovae Observed with HST

    R. A. Knop;G. Aldering;R. Amanullah;P. Astier

  • New Constraints on ΩM, ΩΛ, and w from an Independent Set of 11 High-Redshift Supernovae Observed with the Hubble Space Telescope*

    R. A. Knop;R. A. Knop;G. Aldering;G. Aldering;R. Amanullah;P. Astier

  • 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

  • Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old and Combined Supernova Datasets

    M.Kowalski;D.Rubin;G.Aldering;R.J.Agostinho

  • Spectra and Light Curves of Six Type Ia Supernovae at 0.511 < z < 1.12 and the Union2 Compilation

    R. Amanullah;C. Lidman;D. Rubin;G. Aldering

  • Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old, and Combined Supernova Data Sets

    M. Kowalski;D. Rubin;D. Rubin;G. Aldering;R. J. Agostinho

  • THE BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF SDSS-III

    Kyle S. Dawson;David J. Schlegel;Christopher P. Ahn;Scott F. Anderson

  • The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Christopher P. Ahn;Rachael Alexandroff;Carlos Allende Prieto;Friedrich Anders

  • The ninth data release of the sloan digital sky survey: First spectroscopic data from the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey

    Christopher P. Ahn;Rachael Alexandroff;Carlos Allende Prieto;Scott F. Anderson

  • The Complete Light-curve Sample of Spectroscopically Confirmed Type Ia Supernovae from Pan-STARRS1 and Cosmological Constraints from The Combined Pantheon Sample

    D. M. Scolnic;D. O. Jones;A. Rest;Y. C. Pan

  • SPECTRA AND HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE LIGHT CURVES OF SIX TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE AT 0.511 <z< 1.12 AND THE UNION2 COMPILATION ∗

    Rahman Amanullah;Chris Lidman;D. Rubin;D. Rubin;G. Aldering

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies and the Distant Universe

    Michael R. Blanton;Matthew A. Bershady;Bela Abolfathi;Franco D. Albareti;Franco D. Albareti

  • The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys

    K. C. Chambers;E. A. Magnier;N. Metcalfe;H. A. Flewelling

  • The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

    Christopher P. Ahn;Rachael Alexandroff;Carlos Allende Prieto

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam G. Riess
Adam G. Riess Johns Hopkins University
Peter Nugent
Peter Nugent Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Christopher W. Stubbs
Christopher W. Stubbs Harvard University
Ryan J. Foley
Ryan J. Foley University of California, Santa Cruz
Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dmitry Bizyaev
Dmitry Bizyaev New Mexico State University
Saurabh Jha
Saurabh Jha Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Robert P. Kirshner
Robert P. Kirshner Harvard University
P. A. Price
P. A. Price University of Hawaii at Manoa
Thomas Matheson
Thomas Matheson National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Lab

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