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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2009 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his leadership of and numerous contributions to deep extragalactic Xray surveys and activegalaxy studies, which have advanced understanding of the physics and evolution of accreting supermassive black holes and other cosmic Xray sources
  • 1999 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

W. N. Brandt is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and has an extensive publication record in the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their research spans several subfields, including Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Instrumentation, Computational Mechanics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their work covers a range of main topics, such as:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

Among their frequent co-authors are Donald P. Schneider, Bin Luo, F. E. Bauer, Qingling Ni, and Yongquan Xue.

W. N. Brandt's research has been published extensively in several venues, including:

  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by W. N. Brandt include:

  • The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 Data, 2022, Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
  • Fitting AGN/Galaxy X-Ray-to-radio SEDs with CIGALE and Improvement of the Code, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
  • The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS), 2022, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Intensive disc-reverberation mapping of Fairall 9: first year of Swift and LCO monitoring, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

W. N. Brandt has been recognized by multiple scientific societies and foundations. They were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

They were also honored as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2009, with a citation noting leadership and numerous contributions to deep extragalactic X-ray surveys and active galaxy studies, advancing the understanding of the physics and evolution of accreting supermassive black holes and other cosmic X-ray sources.

Earlier recognition includes being named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1999.

Best Publications

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

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

  • 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 NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPIC TELESCOPE ARRAY (NuSTAR) HIGH-ENERGY X-RAY MISSION

    Fiona A. Harrison;William W. Craig;William W. Craig;Finn E. Christensen;Charles J. Hailey

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

    Hiroaki Aihara;Carlos Allende Prieto;Deokkeun An

  • The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: Initial results from optical and near-infrared imaging

    M. Giavalisco;H. C. Ferguson;H. C. Ferguson;A. M. Koekemoer;M. Dickinson;M. Dickinson

  • THE BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF SDSS-III

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

  • The reversal of the star formation-density relation in the distant universe

    D. Elbaz;D. Elbaz;E. Daddi;E. Daddi;D. Le Borgne;D. Le Borgne;M. Dickinson

  • 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 Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog V. Seventh Data Release

    Donald P. Schneider;Gordon T. Richards;Patrick B. Hall;Michael A. Strauss

  • 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

  • Chandra X-Ray Spectroscopic Imaging of Sagittarius A* and the Central Parsec of the Galaxy

    F. K. Baganoff;Y. Maeda;M. Morris;M. W. Bautz

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog IV. Fifth Data Release

    Donald P. Schneider;Patrick B. Hall;Gordon T. Richards;Gordon T. Richards;Michael Abram Strauss

  • THE CHANDRA DEEP FIELD-SOUTH SURVEY: 4 Ms SOURCE CATALOGS

    Yongquan Xue;Bin Luo;William Nielsen Brandt;Franz E. Bauer;Franz E. Bauer

  • The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

    Romina Ahumada;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andrés Almeida;Friedrich Anders;Friedrich Anders

  • Broad line emission from iron K- and L-shell transitions in the active galaxy 1H 0707-495.

    A. C. Fabian;A. Zoghbi;R. R. Ross;P. Uttley

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: twelfth data release

    Isabelle Pâris;Patrick Petitjean;Nicholas P. Ross;Adam D. Myers

  • The X-Ray Properties of the Most Luminous Quasars From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Dennis W. Just;William Nielsen Brandt;Ohad Shemmer;Aaron Steffen

  • DEEP EXTRAGALACTIC X-RAY SURVEYS

    W. N. Brandt;G. Hasinger

  • 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

  • LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

    Paul A. Abell;Houston Nasa;Julius Allison

Frequent Co-Authors

Franz E. Bauer
Franz E. Bauer Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University
David M. Alexander
David M. Alexander Durham University
Cristian Vignali
Cristian Vignali University of Bologna
Gordon P. Garmire
Gordon P. Garmire Pennsylvania State University
Patrick B. Hall
Patrick B. Hall York University
Yue Shen
Yue Shen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xiaohui Fan
Xiaohui Fan University of Arizona
Scott F. Anderson
Scott F. Anderson University of Washington
Andrea Comastri
Andrea Comastri National Institute for Astrophysics

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