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240
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2003 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Xiaohui Fan is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their primary research domain lies within Physics and Astronomy, with a focus that extends deeply into Astronomy and Astrophysics, where they have contributed to 412 publications. Additional subfields of study include Instrumentation, Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Building and Construction.

Their scholarly output engages several main topics across astrophysical research, including:

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

Xiaohui Fan has contributed to a wide array of scientific publications. Notable recent papers 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)
  • "Overview of the Instrumentation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument," 2022, The Astronomical Journal
  • "Hydrogen reionization ends by z = 5.3: Lyman-α optical depth measured by the XQR-30 sample," 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "Quasars and the Intergalactic Medium at Cosmic Dawn," 2023, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Jinyi Yang
  • Feige Wang
  • Eduardo Bañados
  • Fabian Walter
  • Roberto Decarli

Publication venues that Xiaohui Fan commonly contributes to include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

The scientist has received recognitions including Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2008 and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2003.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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, AND EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEMS

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

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

    Hiroaki Aihara;Carlos Allende Prieto;Deokkeun An

  • 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

  • Constraining the Evolution of the Ionizing Background and the Epoch of Reionization with z~6 Quasars II: A Sample of 19 Quasars

    Xiaohui Fan;Michael A. Strauss;Robert H. Becker;Robert H. Becker;Richard L. White

  • 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 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

  • The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Kevork Abazajian;Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam

  • Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys.

    Arjun Dey;David J. Schlegel;Dustin Lang;Robert Blum

  • SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS AND MULTIWAVELENGTH SELECTION OF TYPE 1 QUASARS

    Gordon T. Richards;Gordon T. Richards;Mark Lacy;Lisa J. Storrie-Lombardi;Patrick B. Hall

  • 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

  • LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

    Paul A. Abell;Houston Nasa;Julius Allison

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Strauss
Michael A. Strauss University of Oklahoma
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University
Fabian Walter
Fabian Walter Max Planck Society
Gordon T. Richards
Gordon T. Richards Drexel University
Linhua Jiang
Linhua Jiang Peking University
James E. Gunn
James E. Gunn Princeton University
Scott F. Anderson
Scott F. Anderson University of Washington
Bram Venemans
Bram Venemans Max Planck Society
Robert H. Lupton
Robert H. Lupton Princeton University
Patrick B. Hall
Patrick B. Hall York University

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