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Overview

Zeljko Ivezic is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and specializes in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research encompasses various subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Economics and Econometrics. The core topics addressed in their work include stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, astronomy and astrophysical research, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, astro and planetary science, galaxies: formation, evolution, phenomena, astronomical observations and instrumentation, and astrophysics and star formation studies.

The scientist's recent papers include significant contributions such as:

  • 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)
  • Improving Damped Random Walk Parameters for SDSS Stripe 82 Quasars with Pan-STARRS1 (2021, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • Mitigation of LEO Satellite Brightness and Trail Effects on the Rubin Observatory LSST (2020, The Astronomical Journal)
  • Photometric cross-calibration of the SDSS Stripe 82 Standard Stars catalogue with Gaia EDR3, and comparison with Pan-STARRS1, DES, CFIS, and GALEX catalogues (2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
  • Simulating the Legacy Survey of Space and Time Stellar Content with TRILEGAL (2022, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series)

The researcher frequently collaborates with other scientists. The most frequent co-authors include:

  • Peter Yoachim (10 publications)
  • Meredith L. Rawls (6 publications)
  • Mario Jurić (5 publications)
  • Lynne Jones (4 publications)
  • Eric C. Bellm (4 publications)

Publication venues where this scientist has contributed most often include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 10 publications
  • The Astronomical Journal with 5 publications
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society with 4 publications
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters with 4 publications
  • Icarus with 3 publications

Best Publications

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

    D. G. York

  • 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

  • The Host Galaxies of AGN

    Guinevere Kauffmann;Timothy M. Heckman;Christy Tremonti;Jarle Brinchmann

  • 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

  • The host galaxies of active galactic nuclei

    Guinevere Kauffmann;Timothy M. Heckman;Christy Tremonti;Jarle Brinchmann

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release

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

  • Stellar Masses and Star Formation Histories for 10^5 Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Guinevere Kauffmann;Timothy M. Heckman;Simon D.M. White;Stephane Charlot

  • Sloan digital sky survey: Early data release

    Chris Stoughton;Robert H. Lupton;Mariangela Bernardi;Michael R. Blanton;Michael R. Blanton

  • 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

  • Stellar masses and star formation histories for 105 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Guinevere Kauffmann;Timothy M. Heckman;Simon D. M. White;Stéphane Charlot;Stéphane Charlot

  • 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

  • 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 Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric Camera

    J. E. Gunn;M. Carr;C. Rockosi;C. Rockosi;M. Sekiguchi;M. Sekiguchi

  • 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

  • Color Separation of Galaxy Types in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data

    Iskra Strateva;Zeljko Ivezic;Gillian R. Knapp;Vijay K. Narayanan

  • Color Separation of Galaxy Types in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data

    Iskra Strateva;Željko Ivezić;Gillian R. Knapp;Vijay K. Narayanan

  • NYU-VAGC: a galaxy catalog based on new public surveys

    Michael R. Blanton;David J. Schlegel;Michael A. Strauss;J. Brinkmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert H. Lupton
Robert H. Lupton Princeton University
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University
Donald G. York
Donald G. York University of Chicago
Gillian R. Knapp
Gillian R. Knapp Princeton University
István Csabai
István Csabai Eötvös Loránd University
Robert C. Nichol
Robert C. Nichol University of Surrey
James E. Gunn
James E. Gunn Princeton University
Gordon T. Richards
Gordon T. Richards Drexel University
Mario Jurić
Mario Jurić University of Washington
David J. Schlegel
David J. Schlegel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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