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Branimir Sesar
Researcher at University of Washington
Publications - 24
Citations - 12488
Branimir Sesar is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Stars. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 24 publications receiving 11947 citations. Previous affiliations of Branimir Sesar include California Institute of Technology.
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The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Kevork N. Abazajian,Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy,Marcel A. Agüeros,S. Allam,S. Allam,Carlos Allende Prieto,Deokkeun An,Deokkeun An,K. S. J. Anderson,Scott F. Anderson,James Annis,Neta A. Bahcall,Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones,J. C. Barentine,Bruce A. Bassett,Andrew C. Becker,Timothy C. Beers,Eric F. Bell,Vasily Belokurov,Andreas A. Berlind,E. Berman,Mariangela Bernardi,Steven J. Bickerton,Dmitry Bizyaev,John P. Blakeslee,Michael R. Blanton,John J. Bochanski,John J. Bochanski,William N. Boroski,Howard Brewington,Jarle Brinchmann,Jarle Brinchmann,Jon Brinkmann,Robert J. Brunner,Tams Budavri,Larry N. Carey,Samuel Carliles,Michael A. Carr,Francisco J. Castander,D. Cinabro,Andrew J. Connolly,I. Csabai,Carlos E. Cunha,Paul C. Czarapata,James R. A. Davenport,Ernst De Haas,B. Dilday,B. Dilday,Mamoru Doi,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Michael L. Evans,Nick Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Scott D. Friedman,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,Masataka Fukugita,Boris T. Gänsicke,Evalyn Gates,Bruce Gillespie,Gerry Gilmore,Belinda Gonzalez,Carlos F. Gonzalez,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,Zsuzsanna Gyory,Patrick B. Hall,Paul Harding,Frederick H. Harris,Michael Harvanek,Suzanne L. Hawley,Jeffrey J. E. Hayes,Timothy M. Heckman,John S. Hendry,Gregory S. Hennessy,Robert B. Hindsley,Joshua Hoblitt,Craig J. Hogan,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,J. B. Hyde,Shin-Ichi Ichikawa,Takashi Ichikawa,Myungshin Im,Eljko Ivezić,Sebastian Jester,Linhua Jiang,Jennifer A. Johnson,Anders M. Jorgensen,Mario Juric,Stephen M. Kent,Richard Kessler,S. J. Kleinman,Gillian R. Knapp,Kohki Konishi,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Jurek Krzesinski,Jurek Krzesinski,Nikolay Kuropatkin,Hubert Lampeitl,Svetlana Lebedeva,Myung Gyoon Lee,Young Sun Lee,R. French Leger,Sébastien Lépine,Nolan Li,Marcos Lima,Marcos Lima,Huan Lin,Dan Long,Craig P. Loomis,Jon Loveday,Robert H. Lupton,E. A. Magnier,Olena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Rachel Mandelbaum,Bruce Margon,John Marriner,David Martínez-Delgado,Takahiko Matsubara,P. M. McGehee,Timothy A. McKay,Avery Meiksin,Heather L. Morrison,Fergal Mullally,Jeffrey A. Munn,Tara Murphy,Tara Murphy,Thomas Nash,Ada Nebot,Eric H. Neilsen,Heidi Jo Newberg,Peter R. Newman,Robert C. Nichol,T. Nicinski,Maria Nieto-Santisteban,Atsuko Nitta,Sadanori Okamura,Daniel Oravetz,Jeremiah P. Ostriker,Russell Owen,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Kaike Pan,Changbom Park,George Pauls,John Peoples,Will J. Percival,Jeffrey R. Pier,Adrian Pope,Dimitri Pourbaix,Dimitri Pourbaix,Paul A. Price,Norbert Purger,Thomas R. Quinn,M. Jordan Raddick,Paola Re Fiorentin,Paola Re Fiorentin,Gordon T. Richards,Michael Richmond,Adam G. Riess,Hans-Walter Rix,Constance M. Rockosi,Masao Sako,Masao Sako,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,R. D. Scholz,Matthias R. Schreiber,Axel Schwope,Uroš Seljak,Uroš Seljak,Uroš Seljak,Branimir Sesar,Erin Sheldon,Erin Sheldon,K. Shimasaku,Valena C. Sibley,A. Simmons,Thirupathi Sivarani,Thirupathi Sivarani,J. Allyn Smith,Martin C. Smith,Vernesa Smolić,Stephanie A. Snedden,Albert Stebbins,Matthias Steinmetz,Chris Stoughton,Michael A. Strauss,Mark SubbaRao,Mark SubbaRao,Yasushi Suto,Alexander S. Szalay,Istvn Szapudi,Paula Szkody,Masayuki Tanaka,Max Tegmark,Luis Teodoro,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Christy Tremonti,Douglas L. Tucker,A. Uomoto,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Jan Vandenberg,S. Vidrih,Michael S. Vogeley,Wolfgang Voges,Nicole P. Vogt,Yogesh Wadadekar,Yogesh Wadadekar,Shannon Watters,David H. Weinberg,Andrew A. West,Simon D. M. White,B. C. Wilhite,Alainna C. Wonders,Brian Yanny,D. R. Yocum,Donald G. York,Idit Zehavi,Stefano Zibetti,Daniel B. Zucker +223 more
TL;DR: A series of improvements to the spectroscopic reductions are described, including better flat fielding and improved wavelength calibration at the blue end, better processing of objects with extremely strong narrow emission lines, and an improved determination of stellar metallicities.
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The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy,Marcel A. Agüeros,S. Allam,S. Allam,Carlos Allende Prieto,K. S. J. Anderson,Scott F. Anderson,James Annis,Neta A. Bahcall,Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones,Ivan K. Baldry,Ivan K. Baldry,John C. Barentine,Bruce A. Bassett,Andrew C. Becker,Timothy C. Beers,Eric F. Bell,Andreas A. Berlind,Mariangela Bernardi,Michael R. Blanton,John J. Bochanski,William N. Boroski,Jarle Brinchmann,J. Brinkmann,Robert J. Brunner,Tamás Budavári,Samuel Carliles,Michael A. Carr,Francisco J. Castander,D. Cinabro,Richard J. Cool,Kevin R. Covey,István Csabai,István Csabai,Carlos E. Cunha,James R. A. Davenport,Ben Dilday,Mamoru Doi,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Douglas P. Finkbeiner,Scott D. Friedman,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,Masataka Fukugita,Boris T. Gänsicke,Evalyn Gates,Bruce Gillespie,Karl Glazebrook,Jim Gray,Eva K. Grebel,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,Vijay K. Gurbani,Vijay K. Gurbani,Patrick B. Hall,Paul Harding,Michael Harvanek,Suzanne L. Hawley,Jeffrey J. E. Hayes,Timothy M. Heckman,John S. Hendry,Robert B. Hindsley,Christopher M. Hirata,Craig J. Hogan,David W. Hogg,J. B. Hyde,Shin-Ichi Ichikawa,Željko Ivezić,Sebastian Jester,Jennifer A. Johnson,Anders M. Jorgensen,Mario Juric,Stephen M. Kent,Richard Kessler,S. J. Kleinman,Gillian R. Knapp,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Jurek Krzesinski,Jurek Krzesinski,Nikolay Kuropatkin,D. Q. Lamb,Hubert Lampeitl,Svetlana Lebedeva,Young Sun Lee,R. French Leger,Sébastien Lépine,Marcos Lima,Huan Lin,Dan Long,Craig P. Loomis,Jon Loveday,Robert H. Lupton,Olena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Rachel Mandelbaum,Bruce Margon,John Marriner,David Martinez-Delgado,Takahiko Matsubara,P. M. McGehee,Timothy A. McKay,Avery Meiksin,Heather L. Morrison,Jeffrey A. Munn,Reiko Nakajima,Eric H. Neilsen,Heidi Jo Newberg,Robert C. Nichol,T. Nicinski,Maria Nieto-Santisteban,Atsuko Nitta,Sadanori Okamura,Russell Owen,Hiroaki Oyaizu,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Kaike Pan,Changbom Park,John Peoples,Jeffrey R. Pier,Adrian Pope,Norbert Purger,M. Jordan Raddick,Paola Re Fiorentin,Gordon T. Richards,Michael Richmond,Adam G. Riess,Hans-Walter Rix,Constance M. Rockosi,Masao Sako,Masao Sako,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,Matthias R. Schreiber,Axel Schwope,Uroš Seljak,Uroš Seljak,Branimir Sesar,Erin Sheldon,K. Shimasaku,Thirupathi Sivarani,J. Allyn Smith,Stephanie A. Snedden,Matthias Steinmetz,Michael A. Strauss,Mark SubbaRao,Mark SubbaRao,Yasushi Suto,Alexander S. Szalay,István Szapudi,Paula Szkody,Max Tegmark,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Christy A. Tremonti,Douglas L. Tucker,A. Uomoto,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Jan Vandenberg,S. Vidrih,Michael S. Vogeley,Wolfgang Voges,Nicole P. Vogt,Yogesh Wadadekar,David H. Weinberg,Andrew A. West,Simon D. M. White,Brian C. Wilhite,Brian Yanny,D. R. Yocum,Donald G. York,Idit Zehavi,Daniel B. Zucker +173 more
TL;DR: The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDS) as discussed by the authors contains images and parameters of roughly 287 million objects over 9583 deg(2), including scans over a large range of Galactic latitudes and longitudes.
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The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS. I. Stellar Number Density Distribution
Mario Juric,Mario Juric,Željko Ivezić,Alyson Brooks,Robert H. Lupton,David J. Schlegel,David J. Schlegel,Douglas P. Finkbeiner,Douglas P. Finkbeiner,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nicholas A. Bond,Branimir Sesar,Constance M. Rockosi,Constance M. Rockosi,Gillian R. Knapp,James E. Gunn,Takahiro Sumi,Takahiro Sumi,Donald P. Schneider,J. C. Barentine,Howard Brewington,J. Brinkmann,Masataka Fukugita,Michael Harvanek,S. J. Kleinman,Jurek Krzesinski,Jurek Krzesinski,Dan Long,Eric H. Neilsen,Atsuko Nitta,Stephanie A. Snedden,Donald G. York +32 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the photometric parallax method to estimate the distances to ~48 million stars detected by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and map their three-dimensional number density distribution in the Galaxy.
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The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS. II. Stellar Metallicity
Željko Ivezić,Branimir Sesar,Mario Juric,Nicholas A. Bond,Julianne J. Dalcanton,Constance M. Rockosi,Brian Yanny,Heidi Jo Newberg,Timothy C. Beers,Carlos Allende Prieto,R. Wilhelm,Young Sun Lee,Thirupathi Sivarani,John E. Norris,Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones,Paola Re Fiorentin,Paola Re Fiorentin,David J. Schlegel,Alan Uomoto,Robert H. Lupton,Gillian R. Knapp,James E. Gunn,Kevin R. Covey,J. Allyn Smith,G. Miknaitis,Mamoru Doi,Masayuki Tanaka,Masataka Fukugita,Steve Kent,Douglas P. Finkbeiner,Jeffrey A. Munn,Jeffrey R. Pier,Thomas R. Quinn,Suzanne L. Hawley,Scott F. Anderson,Furea Kiuchi,Alexander Chen,James Bushong,Harkirat Sohi,Daryl Haggard,Amy Kimball,J. C. Barentine,Howard Brewington,Mike Harvanek,S. J. Kleinman,Jurek Krzesinski,Dan Long,Atsuko Nitta,Stephanie A. Snedden,Brian C. Lee,Hugh C. Harris,Jonathan Brinkmann,Donald P. Schneider,Donald G. York +53 more
TL;DR: In this article, a polynomial model for estimating the metallicity and rotational velocity distributions of SDSS spectra was proposed, which is similar to random and systematic uncertainties in spectroscopic determinations.
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Modeling the time variability of sdss stripe 82 quasars as a damped random walk
Chelsea L. MacLeod,Željko Ivezić,Christopher S. Kochanek,S. Kozłowski,Brandon C. Kelly,E. Bullock,Amy Kimball,Branimir Sesar,David Westman,David Westman,K. Brooks,Robert R. Gibson,Andrew C. Becker,W. H. de Vries +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors model the time variability of ~9000 spectroscopically confirmed quasars in SDSS Stripe 82 as a damped random walk (DRW) and find that τ increases with increasing wavelength with a power-law index of 0.21 ± 0.07.