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Branimir Sesar
Researcher at Max Planck Society
Publications - 165
Citations - 13152
Branimir Sesar is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Stars & RR Lyrae variable. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 165 publications receiving 12150 citations. Previous affiliations of Branimir Sesar include University of Washington & California Institute of Technology.
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The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: I. Stellar Number Density Distribution
Mario Juric,Zeljko Ivezic,Alyson Brooks,Robert H. Lupton,David J. Schlegel,Douglas P. Finkbeiner,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nicholas A. Bond,Branimir Sesar,Constance M. Rockosi,Gillian R. Knapp,James E. Gunn,Takahiro Sumi,Donald P. Schneider,J. C. Barentine,Howard Brewington,J. Brinkmann,Masataka Fukugita,Michael Harvanek,S. J. Kleinman,Jurek Krzesinski,Dan Long,Eric H. Neilsen,Atsuko Nitta,Stephanie A. Snedden,Donald G. York +25 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the distances to ~48 million stars detected by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and map their 3D number density distribution in 100 1000deg^2 of sky towards the constellation of Virgo, at distances of ~6-20 kpc.
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The SDSS-IV extended baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: Overview and early data
Kyle S. Dawson,Jean-Paul Kneib,Will J. Percival,Shadab Alam,Franco D. Albareti,Scott F. Anderson,Eric Armengaud,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Julian E. Bautista,Andreas A. Berlind,Matthew A. Bershady,Florian Beutler,Dmitry Bizyaev,Dmitry Bizyaev,Michael R. Blanton,Michael Blomqvist,Adam S. Bolton,Jo Bovy,W. N. Brandt,Jon Brinkmann,Joel R. Brownstein,Etienne Burtin,Nicolás G. Busca,Zheng Cai,Chia-Hsun Chuang,Nicolas Clerc,Johan Comparat,Frances Cope,Rupert A. C. Croft,Irene Cruz-González,Luiz N. da Costa,M. C. Cousinou,Jeremy Darling,Axel de la Macorra,Sylvain de la Torre,Timothée Delubac,Hélion du Mas des Bourboux,Tom Dwelly,Anne Ealet,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Michael Eracleous,Stephanie Escoffier,Xiaohui Fan,Alexis Finoguenov,Andreu Font-Ribera,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Patrick Gaulme,Antonis Georgakakis,Paul J. Green,Hong Guo,Hong Guo,Julien Guy,Shirley Ho,Diana Holder,Joe Huehnerhoff,Timothy A. Hutchinson,Yipeng Jing,Eric Jullo,Vikrant Kamble,Karen Kinemuchi,D. Kirkby,Francisco-Shu Kitaura,Mark A. Klaene,Russ R. Laher,Dustin Lang,Pierre Laurent,Jean Marc Le Goff,Cheng Li,Yu Liang,Marcos Lima,Qiufan Lin,Wei-Peng Lin,Wei-Peng Lin,Yen-Ting Lin,Dan Long,Britt Lundgren,Nicholas MacDonald,Marcio A. G. Maia,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Vivek Mariappan,Cameron K. McBride,Ian D. McGreer,Brice Ménard,Brice Ménard,Andrea Merloni,Andres Meza,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Demitri Muna,Adam D. Myers,Kirpal Nandra,Tracy Naugle,Jeffrey A. Newman,Pasquier Noterdaeme,Peter Nugent,Peter Nugent,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Matthew D. Olmstead,Audrey Oravetz,Daniel Oravetz,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,John K. Parejko,Isabelle Pâris,John A. Peacock,Patrick Petitjean,Matthew M. Pieri,Alice Pisani,Alice Pisani,Alice Pisani,Francisco Prada,Francisco Prada,Abhishek Prakash,Anand Raichoor,Beth Reid,James Rich,J. Ridl,Sergio Rodríguez-Torres,Aurelio Carnero Rosell,Ashley J. Ross,Ashley J. Ross,Graziano Rossi,John J. Ruan,Mara Salvato,Conor Sayres,Donald P. Schneider,David J. Schlegel,Uroš Seljak,Uroš Seljak,Hee-Jong Seo,Branimir Sesar,Sarah Shandera,Yiping Shu,Anže Slosar,Flavia Sobreira,Alina Streblyanska,Alina Streblyanska,Nao Suzuki,Donna Taylor,Charling Tao,Charling Tao,Jeremy L. Tinker,Rita Tojeiro,Mariana Vargas-Magaña,Yuting Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,David H. Weinberg,Martin White,Martin White,W. M. Wood-Vasey,Christophe Yèche,Zhongxu Zhai,Cheng Zhao,Gong-Bo Zhao,Zheng Zheng,Guangtun Zhu,Hu Zou +158 more
TL;DR: The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) as mentioned in this paper uses four different tracers of the underlying matter density field to expand the volume covered by BOSS and map the large-scale structures over the relatively unconstrained redshift range 0.6 0.87.
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The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Early Data
Kyle S. Dawson,Jean-Paul Kneib,Will J. Percival,Shadab Alam,Franco D. Albareti,Scott F. Anderson,Eric Armengaud,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Julian E. Bautista,Andreas A. Berlind,Matthew A. Bershady,Florian Beutler,Dmitry Bizyaev,Michael R. Blanton,Michael Blomqvist,Adam S. Bolton,Jo Bovy,W. N. Brandt,Jon Brinkmann,Joel R. Brownstein,Etienne Burtin,Nicolás G. Busca,Zheng Cai,Chia-Hsun Chuang,Nicolas Clerc,Johan Comparat,Frances Cope,Rupert A. C. Croft,Irene Cruz-González,Luiz N. da Costa,M. C. Cousinou,Jeremy Darling,Axel de la Macorra,Sylvain de la Torre,Timothée Delubac,Hélion du Mas des Bourboux,Tom Dwelly,Anne Ealet,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Michael Eracleous,Stephanie Escoffier,Xiaohui Fan,Alexis Finoguenov,Andreu Font-Ribera,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Patrick Gaulme,Antonis Georgakakis,Paul J. Green,Hong Guo,Julien Guy,Shirley Ho,Diana Holder,Joe Huehnerhoff,Timothy A. Hutchinson,Yipeng Jing,Eric Jullo,Vikrant Kamble,Karen Kinemuchi,D. Kirkby,Francisco-Shu Kitaura,Mark A. Klaene,Russ R. Laher,Dustin Lang,Pierre Laurent,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Cheng Li,Yu Liang,Marcos Lima,Qiufan Lin,Weipeng Lin,Yen-Ting Lin,Dan Long,Britt Lundgren,Nicholas R. MacDonald,Marcio A. G. Maia,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Vivek Mariappan,Cameron K. McBride,Ian D. McGreer,Brice Ménard,Andrea Merloni,Andres Meza,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Demitri Muna,Adam D. Myers,Kirpal Nandra,Tracy Naugle,Jeffrey A. Newman,Pasquier Noterdaeme,Peter Nugent,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Matthew D. Olmstead,Audrey Oravetz,Daniel Oravetz,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,John K. Parejko,Isabelle Paris,John A. Peacock,Patrick Petitjean,Matthew M. Pieri,Alice Pisani,Francisco Prada,Abhishek Prakash,Anand Raichoor,Beth Reid,James Rich,J. Ridl,Sergio Rodríguez-Torres,A. C. Rosell,Ashley J. Ross,Graziano Rossi,John J. Ruan,Mara Salvato,Conor Sayres,Donald P. Schneider,David J. Schlegel,Uroš Seljak,Hee-Jong Seo,Branimir Sesar,Sarah Shandera,Yiping Shu,Anze Slosar,Flavia Sobreira,Alina Streblyanska,Nao Suzuki,Charling Tao,Donna Taylor,Jeremy L. Tinker,Rita Tojeiro,Mariana Vargas-Magaña,Yuting Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,David H. Weinberg,Martin White,W. M. Wood-Vasey,Christophe Yèche,Zhongxu Zhai,Cheng Zhao,Gong-Bo Zhao,Zheng Zheng,Guangtun Zhu,Hu Zou +145 more
TL;DR: The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) as discussed by the authors uses four different tracers to measure the distance-redshift relation with baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO).
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The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: II. Stellar Metallicity
Zeljko Ivezic,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,David J. Schlegel,Alan Uomoto,Robert H. Lupton,Gillian R. Knapp,James E. Gunn,Kevin R. Covey,J. Allyn Smith,Gajus 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 +52 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived effective temperature and metallicity derived from SDSS spectra for 60,000 F and G type main sequence stars (0.2
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The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory
Franco D. Albareti,Carlos Allende Prieto,Andres Almeida,Friedrich Anders,Scott F. Anderson,Brett H. Andrews,Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca,Maria Argudo-Fernández,Eric Armengaud,Éric Aubourg,Vladimir Avila-Reese,Carles Badenes,Stephen Bailey,Beatriz Barbuy,Kat Barger,Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros,Curtis Bartosz,Sarbani Basu,Dominic Bates,Giuseppina Battaglia,Falk Baumgarten,Julien Baur,Julian E. Bautista,Timothy C. Beers,Francesco Belfiore,Matthew A. Bershady,Sara Bertran de Lis,Jonathan C. Bird,Dmitry Bizyaev,Guillermo A. Blanc,Michael R. Blanton,Michael Blomqvist,Adam S. Bolton,Jura Borissova,Jo Bovy,W. N. Brandt,Jonathan Brinkmann,Joel R. Brownstein,Kevin Bundy,Etienne Burtin,Nicolás G. Busca,Hugo Orlando Camacho Chavez,M. Cano Díaz,Michele Cappellari,Ricardo Carrera,Yanping Chen,Brian Cherinka,Edmond Cheung,Cristina Chiappini,Drew Chojnowski,Chia-Hsun Chuang,Haeun Chung,Rafael Fernando Cirolini,Nicolas Clerc,Roger E. Cohen,Julia M. Comerford,Johan Comparat,M. C. Cousinou,Kevin R. Covey,Jeffrey D. Crane,Rupert A. C. Croft,Katia Cunha,Luiz N. da Costa,Gabriele da Silva Ilha,Jeremy Darling,James W. Davidson,Kyle S. Dawson,Nathan De Lee,Axel de la Macorra,Sylvain de la Torre,Alice Deconto Machado,Timothée Delubac,Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic,John Donor,Juan José Downes,Niv Drory,Hélion du Mas des Bourboux,Cheng Du,Tom Dwelly,Garrett Ebelke,Arthur Eigenbrot,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Yvonne Elsworth,Eric Emsellem,Michael Eracleous,Stephanie Escoffier,Michael L. Evans,Jesús Falcón-Barroso,Xiaohui Fan,Ginevra Favole,Emma Fernández-Alvar,J. G. Fernandez-Trincado,Diane Feuillet,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Gordon Freischlad,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Hai Fu,Yang Gao,D. A. García-Hernández,Ana G. Pérez,Rafael A. García,Rafael Garcia-Dias,Patrick Gaulme,Junqiang Ge,Douglas Geisler,Hector Gil Marin,Bruce Gillespie,Léo Girardi,Daniel Goddard,Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew,Violeta Gonzalez-Perez,Kathleen Grabowski,Paul J. Green,Catherine J. Grier,Thomas Grier,Hong Guo,Julien Guy,Alex Hagen,Matthew R. Hall,Paul Harding,R. E. Harley,Sten Hasselquist,Suzanne L. Hawley,Christian R. Hayes,Fred Hearty,Saskia Hekker,Hector Hernandez Toledo,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Kelly Holley-Bockelmann,Jon A. Holtzman,Parker H. Holzer,Jian Hu,Daniel Huber,Timothy A. Hutchinson,Ho Seong Hwang,Hector Ibarra-Medel,Inese I. Ivans,KeShawn Ivory,Kurt P. Jaehnig,Trey W. Jensen,Jennifer A. Johnson,Amy Jones,Eric Jullo,T. Kallinger,Karen Kinemuchi,D. Kirkby,Mark A. Klaene,Jean-Paul Kneib,Juna A. Kollmeier,Ivan Lacerna,Rebecca Lane,Dustin Lang,Pierre Laurent,David R. Law,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Alexie Leauthaud,Cheng Li,Ran Li,Chen Li,Niu Li,Fu-Heng Liang,Yu Liang,Marcos Lima,Lihwai Lin,Lin Lin,Yen-Ting Lin,Dan Long,Sara Lucatello,Nicholas R. MacDonald,Chelsea L. MacLeod,J. Ted Mackereth,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Roberto Maiolino,Steven R. Majewski,Olena Malanushenko,Nícolas Dullius Mallmann,Arturo Manchado,Claudia Maraston,Rui Marques-Chaves,Inma Martinez Valpuesta,Karen L. Masters,Savita Mathur,Ian D. McGreer,Andrea Merloni,Michael R. Merrifield,Szabolcs Mészáros,Andres Meza,Andrea Miglio,Ivan Minchev,Karan Molaverdikhani,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Benoit Mosser,Demitri Muna,Adam D. Myers,P. Nair,Kirpal Nandra,Melissa Ness,Jeffrey A. Newman,Robert C. Nichol,David L. Nidever,Christian Nitschelm,Julia E. O'Connell,Audrey Oravetz,Nelson Padilla,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,John K. Parejko,Isabelle Paris,John A. Peacock,Sebastien Peirani,Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez,Samantha J. Penny,Will J. Percival,Jeffrey W. Percival,Ismael Perez-Fournon,Patrick Petitjean,Matthew M. Pieri,Marc H. Pinsonneault,Alice Pisani,Francisco Prada,Abhishek Prakash,Natalie Price-Jones,M. Jordan Raddick,Mubdi Rahman,Anand Raichoor,Sandro Barboza Rembold,A. M. Reyna,James Rich,Hannah Richstein,J. Ridl,Rogério Riffel,Rogemar A. Riffel,Hans-Walter Rix,Annie C. Robin,Constance M. Rockosi,Sergio Rodríguez-Torres,Thaíse S. Rodrigues,Natalie A. Roe,A. Roman Lopes,Carlos Román-Zúñiga,Ashley J. Ross,Graziano Rossi,John J. Ruan,Rossana Ruggeri,Jessie C. Runnoe,Salvador Salazar-Albornoz,Mara Salvato,Ariel G. Sánchez,Sebastián F. Sánchez,José R. Sánchez-Gallego,Basilio X. Santiago,Ricardo P. Schiavon,J. S. Schimoia,Edward F. Schlafly,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,Ralph Schoenrich,Mathias Schultheis,Axel Schwope,Hee-Jong Seo,Aldo Serenelli,Branimir Sesar,Zhengyi Shao,Matthew Shetrone,Michael Shull,Victor Silva Aguirre,M. F. Skrutskie,Anže Slosar,Michael J. Smith,Verne V. Smith,Jennifer Sobeck,Garrett Somers,Diogo Souto,David V. Stark,Keivan G. Stassun,Matthias Steinmetz,Dennis Stello,Thaisa Storchi Bergmann,Michael A. Strauss,Alina Streblyanska,Guy S. Stringfellow,Genaro Suárez,Jing Sun,Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp,Baitian Tang,Charling Tao,Jamie Tayar,Mita Tembe,Daniel Thomas,Jeremy L. Tinker,Rita Tojeiro,Christy Tremonti,Nicholas W. Troup,Jonathan R. Trump,Eduardo Unda-Sanzana,Octavio Valenzuela,Remco C. E. van den Bosch,Mariana Vargas-Magaña,Jose Alberto Vazquez,Sandro Villanova,M. Vivek,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Rene A. M. Walterbos,Yuting Wang,Enci Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,Anne-Marie Weijmans,David H. Weinberg,Kyle B. Westfall,David G. Whelan,Eric M. Wilcots,Vivienne Wild,Rob A. Williams,John Wilson,W. M. Wood-Vasey,Dominika Wylezalek,Ting Xiao,Renbin Yan,Meng Yang,Jason E. Ybarra,Christophe Yèche,Fang-Ting Yuan,Nadia L. Zakamska,Olga Zamora,Gail Zasowski,Kai Zhang,Cheng Zhao,Gong-Bo Zhao,Zheng Zheng,Zhimin Zhou,Guangtun Zhu,Joel C. Zinn,Hu Zou +336 more
TL;DR: Data Release 13 (DR13) as mentioned in this paper is the first data release from SDSS-IV, which contains new data, reanalysis of existing data sets and, like all SDSs data releases, is inclusive of previously released data.