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Richard Kessler
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 360
Citations - 41407
Richard Kessler is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supernova & Redshift. The author has an hindex of 81, co-authored 344 publications receiving 35903 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard Kessler include University of Oregon.
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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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LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
Željko Ivezić,Steven M. Kahn,J. Anthony Tyson,Bob Abel,Emily Acosta,R. A. Allsman,David Alonso,Yusra AlSayyad,Scott F. Anderson,John Andrew,James Roger P. Angel,George Angeli,R. Ansari,P. Antilogus,Constanza Araujo,Robert Armstrong,Kirk Arndt,Pierre Astier,Éric Aubourg,Nicole Auza,Tim Axelrod,Deborah Bard,J. Barr,A. Barrau,James G. Bartlett,Amanda E. Bauer,Brian J. Bauman,S. Baumont,Andrew C. Becker,Jacek Becla,Cristina E. Beldica,Steve Bellavia,Federica B. Bianco,Rahul Biswas,G. Blanc,Jonathan Blazek,Roger Blandford,Josh Bloom,J.R. Bogart,Tim W. Bond,A. W. Borgland,Kirk D. Borne,James Bosch,D. Boutigny,Craig A. Brackett,Andrew Bradshaw,W. N. Brandt,Michael E. Brown,James S. Bullock,Patricia R. Burchat,D. L. Burke,Gianpietro Cagnoli,Daniel Calabrese,Shawn Callahan,Alice L. Callen,Srinivasan Chandrasekharan,Glenaver Charles-Emerson,Steve Chesley,Elliott Cheu,Hsin-Fang Chiang,James Chiang,Carol Chirino,Derek Chow,David R. Ciardi,Charles F. Claver,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,Joseph J. Cockrum,Rebecca Coles,Andrew J. Connolly,Kem H. Cook,Asantha Cooray,Kevin R. Covey,Chris Cribbs,Wei Cui,Roc M. Cutri,P. N. Daly,Scott F. Daniel,Felipe Daruich,Guillaume Daubard,Greg Daues,William A. Dawson,Francisco Delgado,Alfred Dellapenna,Robert de Peyster,Miguel de Val-Borro,Seth Digel,Peter Doherty,Richard Dubois,G. P. Dubois-Felsmann,Josef Durech,Frossie Economou,Michael Eracleous,Henry C. Ferguson,Enrique Figueroa,Merlin Fisher-Levine,W. B. Focke,Michael D. Foss,James Frank,Michael D. Freemon,E. Gangler,Eric Gawiser,John C. Geary,Perry M. Gee,Marla Geha,Charles J. B. Gessner,Robert R. Gibson,D. Kirk Gilmore,T. Glanzman,William Glick,Tatiana Goldina,Daniel A. Goldstein,Iain Goodenow,Melissa L. Graham,William J. Gressler,Philippe Luc Yves Gris,Leanne P. Guy,Augustin Guyonnet,Gunther Haller,Ron Harris,P. Hascall,Justine Haupt,Fabio Hernandez,Sven Herrmann,Edward Hileman,Joshua Hoblitt,John A. Hodgson,Craig J. Hogan,Dajun Huang,M.E. Huffer,P. Ingraham,Walter R. Innes,Suzanne Jacoby,Bhuvnesh Jain,Fabrice Jammes,James Jee,Tim Jenness,G. Jernigan,Darko Jevremović,Kenneth Johns,A. S. Johnson,M. W. G. Johnson,R. Lynne Jones,Claire Juramy-Gilles,Mario Juric,Jason S. Kalirai,Nitya Kallivayalil,Bryce Kalmbach,Jeffrey P. Kantor,P. Karst,Mansi M. Kasliwal,H. Kelly,Richard Kessler,Veronica Kinnison,D. Kirkby,Lloyd Knox,Ivan Kotov,V. Krabbendam,K. Simon Krughoff,Petr Kubánek,John Kuczewski,Shri Kulkarni,John Ku,N. Kurita,Craig S. Lage,Ron Lambert,Travis Lange,J. Brian Langton,Laurent Le Guillou,D. Levine,Ming Liang,Kian-Tat Lim,Chris Lintott,Kevin E. Long,Margaux Lopez,Paul J. Lotz,Robert H. Lupton,Nate B. Lust,Lauren A. MacArthur,Ashish Mahabal,Rachel Mandelbaum,Darren S. Marsh,Philip J. Marshall,S. L. Marshall,Morgan May,Robert McKercher,Michelle McQueen,Joshua Meyers,Myriam Migliore,M. L. Miller,David J. Mills,Connor Miraval,Joachim Moeyens,David G. Monet,M. Moniez,Serge Monkewitz,Christopher Montgomery,Fritz Mueller,Gary P. Muller,Freddy Munoz Arancibia,Douglas R. Neill,Scott P. Newbry,Jean-Yves Nief,Andrei Nomerotski,Martin Nordby,Paul O'Connor,John Oliver,Scot S. Olivier,Knut Olsen,William O'Mullane,Sandra Ortiz,Shawn Osier,Russell Owen,Reynald Pain,Paul E. Palecek,John K. Parejko,James B. Parsons,Nathan M. Pease,J. Matt Peterson,John R. Peterson,Don Petravick,M. E.Libby Petrick,C. E. Petry,Francesco Pierfederici,Stephen R. Pietrowicz,R. Pike,Philip A. Pinto,Raymond Plante,S. Plate,Paul A. Price,Michael Prouza,V. Radeka,J. Rajagopal,Andrew P. Rasmussen,Nicolas Regnault,Kevin Reil,David J Reiss,Michael A. Reuter,Stephen T. Ridgway,Vincent J. Riot,Steve Ritz,Sean M. Robinson,William Roby,A. Roodman,Wayne Rosing,Cecille Roucelle,Matthew R. Rumore,Stefano Russo,Abhijit Saha,B. Sassolas,T. Schalk,Pim Schellart,Rafe Schindler,Samuel Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Michael Schneider,William Schoening,German Schumacher,Megan E. Schwamb,Jacques Sebag,Brian M. Selvy,G. H. Sembroski,Lynn G. Seppala,Andrew Serio,Eduardo P. Serrano,Richard A. Shaw,Ian Shipsey,Jonathan Sick,Nicole M. Silvestri,C. T. Slater,J. Allyn Smith,R. Chris Smith,Shahram Sobhani,Christine Soldahl,Lisa J. Storrie-Lombardi,Edward Stover,Michael A. Strauss,Rachel Street,Christopher W. Stubbs,Ian Sullivan,Donald W. Sweeney,John D. Swinbank,Alexander S. Szalay,Péter Takács,Stephen A. Tether,Jon J Thaler,J. G. Thayer,Sandrine Thomas,V. Thukral,Jeff Tice,David Trilling,M. Turri,Richard Van Berg,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,K. Vetter,Francoise Virieux,Tomislav Vucina,William Wahl,Lucianne M. Walkowicz,Brian Walsh,C. W. Walter,Daniel L. Wang,Shin-Yawn Wang,Michael Warner,Oliver Wiecha,Beth Willman,Scott Winters,David Wittman,Sidney C. Wolff,W. Michael Wood-Vasey,Xiuqin Wu,Bo Xin,Peter Yoachim,Hu Zhan +312 more
TL;DR: The LSST design is driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and dark matter, taking an inventory of the solar system, exploring the transient optical sky, and mapping the Milky Way.
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The Complete Light-curve Sample of Spectroscopically Confirmed SNe Ia from Pan-STARRS1 and Cosmological Constraints from the Combined Pantheon Sample
Daniel Scolnic,David O. Jones,Armin Rest,Armin Rest,Yen-Chen Pan,Ryan Chornock,Ryan J. Foley,M. E. Huber,Richard Kessler,Gautham Narayan,Adam G. Riess,Adam G. Riess,Steven A. Rodney,Edo Berger,D. Brout,Peter Challis,Maria R. Drout,Douglas P. Finkbeiner,Ragnhild Lunnan,Robert P. Kirshner,N. E. Sanders,Edward F. Schlafly,Stephen J. Smartt,Christopher W. Stubbs,John L. Tonry,W. M. Wood-Vasey,Michael Foley,J. Hand,Elizabeth N. Johnson,W. S. Burgett,K. C. Chambers,Peter W. Draper,Klaus W. Hodapp,Nick Kaiser,R. P. Kudritzki,E. A. Magnier,Nigel Metcalfe,F. Bresolin,E. E. E. Gall,Rubina Kotak,M. McCrum,K. W. Smith +41 more
TL;DR: Scolnic et al. as discussed by the authors presented optical light curves, redshifts, and classifications for 365 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) Medium Deep Survey.
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Improved cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the SDSS-II and SNLS supernova samples
Marc Betoule,Richard Kessler,Julien Guy,Julien Guy,J. Mosher,D. Hardin,Rahul Biswas,Pierre Astier,P. El-Hage,M. Konig,Steve Kuhlmann,John Marriner,Reynald Pain,Nicolas Regnault,Christophe Balland,Bruce A. Bassett,Bruce A. Bassett,Peter J. Brown,Heather Campbell,Heather Campbell,Raymond G. Carlberg,F. Cellier-Holzem,D. Cinabro,A. Conley,C. B. D'Andrea,Darren L. DePoy,M. Doi,Richard S. Ellis,Sebastien Fabbro,Alexei V. Filippenko,Ryan J. Foley,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,Dominique Fouchez,Lluís Galbany,Lluís Galbany,Ariel Goobar,Ravi R. Gupta,Ravi R. Gupta,Gary J. Hill,Renée Hlozek,Craig J. Hogan,Craig J. Hogan,Isobel Hook,Dale Andrew Howell,Dale Andrew Howell,Saurabh Jha,L. Le Guillou,Giorgos Leloudas,Giorgos Leloudas,C. Lidman,Jennifer L. Marshall,Anais Möller,A. Mourao,J. Neveu,Robert C. Nichol,Matthew D. Olmstead,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Saul Perlmutter,J. L. Prieto,Christopher J. Pritchet,Michael Richmond,Adam G. Riess,Adam G. Riess,V. Ruhlmann-Kleider,Masao Sako,K. Schahmaneche,D. P. Schneider,M. R. Smith,Jesper Sollerman,Mark Sullivan,Nicholas A. Walton,C. Wheeler +72 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of type Ia supernova (SN Ia) observations obtained by the SDSS-II and SNLS collaborations.
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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.