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W. Michael Wood-Vasey
Researcher at University of Pittsburgh
Publications - 15
Citations - 8112
W. Michael Wood-Vasey is an academic researcher from University of Pittsburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Redshift & Quasar. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 15 publications receiving 7082 citations.
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The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample
Shadab Alam,Metin Ata,Stephen Bailey,Florian Beutler,Dmitry Bizyaev,Dmitry Bizyaev,Jonathan Blazek,Adam S. Bolton,Joel R. Brownstein,Angela Burden,Chia-Hsun Chuang,Chia-Hsun Chuang,Johan Comparat,Antonio J. Cuesta,Kyle S. Dawson,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Stephanie Escoffier,Héctor Gil-Marín,Héctor Gil-Marín,Jan Niklas Grieb,Nick Hand,Shirley Ho,Karen Kinemuchi,D. Kirkby,Francisco S. Kitaura,Francisco S. Kitaura,Francisco S. Kitaura,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Claudia Maraston,Cameron K. McBride,Robert C. Nichol,Matthew D. Olmstead,Daniel Oravetz,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez,Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez,Will J. Percival,Patrick Petitjean,Francisco Prada,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,Beth Reid,Beth Reid,Sergio Rodríguez-Torres,Sergio Rodríguez-Torres,Natalie A. Roe,Ashley J. Ross,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Graziano Rossi,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,Shun Saito,Salvador Salazar-Albornoz,Lado Samushia,Ariel G. Sánchez,Siddharth Satpathy,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,Claudia G. Scóccola,Claudia G. Scóccola,Claudia G. Scóccola,Hee-Jong Seo,Erin Sheldon,Audrey Simmons,Anže Slosar,Michael A. Strauss,Molly E. C. Swanson,Daniel Thomas,Jeremy L. Tinker,Rita Tojeiro,Mariana Vargas Magaña,Mariana Vargas Magaña,Jose Alberto Vazquez,Licia Verde,David A. Wake,David A. Wake,Yuting Wang,Yuting Wang,David H. Weinberg,Martin White,Martin White,W. Michael Wood-Vasey,Christophe Yèche,Idit Zehavi,Zhongxu Zhai,Gong-Bo Zhao,Gong-Bo Zhao +90 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present cosmological results from the final galaxy clustering data set of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III.
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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,Carlos Allende Prieto,Carlos Allende Prieto,Scott F. Anderson,James A. Arns,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Eduardo Balbinot,Robert H. Barkhouser,Timothy C. Beers,Andreas A. Berlind,Steven J. Bickerton,Dmitry Bizyaev,Michael R. Blanton,John J. Bochanski,Adam S. Bolton,Casey T. Bosman,Jo Bovy,W. N. Brandt,Ben Breslauer,Howard Brewington,J. Brinkmann,Peter J. Brown,Joel R. Brownstein,Dan Burger,Nicolás G. Busca,H. Campbell,Phillip Cargile,William Carithers,Joleen K. Carlberg,Michael A. Carr,Liang Chang,Liang Chang,Yanmei Chen,Cristina Chiappini,Johan Comparat,Natalia Connolly,Marina Cortês,Rupert A. C. Croft,Katia Cunha,Luiz N. da Costa,James R. A. Davenport,Kyle S. Dawson,Nathan De Lee,Gustavo F. Porto de Mello,Fernando de Simoni,Janice D. R. Dean,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Garrett Ebelke,Edward M. Edmondson,J. Eiting,Stephanie Escoffier,M. Esposito,M. Esposito,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Leticia D. Ferreira,Greg Fitzgerald,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Eric B. Ford,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Ana E. García Pérez,B. Scott Gaudi,Jian Ge,Luan Ghezzi,Bruce Gillespie,Gerry Gilmore,Léo Girardi,J. Richard Gott,Andrew Gould,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,J. C. Hamilton,Paul Harding,David W. Harris,Suzanne L. Hawley,Frederick R. Hearty,Joseph F. Hennawi,Jonay I. González Hernández,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,K. Honscheid,Naohisa Inada,Inese I. Ivans,Linhua Jiang,Peng Jiang,Peng Jiang,Jennifer A. Johnson,Cathy Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,Guinevere Kauffmann,Eyal A. Kazin,D. Kirkby,Mark A. Klaene,Gillian R. Knapp,Jean-Paul Kneib,Christopher S. Kochanek,Lars Koesterke,Juna A. Kollmeier,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Hubert Lampeitl,Dustin Lang,James E. Lawler,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Brian Lee,Young Sun Lee,Jarron Leisenring,Yen-Ting Lin,Yen-Ting Lin,Jian Liu,Dan Long,Craig P. Loomis,Sara Lucatello,Britt Lundgren,Robert H. Lupton,Bo Ma,Zhibo Ma,Nicholas MacDonald,Claude E. Mack,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Steven R. Majewski,Martin Makler,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Rachel Mandelbaum,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,Paul Maseman,Paul Maseman,Karen L. Masters,Cameron K. McBride,Patrick McDonald,Patrick McDonald,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Olga Mena Requejo,Brice Ménard,Brice Ménard,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Heather L. Morrison,Fergal Mullally,Fergal Mullally,Demitri Muna,Hitoshi Murayama,Adam D. Myers,Tracy Naugle,Angelo Fausti Neto,Duy Cuong Nguyen,Robert C. Nichol,David L. Nidever,Robert W. O'Connell,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Matthew D. Olmstead,Daniel Oravetz,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Martin Paegert,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,Parul Pandey,John K. Parejko,Isabelle Pâris,Paulo S. Pellegrini,Joshua Pepper,Will J. Percival,Patrick Petitjean,Robert Pfaffenberger,Janine Pforr,Stefanie Phleps,Christophe Pichon,Matthew M. Pieri,Matthew M. Pieri,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Beatriz H. F. Ramos,I. Neill Reid,Céline Reylé,James Rich,Gordon T. Richards,George H. Rieke,Marcia J. Rieke,Hans-Walter Rix,Annie C. Robin,H. J. Rocha-Pinto,Constance M. Rockosi,Natalie A. Roe,Emmanuel Rollinde,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Bruno M. Rossetto,Ariel G. Sánchez,Basilio X. Santiago,Conor Sayres,Ricardo P. Schiavon,David J. Schlegel,Katharine J. Schlesinger,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Kris Sellgren,Alaina Shelden,Erin Sheldon,Matthew Shetrone,Yiping Shu,John D. Silverman,Jennifer Simmerer,Audrey Simmons,Thirupathi Sivarani,Thirupathi Sivarani,Mike Skrutskie,Anže Slosar,Stephen A. Smee,Verne V. Smith,Stephanie A. Snedden,Keivan G. Stassun,Keivan G. Stassun,Oliver Steele,Matthias Steinmetz,Mark H. Stockett,Todd Stollberg,Michael A. Strauss,Alexander S. Szalay,Masayuki Tanaka,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Jeremy L. Tinker,Benjamin M. Tofflemire,Rita Tojeiro,Christy Tremonti,Mariana Vargas Magaña,Licia Verde,Licia Verde,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Xiaoke Wan,Ji Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,Martin White,Simon D. M. White,John C. Wilson,John P. Wisniewski,W. Michael Wood-Vasey,Brian Yanny,Naoki Yasuda,Christophe Yèche,Donald G. York,Erick T. Young,Erick T. Young,Gail Zasowski,Idit Zehavi,Bo Zhao +263 more
TL;DR: SDSS-III as mentioned in this paper is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other stars.
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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,Y. AlSayyad,Scott F. Anderson,John Andrew,James Roger P. Angel,George Z. Angeli,R. Ansari,P. Antilogus,Constanza Araujo,Robert Armstrong,Kirk Arndt,Pierre Astier,Éric Aubourg,Nicole Auza,Tim Axelrod,D. J. Bard,J. Barr,A. Barrau,James G. Bartlett,Amanda E. Bauer,Brian J. Bauman,S. Baumont,Ellen Bechtol,Keith Bechtol,Andrew C. Becker,Jacek Becla,Cristina E. Beldica,Steve Bellavia,Federica B. Bianco,Rahul Biswas,G. Blanc,G. Blanc,Jonathan Blazek,Jonathan Blazek,Roger Blandford,Josh Bloom,J.R. Bogart,Tim W. Bond,Michael T. Booth,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,Jeffrey L. Carlin,Erin L. Carlson,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,Tim Eifler,Michael Eracleous,Benjamin L. Emmons,Angelo Fausti Neto,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,R. R. Gibson,D. Kirk Gilmore,T. Glanzman,William Glick,Tatiana Goldina,Daniel A. Goldstein,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,J. Howard,Dajun Huang,M.E. Huffer,Patrick Ingraham,Walter R. Innes,Suzanne Jacoby,Bhuvnesh Jain,Fabrice Jammes,M. James Jee,M. 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,Thomas W. Markiewicz,Darren S. Marsh,Philip J. Marshall,S. L. Marshall,Morgan May,Robert McKercher,Michelle McQueen,J. Meyers,Myriam Migliore,M. L. Miller,David Mills,Connor Miraval,Joachim Moeyens,Fred Moolekamp,Fred Moolekamp,David G. Monet,M. Moniez,Serge Monkewitz,Christopher Montgomery,Christopher B. Morrison,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 L. Plante,S. Plate,J. Plutchak,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 Robinson,William Roby,A. Roodman,Wayne Rosing,Cecille Roucelle,Matthew R. Rumore,Stefano Russo,Abhijit Saha,B. Sassolas,T. Schalk,Pim Schellart,Pim Schellart,Rafe Schindler,S. J. 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,John D. Swinbank,Alexander S. Szalay,Péter Takács,Stephen A. Tether,Jon J Thaler,J. G. Thayer,Sandrine Thomas,Adam J. Thornton,V. Thukral,Jeff Tice,David Trilling,M. Turri,Richard Van Berg,Richard Van Berg,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,K. Vetter,Francoise Virieux,Tomislav Vucina,William Wahl,Lucianne M. Walkowicz,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 +335 more
TL;DR: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) as discussed by the authors is a large, wide-field ground-based system designed to obtain repeated images covering the sky visible from Cerro Pachon in northern Chile.
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Spectral classification and redshift measurement for the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
Adam S. Bolton,David J. Schlegel,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Vaishali Bhardwaj,Joel R. Brownstein,Scott Burles,Yanmei Chen,Kyle S. Dawson,Daniel J. Eisenstein,James E. Gunn,Gillian R. Knapp,Craig P. Loomis,Robert H. Lupton,Claudia Maraston,Demitri Muna,Adam D. Myers,Matthew D. Olmstead,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Isabelle Pâris,Isabelle Pâris,Will J. Percival,Patrick Petitjean,Constance M. Rockosi,Nicholas P. Ross,Donald P. Schneider,Yiping Shu,Michael A. Strauss,Daniel Thomas,Christy Tremonti,David A. Wake,Benjamin A. Weaver,W. Michael Wood-Vasey +32 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the automated spectral classification, redshift determination, and parameter measurement pipeline in use for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) as of the survey's ninth data release (DR9), encompassing 831,000 moderate-resolution optical spectra.
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Spectral Classification and Redshift Measurement for the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
Adam S. Bolton,David J. Schlegel,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Vaishali Bhardwaj,Joel R. Brownstein,Scott Burles,Yanmei Chen,Kyle S. Dawson,Daniel J. Eisenstein,James E. Gunn,Gillian R. Knapp,Craig P. Loomis,Robert H. Lupton,Claudia Maraston,Demitri Muna,Adam D. Myers,Matthew D. Olmstead,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Isabelle Paris,Will J. Percival,Patrick Petitjean,Constance M. Rockosi,Nicholas P. Ross,Donald P. Schneider,Yiping Shu,Michael A. Strauss,Daniel Thomas,Christy Tremonti,David A. Wake,Benjamin A. Weaver,W. Michael Wood-Vasey +31 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the automated spectral classification, redshift determination, and parameter measurement pipeline in use for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) as of Data Release 9, encompassing 831,000 moderate-resolution optical spectra.