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W. N. Brandt

Researcher at Pennsylvania State University

Publications -  284
Citations -  26431

W. N. Brandt is an academic researcher from Pennsylvania State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Quasar. The author has an hindex of 88, co-authored 284 publications receiving 24716 citations.

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SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

Daniel J. Eisenstein, +239 more
TL;DR: SDSS-III as discussed by the authors 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 Science Book, Version 2.0

Paul A. Abell, +245 more
TL;DR: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) as discussed by the authors will have an effective aperture of 6.7 meters and an imaging camera with field of view of 9.6 degrees.
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Chandra X-ray Spectroscopic Imaging of Sgr A* and the Central Parsec of the Galaxy

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors obtained the first high-spatial-resolution (~1 arcsec), hard X-ray (0.5-7 keV) image of the central 40 pc (17 arcmin) of the Milky Way Galaxy and have discovered an Xray source, CXOGC J174540.