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Weidong Li
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 223
Citations - 36341
Weidong Li is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supernova & Light curve. The author has an hindex of 88, co-authored 218 publications receiving 34123 citations. Previous affiliations of Weidong Li include Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Type Ia supernova discoveries at z > 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for past deceleration and constraints on dark energy evolution
Adam G. Riess,Louis-Gregory Strolger,John L. Tonry,Stefano Casertano,Henry C. Ferguson,Bahram Mobasher,Peter Challis,Alexei V. Filippenko,Saurabh Jha,Weidong Li,Ryan Chornock,Robert P. Kirshner,Bruno Leibundgut,Mark Dickinson,Mario Livio,Mauro Giavalisco,Charles C. Steidel,Txitxo Benítez,Zlatan Tsvetanov +18 more
TL;DR: For a flat universe with a cosmological constant, the transition between the two epochs is constrained to be at z = 0.46 ± 0.13 as mentioned in this paper, and w = -1.02 ± (and w < -0.76 at the 95% confidence level) for an assumed static equation of state of dark energy.
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Type Ia Supernova Discoveries at z>1 From the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for Past Deceleration and Constraints on Dark Energy Evolution
Adam G. Riess,Louis-Gregory Strolger,John L. Tonry,Stefano Casertano,Henry C. Ferguson,Bahram Mobasher,Peter Challis,Alexei V. Filippenko,Saurabh Jha,Weidong Li,Ryan Chornock,Robert P. Kirshner,Bruno Leibundgut,Mark Dickinson,Mario Livio,Mauro Giavalisco,Charles C. Steidel,Narciso Benítez,Zlatan Tsvetanov +18 more
TL;DR: In this article, the first conclusive evidence for cosmic deceleration that preceded the current epoch of cosmic acceleration was provided by the discovery of 16 Type Ia supernovae with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
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Candels: The cosmic assembly near-infrared deep extragalactic legacy survey - The hubble space telescope observations, imaging data products, and mosaics
Anton M. Koekemoer,Sandra M. Faber,Henry C. Ferguson,Norman A. Grogin,Dale D. Kocevski,David C. Koo,Kamson Lai,Jennifer M. Lotz,Ray A. Lucas,Elizabeth J. McGrath,Sara Ogaz,Abhijith Rajan,Adam G. Riess,S. Rodney,L. G. Strolger,Stefano Casertano,Marco Castellano,Tomas Dahlen,Mark Dickinson,Timothy Dolch,Adriano Fontana,Mauro Giavalisco,Andrea Grazian,Yicheng Guo,Nimish P. Hathi,Kuang-Han Huang,Kuang-Han Huang,Arjen van der Wel,Hao Jing Yan,Viviana Acquaviva,David M. Alexander,Omar Almaini,Matthew L. N. Ashby,Marco Barden,Eric F. Bell,Frédéric Bournaud,Thomas M. Brown,Karina Caputi,Paolo Cassata,Peter Challis,Ranga-Ram Chary,Edmond Cheung,Michele Cirasuolo,Christopher J. Conselice,Asantha Cooray,Darren J. Croton,Emanuele Daddi,Romeel Davé,Duilia F. de Mello,Loic de Ravel,Avishai Dekel,Jennifer L. Donley,James Dunlop,Aaron A. Dutton,David Elbaz,Giovanni Fazio,Alexei V. Filippenko,Steven L. Finkelstein,Chris Frazer,Jonathan P. Gardner,Peter M. Garnavich,Eric Gawiser,Ruth Gruetzbauch,Will G. Hartley,B. Haussler,Jessica Herrington,Philip F. Hopkins,J.-S. Huang,Saurabh Jha,Andrew Johnson,Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe,Ali Ahmad Khostovan,Robert P. Kirshner,Caterina Lani,Kyoung-Soo Lee,Weidong Li,Piero Madau,Patrick J. McCarthy,Daniel H. McIntosh,Ross J. McLure,Conor McPartland,Bahram Mobasher,Heidi Moreira,Alice Mortlock,Leonidas A. Moustakas,Mark Mozena,Kirpal Nandra,Jeffrey A. Newman,Jennifer L. Nielsen,Sami Niemi,Kai G. Noeske,Casey Papovich,Laura Pentericci,Alexandra Pope,Joel R. Primack,Swara Ravindranath,Naveen A. Reddy,Alvio Renzini,Hans Walter Rix,Aday R. Robaina,David J. Rosario,Piero Rosati,S. Salimbeni,Claudia Scarlata,Brian Siana,Luc Simard,Joseph Smidt,D. Snyder,Rachel S. Somerville,Hyron Spinrad,Amber N. Straughn,Olivia Telford,Harry I. Teplitz,Jonathan R. Trump,Carlos J. Vargas,Carolin Villforth,C. Wagner,P. Wandro,Risa H. Wechsler,Benjamin J. Weiner,Tommy Wiklind,Vivienne Wild,Grant W. Wilson,Stijn Wuyts,Min S. Yun +124 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the Hubble Space Telescope imaging data products and data reduction procedures for the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS).
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CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey - The Hubble Space Telescope Observations, Imaging Data Products and Mosaics
Anton M. Koekemoer,Sandra M. Faber,Henry C. Ferguson,Norman A. Grogin,Dale D. Kocevski,David C. Koo,Kamson Lai,Jennifer M. Lotz,Ray A. Lucas,Elizabeth J. McGrath,Sara Ogaz,Abhijith Rajan,Adam G. Riess,S. Rodney,Louis Gregory Strolger,Stefano Casertano,Marco Castellano,Tomas Dahlen,Mark Dickinson,Timothy Dolch,Adriano Fontana,Mauro Giavalisco,Andrea Grazian,Yicheng Guo,Nimish P. Hathi,Kuang-Han Huang,Arjen van der Wel,Haojing Yan,Viviana Acquaviva,David M. Alexander Omar Almaini,Matthew L. N. Ashby,Marco Barden,Eric F. Bell,Frédéric Bournaud,Thomas M. Brown,Karina Caputi,Paolo Cassata,Peter Challis,Ranga-Ram Chary,Edmond Cheung,Michele Cirasuolo,Christopher J. Conselice,Asantha Cooray,Darren J. Croton,Emanuele Daddi,Romeel Davé,Duilia F. de Mello,Loic de Ravel,Avishai Dekel,Jennifer L. Donley,James Dunlop,Aaron A. Dutton,David Elbaz,Giovanni G. Fazio,Alex V. Filippenko,Steven L. Finkelstein,Chris Frazer,Jonathan P. Gardner,Peter M. Garnavich,Eric Gawiser,Ruth Gruetzbauch,Will G. Hartley,Boris Häussler,Jessica Herrington,Philip F. Hopkins,Jiasheng Huang,Saurabh Jha,Andrew Johnson,Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe,Ali Ahmad Khostovan,Robert P. Kirshner,Caterina Lani,Kyoung-Soo Lee,Weidong Li,Piero Madau,Patrick J. McCarthy,Daniel H. McIntosh,Ross J. McLure,Conor McPartland,Bahram Mobasher,Heidi Moreira,Alice Mortlock,Leonidas A. Moustakas,Mark Mozena,Kirpal Nandra,Jeffrey A. Newman,Jennifer L. Nielsen,Sami Niemi,Kai G. Noeske,Casey Papovich,Laura Pentericci,Alexandra Pope,Joel R. Primack,Swara Ravindranath,Naveen A. Reddy,Alvio Renzini,Hans-Walter Rix,Aday R. Robaina,David J. Rosario,Piero Rosati,S. Salimbeni,Claudia Scarlata,Brian Siana,Luc Simard,Joseph Smidt,D. Snyder,Rachel S. Somerville,Hyron Spinrad,Amber Straughn,Olivia Telford,Harry I. Teplitz,Jonathan R. Trump,Carlos J. Vargas,Carolin Villforth,C. Wagner,P. Wandro,Risa H. Wechsler,Benjamin J. Weiner,Tommy Wiklind,Vivienne Wild,Grant W. Wilson,Stijn Wuyts,Min S. Yun +122 more
TL;DR: The Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) as mentioned in this paper was designed to document the evolution of galaxies and black holes at $z\sim 1.5-8$, and to study Type Ia SNe beyond $z>1.5.
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Observational Constraints on the Nature of Dark Energy: First Cosmological Results from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey
W. M. Wood-Vasey,G. Miknaitis,Christopher W. Stubbs,Saurabh Jha,Saurabh Jha,Adam G. Riess,Adam G. Riess,Peter M. Garnavich,Robert P. Kirshner,C. Aguilera,Andrew C. Becker,J. W. Blackman,Stéphane Blondin,P. Challis,Alejandro Clocchiatti,A. Conley,R. Covarrubias,Tamara M. Davis,Alexei V. Filippenko,Ryan J. Foley,Arti Garg,Malcolm Hicken,Kevin Krisciunas,Kevin Krisciunas,Bruno Leibundgut,Weidong Li,Thomas Matheson,A. Miceli,Gautham Narayan,Giusto Pignata,J. L. Prieto,Armin Rest,Maria Elena Salvo,Brian P. Schmidt,Robert Connon Smith,Jesper Sollerman,Jesper Sollerman,Jason Spyromilio,John L. Tonry,Nicholas B. Suntzeff,Alfredo Zenteno +40 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a set of constraints on the dark energy equation-of-state parameter w = P/(rho c(2)) were derived using 60 SNe Ia from the ESSENCE supernova survey.