Niel Brandt
VERNE M. WILLAMAN PROFESSOR | Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, UNITED STATES
Niel Brandt is an expert in physics and astronomy.
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Normal Galaxies
Cosmological X-ray Surveys
Active Galaxies
Physics and Astronomy
starburst Galaxies
Biography
William Nielsen Brandt is the Verne M. Willaman Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics and a professor of physics at the Pennsylvania State University. He is best known for his work on active galaxies, cosmological X-ray surveys, starburst galaxies, normal galaxies, and X-ray binaries.
Education (2)
University of Cambridge: Ph.D., Astronomy 1996
Caltech: B.S., Physics 1992
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Articles (5)
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Twelfth data release
Astronomy & Astrophysics
WN Brandt et al.
2017 We present the Data Release 12 Quasar catalog (DR12Q) from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III.
An ALMA Survey of Submillimeter Galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: Spectroscopic Redshifts
The Astrophysical Journal
WN Brandt et al.
2017 We present spectroscopic redshifts which have been identified from the ALMA follow-up observations of 870 μm detected sources in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (the ALMA-LESS survey).
Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe
Astronomical Journal
WN Brandt, Michael R. Blanton, Matthew A. Bershady, Bela Abolfathi, Franco D. Albareti, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andres Almeida, Javier Alonso-García, Friedrich Anders, Scott F. Anderson, Brett Andrews, Erik Aquino-Ortíz, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca, Maria Argudo-Fernández, Eric Armengaud, Eric Aubourg
2017 We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio in the near-infrared.
Magnifying the Early Episodes of Star Formation: Super Star Clusters at Cosmological Distances
The Astrophysical Journal
WN Brandt et al.
2017 We study the spectrophotometric properties of a highly magnified pair of stellar systems identified behind the Hubble Frontier Field galaxy cluster MACS J0416.
A Spatially Resolved Study of Cold Dust, Molecular Gas, H ii Regions, and Stars in the z = 2.12 Submillimeter Galaxy ALESS67.1
The Astrophysical Journal
WN Brandt et al.
2017 We present detailed studies of a z = 2.12 submillimeter galaxy, ALESS67.1, using sub-arcsecond resolution ALMA, adaptive optics-aided VLT/SINFONI, and Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/CANDELS data to investigate the kinematics and spatial distributions of dust emission (870 μm continuum), 12CO(J = 3–2), strong optical emission lines, and visible stars.