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Jason Xavier Prochaska

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University of California, Santa Cruz

Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, PhenomenaAstrophysics and Star Formation StudiesGamma-ray bursts and supernovaeStellar, planetary, and galactic studiesAstrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena

Jason Xavier Prochaska works in Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena. Recorded institutional associations include Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of California, Santa Cruz, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

1,248Publications
55,508Citations
113H-index

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Selected research works

Up to 100 highly cited works; DOI links open the original research. Counts reflect the collected record, not real-time citation totals.

  1. The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package *

    2018 · 7,687 citations

  2. Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger *

    2017 · 3,940 citations

  3. A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

    2017 · 1,193 citations

  4. Further Evidence for Cosmological Evolution of the Fine Structure Constant

    2001 · 824 citations

  5. Light curves of the neutron star merger GW170817/SSS17a: Implications for r-process nucleosynthesis

    2017 · 820 citations

  6. DAMPED LYα SYSTEMS

    2005 · 728 citations

  7. A census of baryons in the Universe from localized fast radio bursts

    2020 · 620 citations

  8. UBIQUITOUS OUTFLOWS IN DEEP2 SPECTRA OF STAR-FORMING GALAXIES AT z = 1.4

    2009 · 598 citations

  9. The Large, Oxygen-Rich Halos of Star-Forming Galaxies Are a Major Reservoir of Galactic Metals

    2011 · 566 citations

  10. An empirical relation between sodium absorption and dust extinction

    2012 · 470 citations

  11. Overview of the Instrumentation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

    2022 · 463 citations

  12. THE COS-HALOS SURVEY: PHYSICAL CONDITIONS AND BARYONIC MASS IN THE LOW-REDSHIFT CIRCUMGALACTIC MEDIUM

    2014 · 449 citations

  13. PypeIt: The Python Spectroscopic Data Reduction Pipeline

    2020 · 442 citations

  14. The Galactic Thick Disk Stellar Abundances

    2000 · 422 citations

  15. A single fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy at cosmological distance

    2019 · 422 citations

  16. The SDSS Damped Lyα Survey: Data Release 3

    2005 · 396 citations

  17. A cosmic web filament revealed in Lyman-α emission around a luminous high-redshift quasar

    2014 · 390 citations

  18. THE COS-HALOS SURVEY: RATIONALE, DESIGN, AND A CENSUS OF CIRCUMGALACTIC NEUTRAL HYDROGEN

    2013 · 377 citations

  19. On the Kinematics of the Damped Lyman‐α Protogalaxies

    1997 · 372 citations

  20. THE COS-HALOS SURVEY: AN EMPIRICAL DESCRIPTION OF METAL-LINE ABSORPTION IN THE LOW-REDSHIFT CIRCUMGALACTIC MEDIUM

    2013 · 368 citations

  21. LOW-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY OF GAMMA-RAY BURST OPTICAL AFTERGLOWS: BIASES IN THE SWIFT SAMPLE AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ABSORBERS

    2009 · 365 citations

  22. EVIDENCE FOR UBIQUITOUS COLLIMATED GALACTIC-SCALE OUTFLOWS ALONG THE STAR-FORMING SEQUENCE ATz∼ 0.5

    2014 · 364 citations

  23. Possible evidence for a variable fine-structure constant from QSO absorption lines: motivations, analysis and results

    2001 · 355 citations

  24. A BUDGET AND ACCOUNTING OF METALS AT z ∼ 0: RESULTS FROM THE COS-HALOS SURVEY

    2014 · 339 citations

  25. Early spectra of the gravitational wave source GW170817: Evolution of a neutron star merger

    2017 · 337 citations

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