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20152025
most citedThe new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness

1.7k citations

22 papers

physics.geo-ph2025★ 3 cited

Quantifying the form-flow-saltation dynamics of aeolian sand ripples

J. M. Nield, M. C. Baddock, G. F. S. Wiggs +9

Ripples are the most fundamental and ubiquitous aeolian bedforms formed on sandy surfaces, but their small size and fast response times make them inherently difficult to measure. H…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Visual enhancement and 3D representation for underwater scenes: a review

Guoxi Huang, Haoran Wang, Brett Seymour +4

Underwater visual enhancement (UVE) and underwater 3D reconstruction pose significant challenges in computer vision and AI-based tasks due to complex imaging conditions in aquatic…

stat.AP2023★ 13 cited

Modeling complex species-environment relationships through spatially-varying coefficient occupancy models

Jeffrey W. Doser, Andrew O. Finley, Sarah P. Saunders +3

Occupancy models are frequently used by ecologists to quantify spatial variation in species distributions while accounting for observational biases in the collection of detection-n…

stat.AP2023★ 25 cited

Guidelines for the use of spatially-varying coefficients in species distribution models

Jeffrey W. Doser, Marc Kéry, Sarah P. Saunders +6

Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly applied across macroscales. Such models typically assume that a single set of regression coefficients can adequately describe sp…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 42 cited

Changes in night sky brightness after a countywide LED retrofit

Li-Wei Hung, Sharolyn J Anderson, Ashley Pipkin +1

The US National Park Service (NPS) Night Skies Program measured changes in sky brightness resulting from a countywide lighting retrofit project. The retrofit took place in Chelan C…

physics.geo-ph2020★ 21 cited

Dune initiation in a bimodal wind regime

Pauline Delorme, Giles. F. S. Wiggs, Matthew. C. Baddock +3

Early-stage bedforms develop into mature dunes through complex interactions between wind, sand transport and surface topography. Depending on varying environmental and wind conditi…

stat.AP2020★ 42 cited

Integrating automated acoustic vocalization data and point count surveys for estimation of bird abundance

Jeffrey W. Doser, Andrew O. Finley, Aaron S. Weed +1

Monitoring wildlife abundance across space and time is an essential task to study their population dynamics and inform effective management. Acoustic recording units are a promisin…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 26 cited

Gemini Planet Imager Spectroscopy of the Dusty Substellar Companion HD 206893 B

K. Ward-Duong, J. Patience, K. Follette +55

We present new near-infrared Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) spectroscopy of HD 206893 B, a substellar companion orbiting within the debris disk of its F5V star. The , , , and…

q-bio.PE2020

Trends in bird abundance differ among protected forests but not bird guilds

Jeffrey W. Doser, Aaron S. Weed, Elise F. Zipkin +2

Improved monitoring and associated inferential tools to efficiently identify declining bird populations, particularly of rare or sparsely distributed species, is key to informed co…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 31 cited

Multiband Polarimetric Imaging of HR 4796A with the Gemini Planet Imager

Pauline Arriaga, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Gaspard Duchêne +49

HR4796A hosts a well-studied debris disk with a long history due to its high fractional luminosity and favorable inclination lending itself well to both unresolved and resolved obs…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 2 cited

HD 165054: an astrometric calibration field for high-contrast imagers in Baade's Window

Meiji M. Nguyen, Robert J. De Rosa, Jason J. Wang +51

We present a study of the HD 165054 astrometric calibration field that has been periodically observed with the Gemini Planet Imager. HD 165054 is a bright star within Baade's Windo…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 49 cited

The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Dynamical Mass of the Exoplanet beta Pictoris b from Combined Direct Imaging and Astrometry

Eric L. Nielsen, Robert J. De Rosa, Jason J. Wang +51

We present new observations of the planet beta Pictoris b from 2018 with GPI, the first GPI observations following conjunction. Based on these new measurements, we perform a joint…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 6 cited

Detection of a low-mass stellar companion to the accelerating A2IV star HR 1645

Robert J. De Rosa, Eric L. Nielsen, Julien Rameau +50

The \, Myr A2IV star HR 1645 has one of the most significant low-amplitude accelerations of nearby early-type stars measured from a comparison of the {\it Hipparcos} and {…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 24 cited

An updated visual orbit of the directly-imaged exoplanet 51 Eridani b and prospects for a dynamical mass measurement with Gaia

Robert J. De Rosa, Eric L. Nielsen, Jason J. Wang +52

We present a revision to the visual orbit of the young, directly-imaged exoplanet 51 Eridani b using four years of observations with the Gemini Planet Imager. The relative astromet…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 21 cited

Revised Astrometric Calibration of the Gemini Planet Imager

Robert J. De Rosa, Meiji M. Nguyen, Jeffrey Chilcote +49

We present a revision to the astrometric calibration of the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), an instrument designed to achieve the high contrast at small angular separations necessary t…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 46 cited

An Exo-Kuiper Belt and An Extended Halo around HD 191089 in Scattered Light

Bin Ren, Élodie Choquet, Marshall D. Perrin +70

We have obtained Hubble Space Telescope STIS and NICMOS, and Gemini/GPI scattered light images of the HD 191089 debris disk. We identify two spatial components: a ring resembling K…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 476 cited

The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Demographics From 10-100 AU

Eric L. Nielsen, Robert J. De Rosa, Bruce Macintosh +62

We present a statistical analysis of the first 300 stars observed by the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES). This subsample includes six detected planets and three brown…

astro-ph.IM2018

Upgrading the processing pipeline for the National Park Service Night Skies Program

Li-Wei Hung, Davyd Betchkal, Sharolyn J. Anderson +1

The US National Park Service (NPS) assesses the night sky quality over parks by capturing a series of overlapping images to obtain a mosaic view of the entire night sky. The NPS Ni…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 141 cited

Dynamical Constraints on the HR 8799 Planets with GPI

Jason J. Wang, James R. Graham, Rebekah Dawson +52

The HR 8799 system uniquely harbors four young super-Jupiters whose orbits can provide insights into the system's dynamical history and constrain the masses of the planets themselv…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 291 cited

Measuring night sky brightness: methods and challenges

Andreas Hänel, Thomas Posch, Salvador J. Ribas +10

Measuring the brightness of the night sky has become an increasingly important topic in recent years, as artificial lights and their scattering by the Earths atmosphere continue sp…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 1.7k cited

The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness

Fabio Falchi, Pierantonio Cinzano, Dan Duriscoe +6

Artificial lights raise night sky luminance, creating the most visible effect of light pollution-artificial skyglow. Despite the increasing interest among scientists in fields such…

q-bio.QM2015★ 40 cited

Estimating demographic parameters using a combination of known-fate and open N-mixture models

Joshua H. Schmidt, Devin S. Johnson, Mark S. Lindberg +1

1. Accurate estimates of demographic parameters are required to infer appropriate ecological relationships and inform management actions. Recently developed N-mixture models use co…