Jeffrey A. Newman

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Jeffrey A. Newman is a leading observational cosmologist whose work centers on understanding dark energy and the large-scale structure of the universe. He is best known for his pivotal role in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) project, a Stage-IV ground-based experiment designed to map tens of millions of galaxies and quasars. Newman was instrumental in the early development of DESI’s predecessor, the BigBOSS experiment, which laid the groundwork for the current survey. His most cited paper, "The BigBOSS Experiment" (2011, 80 citations), outlined the blueprint for a 14,000-square-degree survey targeting baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and cosmic growth. More recently, Newman led the "First detection of the BAO signal from early DESI data" (2023, 37 citations), which achieved the first BAO detection using 261,291 luminous red galaxies from just two months of DESI operations—a milestone for Stage-IV cosmology. With over 10,000 total citations, his contributions are foundational to precision measurements of the universe’s expansion history, making him a key figure in the quest to unravel dark energy.

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1. 1
   The BigBOSS Experiment

   80 citations · 2011
2. 2
   First detection of the BAO signal from early DESI data

   37 citations · 2023

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