Bibliography

This bibliography includes only works of which I am the primary author. Additional papers to which I made contributions can be found on inSPIRE.

General computing notes

• Python pandas examples and cookbook.
• Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook.
• Notes on Dervish.

Material of interest primarily to Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaborators

• Querying the SISPI database.
• Example queries to the SISPI database.
• Finding, reading, and plotting the DES wide-survey footprint.
• Automatically generated DES coverage map and observing history.
• Many other documents can be found either in the DES DocDB or hosted on des-ops.fnal.gov.

Notes for presentations

• Python for Dervish and Astrotools Users (and other astronomers), a chalk-talk given to the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics. (Now very out of date!)
• Image coaddition, PSF homogenization, and matched filters, a presentation given to the DES DM group at NCSA in 2009.

Technical documents (First author only)

• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr. "Clouds at CTIO and the Dark Energy Survey." Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, 2015 (FERMILAB-FN-1002-AE-CD).
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr. Gary Bernstein, Robert Gruendl, and Stephen Kent. "Limiting magnitude, τ, t_eff, and image quality in DES Year 1." Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, 2015 (FERMILAB-TM-2610-AE-CD).

Conferences (First author presentations only)

• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Jim Annis. "ObsTac: automated execution of DES observing tactics." In Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XXIII, edited by N. Manset and P. Forshay, 2014. (poster)
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr. "Prediction of Observing Conditions for DES Exposure Scheduling." In Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XXI, edited by P. Ballester, D. Egret, and N.P.F. Lorente, 2012.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Erik E. Gottschalk. "A Prototype Data Processing System for JDEM." In Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XIX, edited by Yoshihiko Mizumoto, Koh-Ichiro Morita, and Masatoshi Ohishi, 2010.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr. "Image Stacking Tools for Modern Surveys." In Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XVII, edited by Robert W. Argyle, Peter S. Bunclark, and James R. Lewis., 2008.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Chris Stoughton. "Running the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Archive Server." In Proceedings of Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems XVI, edited by R. Shaw, F. Hill, D. Bell, 2007.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., James Simone. "Lattice QCD Data and Metadata Archives at Fermilab and the International Lattice Data Grid." In Proceedings of CHEP 2004. 2004.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Alan Uomoto, Stephen M. Kent, James T. Annis. "Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometric telescope automation and observing software." In Proceedings of the SPIE, vol. 4848, Advanced Telescope and Instrumentation Control Software II, edited by Hilton Lewis, 376-386. 2002.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Richard G. Kron, William N. Boroski. "Sloan Digital Sky Survey observing time tracking and efficiency measurement." In Proceedings of the SPIE, vol. 4844, Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return III, edited by Peter J. Quinn, 130-138. 2002.

Journal articles (First author publications only)

• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr. "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Archive Server." Computing in Science and Engineering 10 (January 2008): 13-17.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Zlatan I. Tsvetanov. "The Structure of the Virgo Cluster from Surface Brightness Fluctuations in Hubble Space Telescope Images." The Astrophysical Journal 536 (June 2000): 255-265.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Zlatan I. Tsvetanov. "The Color Distributions of Globular Clusters in Virgo Elliptical Galaxies." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 515 (February 1999): 13-16.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Zlatan I. Tsvetanov, Holland C. Ford. "The Surface Brightness Fluctuations and Globular Cluster Population of NGC 4478." The Astrophysical Journal 483 (February 1997): 745-753.

Dissertations and theses

• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr. "The Surface Brightness Fluctuations and Globular Cluster Populations of Virgo Elliptical and Lenticular Galaxies." PhD diss., The Johns Hopkins University, 1999.
• Eric H. Neilsen, Jr. "Maxwell's Demon and the Entropy of Information." Honors Project, Kenyon College, 1992.

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