Peter Ferguson

Employment

• University of Washington DiRAC Fellow
  2024 - Present
• University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Associate
  2021 - 2024

Education

• Texas A&M University PhD. Astronomy
  2016 - 2021

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (86)

• Dark Energy Camera All Data Everywhere cosmic shear project. V. Constraints on cosmology and astrophysics from 270 million galaxies across <inline-formula><mml:math><mml:mn>13,000</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mi>deg<…
  Physical Review D 2026 DOI: 10.1103/k4lq-2s73
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• Enrichment by the first stars in a relic dwarf galaxy
  Nature Astronomy 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41550-026-02802-z
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• The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Preview 1
  The Astronomical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ae521f
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• Hyrax: An Extensible Framework for Rapid ML Experimentation and Unsupervised Discovery in the Era of Rubin, Roman, and Euclid
  arXiv e-prints 2026
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• No Stream Left Unscathed: The imprint of a host galaxy
  arXiv e-prints 2026
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• The Dark Energy Bedrock All-sky Supernova Program: Motivation, Design, Implementation, and Preliminary Data Release
  Nora Sherman, Maria Acevedo, Dillon Brout

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  • Daniel M. Scolnic
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  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae48ff
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• Warped and Hooked: Mapping the Magellanic Clouds in Three Dimensions Using Red Clump Stars
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae5c9e
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• Sifting for a Stream: The Morphology of the 300 S Stellar Stream
  The Open Journal of Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.33232/001c.161089
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• Robust Measurement of Stellar Streams around the Milky Way: Correcting Spatially Variable Observational Selection Effects in Optical Imaging Surveys
  K.K. Boone, P. S. Ferguson, M. Tabbutt +48 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae589c
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• DECADE+DES Y3 weak lensing mass map: A <inline-formula><mml:math><mml:mrow><mml:mn>13</mml:mn><mml:mo>,</mml:mo><mml:mn>000</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mi>deg</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mm…
  Physical Review D 2026 DOI: 10.1103/lg8b-9ykz
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• NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae4b3a
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• The DECam MAGIC Survey: Investigating the Jet Stellar Stream with Photometric Metallicities
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2604.13374
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• DELVE Milky Way Satellite Galaxy Census. I. Satellite Population and Survey Selection Function in DES, DELVE, and Pan-STARRS
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae4479
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• TOI-7169 b: A Hot Jupiter Transiting a Metal-Poor Star
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2603.25787
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• Ultra-faint Milky Way Satellites Discovered in Carina, Phoenix, and Telescopium with DELVE Data Release 3
  Chin Yi Tan, W. Cerny, Andrew B. Pace +76 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae43e2
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• 47 Tuc in Rubin Data Preview 1. Exploring Early LSST Data and Science Potential
  American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts 2026
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• A Path to an All-Sky Survey with Roman
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2602.21280
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• The DECam MAGIC Survey: Uncovering the Tidal Tails of the Crater II Dwarf Galaxy
  arXiv e-prints 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2602.21283
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• The Dark Energy Bedrock All-sky Supernova Program: Cross Calibration, Simulations, and Cosmology Forecasts
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae1e78
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• $S^5$: Tidal Disruption in Crater 2 and Formation of Diffuse Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Group
  arXiv e-prints 2025
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