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Robert C. Nichol
Researcher at Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth
Publications - 860
Citations - 176885
Robert C. Nichol is an academic researcher from Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Redshift. The author has an hindex of 187, co-authored 851 publications receiving 162994 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert C. Nichol include University of Chicago & South East Physics Network.
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Spectroscopic Target Selection for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Luminous Red Galaxy Sample
Daniel J. Eisenstein,J. Annis,James E. Gunn,Alexander S. Szalay,A. J. Connolly,Robert C. Nichol,Neta A. Bahcall,M. Bernardi,Scott Burles,Francisco J. Castander,Masataka Fukugita,David W. Hogg,Z. Ivezic,Gillian R. Knapp,Robert H. Lupton,Vijay K. Narayanan,Marc Postman,D. E. Riechart,Michael Richmond,Donald P. Schneider,David J. Schlegel,Michael A. Strauss,M. Subbarao,Douglas L. Tucker,D. E. vanden Berk,Michael S. Vogeley,David H. Weinberg,B. Yanny +27 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the target selection and resulting properties of a spectroscopic sample of luminous, red galaxies (LRG) from the imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).
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The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey
Kevork N. Abazajian,Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy,Marcel A. Agüeros,S. Allam,Scott F. Anderson,James Annis,Neta A. Bahcall,Ivan K. Baldry,Steven Bastian,Andreas A. Berlind,Mariangela Bernardi,Michael R. Blanton,Norman Blythe,John J. Bochanski,William N. Boroski,Howard Brewington,John W. Briggs,Jon Brinkmann,Robert J. Brunner,Tamás Budavári,Larry N. Carey,Michael A. Carr,Francisco J. Castander,Kuenley Chiu,Matthew J. Collinge,A. J. Connolly,Kevin R. Covey,István Csabai,István Csabai,Julianne J. Dalcanton,Scott Dodelson,Scott Dodelson,Mamoru Doi,Feng Dong,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Paul D. Feldman,Douglas P. Finkbeiner,Scott D. Friedman,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,Masataka Fukugita,Roy R. Gal,Bruce Gillespie,Karl Glazebrook,Carlos F. Gonzalez,Jim Gray,Eva K. Grebel,Lauren Grodnicki,James E. Gunn,Vijay K. Gurbani,Vijay K. Gurbani,Patrick B. Hall,Patrick B. Hall,Lei Hao,Daniel Harbeck,Frederick H. Harris,Hugh C. Harris,Michael Harvanek,Suzanne L. Hawley,Timothy M. Heckman,J. F. Helmboldt,John S. Hendry,Gregory S. Hennessy,Robert B. Hindsley,David W. Hogg,Donald J. Holmgren,Jon A. Holtzman,Lee Homer,Lam Hui,Shin-Ichi Ichikawa,Takashi Ichikawa,John P. Inkmann,Željko Ivezić,Sebastian Jester,David Johnston,Beatrice Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,Anders M. Jorgensen,Mario Juric,Guinevere Kauffmann,Stephen M. Kent,Scot Kleinman,Gillian R. Knapp,Alexei Y. Kniazev,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Jurek Krzesinski,Jurek Krzesinski,Peter Z. Kunszt,Peter Z. Kunszt,N. Kuropatkin,D. Q. Lamb,H. Lampeitl,Bryan E. Laubscher,Brian C. Lee,R. French Leger,Nolan Li,Adam Lidz,Huan Lin,Yeong Shang Loh,Dan Long,Jon Loveday,Robert H. Lupton,Tanu Malik,Bruce Margon,Peregrine M. McGehee,Peregrine M. McGehee,Timothy A. McKay,Avery Meiksin,Gajus Miknaitis,Bhasker Moorthy,Jeffrey A. Munn,Tara Murphy,Reiko Nakajima,Vijay K. Narayanan,Thomas Nash,Eric H. Neilsen,Heidi Jo Newberg,Peter R. Newman,Robert C. Nichol,T. Nicinski,T. Nicinski,Maria Nieto-Santisteban,Atsuko Nitta,Michael Odenkirchen,Sadanori Okamura,Jeremiah P. Ostriker,Russell Owen,Nikhil Padmanabhan,John Peoples,Jeffrey R. Pier,Bartosz Pindor,Adrian Pope,Thomas R. Quinn,Roman R. Rafikov,Sean N. Raymond,Gordon T. Richards,Michael Richmond,Hans-Walter Rix,Constance M. Rockosi,Joop Schaye,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,Joshua Schroeder,Ryan Scranton,Maki Sekiguchi,Uroš Seljak,G. Sergey,B. Sesar,Erin Sheldon,K. Shimasaku,Walter A. Siegmund,Nicole M. Silvestri,Allan J. Sinisgalli,Edwin Sirko,J. Allyn Smith,J. Allyn Smith,Vernesa Smolić,Stephanie A. Snedden,Albert Stebbins,Charles L. Steinhardt,Gregory S. Stinson,Chris Stoughton,Iskra Strateva,Michael A. Strauss,Mark Subba Rao,Alexander S. Szalay,István Szapudi,Paula Szkody,Lidia Tasca,Max Tegmark,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Christy Tremonti,Christy Tremonti,Douglas L. Tucker,Alan Uomoto,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Jan Vandenberg,Michael S. Vogeley,Wolfgang Voges,Nicole P. Vogt,Lucianne M. Walkowicz,David H. Weinberg,Andrew A. West,Simon D. M. White,Brian C. Wilhite,Beth Willman,Yongzhong Xu,Brian Yanny,Jean Yarger,Naoki Yasuda,Ching-Wa Yip,D. R. Yocum,Donald G. York,Nadia L. Zakamska,Idit Zehavi,Wei Zheng,Stefano Zibetti,Daniel B. Zucker +201 more
TL;DR: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release as discussed by the authors, which consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of galaxies, quasars, stars and calibrating blank sky patches selected over 1360 deg 2 of this area.
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A Survey of z > 5.8 quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey I: Discovery of three new quasars and the spatial density of luminous quasars at z ~ 6
Xiaohui Fan,Vijay K. Narayanan,Robert H. Lupton,Michael A. Strauss,Gillian R. Knapp,Robert H. Becker,Robert H. Becker,Richard L. White,Laura Pentericci,S. K. Leggett,Zoltan Haiman,James E. Gunn,Željko Ivezić,Donald P. Schneider,Scott F. Anderson,Jon Brinkmann,Neta A. Bahcall,Andrew J. Connolly,István Csabai,István Csabai,Doi Mamoru,Masataka Fukugita,Thomas R. Geballe,Eva K. Grebel,Daniel Harbeck,Gregory S. Hennessy,D. Q. Lamb,Gajus Miknaitis,Jeffrey A. Munn,Robert C. Nichol,Sadanori Okamura,Jeffrey R. Pier,Francisco Prada,Gordon T. Richards,Alexander S. Szalay,Donald G. York +35 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results from a survey of i-dropout objects selected from ~1550 deg2 of multicolor imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to search for luminous quasars at z 5.8.
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Evidence for reionization at z ∼ 6: Detection of a gunn-peterson trough in a z = 6.28 quasar
Robert H. Becker,Robert H. Becker,Xiaohui Fan,Richard L. White,Michael A. Strauss,Vijay K. Narayanan,Robert H. Lupton,James E. Gunn,James Annis,Neta A. Bahcall,J. Brinkmann,A. J. Connolly,István Csabai,István Csabai,Paul C. Czarapata,Mamoru Doi,Timothy M. Heckman,Gregory S. Hennessy,Željko Ivezić,Gillian R. Knapp,D. Q. Lamb,Timothy A. McKay,Jeffrey A. Munn,Thomas Nash,Robert C. Nichol,Jeffrey R. Pier,Gordon T. Richards,Donald P. Schneider,Chris Stoughton,Alexander S. Szalay,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Donald G. York +31 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present moderate-resolution Keck spectroscopy of quasars at z = 5.82, 5.99, and 6.28, discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).
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Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Lyα forest of BOSS DR11 quasars
Timothée Delubac,Julian E. Bautista,Nicolás G. Busca,James Rich,D. Kirkby,Stephen Bailey,Andreu Font-Ribera,Anže Slosar,Khee Gan Lee,Matthew M. Pieri,Jean Christophe Hamilton,Éric Aubourg,Michael Blomqvist,Jo Bovy,Jon Brinkmann,William Carithers,Kyle S. Dawson,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Satya Gontcho A Gontcho,Jean-Paul Kneib,Jean-Paul Kneib,Jean Marc Le Goff,Daniel Margala,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Adam D. Myers,Robert C. Nichol,P. Noterdaeme,R. W. O'Connell,Matthew D. Olmstead,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Isabelle Pâris,Patrick Petitjean,Nicholas P. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Graziano Rossi,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,David H. Weinberg,Christophe Yèche,Donald G. York +39 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a detection of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the flux-correlation function of the Ly forest of high-redshift quasars with a statistical significance of five standard deviations was reported.