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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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The dark energy camera
B. Flaugher,H. T. Diehl,K. Honscheid,T. M. C. Abbott,O. Alvarez,R. Angstadt,J. Annis,M. Antonik,O. Ballester,L. Beaufore,Gary Bernstein,R. A. Bernstein,B. Bigelow,Marco Bonati,D. Boprie,David J. Brooks,E. Buckley-Geer,J. Campa,L. Cardiel-Sas,Francisco J. Castander,Javier Castilla,H. Cease,J. M. Cela-Ruiz,S. Chappa,Edward C. Chi,C. Cooper,L. N. da Costa,E. Dede,G. Derylo,Darren L. DePoy,J. De Vicente,Peter Doel,Alex Drlica-Wagner,J. Eiting,Ann Elliott,J. Emes,Juan Estrada,A. Fausti Neto,D. A. Finley,R. Flores,Josh Frieman,Josh Frieman,D. W. Gerdes,Michael D. Gladders,B. Gregory,G. Gutierrez,Jiangang Hao,S.E. Holland,Scott Holm,D. Huffman,Cheryl Jackson,David J. James,M. Jonas,Armin Karcher,I. Karliner,Steve Kent,Richard Kessler,Mark Kozlovsky,Richard G. Kron,Donna Kubik,Kyler Kuehn,S. E. Kuhlmann,K. Kuk,Ofer Lahav,A. Lathrop,J. Lee,Michael Levi,P. Lewis,Tianjun Li,I. Mandrichenko,Jennifer L. Marshall,G. Martinez,K. W. Merritt,Ramon Miquel,Ramon Miquel,F. Munoz,Eric H. Neilsen,Robert C. Nichol,Brian Nord,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Jamieson Olsen,N. Palaio,K. Patton,John Peoples,A. A. Plazas,A. A. Plazas,J. Rauch,Kevin Reil,J.-P. Rheault,Natalie A. Roe,H. Rogers,A. Roodman,A. Roodman,E. J. Sanchez,V. Scarpine,Rafe Schindler,Ricardo Schmidt,R. Schmitt,Michael Schubnell,Katherine Schultz,P. Schurter,L. Scott,S. Serrano,Terri Shaw,Robert Connon Smith,Marcelle Soares-Santos,A. Stefanik,W. Stuermer,E. Suchyta,A. Sypniewski,G. Tarle,Jon J Thaler,R. Tighe,C. Tran,Douglas L. Tucker,Alistair R. Walker,G. Wang,M. Watson,Curtis Weaverdyck,W. C. Wester,Robert J. Woods,Brian Yanny +121 more
TL;DR: The Dark Energy Camera as mentioned in this paper was designed and constructed by the Dark Energy Survey Collaboration, and meets or exceeds the stringent requirements designed for the wide-field and supernova surveys for which the collaboration uses it.
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Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe
Michael R. Blanton,Matthew A. Bershady,Bela Abolfathi,Franco D. Albareti,Carlos Allende Prieto,Andres Almeida,Javier Alonso-García,Friedrich Anders,Scott F. Anderson,Brett H. Andrews,E. Aquino-Ortíz,Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca,Maria Argudo-Fernández,Eric Armengaud,Éric Aubourg,Vladimir Avila-Reese,Carles Badenes,Stephen Bailey,Kathleen A. Barger,Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros,Curtis Bartosz,Dominic Bates,Falk Baumgarten,Julian E. Bautista,Rachael L. Beaton,Timothy C. Beers,Francesco Belfiore,Chad F. Bender,Andreas A. Berlind,Mariangela Bernardi,Florian Beutler,Jonathan C. Bird,Dmitry Bizyaev,Guillermo A. Blanc,Michael Blomqvist,Adam S. Bolton,Médéric Boquien,Jura Borissova,Remco C. E. van den Bosch,Jo Bovy,W. N. Brandt,Jonathan Brinkmann,Joel R. Brownstein,Kevin Bundy,Adam J. Burgasser,Etienne Burtin,Nicolás G. Busca,Michele Cappellari,Maria Leticia Delgado Carigi,Joleen K. Carlberg,Aurelio Carnero Rosell,Ricardo Carrera,Brian Cherinka,Edmond Cheung,Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew,Cristina Chiappini,Peter Doohyun Choi,Drew Chojnowski,Chia-Hsun Chuang,Haeun Chung,Rafael Fernando Cirolini,Nicolas Clerc,Roger E. Cohen,Johan Comparat,Luiz N. da Costa,M. C. Cousinou,Kevin R. Covey,Jeffrey D. Crane,Rupert A. C. Croft,Irene Cruz-González,Daniel Garrido Cuadra,Katia Cunha,Guillermo Damke,Jeremy Darling,Roger L. Davies,Kyle S. Dawson,Axel de la Macorra,Nathan De Lee,Timothée Delubac,Francesco Di Mille,A. M. Diamond-Stanic,M. Cano-Díaz,John Donor,Juan José Downes,Niv Drory,Hélion du Mas des Bourboux,Christopher Duckworth,Tom Dwelly,Jamie Dyer,Garrett Ebelke,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Eric Emsellem,Mike Eracleous,Stephanie Escoffier,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Emma Fernández-Alvar,José G. Fernández-Trincado,Diane Feuillet,Alexis Finoguenov,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Alexander Fredrickson,Gordon Freischlad,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Lluís Galbany,Rafael Garcia-Dias,D. A. García-Hernández,Patrick Gaulme,Doug Geisler,Joseph D. Gelfand,Héctor Gil-Marín,Bruce Gillespie,Daniel Goddard,Violeta Gonzalez-Perez,Kathleen Grabowski,Paul J. Green,Catherine J. Grier,James E. Gunn,Hong Guo,Julien Guy,Alex Hagen,ChangHoon Hahn,Matthew R. Hall,Paul Harding,Sten Hasselquist,Suzanne L. Hawley,Fred Hearty,Jonay I. González Hernández,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Kelly Holley-Bockelmann,Jon A. Holtzman,Parker H. Holzer,Joseph Huehnerhoff,Timothy A. Hutchinson,Ho Seong Hwang,Hector Ibarra-Medel,Gabriele da Silva Ilha,Inese I. Ivans,KeShawn Ivory,Kelly M. Jackson,Trey W. Jensen,Jennifer A. Johnson,Amy Jones,Henrik Jönsson,Eric Jullo,Vikrant Kamble,Karen Kinemuchi,D. Kirkby,Francisco-Shu Kitaura,Mark A. Klaene,Gillian R. Knapp,Jean-Paul Kneib,Juna A. Kollmeier,Ivan Lacerna,Rebecca Lane,Dustin Lang,David R. Law,Daniel Lazarz,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Fu-Heng Liang,Cheng Li,Hongyu Li,Marcos Lima,Lihwai Lin,Yen-Ting Lin,Sara Bertran de Lis,Chao Liu,Miguel Angel C. de Icaza Lizaola,Dan Long,Sara Lucatello,Britt Lundgren,Nicholas MacDonald,Alice Deconto Machado,Chelsea L. MacLeod,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Roberto Maiolino,Steven R. Majewski,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Arturo Manchado,Shude Mao,Claudia Maraston,Rui Marques-Chaves,Karen L. Masters,Cameron K. McBride,Richard M. McDermid,Brianne Meyer McGrath,Ian D. McGreer,Nicolás Medina Peña,Matthew Melendez,Andrea Merloni,Michael R. Merrifield,Szabolcs Mészáros,Andres Meza,Ivan Minchev,Dante Minniti,Takamitsu Miyaji,Surhud More,John S. Mulchaey,Francisco Müller-Sánchez,Demitri Muna,Ricardo R. Munoz,Adam D. Myers,Preethi Nair,Kirpal Nandra,Janaina Correa do Nascimento,Alenka Negrete,Melissa Ness,Jeffrey A. Newman,Robert C. Nichol,David L. Nidever,Christian Nitschelm,Pierros Ntelis,Julia O'Connell,Ryan J. Oelkers,Audrey Oravetz,Daniel Oravetz,Zach Pace,Nelson Padilla,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Pedro A. Palicio,Kaike Pan,Taniya Parikh,Isabelle Pâris,Changbom Park,Alim Y. Patten,Sebastien Peirani,Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez,Samantha J. Penny,Will J. Percival,Ismael Perez-Fournon,Patrick Petitjean,Matthew M. Pieri,Marc H. Pinsonneault,Alice Pisani,Radosław Poleski,Francisco Prada,Abhishek Prakash,Anna B. A. Queiroz,M. Jordan Raddick,Anand Raichoor,Sandro Barboza Rembold,Hannah Richstein,Rogemar A. Riffel,Rogério Riffel,Hans-Walter Rix,Annie C. Robin,Constance M. Rockosi,Sergio Rodríguez-Torres,Alexandre Roman-Lopes,Carlos Román-Zúñiga,Margarita Rosado,Ashley J. Ross,Graziano Rossi,John J. Ruan,Rossana Ruggeri,Eli S. Rykoff,Salvador Salazar-Albornoz,Mara Salvato,Ariel G. Sánchez,David Aguado,José R. Sánchez-Gallego,Felipe A. Santana,Basilio X. Santiago,Conor Sayres,Ricardo P. Schiavon,J. S. Schimoia,Edward F. Schlafly,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,Mathias Schultheis,William J. Schuster,Axel Schwope,Hee-Jong Seo,Zhengyi Shao,Shiyin Shen,Matthew Shetrone,Michael Shull,Joshua D. Simon,D. Skinner,Michael F. Skrutskie,Anže Slosar,Verne V. Smith,Jennifer Sobeck,Flavia Sobreira,Garrett Somers,Diogo Souto,David V. Stark,Keivan G. Stassun,Fritz Stauffer,Matthias Steinmetz,Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann,Alina Streblyanska,Guy S. Stringfellow,Genaro Suárez,Jing Sun,Nao Suzuki,László Szigeti,Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp,Baitian Tang,Charling Tao,Jamie Tayar,Mita Tembe,Johanna Teske,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Benjamin A. Thompson,Jeremy L. Tinker,Patricia B. Tissera,Rita Tojeiro,Hector Hernandez Toledo,Sylvain de la Torre,Christy Tremonti,Nicholas Troup,Octavio Valenzuela,Inma Martinez Valpuesta,Jaime Vargas-González,Mariana Vargas-Magaña,Jose Alberto Vazquez,Sandro Villanova,M. Vivek,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Rene A. M. Walterbos,Yuting Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,Anne-Marie Weijmans,David H. Weinberg,Kyle B. Westfall,David G. Whelan,Vivienne Wild,John Wilson,W. M. Wood-Vasey,Dominika Wylezalek,Ting Xiao,Renbin Yan,Meng Yang,Jason E. Ybarra,Christophe Yèche,Nadia L. Zakamska,Olga Zamora,Pauline Zarrouk,Gail Zasowski,Kai Zhang,Gong-Bo Zhao,Zheng Zheng,Zhimin Zhou,Guangtun Zhu,Manuela Zoccali,Hu Zou +352 more
TL;DR: SDSS-IV as mentioned in this paper is a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs: the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA), the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS), and the Time Domain Spectroscopy Survey (TDSS).
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Galaxy bimodality versus stellar mass and environment
Ivan K. Baldry,Michael L. Balogh,Richard G. Bower,Karl Glazebrook,Robert C. Nichol,Steven P. Bamford,Tamás Budavári +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse a z < 0.1 galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey focusing on the variation in the galaxy color bimodality with stellar mass M and projected neighbour density Σ, and on measurements of the galaxy stellar mass functions.
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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,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,Paul C. Czarapata,Mamoru Doi,Timothy M. Heckman,Gregory S. Hennessy,Zeljko Ivezic,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,Anirudda R. Thakar,D. G. York +29 more
TL;DR: In this article, moderate resolution Keck spectroscopy of quasars at z=5.82, 5.99 and 6.28 was presented, and it was shown that the Ly Alpha absorption in the spectra evolves strongly with redshift.
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The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy,Marcel A. Agüeros,S. Allam,S. Allam,K. S. J. Anderson,Scott F. Anderson,James Annes,Neta A. Bahcall,Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones,Ivan K. Baldry,Ivan K. Baldry,J. C. Barentine,Timothy C. Beers,Vasily Belokurov,Andreas A. Berlind,Mariangela Bernardi,Michael R. Blanton,John J. Bochanski,William N. Boroski,D. M. Bramich,Howard Brewington,Jarle Brenchmann,Jon Brinkmann,Robert J. Brunner,Tamás Budavári,Larry N. Carey,Samuel Carliles,Michael A. Carr,Francisco J. Castander,A. J. Connolly,Richard J. Cool,Carlos E. Cunha,István Csabai,István Csabai,Julianne J. Dalcanton,Mamoru Doi,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Michael L. Evans,Nick Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Douglas P. Finkbeiner,Scott D. Friedman,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,Masataka Fukugita,Bruce Gillespie,Gerry Gilmore,Karl Glazebrook,Jim Gray,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,Ernst De Haas,Patreck B. Hall,Michael Harvanek,Suzanne L. Hawley,Jeffrey J. E. Hayes,Timothy M. Heckman,John S. Hendry,Gregory S. Hennessy,Robert B. Hindsley,Christopher M. Herata,Craeg J. Hogan,Daved W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,Shin-Ichi Ichikawa,Takashi Ichikawa,Željko Ivezić,Sebastian Jester,David Johnston,Anders M. Jorgensen,Mario Juric,Guinevere Kauffmann,Stephen M. Kent,S. J. Kleinman,Gillian R. Knapp,Alexei Y. Kniazev,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Jurek Krzesinski,Jurek Krzesinski,Nikolay Kuropatkin,D. Q. Lamb,Hubert Lampeitl,Brian C. Lee,R. French Leger,Marcos Lema,Huan Lin,Daneel C. Long,Jonathan Loveday,Robert H. Lupton,Rachel Mandelbaum,Bruce Margon,David Martínez-Delgado,Takaheko Matsubara,Peregrine M. McGehee,Temothy A. McKay,Avery Meiksen,Jeffrey A. Munn,Reiko Nakajima,Thomas Nash,Eric H. Neilsen,Heidi Jo Newberg,Robert C. Nichol,Maria Nieto-Santisteban,Atsuko Nitta,Hiroaki Oyaizu,Sadanori Okamura,Jeremiah P. Ostriker,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Changbom Park,John Peoples,Jeffrey R. Pier,Adrian Pope,Dimetre Pourbaix,Dimetre Pourbaix,Thomas R. Quinn,M. Jordan Raddick,Paola Re Fiorenin,Gordon T. Richards,Gordon T. Richards,Mechael W. Rechmond,Hans-Walter Rix,Constance M. Rockosi,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,Ryan Scranton,Uroš Seljak,Erin Sheldon,K. Shimasaku,Nicole M. Silvestri,J. Allyn Smith,J. Allyn Smith,Vernesa Smolčić,Stephanie A. Snedden,Albert Stebbins,Chris Stoughton,Michael A. Strauss,Mark SubbaRao,Mark SubbaRao,Yasushi Suto,Alexander S. Szalay,István Szapudi,Paula Szkody,Max Tegmark,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Christy A. Tremonti,Douglas L. Tucker,Alan Uomoto,Alan Uomoto,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Jan Vandenberg,S. Vidrih,Mechael S. Vogeley,Wolfgang Voges,Nicole P. Vogt,David H. Weinberg,Andrew A. West,Simon D. M. White,Brian C. Wilhite,Brian Yanny,D. R. Yocum,Donald G. York,Idit Zehavi,Stefano Zibetti,Daniel B. Zucker,Daniel B. Zucker +166 more
TL;DR: The Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) was released in 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I project as mentioned in this paper, which includes five-band photometric data for 217 million objects selected over 8000 deg 2 and 1,048,960 spectra of galaxies, quasars, and stars selected from 5713 deg 2 of imaging data.