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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 effects of velocities and lensing on moments of the Hubble diagram

TL;DR: In this article, the dispersion on the supernova distance-redshift relation due to peculiar velocities and gravitational lensing, and the sensitivity of these effects to the amplitude of the matter power spectrum were considered.
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Galaxy Mass and Luminosity Scaling Laws Determined by Weak Gravitational Lensing

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present new measurements of scaling laws relating the luminosity of galaxies to the amplitude and shape of their dark matter halos, and test the universality of these mass-to-light scalings by independently measuring them for spiral and elliptical galaxies, and for galaxies in a variety of environments.
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Studying the Ultraviolet Spectrum of the First Spectroscopically Confirmed Supernova at redshift two

TL;DR: In this paper, the first spectroscopically confirmed hydrogen-free superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) at redshift z = 2.06 was discovered by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Supernova Program, with followup photometric data from the Hubble Space Telescope, Gemini, and the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope supplementing the DES data.
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Wide-Field Lensing Mass Maps from DES Science Verification Data: Methodology and Detailed Analysis

TL;DR: In this article, a weak lensing mass map is reconstructed from shear measurements in a 139sq. deg area from the DES Science Verification (SV) data, and the authors compare the distribution of mass with that of the foreground distribution of galaxies and clusters.
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Testing Emergent Gravity on Galaxy Cluster Scales

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the X-ray surface brightness measurements of the Coma cluster and from 58 stacked galaxy clusters along with the weak lensing data to test the theory of emergent gravity.