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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 SDSS-II Supernova Survey: Parameterizing the Type Ia Supernova Rate as a Function of Host Galaxy Properties
Mathew Smith,Robert C. Nichol,Benjamin Dilday,Benjamin Dilday,John Marriner,Richard Kessler,Bruce A. Bassett,Bruce A. Bassett,D. Cinabro,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,Peter M. Garnavich,Saurabh Jha,Hubert Lampeitl,Masao Sako,Donald P. Schneider,Jesper Sollerman +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the rate of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as a function of galaxy properties at intermediate redshift using broad-band photometry.
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First SN Discoveries from the Dark Energy Survey
T. M. C. Abbott,F. B. Abdalla,Ixandra Achitouv,E. Ahn,Greg Aldering,S. Allam,David Alonso,Adam Amara,J. Annis,M. Antonik,Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca,Robert Armstrong,Chris Ashall,Jacobo Asorey,David Bacon,Eduardo Balbinot,M. Banerji,Kyle Barbary,Wayne A. Barkhouse,L. Baruah,A. Bauer,Keith Bechtol,Matthew R. Becker,R. Bender,C. Benoist,A. Benoit-Lévy,M. Bernardi,Gary Bernstein,J. P. Bernstein,Rebecca Bernstein,E. Bertin,Emma Beynon,S. Bhattacharya,T. Biesiadzinski,Rahul Biswas,C. Blake,J. S. Bloom,Sebastian Bocquet,Carlos H. Brandt,Sarah Bridle,David J. Brooks,Peter J. Brown,Robert J. Brunner,E. Buckley-Geer,D. L. Burke,A. Burkert,M. T. Busha,J. Campa,H. Campbell,R. Cane,D. Capozzi,John E. Carlstrom,A. Carnero Rosell,Marcella Carollo,M. Carrasco-Kind,J. Carretero,M. Carter,R. Casas,F. J. Castander,Y. Chen,I. Chiu,C. Chue,Joseph Clampitt,L. Clerkin,Joanne Cohn,Matthew Colless,E. Copeland,R. A. Covarrubias,Robert Crittenden,Martin Crocce,Carlos E. Cunha,L. N. da Costa,C. B. D'Andrea,S. Das,R. Das,Tamara M. Davis,S. Deb,Darren L. DePoy,G. Derylo,S. Desai,F. de Simoni,Mark J. Devlin,H. T. Diehl,J. P. Dietrich,Scott Dodelson,P. Doel,Klaus Dolag,George Efstathiou,T. F. Eifler,Brandon M. S. Erickson,Martin Eriksen,Juan Estrada,J. Etherington,August E. Evrard,S. Farrens,A. Fausti Neto,Enrique J. Fernández,Pedro C. Ferreira,D. A. Finley,J. A. Fischer,B. Flaugher,P. Fosalba,Joshua A. Frieman,Cristina Furlanetto,Juan Garcia-Bellido,Enrique Gaztanaga,M. Gelman,D. W. Gerdes,Tommaso Giannantonio,S. Gilhool,M. S. S. Gill,Michael D. Gladders,L. Gladney,Karl Glazebrook,Meghan E. Gray,Daniel Gruen,Robert A. Gruendl,R. R. Gupta,G. Gutierrez,Salman Habib,E. D. Hall,S. M. Hansen,J. Hao,Katrin Heitmann,Jennifer E. Helsby,R. Henderson,C. Hennig,Will High,Michael Hirsch,Kai Hoffmann,K. Holhjem,K. Honscheid,Ole Host,Ben Hoyle,Wayne Hu,E. M. Huff,Dragan Huterer,Bhuvnesh Jain,D. James,Matt J. Jarvis,M. Jarvis,Tesla E. Jeltema,Marvin Johnson,Stephanie Jouvel,T. Kacprzak,I. Karliner,J. Katsaros,Steve Kent,Richard Kessler,A. G. Kim,T. Kim-Vy,L. King,D. Kirk,Christopher S. Kochanek,Michael Kopp,Johannes Koppenhoefer,Eve Kovacs,Elisabeth Krause,Andrey V. Kravtsov,Richard G. Kron,Kyler Kuehn,M. Kuemmel,S. E. Kuhlmann,Andrea Kunder,N. Kuropatkin,J. Kwan,O. Lahav,Boris Leistedt,M. E. Levi,Peter Lewis,Andrew R. Liddle,C. Lidman,S. J. Lilly,Huan Lin,J. Liu,C. Lopez-Arenillas,Wolfgang Lorenzon,Marilena LoVerde,Zhe Ma,Roy Maartens,N. MacCrann,Lucas M. Macri,M. A. G. Maia,Martin Makler,M. Manera,Claudia Maraston,M. March,K. Markovic,J. P. Marriner,Jennifer L. Marshall,S. L. Marshall,P. Martini,P. Marti Sanahuja,Julian A. Mayers,Timothy A. McKay,Richard G. McMahon,Peter Melchior,K. W. Merritt,Alex Merson,C. J. Miller,Ramon Miquel,Joseph J. Mohr,Todd Moore,Michael J. Mortonson,J. Mosher,J. R. Mould,Pia Mukherjee,Eric H. Neilsen,C. Ngeow,Robert C. Nichol,David L. Nidever,B. Nord,Peter Nugent,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Lyndsay Old,Jamieson Olsen,F. Ostrovski,K. Paech,A. Papadopoulos,C. Papovich,K. Patton,John A. Peacock,Paulo S. Pellegrini,John Peoples,Will J. Percival,Saul Perlmutter,Don Petravick,A. A. Plazas,Rafael Ponce,Gregory B. Poole,A. Pope,A. Refregier,R. Reyes,Paul M. Ricker,Natalie A. Roe,K. Romer,A. Roodman,P. Rooney,A. J. Ross,Barnaby Rowe,E. Rozo,E. S. Rykoff,Cristiano G. Sabiu,R. P. Saglia,M. Sako,Ariel G. Sánchez,Carles Sanchez,E. J. Sanchez,Javier Sánchez,Basilio X. Santiago,A. Saro,V. Scarpine,R. H. Schindler,Brian P. Schmidt,R. Schmitt,Michael Schubnell,Stella Seitz,R. Senger,I. Sevilla,R. G. Sharp,Erin Sheldon,Ravi K. Sheth,Robert Connon Smith,M. Smith,Jan Snigula,Marcelle Soares-Santos,Flavia Sobreira,J. Song,Maayane T. Soumagnac,H. M. Spinka,Albert Stebbins,Christopher Stoughton,E. Suchyta,R. Suhada,Mark Sullivan,F. Sun,N. B. Suntzeff,William J. Sutherland,M. E. C. Swanson,A. Sypniewski,R. Szepietowski,R. Talaga,G. Tarle,E. Tarrant,S. Thaithara Balan,J. J. Thaler,Daniel Thomas,R. C. Thomas,Douglas L. Tucker,S. A. Uddin,S. Ural,Vinu Vikram,L. M. Voigt,Alistair R. Walker,T. Walker,Risa H. Wechsler,D. H. Weinberg,Jochen Weller,W. C. Wester,M. Wetzstein,Martin White,H. Wilcox,D. Wilman,B. Yanny,J. Young,A. Zablocki,Alfredo Zenteno,Yanxi Zhang,J. Zuntz +308 more
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The Mean and Scatter of the Velocity Dispersion-Optical Richness Relation for maxBCG Galaxy Clusters
Matthew R. Becker,Timothy A. McKay,Benjamin P. Koester,Risa H. Wechsler,Eduardo Rozo,August E. Evrard,David B. R. Johnston,Erin S. Sheldon,James Annis,Erwin T. Lau,Robert C. Nichol,Christopher J. Miller +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the mean and scatter in velocity dispersion at fixed richness of BCG-Galaxy velocity correlation function and showed that the scatter is at most 40.5+/-3.5% for small clusters and 14.9+/-9.4% for large clusters.
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Non-Parametric Inference in Astrophysics
Larry Wasserman,Christopher J. Miller,Robert C. Nichol,Christopher R. Genovese,Woncheol Jang,Andrew J. Connolly,Andrew W. Moore,Jeff Schneider +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, non-parametric density estimation and regression for astrophysics problems are discussed, in particular, how to compute nonparametric confidence intervals for the location and size of peaks of a function.
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The Edinburgh/Durham Southern Galaxy Catalogue - IX. The Galaxy Catalogue
TL;DR: The Edinburgh/Durham Southern Galaxy Catalogue (EDSGC) as discussed by the authors contains 1,495,877 galaxies (each with 27 image parameters) covering an contiguous area of 1182 sq deg centered on the South Galactic Pole.