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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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A gravitationally lensed quasar with quadruple images separated by 14.62 arcseconds.
Naohisa Inada,Masamune Oguri,Bartosz Pindor,Joseph F. Hennawi,Kuenley Chiu,Wei Zheng,Shin-Ichi Ichikawa,Michael D. Gregg,Michael D. Gregg,R. H. Becker,R. H. Becker,Yasushi Suto,Michael A. Strauss,Edwin L. Turner,Charles R. Keeton,James Annis,Francisco J. Castander,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,Masataka Fukugita,James E. Gunn,David Johnston,Stephen M. Kent,Robert C. Nichol,Gordon T. Richards,Hans-Walter Rix,Erin Sheldon,Neta A. Bahcall,J. Brinkmann,Zeljko Ivezic,D. Q. Lamb,Timothy A. McKay,Donald P. Schneider,Donald G. York +34 more
TL;DR: The discovery of a lensed quasar, SDSS J1004 + 4112, which has a maximum separation between the components of 14.62 arcsec is reported, fully consistent with theoretical expectations based on the cold-dark-matter model.
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4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals
Roelof S. de Jong,Oscar Agertz,Alex Agudo Berbel,James Aird,David A. Alexander,Anish M. Amarsi,Friedrich Anders,Rene Andrae,Behzad Ansarinejad,Wolfgang R. Ansorge,P. Antilogus,H. Anwand-Heerwart,Anke Arentsen,Anna Arnadottir,Martin Asplund,Matt Auger,Nicolas Azais,Dietrich Baade,Gabriella Baker,Sufyan Baker,Eduardo Balbinot,Ivan K. Baldry,Manda Banerji,Samuel C. Barden,Paul S. Barklem,Eléonore Barthélémy-Mazot,Chiara Battistini,Svend M. Bauer,Cameron P. M. Bell,Olga Bellido-Tirado,Sabine Bellstedt,Vasily Belokurov,Thomas Bensby,Maria Bergemann,J. M. Bestenlehner,R. M. Bielby,Maciej Bilicki,Chris Blake,Joss Bland-Hawthorn,Corrado Boeche,Wilfried Boland,Thomas Boller,Sebastien Bongard,Angela Bongiorno,Piercarlo Bonifacio,Didier Boudon,David A. Brooks,Michael J. I. Brown,Rebecca L. Brown,Marcus Brüggen,Joar Brynnel,Jurek Brzeski,Thomas Buchert,P. Buschkamp,Elisabetta Caffau,Patrick Caillier,Jonathan E. Carrick,Luca Casagrande,Scott Case,Andrew R. Casey,Isabella Cesarini,G. Cescutti,Diane Chapuis,Cristina Chiappini,M. Childress,Norbert Christlieb,Ross P. Church,Maria-Rosa L. Cioni,Michelle E. Cluver,Matthew Colless,Thomas E. Collett,Johan Comparat,Andrew Cooper,Warrick J. Couch,Warrick J. Couch,Frederic Courbin,Scott M. Croom,Darren J. Croton,Eric Daguisé,Gavin Dalton,Luke J. M. Davies,Tamara M. Davis,Patrick de Laverny,Alis J. Deason,Frank Dionies,K. Disseau,Peter Doel,Daniel Döscher,Simon P. Driver,Tom Dwelly,Dominique Eckert,Alastair C. Edge,Bengt Edvardsson,Dalal El Youssoufi,Ahmed Elhaddad,Harry Enke,G. Erfanianfar,Tony Farrell,Thomas Fechner,C. Feiz,Sofia Feltzing,Ignacio Ferreras,Dietrich Feuerstein,D. Feuillet,Alexis Finoguenov,D. Ford,Sotiria Fotopoulou,Morgan Fouesneau,Carlos S. Frenk,Steffen Frey,Wolfgang Gaessler,Stephan Geier,Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo,Ortwin Gerhard,Tommaso Giannantonio,Domenico Giannone,Brad K. Gibson,Peter Gillingham,Carlos González-Fernández,Eduardo Gonzalez-Solares,Stefan Gottloeber,Andrew Gould,Andrew Gould,Eva K. Grebel,A. Gueguen,Guillaume Guiglion,Martin G. Haehnelt,T. Hahn,Camilla Juul Hansen,Henrik Hartman,Katja Hauptner,Keith Hawkins,Dionne M. Haynes,Roger Haynes,Ulrike Heiter,Amina Helmi,Cesar Hernandez Aguayo,Paul C. Hewett,Samuel Hinton,David Hobbs,S. F. Hoenig,David Hofman,Isobel Hook,Joshua Hopgood,Andrew M. Hopkins,A. Hourihane,L. M. Howes,Cullan Howlett,Tristan Huet,Mike Irwin,Olaf Iwert,Pascale Jablonka,Thomas Jahn,Knud Jahnke,Aurélien Jarno,Shoko Jin,Paula Jofre,Diana Johl,Damien Jones,Henrik Jönsson,Carola Jordan,I. Karovicova,A. Khalatyan,Andreas Kelz,Robert C. Kennicutt,David A. King,Francisco S. Kitaura,Jochen Klar,Urs Klauser,Jean-Paul Kneib,Andreas Koch,Sergey E. Koposov,Georges Kordopatis,Andreas Korn,Johan Kosmalski,Rubina Kotak,Mikhail Kovalev,Kathryn Kreckel,Yevgen Kripak,Mirko Krumpe,Koen H. Kuijken,Andrea Kunder,Iryna Kushniruk,Man I Lam,Georg Lamer,Florence Laurent,Jon Lawrence,M. Lehmitz,Bertrand Lemasle,James R. Lewis,Baojiu Li,Chris Lidman,Karin Lind,Jochen Liske,Jean-Louis Lizon,Jon Loveday,Hans-Günter Ludwig,Richard M. McDermid,Kate Maguire,Vincenzo Mainieri,Slavko Mali,Holger Mandel,Kaisey S. Mandel,Liz Mannering,Liz Mannering,Sarah L. Martell,David Martinez Delgado,Gal Matijevic,Helen McGregor,Richard G. McMahon,Paul J. McMillan,Olga Mena,Andrea Merloni,Martin Meyer,Christophe Michel,Genoveva Micheva,Jean-Emmanuel Migniau,Ivan Minchev,Giacomo Monari,Rolf Muller,David Murphy,Daniel Muthukrishna,Kirpal Nandra,Ramón Navarro,Melissa Ness,Vijay Nichani,Robert C. Nichol,Harald Nicklas,Florian Niederhofer,Peder Norberg,Danail Obreschkow,Seb Oliver,Matt S. Owers,Naveen Pai,Sergei Pankratow,David Parkinson,J. Paschke,Robert Paterson,A. Pecontal,Ian Parry,Daniel Phillips,Annalisa Pillepich,Laurent Pinard,Jeff Pirard,Nikolai Piskunov,Volker Plank,Dennis Plüschke,E. Pons,Paola Popesso,Chris Power,Johan Pragt,Alexander Pramskiy,Dan Pryer,Marco Quattri,Anna Barbara Andrade de Queiroz,Andreas Quirrenbach,Swara Rahurkar,Anand Raichoor,Sofia Ramstedt,Arne Rau,Alejandra Recio-Blanco,Roland Reiss,Florent Renaud,Yves Revaz,P. Rhode,Johan Richard,Amon Richter,Hans-Walter Rix,Aaron S. G. Robotham,Ronald Roelfsema,Martino Romaniello,David J. Rosario,Florian Rothmaier,Boudewijn F. Roukema,Gregory R. Ruchti,Gero Rupprecht,Jan Rybizki,Nils Ryde,A. Saar,Elaine M. Sadler,Martin Sahlén,Mara Salvato,B. Sassolas,Will Saunders,Allar Saviauk,Luca Sbordone,Thomas Schmidt,Olivier Schnurr,Ralf-Dieter Scholz,Axel Schwope,Walter Seifert,Tom Shanks,Andrew I. Sheinis,Tihomir Sivov,Á. Skúladóttir,Stephen Smartt,Scott Smedley,Greg Smith,Robert E. Smith,Jenny G. Sorce,Lee R. Spitler,Else Starkenburg,Matthias Steinmetz,Ingo Stilz,Jesper Storm,Mark Sullivan,William J. Sutherland,E. Swann,Amélie Tamone,Edward N. Taylor,Julien Teillon,Elmo Tempel,Rik ter Horst,Wing-Fai Thi,Eline Tolstoy,Scott Trager,Gregor Traven,Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay,Laurence Tresse,Marica Valentini,Rien van de Weygaert,Mario van den Ancker,Jovan Veljanoski,Sudharshan Venkatesan,Lukas Wagner,Karl Wagner,C. Jakob Walcher,Lew Waller,Nicholas A. Walton,Lingyu Wang,Roland Winkler,Lutz Wisotzki,Clare Worley,Gabor Worseck,Maosheng Xiang,Wenli Xu,David Yong,Cheng Zhao,Jessica Zheng,Florian Zscheyge,Daniel B. Zucker +340 more
TL;DR: The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST), a new high-multiplex, wide-field spectroscopic survey facility under development for the four-metres-class Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at Paranal, is introduced.
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II: Photometry and Supernova Ia Light Curves from the 2005 data
Jon A. Holtzman,John Marriner,Richard Kessler,Masao Sako,Ben Dilday,Joshua A. Frieman,Donald P. Schneider,Bruce A. Bassett,Andrew C. Becker,D. Cinabro,F. DeJongh,Darren L. DePoy,Mamoru Doi,Peter M. Garnavich,Craig J. Hogan,Saurabh Jha,Kohki Konishi,Hubert Lampeitl,Jennifer L. Marshall,D. McGinnis,Gajus Miknaitis,Robert C. Nichol,J. L. Prieto,Adam G. Reiss,Michael Richmond,Roger W. Romani,Mathew Smith,Naohiro Takanashi,Kouichi Tokita,Kurt van der Heyden,Naoki Yasuda,Chen Zheng +31 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented ugriz light curves for 146 spectroscopically confirmed or spectroscopy probable Type Ia supernovae from the 2005 season of the SDSS-II Supernova survey.
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The XMM Cluster Survey: A Massive Galaxy Cluster at z = 1.45
S. A. Stanford,S. A. Stanford,A. Kathy Romer,Kivanc Sabirli,Michael Davidson,Matt Hilton,Pedro T. P. Viana,Chris A. Collins,Scott T. Kay,Andrew R. Liddle,Robert G. Mann,Christopher J. Miller,Robert C. Nichol,M. J. West,Christopher J. Conselice,Hyron Spinrad,Daniel Stern,Kevin Bundy +17 more
TL;DR: XMMXCS J2215.9-1738, a massive galaxy cluster at z=1.45+/-0.01 as discussed by the authors, was found in the XMM Cluster Survey.
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Galaxy Zoo: the properties of merging galaxies in the nearby Universe – local environments, colours, masses, star formation rates and AGN activity
D. W. Darg,Sugata Kaviraj,Sugata Kaviraj,Chris Lintott,Kevin Schawinski,Marc Sarzi,Steven P. Bamford,Joseph Silk,Dan Andreescu,Phil Murray,Robert C. Nichol,M. J. Raddick,Anze Slosar,Alexander S. Szalay,Daniel Thomas,Jan Vandenberg +15 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the environments, optical colours, stellar masses, star formation and active galactic nucleus activity in a sample of 3003 pairs of merging galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using visual classifications from the Galaxy Zoo project.