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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 three-dimensional power spectrum of galaxies from the sloan digital sky survey
Max Tegmark,Michael R. Blanton,Michael A. Strauss,Fiona Hoyle,David J. Schlegel,Roman Scoccimarro,Michael S. Vogeley,David H. Weinberg,Idit Zehavi,Andreas A. Berlind,Tamás Budavári,Andrew J. Connolly,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Douglas P. Finkbeiner,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,James E. Gunn,Andrew J. S. Hamilton,Lam Hui,Bhuvnesh Jain,David Johnston,David Johnston,Stephen M. Kent,Huan Lin,Reiko Nakajima,Robert C. Nichol,Jeremiah P. Ostriker,Adrian Pope,Ryan Scranton,Uroš Seljak,Ravi K. Sheth,Albert Stebbins,Alexander S. Szalay,István Szapudi,Licia Verde,Yongzhong Xu,James Annis,Neta A. Bahcall,Jon Brinkmann,Scott Burles,Francisco J. Castander,István Csabai,Jon Loveday,Mamoru Doi,Masataka Fukugita,J. Richard Gott,Greg Hennessy,David W. Hogg,Željko Ivezić,Gillian R. Knapp,D. Q. Lamb,Brian C. Lee,Robert H. Lupton,Timothy A. McKay,Peter Z. Kunszt,Jeffrey A. Munn,Liam O'Connell,John Peoples,Jeffrey R. Pier,Michael Richmond,Constance M. Rockosi,Donald P. Schneider,Christopher Stoughton,Douglas L. Tucker,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Brian Yanny,Donald G. York +66 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed a matrix-based method using pseudo-Karhunen-Loeve eigenmodes, producing uncorrelated minimum-variance measurements in 22 k-bands of both the clustering power and its anisotropy due to redshift-space distortions.
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The ninth data release of the sloan digital sky survey: First spectroscopic data from the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey
Christopher P. Ahn,Rachael Alexandroff,Carlos Allende Prieto,Scott F. Anderson,Timothy Anderton,Brett H. Andrews,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Eduardo Balbinot,Rory Barnes,Julian E. Bautista,Timothy C. Beers,Alessandra Beifiori,Andreas A. Berlind,Vaishali Bhardwaj,Dmitry Bizyaev,Cullen H. Blake,Michael R. Blanton,Michael Blomqvist,John J. Bochanski,John J. Bochanski,Adam S. Bolton,Arnaud Borde,Jo Bovy,W. N. Brandt,J. Brinkmann,Peter J. Brown,Peter J. Brown,Joel R. Brownstein,Kevin Bundy,Nicolás G. Busca,William Carithers,A. Carnero,Michael A. Carr,Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu,Yanmei Chen,Yanmei Chen,Cristina Chiappini,Johan Comparat,Natalia Connolly,Justin R. Crepp,Stefano Cristiani,Rupert A. C. Croft,Antonio J. Cuesta,Luiz N. da Costa,James R. A. Davenport,Kyle S. Dawson,Roland de Putter,Roland de Putter,Nathan De Lee,Timothée Delubac,Saurav Dhital,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Edward M. Edmondson,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Stephanie Escoffier,M. Esposito,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Emma Fernández Alvar,Leticia D. Ferreira,N. Filiz Ak,N. Filiz Ak,Hayley Finley,Scott W. Fleming,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Andreu Font-Ribera,Peter M. Frinchaboy,D. A. García-Hernández,A. E. García Pérez,Jian Ge,Ricardo Genova-Santos,Bruce Gillespie,Léo Girardi,Jonay I. González Hernández,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,Hong Guo,Daryl Haggard,Jean Christophe Hamilton,David W. Harris,Suzanne L. Hawley,Frederick R. Hearty,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,K. Honscheid,Joe Huehnerhoff,Inese I. Ivans,Željko Ivezić,Željko Ivezić,Heather R. Jacobson,Linhua Jiang,Jonas Johansson,Jonas Johansson,Jennifer A. Johnson,Guinevere Kauffmann,D. Kirkby,Jessica A. Kirkpatrick,Jessica A. Kirkpatrick,Mark A. Klaene,Gillian R. Knapp,Jean-Paul Kneib,Jean Marc Le Goff,Alexie Leauthaud,Khee Gan Lee,Young Sun Lee,Dan Long,Craig P. Loomis,Sara Lucatello,Britt Lundgren,Robert H. Lupton,Bo Ma,Zhibo Ma,Nicholas MacDonald,Claude E. Mack,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Steven R. Majewski,Martin Makler,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Arturo Manchado,Rachel Mandelbaum,Rachel Mandelbaum,Marc Manera,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,S. L. Martell,S. L. Martell,Cameron K. McBride,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Brice Ménard,Brice Ménard,Sz. Mészáros,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Francesco Montesano,Heather L. Morrison,Demitri Muna,Jeffrey A. Munn,Hitoshi Murayama,Adam D. Myers,Angelo Fausti Neto,Duy Cuong Nguyen,Duy Cuong Nguyen,Robert C. Nichol,David L. Nidever,Pasquier Noterdaeme,Sebastián E. Nuza,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Matthew D. Olmstead,Daniel Oravetz,Russell Owen,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,John K. Parejko,Prachi Parihar,Isabelle Pâris,Isabelle Pâris,Petchara Pattarakijwanich,Joshua Pepper,Will J. Percival,Ismael Perez-Fournon,Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols,Patrick Petitjean,Janine Pforr,Matthew M. Pieri,Marc H. Pinsonneault,G. F. Porto de Mello,Francisco Prada,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Rafael Rebolo,James Rich,Gordon T. Richards,Annie C. Robin,H. J. Rocha-Pinto,Constance M. Rockosi,Natalie A. Roe,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Graziano Rossi,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,Lado Samushia,Lado Samushia,J. Sánchez Almeida,Ariel G. Sánchez,Basilio X. Santiago,Conor Sayres,David J. Schlegel,Katharine J. Schlesinger,Katharine J. Schlesinger,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Mathias Schultheis,Axel Schwope,Claudia G. Scóccola,Uroš Seljak,Uroš Seljak,Uroš Seljak,Erin Sheldon,Yue Shen,Yiping Shu,Jennifer Simmerer,Audrey Simmons,Ramin A. Skibba,Mike Skrutskie,Anže Slosar,Flavia Sobreira,Jennifer Sobeck,Keivan G. Stassun,Keivan G. Stassun,Oliver Steele,Matthias Steinmetz,Michael A. Strauss,Alina Streblyanska,Nao Suzuki,Molly E. C. Swanson,Tomer Tal,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Benjamin A. Thompson,Jeremy L. Tinker,Rita Tojeiro,Christy Tremonti,M. Vargas Magaña,Licia Verde,Matteo Viel,S. Vikas,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Ji Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,David H. Weinberg,Benjamin J. Weiner,Andrew A. West,Martin White,John C. Wilson,John P. Wisniewski,John P. Wisniewski,W. M. Wood-Vasey,Brian Yanny,Christophe Yèche,Donald G. York,Olga Zamora,Gail Zasowski,Idit Zehavi,Gong-Bo Zhao,Zheng Zheng,Guangtun Zhu,Joel C. Zinn +259 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) dataset.
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The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy,Marcel A. Agüeros,S. Allam,S. Allam,Carlos Allende Prieto,K. S. J. Anderson,Scott F. Anderson,James Annis,Neta A. Bahcall,Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones,Ivan K. Baldry,Ivan K. Baldry,John C. Barentine,Bruce A. Bassett,Andrew C. Becker,Timothy C. Beers,Eric F. Bell,Andreas A. Berlind,Mariangela Bernardi,Michael R. Blanton,John J. Bochanski,William N. Boroski,Jarle Brinchmann,J. Brinkmann,Robert J. Brunner,Tamás Budavári,Samuel Carliles,Michael A. Carr,Francisco J. Castander,D. Cinabro,Richard J. Cool,Kevin R. Covey,István Csabai,István Csabai,Carlos E. Cunha,James R. A. Davenport,Ben Dilday,Mamoru Doi,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Douglas P. Finkbeiner,Scott D. Friedman,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,Masataka Fukugita,Boris T. Gänsicke,Evalyn Gates,Bruce Gillespie,Karl Glazebrook,Jim Gray,Eva K. Grebel,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,Vijay K. Gurbani,Vijay K. Gurbani,Patrick B. Hall,Paul Harding,Michael Harvanek,Suzanne L. Hawley,Jeffrey J. E. Hayes,Timothy M. Heckman,John S. Hendry,Robert B. Hindsley,Christopher M. Hirata,Craig J. Hogan,David W. Hogg,J. B. Hyde,Shin-Ichi Ichikawa,Željko Ivezić,Sebastian Jester,Jennifer A. Johnson,Anders M. Jorgensen,Mario Juric,Stephen M. Kent,Richard Kessler,S. J. Kleinman,Gillian R. Knapp,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Jurek Krzesinski,Jurek Krzesinski,Nikolay Kuropatkin,D. Q. Lamb,Hubert Lampeitl,Svetlana Lebedeva,Young Sun Lee,R. French Leger,Sébastien Lépine,Marcos Lima,Huan Lin,Dan Long,Craig P. Loomis,Jon Loveday,Robert H. Lupton,Olena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Rachel Mandelbaum,Bruce Margon,John Marriner,David Martinez-Delgado,Takahiko Matsubara,P. M. McGehee,Timothy A. McKay,Avery Meiksin,Heather L. Morrison,Jeffrey A. Munn,Reiko Nakajima,Eric H. Neilsen,Heidi Jo Newberg,Robert C. Nichol,T. Nicinski,Maria Nieto-Santisteban,Atsuko Nitta,Sadanori Okamura,Russell Owen,Hiroaki Oyaizu,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Kaike Pan,Changbom Park,John Peoples,Jeffrey R. Pier,Adrian Pope,Norbert Purger,M. Jordan Raddick,Paola Re Fiorentin,Gordon T. Richards,Michael Richmond,Adam G. Riess,Hans-Walter Rix,Constance M. Rockosi,Masao Sako,Masao Sako,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,Matthias R. Schreiber,Axel Schwope,Uroš Seljak,Uroš Seljak,Branimir Sesar,Erin Sheldon,K. Shimasaku,Thirupathi Sivarani,J. Allyn Smith,Stephanie A. Snedden,Matthias Steinmetz,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,A. Uomoto,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Jan Vandenberg,S. Vidrih,Michael S. Vogeley,Wolfgang Voges,Nicole P. Vogt,Yogesh Wadadekar,David H. Weinberg,Andrew A. West,Simon D. M. White,Brian C. Wilhite,Brian Yanny,D. R. Yocum,Donald G. York,Idit Zehavi,Daniel B. Zucker +173 more
TL;DR: The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDS) as discussed by the authors contains images and parameters of roughly 287 million objects over 9583 deg(2), including scans over a large range of Galactic latitudes and longitudes.
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The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III
Hiroaki Aihara,Carlos Allende Prieto,Carlos Allende Prieto,Deokkeun An,Scott F. Anderson,Éric Aubourg,Eduardo Balbinot,Timothy C. Beers,Andreas A. Berlind,Steven J. Bickerton,Dmitry Bizyaev,Michael R. Blanton,John J. Bochanski,Adam S. Bolton,Jo Bovy,W. N. Brandt,J. Brinkmann,Peter J. Brown,Joel R. Brownstein,Nicolás G. Busca,H. Campbell,Michael A. Carr,Yanmei Chen,Cristina Chiappini,Johan Comparat,Natalia Connolly,Marina Cortês,Rupert A. C. Croft,Antonio J. Cuesta,Luiz N. da Costa,James R. A. Davenport,Kyle S. Dawson,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Garrett Ebelke,Edward M. Edmondson,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Stephanie Escoffier,M. Esposito,M. Esposito,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Andreu Font-Ribera,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Jian Ge,Bruce Gillespie,Gerry Gilmore,Jonay I. González Hernández,J. Richard Gott,Andrew Gould,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,J. C. Hamilton,Paul Harding,David W. Harris,Suzanne L. Hawley,Frederick R. Hearty,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,K. Honscheid,Naohisa Inada,Inese I. Ivans,Linhua Jiang,Jennifer A. Johnson,Cathy Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,Eyal A. Kazin,D. Kirkby,Mark A. Klaene,Gillian R. Knapp,Jean-Paul Kneib,Christopher S. Kochanek,Lars Koesterke,Juna A. Kollmeier,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Hubert Lampeitl,Dustin Lang,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Young Sun Lee,Yen-Ting Lin,Yen-Ting Lin,Dan Long,Craig P. Loomis,Sara Lucatello,Britt Lundgren,Robert H. Lupton,Zhibo Ma,Nicholas MacDonald,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Martin Makler,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Rachel Mandelbaum,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,Karen L. Masters,Cameron K. McBride,P. M. McGehee,Ian D. McGreer,Brice Ménard,Brice Ménard,Brice Ménard,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Heather L. Morrison,Fergal Mullally,Fergal Mullally,Demitri Muna,Jeffrey A. Munn,Hitoshi Murayama,Adam D. Myers,Tracy Naugle,Angelo Fausti Neto,Duy Cuong Nguyen,Robert C. Nichol,Robert W. O'Connell,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Matthew D. Olmstead,Daniel Oravetz,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,Parul Pandey,Isabelle Pâris,Will J. Percival,Patrick Petitjean,Robert Pfaffenberger,Janine Pforr,Stefanie Phleps,Christophe Pichon,Matthew M. Pieri,Matthew M. Pieri,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Beatriz H. F. Ramos,Céline Reylé,James Rich,Gordon T. Richards,Hans-Walter Rix,Annie C. Robin,H. J. Rocha-Pinto,Constance M. Rockosi,Natalie A. Roe,Emmanuel Rollinde,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Bruno M. Rossetto,Ariel G. Sánchez,Conor Sayres,David J. Schlegel,Katharine J. Schlesinger,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Erin Sheldon,Yiping Shu,Jennifer Simmerer,Audrey Simmons,Thirupathi Sivarani,Thirupathi Sivarani,Stephanie A. Snedden,Jennifer Sobeck,Matthias Steinmetz,Michael A. Strauss,Alexander S. Szalay,Masayuki Tanaka,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Jeremy L. Tinker,Benjamin M. Tofflemire,Rita Tojeiro,Christy Tremonti,Jan Vandenberg,M. Vargas Magaña,Licia Verde,Licia Verde,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Ji Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,David H. Weinberg,Martin White,Simon D. M. White,Brian Yanny,Naoki Yasuda,Christophe Yèche,Idit Zehavi +194 more
TL;DR: The first data release of SDSS-III is described in this article, which includes five-band imaging of roughly 5200 deg2 in the southern Galactic cap, bringing the total footprint of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging to 14,555 deg2, or over a third of the Celestial Sphere.
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Quantifying the Bimodal Color-Magnitude Distribution of Galaxies
Ivan K. Baldry,Karl Glazebrook,Jon Brinkmann,Željko Ivezić,Robert H. Lupton,Robert C. Nichol,Alexander S. Szalay +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the bimodality of the distribution from luminous to faint galaxies is traced by fitting double Gaussians to the color functions separated in absolute magnitude bins.