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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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Redshift distributions of galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification shear catalogue and implications for weak lensing
C. Bonnett,Michael Troxel,W. G. Hartley,Adam Amara,Boris Leistedt,Matthew R. Becker,Gary Bernstein,Sarah Bridle,Claudio Bruderer,M. T. Busha,M. Carrasco Kind,M. J. Childress,Francisco J. Castander,Chihway Chang,Martin Crocce,Tamara M. Davis,Tim Eifler,Joshua A. Frieman,C. Gangkofner,Enrique Gaztanaga,Karl Glazebrook,Daniel Gruen,T. Kacprzak,A. L. King,J. Kwan,Ofer Lahav,Geraint F. Lewis,C. Lidman,Huan Lin,N. MacCrann,Ramon Miquel,C. R. O'Neill,Antonella Palmese,H. V. Peiris,A. Refregier,E. Rozo,Eli S. Rykoff,I. Sadeh,Carles Sanchez,E. Sheldon,S. A. Uddin,Risa H. Wechsler,Joe Zuntz,T. M. C. Abbott,F. B. Abdalla,S. Allam,Robert Armstrong,Manda Banerji,A. H. Bauer,A. Benoit-Lévy,E. Bertin,David Brooks,E. Buckley-Geer,D. L. Burke,D. Capozzi,A. Carnero Rosell,J. Carretero,Carlos E. Cunha,C. B. D'Andrea,L. N. da Costa,Darren L. DePoy,Shantanu Desai,H. T. Diehl,J. P. Dietrich,P. Doel,A. Fausti Neto,Enrique J. Fernández,B. Flaugher,Pablo Fosalba,D. W. Gerdes,Robert A. Gruendl,K. Honscheid,Bhuvnesh Jain,David J. James,Matt J. Jarvis,A. G. Kim,Kyler Kuehn,N. Kuropatkin,Tianjun Li,Marcos Lima,M. A. G. Maia,M. March,Jennifer L. Marshall,P. Martini,Peter Melchior,C. J. Miller,Eric H. Neilsen,Robert C. Nichol,Brian Nord,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,A. A. Plazas,Kevin Reil,A. K. Romer,A. Roodman,M. Sako,E. J. Sanchez,Basilio X. Santiago,R. C. Smith,Marcelle Soares-Santos,Flavia Sobreira,E. Suchyta,M. E. C. Swanson,Gregory Tarle,J. J. Thaler,Daniel Thomas,Vinu Vikram,Alistair R. Walker +106 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present photometric redshift estimates for galaxies used in the weak lensing analysis of the DES SV data, and evaluate the performance of these methods against the matched spectroscopic catalogue.
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4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals
R. S. de Jong,Oscar Agertz,A. Agudo Berbel,James Aird,David A. Alexander,Anish M. Amarsi,Friedrich Anders,Rene Andrae,Behzad Ansarinejad,Wolfgang R. Ansorge,P. Antilogus,H. Anwand-Heerwart,A. Arentsen,Anna Arnadottir,Martin Asplund,Matthew W. Auger,Nicolas Azais,Dietrich Baade,Gabriella Baker,S. G. Baker,Eduardo Balbinot,Ivan K. Baldry,Manda Banerji,Samuel C. Barden,Paul S. Barklem,E. Barthélémy-Mazot,C. Battistini,Svend-Marian Bauer,Cameron P. M. Bell,Olga Bellido-Tirado,Sabine Bellstedt,Vasily Belokurov,Thomas Bensby,Maria Bergemann,J. M. Bestenlehner,R. M. Bielby,Maciej Bilicki,C. Blake,Joss Bland-Hawthorn,Corrado Boeche,Wilfried Boland,Thomas Boller,S. Bongard,Angela Bongiorno,P. Bonifacio,Didier Boudon,David A. Brooks,Michael J. I. Brown,R. M. Brown,Marcus Brüggen,Joar Brynnel,Jurek Brzeski,Thomas Buchert,Peter Buschkamp,Elisabetta Caffau,Patrick Caillier,Jonathan E. Carrick,Luca Casagrande,Scott Case,Andrew R. Casey,Isabella Cesarini,G. Cescutti,D. Chapuis,Cristina Chiappini,M. J. Childress,Norbert Christlieb,Ross P. Church,M. R. L. Cioni,Michelle E. Cluver,Matthew Colless,Thomas E. Collett,Johan Comparat,Andrew Cooper,W. J. Couch,Frederic Courbin,Scott M. Croom,D. J. Croton,Eric Daguisé,Gary Dalton,Luke J. M. Davies,Tamara M. Davis,P. de Laverny,Alis J. Deason,Frank Dionies,K. Disseau,P. Doel,D. Döscher,Simon P. Driver,Tom Dwelly,Dominique Eckert,A. C. Edge,Bengt Edvardsson,D. El Youssoufi,A. Elhaddad,Harry Enke,G. Erfanianfar,Tony Farrell,Thomas Fechner,C. Feiz,Sofia Feltzing,Ignacio Ferreras,D. Feuerstein,D. Feuillet,A. Finoguenov,D. Ford,Sotiria Fotopoulou,Morgan Fouesneau,C. Frenk,Steffen Frey,Wolfgang Gaessler,Stephan Geier,N. Gentile Fusillo,Ortwin Gerhard,Tommaso Giannantonio,Domenico Giannone,Brad K. Gibson,Peter Gillingham,Carlos González-Fernández,E. A. Gonzalez-Solares,S. Gottloeber,Andrew Gould,Eva K. Grebel,A. Gueguen,Guillaume Guiglion,Martin G. Haehnelt,T. Hahn,C. J. Hansen,Henrik Hartman,Katja Hauptner,Keith Hawkins,Dionne Haynes,Roger Haynes,Ulrike Heiter,Amina Helmi,C. Hernandez Aguayo,Paul C. Hewett,Samuel Hinton,David Hobbs,S. F. Hoenig,David Jonathan Hofman,I. M. Hook,Joshua Hopgood,Andrew M. Hopkins,A. Hourihane,L. M. Howes,Cullan Howlett,T. Huet,M. Irwin,Olaf Iwert,P. Jablonka,Thomas Jahn,Knud Jahnke,Aurélien Jarno,Shoko Jin,Paula Jofre,Diana Johl,Damien Jones,Henrik Jönsson,Carole Jordan,I. Karovicova,A. Khalatyan,Andreas Kelz,Robert C. Kennicutt,David A. King,Francisco-Shu 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,Y. Kripak,Mirko Krumpe,Konrad Kuijken,A. Kunder,Iryna Kushniruk,M. I Lam,Georg Lamer,Florence Laurent,Jon Lawrence,M. Lehmitz,B. Lemasle,James R. Lewis,Baojiu Li,C. Lidman,K. Lind,Jochen Liske,J.-L. Lizon,Jonathan Loveday,Hans-Günter Ludwig,Richard M. McDermid,K. Maguire,Vincenzo Mainieri,Slavko Mali,Holger Mandel,Kaisey S. Mandel,L. Mannering,S. L. Martell,D. Martinez Delgado,G. Matijevic,H. McGregor,R. G. McMahon,Paul J. McMillan,Olga Mena,Andrea Merloni,Martin Meyer,C. Michel,Genoveva Micheva,J.-E. Migniau,Ivan Minchev,Giacomo Monari,Rolf Muller,David Murphy,Daniel Muthukrishna,K. Nandra,Ramón Navarro,Melissa Ness,V. Nichani,Robert C. Nichol,Harald Nicklas,Florian Niederhofer,Peder Norberg,Danail Obreschkow,S. J. Oliver,Matt S. Owers,Naveen Pai,S. Pankratow,David Parkinson,Ian Parry,J. Paschke,R. Paterson,A. Pecontal,Daniel Phillips,Annalisa Pillepich,L. Pinard,Jeff Pirard,Nikolai Piskunov,V. Plank,Dennis Plüschke,E. Pons,P. Popesso,Chris Power,J. Pragt,A. Pramskiy,Daniel Pryer,Marco Quattri,A.B. de Andrade Queiroz,A. Quirrenbach,Swara Rahurkar,A. Raichoor,Sofia Ramstedt,A. Rau,A. Recio-Blanco,Roland Reiss,Florent Renaud,Yves Revaz,P. Rhode,J. Richard,Amon Richter,H. W. Rix,Aaron S. G. Robotham,Ronald Roelfsema,Martino Romaniello,David J. Rosario,Florian Rothmaier,Boudewijn F. Roukema,G. 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,R.-D. Scholz,A. D. Schwope,Walter Seifert,Tom Shanks,Andrew I. Sheinis,T. Sivov,A. Skuladottir,S. J. Smartt,Scott Smedley,Graham P. 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,E. N. Taylor,J. Teillon,Elmo Tempel,R. ter Horst,Wing-Fai Thi,Eline Tolstoy,Scott Trager,Gregor Traven,Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay,L. Tresse,Marica Valentini,R. van de Weygaert,M. van den Ancker,Jovan Veljanoski,S. Venkatesan,Lukas Wagner,Karl Wagner,C. J. Walcher,Lewis Waller,N. A. Walton,Lingyu Wang,Roland G. Winkler,Lutz Wisotzki,Clare Worley,Gabor Worseck,M. Xiang,Wenli Xu,David Yong,Cheng Zhao,Jessica Zheng,Florian Zscheyge,Daniel F. Zucker +337 more
TL;DR: The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) as mentioned in this paper is a high-multiplex, wide-field spectroscopic survey facility under development for the VISTA at Paranal.
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Galaxy Zoo: Disentangling the Environmental Dependence of Morphology and Colour
Ramin A. Skibba,Steven P. Bamford,Steven P. Bamford,Robert C. Nichol,Chris Lintott,Dan Andreescu,Edward M. Edmondson,Phil Murray,M. Jordan Raddick,Kevin Schawinski,Anÿze Slosar,Alexander S. Szalay,Daniel Thomas,Jan Vandenberg +13 more
TL;DR: This paper analyzed the environmental dependence of galaxy morphology and colour with two-point clustering statistics, using data from the Galaxy Zoo, the largest sample of visually classified morphologies yet compiled, extracted from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey: Evolution of the Luminosity Function of Luminous Red Galaxies to z=0.6
David A. Wake,Robert C. Nichol,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Jon Loveday,Alastair C. Edge,Russell D. Cannon,Ian Smail,Donald P. Schneider,Ryan Scranton,D. Carson,N. Ross,Robert J. Brunner,Matthew Colless,Warwick J. Couch,Scott M. Croom,Simon P. Driver,J. da Angela,Sebastian Jester,R. De Propris,Michael J. Drinkwater,Joss Bland-Hawthorn,Kevin A. Pimbblet,Isaac Roseboom,Tom Shanks,R. G. Sharp,J. Brinkmann +25 more
TL;DR: In this article, the luminosity function (LF) of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-sDSS LRG and Quasar (2SLAQ) surveys was measured.
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Ameliorating Systematic Uncertainties in the Angular Clustering of Galaxies: A Study using SDSS-III
Ashley J. Ross,Shirley Ho,Antonio J. Cuesta,Rita Tojeiro,Will J. Percival,David A. Wake,Karen L. Masters,Robert C. Nichol,Adam D. Myers,Fernando de Simoni,Hee-Jong Seo,Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo,Robert Crittenden,Michael R. Blanton,J. Brinkmann,Luiz N. da Costa,Hong Guo,Eyal A. Kazin,Marcio A. G. Maia,Claudia Maraston,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Francisco Prada,Beatriz H. F. Ramos,Ariel G. Sánchez,Edward F. Schlafly,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,Ramin A. Skibba,Daniel Thomas,Benjamin A. Weaver,Martin White,Idit Zehavi +31 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of potential sources of systematic error on the angular and photometric redshift were investigated, and the magnitude of the corrections applied are greater than the statistical uncertainty in w