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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 Galaxy Luminosity Function and Luminosity Density at Redshift z = 0.1*
Michael R. Blanton,David W. Hogg,Neta A. Bahcall,Jon Brinkmann,Malcolm Britton,Andrew J. Connolly,István Csabai,Masataka Fukugita,Jon Loveday,Avery Meiksin,Jeffrey A. Munn,Robert C. Nichol,Sadanori Okamura,Thomas R. Quinn,Donald P. Schneider,Kazuhiro Shimasaku,Michael A. Strauss,Max Tegmark,Michael S. Vogeley,David H. Weinberg +19 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the galaxy luminosity density at z = 0.1 in five optical band passes corresponding to the SDSS bandpasses shifted to match their rest-frame shape.
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The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy,Marcel A. Agüeros,S. Allam,S. Allam,K. S. J. Anderson,Scott F. Anderson,James Annis,Neta A. Bahcall,Ivan K. Baldry,J. C. Barentine,Andreas A. Berlind,Mariangela Bernardi,Michael R. Blanton,William N. Boroski,Howard Brewington,Jarle Brinchmann,Jon Brinkmann,Robert J. Brunner,Tamás Budavári,Larry N. Carey,Michael A. Carr,Francisco J. Castander,A. J. Connolly,István Csabai,István Csabai,Paul C. Czarapata,Julianne J. Dalcanton,Mamoru Doi,Feng Dong,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Douglas P. Finkbeiner,Scott D. Friedman,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,Masataka Fukugita,Bruce Gillespie,Karl Glazebrook,Jim Gray,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,Vijay K. Gurbani,Vijay K. Gurbani,Ernst De Haas,Patrick B. Hall,Frederick H. Harris,Michael Harvanek,Suzanne L. Hawley,Jeffrey J. E. Hayes,John S. Hendry,Gregory S. Hennessy,Robert B. Hindsley,Christopher M. Hirata,Craig J. Hogan,David W. Hogg,Donald J. Holmgren,Jon A. Holtzman,Shin-Ichi Ichikawa,Željko Ivezić,Sebastian Jester,David Johnston,Anders M. Jorgensen,Mario Juric,Stephen M. Kent,Scot Kleinman,Gillian R. Knapp,Alexei Y. Kniazev,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Jurek Krzesinski,Jurek Krzesinski,Nikolay Kuropatkin,D. Q. Lamb,H. Lampeitl,Brian C. Lee,R. French Leger,Huan Lin,Dan Long,Jon Loveday,Robert H. Lupton,Bruce Margon,David Martínez-Delgado,Rachel Mandelbaum,Takahiko Matsubara,Peregrine M. McGehee,Timothy A. McKay,Avery Meiksin,Jeffrey A. Munn,Reiko Nakajima,Thomas Nash,Eric H. Neilsen,Heidi Jo Newberg,Peter R. Newman,Robert C. Nichol,T. Nicinski,Maria Nieto-Santisteban,Atsuko Nitta,William O'Mullane,Sadanori Okamura,Russell Owen,Nikhil Padmanabhan,George Pauls,John Peoples,Jeffrey R. Pier,Adrian Pope,Dimitri Pourbaix,Dimitri Pourbaix,Thomas R. Quinn,Gordon T. Richards,Michael Richmond,Constance M. Rockosi,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,Joshua Schroeder,Joshua Schroeder,Ryan Scranton,Uroš Seljak,Uroš Seljak,Erin Sheldon,K. Shimasaku,J. Allyn Smith,J. Allyn Smith,Vernesa Smolić,Stephanie A. Snedden,Chris Stoughton,Michael A. Strauss,Mark Subba Rao,Mark Subba Rao,Alexander S. Szalay,István Szapudi,Paula Szkody,Max Tegmark,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Douglas L. Tucker,Alan Uomoto,Alan Uomoto,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Jan Vandenberg,Michael S. Vogeley,Wolfgang Voges,Nicole P. Vogt,Lucianne M. Walkowicz,David H. Weinberg,Andrew A. West,Simon D. M. White,Yongzhong Xu,Brian Yanny,D. R. Yocum,Donald G. York,Idit Zehavi,Stefano Zibetti,Daniel B. Zucker +152 more
TL;DR: The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) as discussed by the authors includes all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June, including five-band photometric data for 180 million objects selected over 6670 deg2 and 673,280 spectra of galaxies, quasars and stars selected from 4783 deg2 of those imaging data using the standard SDSS target selection algorithms.
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Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory
Kevin Bundy,Matthew A. Bershady,David R. Law,Renbin Yan,Niv Drory,Nicholas MacDonald,David A. Wake,Brian Cherinka,José R. Sánchez-Gallego,Anne-Marie Weijmans,Daniel Thomas,Christy Tremonti,Karen L. Masters,Lodovico Coccato,Lodovico Coccato,Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic,Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca,Vladimir Avila-Reese,Carles Badenes,Jesús Falcón-Barroso,Francesco Belfiore,Dmitry Bizyaev,Guillermo A. Blanc,Joss Bland-Hawthorn,Michael R. Blanton,Joel R. Brownstein,Nell Byler,Michele Cappellari,Charlie Conroy,Aaron A. Dutton,Eric Emsellem,Eric Emsellem,Eric Emsellem,James Etherington,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Hai Fu,James E. Gunn,Paul Harding,Evelyn J. Johnston,Guinevere Kauffmann,Karen Kinemuchi,Mark A. Klaene,Johan H. Knapen,Alexie Leauthaud,Cheng Li,Lihwai Lin,Roberto Maiolino,Viktor Malanushenko,Elena Malanushenko,Shude Mao,Claudia Maraston,Richard M. McDermid,Richard M. McDermid,Michael R. Merrifield,Robert C. Nichol,Daniel Oravetz,Kaike Pan,John K. Parejko,Sebastián F. Sánchez,David J. Schlegel,Audrey Simmons,Oliver Steele,Matthias Steinmetz,Karun Thanjavur,Benjamin A. Thompson,Jeremy L. Tinker,Remco C. E. van den Bosch,Kyle B. Westfall,David Wilkinson,Shelley A. Wright,Ting Xiao,Kai Zhang +71 more
TL;DR: MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory) as mentioned in this paper employs dithered observations with 17 fiber-bundle integral field units that vary in diameter from 12'' (19 fibers) to 32'' (127 fibers).
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The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment
Christopher P. Ahn,Rachael Alexandroff,Carlos Allende Prieto,Friedrich Anders,Scott F. Anderson,Timothy Anderton,Brett H. Andrews,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Fabienne A. Bastien,Julian E. Bautista,Timothy C. Beers,A. Beifiori,Chad F. Bender,Andreas A. Berlind,Florian Beutler,Vaishali Bhardwaj,Jonathan C. Bird,Dmitry Bizyaev,Cullen H. Blake,Michael R. Blanton,Michael Blomqvist,John J. Bochanski,Adam S. Bolton,Arnaud Borde,Jo Bovy,Alaina C. Shelden Bradley,W. N. Brandt,Dorothée Brauer,J. Brinkmann,Joel R. Brownstein,Nicolás G. Busca,William Carithers,Joleen K. Carlberg,A. Carnero,Michael A. Carr,Cristina Chiappini,S. Drew Chojnowski,Chia-Hsun Chuang,Johan Comparat,Justin R. Crepp,Stefano Cristiani,Rupert A. C. Croft,Antonio J. Cuesta,Katia Cunha,Luiz N. da Costa,Kyle S. Dawson,Nathan De Lee,Janice D. R. Dean,Timothée Delubac,Rohit Deshpande,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Edward M. Edmondson,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Courtney R. Epstein,Stephanie Escoffier,Massimiliano Esposito,Michael L. Evans,Damian Fabbian,Xiaohui Fan,Ginevra Favole,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Emma Fernández Alvar,Diane Feuillet,Nurten Filiz Ak,Hayley Finley,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Jessica Galbraith-Frew,D. A. García-Hernández,Ana G. Pérez,Jian Ge,Ricardo Génova-Santos,Bruce Gillespie,Léo Girardi,Jonay I. González Hernández,J. Richard Gott,James E. Gunn,Hong Guo,Samuel Halverson,Paul Harding,David W. Harris,Sten Hasselquist,Suzanne L. Hawley,Michael R. Hayden,Frederick R. Hearty,Artemio Herrero Davó,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,K. Honscheid,Joseph Huehnerhoff,Inese I. Ivans,Kelly M. Jackson,Peng Jiang,Jennifer A. Johnson,D. Kirkby,Karen Kinemuchi,Mark A. Klaene,Jean-Paul Kneib,Lars Koesterke,Ting-Wen Lan,Dustin Lang,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Khee-Gan Lee,Young Sun Lee,Dan Long,Craig Loomis,Sara Lucatello,Robert H. Lupton,Bo Ma,Claude E. Mack,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Steven R. Majewski,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Arturo Manchado,Marc Manera,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,Sarah L. Martell,Karen L. Masters,Cameron K. McBride,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Brice Ménard,Sz. Meszaros,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Hironao Miyatake,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Francesco Montesano,Surhud More,Heather L. Morrison,Demitri Muna,Jeffrey A. Munn,Adam D. Myers,Duy Cuong Nguyen,Robert C. Nichol,David L. Nidever,Pasquier Noterdaeme,Sebastián E. Nuza,Julia E. O'Connell,Robert W. O'Connell,R. W. O'Connell,Matthew D. Olmstead,Daniel Oravetz,Russell Owen,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,John K. Parejko,Isabelle Pâris,Joshua Pepper,Will J. Percival,Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols,H. D. Perottoni,Patrick Petitjean,Matthew M. Pieri,Marc H. Pinsonneault,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Mubdi Rahman,Rafael Rebolo,Beth Reid,Jonathan C. Richards,Rogério Riffel,Annie C. Robin,H. J. Rocha-Pinto,Constance M. Rockosi,Natalie A. Roe,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Graziano Rossi,Arpita Roy,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,Cristiano G. Sabiu,Ariel G. Sánchez,Basilio X. Santiago,Conor Sayres,Ricardo P. Schiavon,David J. Schlegel,Katharine J. Schlesinger,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Mathias Schultheis,Kris Sellgren,Hee-Jong Seo,Yue Shen,Matthew Shetrone,Yiping Shu,Audrey Simmons,M. F. Skrutskie,Anže Slosar,Verne V. Smith,Stephanie A. Snedden,Jennifer Sobeck,Flavia Sobreira,Keivan G. Stassun,Matthias Steinmetz,Michael A. Strauss,Alina Streblyanska,Nao Suzuki,Molly E. C. Swanson,Ryan Terrien,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Benjamin A. Thompson,Jeremy L. Tinker,Rita Tojeiro,Nicholas W. Troup,Jan Vandenberg,Mariana Vargas Magaña,Matteo Viel,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Benjamin A. Weaver,David H. Weinberg,Benjamin J. Weiner,Martin White,Simon D. M. White,John C. Wilson,John P. Wisniewski,W. M. Wood-Vasey,Christophe Yèche,Donald G. York,Olga Zamora,Gail Zasowski,Idit Zehavi,Zheng Zheng,Guangtun Zhu +234 more
TL;DR: SDSS-III as discussed by the authors contains the first spectroscopic data from the Apache Point Observatory Galaxy Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), along with spectra from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) taken through 2012 July.
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The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Kevork N. Abazajian,Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy,Marcel A. Agüeros,Sahar S. Allam,S. J.Anderson Kurt,Scott F. Anderson,James Annis,Neta A. Bahcall,Ivan K. Baldry,Steven Bastian,Andreas A. Berlind,Andreas A. Berlind,Mariangela Bernardi,Michael R. Blanton,John J. Bochanski,William N. Boroski,John W. Briggs,Jon Brinkmann,Robert J. Brunner,Tamás Budavári,Larry N. Carey,Samuel Carliles,Francisco J. Castander,A. J. Connolly,István Csabai,István Csabai,Mamoru Doi,Feng Dong,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Douglas P. Finkbeiner,Scott D. Friedman,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,Masataka Fukugita,Roy R. Gal,Bruce Gillespie,Karl Glazebrook,Jim Gray,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,Vijay K. Gurbani,Vijay K. Gurbani,Patrick B. Hall,Masaru Hamabe,Frederick H. Harris,Hugh C. Harris,Michael Harvanek,Timothy M. Heckman,John S. Hendry,Gregory S. Hennessy,Robert B. Hindsley,Craig J. Hogan,David W. Hogg,Donald J. Holmgren,Shin-Ichi Ichikawa,Takashi Ichikawa,Željko Ivezić,Sebastian Jester,David Johnston,David Johnston,Anders M. Jorgensen,Stephen M. Kent,Scot Kleinman,Gillian R. Knapp,Alexei Y. Kniazev,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Jurek Krzesinski,Jurek Krzesinski,Peter Z. Kunszt,Peter Z. Kunszt,N. Kuropatkin,D. Q. Lamb,H. Lampeitl,Brian C. Lee,R. French Leger,Nolan Li,Huan Lin,Yeong Shang Loh,Yeong Shang Loh,Dan Long,Jon Loveday,Robert H. Lupton,Tanu Malik,Bruce Margon,Takahiko Matsubara,Peregrine M. McGehee,Peregrine M. McGehee,Timothy A. McKay,Avery Meiksin,Jeffrey A. Munn,Reiko Nakajima,Thomas Nash,Eric H. Neilsen,Heidi Jo Newberg,Peter R. Newman,Robert C. Nichol,T. Nicinski,Maria Nieto-Santisteban,Atsuko Nitta,Sadanori Okamura,William O'Mullane,Jeremiah P. Ostriker,Russell Owen,Nikhil Padmanabhan,John Peoples,Jeffrey R. Pier,Adrian Pope,Thomas R. Quinn,Gordon T. Richards,Michael Richmond,Walter Hans-Rix,Constance M. Rockosi,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,Ryan Scranton,Maki Sekiguchi,Uroš Seljak,G. Sergey,B. Sesar,Erin Sheldon,K. Shimasaku,Walter A. Siegmund,Nicole M. Silvestri,J. Allyn Smith,J. Allyn Smith,Vernesa Smolčić,Stephanie A. Snedden,Albert Stebbins,Chris Stoughton,Michael A. Strauss,Mark Rao Subba,Mark Rao Subba,Alexander S. Szalay,István Szapudi,Paula Szkody,G. P. Szokoly,Max Tegmark,L. F. A. Teodoro,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Christy A. Tremonti,Douglas L. Tucker,Alan Uomoto,Alan Uomoto,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Jan Vandenberg,Michael S. Vogeley,Wolfgang Voges,Nicole P. Vogt,Lucianne M. Walkowicz,Shu I. Wang,David H. Weinberg,Andrew A. West,Simon D. M. White,Brian C. Wilhite,Yongzhong Xu,Brian Yanny,Naoki Yasuda,Ching-Wa Yip,D. R. Yocum,Donald G. York,Idit Zehavi,Stefano Zibetti,Daniel B. Zucker +165 more
TL;DR: The second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) as mentioned in this paper is the most recent data set to be publicly available, which consists of 3.5 million unique objects, 367,360 spectra of galaxies, quasars, stars, and calibrating blank sky patches selected over 2627 deg2 of this area.