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Brant Robertson is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Physics and Astronomy, with an extensive focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Their work encompasses several subfields including:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Instrumentation
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Key research topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation

Brant Robertson has collaborated frequently with other researchers such as Sandro Tacchella, Andrew J. Bunker, Christina C. Williams, R. Maiolino, and Zhiyuan Ji. These coauthors have appeared together on numerous publications, indicating sustained scientific partnerships.

The scientist's publication record includes many papers in respected venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Brant Robertson cover a range of advanced topics in astronomy:

  • Identification and properties of intense star-forming galaxies at redshifts z > 10, 2023, Nature Astronomy
  • Spectroscopic confirmation of four metal-poor galaxies at z = 10.3-13.2, 2023, Nature Astronomy
  • JADES NIRSpec Spectroscopy of GN-z11: Lyman-α emission and possible enhanced nitrogen abundance in a z = 10.60 luminous galaxy, 2023, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • A small and vigorous black hole in the early Universe, 2024, Nature
  • JADES, 2024, Astronomy and Astrophysics

Best Publications

  • A Unified, Merger-Driven Model for the Origin of Starbursts, Quasars, the Cosmic X-Ray Background, Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Spheroids

    Philip F. Hopkins;Lars Hernquist;Thomas J. Cox;Tiziana Di Matteo

  • A Unified, Merger-driven Model of the Origin of Starbursts, Quasars, the Cosmic X-Ray Background, Supermassive Black Holes, and Galaxy Spheroids

    Philip F. Hopkins;Lars Hernquist;Thomas J. Cox;Tiziana Di Matteo

  • A semi-analytic model for the co-evolution of galaxies, black holes and active galactic nuclei

    Rachel S. Somerville;Philip F. Hopkins;Thomas J. Cox;Brant E. Robertson

  • LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

    Paul A. Abell;Julius Allison;Scott F. Anderson

  • Cosmic Reionization and Early Star-Forming Galaxies: A Joint Analysis of New Constraints from Planck and Hubble Space Telescope

    Brant E. Robertson;Richard S. Ellis;Steven R. Furlanetto;James S. Dunlop

  • Cosmic Reionization and Early Star-forming Galaxies: a Joint Analysis of new Constraints From Planck and the Hubble Space Telescope

    Brant E. Robertson;Richard S. Ellis;Steven R. Furlanetto;James S. Dunlop

  • Are the Magellanic Clouds on Their First Passage about the Milky Way

    Gurtina Besla;Nitya Kallivayalil;Lars Hernquist;Brant Robertson

  • THE LARGE-SCALE BIAS OF DARK MATTER HALOS: NUMERICAL CALIBRATION AND MODEL TESTS

    Jeremy L. Tinker;Brant E. Robertson;Andrey V. Kravtsov;Anatoly Klypin

  • Black Holes in Galaxy Mergers: Evolution of Quasars

    Philip F. Hopkins;Lars Hernquist;Thomas J. Cox;Tiziana Di Matteo

  • The Abundance of Star-Forming Galaxies in the Redshift Range 8.5 to 12: New Results from the 2012 Hubble Ultra Deep Field Campaign

    Richard S Ellis;Ross J McLure;James S Dunlop;Brant E Robertson

  • New Constraints on Cosmic Reionization from the 2012 Hubble Ultra Deep Field Campaign

    Brant E. Robertson;Steven R. Furlanetto;Evan Schneider;Stephane Charlot

  • A merger-driven scenario for cosmological disk galaxy formation

    Brant Robertson;James S. Bullock;Thomas J. Cox;Tiziana Di Matteo

  • The Abundance of Star-forming Galaxies in the Redshift Range 8.5-12: New Results from the 2012 Hubble Ultra Deep Field Campaign

    Richard S. Ellis;Ross J. McLure;James S. Dunlop;Brant E. Robertson

  • Kinematic Structure of Merger Remnants

    T. J. Cox;Suvendra N. Dutta;Tiziana Di Matteo;Lars Hernquist

  • The Frontier Fields: Survey Design

    J. M. Lotz;A. Koekemoer;D. Coe;N. Grogin

  • The Fundamental Scaling Relations of Elliptical Galaxies

    Brant Robertson;Thomas J. Cox;Lars Hernquist;Marijn Franx

  • A Physical Model for the Origin of Quasar Lifetimes

    Philip F. Hopkins;Lars Hernquist;Paul Martini;Thomas J. Cox

  • A new multifield determination of the galaxy luminosity function at z = 7-9 incorporating the 2012 Hubble Ultra-Deep Field imaging

    R. J. McLure;J. S. Dunlop;R. A. A. Bowler;E. Curtis-Lake

  • The Kinematic Structure of Merger Remnants

    T. J. Cox;Suvendra N. Dutta;Tiziana Di Matteo;Lars Hernquist

  • KECK SPECTROSCOPY OF 3 < z < 7 FAINT LYMAN BREAK GALAXIES: THE IMPORTANCE OF NEBULAR EMISSION IN UNDERSTANDING THE SPECIFIC STAR FORMATION RATE AND STELLAR MASS DENSITY

    Daniel P. Stark;Matthew A. Schenker;Richard Ellis;Brant Robertson

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard S. Ellis
Richard S. Ellis University College London
Philip F. Hopkins
Philip F. Hopkins California Institute of Technology
Daniel P. Stark
Daniel P. Stark University of Arizona
James S. Dunlop
James S. Dunlop University of Edinburgh
Ross J. McLure
Ross J. McLure University of Edinburgh
Anton M. Koekemoer
Anton M. Koekemoer Space Telescope Science Institute
Lars Hernquist
Lars Hernquist Harvard University
Volker Springel
Volker Springel Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Michele Cirasuolo
Michele Cirasuolo European Southern Observatory
James S. Bullock
James S. Bullock University of California, Irvine

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