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Richard G. McMahon is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics as a subfield. Their work also touches on Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
  • Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations

Frequent co-authors of McMahon include:

  • F. Courbin
  • Cameron Lemon
  • Paul L. Schechter
  • Adriano Agnello
  • T. Anguita

Their publications are predominantly found in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, where they have contributed 11 papers. Additional venues include Space Science Reviews, arXiv (Cornell University), Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by McMahon include:

  • STRIDES: a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408−5354 (2020), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • STRIDES: automated uniform models for 30 quadruply imaged quasars (2022), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Gravitationally lensed quasars in Gaia - IV. 150 new lenses, quasar pairs, and projected quasars (2022), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The STRong lensing Insights into the Dark Energy Survey (STRIDES) 2017/2018 follow-up campaign: discovery of 10 lensed quasars and 10 quasar pairs (2020), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Discovery of a Candidate Binary Supermassive Black Hole in a Periodic Quasar from Circumbinary Accretion Variability (2020), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Best Publications

  • Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae

    S. Perlmutter;G. Aldering;G. Goldhaber;R.A. Knop

  • Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae

    S. Perlmutter;S. Perlmutter;G. Aldering;G. Goldhaber;G. Goldhaber;R. A. Knop

  • The Supernova Legacy Survey: Measurement of Omega_M, Omega_Lambda,and w from the First Year Data Set

    P. Astier;J. Guy;N. Regnault;R. Pain

  • Discovery of a supernova explosion at half the age of the Universe

    S. Perlmutter;S. Perlmutter;G. Aldering;M. Della Valle;S. Deustua;S. Deustua

  • The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

    Shadab Alam;Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;F. Anders

  • SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

  • The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS)

    Andy Lawrence;S. J. Warren;Omar Almaini;A. C. Edge

  • SDSS-III: MASSIVE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS OF THE DISTANT UNIVERSE, THE MILKY WAY, AND EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEMS

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

  • Measurements* of the Cosmological Parameters Ω and Λ from the First Seven Supernovae at z ≥ 0.35

    Saul Perlmutter;Saul Perlmutter;S. Gabi;S. Gabi;G. Goldhaber;G. Goldhaber;Ariel Goobar;Ariel Goobar;Ariel Goobar

  • The eleventh and twelfth data releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: final data from SDSS-III

    Shadab Alam;Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;F. Anders

  • THE BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF SDSS-III

    Kyle S. Dawson;David J. Schlegel;Christopher P. Ahn;Scott F. Anderson

  • A luminous quasar at a redshift of z = 7.085

    Daniel J. Mortlock;Stephen J. Warren;Bram P. Venemans;Mitesh Patel

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing

    T. M. C. Abbott;F. B. Abdalla;A. Alarcon;J. Aleksić

  • A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese;F. Acernese

  • 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;Carlos Allende Prieto;Friedrich Anders;Friedrich Anders

  • The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey

    G. Gilmore;S. Randich;M. Asplund;J. Binney

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models

    P. S. Cowperthwaite;E. Berger;V. A. Villar;B. D. Metzger

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard S. Ellis
Richard S. Ellis University College London
K. Honscheid
K. Honscheid The Ohio State University
Marcelle Soares-Santos
Marcelle Soares-Santos Brandeis University
Robert A. Gruendl
Robert A. Gruendl University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andy Lawrence
Andy Lawrence University of Edinburgh
Bram Venemans
Bram Venemans Max Planck Society
B. Flaugher
B. Flaugher Fermilab
Paul C. Hewett
Paul C. Hewett University of Cambridge
Felipe Menanteau
Felipe Menanteau University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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