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Richard M. McDermid

Richard M. McDermid

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Physics

D-Index
96
Citations
44657
World Ranking
1851
National Ranking
48

Overview

Richard M. McDermid is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia and has a research focus in Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans a broad range of subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Ecology, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main topics covered in their research include Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Stellar, Planetary, and Galactic Studies, Gamma-Ray Bursts and Supernovae, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies, and Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Sensing.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard M. McDermid include Glenn van de Ven, Francesca Pinna, Ling Zhu, S. M. Croom, and Katja Fahrion. They have published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)

Their recent papers illustrate a continued contribution to astrophysical research, including:

  • AT 2017gbl: a dust obscured TDE candidate in a luminous infrared galaxy (2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
  • Diversity of nuclear star cluster formation mechanisms revealed by their star formation histories (2021, Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology))
  • The SAMI Galaxy Survey: The Internal Orbital Structure and Mass Distribution of Passive Galaxies from Triaxial Orbit-superposition Schwarzschild Models (2022, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • The Fornax 3D project: Globular clusters tracing kinematics and metallicities (2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics)
  • Disentangling the formation history of galaxies via population-orbit superposition: method validation (2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)

Best Publications

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies and the Distant Universe

    Michael R. Blanton;Matthew A. Bershady;Bela Abolfathi;Franco D. Albareti;Franco D. Albareti

  • The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

    Michael R. Blanton;Matthew A. Bershady;Bela Abolfathi;Franco D. Albareti

  • The SAURON project - IV. The mass-to-light ratio, the virial mass estimator and the Fundamental Plane of elliptical and lenticular galaxies

    M Cappellari;R Bacon;M Bureau;MC Damen

  • Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

    Kevin Bundy;Matthew A. Bershady;David R. Law;Renbin Yan

  • The ATLAS3D project – I. A volume-limited sample of 260 nearby early-type galaxies: science goals and selection criteria

    Michele Cappellari;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Davor Krajnović;Richard M. Mcdermid

  • The ATLAS3D project – XX. Mass–size and mass–σ distributions of early-type galaxies: bulge fraction drives kinematics, mass-to-light ratio, molecular gas fraction and stellar initial mass function

    Michele Cappellari;Richard M. McDermid;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • The SAURON project—V. Integral-field emission-line kinematics of 48 elliptical and lenticular galaxies

    Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Reynier F. Peletier;Reynier F. Peletier;Richard M. McDermid

  • The SAURON project – IX. A kinematic classification for early‐type galaxies

    Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Michele Cappellari;Davor Krajnović;Glenn Van De Ven;Glenn Van De Ven

  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series

    P. Serra;Raffaella Morganti;Thomas Oosterloo;K. Alatalo

  • The ATLAS3D project – III. A census of the stellar angular momentum within the effective radius of early‐type galaxies: unveiling the distribution of fast and slow rotators

    Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Davor Krajnović;Katherine Alatalo

  • The SAURON project -- X. The orbital anisotropy of elliptical and lenticular galaxies: revisiting the (V/sigma,epsilon) diagram with integral-field stellar kinematics

    M. Cappellari;E. Emsellem;R. Bacon;M. Bureau

  • Systematic variation of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies

    Michele Cappellari;Richard M. McDermid;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • The ATLAS3D project XV: benchmark for early-type galaxies scaling relations from 260 dynamical models: mass-to-light ratio, dark matter, fundamental plane and mass plane

    Michele Cappellari;Nicholas Scott;Nicholas Scott;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

  • The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

    Romina Ahumada;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andrés Almeida;Friedrich Anders;Friedrich Anders

  • The SAURON project – X. The orbital anisotropy of elliptical and lenticular galaxies: revisiting the (V/σ, ɛ) diagram with integral‐field stellar kinematics

    Michele Cappellari;Michele Cappellari;Eric Emsellem;R. Bacon;M. Bureau

  • The SAURON project - III. Integral-field absorption-line kinematics of 48 elliptical and lenticular galaxies

    M. Sarzi;J. Falcon-Barroso;R. L. Davies;R. Bacon

  • The Sixteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

    Romina Ahumada;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andres Almeida;Friedrich Anders

  • The Atlas3D project -- XIII. Mass and morphology of HI in early-type galaxies as a function of environment

    Paolo Serra;Tom Oosterloo;Raffaella Morganti;Katherine Alatalo

Frequent Co-Authors

Michele Cappellari
Michele Cappellari University of Oxford
Marc Sarzi
Marc Sarzi Armagh Observatory
Roger L. Davies
Roger L. Davies University of Oxford
Martin Bureau
Martin Bureau University of Oxford
Harald Kuntschner
Harald Kuntschner European Southern Observatory
P. T. de Zeeuw
P. T. de Zeeuw Leiden University
Raffaella Morganti
Raffaella Morganti Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Tom Oosterloo
Tom Oosterloo Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Jesús Falcón-Barroso
Jesús Falcón-Barroso University of La Laguna
Sadegh Khochfar
Sadegh Khochfar University of Edinburgh

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