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D-Index
221
Citations
230216
World Ranking
11
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Physics in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Robert C. Nichol is affiliated with the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom and has a focused research profile within the broad field of Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans multiple subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Instrumentation, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of astrophysical and cosmological phenomena. These include:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations

Publication venues frequently featuring Robert C. Nichol's work are:

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

Their collaborations include frequent co-authors such as J. Carretero, C. Lidman, A. Carnero Rosell, T. M. Davis, and H. T. Diehl, each having co-authored numerous publications with Nichol.

Representative recent papers by Robert C. Nichol include:

  • Euclid Spectroscopic Image Simulations and Reconstruction, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological constraints from cluster abundances and weak lensing, 2020, Physical Review D
  • First cosmology results using type Ia supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: the effect of host galaxy properties on supernova luminosity, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • OzDES multi-object fibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: results and second data release, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Cosmological Analysis and Systematic Uncertainties, 2024, The Astrophysical Journal

These papers address topics related to spectroscopic simulations, cosmological constraints, supernova analysis, and multi-object spectroscopy within the context of large survey projects such as the Dark Energy Survey and Euclid mission. The works have been published in established journals and archives that emphasize astrophysics and cosmology.

Best Publications

  • The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Kevork N. Abazajian;Jennifer K. Adelman-Mccarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam

  • Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP

    Max Tegmark;Max Tegmark;Michael Abram Strauss;Michael R. Blanton;Kevork Abazajian

  • Detection of the baryon acoustic peak in the large-scale correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Idit Zehavi;David W. Hogg;Roman Scoccimarro

  • Stellar Masses and Star Formation Histories for 10^5 Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Guinevere Kauffmann;Timothy M. Heckman;Simon D.M. White;Stephane Charlot

  • 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

  • The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • 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 Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

    Shadab Alam;Metin Ata;Stephen Bailey;Florian Beutler

  • Stellar masses and star formation histories for 105 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Guinevere Kauffmann;Timothy M. Heckman;Simon D. M. White;Stéphane Charlot;Stéphane Charlot

  • 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

  • The clustering of galaxies in the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: Baryon acoustic oscillations in the data release 9 spectroscopic galaxy sample

    Lauren Anderson;Élric Aubourg;Stephen Bailey;Florian Beutler

  • THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL POWER SPECTRUM OF GALAXIES FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY

    Max Tegmark;Michael R. Blanton;Michael A. Strauss;Fiona Hoyle

  • The 3D power spectrum of galaxies from the SDSS

    M Tegmark;M Blanton;M Strauss;F Hoyle

  • Composite Quasar Spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Daniel E. Vanden Berk;Gordon T. Richards;Amanda Bauer;Michael A. Strauss

  • Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 Galaxy Sample

    Will J. Percival;Beth A. Reid;Beth A. Reid;Beth A. Reid;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Neta Bahcall

  • The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

    Hiroaki Aihara;Carlos Allende Prieto;Deokkeun An

  • Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 Galaxy Sample

    Will J. Percival;Beth A. Reid;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Neta A. Bahcall

  • Improved cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the SDSS-II and SNLS supernova samples

    M. Betoule;R. Kessler;J. Guy;J. Guy;J. Mosher

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua A. Frieman
Joshua A. Frieman University of Chicago
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University
Daniel Thomas
Daniel Thomas University of Portsmouth
Daniel J. Eisenstein
Daniel J. Eisenstein Harvard University
K. Honscheid
K. Honscheid The Ohio State University
Alexander S. Szalay
Alexander S. Szalay Johns Hopkins University
Donald G. York
Donald G. York University of Chicago
Will J. Percival
Will J. Percival University of Waterloo
David J. Schlegel
David J. Schlegel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
James E. Gunn
James E. Gunn Princeton University

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