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Roger L. Davies is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and specializes in research within the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans 63 publications in this main field, with significant focus on subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's research mainly covers topics related to Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena; Astronomy and Astrophysical Research; Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies; Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae; Scientific Research and Discoveries; and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

Roger L. Davies has contributed to multiple papers, including the following notable publications:

  • The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra (2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series)
  • The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 Data (2022, Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences))
  • The SAMI Galaxy Survey: the third and final data release (2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
  • 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 SAMI Galaxy Survey: stellar population and structural trends across the Fundamental Plane (2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Roger L. Davies include:

  • Matthew Colless
  • S. M. Croom
  • M. S. Owers
  • Joss Bland-Hawthorn
  • Julia J. Bryant

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • The Astrophysical Journal

Roger L. Davies was recognized as a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Spectroscopy and photometry of elliptical galaxies. I: a new distance estimator

    Alan Dressler;Donald Lynden-Bell;David Burstein;Roger L. Davies

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Spectroscopy and photometry of elliptical galaxies. V - Galaxy streaming toward the new supergalactic center

    D. Lynden-Bell;S. M. Faber;David Burstein;Roger L. Davies

  • The Gemini–North Multi‐Object Spectrograph: Performance in Imaging, Long‐Slit, and Multi‐Object Spectroscopic Modes

    I. M. Hook;Inger Jørgensen;J. R. Allington‐Smith;R. L. Davies

  • 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 – I. The panoramic integral-field spectrograph

    Roland Bacon;Yannick Copin;G. Monnet;Bryan W. Miller

  • The SAURON project. II. Sample and early results

    P.T. de Zeeuw;M. Bureau;E. Emsellem;R. Bacon

  • 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 kinematic properties of faint elliptical galaxies.

    R. L. Davies;G. Efstathiou;S. M. Fall;G. Illingworth

  • 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 SAURON project — II. Sample and early results

    P. Tim de Zeeuw;M. Bureau;Eric Emsellem;R. Bacon

  • Spectroscopy and Photometry of Elliptical Galaxies. VI. Sample Selection and Data Summary: Erratum

    S. M. Faber;Gary Wegner;David Burstein;Roger L. Davies

Frequent Co-Authors

Michele Cappellari
Michele Cappellari University of Oxford
Richard M. McDermid
Richard M. McDermid Macquarie University
Harald Kuntschner
Harald Kuntschner European Southern Observatory
Martin Bureau
Martin Bureau University of Oxford
Marc Sarzi
Marc Sarzi Armagh Observatory
Raffaella Morganti
Raffaella Morganti Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Tom Oosterloo
Tom Oosterloo Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Reynier Peletier
Reynier Peletier University of Groningen
P. T. de Zeeuw
P. T. de Zeeuw Leiden University
Sadegh Khochfar
Sadegh Khochfar University of Edinburgh

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