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Overview

Scott M. Croom is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and has an extensive research portfolio within the fields of physics and astronomy. Their work focuses primarily on astronomy and astrophysics, with significant contributions to instrumentation, computational mechanics, and related subfields.

Their research spans a range of topics including galaxies: formation, evolution, and phenomena; astronomy and astrophysical research; stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; astrophysics and star formation studies; gamma-ray bursts and supernovae; astronomical observations and instrumentation; and broader astrophysical phenomena and observations.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Scott M. Croom include:

  • The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: The growth rate of cosmic structure since redshift z=0.9, 2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Data Release 4 and the z < 0.1 total and z < 0.08 morphological galaxy stellar mass functions, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Testing the cosmological model with baryon acoustic oscillations at z= 0.6, 2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: the transition to large-scale cosmic homogeneity, 2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • The SAMI Galaxy Survey: the third and final data release, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Scott M. Croom frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Jesse van de Sande
  • Joss Bland-Hawthorn
  • Julia J. Bryant
  • Sarah Brough
  • Sarah M. Sweet

Their research has been published extensively in a number of scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

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

Scott M. Croom's primary and subfields of study include:

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Instrumentation
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

The main topics of their work reflect a broad engagement with both theoretical and observational aspects of astrophysics, including the formation and evolution of galaxies, detailed stellar and galactic processes, as well as the development and application of astronomical instrumentation and methods.

Best Publications

  • Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): survey diagnostics and core data release

    S. P. Driver;D. T. Hill;L. S. Kelvin;A. S. G. Robotham

  • The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: mapping the distance-redshift relation with baryon acoustic oscillations

    Chris Blake;Eyal A. Kazin;Florian Beutler;Tamara M. Davis;Tamara M. Davis

  • The 6dF Galaxy Survey: final redshift release (DR3) and southern large-scale structures

    D. Heath Jones;Mike A. Read;Will Saunders;Matthew Colless

  • The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey – XII. The spectroscopic catalogue and luminosity function

    S. M. Croom;R. J. Smith;B. J. Boyle;T. Shanks

  • The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - I. The Optical QSO Luminosity Function

    B. J. Boyle;T. Shanks;S. M. Croom;R. J. Smith

  • The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: joint measurements of the expansion and growth history at z < 1

    Chris Blake;Sarah Brough;Matthew Colless;Carlos Contreras

  • The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey — I. The optical luminosity function of quasi-stellar objects

    Brian John Boyle;Tom Shanks;Scott Croom;R Smith

  • Galaxy And Mass Assembly: Stellar Mass Estimates

    Edward N Taylor;Andrew M Hopkins;Ivan K Baldry;Michael J I Brown

  • The Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph

    Scott M. Croom;Jon S. Lawrence;Jon S. Lawrence;Joss Bland-Hawthorn;Julia J. Bryant

  • Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): stellar mass estimates

    Edward N Taylor;Edward N Taylor;Andrew M Hopkins;Ivan K Baldry;Michael J I Brown

  • Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): End of survey report and data release 2

    J.. Liske;I.K.. Baldry;S.P.. Driver;S.P.. Driver;R.J.. Tuffs

  • The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: survey design and first data release

    Michael J. Drinkwater;Russell J. Jurek;Chris Blake;David Woods;David Woods

  • Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the galaxy stellar mass function at z < 0.06

    Ivan K Baldry;Simon P Driver;Simon P Driver;J Loveday;Edward Taylor;Edward Taylor

  • The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: the growth rate of cosmic structure since redshift z=0.9

    Chris Blake;Sarah Brough;Matthew Colless;Carlos Contreras

  • The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Instrument specification and target selection

    J. J. Bryant;J. J. Bryant;M. S. Owers;A. S. G. Robotham;S. M. Croom

  • The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - XIV. Structure and evolution from the two-point correlation function

    Scott M. Croom;B. J. Boyle;T. Shanks;R. J. Smith

  • GAMA: towards a physical understanding of galaxy formation

    Simon P. Driver;Peder Norberg;Ivan K. Baldry;Steven P. Bamford

  • Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): the GAMA galaxy group catalogue (G3Cv1)

    A Robotham;Peder Norberg;Simon Driver;Simon Driver;Ivan Baldry

  • The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: improved distance measurements to z = 1 with reconstruction of the baryonic acoustic feature

    Eyal A. Kazin;Jun Koda;Chris Blake;Nikhil Padmanabhan

  • The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey: QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy

    J. DaÂngela;T. Shanks;S. M. Croom;P. Weilbacher

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah Brough
Sarah Brough University of New South Wales
Rob Sharp
Rob Sharp Australian National University
Joss Bland-Hawthorn
Joss Bland-Hawthorn University of Sydney
Tom Shanks
Tom Shanks Durham University
Matthew Colless
Matthew Colless Australian National University
Simon P. Driver
Simon P. Driver University of Western Australia
Andrew M. Hopkins
Andrew M. Hopkins Macquarie University
Kevin A. Pimbblet
Kevin A. Pimbblet University of Hull
Lance Miller
Lance Miller University of Oxford
Michael J. Drinkwater
Michael J. Drinkwater University of Queensland

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