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    • Cosmology with photometrically classified type IA supernovae from the SDSS-II supernova survey 

      Campbell, Heather; D’Andrea, Chris B.; Nichol, Robert C.; Sako, Masao; Smith, Mathew (The American Astronomical Society, 2013)
      We present the cosmological analysis of 752 photometrically–classified Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) obtained from the full Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II) Supernova (SN) Survey, supplemented with host–galaxy ...

    • The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey - III. Zone 2; galactic latitudes -30? > b > -40? 

      Kilkenny, David; Koen, Chris; Hambly, N.; MacGillivray, H.; Stobie, R. S.; O’Donoghue, D. (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      The Edinburgh–Cape Blue Object Survey seeks to identify point sources with an ultraviolet excess. Results for zone 2 of the survey are presented here, covering that part of the South Galactic Cap between 30◦ and 40◦ from ...

    • Gaia Data Release 1. Open cluster astrometry: performance, limitations, and future prospects 

      van Leeuwen, F.; Vallenari, A.; Vaccari, M. (EDP Sciences, 2017)
      CONTEXT: The first Gaia Data Release contains the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS). This is a subset of about 2 million stars for which, besides the position and photometry, the proper motion and parallax are ...

    • nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – V. Investigation of the cluster infall region 

      Arthur, Jake; Pearce, Frazer R.; Gray, Meghan E.; Elahi, Pascal J.; Knebe, Alexander; Beck, Alexander M.; Cui, Weiguang; Cunnama, Daniel; Dave, Romeel (Oxford University Press, 2016)
      We examine the properties of the galaxies and dark matter haloes residing in the cluster infall region surrounding the simulated cold dark matter galaxy cluster studied by Elahi et al. at z = 0. The 1.1 × 1015 h−1M ...

    • The ongoing pursuit of R Coronae Borealis stars: the ASAS-3 survey strikes again 

      Tisserand, P.; Clayton, G.; Kilkenny, David; Welch, D. L.; Wyrzykowsk, L.; Pilecki, B. (EDP Sciences, 2013)
      CONTEXT: R Coronae Borealis stars( RCBs) are rare, hydrogen-deficient, carbon rich super giant variable stars that are likely the evolved merger products of pairs of CO and He white dwarfs. Only 55 RCB stars have been found ...

    • The performance of photometric reverberation mapping at high redshift and the reliability of damped random walk models 

      Read, Shaun C; Smith, Daniel James B; Jarvis, Matt J (Oxford University Press, 2020)
      Accurate methods for reverberation mapping using photometry are highly sought after since they are inherently less resource intensive than spectroscopic techniques. However, the effectiveness of photometric reverberation ...

    • Properties of Type Ia supernovae inside rich galaxy clusters 

      Xavier, Henrique S.; Gupta, Ravi R.; Smith, Mathew; Sako, Masao; D’Andrea, Chris B.; Frieman, Joshua A.; Galbany, Lluis; Garnavich, Peter M.; Marriner, John; Nichol, Robert C.; Olmstead, Matthew D.; Schneider, Donald P. (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      We used the Gaussian Mixture Brightest Cluster Galaxy catalogue and Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II supernovae data with redshifts measured by the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey to identify 48 Type Ia supernovae ...

    • What can be deduced from open cluster metallicity measurements? 

      Koen, Chris; Lombard, Fred (Oxford University Press, 2007)
      The dependence of [Fe/H] on galactocentric distance, distance from the galactic mid-plane and age is studied. Both ordinary least-squares and non-parametric regression in the form of a ‘generalized additive model’ are ...