Nigel Metcalfe's Publication List
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Publications in refereed journals
- Carter, D. and Metcalfe, N., 1980.
The morphology of Clusters of Galaxies. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc.,
191, 325-337. on-line
- Dawe, J.A. and Metcalfe, N., 1982.
Uniformity of UKSTU Photographic Plates. Proc. Astr. Soc. Australia,
4, 465. on-line
- Godwin J.G., Metcalfe, N. and Peach J.V., 1983.
The Coma Cluster -- I. A Catalogue of magnitudes, colours, ellipticities and
position angles for 6724 galaxies in the field of the Coma Cluster,
Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 202, 113-124. on-line
- Metcalfe N., Godwin, J.G. and Spenser S.D., 1987.
The Shapley 8 Cluster of Galaxies - Redshifts and Dynamics. Mon. Not.
R. astr. Soc., 225, 581-590. on-line
- Metcalfe, N., Fong, R., Shanks, T. and
Kilkenny, D., 1989. An extended galaxy redshift survey - I. The
catalogue. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 236, 207-234. on-line
- Hale-Sutton, D., Fong, R., Metcalfe, N. and
Shanks, T., 1989. An extended galaxy redshift survey - II. Virial
constraints on Omega0. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 237,
569-587. on-line
- Shanks, T., Hale-Sutton, D., Fong, R. and
Metcalfe, N., 1989. An extended galaxy redshift survey - III. Constraints
on large-scale structure. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 237,
589-610. on-line
- Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., Fong, R. and
Jones, L.R., 1991. Galaxy number counts - II. CCD observations to B=25 mag.
Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 249, 498-522. on-line
- Metcalfe, N. and Shanks, T., 1991. CCD
photometry of Cepheid sequences in four nearby galaxies. Mon. Not. R.
astr. Soc., 250, 438-452. on-line
- Roche, N., Shanks, T., Metcalfe, N. and
Fong, R., 1993. The angular correlation function of galaxies with B~25
mag. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 263, 360-368. on-line
- Metcalfe, N., Godwin, J.G., and Peach, J.V., 1994.
Multicolour photometry of the Shapley 8 cluster of galaxies. Mon. Not. R.
astr. Soc., 267, 431-446. on-line
- Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., Fong, R., and Roche, N.,
1995. Galaxy number counts - III: Deep CCD observations to B=27.5m.
Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 273, 257-276. on-line
- Metcalfe, N., Fong, R.,and Shanks, T., 1995. CCD galaxy photometry and the calibration of photographic surveys. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 274, 769-784. on-line
- Roche, N., Shanks, T., Metcalfe, N., and Fong, R., 1996. The clustering of
blue and red galaxies at B~25.5m. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc.,
280, 397-426. on-line
- Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., Campos, A., Fong, R. and
Gardner, J.P., 1996. Galaxy formation at high redshift. Nature,
383, 236-239. on-line
- Metcalfe, N., Ratcliffe, A., Shanks, T. and
Fong, R., 1998. UBVRI photometry of the Durham-AAT redshift survey,
Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 294, 147-164. on-line
- Groot P.J., Galama, T.J., van Paradijs, J.,
Kouve liotou, C., Wijers, R.A.M.J., Bloom, J., Tanvir, N., Vanderspek, R.,
Greiner, J., Castro-Tirado, A.J., Gorosabel, J., von Hippel, T., Lehnert, M.,
Kuijken, K., Hoekstra, H., Metcalfe, N., Howk, C., Conselice, C., Telting, J.,
Rutten, R.G.M., Rhoads, J., Cole, A., Pisano, D.J., Naber, R. and Schwarz, R.,
1998. A Search for Optical Afterglow from GRB 970828, ApJ, 493, L27-L30. on-line
- Young, C.K., Metcalfe, N., Zhu, J., Wu, H. and
Chen, J., 1998. The t system: a new system for estimating the total
magnitude of galaxies, A&AS, 130, 173-182. on-line
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Castro-Tirado, J.A., Gorosabel, J., Davies, J., Leggett, S., Greiner, J., Birkle, K., Thompson, D., Hagen, H.-J.,
Trapero, J., Sanchez, E., Campos, A., Metcalfe, N., Bejar, V., Cairos, M.L., Corradi, R., Guerrero, M., Gutierrez, C.,
Inglesias, J., Kemp, S., Licandro, J., Mora, A., Oscoz, A., Sabalisk, N., Vilchez, J., Villaver, E., Zapatero-Osorio, R.M.,
Guziy, S.S., Shlyapnikov, A.A., Pederson, H., 1999 Optical/ir Follow-Up Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by RXTE,
ApJ Lett, 39, 241. on-line
- McCracken, H.J., Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T.,
Campos, A., Gardner, J.P., Fong, R., 2000. Galaxy number counts- IV.
surveying the Herschel deep field in the near-infrared,
Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 311, 707-718. on-line
- McCracken, H.J., Shanks, T., Metcalfe, N. and Fong, R., 2000. Galaxy clustering
in the Herschel deep field, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 318, 913-924. on-line
- Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., Campos, A., McCracken, H.J. and Fong, R., 2001.
Galaxy number counts - V. Ultra-deep counts: The Herschel and Hubble Deep Fields, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 323, 795-830. on-line
- Frith, W.J., Busswell, G.S., Fong, R., Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., 2003.
The local hole in the galaxy distribution: evidence from 2MASS, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 345,1049-1056. on-line
- Hook, I.M., Jorgensen, I., Allington-Smith, J.R., Davies, R.L., Metcalfe, N., Murowinski, R.G., Crampton, D., 2004.
The Gemini-North Multi-Object Spectrograph: Performance in Imaging, Long-Slit, and Multi-Object Spectroscopic Modes, Publ. Astr. Soc. Pacific, 116, 425-440. on-line
- Busswell, G.S., Shanks, T., Outram, P.J., Frith, W.J., Metcalfe, N., Fong, R., 2004.
The local hole in the galaxy distribution: New Optical Evidence, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 354, 991-1004. on-line
- Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., Weilbacher, P.W., McCracken, H.J,, Fong, R., Thompson, D., 2006.
An H-band survey of the Herschel Deep Field, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 370, 1257-1273. on-line
- Frith, W.J., Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., 2006.
New H-band Galaxy Number Counts: A Large Local Hole in the Galaxy Distribution?, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 371, 1601-1609. on-line
- Pastorello, A., Smartt, S.J., Botticella, M.T., Maguire, K., Fraser, M., Smith, K., Kotak, R., Magill, L., Valenti, S., Young, D.R., Gezari, S., Bresolin, F., Kudritzki, R., Howell, D.A., Rest, A., Metcalfe, N., Mattila, S., Kankare, E., Huang, K.Y., Urata, Y., Burgett, W.S., Chambers, K.C., Dombeck, T., Flewelling, H., Grav, T., Heasley, J.N., Hodapp, K.W., Kaiser, N., Luppino, G.A., Lupton, R.H., Magnier, E.A., Monet, D.G., Morgan, J.S., Onaka, P.M., Price, P.A., Rhoads, P.H., Siegmund, W.A., Stubbs, C.W., Sweeney, W.E., Tonry, J.L., Wainscoat, R.J., Waterson, M.F., Waters, C., Wynn-Williams, C.G., 2010.
Ultra-bright Optical Transients are Linked with Type Ic Supernovae, ApJ, 724, L16-L21. on-line
Conference proceedings and other articles
- Dawe, J.A., Coyte, E. and Metcalfe, N., 1984.
Nitrogen Flushing During Exposure of Large Schmidt Telescope Plates,
in Astronomical Photography 1984, p.59-67, eds Sim, M.E.
and Ishida K., ROE, Edinburgh.
- Fong, R., Godwin, J.G. and Metcalfe, N., 1984.
Astronomers' Problems with the Calibration of Schmidt Plates,
in Astronomical Photography 1984, p.207-217, eds Sim, M.E.
and Ishida K., ROE, Edinburgh.
- Metcalfe, N., Fong, R., Jones, L.R.
and Shanks, T., 1987. CCD galaxy counts to B=25m,
in High Redshift and Primeval Galaxies, 3rd IAP Astrophysics
Workshop, p.37-44, eds Bergeron, J., Kunth, D., Rocca-Volmerange, B.
and Tran Thanh Van, J., Editions Frontieres, France.
- Metcalfe N., Shanks T., Tanvir N.R. and Fong R.,
1990. Stellar Photometry in Nearby Galaxies, Gemini, 27, 3-5.
- Metcalfe N. and Shanks T., 1990. Calibrating
Cepheid Sequences in Nearby Galaxies, in Proceedings of the NATO
Advanced Research Workshop on Observational Tests of Cosmological Inflation,
p.187-192, eds Shanks, T., Banday, A.J., Elis, R.S., Frenk, C.S. and
Wolfendale, A.W., Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
- Metcalfe N., Shanks T., and Fong, R., 1991.
Ultra-deep INT CCD Imaging of the Faintest Galaxies, Gemini, 34,
12-13.
- Metcalfe N., Shanks T., Roche, N. and Fong, R.,
1993. Galaxy Number-Counts to B=28m, in Texas/Pascos '92: Relativistic
Astrophysics and Particle Cosmology, p.534-538, eds Akerlof, C.W. and
Srednicki, M.A., New York Academy of Sciences, New York, USA.
- Metcalfe N., Shanks T., Roche, N. and Fong, R.,
1994. Galaxy Number-Counts to B=28m, in IAU Symposium 161 - Astronomy
from Wide-Field Imaging, p.645-648, eds McGillivray et al., Kluwer, Dordrecht.
- Fong, R., Metcalfe N., and Shanks T., 1994.
Calibration and Large-Scale Clustering in the Universe, in IAU Symposium
161 - Astronomy from Wide-Field Imaging, p.295-300, eds McGillivray et al.,
Kluwer, Dordrecht.
- Roche, N., Shanks, T., Metcalfe N. and Fong, R.,
1994. Galaxy Clustering to B=27m, in IAU Symposium 161 - Astronomy
from Wide-Field Imaging, p.635-643, eds McGillivray et al., Kluwer, Dordrecht.
- Metcalfe N., Shanks T., Fong, R., Gardner, J.
and Roche, N., 1996. Faint Galaxy Number-Counts, in IAU Symposium
171 - New Light On Galaxy Evolution, p.225-228, eds Bender, R. and
Davies, R.L., Kluwer, Dordrecht.
Shanks, T., Metcalfe, N., Campos, A., Fong, R.
and Gardner, J.P., 1997. Galaxy Counts, Colours and Redshifts in the Hubble
and Herschel Deep Fields, in The Hubble Space Telescope and the High
Redshift Universe, p.75-79, eds Tanvir, N.R., Aragon-Salamanca, A. and
Wall, J.V., 37th Herstmonceux Conference, World Scientific, Singapore.
- Shanks, T., Metcalfe, N., Fong, R.
McCracken, H.J., Campos, A. and Gardner, J.P., 1998. Galaxy Counts, Sizes,
Colours and Redshifts in the Hubble Field, in The Young Universe,
pp102, eds D'Odorico, S., Fontana, A. and Giallongo, E.,
ASP Conference Series, Vol 146, ASP, San Francisco.
- Davies, R.L., Allington-Smith, J., Metcalfe, N.
and Shanks, T., 1998. Integral Field and Multi-Object Spectroscopy with NGST,
in The Next Generation Space Telescope: Science Drivers and
Technological Challenges, p.141-146, 34th Leige International Astrophysics Colloquium.
- McCracken, H., Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., et al., 2000. Galaxy Clustering in the
Herschel Deep Field, in Clustering at High Redshift, pp68, eds A. Mazure,
O. Le Fevre, and V. Le Brun., ASP Conference Series, Vol. 200
- Gorosabel, J., Castro-Tirado, A.J., Benmtez, N., Zapatero-Osorio, M.R., Campos, A.,
Trapero, J., Sanchez, E., Metcalfe, N., 2000. Photometric Study of the Improved GRB
970815 Error Box, in Gamma-ray Bursts, p334, 5th Huntsville Symposium,
AIP Conference Series, Vol 526, AIP, New York.
- Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., Fong, R., 2000. Ultra-Deep Imaging at the William
Herschel Telescope, ING Newsletter, Issue 3, p3-6.
- Shanks, T., Metcalfe, N., Fong, R., McCracken, H.J., Campos, A., Thompson, D.,2000.
Evidence for an Early Epoch of Galaxy Formation, in The Extragalactic Infrared
Background and its Cosmological Implications, IAU Symp. 204.
- Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., Fong, R., McCracken, H.J., Campos, A., Gardner, J.P.,
Thompson, D., 2002. Do Galaxies Form at High Redshift?, in A New Era in
Cosmology, pp361, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 283, San Francisco
- Holliman, N., Baugh, C., Frenk, C.S., Jenkins, A., Froner, B., Hassaine, D.,
Helly, J., Metcalfe, N., Okamoto, T., 2006. Cosmic Cookery: Making a
Stereoscopic 3D Animated Movie, in Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XVI
I, San Jose, California.
Books edited
- A New Era in Cosmology, ASP Conference Series, Vol 283. N. Metcalfe, T.Shanks eds.
ISBN: 1-58381-126-5. San Franciso: The Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2002.
- Cosmic Frontiers, ASP Conference Series, Vol 379. N. Metcalfe, T.Shanks eds.
ISBN: 978-1-58381-320-1. San Franciso: The Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2007
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