Robert A. Simcoe, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
2003- Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States 
Area:
Astrophysics: Cosmology - Optical
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http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/simcoe_robert.html

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2023 Kashino D, Lilly SJ, Simcoe RA, Bordoloi R, Mackenzie R, Matthee J, Eilers AC. Compact [C II] emitters around a C IV absorption complex at redshift 5.7. Nature. 617: 261-264. PMID 37165238 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05901-3  0.447
2023 De K, MacLeod M, Karambelkar V, Jencson JE, Chakrabarty D, Conroy C, Dekany R, Eilers AC, Graham MJ, Hillenbrand LA, Kara E, Kasliwal MM, Kulkarni SR, Lau RM, Loeb A, ... ... Simcoe R, et al. An infrared transient from a star engulfing a planet. Nature. 617: 55-60. PMID 37138107 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05842-x  0.458
2022 Burdge KB, El-Badry K, Marsh TR, Rappaport S, Brown WR, Caiazzo I, Chakrabarty D, Dhillon VS, Fuller J, Gänsicke BT, Graham MJ, Kara E, Kulkarni SR, Littlefair SP, Mróz P, ... ... Simcoe RA, et al. A dense 0.1-solar-mass star in a 51-minute-orbital-period eclipsing binary. Nature. PMID 36198793 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05195-x  0.375
2022 Burdge KB, Marsh TR, Fuller J, Bellm EC, Caiazzo I, Chakrabarty D, Coughlin MW, De K, Dhillon VS, Graham MJ, Rodríguez-Gil P, Jaodand AD, Kaplan DL, Kara E, Kong AKH, ... ... Simcoe RA, et al. A 62-minute orbital period black widow binary in a wide hierarchical triple. Nature. 605: 41-45. PMID 35508781 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04551-1  0.407
2020 Eilers A, Hennawi JF, Decarli R, Davies FB, Venemans B, Walter F, Bañados E, Fan X, Farina EP, Mazzucchelli C, Novak M, Schindler J, Simcoe RA, Wang F, Yang J. Detecting and Characterizing Young Quasars I: Systemic Redshifts and Proximity Zones Measurements The Astrophysical Journal. 900: 37. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Aba52E  0.57
2020 Chen H, Zahedy FS, Boettcher E, Cooper TM, Johnson SD, Rudie GC, Chen MC, Walth GL, Cantalupo S, Cooksey KL, Faucher-Giguère C, Greene JE, Lopez S, Mulchaey JS, Penton SV, ... ... Simcoe RA, et al. The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) – I. Overview and the diverse environments of Lyman limit systems at z < 1 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497: 498-520. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/Staa1773  0.605
2019 Bañados E, Rauch M, Decarli R, Farina EP, Hennawi JF, Mazzucchelli C, Venemans BP, Walter F, Simcoe RA, Prochaska JX, Cooper T, Davies FB, Chen SS. A Metal-poor Damped Lyα System at Redshift 6.4 The Astrophysical Journal. 885: 59. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Ab4129  0.497
2019 Cooper TJ, Simcoe RA, Cooksey KL, Bordoloi R, Miller DR, Furesz G, Turner ML, Bañados E. Heavy Element Absorption Systems at 5.0 < z < 6.8: Metal-poor Neutral Gas and a Diminishing Signature of Highly Ionized Circumgalactic Matter The Astrophysical Journal. 882: 77. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Ab3402  0.549
2019 Simcoe RA, Fűrész G, Sullivan PW, Hellickson T, Malonis A, Kasliwal M, Shectman SA, Kollmeier JA, Moore A. Background-limited Imaging in the Near Infrared with Warm InGaAs Sensors: Applications for Time-domain Astronomy The Astronomical Journal. 157: 46. DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/Aae094  0.445
2019 Lusso E, Fumagalli M, Fossati M, Mackenzie R, Bielby RM, Battaia FA, Cantalupo S, Cooke R, Cristiani S, Dayal P, D'Odorico V, Haardt F, Lofthouse E, Morris S, Peroux C, ... ... Simcoe R, et al. The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF) – I. Discovery of a group of Lyα nebulae associated with a bright z ≈ 3.23 quasar pair Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485. DOI: 10.1093/Mnrasl/Slz032  0.404
2019 Pons E, McMahon RG, Simcoe RA, Banerji M, Hewett PC, Reed SL. A new bright z = 6.82 quasar discovered with VISTA: VHS J0411–0907 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 484: 5142-5154. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/Stz292  0.567
2018 Torrey P, Vogelsberger M, Hernquist L, McKinnon R, Marinacci F, Simcoe RA, Springel V, Pillepich A, Naiman J, Pakmor R, Weinberger R, Nelson D, Genel S. Similar star formation rate and metallicity variability time-scales drive the fundamental metallicity relation Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 477: L16-L20. DOI: 10.1093/Mnrasl/Sly031  0.388
2017 Bañados E, Venemans BP, Mazzucchelli C, Farina EP, Walter F, Wang F, Decarli R, Stern D, Fan X, Davies F, Hennawi JF, Simcoe R, Turner ML, Rix HW, Yang J, et al. An 800-million-solar-mass black hole in a significantly neutral Universe at a redshift of 7.5. Nature. PMID 29211709 DOI: 10.1038/Nature25180  0.521
2017 Mainali R, Kollmeier JA, Stark DP, Simcoe RA, Walth G, Newman AB, Miller DR. Evidence for a Hard Ionizing Spectrum from a z = 6.11 Stellar Population The Astrophysical Journal. 836: L14. DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/836/1/L14  0.51
2017 Chen SS, Simcoe RA, Torrey P, Bañados E, Cooksey K, Cooper T, Furesz G, Matejek M, Miller D, Turner M, Venemans B, Decarli R, Farina EP, Mazzucchelli C, Walter F. Mg ii Absorption at 2 The Astrophysical Journal. 850: 188. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Aa9707  0.587
2017 Jencson JE, Kasliwal MM, Johansson J, Contreras C, Castellón S, Bond HE, Monson AJ, Masci FJ, Cody AM, Andrews JE, Bally J, Cao Y, Fox OD, Gburek T, Gehrz RD, ... ... Simcoe RA, et al. SPIRITS 15c and SPIRITS 14buu: Two Obscured Supernovae in the Nearby Star-forming Galaxy IC 2163 The Astrophysical Journal. 837: 167. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Aa618F  0.424
2017 Rivera-Thorsen TE, Dahle H, Gronke M, Bayliss M, Rigby JR, Simcoe R, Bordoloi R, Turner M, Furesz G. The Sunburst Arc: Direct Lyman α escape observed in the brightest known lensed galaxy Astronomy & Astrophysics. 608: L4. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201732173  0.479
2016 Glidden A, Cooper TJ, Cooksey KL, Simcoe RA, O’Meara JM. PREDOMINANTLY LOW METALLICITIES MEASURED IN A STRATIFIED SAMPLE OF LYMAN LIMIT SYSTEMS ATZ= 3.7 The Astrophysical Journal. 833: 270. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/270  0.48
2016 Bañados E, Venemans BP, Decarli R, Farina EP, Mazzucchelli C, Walter F, Fan X, Stern D, Schlafly E, Chambers KC, Rix H, Jiang L, McGreer I, Simcoe R, Wang F, et al. THE PAN-STARRS1 DISTANT z > 5.6 QUASAR SURVEY: MORE THAN 100 QUASARS WITHIN THE FIRST GYR OF THE UNIVERSE The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 227: 11. DOI: 10.3847/0067-0049/227/1/11  0.522
2016 Fűrész G, Simcoe R, Barnes SI, Buchhave LA, Egan M, Foster R, Hellickson T, Malonis A, Phillips D, Shectman S, Walsworth R, Winn J, Woods D. WISDOM: the WIYN spectrograph for Doppler monitoring: a NASA-NSF concept for an extreme precision radial velocity instrument in support of TESS Proceedings of Spie. 9908: 990814. DOI: 10.1117/12.2234376  0.327
2016 Greig B, Mesinger A, Haiman Z, Simcoe RA. Are we witnessing the epoch of reionisation at $z=7.1$ from the spectrum of J1120+0641? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 466: 4239-4249. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/Stw3351  0.445
2015 Crighton NHM, Hennawi JF, Simcoe RA, Cooksey KL, Murphy MT, Fumagalli M, Xavier Prochaska J, Shanks T. Metal-enriched, subkiloparsec gas clumps in the circumgalactic medium of a faint z = 2.5 galaxy Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 446: 18-37. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/Stu2088  0.555
2015 Venemans BP, Bañados E, Decarli R, Farina EP, Walter F, Chambers KC, Fan X, Rix HW, Schlafly E, McMahon RG, Simcoe R, Stern D, Burgett WS, Draper PW, Flewelling H, et al. The identification of z-dropouts in pan-starrs1: Three quasars at 6.5< z< 6.7 Astrophysical Journal Letters. 801. DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/801/1/L11  0.587
2015 Cooper TJ, Simcoe RA, Cooksey KL, O'Meara JM, Torrey P. THE INCIDENCE of LOW-METALLICITY LYMAN-LIMIT SYSTEMS at z ∼ 3.5: IMPLICATIONS for the COLD-FLOW HYPOTHESIS of BARYONIC ACCRETION Astrophysical Journal. 812. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/812/1/58  0.503
2015 Rubin KHR, Hennawi JF, Prochaska JX, Simcoe RA, Myers A, Lau MW. Dissecting the gaseous halos of z ∼ 2 damped Lyα systems with close quasar pairs Astrophysical Journal. 808. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/808/1/38  0.558
2014 Gauthier JR, Chen HW, Cooksey KL, Simcoe RA, Seyffert EN, O'meara JM. Halo masses of Mg II absorbers at z ~ 0.5 from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 439: 342-353. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/Stt2443  0.503
2014 Faherty JK, Beletsky Y, Burgasser AJ, Tinney C, Osip DJ, Filippazzo JC, Simcoe RA. Signatures of cloud, temperature, and gravity from spectra of the closest brown dwarfs Astrophysical Journal. 790. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/790/2/90  0.356
2014 De Rosa G, Venemans BP, Decarli R, Gennaro M, Simcoe RA, Dietrich M, Peterson BM, Walter F, Frank S, McMahon RG, Hewett PC, Mortlock DJ, Simpson C. Black hole mass estimates and emission-line properties of a sample of redshift z > 6.5 quasars * Astrophysical Journal. 790. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/790/2/145  0.431
2014 Bañados E, Venemans BP, Morganson E, Decarli R, Walter F, Chambers KC, Rix HW, Farina EP, Fan X, Jiang L, McGreer I, De Rosa G, Simcoe R, Weiß A, Price PA, et al. Discovery of eight z ∼ 6 quasars from Pan-STARRS1 Astronomical Journal. 148. DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/148/1/14  0.455
2014 Bañados E, Venemans BP, Morganson E, Decarli R, Walter F, Chambers KC, Rix HW, Farina EP, Fan X, Jiang L, McGreer I, De Rosa G, Simcoe R, Weiß A, Price PA, et al. The discovery of eight z ∼ 6 quasars from Pan-STARRS1 Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 9: 19-22. DOI: 10.1017/S1743921314003172  0.434
2013 Xavier Prochaska J, Hennawi JF, Simcoe RA. A substantial mass of cool, metal-enriched gas surrounding the progenitors of modern-day ellipticals Astrophysical Journal Letters. 762. DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/762/2/L19  0.407
2013 Seyffert EN, Cooksey KL, Simcoe RA, O'Meara JM, Kao MM, Prochaska JX. Precious metals in sdss quasar spectra. ii. tracking the evolution of strong, 0.4 < z < 2.3 mg ii absorbers with thousands of systems Astrophysical Journal. 779. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/779/2/161  0.52
2013 Venemans BP, Findlay JR, Sutherland WJ, De Rosa G, McMahon RG, Simcoe R, González-Solares EA, Kuijken K, Lewis JR. Discovery of three z > 6.5 quasars in the Vista Kilo-Degree Infrared Galaxy (VIKING) survey Astrophysical Journal. 779. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/779/1/24  0.585
2013 Prochaska JX, Hennawi JF, Lee KG, Cantalupo S, Bovy J, Djorgovski SG, Ellison SL, Lau MW, Martin CL, Myers A, Rubin KHR, Simcoe RA. Quasars probing quasars. VI. Excess HI absorption within one proper Mpc of z ∼ 2 quasars Astrophysical Journal. 776. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/776/2/136  0.498
2013 Matejek MS, Simcoe RA, Cooksey KL, Seyffert EN. Mg II absorption at 2 < z < 6 with magellan/fire. II. A longitudinal study of H I, metals, and ionization in galactic halos Astrophysical Journal. 764. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/764/1/9  0.449
2013 Cooksey KL, Kao MM, Simcoe RA, O'Meara JM, Prochaska JX. Precious metals in sdss quasar spectra. I. tracking the evolution of strong, 1.5 < z < 4.5 C IV absorbers with thousands of systems Astrophysical Journal. 763. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/763/1/37  0.433
2013 Sullivan PW, Croll B, Simcoe RA. Precision of a low-cost InGaAs detector for near infrared photometry Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 125: 1021-1030. DOI: 10.1086/672573  0.426
2012 Simcoe RA, Sullivan PW, Cooksey KL, Kao MM, Matejek MS, Burgasser AJ. Extremely metal-poor gas at a redshift of 7. Nature. 492: 79-82. PMID 23222611 DOI: 10.1038/Nature11612  0.537
2012 McDonald M, Bayliss M, Benson BA, Foley RJ, Ruel J, Sullivan P, Veilleux S, Aird KA, Ashby ML, Bautz M, Bazin G, Bleem LE, Brodwin M, Carlstrom JE, Chang CL, ... ... Simcoe R, et al. A massive, cooling-flow-induced starburst in the core of a luminous cluster of galaxies. Nature. 488: 349-52. PMID 22895340 DOI: 10.1038/Nature11379  0.449
2012 Foley RJ, Kromer M, Marion GH, Pignata G, Stritzinger MD, Taubenberger S, Challis P, Filippenko AV, Folatelli G, Hillebrandt W, Hsiao EY, Kirshner RP, Li W, Morrell NI, Röpke FK, ... ... Simcoe RA, et al. The first maximum-light ultraviolet through near-infrared spectrum of a type Ia supernova Astrophysical Journal Letters. 753. DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/753/1/L5  0.543
2012 Matejek MS, Simcoe RA. A survey of Mg II absorption at 2 < z < 6 with magellan/fire. I. Sample and evolution of the Mg II frequency Astrophysical Journal. 761. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/761/2/112  0.566
2012 Sullivan PW, Simcoe RA. A calibrated measurement of the near-IR continuum sky brightness using magellan/FIRE Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 124: 1336-1346. DOI: 10.1086/668849  0.364
2011 Davy Kirkpatrick J, Cushing MC, Gelino CR, Griffith RL, Skrutskie MF, Marsh KA, Wright EL, Mainzer A, Eisenhardt PR, McLean IS, Thompson MA, Bauer JM, Benford DJ, Bridge CR, Lake SE, ... ... Simcoe RA, et al. The first hundred brown dwarfs discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series. 197. DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/197/2/19  0.409
2011 Cushing MC, Kirkpatrick JD, Gelino CR, Griffith RL, Skrutskie MF, Mainzer A, Marsh KA, Beichman CA, Burgasser AJ, Prato LA, Simcoe RA, Marley MS, Saumon D, Freedman RS, Eisenhardt PR, et al. The discovery of y dwarfs using data from the wide-field infrared survey explorer (WISE) Astrophysical Journal. 743. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/743/1/50  0.431
2011 Simcoe RA, Cooksey KL, Matejek M, Burgasser AJ, Bochanski J, Lovegrove E, Bernstein RA, Pipher JL, Forrest WJ, McMurtry C, Fan X, O'Meara J. Constraints on the universal C IV mass density at z ∼ 6 from early infrared spectra obtained with the Magellan fire spectrograph Astrophysical Journal. 743. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/743/1/21  0.483
2011 Lovegrove E, Simcoe RA. Observations of Mg II absorption near z ∼ 1 galaxies selected from the DEEP2 redshift survey Astrophysical Journal. 740. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/740/1/30  0.566
2011 Simcoe RA. The carbon content of intergalactic gas at z = 4.25 and its evolution toward z = 2.4 Astrophysical Journal. 738. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/738/2/159  0.535
2011 Burgasser AJ, Cushing MC, Kirkpatrick JD, Gelino CR, Griffith RL, Looper DL, Tinney C, Simcoe RA, Bochanski JJ, Skrutskie MF, Mainzer A, Thompson MA, Marsh KA, Bauer JM, Wright EL. Fire spectroscopy of five late-type T dwarfs discovered with the wide-field infrared survey explorer Astrophysical Journal. 735. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/735/2/116  0.421
2011 Melis C, Farihi J, Dufour P, Zuckerman B, Burgasser AJ, Bergeron P, Bochanski J, Simcoe R. Accretion of a terrestrial-like minor planet by a white dwarf Astrophysical Journal. 732. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/732/2/90  0.413
2011 Bochanski JJ, Burgasser AJ, Simcoe RA, West AA. Fire spectroscopy of the ultra-cool brown dwarf, UGPS J072227.51-054031.2: Kinematics, rotation and atmospheric parameters Astronomical Journal. 142. DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/142/5/169  0.48
2010 Simcoe RA, Burgasser AJ, Bochanski JJ, Schechter PL, Bernstein RA, Bigelow BC, Pipher JL, Forrest W, McMurtry C, Smith MJ, Fishner J. The FIRE infrared spectrometer at Magellan: Construction and commissioning Proceedings of Spie - the International Society For Optical Engineering. 7735. DOI: 10.1117/12.856088  0.411
2010 Burgasser AJ, Simcoe RA, Bochanski JJ, Saumon D, Mamajek EE, Cushing MC, Marley MS, McMurtry C, Pipher JL, Forrest WJ. Clouds in the coldest brown dwarfs: Fire spectroscopy of ross 458C Astrophysical Journal. 725: 1405-1420. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/725/2/1405  0.428
2007 Agafonova II, Levshakov SA, Reimers D, Fechner C, Tytler D, Simcoe RA, Songaila A. Spectral shape of the UV ionizing background and He II absorption at redshifts 1.8 < z < 2.9 Astronomy and Astrophysics. 461: 893-909. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20065721  0.421
2006 Simcoe RA. High-redshift intergalactic C IV abundance measurements from the near-infrared spectra of two z ∼ 6 QSOs Astrophysical Journal. 653: 977-987. DOI: 10.1086/508983  0.524
2006 Becker GD, Sargent WLW, Rauch M, Simcoe RA. Discovery of excess O i absorption toward the z = 6.42 QSO SDSS J1148+5251 Astrophysical Journal. 640: 69-80. DOI: 10.1086/500079  0.604
2006 Simcoe RA, Sargent WLW, Rauch M, Becker G. Observations of chemically enriched QSO absorbers near z ∼ 2.3 galaxies: Galaxy formation feedback signatures in the intergalactic medium Astrophysical Journal. 637: 648-668. DOI: 10.1086/498441  0.703
2006 Fechner C, Reimers D, Kriss GA, Baade R, Blair WP, Giroux ML, Green RF, Moos HW, Morton DC, Scott JE, Shull JM, Simcoe R, Songaila A, Zheng W. The UV spectrum of HS 1700+6416 II. FUSE observations of the He II Lyman alpha forest Astronomy and Astrophysics. 455: 91-106. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20064950  0.491
2006 Fechner C, Reimers D, Songaila A, Simcoe RA, Rauch M, Sargent WLW. The UV spectrum of HS 1700+6416 I. Predicting the metal line content of the far UV spectrum Astronomy and Astrophysics. 455: 73-90. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20054455  0.512
2005 Rauch M, Becker GD, Viel M, Sargent WLW, Smette A, Simcoe RA, Barlow TA, Haehnelt MG. Expansion and collapse in the cosmic web Astrophysical Journal. 632: 58-80. DOI: 10.1086/432904  0.649
2004 Simcoe RA. The Cosmic Web American Scientist. 92: 30-37. DOI: 10.1511/2004.45.922  0.517
2004 Simcoe RA, Sargent WLW, Rauch M. The distribution of metallicity in the intergalactic medium at z ∼ 2.5: O VI and C IV absorption in the spectra of seven QSOs Astrophysical Journal. 606: 92-115. DOI: 10.1086/382777  0.518
2003 Li W, Filippenko AV, Chornock R, Berger E, Berlind P, Calkins ML, Challis P, Fassnacht C, Jha S, Kirshner RP, Matheson T, Sargent WLW, Simcoe RA, Smith GH, Squires G. SN 2002cx: The most peculiar known type Ia supernova Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 115: 453-473. DOI: 10.1086/374200  0.521
2002 Simcoe RA, Sargent WLW, Rauch M. Characterizing the warm-hot intergalactic medium at high redshift: A high-resolution survey for O VI at z = 2.51 Astrophysical Journal. 578: 737-762. DOI: 10.1086/342620  0.492
2002 Rauch M, Sargent WLW, Barlow TA, Simcoe RA. Small-scale structure at high redshift. IV. Low-ionization gas intersecting three lines of sight to Q2237+0305 Astrophysical Journal. 576: 45-60. DOI: 10.1086/341267  0.444
1997 Simcoe R, McLeoo KK, Schachter J, Elvis M. Obscuration in the host galaxies of soft X-ray-selected Seyfert nuclei Astrophysical Journal. 489: 615-622. DOI: 10.1086/304819  0.417
1997 Cen R, Simcoe RA. Sizes, shapes, and correlations of lyman alpha clouds and their evolution in the ACDM universe Astrophysical Journal. 483: 8-20. DOI: 10.1086/304207  0.377
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