Nick Rowell

Preprints available on request.

2021

Gaia Early Data Release 3. Modelling and calibration of Gaia’s point and line spread functions
Rowell, N. et al. (2021) A&A 649, A11

Gaia Early Data Release 3. Acceleration of the Solar System from Gaia astrometry
Gaia Collaboration, Klioner, S. et al. (2021) A&A 649, A9

Gaia Early Data Release 3. The Galactic anticentre
Gaia Collaboration, Antoja, T. et al. (2021) A&A 649, A8

Gaia Early Data Release 3. Structure and properties of the Magellanic Clouds
Gaia Collaboration, Luri, X. et al. (2021) A&A 649, A7

Gaia Early Data Release 3. The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars
Gaia Collaboration, Smart, R.L. et al. (2021) A&A 649, A6

Gaia Early Data Release 3. Photometric content and validation
Riello, M. et al. (2021) A&A 649, A3

Gaia Early Data Release 3. The astrometric solution
Lindgren, L. et al. (2021) A&A 649, A2

Gaia Early Data Release 3. Summary of the contents and survey properties
Gaia Collaboration, Brown, A.G.A. et al. (2021) A&A 649, A1

The Kinematics of White Dwarfs in Gaia Data Release 2
Rowell, N. and Kilic, M. (2019) MNRAS 484, 3544-3551

The age of the Galactic stellar halo from Gaia white dwarfs
Kilic, M., Bergeron, P., Dame, K., Hambly, N.C., Rowell, N. & Crawford, C.L. (2019) MNRAS 482, 965-979

The white dwarf luminosity functions from the Pan-STARRS 1 3π Steradian Survey
Lam, M.C., Hambly, N.C., Rowell, N., et al. (2019) MNRAS 482, 715-731

Gaia reveals evidence for merged white dwarfs
Kilic, M., Hambly, N. C., Bergeron, P., Genest-Beaulieu, C. & Rowell, N. (2018) MNRAS 479, L113-L117

Gaia Data Release 2. Calibration and mitigation of electronic offset effects in the data
Gaia Collaboration, Hambly, N. C. et al. (2018) A&A 616, A15

Gaia Data Release 2. The celestial reference frame (Gaia-CRF2)
Gaia Collaboration, Mignard, F. et al. (2018) A&A 616, A14

Gaia Data Release 2. Observations of solar system objects
Gaia Collaboration, Spoto, F. et al. (2018) A&A 616, A13

Gaia Data Release 2. Kinematics of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way
Gaia Collaboration, Helmi, A. et al. (2018) A&A 616, A12

Gaia Data Release 2. Mapping the Milky Way disc kinematics
Gaia Collaboration, Katz, D. et al. (2018) A&A 616, A11

Gaia Data Release 2. Observational Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams
Gaia Collaboration, Babusiaux, C. et al. (2018) A&A 616, A10

Gaia Data Release 2. The astrometric solution
Gaia Collaboration, Lindegren, L. et al. (2018) A&A 616, A2

Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties
Gaia Collaboration, Brown, A.G.A. et al. (2018) A&A 616, A1

Gaia Data Release 1: Testing parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars
Gaia Collaboration, Clementini et al. (2017)A&A 605, A79

Gaia Data Release 1: Open cluster astrometry: performance, limitations, and future prospects
Gaia Collaboration, van Leeuwen et al. (2017)A&A 601, A19

Gaia Data Release 1: The photometric data
Gaia Collaboration, van Leeuwen et al. (2017)A&A 599, A32

The Gaia Mission
Gaia Collaboration, Prusti, T., de Bruijne, J.H.J., et al. (2016a) A&A 595, A1

Gaia Data Release 1: Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties
Gaia Collaboration, Brown, A.G.A., Vallenari, A., et al. (2016b) A&A 595, A2

Gaia Data Release 1: Pre-processing and source list creation
Gaia Collaboration, Fabricius et al. (2016)A&A 595, A3

Autonomous Visual Recognition of Known Surface Landarks for Optical Navigation Around Asteroids
Rowell et al. (2015) The Aeronautical Journal 119(1220)
Received a bronze medal in the 2015 Royal Aeronautical Society Written Paper Prizes

A Maximum Volume Density Estimator Generalised over a Proper Motion Limited Sample
Lam, Rowell & Hambly (2015) MNRAS 450(4), 4098-4108

A Virtual Test Environment for Validating Spacecraft Optical Navigation
Parkes, Martin, Dunstan, Rowell, Dubois-Matra & Voirin (2013) The Aeronautical Journal 117:1197
Received a bronze medal in the 2013 Royal Aeronautical Society Written Paper Prizes

The Star Formation History of the Solar Neighbourhood from the White Dwarf Luminosity Function
Rowell (2013) MNRAS 434, 1549-1564
Featured in Sky and Telescope magazine

Prospects for cool white dwarf science from Pan-STARRS
Hambly, Rowell, Tonry, Magnier & Stubbs (2013) ASPC vol.469 p.253

Image Processing for Near-Earth Object Vision Based Guidance Systems
Rowell, Parkes & Dunstan (2013) IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems 49:2, 1057-1072

Autonomous GNC System to Enhance Science of Asteroid Missions
Gil-Fernandez, ... , Rowell et al. (2012) in Proceedings of the 63^rd International Astronautical Congress

Vision Based Guidance for Exploratory Spacecraft
Rowell et al. (2012) Poster contribution to SUPA Cormack Astronomy Meeting

Inverting the White Dwarf Luminosity Function: the Star Formation History of the Solar Neighbourhood
Rowell (2012) presented at 18th European White Dwarf Workshop

PANGU: Virtual Spacecraft Image Generation
Rowell, Parkes, Dunstan & Dubois-Matra (2012) presented at ICATT 2012

Image Processing for Vision Based Navigation
Rowell et al. (2011) presented at GNC 2011

White Dwarfs in the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey: the Thin Disk, Thick Disk and Spheroid Luminosity Functions
Rowell & Hambly (2011) MNRAS 417, 93-113
Winner of the 2011 Cormack Postgraduate Prize

Simulation of near-earth objects and related lander guidance systems
Parkes et al. (2010) IAC 2010 Conference Proceedings

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