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Digital Sky Surveys from the ground: Status and Perspectives (2016)
Book Chapter
Shanks, T. (2016). Digital Sky Surveys from the ground: Status and Perspectives. In N. R. Napolitano, G. Longo, M. Marconi, M. Paolillo, & E. Iodice (Eds.), The universe of digital sky surveys : a meeting to honour the 70th birthday of Massimo Capaccioli (9-24). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19330-4_2

I first review the status of Digital Sky Surveys. The focus will be on extragalactic surveys with an area of more than 100 deg2. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the archetype of such imaging surveys and it is its great success that has prompted great... Read More about Digital Sky Surveys from the ground: Status and Perspectives.

On the connection between the metal-enriched intergalactic medium and galaxies: an O VI–galaxy cross-correlation study at z < 1 (2016)
Journal Article
Finn, C., Morris, S., Tejos, N., Crighton, N., Perry, R., Fumagalli, M., …Bartle, S. (2016). On the connection between the metal-enriched intergalactic medium and galaxies: an O VI–galaxy cross-correlation study at z < 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(1), 590-616. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw918

We present new results on the auto- and cross-correlation functions of galaxies and O VI absorbers in a ∼18 Gpc3 comoving volume at z < 1. We use a sample of 51 296 galaxies and 140 O VI absorbers in the column density range 13 ≲ log N ≲ 15 to measur... Read More about On the connection between the metal-enriched intergalactic medium and galaxies: an O VI–galaxy cross-correlation study at z < 1.

The 2QDES Pilot : The luminosity and redshift dependence of quasar clustering (2016)
Journal Article
Chehade, B., Shanks, T., Findlay, J., Metcalfe, N., Sawangwit, U., Irwin, M., …Bielby, R. (2016). The 2QDES Pilot : The luminosity and redshift dependence of quasar clustering. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459(2), 1179-1200. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw616

We present a new redshift survey, the 2dF Quasar Dark Energy Survey pilot (2QDESp), which consists of ≈10 000 quasars from ≈150 deg2 of the southern sky, based on VST-ATLAS imaging and 2dF/AAOmega spectroscopy. Combining our optical photometry with t... Read More about The 2QDES Pilot : The luminosity and redshift dependence of quasar clustering.

The galaxy luminosity function and the Local Hole (2016)
Journal Article
Whitbourn, J., & Shanks, T. (2016). The galaxy luminosity function and the Local Hole. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459(1), 496-507. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw555

In a previous study Whitbourn & Shanks have reported evidence for a local void underdense by ≈15 per cent extending to 150–300 h−1 Mpc around our position in the Southern Galactic Cap (SGC). Assuming a local luminosity function they modelled K- and r... Read More about The galaxy luminosity function and the Local Hole.

The VLT LBG redshift survey - V. Characterizing the z = 3.1 Lyman α emitter population (2016)
Journal Article
Bielby, R., Tummuangpak, P., Shanks, T., Francke, H., Crighton, N., Bañados, E., …Orsi, A. (2016). The VLT LBG redshift survey - V. Characterizing the z = 3.1 Lyman α emitter population. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(4), 4061-4080. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2914

We present a survey of z ∼ 3 Lyα emitters (LAEs) within the fields of the VLT Lyman break galaxies (LBG) redshift survey. The data encompass five independent survey fields co-spatial with spectroscopic LBG data and covering a larger total area than p... Read More about The VLT LBG redshift survey - V. Characterizing the z = 3.1 Lyman α emitter population.