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White dwarfs in the 2dF QSO redshift survey - I. Hydrogen-rich (DA) stars

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 335:3 (2002) 673-686

Authors:

S Vennes, RJ Smith, BJ Boyle, SM Croom, A Kawka, T Shanks, L Miller, N Loaring

Abstract:

We report the spectroscopic identification of close to 1000 hydrogen-rich (DA) white dwarfs discovered in the course of the Anglo-Australian 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ). We measured the atmospheric parameters of a subsample of 201 stars based on good-quality Balmer line spectra and we determine the 2QZ population characteristics. Over ten per cent of the sample are potential ZZ Ceti variables. We estimate the DA white dwarf birthrate (bDA = 0.5-1.0 × 10-12 yr-1 pc-3) and the scaleheight (h = 220-300 pc) of the population in the thin disc of the Galaxy by combining information acquired in the Palomar-Green, AAT-UVX and new 2QZ surveys. White dwarfs appear related to G and late-F progenitors. A catalogue of 201 DA white dwarfs is presented.
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Deep optical imaging of the field of PC 1643+4631A&B – II. Estimating the colours and redshifts of faint galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 334:2 (2002) 283-296

Authors:

Garret Cotter, Toby Haynes, Joanne C Baker, Michael E Jones, Richard Saunders
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Observations of the Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect in the z=0.78 cluster MS 1137.5+6625

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 334:2 (2002) 323-326

Authors:

Garret Cotter, Helen J Buttery, Rhiju Das, Michael E Jones, Keith Grainge, GG Pooley, Richard Saunders
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Integral Field Spectroscopy with the Gemini Multiobject Spectrograph.I. Design, Construction, and Testing

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific IOP Publishing 114:798 (2002) 892-912

Authors:

Jeremy Allington‐Smith, Graham Murray, Robert Content, George Dodsworth, Roger Davies, Bryan W Miller, Inger Jorgensen, Isobel Hook, David Crampton, Richard Murowinski
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The correlation of line strength with luminosity and redshift from composite QSO spectra

ArXiv astro-ph/0207571 (2002)

Authors:

SM Croom, K Rhook, EA Corbett, BJ Boyle, H Netzer, NS Loaring, L Miller, PJ Outram, T Shanks, RJ Smith

Abstract:

We have generated a series of composite QSO spectra using over 22000 individual low resolution (~8A) QSO spectra obtained from the 2dF (18.25
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