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Science at the AAO

AAO Research Staff and their Interests 

To contact a staff member via e-mail, append "@aao.gov.au" to the E-mail name listed (except those with external e-mail addresses, where you should replace -@- with @).

Major AAT/UKST Observing Programs

Current:

The Anglo-Australian Planet Search - the Southern Hemisphere's most precise planet search program

RAVE - using the kinematics and abundances of stars to probe the history of our Galaxy

WiggleZ - a redshift survey of 400,000 star-forming galaxies to detect baryonic acoustic oscillations in galaxy clustering, and measure the equation of state of dark energy

GAMA - a redshift survey of up to 400,000 galaxies to study structure on scales of 1 kpc to 1 Mpc. This includes galaxy clusters, groups, mergers and coarse measurements of galaxy structure (i.e., bulges and discs). It is on these scales where baryons play a critical role in the galaxy formation and subsequent evolutionary processes and where our understanding of structure in the Universe breaks down.

Recent science highlights can be found at the AAO What's New and Press Release pages, as well as in the AAO Newsletter and the AAO Annual Report.

Publications resulting from AAO facilities and publications by AAO staff are surveyed annually for the period 1 June- 30 July. Publications are categorised as AAT ('A' or arising from on AAT data), UKST ('S' or arising from UKST data)), or AAO ('O' or by AAO staff using other data).

These survey results are analysed each year in the AAO Annual Report - see Chapter 3 of the most recent edition for detailed examination of trends in the AAO's scientific output. Below we summarise the total number of publications, and the nationality of the first author of publications, by year.

The following searchable PDF files summarise the surveys - first there is a single file with all compiled publications since July 1995, and then there are files for each annual reporting year.

• Compiled List June 1995 - July 2005
• June 2004 - July 2005
• June 2003 - July 2004
• June 2002 - July 2003
• June 2001 - July 2002
• June 2000 - July 2001
• June 1999 - July 2000
• June 1998 - July 1999
• June 1997 - July 1998
• June 1996 - July 1997
• June 1995 - July 1996

For a list of publications involving AAO staff since the most recent survey above, try using the following search on the NASA ADS Abstract Service (though note that some papers by authors with common names similar to those of AAO staff will also be returned).

With the rise to almost universal use of the astro-ph preprint server, AAO no longer distributes electronic or paper copies of preprints.  Lists of preprints and publications by AAO staff dating from prior to 2002 can be found at the old AAO Preprints page.

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The AAO Observational Techniques Workshop

Astrobiology Australasia

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Hubble Deep Field - South Observations with the AAT

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