Refereed Publications

Authors Journal astro-ph Title
Fine S., Croom S.M., Hopkins P.F. et al. MNRAS arXiv:astro-ph/0807.1155 "Constraining the quasar population with the broad-line width distribution"
Smail I., Sharp R., Swinbank A.M., Akiyama M., Ueda Y., Foucaud S., Almaini O., Croom S. MNRAS arXiv:astro-ph/0806.2538 "A Pilot Survey for KX QSOs in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey Field"
Teodoro M., Daminelo A., Sharp R.G., Groh J.H. & Barbosa C.L. 2008 MNRAS 387 564 arXiv:astro-ph/0804.0240 "Near-infrared integral field spectroscopy of the Homunculus nebula around Eta Carinae using Gemini/CIRPASS"
Wake D.A., Sheth R.K., Nichol C.N. et al. 2008 MNRAS 387 1045 arXiv:astro-ph/0802.4288 "The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey: Evolution of the clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies since z = 0.6"
Barcons X., Carrera F.J., Ceballos M.T., et al. 2007 A&A 476 1191 arXiv:astro-ph/0710.0402 "The XMM-Newton Serendipitous Survey V. Optical identification of the XMM-Newton Medium sensitivity Survey (XMS)"
Cooke R., Kunic Z., Sharp R. & Bland-Hawthorn J. 2007 ApJ 667L 163 arXiv:0708.2314v1 "Spectacular Trailing Streamers near LMC X-1: The First Evidence of a Jet?"
N.P. Ross, T.Shanks, R.D. Cannon, D.A. Wake, R.G. Sharp, S.M. Croom & J.A. Peacock
2008 MNRAS 387 1323
arXiv:astro-ph/0704.3739 "Luminous Red Galaxy Clustering at z ~ 0.7 - First Results using AAOmega"
Conn B.C., Lane R.R., Lewis  G.F. et al. 2007 MNRAS 376 939 arXiv:astro-ph/0701664 "The AAT/WFI survey of the Monoceros Ring and Canis Major Dwarf galaxy: I. from l = (193 - 276)"
Ross N.P., da Angela J., Shanks T. et al. 2007 MNRAS 381 573 arXiv:astro-ph/0612400 "The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The 2-Point Correlation Function and Redshift-Space Distortions"
Venemans B.P., McMahon R.G., Warren S.J.,  Gonzalez-Solares E.A., Hewett P.C., Mortlock D.J., Dye S. and Sharp R.G. 2007 MNRAS 376 76 arXiv:astro-ph/0612162 "The discovery of the first luminous z~6 quasar in the UKIDSS Large Area Survey"
Priddey R.S., Gallagher S.C., Isaak K.G., Sharp R.G., McMahon R.G., Butner H.M. 2007 MNRAS 374 867 arXiv:astro-ph/0610472 "A sensitive submillimetre survey of Broad Absorption Line quasars"
Krajnovic D.,  Sharp R., and Thatte N. 2007 MNRAS 374 385 arXiv:astro-ph/0610371 "Integral-field spectroscopy of Centaurus A nucleus"
Fine S., Croom S.M., Miller L. et al.
2006 MNRAS 373 613 arXiv:astro-ph/0609270 "The evolution of host mass and black hole mass in QSOs from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey"
Roseboom I.G., Pimbblet K.A. and Drinkwater M.J. et al. 2006 MNRAS 373 349 arXiv:astro-ph/0609178 "The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The Star Formation Histories of Luminous Red Galaxies"
Cannon R. et al.  2006 MNRAS 372 425 arXiv:astro-ph/0607631 "The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) Luminous Red Galaxy Survey"
Wake D.A. et al.  2006 MNRAS 372 537 arXiv:astro-ph/0607629 "The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey: Evolution of the Luminosity Function of Luminous Red Galaxies to z=0.6"
Bunker A., Smith J., Parry I., Metcalf B., Sharp R. de Grijs R., Bower R., Swinbank M. 2006 NewAR 50 422    "Extragalactic integral field spectroscopy on the Gemini telescopes"
Sharp R.,  Saunders W. and Smith G. et al. 2006 SPIE 6269E 14S arXiv:astro-ph/0606137 "Performance of AAOmega: the AAT multi-purpose fibre-fed spectrograph."
Doherty M., Bunker A., Sharp R., Dalton G., Parry I. and Lewis I. 2006 MNRAS 370 331 arXiv:astro-ph/0604584 "The star formation rate at redshift one: H-alpha spectroscopy with CIRPASS"
Sharp R.G., Reilly N.J., Kable S.H. and Schmidt T.W. 2006 ApJ 639 194 arXiv:astro-ph/10790 "Sequence structure emission in The Red Rectangle Bands"
Meech K.J., Ageorges N., A'Hearn M.F. et al. 2005 Sci 310 265   "Deep Impact: Observations from a Worldwide Earth-Based Campaign"
Schmidt T.W. and Sharp R.G. 2005  Austral.J.Chem. 58N2 69 arXiv:astro-ph/0501180 "The optical spectroscopy of extraterrestrial molecules"
Richards G.T. et al. 2005 MNRAS 360 830 arXiv:astro-ph/0504300 "The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) Survey: the z < 2.1 quasar luminosity function from 5645 quasars to g= 21.85"
Burton M.G. et al. 2005 PASA 22 199  arXiv:astro-ph/0411612 "Science Programs for a 2 m-class Telescope at Dome C, Antarctica: PILOT, the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope"
Smith J.K. et al. 2004 MNRAS 354L 19 arXiv:astro-ph/0408465 "H-alpha kinematics of a z~1 disc galaxy from near-infrared integral field spectroscopy"
Doherty M., Bunker A.,  Sharp R. et al. 2004 MNRAS 354L 7 arXiv:astro-ph/0408442 "Multi-object near-infrared H-alpha spectroscopy of z~ 1 star-forming galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field North"
de Grijs R., Smith L.J., Bunker A., Sharp, R.G. et al. 2004 MNRAS 352 263 arXiv:astro-ph/0404422 "CIRPASS near-infrared integral-field spectroscopy of massive star clusters in the starburst galaxy NGC 1140"
Sharp R.G., Parry I.R., Ryder S.D., Knapen J.H., Mazzuca L.M. 2004 AN 325 108 arXiv:astro-ph/0311346 "Age-dating a star-burst with GEMINI/CIRPASS observations of the core of M83"
Parry I., et al. 2004 SPIE 5492 1135 arXiv:astro-ph/0408189 "CIRPASS: description, performance and astronomical results"
Bunker A. et al. 2004 AN 325 139  arXiv:astro-ph/0401002 "Extragalactic integral field spectroscopy on the Gemini telescopes"
Sharp R.G., Crampton D. Hook I. M., McMahon, R. G. 2004 MNRAS 350 449  arXiv:astro-ph/0401506 "A survey for low-luminosity quasars at redshift z~5"
Sharp R.G. et al. 2002 MNRAS 337 1153 arXiv:astro-ph/0209398 "Reddening-independent quasar selection from a wide-field optical and near-infrared imaging survey"
Isaak K.G. et al. 2002 MNRAS 329 149 arXiv:astro-ph/0109438 "The SCUBA Bright Quasar Survey (SBQS): 850um observations of the z >~ 4 sample"
Sharp R.G., McMahon R.G., Irwin M.J., Hodgkin S.T. 2001 MNRAS 326L 45 arXiv:astro-ph/0103079 "First results from the Isaac Newton Telescope Wide Angle Survey: the z>5 quasar survey"

Conference papers


Authors Journal/Venue Title
Kokkin D.L., Sharp R.G., Reilly N.J., Nauta K., Nakajima M. Kable S.H. and Schmidt T.W. Molecules in Space & Laboratory, Paris, 2007 Lemaire J.L. & Combes F. (eds.) "What can C2 Tell us about the Red Rectangle?"
Glazebrook K. et al. "Cosmic Frontiers" 2006 Durham, ASP conference, eds. Metcalfe & Shanks "The WiggleZ project: AAOmega and Dark Energy" arXive:astro-ph/0701876
Bunker A. J., Doherty M., Sharp  R.G., Dalton G.B., Parry I.R. and Lewis I. 2006 IAUS 235E 106B
2006 AAS 20917108B
"Measuring the Star Formation Rate of the Universe at z~1 from H-alpha with Multi-Object Near-Infrared Spectroscopy"
Sharp R.G., Reilly N.J., Kable S.H., Schmidt T.W. "The Red Rectangle", Charlottesville VA, USA May 2006 "Sequence structure emission in The Red Rectangle Bands"
Jones G.H., Coates A.J., Lowry S.C., Sharp R., Fitzsimmons A., Lisse C.M 2005 DPS 37 4404 "Observations of Comet 9P/Tempel around the Deep Impact collision from the Isaac Newton and UK Schmidt Telescopes"
Ryder, S.; Knapen, J.; Mazzuca, L.; Sharp, R.; Parry, I. 2004 ASPC 320 311 "Age Dating a Starburst: Gemini/CIRPASS Observations of the Core of M 83"
Schmidt T.W.,  Sharp R.G.
5th RACI Student Conference on Physical Chemistry,
Sept. 2004, Wagga Wagga, Australia.
"Identifying interstellar molecules... in the laboratory and with big telescopes"
Sharp R.G., Reilly N.J., Kable S.H., Schmidt T.W.
28th International Symposium on Free Radicals,
4-9 Sept. 2005, Leysin, Switzerland.
"What comes out of dying stars? The Red Rectangle puzzle."

Parry I., Bunker A., Dean A. et al. 2004 SPIE 5492 1135
"CIRPASS: description, performance, and astronomical results"
Parry I.R., Dalton G.B., Doherty M., Sharp R.G. 2003AAS 202 1111 "Seeing the Unvierse at redshift one with the AAT and CIRPASS: a multi-object near-infrared spectrograph"
Bunker A.J., Smith J.K., Parry I.R. et al.

2003 IAUJD 15E 38 "Near-IR Integral Field Spectra of Star Formation in Z>1 DLAs"