Anglo-australian telescope imaging and microslit spectroscopy in the southern bubble deep field by Glazebrook, K, Verma, A, Boyle, B, Oliver, S, Mann, R, Monbleau, D

“…The targets are selected from deep Anglo-Australian Telescope prime-focus images complete to R < 24, and the spectroscopy is 5 0% complete at R = 23. …”

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey by Croom, S, Shanks, T, Boyle, B, Smith, R, Miller, L, Loaring, N

“…We present preliminary results from the 2-degree Field (2dF) QSO Redshift Survey currently under way at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. This survey aims to determine the redshifts of >25000 QSOs over a redshift range of 0.3…”

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - XII. The spectroscopic catalogue and luminosity function by Croom, S, Smith, R, Boyle, B, Shanks, T, Miller, L, Outram, P, Loaring, N

“…We present the final catalogue of the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ), based on Anglo-Australian Telescope 2dF spectroscopic observations of 44576 colour-selected (u b_J r) objects with 18.25…”

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - V. The 10k catalogue by Croom, S, Smith, R, Boyle, B, Shanks, T, Loaring, N, Miller, L, Lewis, I

“…We present a catalogue comprising over 10000 QSOs covering an effective area of 289.6 sq. degrees, based on spectroscopic observations with the 2-degree Field instrument at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. This catalogue forms the first release of the 2-degree Field QSO Redshift Survey. …”

Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): Spectroscopic analysis by Hopkins, A, Driver, S, Brough, S, Owers, MS, Bauer, A, Gunawardhana, M, Cluver, M, Colless, M, Foster, C, Lara-Lopez, M, Roseboom, I, Sharp, R, Steele, O, Thomas, D, Baldry, I, Brown, M, Liske, J, Norberg, P, Robotham, A, Bamford, S, Bland-Hawthorn, J, Drinkwater, M, Loveday, J, Meyer, M, Peacock, J

“…The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is a multiwavelength photometric and spectroscopic survey, using the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope to obtain spectra for up to ~300000 galaxies over 280 square degrees, to a limiting magnitude of r_pet < 19.8 mag. …”

Searching for clusters with SUMSS by Buttery, H, Cotter, G, Hunstead, R, Sadler, E

“…A subsample have been imaged in V, R and I at the 2.3-m telescope at Siding Spring and in J and K at the Anglo Australian Telescope (AAT) and the New Technology Telescope (NTT) at La Silla, Chile. …”

CIRPASS: Description, performance and astronomical results by Parry, I, Bunker, A, Dean, A, Doherty, M, Horton, A, King, D, Lemoine-Busserole, M, Mackay, C, McMahon, R, Medlen, S, Sharp, R, Smith, J

“…This near-infrared (MR) spectrograph has been used on the 8m Gemini-South Telescope, the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) and the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope (WHT). …”

The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - III. The input catalogue by Smith, R, Croom, S, Boyle, B, Shanks, T, Miller, L, Loaring, N

“…The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) has obtained redshifts for in excess of 23 000 QSOs selected by their u′, b J, r colours using the 2-degree Field (2dF) facility at the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). In this paper, we describe the creation of the input catalogue from UK Schmidt photographic plates. …”

Integral Field Spectroscopy of 23 Spiral Bulges by Batcheldor, D, Axon, D, Merritt, D, Hughes, M, Marconi, A, Binney, J, Capetti, A, Merrifield, M, Scarlata, C, Sparks, W

“…We have obtained Integral Field Spectroscopy for 23 spiral bulges using INTEGRAL on the William Herschel Telescope and SPIRAL on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. This is the first 2D survey directed solely at the bulges of spiral galaxies. …”

Integral field spectroscopy of 23 spiral bulges by Batcheldor, D, Axon, D, Merritt, D, Hughes, M, Marconi, A, Binney, J, Capetti, A, Merrifield, M, Scarlata, C, Sparks, W

“…We have obtained integral-field spectroscopy for 23 spiral bulges using INTEGRAL on the William Herschel Telescope and SPIRAL on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. This is the first two-dimensional survey directed solely at the bulges of spiral galaxies. …”

An Efficient Approach to Obtaining Large Numbers of Distant Supernova Host Galaxy Redshifts by Lidman, C, Ruhlmann-Kleider, V, Sullivan, M, Myzska, J, Dobbie, P, Glazebrook, K, Mould, J, Astier, P, Balland, C, Betoule, M, Carlberg, R, Conley, A, Fouchez, D, Guy, J, Hardin, D, Hook, I, Howell, D, Pain, R, Palanque-Delabrouille, N, Perrett, K, Pritchet, C, Regnault, N, Rich, J

“…We use the wide-field capabilities of the 2 degree field fibre positioner and the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) to obtain redshifts of galaxies that hosted supernovae during the first 3 years of the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS). …”

Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): Motivation, design and target catalogue by Davies, L, Robotham, A, Driver, S, Lagos, C, Cortese, L, Mannering, E, Foster, C, Lidman, C, Hashemizadeh, A, Koushan, S, O’Toole, S, Baldry, I, Bilicki, M, Bland-Hawthorn, J, Bremer, M, Brown, M, Bryant, J, Catinella, B, Croom, S, Grootes, M, Holwerda, B, Jarvis, M, Maddox, N, Meyer, M, Moffett, A, Phillipps, S, Taylor, E, Windhorst, R, Wolf, C

“…The Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS) is a large spectroscopic campaign at the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) aimed at bridging the near and distant Universe by producing the highest completeness survey of galaxies and groups at intermediate redshifts (0.3 < z < 1.0). …”

Transits of Known Planets Orbiting a Naked-eye Star

“…We combine new HARPS observations with RV data from the Keck/High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer and the Anglo-Australian Telescope, along with TESS photometry from Sector 12, to perform a complete analysis of the system parameters. …”
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Infrared spectroscopy and analysis of brown dwarf and planetary mass objects in the Orion nebula cluster by Weights, D, Lucas, P, Roche, P, Pinfield, D, Riddick, F

“…The multi-object spectroscopic observations were made using IRIS2 on the Anglo-Australian Telescope at H band. We develop a spectral typing scheme based on optically calibrated, near-infrared spectra of young sources in the Taurus and IC 348 star-forming regions with spectral types M3.0 to M9.5. …”

Measuring the star formation rate of the universe at z ∼ 1 from Hα with multi-object near-infrared spectroscopy by Bunker, A, Doherty, M, Sharp, R, Parry, I, Dalton, G, Lewis, I

“…We have demonstrated the first near-infrared multi-object spectrograph, CIRPASS, on the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope (WHT) and the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope. We have conducted an H survey of 38 0.77 < z < 1 galaxies over ∼100 arcmin2 of the Hubble Deep Field North and Flanking Fields, to determine star formation rates (SFRs) using CIRPASS on the WHT. …”

The 2-degree Field Lensing Survey: design and clustering measurements by Blake, C, Amon, A, Childress, M, Erben, T, Glazebrook, K, Harnois-Deraps, J, Heymans, C, Hildebrandt, H, Hinton, SR, Janssens, S, Johnson, A, Joudaki, S, Klaes, D, Kuijken, K, Lidman, C, Marin, FA, Parkinson, D, Poole, GB, Wolf, C

“… We present the 2-degree Field Lensing Survey (2dFLenS), a new galaxy redshift survey performed at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. 2dFLenS is the first wide-area spectroscopic survey specifically targeting the area mapped by deep-imaging gravitational lensing fields, in this case the Kilo-Degree Survey. 2dFLenS obtained 70 079 redshifts in the range z < 0.9 over an area of 731 deg2, and is designed to extend the data sets available for testing gravitational physics and promote the development of relevant algorithms for joint imaging and spectroscopic analysis. …”

Multi-object near-infrared H alpha spectroscopy of z similar to 1 star-forming galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field North by Doherty, M, Bunker, A, Sharp, R, Dalton, G, Parry, I, Lewis, I, MacDonald, E, Wolf, C, Hippelein, H

“…CIRPASS has been successfully demonstrated in multi-object mode on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) and the William Herschel Telescope (WHT). …”

The EMBLA survey – metal-poor stars in the Galactic bulge by Howes, Louise M., Asplund, Martin, Keller, Stefan C., Casey, Andrew R., Yong, David, Lind, Karin, Frebel, Anna L., Hays, Austin, Alves-Brito, Alan, Bessell, Michael S., Casagrande, Luca, Marino, Anna F., Nataf, David M., Owen, Christopher I., Da Costa, Gary S., Schmidt, Brian P., Tisserand, Patrick

“…Their metal-poor nature was then confirmed using the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. Here we present an abundance analysis of 10 bulge stars with -2.8 < [Fe/H] < -1.7 from MIKE/Magellan observations, in total determining the abundances of 22 elements. …”
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Transits of Known Planets Orbiting a Naked-eye Star by Osborn, Hugh P, Ricker, George R, Vanderspek, Roland K, Seager, Sara

“…We combine new HARPS observations with RV data from the Keck/High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer and the Anglo-Australian Telescope, along with TESS photometry from Sector 12, to perform a complete analysis of the system parameters. …”
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The SAMI Galaxy Survey: The cluster redshift survey, target selection and cluster properties by Owers, MS, Allen, JT, Baldry, I, Bryant, JJ, Cecil, GN, Cortese, L, Croom, SM, Driver, SP, Fogarty, LMR, Green, AW, Helmich, E, de Jong, JTA, Kuijken, K, Mahajan, S, McFarland, J, Pracy, MB, Robotham, AGS, Sikkema, G, Sweet, S, Taylor, EN, Kleijn, G, Bauer, AE, Bland-Hawthorn, J, Brough, S, Colless, M, Couch, WJ, Davies, RL, Drinkwater, MJ, Goodwin, M, Hopkins, AM, Konstantopoulos, IS, Foster, C, Lawrence, JS, Lorente, NPF, Medling, AM, Metcalfe, N, Richards, SN, van de Sande, J, Scott, N, Shanks, T, Sharp, R, Thomas, AD, Tonini, C

“…We have conducted a redshift survey of these clusters using the AAOmega multi-object spectrograph on the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope. The redshift survey is used to determine cluster membership and to characterize the dynamical properties of the clusters. …”