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A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO LOCATING THE RED GIANT BRANCH TIP MAGNITUDE. II. DISTANCES TO THE SATELLITES OF M31
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-10-2012)“…In "A Bayesian Approach to Locating the Red Giant Branch Tip Magnitude (Part I)," a new technique was introduced for obtaining distances using the tip of the…”
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Is the Milky Way still breathing? RAVE–Gaia streaming motions
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2018)“…We use data from the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) and the Tycho-Gaia astrometric solution (TGAS) catalogue to compute the velocity fields yielded by the…”
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THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE M31 SATELLITE SYSTEM; STRONG EVIDENCE FOR AN INHOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION OF SATELLITES
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2013)“…We undertake an investigation into the spatial structure of the M31 satellite system utilizing the distance distributions presented in a previous publication…”
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The GALAH survey: scientific motivation
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-05-2015)“…The Galactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH) survey is a large high-resolution spectroscopic survey using the newly commissioned High Efficiency and Resolution…”
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The RAVE survey: constraining the local Galactic escape speed
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-08-2007)“…We report new constraints on the local escape speed of our Galaxy. Our analysis is based on a sample of high-velocity stars from the RAVE survey and two…”
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Local stellar kinematics from RAVE data - I. Local standard of rest
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2011)“…We analyse a sample of 82 850 stars from the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) survey, with well-determined velocities and stellar parameters, to isolate a…”
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The properties of the local spiral arms from RAVE data: two-dimensional density wave approach
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-09-2012)“…Abstract Using the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) survey, we recently brought to light a gradient in the mean galactocentric radial velocity of stars in the…”
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Constraining the Galaxy's dark halo with RAVE stars
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-12-2014)“…We use the kinematics of ∼200 000 giant stars that lie within ∼1.5 kpc of the plane to measure the vertical profile of mass density near the Sun. We find that…”
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The wobbly Galaxy: kinematics north and south with RAVE red-clump giants
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-11-2013)“…The RAdial Velocity Experiment survey, combined with proper motions and distance estimates, can be used to study in detail stellar kinematics in the extended…”
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Grantecan spectroscopic observations and confirmations of planetary nebulae candidates in the Northern Galactic Plane
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (28-01-2023)“…ABSTRACT We present Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) spectroscopic confirmations of 55 faint Planetary Nebulae (PNe) candidates discovered largely in the INT…”
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Catalogue of known Galactic SNRs uncovered in Hα light
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-07-2011)“…During detailed searches for new Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Anglo-Australian Observatory/United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope (AAO/UKST) Hα survey…”
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Determination of Planetary Nebulae angular diameters from radio continuum spectral energy distribution modelling
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-05-2021)“…ABSTRACT Powerful new, high-resolution, high-sensitivity, multifrequency, wide-field radio surveys such as the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder…”
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Confirmation of G6.31+0.54 as a part of a Galactic supernova remnant
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New Galactic Planetary nebulae selected by radio and multiwavelength characteristics
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Observations and three-dimensional ionization structure of the planetary nebula SuWt 2
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-09-2013)“…The planetary nebula SuWt 2 (PN G311.0+02.4) is an unusual object with a prominent, inclined central emission ellipse and faint bipolar extensions. It has two…”
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Detection of a radial velocity gradient in the extended local disc with RAVE
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2011)“…Using a sample of 213 713 stars from the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) survey, limited to a distance of 2 kpc from the Sun and to |z| < 1 kpc, we report…”
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Optical detection and spectroscopic confirmation of supernova remnant G213.0−0.6 (now redesignated as G213.3−0.4)
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2012)“…During a detailed search for optical counterparts of known Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) using the Anglo-Australian Observatory/United Kingdom Schmidt…”
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New distances to RAVE stars
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2014)“…Probability density functions (pdfs) are determined from new stellar parameters for the distance moduli of stars for which the RAdial Velocity Experiment…”
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The SAMI Galaxy Survey: cubism and covariance, putting round pegs into square holes
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-01-2015)“…We present a methodology for the regularization and combination of sparse sampled and irregularly gridded observations from fibre-optic multiobject integral…”
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Climbing the cosmic ladder with stellar twins in RAVE with Gaia
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2017)“…Abstract We apply the twin method to determine parallaxes to 232 545 stars of the RAVE survey using the parallaxes of Gaia DR1 as a reference. To search for…”
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