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astro-ph2006★ 32 cited

The Optical and Near-Infrared Properties of 2837 Quasars in the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS)

Kuenley Chiu, Gordon T. Richards, Paul C. Hewett +1

The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) is the first of a new generation of hemispheric imaging projects to extend the work of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) by reaching…

astro-ph2006★ 73 cited

Is Ursa Major II the Progenitor of the Orphan Stream?

M. Fellhauer, N. W. Evans, V. Belokurov +9

Prominent in the `Field of Streams' -- the Sloan Digital Sky Survey map of substructure in the Galactic halo -- is an `Orphan Stream' without obvious progenitor. In this numerical…

astro-ph2006★ 42 cited

The star formation rate of CaII and damped Lyman-alpha absorbers at 0.4<z<1.3

Vivienne Wild, Paul Hewett, Max Pettini

[abridged] Using stacked Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectra, we present the detection of [OII]3727,3730 nebular emission from galaxies hosting CaII and MgII absorption line systems.…

astro-ph2006★ 215 cited

The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey First Data Release

S. J. Warren, N. C. Hambly, S. Dye +37

The First Data Release (DR1) of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) took place on 2006 July 21. UKIDSS is a set of five large near-infrared surveys, covering a complementar…

astro-ph2006★ 54 cited

New members in the Upper Sco association from the UKIDSS Early Data Release

N. Lodieu, N. C. Hambly, R. F. Jameson

We present the results of a 9.3 square degree infrared (ZYJHK) survey in the Upper Scorpius association extracted from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Galactic Cluster…

astro-ph2006★ 42 cited

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The Star Formation Histories of Luminous Red Galaxies

Isaac G. Roseboom, Kevin A. Pimbblet, Michael J. Drinkwater +21

We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5,697 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) based on the Hdelta (4101A) and [OII] (3727A) lines. LRGs are lum…