7 papers
Public Release of 2dF data from the Fornax Cluster Spectroscopic Survey
M. J. Drinkwater, C. Engel, S. Phillipps +2
Thanks to the 2dF spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope, we have recently completed the first stage of a complete spectroscopic survey more than one order of magnitude lar…
The Fornax Spectroscopic Survey I. Survey Strategy and Preliminary Results on the Redshift Distribution of a Complete Sample of Stars and Galaxies
M. J. Drinkwater, S. Phillipps, J. B. Jones +6
The Fornax Spectroscopic Survey will use the Two degree Field spectrograph (2dF) of the Anglo-Australian Telescope to obtain spectra for a complete sample of all 14000 objects with…
Environmental Effects on the Faint End of the Luminosity Function
S. Phillipps, J. B. Jones, R. M. Smith +2
Recent studies have demonstrated that many galaxy clusters have luminosity functions (LFs) which are steep at the faint end. However, it is equally clear that not all clusters have…
Low Surface Brightness Dwarf Galaxies in the Bristol - Anglo-Australian Observatory Virgo Cluster Survey
J. B. Jones, S. Phillipps, J. M. Schwartzenberg +1
We describe a new, deep photographic survey of the Virgo Cluster which uses multiple exposures on Tech Pan film with the United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope to probe the dwarf populat…
Found: High Surface Brightness Compact Galaxies
M. J. Drinkwater, S. Phillipps, J. B. Jones +5
We are using the 2dF spectrograph to make a survey of all objects (`stars' and `galaxies') in a 12 sq.deg region towards the Fornax cluster. We have discovered a population of comp…
Studies of the association of faint blue and luminous galaxies using the Hitchhiker parallel camera
J. B. Jones, S. P. Driver, S. Phillipps +3
At B magnitudes >~ 24 there is a well-known excess of galaxies (compared to standard models) which is probably due to an (evolving) population of sub-L* galaxies at moderate redshi…