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astro-ph.GA2015★ 4 cited
The VLT Survey Telescope ATLAS
T. Shanks, N. Metcalfe, B. Chehade +9
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) ATLAS is an optical ugriz survey aiming to cover ~4700deg^2 of the Southern sky to similar depths as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). From reduce…
astro-ph.GA2015★ 88 cited
Two bright z > 6 quasars from VST ATLAS and a new method of optical plus mid-infra-red colour selection
A. C. Carnall, T. Shanks, B. Chehade +6
We present the discovery of two z > 6 quasars, selected as i band dropouts in the VST ATLAS survey. Our first quasar has redshift, z = 6.31 \pm 0.03, z band magnitude, z_AB = 19.63…