Staff profile

Prof Tom Shanks

Professor in the Department of Physics

(email at tom.shanks@durham.ac.uk)

Research Groups

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Research Interests

Extragalactic astronomy and cosmology

Publications

Edited works: conference proceedings

Content, R., Blake, S., Dunlop, C., Nandi, D., Sharples, R., Talbot, G., Shanks, T., Donoghue, D., Galiatsatos, N. & Luke, P. (2012). CEOI microslice spectrograph. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series.
Shanks, T. & Metcalfe, N. (2012). VST ATLAS: Science Goals and Status. Science from the Next Generation Imaging and Spectroscopic Surveys, ESO Garching, 15-18 October 2012 Online at: http://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2012/surveys2012/program.html, id.
Content, R., Shanks, T., Sharples, R., Bramall, D. & Percival, W. (2012). VXMS: the VISTA extreme multiplex spectrograph. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series.

Journal papers: academic

Nikoloudakis, N., Shanks, T. & Sawangwit, U. (2013). Clustering analysis of high-redshift luminous red galaxies in Stripe 82. \mnras 429: 2032-2051.
Heywood, I., Bielby, R.M., Hill, M.D., Metcalfe, N., Rawlings, S., Shanks, T. & Smirnov, O.M. (2013). Sub-millimetre source identifications and the microjansky source population at 8.4 GHz in the William Herschel Deep Field. \mnras 428: 935-951.
Bielby, R., Hill, M.D., Shanks, T., Crighton, N.H.M., Infante, L., Bornancini, C.G., Francke, H., Héraudeau, P., Lambas, D.G., Metcalfe, N., Minniti, D., Padilla, N., Theuns, T., Tummuangpak, P. & Weilbacher, P. (2013). The VLT LBG Redshift Survey - III. The clustering and dynamics of Lyman-break galaxies at z \tilde 3. \mnras 430: 425-449.
Fine, S., Shanks, T., Croom, S.M., Green, P., Kelly, B.C., Berger, E., Chornock, R., Burgett, W.S., Magnier, E.A. & Price, P.A. (2012). Composite reverberation mapping. \mnras 427: 2701-2710.
Sawangwit, U., Shanks, T., Croom, S.M., Drinkwater, M.J., Fine, S., Parkinson, D. & Ross, N.P. (2012). Measuring BAO and non-Gaussianity via QSO clustering. \mnras 420: 1916-1925.
Bielby, R.M., Hill, M.D., Metcalfe, N. & Shanks, T. (2012). Submillimetre observations of X-ray active galactic nuclei in the William Herschel Deep Field. MNRAS 419: 1315-1323.
Crighton, N.H.M., Bielby, R., Shanks, T., Infante, L., Bornancini, C.G., Bouche, N., Lambas, D.G., Lowenthal, J.D., Minniti, D., Morris, S.L., Padilla, N., Peroux, C., Petitjean, P., Theuns, T., Tummuangpak, P., Weilbacher, P.M., Wisotzki, L. & Worseck, G. (2012). VLT Lyman-break galaxy redshift survey. II. (Crighton+, 2011). VizieR Online Data Catalog 741: 40028.
Sawangwit, U., Shanks, T., Abdalla, F.B., Cannon, R.D., Croom, S.M., Edge, A.C., Ross, N.P. & Wake, D.A. (2011). Angular correlation function of 1.5 million luminous red galaxies: clustering evolution and a search for baryon acoustic oscillations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 416(4): 3033-3056.
Shanks, T., Croom, S.M., Fine, S., Ross, N.P. & Sawangwit, U. (2011). Do all QSOs have the same black hole mass?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 416(1): 650-659.
Fine, S., Shanks, T., Nikoloudakis, N. & Sawangwit, U. (2011). Evolution in the clustering strength of radio galaxies. MNRAS 418: 2251-2259.
Hill, M.D. & Shanks, T. (2011). Extending pure luminosity evolution models into the mid-infrared, far-infrared and submillimetre. MNRAS 414: 1875-1886.
Hill, M.D. & Shanks, T. (2011). The contribution of AGN to the submillimetre population. MNRAS 410: 762-774.
Bielby, R.M., Shanks, T., Weilbacher, P.M., Infante, L., Crighton, N.H.M., Bornancini, C., Bouché, N., Héraudeau, P., Lambas, D.G., Lowenthal, J., Minniti, D., Padilla, N., Petitjean, P. & Theuns, T. (2011). The VLT LBG Redshift Survey – I. Clustering and dynamics of ≈1000 galaxies at z≈ 3†. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 414(1): 2-27.
Crighton, N.H.M., Bielby, R., Shanks, T., Infante, L., Bornancini, C.G., Bouché, N., Lambas, D.G., Lowenthal, J.D., Minniti, D., Morris, S.L., Padilla, N., Péroux, C., Petitjean, P., Theuns, T., Tummuangpak, P., Weilbacher, P.M., Wisotzki, L. & Worseck, G. (2011). The VLT LBG Redshift Survey- II. Interactions between galaxies and the IGM at z\tilde 3. MNRAS 414: 28-49.
Sawangwit, U. & Shanks, T. (2010). Beam profile sensitivity of the WMAP CMB power spectrum. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 407(1): L16-L20.
Sawangwit, U., Shanks, T., Cannon, R.D., Croom, S.M., Ross, N.P. & Wake, D.A. (2010). Cross-correlating WMAP5 with 1.5 million LRGs: a new test for the ISW effect. MNRAS 402: 2228-2244.
Bielby, R., Shanks, T., Sawangwit, U., Croom, S.M., Ross, N.P. & Wake, D.A. (2010). Photometric selection of emission-line galaxies, clustering analysis and a search for the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect. MNRAS 403: 1261-1273.
Fine, S., Croom, S.M., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Pimbblet, K.A., Ross, N.P., Schneider, D.P. & Shanks, T. (2010). The CIV linewidth distribution for quasars and its implications for broad-line region dynamics and virial mass estimation. MNRAS 409: 591-610.
Mountrichas, G., Sawangwit, U. & Shanks, T. (2009). 2PIGG group masses via 2dF galaxy z-space distortion. MNRAS 398: 971-984.
Mountrichas, G., Sawangwit, U., Shanks, T., Croom, S.M., Schneider, D.P., Myers, A.D. & Pimbblet, K. (2009). QSO-LRG two-point cross-correlation function and redshift-space distortions. MNRAS 394: 2050-2064.
Cimatti, A., Robberto, M., Baugh, C., Beckwith, S.V.W., Content, R., Daddi, E., De Lucia, G., Garilli, B., Guzzo, L., Kauffmann, G., Lehnert, M., Maccagni, D., Martínez-Sansigre, A., Pasian, F., Reid, I.N., Rosati, P., Salvaterra, R., Stiavelli, M., Wang, Y., Zapatero Osorio, M., Balcells, M., Bersanelli, M., Bertoldi, F., Blaizot, J., Bottini, D., Bower, R., Bulgarelli, A., Burgasser, A., Burigana, C., Butler, R.C., Casertano, S., Ciardi, B., Cirasuolo, M., Clampin, M., Cole, S., Comastri, A., Cristiani, S., Cuby, J.-G., Cuttaia, F., de Rosa, A., Sanchez, A.D., di Capua, M., Dunlop, J., Fan, X., Ferrara, A., Finelli, F., Franceschini, A., Franx, M., Franzetti, P., Frenk, C., Gardner, J.P., Gianotti, F., Grange, R., Gruppioni, C., Gruppuso, A., Hammer, F., Hillenbrand, L., Jacobsen, A., Jarvis, M., Kennicutt, R., Kimble, R., Kriek, M., Kurk, J., Kneib, J.-P., Le Fevre, O., Macchetto, D., MacKenty, J., Madau, P., Magliocchetti, M., Maino, D., Mandolesi, N., Masetti, N., McLure, R., Mennella, A., Meyer, M., Mignoli, M., Mobasher, B., Molinari, E., Morgante, G., Morris, S., Nicastro, L., Oliva, E., Padovani, P., Palazzi, E., Paresce, F., Perez Garrido, A., Pian, E., Popa, L., Postman, M., Pozzetti, L., Rayner, J., Rebolo, R., Renzini, A., Röttgering, H., Schinnerer, E., Scodeggio, M., Saisse, M., Shanks, T., Shapley, A., Sharples, R., Shea, H., Silk, J., Smail, I., Spanó, P., Steinacker, J., Stringhetti, L., Szalay, A., Tresse, L., Trifoglio, M., Urry, M., Valenziano, L., Villa, F., Villo Perez, I., Walter, F., Ward, M., White, R., White, S., Wright, E., Wyse, R., Zamorani, G., Zacchei, A., Zeilinger, W.W. & Zerbi, F. (2009). SPACE: the spectroscopic all-sky cosmic explorer. Experimental Astronomy 23: 39-66.
Croom, S.M., Richards, G.T., Shanks, T., Boyle, B.J., Strauss, M.A., Myers, A.D., Nichol, R.C., Pimbblet, K.A., Ross, N.P., Schneider, D.P., Sharp, R.G. & Wake, D.A. (2009). The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey: the QSO luminosity function at 0.4 \lt z \lt 2.6. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 399(4): 1755-1772.
Croom, S.M., Richards, G.T., Shanks, T., Boyle, B.J., Sharp, R.G., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bridges, T., Brunner, R.J., Cannon, R., Carson, D., Chiu, K., Colless, M., Couch, W., de Propris, R., Drinkwater, M.J., Edge, A., Fine, S., Loveday, J., Miller, L., Myers, A.D., Nichol, R.C., Outram, P., Pimbblet, K., Roseboom, I., Ross, N., Schneider, D.P., Smith, A., Stoughton, C., Strauss, M.A. & Wake, D. (2009). The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the spectroscopic QSO catalogue. MNRAS 392: 19-44.
Fine, S., Croom, S.M., Hopkins, P.F., Hernquist, L., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Colless, M., Hall, P.B., Miller, L., Myers, A.D., Nichol, R., Pimbblet, K.A., Ross, N.P., Schneider, D.P., Shanks, T. & Sharp, R.G. (2008). Constraining the quasar population with the broad-line width distribution. MNRAS 390: 1413-1429.
Ross, N.P., Shanks, T., Cannon, R.D., Wake, D.A., Sharp, R.G., Croom, S.M. & Peacock, J.A. (2008). Luminous red galaxy clustering at z \~= 0.7 - first results using AAOmega. MNRAS 387: 1323-1334.
Wake, D.A., Sheth, R.K., Nichol, R.C., Baugh, C.M., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Colless, M., Couch, W.J., Croom, S.M., de Propris, R., Drinkwater, M.J., Edge, A.C., Loveday, J., Lam, T.Y., Pimbblet, K.A., Roseboom, I.G., Ross, N.P., Schneider, D.P., Shanks, T. & Sharp, R.G. (2008). The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: evolution of the clustering of luminous red galaxies since z = 0.6. MNRAS 387: 1045-1062.
da Ângela, J., Shanks, T., Croom, S.M., Weilbacher, P., Brunner, R.J., Couch, W.J., Miller, L., Myers, A.D., Nichol, R.C., Pimbblet, K.A., de Propris, R., Richards, G.T., Ross, N.P., Schneider, D.P. & Wake, D. (2008). The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey: QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 383(2): 565-580.
Bielby, R.M. & Shanks, T. (2007). Anomalous SZ contribution to three-year WMAP data. MNRAS 382: 1196-1202.
Collister, A., Lahav, O., Blake, C., Cannon, R., Croom, S., Drinkwater, M., Edge, A., Eisenstein, D., Loveday, J., Nichol, R., Pimbblet, K., de Propris, R., Roseboom, I., Ross, N., Schneider, D.P., Shanks, T. & Wake, D. (2007). MegaZ-LRG: a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies. MNRAS 375: 68-76.
Mountrichas, G. & Shanks, T. (2007). QSO lensing magnification: a comparison of 2QZ and Sloan Digital Sky Survey results. MNRAS 380: 113-125.
Sadler, E.M., Cannon, R.D., Mauch, T., Hancock, P.J., Wake, D.A., Ross, N., Croom, S.M., Drinkwater, M.J., Edge, A.C., Eisenstein, D., Hopkins, A.M., Johnston, H.M., Nichol, R., Pimbblet, K.A., de Propris, R., Roseboom, I.G., Schneider, D.P. & Shanks, T. (2007). Radio galaxies in the 2SLAQ Luminous Red Galaxy Survey - I. The evolution of low-power radio galaxies to z \~ 0.7. MNRAS 381: 211-227.
Ross, N.P., da Â, ngela, J., Shanks, T., Wake, D.A., Cannon, R.D., Edge, A.C., Nichol, R.C., Outram, P.J., Colless, M., Couch, W.J., Croom, S.M., de Propris, R., Drinkwater, M.J., Eisenstein, D.J., Loveday, J., Pimbblet, K.A., Roseboom, I.G., Schneider, D.P., Sharp, R.G. & Weilbacher, P.M. (2007). The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the LRG 2-point correlation function and redshift-space distortions. MNRAS 381: 573-588.
Shanks, T. (2007). The effect of lensing on the large-scale cosmic microwave background anisotropy. MNRAS 376: 173-179.
Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., Weilbacher, P.M., McCracken, H.J., Fong, R. & Thompson, D. (2006). Galaxy number counts - VI. An H-band survey of the Herschel Deep Field. MNRAS 370: 1257-1273.
Frith, W.J., Outram, P.J. & Shanks, T. (2006). High-order 2MASS galaxy correlation functions: probing the Gaussianity of the primordial density field. MNRAS 373: 759-768.
Frith, W.J., Metcalfe, N. & Shanks, T. (2006). New H-band galaxy number counts: a large local hole in the galaxy distribution. MNRAS 371: 1601-1609.
Wake, D.A., Nichol, R.C., Eisenstein, D.J., Loveday, J., Edge, A.C., Cannon, R., Smail, I., Schneider, D.P., Scranton, R., Carson, D., Ross, N.P., Brunner, R.J., Colless, M., Couch, W.J., Croom, S.M., Driver, S.P., da Â, ngela, J., Jester, S., de Propris, R., Drinkwater, M.J., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Pimbblet, K.A., Roseboom, I.G., Shanks, T., Sharp, R.G. & Brinkmann, J. (2006). The 2df SDSS LRG and QSO survey: evolution of the luminosity function of luminous red galaxies to z = 0.6. MNRAS 372: 537-550.
Cannon, R., Drinkwater, M., Edge, A., Eisenstein, D., Nichol, R., Outram, P., Pimbblet, K., de Propris, R., Roseboom, I., Wake, D., Allen, P., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bridges, T., Carson, D., Chiu, K., Colless, M., Couch, W., Croom, S., Driver, S., Fine, S., Hewett, P., Loveday, J., Ross, N., Sadler, E.M., Shanks, T., Sharp, R., Smith, J.A., Stoughton, C., Weilbacher, P., Brunner, R.J., Meiksin, A. & Schneider, D.P. (2006). The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) Luminous Red Galaxy Survey. MNRAS 372: 425-442.
Roseboom, I.G., Pimbblet, K.A., Drinkwater, M.J., Cannon, R.D., de Propris, R., Edge, A.C., Eisenstein, D.J., Nichol, R.C., Smail, I., Wake, D.A., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bridges, T.J., Carson, D., Colless, M., Couch, W.J., Croom, S.M., Driver, S.P., Hewett, P.C., Loveday, J., Ross, N., Schneider, D.P., Shanks, T., Sharp, R.G. & Weilbacher, P. (2006). The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the star formation histories of luminous red galaxies. MNRAS 373: 349-360.
Fine, S., Croom, S.M., Miller, L., Babic, A., Moore, D., Brewer, B., Sharp, R.G., Boyle, B.J., Shanks, T., Smith, R.J., Outram, P.J. & Loaring, N.S. (2006). The evolution of host mass and black hole mass in quasi-stellar objects from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey. MNRAS 373: 613-622.
Frith, W.J., Shanks, T. & Outram, P.J. (2005). 2MASS constraints on the local large-scale structure: a challenge to ΛCDM?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 361: 701-709.
Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Budavári, Tamás, Schlegel, David J., Bridges, Terry, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Cannon, Russell, Connolly, Andrew J., Croom, Scott M., Csabai, István, Drinkwater, Michael, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hewett, Paul C., Loveday, Jon, Nichol, Robert C., Pimbblet, Kevin A., De Propris, Roberto, Schneider, Donald P., Scranton, Ryan, Seljak, Uroš, & Shanks, Tom, Szapudi, István, Szalay, Alexander S. and Wake, David (2005). Calibrating photometric redshifts of luminous red galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 359: 237-250.
da Ângela, J., Outram, P. J. and Shanks, T. (2005). Constraining β(z) and Ω⁰_m from redshift-space distortions in z~ 3 galaxy surveys. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 361: 879-886.
da Angela, J., Outram, P. J. and Shanks, T. (2005). Constraining beta(z) and Omega_m from redshift-space distortions in z~3 galaxy surveys. ArXiv Astrophysics e-prints arXiv:astro-ph/0505469-.
Frith, W. J., Outram, P. J. and Shanks, T. (2005). High-order 2MASS galaxy correlation functions: Probing the primordial density field and the linearity of galaxy bias. ArXiv Astrophysics e-prints arXiv:astro-ph/0507704-.
Myers, A. D., Outram, P. J., Shanks, T., Boyle, B. J., & Croom, S. M., Loaring, N. S., Miller, L. and Smith, R. J. (2005). On statistical lensing and the anticorrelation between 2dF QSOs and foreground galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 359: 741-754.
Guimarães, Antonio C. C., Myers, Adam D. and Shanks, Tom (2005). QSO lensing magnification associated with galaxy groups. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 362: 657-665.
Wals, M., Boyle, B. J., Croom, S. M., Miller, L., Smith, & R., Shanks, T. and Outram, P. (2005). Radio-quiet objects in the 2QZ survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 360: 453-457.
Frith, W.J., Outram, P.J. & Shanks, T. (2005). The 2MASS galaxy angular power spectrum: Probing the galaxy distribution to Gigaparsec scales. ArXiv Astrophysics e-prints arXiv:astro-ph/0507215-.
Frith, W.J., Outram, P.J. & Shanks, T. (2005). The 2-Micron All-Sky Survey galaxy angular power spectrum: probing the galaxy distribution to gigaparsec scales. MNRAS 364: 593-600.
da Ângela, J., Outram, P. J., Shanks, T., Boyle, B. J., & Croom, S. M., Loaring, N. S., Miller, L. and Smith, R. J. (2005). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey- XV. Correlation analysis of redshift-space distortions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 360: 1040-1054.
Smith, R. J., Croom, S. M., Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T., & Miller, L. and Loaring, N. S. (2005). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - III. The input catalogue. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 359: 57-72.
Croom, S. M. Boyle, B. J. Shanks, T. , Smith, R. J. , Miller, L. Outram, P. J. , Loaring, N. S. Hoyle, F. & da Ângela, J. (2005). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - XIV. Structure and evolution from the two-point correlation function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 356(2): 415-438.
Richards, Gordon T., Croom, Scott M., Anderson, Scott F., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Boyle, Brian J., De Propris, Roberto, Drinkwater, Michael J., Fan, Xiaohui, Gunn, James E., Ivezić, Željko, Jester, Sebastian, Loveday, Jon, Meiksin, Avery, Miller, Lance, Myers, Adam, Nichol, Robert C., Outram, Phil J., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Roseboom, Isaac G., Ross, Nic, Schneider, Donald P., Shanks, Tom, Sharp, Robert G., Stoughton, Chris, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Vanden Berk, Daniel E. and & York, Donald G. (2005). The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) Survey: the z < 2.1 quasar luminosity function from 5645 quasars to g= 21.85. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 360: 839-852.
Miller, L., Croom, S. M., Boyle, B. J., Loaring, N. S., & Smith, R. J., Shanks, T. and Outram, P. (2004). 200-Mpc-sized structure in the 2dF QSO Redshift survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 355: 385-394.
Frith, W.J., Shanks, T. & Outram, P.J. (2004). 2MASS Constraints on the Local Large-Scale Structure: A Challenge to LCDM?. ArXiv Astrophysics e-prints arXiv:astro-ph/0411204-.
Myers, A. D., Shanks, T., Outram, P. J., Frith, W. J. and & Wolfendale, A. W. (2004). Evidence for an extended Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in WMAP data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 347: L67-L72.
Croom, Scott M., Schade, David, Boyle, Brian J., Shanks, & Tom, Miller, Lance and Smith, Robert J. (2004). Gemini Imaging of QSO Host Galaxies at z~2. Astrophysical Journal 606: 126-138.
Miller, L., Lopes, A. M., Smith, R. J., Croom, S. M., & Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T. and Outram, P. (2004). Possible arcmin-separation gravitational lensed quasi-stellar objects in the 2dF QSO survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 348: 395-405.
Georgantopoulos, I., Georgakakis, A., Akylas, A., Stewart, & G. C., Giannakis, O., Shanks, T. and Kitsionas, S. (2004). The XMM-Newton/2dF survey - IV. The X-ray spectral properties of the hard sources. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 352: 91-100.
Outram, P. J., Shanks, T., Boyle, B. J., Croom, S. M., & Hoyle, Fiona, Loaring, N. S., Miller, L. and Smith, R. J. (2004). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - XIII. A measurement of Λ from the quasi-stellar object power spectrum, P^S(k_∥, k_⊥). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 348: 745-752.
Croom, S. M., Smith, R. J., Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T. , Miller, L. Outram, P. J. & Loaring, N. S. (2004). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - XII. The spectroscopic catalogue and luminosity function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 349(4): 1397-1418.
Allen, Paul D. & Shanks, Tom (2004). The dispersion in the Cepheid period-luminosity relation and the consequences for the extragalactic distance scale. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 347: 1011-1032.
Busswell, G. S., , Shanks, T., , Frith, W. J., , Outram, P. J., , Metcalfe, N., & Fong, R. (2004). The local hole in the galaxy distribution: new optical evidence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 354: 991-1004.
Richards, G. T., Strauss, M. A., Croom, S. M., Colless, M., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Sharp, R. G., Boyle, B. J., Fan, X., York, D. G., Outram, P. J., Shanks, T., Ross, N., Meiksin, A., Jester, S., Stoughton, C., Szalay, A., Miller, L., Schneider, D. P., Vanden Berk, D. E., Nichol, R. C., Myers, A. D., Anderson, S. F., Ivezic, Z., Drinkwater, M., Pimbblet, & K. A., Roseboom, I. G., SDSS and 2SLAQ (2004). The SDSS-DR3 and 2dF-SDSS Quasar Luminosity Functions. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts 205.
Georgakakis, A., Georgantopoulos, I., Vallbé, M., Kolokotronis, V., Basilakos, S., Plionis, M., Stewart, G. C., Shanks, T., & and Boyle, B. J. (2004). The XMM-Newton/2dF survey - II. The nature of X-ray-faint optically bright X-ray sources. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 349: 135-145.
Georgakakis, A., Georgantopoulos, I., Vallbe, M., Kolokotronis, V., Basilakos, S., Plionis, M., Stewart, G. C., Shanks, T., & and Boyle, B. J. (2004). XMM-Newton/2dF survey. II. (Georgakakis+, 2004). VizieR Online Data Catalog 734: 90135-.
Hoyle, Fiona, Shanks, Tom and Tanvir, N. R. (2003). Distances to Cepheid open clusters via optical and K-band imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 345: 269-291.
Corbett, E. A., Croom, S. M., Boyle, B. J., Netzer, H., & Miller, L., Outram, P. J., Shanks, T., Smith, R. J. and Rhook, K. (2003). Emission linewidths and QSO black hole mass estimates from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 343: 705-718.
Weatherley, S. J., Warren, S. J., Croom, S. M., Smith, R. & J., Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T., Miller, L. and Baltovic, M. P. (2003). Ghosts of the Milky Way: a search for topology in new quasar catalogues. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 342: L9-L13.
Myers, A. D., Outram, P. J., Shanks, T., Boyle, B. J., & Croom, S. M., Loaring, N. S., Miller, L. and Smith, R. J. (2003). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - X. Lensing of background QSOs by galaxy groups. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 342: 467-482.
Outram, P. J., Hoyle, Fiona, Shanks, T., Croom, S. M., & Boyle, B. J., Miller, L., Smith, R. J. and Myers, A. D. (2003). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - XI. The QSO power spectrum. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 342: 483-495.
Frith, W. J., , Busswell, G. S., , Fong, R., , Metcalfe, N. & Shanks, T. (2003). The local hole in the galaxy distribution: evidence from 2MASS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 345: 1049-1056.
Georgakakis, A., Georgantopoulos, I., Stewart, G. C., & Shanks, T. and Boyle, B. J. (2003). The XMM-Newton/2dF survey - I. X-ray properties of normal galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 344: 161-168.
Georgantopoulos, I., Georgakakis, A., Stewart, G. C., & Akylas, A., Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T. and Griffiths, R. E. (2003). XMM-Newton observations of an absorbed z= 0.67 QSO: no dusty torus?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 342: 321-324.
Brotherton, M. S., van Breugel, W., Smith, R. J., Boyle, & B. J., Shanks, T., Croom, S. M., Miller, L. and Becker, R. H. (2002). Erratum: ``Discovery of Radio-Loud Broad Absorption Line Quasars Using Ultraviolet Excess and Deep Radio Selection'' (ApJ, 505, L7 [1998]). Astrophysical Journal 571: L191-L191.
Brotherton, Michael S., Grabelsky, Matthew, Canalizo, Gabriela, van Breugel, Wil, Filippenko, Alexei V., Croom, Scott, Boyle, & Brian and Shanks, Tom (2002). Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Poststarburst Quasar UN J1025-0040: Evidence for Recent Star Formation. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 114: 593-601.
Croom, Scott M., Boyle, B. J., Loaring, N. S., Miller, L., & Outram, P. J., Shanks, T. and Smith, R. J. (2002). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - IX. A measurement of the luminosity dependence of QSO clustering. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 335: 459-464.
Hoyle, F., Outram, P. J., Shanks, T., Croom, S. M. Boyle, B. J., Loaring, N. S., Miller, L. & Smith, R. J. (2002). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - IV. The QSO power spectrum from the 10k catalogue. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 329(2): 336-348.
Hoyle, Fiona, Outram, P. J., Shanks, T., Boyle, B. J., & Croom, S. M. and Smith, R. J. (2002). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - VII. Constraining cosmology from redshift-space distortions via ξ (σ π ). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 332: 311-324.
Londish, D., Croom, S. M., Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T., Outram, P. J., Sadler, E. M., Loaring, N. S., Smith, R. J., Miller, L. and & Maxted, P. F. L. (2002). The 2QZ BL Lac survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 334: 941-957.
Croom, S. M., Rhook, K., Corbett, E. A., Boyle, B. J., Netzer, H., Loaring, N. S., Miller, L., Outram, P. J., Shanks, T. and & Smith, R. J. (2002). The correlation of line strength with luminosity and redshift from composite quasi-stellar object spectra. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 337: 275-292.
Vennes, S., Smith, R. J., Boyle, B. J., Croom, S. M., & Kawka, A., Shanks, T., Miller, L. and Loaring, N. (2002). White dwarfs in the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - I. Hydrogen-rich (DA) stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 335: 673-686.
Pappa, A., Stewart, G. C., Georgantopoulos, I., Griffiths, & R. E., Boyle, B. J. and Shanks, T. (2001). ASCA observations of deep ROSAT fields - V. The X-ray spectrum of hard X-ray selected QSOs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 327: 499-506.
Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., Campos, A., McCracken, H. J. & Fong, R. (2001). Galaxy number counts - V. Ultradeep counts: the Herschel and Hubble deep fields. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 323(4): 795-830.
Grabelsky, M. A., Brotherton, M. S., Canalizo, G., Breugel, W., Croom, S. M., Filippenko, A. V., Stockton, A., Smith, R. J., & Boyle, B. J., Miller, L. and Shanks, T. (2001). Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Post-starburst Quasar UN J1025-0040: ``Post''-starburst No More?. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 33: 1365-.
Gunn, Katherine F., McHardy, I. M., Almaini, O., Shanks, T., Sumner, T. J., Muxlow, T. W. B., Efstathiou, A., Jones, L. R., Croom, S. M., Manners, J. C., Newsam, A. M., Mason, K. O., Serjeant, S. B. G. and & Rowan-Robinson, M. (2001). Starburst activity in a ROSAT narrow emission-line galaxy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 324: 305-312.
Outram, P.J., Hoyle, Fiona & Shanks, T. (2001). The Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey - VII. Redshift-space distortions in the power spectrum. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 321: 497-501.
Pappa, A., Stewart, G. C., Georgantopoulos, I., Griffiths, & R. E., Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T. and Almaini, O. (2001). The 0.5-10 keV spectra of broad-line quasars and the X-ray background. AIP Conf. Proc. 599: X-ray Astronomy: Stellar Endpoints, AGN, and the Diffuse X-ray Background 599: 834-837.
Outram, P. J., Hoyle, Fiona, Shanks, T., Boyle, B. J., & Croom, S. M., Loaring, N. S., Miller, L. and Smith, R. J. (2001). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - VI. Measuring Λ and β from redshift-space distortions in the power spectrum. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 328: 174-184.
Outram, P. J., Smith, R. J., Shanks, T., Boyle, B. J., & Croom, S. M., Loaring, N. S. and Miller, L. (2001). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - VIII. Absorption systems in the 10k catalogue. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 328: 805-809.
Croom, S. M., Smith, R. J., Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T., & Loaring, N. S., Miller, L. and Lewis, I. J. (2001). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey. V. The 10k catalogue (Croom+ 2001). VizieR Online Data Catalog 7223: 0-.
Croom, Scott M., Shanks, T., Boyle, B. J., Smith, R. J., & Miller, L., Loaring, N. S. and Hoyle, F. (2001). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - II. Structure and evolution at high redshift. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 325: 483-496.
Croom, Scott, Smith, Robert, Boyle, Brian, Shanks, Tom, & Loaring, Nicola and Miller, Lance (2001). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - 10k release. Anglo-Australian Observatory Epping Newsletter 97: 3-.
Croom, S. M., Smith, R. J., Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T. , Loaring, N. S., Miller, L. & Lewis, I. J. (2001). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - V. The 10k catalogue. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 322(4): L29-L36.
Busswell, Geoff S. & Shanks, Tom (2001). The contribution of faint blue galaxies to the submillimetre counts and background. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 323: 67-74.
Blair, A. J., Stewart, G. C., Georgantopoulos, I., Boyle, & B. J., Griffiths, R. E., Shanks, T. and Almaini, O. (2000). A deep ROSAT survey - XV. The average QSO spectrum and its evolution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 314: 138-144.
Griffiths, R. E., Ptak, A., Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T., & Stewart, G. C., Georgantopoulos, I., Gunn, K., Almaini, O. and Blair, A. (2000). Deep Survey Sources, and Predictions for XMM and AXAF. Advances in Space Research 25: 853-859.
McCracken, H. J., , Shanks, T., , Metcalfe, N., , Fong, R.' & Campos, A. (2000). Galaxy clustering in the Herschel Deep Field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 318: 913-924.
McCracken, H. J., , Metcalfe, N., , Shanks, T., , Campos, A., , Gardner, J. P., & Fong, R. (2000). Galaxy number counts - IV. Surveying the Herschel Deep Field in the near-infrared. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 311: 707-718.
Croom, S. M., Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T., Smith, R. J., & Miller, L. and Loaring, N. S. (2000). Large-scale structure in the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 32: 1561-.
Doroshkevich, Andrei G., Fong, Richard, McCracken, Henry & J., Ratcliffe, Andrew, Shanks, Tom and Turchaninov, Victor I. (2000). Superlarge-scale structure in the Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 315: 767-777.
Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T., Croom, S. M., Smith, R. J., & Miller, L., Loaring, N. and Heymans, C. (2000). The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - I. The optical luminosity function of quasi-stellar objects. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 317: 1014-1022.
Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T. & Fong, R. (2000). Ultra-Deep Imaging at the William Herschel Telescope. The Newsletter of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING Newsl.), issue no. 3, p. 3-6 3: 3-6.
Almaini, O., Lawrence, A., Shanks, T., Edge, A., Boyle, B. & J., Georgantopoulos, I., Gunn, K. F., Stewart, G. C. and Griffiths, R. E. (2000). X-ray variability in a deep, flux-limited sample of QSOs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 315: 325-336.
Brotherton, M. S., van Breugel, Wil, Stanford, S. A., Smith, R. J., Boyle, B. J., Miller, Lance, Shanks, T., Croom, S. M. and & Filippenko, Alexei V. (1999). A Spectacular Poststarburst Quasar. Astrophysical Journal 520: L87-L90.
Georgantopoulos, I., Almaini, O., Shanks, T., Stewart, G. & C., Griffiths, R. E., Boyle, B. J. and Gunn, K. F. (1999). ASCA observations of deep ROSAT fields - IV. Infrared and hard X-ray observations of an obscured high-redshift QSO. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 305: 125-131.
Croom, Scott M., Ratcliffe, A., Parker, Q. A., Shanks, T., & Boyle, B. J. and Smith, R. J. (1999). Faint UBVRI CCD sequences for wide-field surveys - II. UBVR sequences at δ=-30°. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 306: 592-598.
Boyle, B. J., Croom, S. M., Smith, R. J., Shanks, T., & Miller, L. and Loaring, N. (1999). QSO clustering and the AAT 2dF QSO Redshift Survey. Royal Society of London Philosophical Transactions Series A 357: 185-.
Croom, Scott M. & Shanks, T. (1999). Radio-quiet QSO environments - I. The correlation of QSOs and b_J<23 galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 303: 411-422.
Croom, S.M. & Shanks, T. (1999). Statistical lensing of faint QSOs by galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 307: L17-L21.
Tanvir, N.R., Ferguson, H.C. & Shanks, T. (1999). The Cepheid distance to M96 and the Hubble constant. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 310: 175-188.
Hoyle, F., Baugh, C. M., Shanks, T. and Ratcliffe, A. (1999). The Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey - VI. Power spectrum analysis of clustering. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 309: 659-671.
Croom, S. M., Ratcliffe, A., Parker, Q. A., Shanks, T., & Boyle, B. J. and Smith, R. J. (1999). UBVR CCD sequences for wide-field surveys. II. (Croom+, 1999). VizieR Online Data Catalog 730: 60592-.
Boyle, B.J., Shanks, T. & Croom, S.M. (1999). UBVRI CCD sequences for wide-field surveys. I. (Boyle+ 1995). VizieR Online Data Catalog 727: 60033-.
Brotherton, M. S., van Breugel, W., Stanford, S. A., Smith, R. J., Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T., Croom, S. M., Miller, L. and & Filippenko, A. V. (1998). A Spectacular Post-Starburst Quasar. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 30: 1280-.
Boyle, B. J., Georgantopoulos, I., Blair, A. J., Stewart, & G. C., Griffiths, R. E., Shanks, T., Gunn, K. F. and Almaini, O. (1998). ASCA observations of deep ROSAT fields - II. The 2-10keV AGN luminosity function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 296: 1-9.
Boyle, B. J., Almaini, O., Georgantopoulos, I., Blair, A. & J., Stewart, G. C., Griffiths, R. E., Shanks, T. and Gunn, K. F. (1998). ASCA observations of deep ROSAT fields - III. The discovery of an obscured Type 2 AGN at z=0.67. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 297: L53-L56.
Brotherton, Michael S., van Breugel, Wil, Smith, R. J., Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T., Croom, S. M., Miller, Lance and Becker, Robert & H. (1998). Discovery of Radio-Loud Broad Absorption Line Quasars Using Ultraviolet Excess and Deep Radio Selection. Astrophysical Journal 505: L7-.
Ratcliffe, A., Shanks, T., Parker, Q. A., Broadbent, A., & Watson, F. G., Oates, A. P., Collins, C. A. and Fong, R. (1998). Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey (Ratcliffe+, 1998). VizieR Online Data Catalog 730: 417-.
Almaini, O., Shanks, T., Gunn, K. F., Boyle, B. J., & Georgantopoulos, I., Griffiths, R. E., Stewart, G. C. and Blair, A. J. (1998). Faint galaxies and the X-ray background. Astronomische Nachrichten 319: 55-.
Gunn, K.F. & Shanks, T. (1998). Obscured QSOs and the X-ray background. Astronomische Nachrichten 319: 66-.
Blair, A. J., Stewart, G. C., Georgantopoulos, I., Boyle, & B. J., Almaini, O., Shanks, T., Gunn, K. F. and Griffiths, R. E. (1998). QSO X-ray spectral evolution. Astronomische Nachrichten 319: 25-.
Morris, P.W. & Shanks, T. (1998). SBF distances to Leo and Virgo using the HST. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 298: 451-458.
Shanks, T. (1998). Tests of the Tully-Fisher Relation Using Cepheids and SNIa. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 30: 1281-.
Griffiths, R. E., Boyle, B. J., Georgantopoulos, I., & Shanks, T., Gunn, K., Stewart, G. C., Blair, A. and Almaini, O. (1998). The AGN content of ROSAT and ASCA deep surveys. Astronomische Nachrichten 319: 21-.
Ratcliffe, A., Shanks, T., Parker, Q. A., Broadbent, A., & Watson, F. G., Oates, A. P., Collins, C. A. and Fong, R. (1998). The Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey - V. The catalogue. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 300: 417-462.
Ratcliffe, A., Shanks, T., Parker, Q. A. and Fong, R. (1998). The Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey - III. Large-scale structure via the two-point correlation function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 296: 173-190.
Ratcliffe, A., Shanks, T., Parker, Q. A. and Fong, R. (1998). The Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey - IV. Redshift-space distortions in the two-point correlation function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 296: 191-205.
Ratcliffe, A., Shanks, T., Parker, Q. A. and Fong, R. (1998). The Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey. II - The field galaxy luminosity function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 293: 197-.
Metcalfe, N., Ratcliffe, A. , Shanks, T. & Fong, R. (1998). UBVRI photometry of the Durham-AAT redshift survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 294: 147-.
Almaini, O., Shanks, T., Griffiths, R. E., Boyle, B. J., & Roche, N., Georgantopoulos, I. and Stewart, G. C. (1997). A deep ROSAT survey. XIV - X-ray emission from faint galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 291: 372-.
Shanks, T. (1997). A test of Tully-Fisher distance estimates using Cepheids and SNIa. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 290: L77-L83.
Georgantopoulos, I., Stewart, G. C., Blair, A. J., Shanks, & T., Griffiths, R. E., Boyle, B. J., Almaini, O. and Roche, N. (1997). ASCA observations of deep ROSAT fields - I. The nature of the X-ray source populations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 291: 203-210.
Campos, Ana & Shanks, Tom (1997). Modelling the deep counts - Luminosity evolution, dust and faint galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 291: 383-.
Griffiths, R. E., della Ceca, R., Georgantopoulos, I., & Boyle, B. J., Stewart, G. C., Shanks, T. and Fruscione, A. (1996). A Deep ROSAT Survey - X. X-ray-luminous narrow-emission-line galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 281: 71-83.
Roche, N., Griffiths, R. E., della Ceca, R., Shanks, T., & Boyle, B. J., Georgantopoulos, I. and Stewart, G. C. (1996). A deep ROSAT survey - XI. Enhanced X-ray emission from faint galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 282: 820-836.
Almaini, O., Shanks, T., Boyle, B. J., Griffiths, R. E., & Roche, N., Stewart, G. C. and Georgantopoulos, I. (1996). A deep ROSAT survey. XII. The X-ray spectra of faint ROSAT sources. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 282: 295-303.
Georgantopoulos, I., Stewart, G. C., Shanks, T., Boyle, B. & J. and Griffiths, R. E. (1996). A deep ROSAT survey - V. The extragalactic populations at faint fluxes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 280: 276-284.
Meikle, W. P. S., Cumming, R. J., Geballe, T. R., Lewis, J. R., Walton, N. A., Balcells, M., Cimatti, A., Croom, S. M., Dhillon, V. S., Economou, F., Jenkins, C. R., Knapen, J. H., Meadows, V. S., Morris, P. W., Perez-Fournon, I., Shanks, T., Smith, L. J., Tanvir, N. R., Veilleux, & S., Vilchez, J., Wall, J. V. and Lucey, J. R. (1996). An early-time infrared and optical study of the Type IA supernovae SN 1994D and 1991T. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 281: 263-280.
Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., Campos, A., Fong, R. & Gardner, J.P. (1996). Galaxy formation at high redshifts. Nature 383: 236-.
Croom, S.M. & Shanks, T. (1996). QSO clustering - III. Clustering in the Large Bright Quasar Survey and evolution of the QSO correlation function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 281: 893-906.
Ratcliffe, A., Shanks, T., Broadbent, A., Parker, Q. A., & Watson, F. G., Oates, A. P., Fong, R. and Collins, C. A. (1996). The Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey - I. Large-scale structure in the Universe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 281: L47-.
Roche, N., Shanks, T., Metcalfe, N. & Fong, R. (1996). The clustering of blue and red galaxies at B~25.5 mag. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 280: 397-426.
Roche, N., Shanks, T., Almaini, O., Boyle, B. J., & Georgantopoulos, I., Stewart, G. C. and Griffiths, R. E. (1995). A deep ROSAT survey - VIII. X-ray detection of the evolved galaxy cluster 0055-279. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 276: 706-714.
Almaini, O., Boyle, B. J., Griffiths, R. E., Shanks, T., & Stewart, G. C. and Georgantopoulos, I. (1995). A deep ROSAT survey - IX. The discovery of a high-redshift type 2 QSO. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 277: L31-L34.
Roche, N., Shanks, T., Georgantopoulos, I., Stewart, G. & C., Boyle, B. J. and Griffiths, R. E. (1995). A deep ROSAT survey - VII. A faint galaxy contribution to the X-ray background. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 273: L15-L18.
Griffiths, R. E., Georgantopoulos, I., Boyle, B. J., & Stewart, G. C., Shanks, T. and della Ceca, R. (1995). A ROSAT deep survey - VI. Active and passive X-ray galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 275: 77-88.
Metcalfe, N., Fong, R. & Shanks, T. (1995). CCD galaxy photometry and the calibration of photographic surveys. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 274: 769-784.
Tanvir, N. R., Shanks, T., Ferguson, H. C. and Robinson, & D. R. T. (1995). Determination of the Hubble Constant from Observations of Cepheid Variables in the Galaxy M96. Nature 377: 27-.
Boyle, B.J., Shanks, T. & Croom, S.M. (1995). Faint UBVRI CCD sequences for wide-field surveys - I. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 276: 33-38.
Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., Fong, R. & Roche, N. (1995). Galaxy number counts - III. Deep CCD observations to B=27.5 mag. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 273: 257-276.
Boyle, B. J., Staveley-Smith, L., Shanks, T., & Georgantopoulos, I., Stewart, G. C. and Griffiths, R. E. (1995). On the cross-correlation between X-ray and radio source positions in a deep ROSAT field. The Observatory 115: 10-13.
Boyle, B.J., Jones, L.R. & Shanks, T. (1994). A spectroscopic survey of faint QSOs (Boyle+ 1991). VizieR Online Data Catalog 725: 10482-.
Boyle, B. J., Fong, R., Shanks, T. and Peterson, B. A. (1994). A catalogue of faint UV-excess objects (Boyle+ 1990). VizieR Online Data Catalog 724: 30001-.
Boyle, B. J., Shanks, T., Georgantopoulos, I., Stewart, G. & C. and Griffiths, R. E. (1994). A Deep ROSAT Survey - Part Four - the Evolution of X-Ray Selected QSOS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 271: 639-.
Georgantopoulos, I. & Shanks, T. (1994). QSO clustering - II. The correlation function of IRAS seyfert galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 271: 773-.
Shanks, T. & Boyle, B.J. (1994). QSO Clustering - Part One - Optical Surveys in the Redshift Range 0.3<Z<2.2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 271: 753-.
Cumming, R. J., Meikle, W. P. S., Geballe, T. R., Wall, J. V., Jenkins, C. R., Walther, D. M., Smith, L. J., Pettini, M., King, D. L., Martin, C., Shanks, T., Croom, S. M., Tanvir, N. R., Kilmartin, P. M., & Gilmore, A. C. and Green, D. W. E. (1994). Supernova 1994D in NGC 4526. International Astronomical Union Circular 5951: 1-.
Boyle, B. J., Staveley-Smith, L., Stewart, G. C., & Georgantopoulos, I., Shanks, T. and Griffiths, R. E. (1993). A deep ROSAT survey. III - Deep radio observations of a selected field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 265: 501-.
Boyle, B. J., Griffiths, R. E., Shanks, T., Stewart, G. & C. and Georgantopoulos, I. (1993). A deep ROSAT survey. I - The QSO X-ray luminosity function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 260: 49-58.
Georgantopoulos, I., Stewart, G. C., Shanks, T., & Griffiths, R. E. and Boyle, B. J. (1993). A deep ROSAT survey. II - Observations of the isotropy of the 1-2 keV X-ray background. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 262: 619-626.
Banday, A. J., Ellis, R. S., Frenk, C. S., Wolfendale, A. & W. and Icke, V. (1993). Book Review: Observational tests of cosmological inflation / Kluwer. Space Science Reviews 63: 198-.
Shanks, T., Major, J. V., Doel, A. P., Dunlop, C. N., & Myers, R. M., Ratcliffe, A. and Tanvir, N. R. (1993). High resolution imaging of Virgo galaxies. GEMINI Newsletter Royal Greenwich Observatory 42: 1-5.
Roche, N., Shanks, T., Metcalfe, N. & Fong, R. (1993). The Angular Correlation Function of Galaxies with B=25 mag. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 263: 360-.
Shanks, T., Banday, A. J., Ellis, R. S., Frenk, C. S., & Wolfendale, A. W. and Gottlober, S. (1992). Book-Review - Observational Tests of Cosmological Inflation. Astronomische Nachrichten 313: 242-.
Shanks, T., Banday, A. J., Ellis, R. S., Frenk, C. S. and & Wolfendale, A. W. (1992). Book-Review - Observational Tests of Cosmological Inflation. Journal of the British Astronomical Association 102: 62-.
Shanks, T., Banday, A. J., Ellis, R. S., Frenk, C. S. and & Wolfendale, A. W. (1992). Book-Review - Observational Tests of Cosmological Inflation. Acta Cosmologica 18: 132-.
Fong, R., Hale-Sutton, D. and Shanks, T. (1992). Correlation function constraints on large-scale structure in the distribution of galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 257: 650-658.
Shanks, T., Tanvir, N. R., Major, J. V., Doel, A. P., & Dunlop, C. N. and Myers, R. M. (1992). High-resolution imaging of Virgo cluster galaxies. II - Detection of the brightest stars in NGC 4523. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 256: 29P-32P.
Morgan, W. A., Jr., Griffiths, R. E., Shanks, T., & Georgantopoulos, I., Stewart, G. C. and Boyle, B. J. (1992). L_x - L_opt Relation for ROSAT AGN. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 24: 1154-.
Watson, F. G., Broadbent, A., Hale-Sutton, D., Shanks, T., & Parker, Q. A. and Oates, A. P. (1992). Progress in galaxy redshift surveys using FLAIR. Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia 10: 12-15.
Schade, D. J., Elson, R. A. W., Glazebrook, K., Ellis, R. S., Im, Myungshin, Griffiths, R. E., Ratnatunga, K., Forbes, D., Gilmore, G., Green, R. F., Huchra, J. P., Illingworth, G. D., Koo, D. C., Neuschaefer, L., Pascarelle, S., Schmidt, M., Schmidke, P., Shanks, T., & Tyson, A., Windhorst, R. A. and Wyckoff, E. (1992). The HST Medium-Deep Survey: Faint Galaxy Morphology. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 24: 1300-.
Windhorst, R. A., Gordon, J. M., Pascarelle, S. M., Schmidtke, P. C., Griffiths, R. E., Im, Myungshin, Neuschaefer, L. W., Ratnatunga, K. U., Wyckoff, E., Ellis, R. S., Glazebrook, K., Shanks, T., Elson, R. A. W., Gilmore, G., Schade, D. J., Green, R. F., Huchra, J. P., & Illingworth, G. D., Koo, D. C., Forbes, D., Schmidt, M. and Tyson, A. (1992). The HST Medium-Deep Survey: Deconvolution of WFC images on faint field galaxies. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 24: 1222-.
Neuschaefer, L. W., Griffiths, R. E., Im, Myungshin, Ratnatunga, K. U., Wyckoff, E., Windhorst, R. A., Gordon, J. M., Pascarelle, S. M., Schmidtke, P. C., Ellis, R. S., Glazebrook, K., Shanks, T., Elson, R. A. W., Gilmore, G., Schade, D. J., Green, R. F., Huchra, J. & P., Illingworth, G. D., Koo, D. C., Forbes, D., Schmidt, M. and Tyson, A. (1992). The HST Medium-Deep Survey: Limits to galaxy clustering evolution from deep WFC images. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 24: 1191-.
Boyle, B.J., Jones, L.R. & Shanks, T. (1991). A spectroscopic survey of faint QSOs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 251: 482-507.
Watson, F. G., Oates, A. P., Shanks, T. and Hale-Sutton, & D. (1991). CCD multi-object spectroscopy of galaxies at the UKST. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 253: 222-234.
Metcalfe, N. & Shanks, T. (1991). CCD photometry of Cepheid sequences in four nearby galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 250: 438-452.
Shanks, T., Georgantopoulos, I., Stewart, G. C., Pounds, & K. A., Boyle, B. J. and Griffiths, R. E. (1991). Deep ROSAT Observations in a Faint Quasi-stellar Object Survey Field. New York Academy Sciences Annals 647: 151-.
Griffiths, R., Shanks, T., Georgantopoulos, I., Stewart, & G. and Boyle, B. (1991). Deep ROSAT Observations of Quasar Fields and the X-Ray Background. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 23: 957-.
Jones, L. R., Fong, R., Shanks, T., Ellis, R. S. and & Peterson, B. A. (1991). Faint Galaxy Counts in Six 4-m Fields. New York Academy Sciences Annals 647: 819-.
Jones, L. R., Fong, R., Shanks, T., Ellis, R. S. and & Peterson, B. A. (1991). Galaxy number counts. I - Photographic observations to B = 23.5 mag. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 249: 481-497.
Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., Fong, R. & Jones, L.R. (1991). Galaxy number counts. II - CCD observations to B = 25 mag. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 249: 498-522.
Tanvir, N. R., Shanks, T., Major, J. V., Doel, A. P., & Dunlop, C. N., Myers, R. M., Redfern, R. M., O'Kane, P. and Devaney, M. N. (1991). High-resolution imaging of Virgo cluster galaxies. I - Observational techniques and first results. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 253: 21P-24P.
Morgan, W. A., Jr., Griffiths, R. E., Shanks, T., & Georgantopoulos, I., Stewart, G. C. and Boyle, B. J. (1991). Soft X-Ray Spectral Properties of Quasars. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 24: 690-.
Shanks, T., Georgantopoulos, I., Stewart, G. C., Pounds, & K. A., Boyle, B. J. and Griffiths, R. E. (1991). The origin of the cosmic X-ray background. Nature 353: 315-320.
Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T. & Fong, D. (1991). Ultra-deep INT CCD imaging of the faintest galaxies. GEMINI Newsletter Royal Greenwich Observatory 34: 12-.
Boyle, B. J., Fong, R., Shanks, T. and Peterson, B. A. (1990). A catalogue of faint, UV-excess objects. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 243: 1-56.
Metcalfe, N., Shanks, T., Tanvir, N.R. & Fong, R. (1990). Stellar photometry in nearby galaxies. GEMINI Newsletter Royal Greenwich Observatory 27: 3-5.
Fong, R., Stevenson, P.R.F. & Shanks, T. (1990). The orientation of galaxies and of clusters from an objectively defined catalogue. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 242: 146-157.
Shanks, T., Sutton, D. Hale, Fong, R. & Metcalfe, N. (1989). An Extended Galaxy Redshift Survey - Part Three - Constraints on Largescale Structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 237: 589-.
Metcalfe, N., Fong, R., Shanks, T. & Kilkenny, D. (1989). An extended galaxy redshift survey. I - The catalogue. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 236: 207-234.
Hale-Sutton, D., Fong, R., Metcalfe, N. & Shanks, T. (1989). An extended galaxy redshift survey. II - Virial constraints on Omega0. III - Constraints on large-scale structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 237: 569-587.
Metcalfe, N. & Shanks, T. (1988). Cepheid Photometry in M31 M33 NGC2403 and M8. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 100: 1222-.
Stevenson, P. R. F., Fong, R. and Shanks, T. (1988). Correlation analysis of objectively defined galaxy and cluster catalogues. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 234: 801-820.
Shanks, T., Tanvir, N. R. and Redfern, M. (1988). High-Resolution Imaging of Virgo Cluster Galaxies. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 100: 1226-.
Boyle, B.J., Fong, R. & Shanks, T. (1988). On the correlation of UVX QSOs with galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 231: 897-921.
Broadhurst, T.J., Ellis, R.S. & Shanks, T. (1988). The Durham/Anglo-Australian Telescope faint galaxy redshift survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 235: 827-856.
Boyle, B.J., Shanks, T. & Peterson, B.A. (1988). The evolution of optically selected QSOs. II. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 235: 935-948.
Fong, R., Jones, L. R., Shanks, T., Stevenson, P. R. F., & and Strong, A. W. (1987). Deep Galaxy counts, H I and dust at the South Galactic Pole and in the Magellanic Stream. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 224: 1059-1072.
Phillipps, S. & Shanks, T. (1987). Galaxy correlations and the luminosity function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 227: 115-121.
McNaught, R. H., Lee, S., Peterson, B. and Shanks, T. (1987). Nova Sagittarii 1987. International Astronomical Union Circular 4397: 1-.
Phillipps, S. & Shanks, T. (1987). On the variation of galaxy correlations with luminosity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 229: 621-626.
Boyle, B. J., Fong, R., Shanks, T. and Peterson, B. A. (1987). The evolution of optically selected QSOs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 227: 717-738.
Shanks, T., Fong, R., Boyle, B. J. and Peterson, B. A. (1987). The spatial clustering of QSOs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 227: 739-748.
Peterson, B. A., Ellis, R. S., Efstathiou, G., Shanks, T., & Bean, A. J., Fong, R. and Zen-Long, Z. (1986). A complete galaxy redshift sample. III - Methods and catalogue. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 221: 233-255.
Boyle, B. J., Fong, R., Shanks, T. and Clowes, R. G. (1985). A spectroscopic survey of faint ultraviolet excess stellar objects. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 216: 623-639.
Shanks, T. (1985). Arguments for an Omega = 1, low H0 baryon dominated universe. Vistas in Astronomy 28: 595-609.
Couch, W.J., Shanks, T. & Pence, W.D. (1985). CCD photometry of a cluster of galaxies at a redshift of 0.57. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 213: 215-241.
Stevenson, P. R. F., Shanks, T., Fong, R. and & MacGillivray, H. T. (1985). Correlation analyses of deep galaxy samples. III. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 213: 953-969.
Shanks, T., Stevenson, P. R. F., Fong, R. and & MacGillivray, H. T. (1984). Erratum - Galaxy Number Counts and Cosmology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 208: 719-.
Shanks, T., Stevenson, P. R. F., Fong, R. and & MacGillivray, H. T. (1984). Galaxy number counts and cosmology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 206: 767-800.
Bean, A. J., Ellis, R. S., Shanks, T., Efstathiou, G. and & Peterson, B. A. (1983). A complete galaxy redshift sample. I - The peculiar velocities between galaxy pairs and the mean mass density of the Universe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 205: 605-624.
Shanks, T., Fong, R., Green, M. R., Clowes, R. G. and & Savage, A. (1983). Clustering of quasars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 203: 181-193.
Shanks, T., Fong, R. & Boyle, B.J. (1983). Discovery of DHM0054-284 - A quasar of redshift 3.61. Nature 303: 156-158.
Shanks, T. (1983). On estimates of the galaxy correlation function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 202: 1245-1247.
Shanks, T., Bean, A. J., Ellis, R. S., Fong, R., & Efstathiou, G. and Peterson, B. A. (1983). The clustering of galaxies in a complete redshift survey. Astrophysical Journal 274: 529-533.
Phillipps, S., Fong, R. & Shanks, T. (1981). Colour related properties of galaxies on deep Schmidt plates. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 194: 49-62.
Shanks, T. (1981). Determining the Cosmological Deceleration Parameter Q/0. Irish Astronomical Journal 15: 128-.
Shanks, T., Fong, R., Ellis, R. S. and MacGillivray, H. & T. (1980). Correlation analyses of deep galaxy samples. II - Wide angle surveys at the South Galactic Pole. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 192: 209-232.
Shanks, T., Phillipps, S. & Fong, R. (1980). Properties of stellar images at faint magnitudes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 191: 47P-52P.
Shanks, T. (1979). Discriminating between models of galaxy clustering by statistical measures. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 186: 583-602.

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