My Publications

Below are listed most of my publications, both refereed journals and conference proceedings.  These are generally available for downloading as gzipped postscript files or PDF files.  Alternatively you can look at my list of publications on ADS (listed by date or by citation count) or astro-ph. Papers followed by an asterisk (*) are PDF re-prints from MNRAS, click on the asterisk to see the MNRAS acknowledgement.

NOTE: from the beginning of 2005, I am no longer regularly updating this list of publications. For an up-to-date list of publications please now use the links to ADS and astro-ph listed above.

Refereed Journals

• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - XIV. Structure and evolution from the two-point correlation function" * (astro-ph/0409314)
  S.M. Croom, B.J. Boyle, T. Shanks, R.J. Smith, L.Miller, P.J. Outram, N.S. Loaring, F. Hoyle, J. da Angela, 2004, MNRAS accepted

• "200 Mpc sized structure in the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey" (astro-ph/0403065)
  L. Miller, S.M. Croom, B.J. Boyle, N.S. Loaring, R.J. Smith, T. Shanks, P. Outram, 2004, MNRAS submitted
  
  
• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - XII. The spectroscopic catalogue and luminosity function" (astro-ph/0403040)
  S.M. Croom, R.J. Smith, B.J. Boyle, T. Shanks, L.Miller, P.J. Outram, N.S. Loaring, 2004, MNRAS, 349, 1397
  
  
• "Gemini imaging of QSO host galaxies at z~2" (astro-ph/0401442)
  S.M. Croom, D. Schade, B.J. Boyle, T. Shanks, L. Miller, R.J. Smith, 2004, ApJ, 606, 126

• "2QZJ 215454.3-305654: a radio-quiet BL Lacertae object or lineless quasi-stellar object?" (astro-ph/0404574)
  D. Londish, J. Heidt, B.J. Boyle, S.M. Croom, L. Kedziora-Chudczer, 2004, MNRAS, 352, 903

• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - XIII. A measurement of Lambda from the QSO power spectrum, P(k_par,k_perp)" (astro-ph/0310873)
  P.J. Outram, T. Shanks, B.J. Boyle, S. M. Croom, F. Hoyle, N.S. Loaring, L. Miller, R.J. Smith 2004, MNRAS, 348, 745
  
  
• "Possible arcminute-separation gravitational lensed QSOs in the 2dF QSO survey" (astro-ph/0210644)
  L. Miller, A. M. Lopes, R. J. Smith, S. M. Croom, B. J. Boyle, T. Shanks, P. J. Outram, 2004, MNRAS, 348, 395
  
  
• "Emission linewidths and QSO black hole mass estimates from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey" (astro-ph/0304541)
  E.A. Corbett S.M. Croom, B.J. Boyle, H. Netzer, L.Miller, P.J. Outram, T. Shanks, R.J. Smith, K. Rhook, 2003, MNRAS, 343, 705
  
  
• "Ghosts of the Milky Way: a search for topology in new quasar catalogues" (astro-ph/0304290)
  S.J. Weatherley, S.J. Warren, S.M. Croom, R.J. Smith, B.J. Boyle, T. Shanks, L. Miller, M.P. Baltovic, 2003, MNRAS, 342, L9
  
  
• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - XI. The QSO Power Spectrum" (astro-ph/0302280)
   P. J. Outram, Fiona Hoyle, T. Shanks, S. M. Croom, B. J. Boyle, L. Miller, R. J. Smith, A. D. Myers, 2003, MNRAS, 342, 483
  
  
• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - X. Lensing of Background QSOs by Galaxy Groups" (astro-ph/0211624)
  A. D. Myers, P. J. Outram, T. Shanks, B. J. Boyle, S. M. Croom, N. S. Loaring, L. Miller, R. J. Smith,2003, MNRAS, 342, 467
  
  
• "The correlation of line strength with luminosity and redshift from composite QSO spectra" (astro-ph/0207571)
  
S. M. Croom, K. Rhook, E. A. Corbett, B. J. Boyle, H. Netzer, N. S. Loaring, L. Miller, P. J. Outram, T. Shanks, R. J. Smith, 2002, MNRAS, 337, 275
 
• "The Twice-Overlooked, Second FR II Broad Absorption Line Quasar LBQS 1138-0126"(astro-ph/0207398)
  
M. S. Brotherton, S. M. Croom, C. De Breuck, R. H. Becker, M. D. Gregg, 2002, AJ, 124, 2575
 
• "White dwarfs in the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - I.  Hydrogen-rich (DA) stars"
  
S. Vennes, R. J. Smith, B. J. Boyle, S. M. Croom, A. Kawka, T. Shanks, L. Miller, N. Loaring, 2002, MNRAS, 335, 673
 
• "Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Post-Starburst Quasar UN 1025-0040: Evidence for Recent Star Formation" (astro-ph0203239)
  
 M. S. Brotherton, M. Grabelsky, G. Canalizo, W. van Breugel, A. V. Filippenko, S. M. Croom, B. J. Boyle, T. Shanks, 2002, PASP, 114, 593
 
• "The 2dF BL Lac Survey"(astro-ph/0202386)
  
 D. Londish, S.M. Croom, B.J. Boyle, T. Shanks, P.J. Outram, E.M. Sadler, N.S. Loaring, R.J. Smith, L. Miller, P.F.L. Maxted, 2002, MNRAS, 334, 941
 
• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - IX.  A measurement of the luminosity dependence of QSO clustering" *  (astro-ph/0205036)
  
S. M. Croom, B.J. Boyle,  N.S. Loaring, L. Miller, P.J. Outram, T. Shanks, R.J. Smith, 2002, MNRAS, 335, 459
 
• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - VIII. Absorption systems in the 10k catalogue"  (astro-ph/0107460)
  
P.J. Outram, R.J. Smith, T. Shanks, B.J. Boyle, S.M. Croom, N.S. Loaring, L. Miller, 2001, MNRAS, 328, 805
 
• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - VII. Constraining cosmology from redshift space distortions via xi(sigma,pi)" (astro-ph/0107348)
  
 Fiona Hoyle, P.J. Outram, T. Shanks, B.J. Boyle, S.M. Croom, R.J. Smith, 2001, MNRAS, 332, 311
 
• "A small area faint KX redshift survey for QSOs in the ESO Imaging Survey Chandra Deep Field South." *
  
S.M. Croom, S.J. Warren, K. Glazebrook, 2001, MNRAS, 328, 150. (astro-ph/0107451 )
 
• "QSO-galaxy correlations: lensing or dust?"
  
S.M. Croom, 2001, PASA, 18.
 
• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - VI. Measuring Lambda and Beta from Redshift-space Distortions in the Power Spectrum"
  
P.J. Outram, Fiona Hoyle, T. Shanks, B.J. Boyle, S.M. Croom, N.S. Loaring, L. Miller, R.J. Smith, MNRAS, 328, 174.
 
• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - V.  The 10k catalogue"   * (astro-ph/0104095)
  
S.M.Croom, R.J. Smith, B.J. Boyle, T. Shanks, N.S. Loaring, L. Miller, I.J. Lewis, 2001, MNRAS, 322, L29
 
• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - IV.  The QSO power spectrum from the 10k catalogue"
  
F. Hoyle, P.J. Outram, T. Shanks, S.M. Croom, B.J. Boyle, N.S. Loaring, L. Miller, R.J. Smith, 2001, MNRAS, 329, 336

• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - III.  The input catalogue" - available soon
  
R.J. Smith, S.M.Croom, B.J. Boyle, T. Shanks, L. Miller, N.S. Loaring, 2001, MNRAS submitted.
 
• "Starburst activity in a ROSAT Narrow Emission-Line Galaxy"
  
K. F. Gunn, I.M.McHardy, O.Almaini, T.Shanks, T.J.Sumner, T.W.B.Muxlow, A.Efstathiou, L.R.Jones, S.M.Croom, J.C.Manners, A.M.Newsam, K.O.Mason, S.B.G.Serjeant, M.Rowan-Robinson, 2001, MNRAS, 324, 305
 
• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - II. Structure and evolution at high redshift" *
  
S.M. Croom, T. Shanks, B.J. Boyle, R.J. Smith, L. Miller, N.S. Loaring & F. Hoyle, 2001, MNRAS 325, 483.
 
• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - I. The optical luminosity function of quasi-stellar objects",
  
B.J. Boyle, T. Shanks, S.M. Croom, R.J.Smith, L. Miller, N.Loaring, C. Heymans, 2000, MNRAS, 317, 1014.
 
• "Statistical lensing of faint QSOs by galaxy clusters."
  
S.M. Croom & T. Shanks, 1999, MNRAS, 307, L17.
 
• "Faint UBVRI CCD sequences for wide-field surveys - II. UBVR sequences at dec=-30°"
  
S.M. Croom, A. Ratcliffe, Q.A. Parker, T. Shanks, B.J. Boyle & R.J. Smith, 1999, MNRAS, 306, 592. The data tables are available in electronic form.
 
• "Radio-quiet QSO environments - I. The correlation of QSOs and bj<23 galaxies."
  
S.M. Croom & T. Shanks, 1999, MNRAS, 303, 411.
 
• "A Spectacular post starburst quasar"
  
M.S. Brotherton, Wil van Breugel, S.A. Stanford, R.J. Smith, B.J. Boyle, Lance Miller, T. Shanks, S.M. Croom, Alexei V. Filippenko, 1999, ApJL 520, 87.
 
• "Discovery of Radio-loud Broad Absorption Line Quasars Using Ultraviolet Excess and Deep Radio Selection",
  
M.S. Brotherton, Wil van Breugel, R.J. Smith, B.J. Boyle, T. Shanks, S.M. Croom, Lance Miller, Robert H. Becker, 1998, ApJL, 505, 7.
 
• "QSO Clustering - III. Clustering in the Large Bright Quasar Survey and Evolution of the QSO Correlation Function"
  
S.M. Croom & T. Shanks, 1996, MNRAS, 281, 893.
 
• "Faint UBVRI CCD sequences for wide-field surveys - I"
  
B.J. Boyle, T. Shanks, S.M. Croom, 1995, MNRAS, 276, 33

Conference Proceedings etc.

• "Clustering in the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey"(astro-ph/0205039)
  
S.M. Croom, B.J. Boyle, N.S. Loaring, L. Miller, P.J. Outram, T. Shanks, R.J. Smith, F. Hoyle, 2001, Proceedings of the Marseille conference "Where's the Matter", June 2001.
 
• "A first look at cataclysmic variable stars from the 2dF QSO survey"  (astro-ph/0108334)
  
T. R. Marsh, L. Morales-Rueda, D. Steeghs, P. Maxted, U. Kolb, B.Boyle, S. Croom, N. Loaring, L. Miller, P. Outram, T. Shanks, R. Smith, 2001, Proceedings of the Goettingen conference on Cataclysmic Variable Stars, Goettingen, August 2001.
 
• "First Results from the 2dF QSO redshift survey"
  
B.J.Boyle, S.M.Croom, R.J.Smith, T.Shanks, P.J.Outram, F.Hoyle, L.Miller, N.S.Loaring, 2001, proceedings of  the ESO Deep Fields conference.
 
• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - 10K@2K!"
  
 T. Shanks, B.J. Boyle, S.M. Croom, F. Hoyle, N. Loaring. L. Miller, P.J. Outram, R.J. Smith, 2001, in A.J. Banday et al, eds. MPA/ESO/MPA conference "Mining the Sky", Garching (2000)
 
• The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey
  
T. Shanks, B.J. Boyle, S.M. Croom, N. Loaring, L. Miller, R.J. Smith, 1999, in Beckman J.E. and Mahoney T.J., eds, ASP Conf. Ser. ???, `The Evolution of Galaxies on Cosmological Timescales.'
 
• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey: Measurements of large-scale structure"
  
S.M. Croom, T. Shanks, B.J. Boyle, R.J. Smith, L. Miller & N.S. Loaring, talk from the 2dd Coral Sea Cosmology Conference: Redshift Surveys and Cosmology, Dunk Island, 1999.
 
• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey"
  
T. Shanks, B.J. Boyle, S.M. Croom, N. Loaring, L. Miller, R.J. Smith, 1999, in `Clustering at High Redshift', Marseille, June 1999, eds A. Mazure, O. LeFevre, V. Lebrun.
 
• "The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey"
  
S.M. Croom, T. Shanks, B.J. Boyle, R.J. Smith, L. Miller, N.S. Loaring, 1998 to appear in Proc. `Evolution of Large Scale Structure' (Garching 1998).
 
• "QSO clustering and the AAT 2dF Redshift Survey"
  
B.J. Boyle, S.M. Croom, R.J. Smith, T. Shanks, L. Miller, N. Loaring, 1998, Invited talk at RS meeting on `Large Scale Structure in the Universe' hel d at the Royal Society on 25-26 March 1998.
 
• "The AAO 2dF QSO Redshift Survey"
  
B.J. Boyle, R.J. Smith, T. Shanks, S.M. Croom, L. Miller, 1998, to appear in Proc. IAU Symp. 183, `Fundamental Cosmological Parameters in Kyoto' (Kyoto 1997).
 
• "Input Catalogue for the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey"
  
R.J. Smith, B.J. Boyle, T. Shanks, S.M. Croom, L. Miller, M. Read, 1997, in McLean B.J., Golombek D.A., Hayes J.J.E. Payne E., eds, Proc. IAU Symp. 179, `New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys' (Baltimore 1996), Kluwer, Dordrecht, p.348.
 
• "QSO Clustering"
  
S.M. Croom, T. Shanks & B.J. Boyle, 1995, 35th Herstmonceux Conf., Wide-Field Spectroscopy and the Distant Universe, p.394.

My PhD Thesis