SALT - Southern African Large Telescope

Peer-reviewed papers

2012

Gvaramadze, V.V., Kniazev, A.Y., Miroshnichenko, A.S., ... Buckley, D., Crause, L., Crawford, S., Gulbis, A., Hettlage, C., ... Kotze, P., Loaring, N., ... O'Donoghue, D., Pickering, T., Potter, S., Romero Colmenero, E., Vaisanen, P., ... (& 16 authors from 11 institutions), 2012. Discovery of two new Galactic candidate luminous blue variables with Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 421: 3325.

2011

Marriner, J., Bernstein, J.P., Kessler, R., ... (& 7 authors from 10 institutions), 2011. A more general model for the intrinsic scatter in type Ia supernova distance moduli. Astrophys. J., 740: 72. ADS

Potter, S.B., Romero-Colmenero, E., Ramsay, G., Crawford, S., Gulbis, A., Barway, S., Zietsman, E., Kotze, M., Buckley, D.A.H., O'Donoghue, D., ... (& 4 authors from 5 institutions), 2011. Possible detection of two giant extrasolar planets orbiting the eclipsing polar UZ Fornacis. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 416: 2202. ADS

Sicardy, B., Bolt, G., Broughton, J., ... Buckley, D., ... (& 31 authors from 25 institutions), 2011. Constraints on Charon's orbital elements from the double stellar occultation of 2008 June 22. Astron. J., 141: 67. ADS

2010

Balona, L.A., 2010. Wavelength calibration of arc spectra using intensity modelling. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 409: 1601. ADS

Finkelman, I., Brosch, N., Kniazev, A.Y., Vaisanen, P., Buckley, D.A.H., O'Donoghue, D., Gulbis, A., Hashimoto, Y., Loaring, N., Romero-Colmenero, E., Sefako, R., 2010. Determining the extragalactic extinction law with SALT - II. Additional sample. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 409: 727. ADS

Gunther, H.M., Lewandowska, N., Hundertmark, M.P.G., ... Buckley, D., Crawford, S., O'Donoghue, D., Vaisanen, P., (& 2 authors from 2 institutions), 2010. The absence of sub-minute periodicity in classical T Tauri stars. Astron. Astrophys., 518: A54. ADS

Hayden, B.T., Garnavich, P.M., Kasen, D., ... (& 10 authors from 15 institutions), 2010. Single or double degenerate progenitors? Searching for shock emission in the SDSS-II Type Ia supernovae. Astrophys. J., 722: 1691. ADS

Kwiatkowski, T., Polinska, M., Loaring, N., Buckley, D.A.H., O'Donoghue, D., Kniazev, A., Romero Colmenero, E., 2010. Photometric survey of the very small near-earth asteroids with the SALT telescope. III. Lightcurves and periods for 12 objects and negative detections. Astron. Astrophys., 511: A49. ADS

Kwiatkowski, T., 2010. Photometric survey of the very small near-Earth asteroids with the SALT telescope. II. Discussion of YORP. Astron. Astrophys., 509: A95. ADS

Kwiatkowski, T., Buckley, D.A.H., O'Donoghue, D., Crause, L., Crawford, S., Hashimoto, Y., Kniazev,  A., Loaring, N., Romero Colmenero, E., Sefako, R., Vaisanen, P., 2010. Photometric survey of the very small near-Earth asteroids with the SALT telescope. I. Lightcurves and periods for 14 objects. Astron. Astrophys., 509: A94. ADS

Mukadam, A.S., Townsley, D.M., Gansicke, B.T., ... Woudt, P.A., Warner, B., O'Donoghue, D., Buckley, D.A.H., Sefako, R., ... (& 15 authors from 15 institutions), 2010. Multi-site observations of pulsation in the accreting white dwarf SDSS J16033.64-010223.3 (V386 Ser). Astrophys. J., 714: 1702. ADS

Potter, S.B., Buckley, D.A.H., O'Donoghue, D., Romero Colmenero, E., O'Connor, J., Fourie, P., Evans, G., Sass, C., Crause, L., ... (& 4 authors from 6 institutions), 2010. Polarized QPOs from the INTEGRAL polar IGRJ14536-5522 (=Swift J1453.4-5524). Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 402: 1161. ADS

Revnivtsev, M., Burenin, R., Bikmaev, I, Kniazev, A., Buckley, D.A.H., Pretorius, M.L., ... Crawford, S. (& 5 authors from 4 institutions), 2010. Aperiodic optical variability of intermediate polars - cataclysmic variables with truncated accretion disks. Astron. Astrophys., 513: A63. ADS

Woudt, P.A., Warner, B., O'Donoghue, D., Buckley, D.A.H., Still, M., Romero-Colmenero, E., Vaisanen, P.,  2010.  Dwarf  nova oscillations and quasi-periodic oscillations in cataclysmic variables - VIII. VW Hyi in outburst observed with the Southern African Large Telescope. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc.,  401:  500. ADS

2009

Christou, A.A., Lewis, F., Roche, P., Hashimoto, Y., O'Donoghue, D., Worters, H., Buckley, D.A.H., ... (& 9 authors from 9 institutions), 2009. Observational detection of eight mutual eclipses and occultations between the satellites of Uranus. Astron. Astrophys., 497: 589. ADS

Kniazev, A.Y., Vaisanen, P., Whitelock, P.A., Menzies, J.W., Feast, M.W., ... Buckley, D.A.H., Hashimoto, Y., Loaring, N., Romero-Colmenero, E., Sefako, R., ... (& 3 authors from 2 institutions). 2009. Discovery of the first symbiotic star in NGC 6822. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 395: 1121. ADS

Kwiatkowski, T., Kryszczynska, A., Polinska, M., Buckley, D.A.H., O'Donoghue, D., Charles, P.A., Crause, L., Crawford, S., Hashimoto, Y., Kniazev, A., Romero-Colmenero, E., Sefako, R., Still, M., Vaisanen, P., 2009. Photometry of 2006 RH{120}: an asteroid temporary captured into a geocentric orbit. Astron. Astrophys., 495: 967. ADS

Woollands, R.M., Cottrell, P.L., Udalski, A., 2009. Photometric analysis of Magellanic Cloud R Coronae Borealis stars in the recovery phases of their declines. Publ. astr. Soc. Australia, 26: 85. ADS

2008

Finkelman, I., Brosch, N., Kniazev, A.Y., Buckley, D., O'Donoghue, D., Hashimoto, Y., Loaring, N., Romero, E., Still, M., Sefako, R., Vaisanen, P., 2008. Determining the extragalactic extinction law with SALT. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 390: 969. ADS

Frieman, J.A., Bassett, B., Becker, A., ... van der Heyden, K., ... Elson, E., ... Vaisanen, P., ... (& 95 authors from 46 institutions), 2008. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey - II. Supernova survey: technical summary. Astron. J., 135: 338. ADS

Kniazev, A., Zijlstra, A.A., Grebel, E.K.,... Vaisanen, P., Buckley, D., Hashimoto, Y., Loaring, N., Romero, E., Still, M.,... (& 4 authors from 3 institutions), 2008. The metallicity extremes of the Sagittarius dSph: SALT spectroscopy of PNe. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 388: 1667. ADS

Rangwala, N., Williams, T.B., Pietraszewski, C., Joseph, C.L., 2008. An imaging Fabry-Perot system for the Robert Stobie Spectrograph on the Southern African Large Telescope. Astron. J., 135: 1825. ADS

Sako, M., Bassett, B., Becker, A., ... van der Heyden, K., ... (& 46 authors from 30 institutions), 2008. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey - II. Supernova survey: search algorithm and follow-up observations. Astron. J., 135: 348. ADS

Vaisanen, P., Mattila, S., Kniazev, ... Buckley, D.A.H., ... Crause, L., Hashimoto, Y., ... Loaring, N., ... Romero-Colmenero, E., ... Still, M., Zijlstra, A.A., (& 9 authors from 10 institutions), 2008. Adaptive optics imaging and optical spectroscopy of a multiple merger in a luminous infrared galaxy. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 384: 886. ADS

Worley, C.C., Cotrell, P.L., Wylie de Boer, E.C., 2008. s- and r-Process elements abundances in the CMD of 47 Tucanae using the Robert Stobie Spectrograph on SALT. Publ. astr. Soc. Australia, 25: 53. ADS

2007

Burgh, E.B., Bershady, M.A., Westfall, K.B., Nordsieck, K.H., 2007. Recombination ghosts in Littrow Configuration: implications for spectrographs using volume phase holographic gratings. Publ. astr. Soc. Pacific, 119: 1069. ADS

Brosch, N., Kniazev, A.Y., Buckley, D., O'Donoghue, D., Hashimoto, Y., Loaring, N., Romero, E., Still, M., Vaisanen, P., Burgh, E.B., Nordsieck, K., 2007. The polar ring galaxy AM1934-563 revisited. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 382: 1809. ADS

Coe, M.J., Bird, A.J., Hill, A.B., ... Buckley, D.A.H., Romero-Colmenero, E., ... (& 5 authors from 3 institutions)., 2007. Now you see it, now you don't - the circumstellar disc in the GRO J1008-57 system. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 378: 1427. ADS

Machalski, J., Koziel-Wierzbowski, D., Jamrozy, M., 2007. Giant radio galaxies as a probe of the cosmological evolution of the IGM I. Preliminary deep detections and low-resolution spectroscopy with SALT. Acta Astron., 57: 227. ADS

Schurch, M.P.E., Coe, M.J., McGowan, K.E., ... Buckley, D.A.H., ... Still, M., Vaisanen, P., Kniazev, A., ... (& 4 authors from 3 institutions), 2007. Optical follow-up of new Small Magellanic Cloud wing Be/X-ray binaries. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 381: 1561. ADS

2006

O'Donoghue, D., Buckley, D.A.H., Balona, L.A., Bester, D., Botha, L., Brink, J., Carter, D.B., Charles, P.A., Christians, A., Ebrahim, F., Emmerich, R., Esterhuyse, W., Evans, G.P., Fourie, C., Fourie, P., Gajjar, H., Gordon, M., Gumede, C., de Kock, M., Koeslag, A., Koorts, W.P., Kriel, H., Marang, F., Meiring, J.G., Menzies, J.W., Menzies, P., Metcalfe, D., Meyer, B., Nel, L., O'Connor, J., Osman, F., du Plessis, C., Rall, H., Riddick, A., Romero-Colmenero, E., Potter, S.B., Sass, C., Schalekamp, H., Sessions, N., Siyengo, S., Sopela, V., Steyn, H., Stoffels, J., Scholtz, J., Swart, G., Swat, A., Swiegers, J., Tiheli, T., Vaisanen, P., Whittaker, W., van Wyk, F., 2006. First science with the Southern African Large Telescope: peering at the accreting polar caps of the eclipsing polar SDSS J015543.40+002807.2. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 372: 151. ADS

Potter, S.B., O'Donoghue, D., Romero-Colmenero, E., Buckley, D.A.H., Woudt, P.A., Warner, B., 2006. Photometric and polarimetric observations of the eclipsing polar SDSS J205017.84-053626.8. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 371: 727. ADS

Warner, B., 2006. A cataclysmic key programme for SALT. Sth Afr. J. Sci., 102: 120.

Woudt, P.A., Kilkenny, D., Zietsman, E., Warner, B., Loaring, N.S., Copley, C., Kniazev, A., Vaisanen, P., Still, M., Stobie, R.S., Burgh, E.B., Nordsieck, K.H., Percival, J.W., O'Donoghue, D., Buckley, D.A.H., 2006. SDSS J160043.6+074802.9: a very rapid sdO pulsator. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 371: 1497. ADS

2005

Buckley, D.A.H., Charles, P.A., O'Donoghue, D., 2005. Science with the Southern African Large Telescope. Sth Afr. J. Sci., 101: 531.

2004

Lynden-Bell, D., Willstrop, R.V., 2004. Exact optics - IV. Small 'trumpet' correctors for large spheres. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 351: 317. ADS

2001

Buckley, D.A.H., 2001. The Southern African Large Telescope: an alternative paradigm for an 8-m class telescope. New Astron. Rev., 45: 13. ADS

2000

Erasmus, D.A., 2000. Meteorological conditions and astronomical observing quality ('seeing') at candidate sites for the Southern African Large Telescope. Sth. Afr. J. Sci., 96: 475.

1999

Buckley, D.A.H., 1999. The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) and the potential for galactic dynamical studies. Astrophys. Space Science, 269-70: 549. Kluwer, Dordrecht. ADS

1998

Laney, C.D., 1998. Making SALT a reality. Sth Afr. J. Sci., 94: 363.

1995

Stobie, R.S., Glass, I.S., Buckley, D.A.H., 1995. Southern African Large Telescope. Sth Afr. J. Sci., 91: 30.