Publications
Refereed Papers
The Herschel ATLAS,
S. Eales et al.
(incl J. Liske), 2010, PASP, submitted.
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The input catalogue and star-galaxy
separation,
I.K. Baldry et al.
(incl J. Liske), 2010, MNRAS, in press.
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): Optimal Tiling of Dense Surveys with
a Multi-Object Spectrograph,
A. Robotham et al.
(incl J. Liske), 2010, PASA, in press.
The ugrizYJHK luminosity distributions and densities from the combined
MGC, SDSS and UKIDSS LAS datasets,
D.T. Hill, S.P. Driver,
E. Cameron, N.J.G. Cross, J. Liske, A. Robotham, 2010,
MNRAS, in press.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: the M_bh–L_spheroid
derived supermassive black hole mass function,
M. Vika,
S.P. Driver, A.W. Graham, J. Liske, 2009, MNRAS, 400, 1451.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: Exploring the Color-Concentration
Bimodality via Bulge-Disc Decomposition,
E. Cameron,
S.P. Driver, A.W. Graham, J. Liske, 2009, ApJ, 699, 105.
The Energy Output of the Universe from 0.1 μm to
1000 μm,
S.P. Driver, C.C. Popescu, R.J. Tuffs, A.W. Graham, J. Liske,
I.K. Baldry, 2008, ApJL, 678, L101.
Cosmic dynamics in the era of Extremeley Large
Telescopes,
J. Liske, A. Grazian, E. Vanzella, M. Dessauges, M. Viel,
L. Pasquini, M. Haehnelt, S. Cristiani, F. Pepe, G. Avila,
P. Bonifacio, F. Bouchy, H. Dekker, B. Delabre, S. D'Odorico,
V. D'Odorico, S. Levshakov, C. Lovis, M. Mayor, P. Molaro,
L. Moscardini, M.T. Murphy, D. Queloz, P. Shaver, S. Udry, T. Wiklind,
S. Zucker, 2008, MNRAS, 386, 1192.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: The Connection between Close Pairs and
Asymmetry; Implications for the Galaxy Merger Rate,
R. De Propris, C.J. Conselice, J. Liske, S.P. Driver, D.R. Patton,
A.W. Graham, P.D. Allen, 2007, ApJ, 666, 212.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: the B-band attenuation of bulge and
disc light and the implied cosmic dust and stellar mass
densities,
S.P. Driver, C.C. Popescu, R.J. Tuffs, J. Liske, A.W. Graham,
P.D. Allen, R. De Propris, 2007, MNRAS, 379, 1022.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: the local supermassive
black hole mass function in early and late-type galaxies,
A.W. Graham, S.P. Driver, P.D. Allen, J. Liske, 2007, MNRAS, 378,
198.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: The Luminosity Functions of Bulges
and Disks and Their Implied Stellar Mass Densities,
S.P. Driver, P.D. Allen, J. Liske, A.W. Graham, 2007, ApJL,
657, L85.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: bulge-disc decomposition
of 10 095 nearby galaxies,
P.D. Allen, S.P. Driver, A.W. Graham, E. Cameron, J. Liske,
R. De Propris, 2006, MNRAS, 371, 2.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: a census of local
compact galaxies,
J. Liske, S.P. Driver, P.D. Allen, N.J.G. Cross, R. De Propris,
2006, MNRAS, 369, 1547.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: morphological classification and
bimodality in the colour-concentration plane,
S.P. Driver, P.D. Allen, A.W. Graham, E. Cameron, J. Liske,
S.C. Ellis, N.J.G. Cross, R. De Propris, S. Phillipps, W.J. Couch,
2006, MNRAS, 368, 414.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: on the natural
subdivision of galaxies,
S.C. Ellis, S.P. Driver, P.D. Allen, J. Liske, J. Bland-Hawthorn,
R. De Propris, 2005, MNRAS, 363, 1257.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: Dynamically Close Pairs of Galaxies
and the Global Merger Rate,
R. De Propris, J. Liske, S.P. Driver, P.D. Allen, N.J.G. Cross,
2005, AJ, 130, 1516.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: the space density and surface-brightness
distribution(s) of galaxies,
S.P. Driver, J. Liske, N.J.G. Cross, R. De Propris,
P.D. Allen, 2005, MNRAS, 360, 81.
Dust-reddening and gravitational lensing of SDSS QSOs due to
foreground damped Lyman alpha systems,
M.T. Murphy, J. Liske, 2004, MNRAS, 354, L31.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: the photometric accuracy,
completeness and contamination of the 2dFGRS and SDSS-EDR/DR1 data
sets,
N.J.G. Cross, S.P. Driver, J. Liske, D.J. Lemon, J.P. Peacock,
S. Cole, P. Norberg, W.J. Sutherland, 2004, MNRAS, 349, 576.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: star counts and the structure of the
Galactic stellar halo,
D.J. Lemon, R.F.G. Wyse, J. Liske, S.P. Driver, K. Horne,
2004, MNRAS, 347, 1043.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: 16 < B_MGC < 24 galaxy number counts
and the calibration of the local galaxy luminosity
function,
J. Liske, D.J. Lemon, S.P. Driver, N.J.G. Cross, W.J. Couch, 2003,
MNRAS, 344, 307.
A hypothetical cosmological test: Trigonometry on large
scales,
J. Liske, 2003, A&A, 398, 429.
The proximity effect in a close group of QSOs,
J. Liske, G.M. Williger, 2001, MNRAS, 328, 653.
On the cosmological distance and redshift between any two
objects,
J. Liske, 2000, MNRAS, 319, 557.
Large-scale structure in the Lyman-alpha forest - II. Analysis of a
group of ten QSOs,
J. Liske, J.K. Webb, G.M. Williger, A. Fernández-Soto,
R.F. Carswell, 2000, MNRAS, 311, 657.
Large-scale structure in the Lyman-alpha forest: a new
technique,
J. Liske, J.K. Webb, R.F. Carswell, 1998, MNRAS, 301, 787.
Conference Proceedings
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA),
S.P. Driver and the GAMA Team (incl J. Liske), 2009, in
"The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context",
Proceedings of IAU Symposium 254 (Copenhagen, 09-13 June 2008), 469,
J. Andersen, J. Bland-Hawthorn, B. Nordström, eds.
From ESPRESSO to CODEX,
(full text)
J. Liske et al., 2009, in
"Science with the VLT in the ELT Era" (Garching, 08-12 October 2007),
Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, 243, A. Moorwood, ed.
ESPRESSO: a high resolution spectrograph
for the combined coudé focus of the VLT,
(full text)
L. Pasquini et al. (incl J. Liske), 2009, in
"Science with the VLT in the ELT era" (Garching, 08-12 October 2007),
Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, 395, A. Moorwood, ed.
Exoplanets: The Road to Earth Twins,
(full text)
S. Udry et al. (incl J. Liske), 2009, in
"Science with the VLT in the ELT era" (Garching, 08-12 October 2007),
Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, 155, A. Moorwood, ed.
The CODEX-ESPRESSO experiment: Cosmic dynamics, fundamental physics,
planets and much more...,
S. Cristiani et al. (incl J. Liske), 2008, in
"A Century of Cosmology" (San Servolo, 27-31 August 2007),
Il Nuovo Cimento, 122 B, 1165, G. Chincarini, P. Saracco, M. Bolzonella, eds.
The Hubblecast - the world's first full HD video
podcast?,
L.L. Christensen, M. Kornmesser, R.Y. Shida, W. Gater,
J. Liske, 2008, in "Communicating Astronomy with the Public
2007", Proceedings of an IAU Commission 55 conference (Athens, 08-11
Oct 2007), 392, L.L. Christensen, M. Zoulias, I. Robson, eds.
GAMA: A new galaxy survey,
I. Baldry, J. Liske, S.P. Driver and the GAMA Team, 2008, in
"Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges",
Proceedings of IAU Symposium 245 (Oxford, 16-20 July 2007), 83, M. Bureau,
E. Athanassoula, B. Barbuy, eds.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: the severe attenuation of bulge flux
by dusty spiral discs,
S.P. Driver and the MGC Team (incl J. Liske), 2008, in
"Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges",
Proceedings of IAU Symposium 245 (Oxford, 16-20 July 2007), 403,
M. Bureau, E. Athanassoula, B. Barbuy, eds.
CODEX/ESPRESSO: the era of precision spectroscopy,
V. D'Odorico, for the CODEX/ESPRESSO team (incl J. Liske), 2007, in
"LI Congresso Nazionale della Societa Astronomica Italiana" (Florence, 17-20
April 2007), Mem. S.A.It., 75, 282.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: Science highlights,
S.P. Driver, J. Liske, A.W. Graham, 2007, in "From Stars to
Galaxies: Building up the Pieces to Build up the Universe" (Venice, 16-20
October 2006), ASP Conference Proceedings, 374, 481, A. Vallenari,
R. Tantalo, L. Portinari, A. Moretti, eds.
CODEX,
L. Pasquini et al. (incl J. Liske), 2008,
in "Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics", Proceedings of the
ESO/Lisbon/Aveiro Conference (Aveiro, 11-15 September 2006),
ESO Astrophysics Symposia, 249, N.C. Santos, L. Pasquini,
A.C.M. Correia, M. Romaniello, eds.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: Galaxy Bimodality,
S.P. Driver, J. Liske, A.W. Graham, 2007, in "Galaxy Evolution
Across the Hubble Time", Proceedings of IAU Symposium 235 (Prague,
14-17 August 2006), 17, F. Combes, J. Palous, eds.
The Local Supermassive Black Hole Mass Function from 10,000 Galaxies
and the Mbh-concentration Relation,
A. Graham, S.P. Driver, P.D. Allen, J. Liske, 2006,
208th AAS meeting (Calgary, 4-8 June 2006),
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 38, 95.
CODEX: measuring the acceleration of the universe and beyond,
L. Pasquini, S. Cristiani, H. Dekker, M. Haehnelt, P. Molaro, F. Pepe,
G. Avila, B. Delabre, S. D'Odorico, J. Liske, P. Shaver, P. Bonifacio,
S. Borgani, V. D'Odorico, E. Vanzella, F. Bouchy, M. Dessauges,
C. Lovis, M. Mayor, D. Queloz, S. Udry, M. Murphy, M. Viel,
A. Grazian, S. Levshakov, L. Moscardini, T. Wiklind, S. Zucker, 2006,
in "The Scientific Requirements for Extremely Large Telescopes", Proceedings
of IAU Symposium 232 (Cape Town, 14-18 November 2005), 193, P.A. Whitelock,
B. Leibundgut, M. Dennefeld, eds.
CODEX,
L. Pasquini, S. Cristiani, H. Dekker, M. Haehnelt, P. Molaro, F. Pepe,
G. Avila, B. Delabre, S. D'Odorico, J. Liske, P. Shaver, P. Bonifacio,
S. Borgani, V. D'Odorico, E. Vanzella, F. Bouchy, M. Dessauges,
C. Lovis, M. Mayor, D. Queloz, S. Udry, M. Murphy, M. Viel,
A. Grazian, S. Levshakov, L. Moscardini, T. Wiklind, S. Zucker, 2006,
in "Instrumentation for Extremely Large Telescopes", Proceedings
of a Ringberg Workshop (Ringberg, 25-29 July 2005), MPIA Special
Publication 0106, 127, T. Herbst, ed.
The Cosmological Dynamics Experiment,
(full text)
J. Liske for the CODEX Team, 2006, in "Beyond Einstein
- Physics for the 21st Century", Proceedings of EPS-13 (Bern,
11-15 July 2005), 17, A.M. Cruise, L. Ouwehand, eds.
Measuring Structural Properties of Galaxies in the Local
Universe,
(full text)
P.D. Allen, S.P. Driver, J. Liske, A.W. Graham, 2007, in
"Island Universes - Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies"
(Terschelling, 3-8 July 2005), Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings,
23, R.S. de Jong, ed.
The Bivariate Brightness Distribution of Galaxy Disks,
(full text)
J. Liske, S.P. Driver, P.D. Allen, 2007, in "Island Universes -
Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies" (Terschelling, 3-8 July 2005),
Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, 531, R.S. de Jong, ed.
The Bivariate Brightness Distributions of Bulges and
Disks,
(full text)
J. Liske, S.P. Driver, P.D. Allen, 2006, in "The Fabulous
Destiny of Galaxies: Bridging Past and Present", Proceedings of the
Vth Marseille International Cosmology Conference (Marseille, 20-24
June 2005), 81, V. Le Brun, A. Mazure, S. Arnouts, D. Burgarella, eds.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: the nearby supermassive black hole
mass function,
S.P. Driver, A.W. Graham, P.D. Allen, J. Liske, 2006, in
"The Fabulous Destiny of Galaxies: Bridging Past and Present",
Proceedings of the Vth Marseille International Cosmology Conference
(Marseille, 20-24 June 2005), 409, V. Le Brun, A. Mazure, S. Arnouts,
D. Burgarella, eds.
The Bivariate Brightness Distribution of Galaxies as a Function of Spectral
Type,
N.J.G. Cross, S.P. Driver, D.J. Lemon, J. Liske, W.J. Couch and
the 2dFGRS Team, 2002, 200th AAS meeting (Albuquerque, 2-6 June 2002),
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 34, 703.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue,
D.J. Lemon, J. Liske, S.P. Driver, N.J.G. Cross, 2002,
in "A New Era in Cosmology" (Durham, 11-15 September 2001), ASP
Conference Proceedings, 283, 117, N. Metcalfe, T. Shanks, eds.
Variations in the Bivariate Brightness Distribution with different
galaxy types,
N.J.G. Cross, S.P. Driver, D.J. Lemon, J. Liske, 2002,
in "A New Era in Cosmology" (Durham, 11-15 September 2001), ASP
Conference Proceedings, 283, 51, N. Metcalfe, T. Shanks, eds.
Evidence of Structure in the Lyman Alpha Forest,
(full text)
J. Liske, J.K. Webb, 1999, in "Looking Deep in the Southern Sky",
Proceedings of the Joint ESO/Australia Workshop (Sydney, 10-12 December 1997),
ESO Astrophysics Symposia, 234, F. Morganti, W.J. Couch, eds.
Structure in the Lyman Alpha Forest,
J. Liske, J.K. Webb, 1997, in "Structure and Evolution of the
IGM from QSO Absorption Line Systems", Proceedings of the 13th IAP Colloquium
(Paris, 1-5 July 1997), 428, P. Petitjean, S. Charlot, eds.
Technical publications
OWL Instrument Concept Study: COsmic Dynamics EXperiment
(CODEX),
L. Pasquini et al. (incl J. Liske), 2005, ESO publication
OWL-CSR-ESO-00000-0160.
Automated detection and analysis of object motion in CCD sky
images,
M. Ashley, J. Liske, C. Bembrick, B. Carter, P. Mitchell, 1996,
UNSW, project report for Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Company.
Theses
Cosmology with the Lyman Alpha Forest,
J. Liske, 2000, Ph.D. thesis, University of New South Wales.
Large Scale Structure in the Lyman Alpha Forest,
J. Liske, 1997, Diplom (~MSc) thesis, University of Bonn.
Other
GAMA: towards a physical understanding of galaxy formation,
S.P. Driver, P. Norberg, I.K. Baldry, S.P. Bamford, A.M. Hopkins,
J. Liske, J. Loveday, J.A. Peacock and the GAMA Team,
2009, Astronomy & Geophysics, 50, 5.12.
E-ELT and the Cosmic Expansion History – A Far Stretch?,
J. Liske and the CODEX Team,
2008, The Messenger, 133, 10.
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA),
S.P. Driver and the GAMA Team (incl J. Liske), 2008, AAO Newsletter,
114, 3.
Why we need survey-style bulge-disk decomposition,
J. Liske, S.P. Driver, poster presentation at the 1st Subaru
International Conference "Panoramic Views of Galaxy Formation and Evolution"
(Hayama, 11-16 December 2007).
Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) - The case for a new redshift survey of
250,000 galaxies,
I. Baldry, S. Driver, A. Hopkins, J. Liske, R. Nichol, P. Norberg,
J. Peacock and the GAMA team, poster presentation at the RAS National
Astronomy Meeting (Preston, 16-20 April 2007) and at the IAU Symposium 245
"Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges" (Oxford, 16-20 July 2007).
A new understanding of the visible Universe,
S.P. Driver, J. Liske, 2007, PPARC Frontiers,
26, ?.
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue,
S.P. Driver, J. Liske, A.W. Graham, 2007, AAO Newsletter,
111, 5.
CODEX: Measuring the Expansion of the Universe (and beyond),
L. Pasquini, S. Cristiani, H. Dekker, M. Haehnelt, P. Molaro, F. Pepe,
G. Avila, B. Delabre, S. D'Odorico, J. Liske, P. Shaver, P. Bonifacio,
S. Borgani, V. D'Odorico, E. Vanzella, F. Bouchy, M. Dessauges,
C. Lovis, M. Mayor, D. Queloz, S. Udry, M. Murphy, M. Viel,
A. Grazian, S. Levshakov, L. Moscardini, T. Wiklind, S. Zucker,
2005, The Messenger, 122, 10.
CODEX - Cosmic Dynamics Experiment,
J. Liske, L. Pasquini for the CODEX Team,
poster presentation at the conference "Open Questions in Cosmology: the
First Billion Years" (Garching, 22-26 August 2005).
The Bivariate Brightness Distribution of Galaxy Disks,
J. Liske, S.P. Driver, P.D. Allen,
poster presentation at the conference "Island Universes - Structure and
Evolution of Disk Galaxies" (Terschelling, 3-8 July 2005).
First Light of SINFONI at the VLT,
H. Bonnet, et al. (incl J. Liske), 2004,
The Messenger, 117, 17.
PD2H: A New Survey to Measure the Primordial Deuterium Abundance,
J.K. Webb, A. Fernández-Soto, J. Liske, A. Ortiz-Gil,
R.F. Carswell, A. Vidal-Madjar, M. Lemoine, S. Burles, poster presentation
at the annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia
(Sydney, 9-12 July 1999).
A Composite z ~ 3.5 QSO Spectrum,
A. Fernández-Soto, J. Liske, J.K. Webb,
poster presentation at the annual meeting of the
Astronomical Society of Australia (Sydney, 9-12 July 1999).
In the Media and Outreach
Several of the news stories linked below were widely reported in the international press. The list below is only a selection.
Das Auge 3D,
3D cinema documentary about ESO's Paranal Observatory, 29 Oct 2009
Sternstunden der Weltraumforschung
Von Galileos Fernrohr zu modernen Teleskopen,
Scobel, 3sat, 22 Oct 2009
Das VLT in 3D,
Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 11 September 2009
E-ELT: Europas neuer Blick ins All,
Frankfurter Neue Presse, 17 July 2009
Mentioned in
Teleskope als Zeitmaschinen,
Süddeutsche Zeitung (Landkreisausgabe Dachau), 07 May 2009
New technique closes in on dark energy,
Astronomy Magazine, June 2009
400 Jahre fern sehen,
Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 04 May 2009
Around the World in 80 Telescopes,
A live, 24-hour webcast featuring 80 different observatories both on
and off the planet. Part of the
100 hours of astronomy
project of the International
Year of Astronomy 2009
400 Years of the Telescope,
A documentary celebrating the
International Year of Astronomy
2009
Galileos Enkel – HighTech für die Teleskope von morgen
(.mp4),
Deutsche Welle TV, 18 January 2009
Unfortunately, my interview got cut from the final version...
Das Universum in neuen Spiegeln,
NZZ am Sonntag, 19 October 2008
ESOcast,
iTunes and www.eso.org, 2008, 2009
Eyes on the Skies,
The International Astronomical Union's official movie celebrating the
400th anniversary of the telescope, 2008
Hubblecast,
iTunes and Spacetelescope.org, 2007, 2008, 2009
Universum ist viel heller als gedacht,
Spiegel Online, 19 May 2008
Does the universe seem dim to you?,
Nature blog, 16 May 2008
Dust dimming our universe,
Astronomy, 16 May 2008
Astronomers use new model of dust in galaxies to remeasure the total energy output of stars in the universe,
Physorg.com, 15 May 2008
Astronomers find that Universe shines twice as bright,
Spaceref.com, 15 May 2008
Universe twice as bright as known,
BBC, 15 May 2008
Mysteriöse Dunkle Materie entdeckt,
heute-journal, 15 May 2007
Es wächst und wächst und wächst,
Financial Times Deutschland, 15 Jan 2007
Not sure, it's in Chinese,
cutech, 23 Aug 2006
Not sure, it's in Russian,
Grani, 20 Aug 2006
Universe has fuel for another 70bn years,
The Scotsman, 19 Aug 2006
Universe Has Used Up a Fifth of Its Gas Tank,
Universe Today, 18 Aug 2006
Cosmic Stocktake Reveals What's Left of Big Bang,
Physorg.com, 18 Aug 2006
IAU: What's the Universe made of?,
Nature newsblog, 18 Aug 2006
Eins, zwei, drei...,
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, 16 Jan 2004
The Stellar Census: 70 Sextillion - Astronomers calculate there are
more stars in the sky than grains of sand on Earth,
LA Times, 26 Jul 2003
Number of visible stars put at 70 sextillion,
ABC, 25 Jul 2003
Mehr Sterne als Sand am Meer,
Stern, 24 Jul 2003
Star survey reaches 70 sextillion,
CNN, 23 Jul 2003
Radio interview,
BBC Radio Wales, 23 Jul 2003
70.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 Sterne,
Bayerischer Rundfunk, 23 Jul 2003
Astronomers count the stars,
BBC, 22 Jul 2003
Imperfect Estimate Claims Universe Has 70 Sextillion Stars,
Space.com, 22 Jul 2003