Refereed publications

Tanvir N.R., Fox D.B., Levan A.J., Berger E., Wiersema K., Fynbo J.P.U., Cucchiara A., Kruehler T., Gehrels N., Bloom J.S., Greiner J., Evans P., Rol E., Olivares F., Hjorth J., Jakobsson P., Farihi J., Willingale R., Starling R.L.C., Cenko S.B., Perley D., Maund J.R.,Duke J., Wijers R.A.M.J., Adamson A.J., Allan A., Bremer M.N., Burrows D.N., Castro Tirado A.J., Cavanagh B., de Ugarte Postigo A., Dopita M.A., Fatkhullin T.A., Fruchter A.S., Foley R.J., Gorosabel J., Holland S.T., Kennea J., Kerr T., Klose S., Krimm H.A., Komarova V.N., Kulkarni S.R., Moskvitin A.S., Naylor T., Penprase B.E., Perri M., Podsiadlowski P., Roth K., Rutledge R.E., Sakamoto T., Schady P., Schmidt B.P., Soderberg A.M., Sollerman J., Stephens A.W., Stratta G., Ukwatta T.N., Watson D., Westra E., Wold T., Wolf C., 2009, 461, 1254 (ADS) (astro-ph) (Nature)
     A γ-ray burst at a redshift of z ≈ 8.2

Jones D.H., Read M.A., Saunders W., Colless M., Jarrett T., Parker Q., Fairall A., Mauch T., Sadler E., Watson F., Burton D., Campbell L., Cass P., Croom S., Dawe J., Fiegert K., Frankcombe L., Hartley M., Huchra J., James D., Kirby E., Lahav O., Lucey J., Mamon G., Moore L., Peterson B., Prior S., Proust D., Russell K., Safouris V., Wakamatsu K., Westra E., Williams M., 2009, MNRAS, 399, 683 (ADS) (astro-ph) (AAO)
     The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Final Redshift Release (DR3) and Southern Large-Scale Structures

Westra E. & Jones, D.H., 2008, MNRAS, 383, 339 (ADS) (astro-ph)
     Star Formation Density and Hα Luminosity Function of an Emission Line Selected Galaxy Sample at z ~ 0.24

Westra E., Jones D.H., Lidman C.E., Meisenheimer K., Athreya R.M., Wolf C., Szeifert T, Pompei E., Vanzi L., 2006, A&A, 455, 61 (ADS) (astro-ph)
     The Wide Field Imager Lyman-Alpha Search (WFILAS) for Galaxies at Redshift ~5.7: II. Survey design and Sample Analysis

Westra E., Jones D.H., Lidman C.E., Athreya R.M., Meisenheimer K., Wolf C., Szeifert T, Pompei E., Vanzi L., 2005, A&A, 430, L21 (ADS) (astro-ph)
     The Wide Field Imager Lyman-Alpha Search (WFILAS) for Galaxies at Redshift ~5.7: I. A Spatially Compact Ly-α Emitting Galaxy at Redshift 5.721

Submitted publications for peer-review

Westra E., Geller M.J., Kurtz M.J., Fabricant D.G., Dell'Antonio I., submitted to ApJ (high res; 5,764 kB) (ADS) (astro-ph)
     Evolution of the Hα luminosity function

Unrefereed publications

Westra E. & Jones D.H., 2008 (AAO) (local), AAO newsletter February 2008, p8
     Star forming galaxies at z ~ 0.24

Westra E., Jones D.H., Lidman C., Athreya A., Meisenheimer, K., Wolf C., Szeifert T., Pompei E., Vanzi L., 2005 (ADS) (astro-ph), published in the proceedings for the Vth Marseille International Cosmology Conference: The Fabulous Destiny of Galaxies: Bridging Past and Present (edited by V. Le Brun, A. Mazure, S. Arnouts, D.Burgarella; ISBN 2-914601-19-0)
     WFILAS: Wide Field Imager Lyman Alpha Search
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PhD thesis

Westra E.A.M., 2007, a thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of The Australian National University
     A Wide Field Narrowband Survey for Star Forming Galaxies at Different Epochs
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