Acknowledgements and Credits


The 2dF QSO Reshift Survey

The paper describing the data presented here is:

Croom S.M., Smith R.J., Boyle B.J., Shanks T., Miller L., Outram P.J., Loaring N.S., 2003, MNRAS, in press
"The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey - XII. The catalogue and luminosity function"

Anyone utilizing data from the 2QZ database should include the following acknowledgement:

"The 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) was compiled by the 2QZ survey team from observations made with the 2-degree Field on the Anglo-Australian Telescope."

The 2QZ team consists of the following members:
Brian Boyle (ATNF - Australian PI)
Scott Croom (U. Sydney)
Nicola Loaring (Oxford/MSSL)
Lance Miller (Oxford)
Phil Outram (Durham)
Tom Shanks (Durham - UK PI)
Robert Smith (Liverpool John Moores)

The 2QZ database and related data products (including the CD-ROM) were produced by:
Robert Smith (Liverpool John Moores) and Scott Croom (AAO).

We warmly thank all the present and former staff of the Anglo-Australian Observatory for their work in building and operating the 2dF and 6dF facilities.  We are also indebted to Mike Irwin and the staff at the APM facility for scanning the UKST photographic plates that are the basis for the 2QZ and 6QZ surveys.

All data remains the copyright of the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board.


SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys

The small postage stamp images provided from the 2QZ web server were generated from the SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys produced by the Wide Field Astronomy Unit in Edinburgh.  These are not available (due to space restrictions) on the CD-ROM release.

The images of these surveys are based on photographic data obtained using the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain and the UK Schmidt Telescope.

The UK Schmidt Telescope was operated by the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, with funding from the UK Science and Engineering Research Council (later the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council), until 1988 June, and thereafter by the Anglo-Australian Observatory. The blue plates of the southern Sky Atlas and its Equatorial Extension (together known as the SERC-J), as well as the Equatorial Red (ER), and the Second Epoch [red] Survey (SES) were all taken with the UK Schmidt.


Digitised Sky Survey

The small postage stamp images on the 10k CD-ROM (and served by the web page prior to July 2002) were generated from the STScI Digitised Sky Survey.

The Digitized Sky Survey was produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government grant NAG W-2166. The images of these surveys are based on photographic data obtained using the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain and the UK Schmidt Telescope. The plates were processed into the present compressed digital form with the permission of these institutions.

The UK Schmidt Telescope was operated by the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, with funding from the UK Science and Engineering Research Council (later the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council), until 1988 June, and thereafter by the Anglo-Australian Observatory. The blue plates of the southern Sky Atlas and its Equatorial Extension (together known as the SERC-J), as well as the Equatorial Red (ER), and the Second Epoch [red] Survey (SES) were all taken with the UK Schmidt.


CD-ROM version only

CGI parsing on the CD-ROM version is done using CGI Lite v2.0.
Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997 by Shishir Gundavaram
All Rights Reserved
E-Mail: shishir@ora.com
Permission to use, copy, and distribute is hereby granted, providing that the above copyright notice and this permission appear in all copies and in supporting documentation.

The mini HTTP server used on the CD-ROM is CGIservlet-1.2.pl
Copyright (c) March 23, 2000 by Rob van Son
email: Rob.van.Son@hum.uva.nl
CGIservlet.pl is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
The 2QZ team has made a minor change to the process/child process handling. See comments in CGIservlet-1.2.pl for details.

Neither of these programs are used in the on-line version.


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