List of publications in one PDF file, sorted by type
Want to know why I've stopped submitting to arXiv?
An ideal present, for Christmas or any other occasion, for yourself or for anyone interested in astronomy, is a book which I have translated from German to English, namely The Cambridge Photographic Atlas of Galaxies (Cambridge as in Cambridge University Press). It is chock full of beautiful full-colour pictures of galaxies, with detailed descriptions of each object, often as a jumping-off point for discussion of more-general concepts, as well as several chapters of background material. The level is somewhere between a typical popular-astronomy book and a textbook. See the first link in this paragraph for links to reviews and the second for a preview and for ordering the book.
Feel free to cite me! To make it easier, here's a BibTeX file which contains nothing but my publications! Entries preceded by ADS, Google, ORBi, or ARIBIB indicate in which, if any, databases the corresponding entry appears (see next paragraph). Note that the ARIBIB information is available only until the middle of the year 2000.
You can decrease the load on my server by getting stuff from ADS, Google Scholar Citations, or ORBi, but keep in mind that some of the information provided at these sites is automatic and perhaps not 100% reliable. At ORCID I have essentially the same stuff I have at Google Scholar Citations, which is not surprising since the entries at ORCID were created by importing BibTeX exported from Google Scholar and adding a bit more information.
The ADS query, should return 97 results. Note that it is not just a query on my name, since that returns (rightly or wrongly, I'm not sure) some papers which are not mine. I've also created a public ADS library which should contain the same publications as the query plus one due to a different surname and a book I translated but did not write (so 99 in total), but check both to be sure since the library is maintained by hand. (Depending on what one is looking for, one or the other might be more useful.) There are also libraries for refereed publications in cosmology/astrophysics/astronomy (28) and other publications (71) (i.e. not normal refereed publications and/or not about cosmology/astrophysics/astronomy).
For more information about (including links to) my various publications, see the lists below. Here, page numbers in bold italics indicate that the main link to the official online version of the paper provides free access to the full paper. Otherwise, only part is available and/or some subscription is required. In such cases, if there is another link to the official online version which provides free access to the whole paper, this is listed separately before the DOI. (Usually, it is a link to the abstract where one can find links to PDF and, for all but the oldest papers, HTML versions.) (In order for this to work, you might occasionally have to delete some obviously named cookies from your computer and/or refresh your browser cache.) While DOIs themselves should always be valid, the actual site they resolve to can and does change. In some cases, DOIs now resolve to the same free, full version as that listed immediately before the DOI. Scanned articles at ADS are scans of the printed version, so this is another option to access the official content. The PostScript and PDF files on my site should correspond, except for minor matters of formatting, to the official versions, but keep in mind that these have been updated by hand when correcting the proofs. (In some cases, I don't have a self-generated PS or PDF file. Occasionally, this is the case for papers where I didn't actually physically write the paper and the original source has disappeared, so I have some scanned version from ADS. Most such cases are pieces for The Observatory which I did not write in LaTeX; here, I provide a PDF of the proof or, when it has become available, a scan from ADS. Note that the proofs might contain minor typos etc.)
A problem these days is having too many online publication lists, so here is a guide:
Papers in refereed journals
Conference proceedings edited
Contributions to conference proceedings
Titles in bold (9/22) refer to talks I gave. All other
contributions (13/22) are posters, except #9, which was a talk given
by Neal Jackson. #16 was an invited talk; the rest were
contributed. At least those posters which I prepared myself
(i.e. not prepared by a co-author), marked by an asterisk
(7/22 total, 7/12 posters), are available both in the proceedings
version and in the original poster version, the latter, in the case of
those I prepared before 2010, as a single-page PostScript file available
both in A0 and A4 sizes (except for the first one, which consists of
multiple pages, because it was made before A0 printers became reasonably
common and cheap; after 2010, I used scalable fonts, so could just print
the A4 version at A0.).
Note that there are several proceedings contributions which list one,
two or a few authors plus "CLASS collaboration". Some of these gathered
some or all of the co-authors listed in the conference programme into
"CLASS collaboration" to save the space taken up by the names,
affiliations etc of the authors in the limited space provided in
proceedings contributions, especially in the case of posters since these
are often allowed fewer pages. Thus, on the basis of a proceedings
contribution which lists "CLASS collaboration" among the authors, it is
not clear whether the original author list contained more names or not.
Although officially part of the CLASS collaboration, I have not listed
any of these proceedings contributions here, even though I was involved
in some, except for the one above, since I was mentioned explicitly on
the original poster. (The names of all authors (actually fewer than the
entire CLASS collaboration), as listed above, appeared on the original
poster. The published version lists S. T. Myers and the Class
collaboration as authors. As a result, this is not listed at ADS under
my name.)
Conference contributions not included in proceedings
Unlike some people, I have never failed to deliver a contribution to the
proceedings if it was possible to have my contribution appear. So these
are contributions which didn't appear in the published proceedings, for
reasons beyong my control. Most are posters but also a regular talk and
a pre-recorded flash talk. In general, proceedingsless contributions
can occur either because the corresponding conference had no proceedings
at all or because posters were not included. At the moment, only the
former applies (but some of those conferences do have the slides of the
talks online, which is becoming increasingly common). (Note that
online-only proceedings, such as no. 21 above, are treated as other
proceedings, which is appropriate since today many journals, and even
some traditional journals, are online-only. In some cases, both a
traditional book was published and the contributions it contains are
available online—either individually or collectively—, as in
nos. 20 and 22, respectively, above.)
Correspondence
(Note that the PDF files linked to at the URLs referenced below might contain minor typos etc if they are from the proofs and not from the final product.)
The subjects of most of the talks are covered in the refereed-journal
articles and/or in the proceedings contributions. However, the talk
versions include less text and more pictures, so at least in some cases
it might be worth putting them up.
The list is incomplete before 2011. When I have time, I will add a list
of the older talks, just for documentation purposes. However, these
will be only "external" talks, i.e.;nbsp;not talks given at the
institute where I was working at the time nor at occasions such as
network meetings, workshops etc.
Translation
Theses
Talks
The first item with links is for 2012. The reason is that before then
my talks were given with transparencies displayed on old-fashioned
overhead projectors and thus don't exist as a single file. The earlier
ones were even hand-written and thus don't exist as a file at all
(although some of the plots do). I will probably never put up the
hand-written ones, since the only practical way would be to scan them,
which is too much trouble. When I have some spare time, I might put up
the ones which were done in LaTeX. (Unlike the ones of 2012 and later,
not everything was in the PostScript file produced from LaTeX; in
particular, some plots were "standalone" and not included into the LaTeX
file.)
Talks at conferences
Seminars, colloquia etc
"Is there a flatness problem in classical cosmology?"