By Emeritus Professor Chris Tinney

Journal articles

Piatek S; Pryor C; Olszewski EW; Harris HC; Mateo M; Minniti D; Monet DG; Morrison H; Tinney CG, 2002, 'Proper motions of dwarf spheroidal galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope imaging. I. Method and a preliminary measurement for fornax', Astronomical Journal, 124, pp. 3198 - 3221, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/344767

Butler RP; Marcy GW; Vogt SS; Tinney CG; Jones HRA; McCarthy C; Penny AJ; Apps K; Carter BD, 2002, 'On the double-planet system around HD 83443', Astrophysical Journal, 578, pp. 565 - 572, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/342471

Clarke FJ; Oppenheimer BR; Tinney CG, 2002, 'A mini-survey for variability in early L dwarfs', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 335, pp. 1158 - 1162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05691.x

Jones HRA; Butler RP; Tinney CG; Marcy GW; Penny AJ; McCarthy C; Carter BD; Pourbaix D, 2002, 'A probable planetary companion to HD 39091 from the Anglo-Australian planet search', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 333, pp. 871 - 875, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05459.x

Tinney CG; McCarthy C; Jones HRA; Butler RP; Carter BD; Marcy GW; Penny AJ, 2002, 'Echelle spectroscopy of Ca II HK activity in Southern Hemisphere planet search targets', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 332, pp. 759 - 763, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05370.x

Tinney CG; Butler RP; Marcy GW; Jones HRA; Penny AJ; Mccarthy C; Carter BD, 2002, 'Two extrasolar planets from the Anglo-Australian planet search', Astrophysical Journal, 571, pp. 528 - 531, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/339916

Clarke FJ; Tinney CG; Covey KR, 2002, 'Periodic photometric variability of the brown dwarf Kelu-1', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 332, pp. 361 - 366, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05308.x

Pourbaix D; Nidever D; McCarthy C; Butler RP; Tinney CG; Marcy GW; Jones HRA; Penny AJ; Carter BD; Bouchy F; Pepe F; Hearnshaw JB; Skuljan J; Ramm D; Kent D, 2002, 'Constraining the difference in convective blueshift between the components of α Centauri with precise radial velocities', Astronomy and Astrophysics, 386, pp. 280 - 285, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20020287

Tinney CG, 2002, 'Extra-solar planets around HD196050, HD216437 and HD160691', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 337

Bedding TR; Kjeldsen H; Baldry IK; Bouchy F; Butler RP; Carrier F; Kienzle F; Marcy GW; O’Toole SJ; Tinney CG, 2002, 'Solar-Like Oscillations in β Hydri: Evidence for Short-Lived High-Amplitude Oscillations', International Astronomical Union Colloquium, 185, pp. 464 - 467, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s025292110001681x

Butler RP; Tinney CG; Marcy GW; Jones HRA; Penny AJ; Apps K, 2001, 'Two new planets from the anglo-australian planet search', Astrophysical Journal, 555, pp. 410 - 417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/321467

Tinney CG; Butler RP; Marcy GW; Jones HRA; Penny AJ; Vogt SS; Apps K; Henry GW, 2001, 'First results from the Anglo-Australian planet search: A brown dwarf candidate and a 51 peg-like planet', Astrophysical Journal, 551, pp. 507 - 511, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/320097

Bedding TR; Butler RP; Kjeldsen H; Baldry IK; O'Toole SJ; Tinney CG; Marcy GW; Kienzle F; Carrier F, 2001, 'Evidence for solar-like oscillations in β Hydri', Astrophysical Journal, 549, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/319139

McCaughrean M; Reid N; Tinney C; Kirkpatrick D; Hillenbrand L; Burgasser A; Gizis J; Hawley S, 2001, 'What is a planet?', Science, 291, pp. 1487 - 1488, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.291.5508.1487b

Carrier F; Bouchy F; Kienzle F; Bedding TR; Kjeldsen H; Butler RP; Baldry IK; O'Toole SJ; Tinney CG; Marcy GW, 2001, 'Solar-like oscillations in beta Hydri: Confirmation of a stellar origin for the excess power', Astronomy and Astrophysics, 378, pp. 142 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20011131

Sahu KC; Vreeswijk P; Bakos G; Menzies JW; Bragaglia A; Frontera F; Piro L; Albrow MD; Bond IA; Bower R; Caldwell JAR; Castro-Tirado AJ; Courbin F; Dominik M; Fynbo JU; Galama T; Glazebrook K; Greenhill J; Gorosabel J; Hearnshaw J; Hill K; Hjorth J; Kane S; Kilmartin PM; Kouveliotou C; Martin R; Masetti N; Maxted P; Minniti D; Møller P; Muraki Y; Nakamura T; Noda S; Ohnishi K; Palazzi E; Van Paradijs J; Pian E; Pollard KR; Rattenbury NJ; Reid M; Rol E; Saito T; Sackett PD; Saizar P; Tinney C; Vermaak P; Watson R; Williams A; Yock P; Dar A, 2000, 'Discovery of the optical counterpart and early optical observations of GRB 990712', Astrophysical Journal, 540, pp. 74 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/309340

Stathakis RA; Boyle BJ; Jones DH; Bessell MS; Galama TJ; Germany LM; Hartley M; James DM; Kouveliotou C; Lewis IJ; Parker QA; Russell KS; Sadler EM; Tinney CG; van Paradijs J; Vreeswijk PM, 2000, 'Spectral evolution of the peculiar Ic Supernova 1998bw', \mnras, 314, pp. 807 - 814, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03373.x

Tinney CG; Tolley AJ, 1999, 'Searching for weather in brown dwarfs', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 304, pp. 119 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02297.x

Tinney CG, 1999, 'QSOs behind the Milky Way satellite galaxies - II', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 303, pp. 565 - 574, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02233.x

Delfosse X; Tinney CG; Forveille T; Epchtein N; Borsenberger J; Fouqué P; Kimeswenger S; Tiphène D, 1999, 'Searching for very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs with DENIS', Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, 135, pp. 41 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/aas:1999158

Tinney CG, 1999, 'Brown dwarfs: The stars that failed', Nature, 397, pp. 37 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/16195

Tinney CG; Reid IN, 1998, 'High-resolution spectra of very low-mass stars', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 301, pp. 1031 - 1048, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.02079.x

Tinney CG; Delfosse X; Forveille T; Allard F, 1998, 'Optical spectroscopy of DENIS mini-survey brown dwarf candidates', Astronomy and Astrophysics, 338, pp. 1066 - 1072

Fassia A; Meikle WPS; Geballe TR; Walton NA; Pollacco DL; Rutten RGM; Tinney C, 1998, '⁵⁶Ni dredge-up in the type IIp supernova 1995V', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 299, pp. 150 - 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01747.x

Groot PJ; Galama TJ; Vreeswijk PM; Wijers RAMJ; Pian E; Palazzi E; Van Paradijs J; Kouveliotou C; In 'T Zand JJM; Heise J; Robinson C; Tanvir N; Lidman C; Tinney C; Keane M; Briggs M; Hurley K; Gonzalez JF; Hall P; Smith MG; Covarrubias R; Jonker PG; Casares J; Masetti N; Frontera F; Feroci M; Piro L; Costa E; Smith R; Jones B; Windridge D; Bland-Hawthorn J; Veilleux S; Garcia M; Brown WR; Stanek KZ; Castro-Tirado AJ; Gorosabel J; Greiner J; Jäger K; Böhm A; Fricke KJ, 1998, 'The rapid decay of the optical emission from GRB 980326 and its possible implications', Astrophysical Journal, 502, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/311509

Tinney CG, 1998, 'The intermediate-age brown dwarf LP 944-20', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 296, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01642.x

Galama TJ; Vreeswijk PM; van Paradijs J; Kouveliotou C; Augusteijn T; Böhnhardt H; Brewer JP; Doublier V; Gonzalez J-F; Leibundgut B; Lidman C; Hainaut OR; Patat F; Heise J; in t Zand J; Hurley K; Groot PJ; Strom RG; Mazzali PA; Iwamoto K; Nomoto K; Umeda H; Nakamura T; Young TR; Suzuki T; Shigeyama T; Koshut T; Kippen M; Robinson C; de Wildt P; Wijers RAMJ; Tanvir N; Greiner J; Pian E; Palazzi E; Frontera F; Masetti N; Nicastro L; Feroci M; Costa E; Piro L; Peterson BA; Tinney C; Boyle B; Cannon R; Stathakis R; Sadler E; Begam MC; Ianna P, 1998, 'An unusual supernova in the error box of the γ-ray burst of 25 April 1998', \nat, 395, pp. 670 - 672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/27150

Delfosse X; Tinney CG; Forveille T; Epchtein N; Bertin E; Borsenberger J; Copet E; De Batz B; Fouqué P; Kimeswenger S; Le Bertre T; Lacombe F; Rouan D; Tiphène D, 1997, 'Field brown dwarfs found by DENIS', Astronomy and Astrophysics, 327

Minniti D; Meylan G; Pryor C; Phinney ES; Sams B; Tinney CG, 1997, 'An unusual brightening of the eclipsing binary star AKO 9 in the globular cluster 47 tucanae observed with the hubble space telescope', Astrophysical Journal, 474, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/310425

Tinney CG; Delfosse X; Forveille T, 1997, 'DENIS-P J1228.2-1547 - A new benchmark brown dwarf', Astrophysical Journal, 490, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/311011

Tinney CG; Da Costa GS; Zinnecker H, 1997, 'QSOs behind the nearest Milky Way satellite galaxies', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 285, pp. 111 - 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/285.1.111

Tinney CG, 1996, 'CCD astrometry of southern very low-mass stars', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 281, pp. 644 - 658, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/281.2.644

TINNEY CG, 1995, 'A GRAVITATIONAL LENS CANDIDATE BEHIND THE FORNAX DWARF SPHEROIDAL GALAXY', MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 277, pp. 609 - 615, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/277.2.609

Bobrowsky M; Zijlstra AA; Grebel EK; Tinney CG; Te Lintel Hekkert P; Van De Steene GC; Likkel L; Bedding TR, 1995, 'He 3-1475 and its jets', Astrophysical Journal, 446, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/187937

Tinney CG; Reid IN; Gizis J; Mould JR, 1995, 'Trigonometric parallaxes and the HR diagram at the bottom of the main sequence', Astronomical Journal, 110, pp. 3014 - 3034, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/117743

Reid N; Tinney CG; Mould J, 1994, 'Very low mass M dwarfs - Stars or brown dwarfs in disguise?', Astronomical Journal, 108, pp. 1456 - 1461, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/117169

Tinney CG; Reid IN; Mould JR, 1993, 'The faintest stars: From Schmidt plates to luminosity functions', Astrophysical Journal, 414, pp. 254 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/173074

Tinney CG, 1993, 'The faintest stars: The luminosity and mass functions at the bottom of the main sequence', Astrophysical Journal, 414, pp. 279 - 301, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/173075

Tinney CG; Mould JR; Reid IN, 1993, 'The faintest stars: Infrared photometry, spectra, and bolometric magnitudes', Astronomical Journal, 105, pp. 1045 - 1059, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/116492

Tinney CG, 1993, 'The faintest stars: Trigonometric CCD parallaxes', Astronomical Journal, 105, pp. 1169 - 1178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/116501

Graham JR; Matthews K; Greenstein JL; Neugebauer G; Tinney CG; Persson SE, 1992, 'Infrared photometry and spectroscopy of the brown dwarf candidate PC0025+0447', Astronomical Journal, 104, pp. 2016 - 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/116377

Tinney CG; Mould JR; Reid IN, 1992, 'The faintest stars', Astrophysical Journal, 396, pp. 173 - 177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/171707

Tinney CG; Scoville NZ; Sanders DB; Soifer BT, 1990, 'Molecular gas in intermediate luminosity IRAS galaxies', Astrophysical Journal, 362, pp. 473 - 479, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/169285

Reid N; Tinney C; Mould J, 1990, 'Luminous asymptotic giant branch stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud', Astrophysical Journal, 348, pp. 98 - 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/168217

SCOVILLE NZ; SANDERS DB; SARGENT AI; SOIFER BT; TINNEY CG, 1989, 'APERTURE SYNTHESIS OF CO EMISSION IN EXTREMELY LUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXIES', ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 345, pp. L25 - &, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/185543

WOODY DP; SCOTT SL; SCOVILLE NZ; MUNDY LG; SARGENT AI; PADIN S; TINNEY CG; WILSON CD, 1989, 'INTERFEROMETRIC OBSERVATIONS OF 1.4 MILLIMETER CONTINUUM SOURCES', ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 337, pp. L41 - L44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/185374

Conference Papers

Gilbert J; Bergmann C; Bloxham G; Boz R; Brookfield R; Carkic T; Carter B; Case S; Churilov V; Ellis M; Gausachs G; Gers L; Gray D; Herrald N; Ireland M; Jones D; Kripak Y; Lawrence J; O'Brien E; Price I; Robertson M; Schwab C; Tinney C; Vaccarella A; Vest C; Wright D; Zhelem R, 2018, 'Veloce Rosso: Australia's new precision radial velocity spectrograph', in Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2312399

Case S; Churilov V; Zhelem R; Horton A; Lawrence J; Edgar M; Farrell T; Waller L; Kripak Y; Gray D; Ramage C; Lee S; Ireland M; Schwab C; Tinney C, 2018, 'VELOCE's novel IFU-fitted fibre feed', in Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2312939

Addison BC; Tinney CG; Wright DJ; Bayliss D; Zhou G; Hartman JD; Bakos GA; Schmidt B, 2013, 'A hot jupiter in a nearly polar orbit', in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, pp. 391 - 392, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743921313009058

Salter GS; Tinney CG; Wittenmyer RA; Jenkins JS; Jones HRA; O'Toole SJ, 2013, 'Direct imaging of long period radial velocity targets with NICI', in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, pp. 66 - 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743921313007904

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