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22. Johnston-Hollitt, M., Gill, J.A., Fleenor, M.C., Hunstead, R.W., Rose, J.A., & Christiansen, W., Radio Observations of the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster - II. Radio Luminosity Functions of the A3125/A3128 Cluster Complex, MNRAS (in preparation)

21. Johnston-Hollitt, M., Gill, J.A., Finoguenov, A., Miniati, F. & Tunstall, L., Spectroscopic Analysis of A3376, MNRAS (in preparation)

20.Johnston-Hollitt, M., Sato, M., Gill, J.A., Fleenor, M., & Brick, A.-M., Radio Observations of the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster -I. A3158: Excess of Star-forming Galaxies in a Merging Cluster?, MNRAS (submitted)

19. Johnston-Hollitt, M., Teaching undergraduate Astronomy via Role-playing a telescope time assignment committee, Astronomy Education Review (submitted).

18. Mao, M.Y., Johnston-Hollitt, M., Stevens, J.B, & Wotherspoon, S.J. Head-Tail Galaxies: Beacons of High-Density Regions in Galaxy Clusters, MNRAS (submitted)

17. Johnston-Hollitt, M., Peer review role-playing as a method of teaching senior undergraduate science, CAL-laborate Journal of teaching in higher education (accepted).

16. Johnston-Hollitt, M., & Ekers, R.D. A Rotation Measure Excess in the Cores of Non-cooling Flow Clusters, A&A (submitted)

15. Johnston-Hollitt, M., Hunstead, R.W., & Corbett, E., The Optical Morphology of A3667 Re-examined, 2008, A&A, 479, 1

14. Breen, SL, Ellingsen, SP, Johnston-Hollitt, M., Wotherspoon, SJ, Bains, I, Burton, MG, Cunningham, M, Lo, N, Senkbeil, CE, Wong, T, Water masers within the G 333.2-0.6 giant molecular cloud, 2007, IAU Symposium 242 –Astrophysical Masers and their Environments, Eds Chapman, J. & Baan, W., p144

13. Breen, SL, Ellingsen, SP, Johnston-Hollitt, M., Wotherspoon, SJ, Bains, I, Burton, MG, Cunningham, M, Lo, N, Senkbeil, CE, Wong, T, A search for 22-GHz water masers within the giant molecular cloud associated with RCW 106, MNRAS, 2007, 377, 491

12. Valdes, M., Ciardi, B., Ferrara, A., Johnston-Hollitt, M., & Roettgering, H., Radio views of cosmic reionization , 2006 MNRAS, 369, L66

11. Fleenor, M. C., Rose, J. A., Christiansen W. A., Johnston-Hollitt, M., Drinkwater M. J., Hunstead R. W., & Saunders, W., Redshifts and Velocity Dispersions of Clusters in the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster, 2006, AJ, 131, 1280

10. Fleenor, M. C., Rose, J. A., Christiansen W. A., Hunstead R. W., Johnston-Hollitt, M., Drinkwater M. J., & Saunders, W., Large-Scale Velocity Structures in the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster, 2005, AJ, 130, 957-976

9. Feretti, L., & Johnston-Hollitt, M., Magnetic Fields in the Clusters of Galaxies, 2004, New Astronomy Reviews, 48, 1145-1150.

8. Fleenor, M. C., Rose, J. A., Christiansen W. A., Hunstead R. W., Johnston-Hollitt,M., & Drinkwater M. J., Large-Scale Velocity Flows in the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster, 2004, IAU Colloquium 199 –Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters: Intense Life in the Suburbs, Torino, Italia, 89-92

7. Johnston-Hollitt, M., Fleenor, M., Rose, J., Christiansen W. A., & Hunstead R. W., Radio Imaging of Head-Tailed Galaxies from an In-falling Filament in the Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster, 2004, IAU Colloquium 199 –Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters: Intense Life in the Suburbs, Torino, Italia, 423-425

6. Rose, J. A., Gaba, A. E., Christiansen, W. A., Davis, D. S., Caldwell, N., Hunstead, R. W., & Johnston-Hollitt, M., Multiple Merging Events in the Double Cluster A3128/A3125, 2002, Astronomical Journal, 123, 1216-1246

5. Johnston-Hollitt, M., Clay, RW, Ekers, RD, Wieringa, MH, Hunstead, RW, The Dual Radio Relics of A3667 , IAU Symposium 199, The Universe at Low Radio Frequencies, Pune, India, Eds A. Pramesh Rao, G. Swarup, and Gopal-Krishna, 2002, 157

4. Bellido, J. A., Clay, R. W., Dawson, B. R. & Johnston-Hollitt, M., Southern Hemisphere Observations of a 1018 eV Cosmic Ray Source Near the Direction of the Galactic Centre, 2000, Astroparticle Physics, 15, 167-176.

3. Clay, R. W., Dawson, B. R., Kewley, L., & Johnston-Hollitt, M., SUGAR data and the Origin of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays , 2000, PASA, 17, 207-211.

2. Tornikoski, M., Tingay, S. J., Muecke, A., Chen, A., Connaughton, V., Jauncey, D. l., Johnston-Hollitt, M., Kemp, J., King, E. A., McGee, P., Rantakyro, F., Rayner, D., Reimer, O., & Tzioumis, A. K., Multifrequency Observations of PKS 2255-282 1999, AJ, 118, 1161.

1. Clay, R. W., Wild, N. R., Bird, D. J., Dawson, B. R., Johnston, M., Patrick, R., Sewell, A., A Cloud Monitoring System for Remote Sites 1998, PASA, 15, 332.

Conference Publications

11. Feain, I. & the CenA project team A long overdue synthesis of Centaurus A in Galaxies in the Local Volume, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, Koribalski, B.S.; Jerjen, H. (Eds.) (in press, available March 5th 2008).

10. Wu, K., Johnston-Hollitt, M., & Hunstead, R.W., Cluster Halo and Relic Sources in Highlights of Astronomy, vol 13, Proceedings of the IAU 25th General Assembly held, July, 2003, Sydney Australia, , Ed. O. Engvold. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, ISBN 1-58381-189-3. 2005, p.312

9. Johnston-Hollitt, M., Hollitt, C.P., & Ekers, R.D., Power Spectrums of the RM Sky in The Magnetized Interstellar Medium proceedings of the meeting, held August 2003, Antalya, Turkey, Ed Uyaniker, B., 2004, 13-18.

8. Johnston-Hollitt, M., The Magnetic Field in A3667, in The Riddle of Cooling Flow Clusters, Proceedings of 3rd Charlottesville meeting, held June 2003, Charlottesville, USA, Eds Reiprich, T.H., Kempner, J.C., & Soker, N., 2003, paper 11, published at www.astro.virgina.edu/coolflow/proc.php

7. Kempner, J.C., Blanton, E.L., Clarke, T.E., Ensslin, T.A., Johnston-Hollitt, M., & Rudnick, L., A Taxonomy of Extended Radio Sources in Clusters of Galaxies, in The Riddle of Cooling Flow Clusters, Proceedings of 3rd Charlottesville meeting, held June 2003, Charlottesville, USA, Eds Reiprich, T.H., Kempner, J.C., & Soker, N., 2003, paper 52, published at www.astro.virgina.edu/coolflow/proc.php

6. Roettgering H., de Bruyn, A.G., Fender, R.P., Kuijpers, J., van Haarlem, M.P., Johnston-Hollitt, M., & Miley, G.K., LOFAR: a New Radio Telescope for Low Frequency Radio Observations: Science and Project Status in Proceedings of the XXXI Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics held December 2002, Florence, Italy, 2003, 69-76.

5. Johnston-Hollitt, M., Hollitt, C. P. & Ekers, R. D., An Estimated All Sky Rotation Measure Map, Proceedings of the URSI General Assembly, meeting to be held August 2002, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Published on CD, 2002, paper number 2172.

4. Johnston-Hollitt, M., Ekers, R. D., & Hunstead, R. W., The Cluster Environment in A3667, 2002, ASPconf Series, vol 250, Proceedings of the 2000 Oxford Workshop, Particles and Fields in Radio Galaxies, meeting held August 2000, Oxford, UK, Eds Laing, R. and Bundell, K., p432

3. Johnston-Hollitt, M., Clay, R. W., & Ekers, R. D., Are Violent Cluster Mergers a Possible Site for Cosmic Ray Acceleration - Observational Evidence from A3667 , 1999, Plasma Turbulence and Energetic Particles in Astrophysics, Proceedings of the International Conference, Cracow (Poland), Sept. 1999, Eds.: M. Ostrowski, R. Schlickeiser, Obserwatorium Astronomiczne, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Kraksw, p. 292-295.

2. Tornikoski, M, Tingay, S., King, E, Jauncey, D, Muecke, A, Johnston, M., Clay, R, Multifrequency Behaviour of PKS 2255-282 , The BL Lac phenomenon, ASP Conference Series, Turku, Finland, 1999, 305

1. Bird, D. J., Clay, R. W., Dawson, B. R., Gregory, A. G., Smith, A. G. K., Johnston, M. Cloud Detection for Fluorescence and Cerenkov Detectors , 1997, Proceedings of the 25th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Volume 5, 349-352

Theses

Johnston-Hollitt, M., Detection of Magnetic Fields and Diffuse Radio Emission in Abell 3667 and other Rich Southern Clusters of Galaxies, PhD Thesis, 2003, University of Adelaide

Johnston-Hollitt, M., An Automated Cloud Detector for Astronomical Sites, Honours Thesis, 1997, University of Adelaide

Other Publications

Gerbaldi, M, Dovciak, M, Johnston-Hollitt, M., Young Astronomers Events IAU General Assembly, Prague, August 2006, Young Astronomers Events, International Astronomical Union, Paris, 1, 1, 2006

Johnston-Hollitt, M., Dickey, JM, Grote Reber Memorial Conference, Asia Pacific Telescope, Jaxa, Japan, 1, 5, 2006

Johnston-Hollitt, M., Hollow, R. Sim, H., Hill, T., George, M., Lomb, N., Green, A., Wong, T., Maddison, S., Mackie, G., Murray, J., Hughes, S., Watson, F., & Mardling, R., Astronomy Education in New Horizons: A Decadal Plan for Australian Astronomy 2006 -2015 Volume II, 2005, Published by the Commonwealth of Australia via the Australian Academy of Science, ISBN 0 85847 226 0

Johnston-Hollitt, M., Report on Young Astronomer Participation in International Astronomical Union Activities, 2003, IAU internal report for the Executive Committee.

Johnston-Hollitt, M., Analytic Models of FRII Galaxies: Calibrators for LOFAR, 2003, ASTRON internal Report for LOFAR Systems Engineering Group

Johnston-Hollitt, M., Ekers, R. D., & Hunstead, R. W., Detailed Radio and Optical Observations of A3667 abstract in The Cosmic Cauldron, 25th meeting of the IAU, Joint Discussion 10, July 2003, Sydney, Australia

Johnston-Hollitt, M., Ekers, R. D., Hunstead, R. W., Clay, R. W., & Wieringa, M. H., Cluster Merger in A3667? - New Radio Observations Shed More Light abstract in Highlights of Astronomy, vol 12, Proceedings of the 24th IAU General Assembly joint disscusion10 Cluster Mergers and their Connection to Radio Sources, held August 2000, Manchester, UK. Ed Feretti, L. & Giovannini, G., 2002, p535

Johnston-Hollitt, M., Ekers, R.D., Hunstead, R.W., Clay, R.W., Wieringa, M.H., A3667: When Worlds Collide, CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility 1999 Annual Report, CSIRO, Sydney, 1, 1, 2000

Hollitt, C.P. & Johnston-Hollitt, M., Scientific Writing for Undergraduates, 2000, in Introduction to Physics Research booklet, Eds Hurn, R.J. & Hamilton, M. W., University of Adelaide.

Johnston-Hollitt, M., Clay, R.W., Ekers, R.D., Hunstead, R.W., Wieringa, M.H., The Dual Radio Relics of A3667, ATNF News, CSIRO, Sydney, 40, October, 1999