Publications

In the course of completing this thesis work, the contents of a number of chapters have already been published by the author. These are:

• Howells et al. (2001),
  A Representative Sample of Be stars. IV. Infrared Photometry and the Continuum excess, A&A.
• Steele and Howells (2001a),
  RIZ Photometry of Low Mass Stars in Praesepe, MNRAS.
• Steele and Howells (2001b),
  RIZ Photometry of Low Mass Stars in Praesepe, ASP Conf. Ser. 223: 11th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun.
• Steele and Howells (2000),
  IZ photometry of L dwarfs and the implications for brown dwarf surveys, MNRAS.
• Howells et al. (1999),
  Liverpool Telescope FITS Keyword Specification, Technical Paper.