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astro-ph2007★ 65 cited

Infrared and X-Ray Evidence for Circumstellar Grain Destruction by the Blast Wave of Supernova 1987A

E. Dwek, R. G. Arendt, P. Bouchet +10

Multiwavelength observations of supernova remnant (SNR) 1987A show that its morphology and luminosity are rapidly changing at X-ray, optical, infrared, and radio wavelengths as the…

astro-ph2007★ 54 cited

A2163: Merger events in the hottest Abell galaxy cluster I. Dynamical analysis from optical data

S. Maurogordato, A. Cappi, C. Ferrari +7

We present a detailed optical analysis of the galaxy cluster A2163 based on new multicolor wide field imaging and medium-to-high resolution (R~2000) spectroscopy. While X-ray obser…

astro-ph2007★ 44 cited

Time drift of cosmological redshifts and its variance

Jean-Philippe Uzan, Francis Bernardeau, Yannick Mellier

The contribution of cosmological perturbations to the time drift of the cosmological redshift is derived. It is shown that the dominant correction arises from the local acceleratio…

astro-ph2007★ 22 cited

Asteroseismology of Procyon with SOPHIE

B. Mosser, F. Bouchy, M. Martic

This paper reports a 9-night asteroseismic observation program conducted in January 2007 with the new spectrometer Sophie at the OHP 193-cm telescope, on the F5 IV-V target Procyon…

astro-ph2007★ 100 cited

Modelling the spectral energy distribution of ULIRGs II: The energetic environment and the dense interstellar medium

O. Vega, M. S. Clemens, A. Bressan +4

We fit the near-infrared to radio spectral energy distributions of 30 luminous and ultra-luminous infrared galaxies with pure starburst models or models that include both starburst…

astro-ph2007★ 212 cited

HESS VHE Gamma-Ray Sources Without Identified Counterparts

HESS Collaboration, F. Aharonian

The detection of gamma rays in the very-high-energy (VHE) energy range (100 GeV--100 TeV) provides a direct view of the parent population of ultra-relativistic particles found in a…

astro-ph2007★ 36 cited

The nature of the ghost cavity in the NGC 741 group

Nazirah N. Jetha, Martin J. Hardcastle, Arif Babul +4

We discuss the effects of energy injection into the intra-group medium of the group of galaxies associated with NGC 741. The X-ray emission reveals a large bubble, which in the abs…

astro-ph2007★ 75 cited

SZ and CMB reconstruction using Generalized Morphological Component Analysis

J. Bobin, Y. Moudden, J. -L. Starck +2

In the last decade, the study of cosmic microwave background (CMB) data has become one of the most powerful tools to study and understand the Universe. More precisely, measuring th…

astro-ph2007★ 59 cited

Two years of INTEGRAL monitoring of GRS 1915+105 Part 1: multiwavelength coverage with INTEGRAL, RXTE, and the Ryle radio Telescope

J. Rodriguez, D. C. Hannikainen, S. E. Shaw +13

(Abridged) We report the results of monitoring observations of the Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105 performed simultaneously with INTEGRAL and RXTE Ryle . We present the results o…

astro-ph2007★ 78 cited

Two Years of INTEGRAL monitoring of GRS 1915+105 Part 2: X-Ray Spectro-Temporal Analysis

J. Rodriguez, S. E. Shaw, D. C. Hannikainen +14

(abridged) This is the second paper presenting the results of two years of monitoring of GRS 1915+105 with \integral and \rxte and the Ryle Telescope. We present the X-ray spectral…

astro-ph2007★ 3 cited

The XMM-LSS cluster sample and its cosmological applications. Prospects for the XMM next decade

M. Pierre, F. Pacaud, J. B. Melin +1

The well defined selection function of the XMM-LSS survey enables a simultaneous modelling of the observed cluster number counts and of the evolution of the L-T relation. We presen…

astro-ph2007★ 252 cited

UV/Optical Detections of Candidate Tidal Disruption Events by GALEX and CFHTLS

S. Gezari, S. Basa, D. C. Martin +11

We present two luminous UV/optical flares from the nuclei of apparently inactive early-type galaxies at z=0.37 and 0.33 that have the radiative properties of a flare from the tidal…

astro-ph2007★ 216 cited

Vigorous star formation with low efficiency in massive disk galaxies at z=1.5

E. Daddi, H. Dannerbauer, D. Elbaz +4

We present the first detection of molecular gas cooling CO emission lines from ordinary massive galaxies at z=1.5. Two sources were observed with the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interfero…

astro-ph2007★ 1 cited

Search for a Dark Matter annihilation signal from the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, E. Moulin +5

Dwarf Spheroidal galaxies are amongst the best targets to search for a Dark Matter annihilation signal. The annihilation of WIMPs in the center of Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal (Sgr…

astro-ph2007★ 40 cited

Upper Limits from HESS AGN Observations in 2005-2007

HESS Collaboration, F. Aharonian

AIMS: Very high energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray studies were performed for 18 active galactic nuclei (AGN) from a variety of AGN classes. METHODS: VHE observations of a sample of…

astro-ph2007★ 379 cited

Mid-Infrared Spectral Diagnosis of Submillimeter Galaxies

Alexandra Pope, Ranga-Ram Chary, David M. Alexander +6

We present deep mid-infrared spectroscopy with the Spitzer Space Telescope of 13 submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey North (GOODS-N) field.…

astro-ph2007★ 73 cited

Building Giant-Planet Cores at a Planet Trap

Alessandro Morbidelli, Aurelien Crida, Frederic Masset +1

A well-known bottleneck for the core-accretion model of giant-planet formation is the loss of the cores into the star by Type-I migration, due to the tidal interactions with the ga…

astro-ph2007★ 3 cited

Oscillations in Procyon A: First results from a multi-site campaign

S. Hekker, T. Arentoft, H. Kjeldsen +45

Procyon A is a bright F5IV star in a binary system. Although the distance, mass and angular diameter of this star are all known with high precision, the exact evolutionary state is…

astro-ph2007★ 138 cited

PSF calibration requirements for dark energy from cosmic shear

S. Paulin-Henriksson, A. Amara, L. Voigt +2

The control of systematic effects when measuring galaxy shapes is one of the main challenges for cosmic shear analyses. In this context, we study the fundamental limitations on she…

astro-ph2007★ 32 cited

Expansion schemes for gravitational clustering: computing two-point and three-point functions

P. Valageas

We describe various expansion schemes that can be used to study gravitational clustering. Obtained from the equations of motion or their path-integral formulation, they provide sev…

astro-ph2007★ 338 cited

Gravitational wave generation from bubble collisions in first-order phase transitions: an analytic approach

Chiara Caprini, Ruth Durrer, Geraldine Servant

Gravitational wave production from bubble collisions was calculated in the early nineties using numerical simulations. In this paper, we present an alternative analytic estimate, r…

astro-ph2007★ 67 cited

Intermediate long X-ray bursts from the ultra-compact binary source SLX 1737-282

M. Falanga, J. Chenevez, A. Cumming +3

Aims: The low persistent X-ray burster source SLX 1737-282 is classified as an ultra-compact binary candidate. We compare the data on SLX 1737-282 with the other similar objects an…

astro-ph2007★ 186 cited

Systematic Bias in Cosmic Shear: Beyond the Fisher Matrix

Adam Amara, Alexandre Refregier

We describe a method for computing the biases that systematic signals introduce in parameter estimation using a simple extension of the Fisher matrix formalism. This allows us to c…

astro-ph2007★ 94 cited

Tidal debris from high-velocity collisions as fake dark galaxies: A numerical model of VirgoHI21

Pierre-Alain Duc, Frederic Bournaud

High speed collisions, although current in clusters of galaxies, have long been neglected, as they are believed to cause little damages to galaxies, except when they are repeated,…