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astro-ph.GA2011★ 409 cited

VVV DR1: The First Data Release of the Milky Way Bulge and Southern Plane from the Near-Infrared ESO Public Survey VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea

R. K. Saito, M. Hempel, D. Minniti +107

The ESO Public Survey VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) started in 2010. VVV targets 562 sq. deg in the Galactic bulge and an adjacent plane region and is expected to run for…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 82 cited

Fermi Detection of a Luminous Gamma-ray Pulsar in a Globular Cluster

The Fermi LAT Collaboration

We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope detection of gamma-ray (>100 megaelectronvolts) pulsations from pulsar J1823-3021A in the globular cluster NGC 6624 with high significance…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 137 cited

Hydrodynamics of galaxy mergers with supermassive black holes: is there a last parsec problem ?

Damien Chapon, Lucio Mayer, Romain Teyssier

We study the formation of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary and the shrinking of the separation of the two holes to sub-pc scales starting from a realistic major merger betwe…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 41 cited

The Rise-Time of Normal and Subluminous Type Ia Supernovae

S. Gonzalez-Gaitan, A. Conley, F. B. Bianco +21

We calculate the average stretch-corrected rise-time of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in the Supernova Legacy Survey. We use the aggregate lightcurves of spectroscopic and photometri…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 45 cited

Deuterium fractionation and the degree of ionisation in massive clumps within infrared dark clouds

Oskari Miettinen, Martin Hennemann, Hendrik Linz

(Abridged) We aim to determine the degrees of CO depletion, deuterium fractionation, and ionisation in a sample of seven massive clumps associated with IRDCs. The APEX telescope wa…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 68 cited

Convergent flows and low-velocity shocks in DR21(OH)

T. Csengeri, S. Bontemps, N. Schneider +3

DR21(OH) is a pc-scale massive, 7000 Msun clump hosting three massive dense cores (MDCs) at an early stage of their evolution. We present a high angular-resolution mosaic, covering…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 153 cited

The Millimeter Astronomy Legacy Team 90 GHz (MALT90) Pilot Survey

Jonathan B. Foster, James M. Jackson, Elizabeth Barris +11

We describe a pilot survey conducted with the Mopra 22-m radio telescope in preparation for the Millimeter Astronomy Legacy Team Survey at 90 GHz (MALT90). We identified 182 candid…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 195 cited

The H_2O southern Galactic Plane Survey (HOPS): I. Techniques and H_2O maser data

A. J. Walsh, S. L. Breen, T. Britton +19

We present first results of the H_2O Southern Galactic Plane Survey (HOPS), using the Mopra radiotelescope with a broad band backend and a beam size of about 2'. We have observed 1…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 34 cited

Infrared imaging and polarimetric observations of the pulsar wind nebula in SNR G21.5-0.9

A. Zajczyk, Y. A. Gallant, P. Slane +6

We present infrared observations of the supernova remnant G21.5-0.9 with the Very Large Telescope, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. Using the VLT…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 14 cited

Candidate carriers and synthetic spectra of the 21- and 30-mu protoplanetary nebular bands

Renaud Papoular

Computational chemistry is used here to determine the vibrational line spectrum of several candidate molecules. It is shown that the thiourea functional group, associated with vari…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 16 cited

The immediate environment of the Class 0 protostar VLA1623, on scales of ~50-100 AU, observed at millimetre and centimetre wavelengths

D. Ward-Thompson, J. M. Kirk, J. S. Greaves +1

We present high angular resolution observations, taken with the Very Large Array (VLA) and Multiple Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN) radio telescopes, at 7mm an…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 69 cited

Magnetic Field Structure around Low-Mass Class 0 Protostars: B335, L1527 and IC348-SMM2

J. A. Davidson, G. Novak, T. G. Matthews +6

We report new 350 micron polarization observations of the thermal dust emission from the cores surrounding the low-mass, Class 0 YSOs L1527, IC348-SMM2 and B335. We have inferred m…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 11 cited

Observations and radiative transfer modelling of a massive dense cold core in G333

N. Lo, M. P. Redman, P. A. Jones +4

Cold massive cores are one of the earliest manifestations of high mass star formation. Following the detection of SiO emission from G333.125-0.562, a cold massive core, further inv…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 792 cited

Characterizing interstellar filaments with Herschel in IC5146

D. Arzoumanian, Ph. André, P. Didelon +21

We provide a first look at the results of the Herschel Gould Belt survey toward the IC5146 molecular cloud and present a preliminary analysis of the filamentary structure in this r…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 117 cited

Clustering of obscured and unobscured quasars in the Bootes field: Placing rapidly growing black holes in the cosmic web

Ryan C. Hickox, Adam D. Myers, Mark Brodwin +18

We present the first measurement of the spatial clustering of mid-infrared selected obscured and unobscured quasars, using a sample in the redshift range 0.7 < z < 1.8 selected fro…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 194 cited

Collapse, outflows and fragmentation of massive, turbulent and magnetized prestellar barotropic cores

P. Hennebelle, B. Commercon, M. Joos +4

Stars and more particularly massive stars, have a drastic impact on galaxy evolution. Yet the conditions in which they form and collapse are still not fully understood. In particul…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 15 cited

The initial conditions of high-mass star formation: radiative transfer models of IRDCs seen in the Herschel Hi-GAL survey

L. A. Wilcock, J. M. Kirk, D. Stamatellos +13

The densest infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) may represent the earliest observable stage of high-mass star formation. These clouds are very cold, hence they emit mainly at far-infrared…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 201 cited

Planck Early Results: The Galactic Cold Core Population revealed by the first all-sky survey

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +202

We present the statistical properties of the first version of the Cold Core Catalogue of Planck Objects (C3PO), in terms of their spatial distribution, temperature, distance, mass,…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 114 cited

Planck Early Results: The submillimetre properties of a sample of Galactic cold clumps

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +201

(abridged) We perform a detailed investigation of sources from the Cold Cores Catalogue of Planck Objects (C3PO). Our goal is to probe the reliability of the detections, validate t…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 453 cited

Planck Early Results: All sky temperature and dust optical depth from Planck and IRAS: Constraints on the "dark gas" in our galaxy

Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim +204

We construct an all-sky map of the apparent temperature and optical depth of thermal dust emission using the Planck-HFI and IRAS data. The optical depth maps are correlated to trac…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 52 cited

The end of star formation in Chamaeleon I ? A LABOCA census of starless and protostellar cores

A. Belloche, F. Schuller, B. Parise +7

Chamaeleon I is the most active region in terms of star formation in the Chamaeleon molecular cloud complex. Its population of prestellar and protostellar cores is not known and a…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 117 cited

Planck early results. XV. Spectral energy distributions and radio continuum spectra of northern extragalactic radio sources

Planck Collaboration, J. Aatrokoski, P. A. R. Ade +246

Spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and radio continuum spectra are presented for a northern sample of 104 extragalactic radio sources, based on the Planck Early Release Compact S…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 239 cited

Planck Early Results: Thermal dust in Nearby Molecular Clouds

Planck Collaboration, A. Abergel, P. A. R. Ade +197

Planck allows unbiased mapping of Galactic sub-millimetre and millimetre emission from the most diffuse regions to the densest parts of molecular clouds. We present an early analys…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 217 cited

Planck Early Results XXIV: Dust in the diffuse interstellar medium and the Galactic halo

Planck Collaboration, A. Abergel, P. A. R. Ade +205

This paper presents the first results of comparison of Planck along with IRAS data with Green Bank Telescope 21-cm observations in 14 fields covering more than 800 square degrees a…