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most citedThe Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

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astro-ph.EP2010★ 109 cited

Triplicity and Physical Characteristics of Asteroid (216) Kleopatra

Pascal Descamps, F. Marchis, J. Berthier +16

To take full advantage of the September 2008 opposition passage of the M-type asteroid (216) Kleopatra, we have used near-infrared adaptive optics (AO) imaging with the W.M. Keck I…

astro-ph.EP2010★ 37 cited

MARVELS-1b: A Short-Period, Brown Dwarf Desert Candidate from the SDSS-III MARVELS Planet Search

Brian L. Lee, Jian Ge, Scott W. Fleming +59

We present a new short-period brown dwarf candidate around the star TYC 1240-00945-1. This candidate was discovered in the first year of the Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exopla…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 61 cited

The Voronoi Tessellation cluster finder in 2+1 dimensions

Marcelle Soares-Santos, Reinaldo R. de Carvalho, James Annis +6

We present a detailed description of the Voronoi Tessellation (VT) cluster finder algorithm in 2+1 dimensions, which improves on past implementations of this technique. The need fo…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 67 cited

Parallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool objects - I: Targets, Proper motions and first results

Alexandre H. Andrei, Richard L. Smart, Jucira L. Penna +11

We present results from the PARallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool objects (PARSEC) program, an observational program begun in April 2007 to determine parallaxes for 122 L and 28 T…

astro-ph.EP2010★ 46 cited

Asteroid age distributions determined by space weathering and collisional evolution models

Mark Willman, Robert Jedicke

We provide evidence of consistency between the dynamical evolution of main belt asteroids and their color evolution due to space weathering. The dynamical age of an asteroid's surf…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 23 cited

Mn, Cu and Zn abundances in barium stars and their correlations with neutron capture elements

Dinah M. Allen, Gustavo F. Porto de Mello

We present abundances of Mn, Cu, Zn and various light and heavy elements for a sample of barium and normal giant stars, and present correlations between abundances contributed to d…