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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.GA2012★ 65 cited

A First Look at the Auriga-California Giant Molecular Cloud With Herschel and the CSO: Census of the Young Stellar Objects and the Dense Gas

Paul M. Harvey, Cassandra Fallscheer, Adam Ginsburg +7

We have mapped the Auriga/California molecular cloud with the Herschel PACS and SPIRE cameras and the Bolocam 1.1 mm camera on the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) with the…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 101 cited

Magnetic Activity Cycles in the Exoplanet Host Star epsilon Eridani

T. S. Metcalfe, A. P. Buccino, B. P. Brown +7

The active K2 dwarf epsilon Eri has been extensively characterized, both as a young solar analog and more recently as an exoplanet host star. As one of the nearest and brightest st…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 254 cited

Spiral Arms in the Asymmetrically Illuminated Disk of MWC 758 and Constraints on Giant Planets

C. A. Grady, T. Muto, J. Hashimoto +71

We present the first near-IR scattered light detection of the transitional disk associated with the Herbig Ae star MWC 758 using data obtained as part of the Strategic Exploration…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 29 cited

Characterizing two solar-type Kepler subgiants with asteroseismology: KIC10920273 and KIC11395018

G. Dogan, T. S. Metcalfe, S. Deheuvels +27

Determining fundamental properties of stars through stellar modeling has improved substantially due to recent advances in asteroseismology. Thanks to the unprecedented data quality…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 297 cited

Chemical consequences of the C/O ratio on hot Jupiters: Examples from WASP-12b,CoRoT-2b, XO-1b, and HD 189733b

J. I. Moses, N. Madhusudhan, C. Visscher +1

Motivated by recent spectroscopic evidence for carbon-rich atmospheres on some transiting exoplanets, we investigate the influence of the C/O ratio on the chemistry, composition, a…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 41 cited

The high-redshift (z>3) AGN population in the 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field South

F. Vito, C. Vignali, R. Gilli +10

We present results from a spectral analysis of a sample of high-redshift (z>3) X-ray selected AGN in the 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S), the deepest X-ray survey to date. Th…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 24 cited

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope Project and its Early Science Opportunities

Di Li, Rendong Nan, Zhichen Pan

The National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Science (NAOC), has started building the largest antenna in the world. Known as FAST, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Sp…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 135 cited

GOODS-Herschel: radio-excess signature of hidden AGN activity in distant star-forming galaxies

A. Del Moro, D. M. Alexander, J. R. Mullaney +23

We present here a new spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting approach that we adopt to select radio-excess sources amongst distant star-forming galaxies in the GOODS-Herschel (…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 260 cited

Fundamental Properties of Stars using Asteroseismology from Kepler & CoRoT and Interferometry from the CHARA Array

D. Huber, M. J. Ireland, T. R. Bedding +37

We present results of a long-baseline interferometry campaign using the PAVO beam combiner at the CHARA Array to measure the angular sizes of five main-sequence stars, one subgiant…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 89 cited

An Early & Comprehensive Millimeter and Centimeter Wave and X-ray Study of Supernova 2011dh: A Non-Equipartition Blastwave Expanding into A Massive Stellar Wind

Assaf Horesh, Christopher Stockdale, Derek B. Fox +24

Only a handful of supernovae (SNe) have been studied in multi-wavelength from radio to X-rays, starting a few days after explosion. The early detection and classification of the ne…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 57 cited

Tracking Down the Source Population Responsible for the Unresolved Cosmic 6-8 keV Background

Y. Q. Xue, S. X. Wang, W. N. Brandt +10

Using the 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S) survey, we have identified a sample of 6845 X-ray undetected galaxies that dominates the unresolved ~ 20-25% of the 6-8 keV cosmic X…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 42 cited

The Long-Term X-Ray Variability of Broad Absorption Line Quasars

Cristian Saez, William N. Brandt, Sarah C. Gallagher +2

We analyze the long-term (rest-frame 3-30 yr) X-Ray variability of eleven broad absorption line (BAL) quasars, mainly to constrain the variation properties of the X-Ray absorbing s…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 170 cited

Verifying asteroseismically determined parameters of Kepler stars using hipparcos parallaxes: self-consistent stellar properties and distances

V. Silva Aguirre, L. Casagrande, S. Basu +24

Accurately determining the properties of stars is of prime importance for characterizing stellar populations in our Galaxy. The field of asteroseismology has been thought to be par…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 36 cited

Spectral classification of the brightest objects in the galactic star forming region W40

R. Y. Shuping, William D. Vacca, Marc Kassis +1

We present high S/N, moderate resolution near-infrared spectra, as well as 10 micron imaging, for the brightest members of the central stellar cluster in the W40 HII region, obtain…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 89 cited

Multiwavelength Variations of 3C 454.3 during the November 2010 to January 2011 Outburst

Ann E. Wehrle, Alan P. Marscher, Svetlana G. Jorstad +6

We present multiwavelength data of the blazar 3C 454.3 obtained during an extremely bright outburst from November 2010 through January 2011. These include flux density measurements…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 75 cited

A self-consistent model of Galactic stellar and dust infrared emission and the abundance of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Thomas P. Robitaille, Ed Churchwell, Robert A. Benjamin +4

We present a self-consistent three-dimensional Monte-Carlo radiative transfer model of the stellar and dust emission in the Milky-Way, and have computed synthetic observations of t…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 64 cited

SN 2007bg: The Complex Circumstellar Environment Around One of the Most Radio-Luminous Broad-Lined Type Ic Supernovae

P. Salas, F. E. Bauer, C. Stockdale +1

In this paper we present the results of the radio light curve and X-ray observations of broad-lined Type Ic SN 2007bg. The light curve shows three distinct phases of spectral and t…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 35 cited

Herschel far-infrared photometric monitoring of protostars in the Orion Nebula Cluster

N. Billot, M. Morales-Calderon, J. R. Stauffer +2

We have obtained time series observations of the Orion Nebula Cluster at 70 microns and 160 microns from the Herschel/PACS Photometer. This represents the first wide-field far-infr…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 60 cited

Two nearby sub-Earth-sized exoplanet candidates in the GJ 436 system

Kevin B. Stevenson, Joseph Harrington, Nate B. Lust +8

We report the detection of UCF-1.01, a strong exoplanet candidate with a radius 0.66 +/- 0.04 times that of Earth (R_{\oplus}). This sub-Earth-sized planet transits the nearby M-dw…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 64 cited

Variability of the blazar 4C 38.41 (B3 1633+382) from GHz frequencies to GeV energies

C. M. Raiteri, M. Villata, P. S. Smith +74

The quasar-type blazar 4C 38.41 (B3 1633+382) experienced a large outburst in 2011, which was detected throughout the entire electromagnetic spectrum. We present the results of low…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 81 cited

Massive Quiescent Cores in Orion: Dynamical State Revealed by High-Resolution Ammonia Maps

D. Li, J. Kauffmann, Q. Zhang +1

We present combined VLA and Green Bank Telescope images of \ammonia\ inversion transitions (1,1) and (2,2) toward OMC2 and OMC3. We focus on the relatively quiescent Orion cores, w…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 47 cited

Is the Taurus B213 Region a True Filament?: Observations of Multiple Cyanoacetylene Transitions

Di Li, Paul F. Goldsmith

We have obtained spectra of the J=2-1 and J=10-9 transitions of cyanoacetylene (\hc3n) toward a collection of positions in the most prominent filament, B213, in the Taurus molecula…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 87 cited

Gas emissions in Planck cold dust clumps---A Survey of the J=1-0 Transitions of CO, CO, and CO

Yuefang Wu, Tie Liu, Fanyi Meng +3

A survey toward 674 Planck cold clumps of the Early Cold Core Catalogue (ECC) in the J=1-0 transitions of CO, CO and CO has been carried out using the PMO 13.7…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 40 cited

High-Resolution Near-Infrared Polarimetry of a Circumstellar Disk around UX Tau A

Ryoko Tanii, Yoichi Itoh, Tomoyuki Kudo +65

We present H-band polarimetric imagery of UX Tau A taken with HiCIAO/AO188 on the Subaru Telescope. UX Tau A has been classified as a pre-transitional disk object, with a gap struc…