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astro-ph2006★ 110 cited

Proper Motions of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging. V: Final Measurement for Fornax

Slawomir Piatek, Carlton Pryor, Paul Bristow +5

The measured proper motion of Fornax, expressed in the equatorial coordinate system, is mas century. This proper motion is a weighted…

astro-ph2006★ 28 cited

A Survey of Open Clusters in the u'g'r'i'z' Filter System: III. Results for the Cluster NGC 188

Bartosz Fornal, Douglas L. Tucker, J. Allyn Smith +3

We continue our series of papers describing the results of a photometric survey of open star clusters, primarily in the southern hemisphere, taken in the u'g'r'i'z' filter system.…

astro-ph2006★ 92 cited

Trigonometric Parallaxes of Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae

Hugh C. Harris, Conard C. Dahn, Blaise Canzian +11

Trigonometric parallaxes of 16 nearby planetary nebulae are presented, including reduced errors for seven objects with previous initial results and results for six new objects. The…

astro-ph2006★ 19 cited

Initial Results from the USNO Dispersed Fourier Transform Spectrograph

Arsen R. Hajian, Bradford B. Behr, Andrew T. Cenko +15

We have designed and constructed a ``dispersed Fourier Transform Spectrometer'' (dFTS), consisting of a conventional FTS followed by a grating spectrometer. By combining these two…

astro-ph2006★ 26 cited

VLA+PT Astrometry of 46 Radio Stars

D. A. Boboltz, A. L. Fey, W. K. Puatua +4

We have used the Very Large Array (VLA), linked with the Pie Town Very Long Baseline Array antenna, to determine astrometric positions of 46 radio stars in the International Celest…

astro-ph2006★ 22 cited

The HgMn Binary Star Phi Herculis: Detection and Properties of the Secondary and Revision of the Elemental Abundances of the Primary

R. T. Zavala, S. J. Adelman, C. A. Hummel +6

Observations of the Mercury-Manganese star Phi Herculis with the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer (NPOI) conclusively reveal the previously unseen companion in this single-lin…