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astro-ph2008★ 146 cited

Feeding versus Feedback in NGC 4151 probed with Gemini NIFS. I. Excitation

T. Storchi-Bergmann, P. J. McGregor, Rogemar A. Riffel +3

We have used the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) to map the emission-line intensity distributions and ratios in the Narrow-Line Region (NLR) of the Seyfert…

astro-ph2008★ 13 cited

A photometric study of the southern Blazhko star SS For Unambiguous detection of quintuplet components

Katrien Kolenberg, Elisabeth Guggenberger, Thebe Medupe +6

We present our analysis of photometric data in the Johnson B and V filter of the southern Blazhko star SS For. In parallel, we analyzed the V observations obtained with the ASAS-3…

astro-ph2008★ 51 cited

MRC B0319-454: Probing the large-scale structure with a giant radio galaxy

V. Safouris, R. Subrahmanyan, G. V. Bicknell +1

We present an investigation of the relationships between the radio properties of a giant radio galaxy MRC B0319-454 and the surrounding galaxy distribution with the aim of examinin…

astro-ph2008★ 55 cited

Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Supernovae from the ESSENCE Project: The First Four Years

R. J. Foley, T. Matheson, S. Blondin +23

We present the results of spectroscopic observations from the ESSENCE high-redshift supernova (SN) survey during its first four years of operation. This sample includes spectra of…

astro-ph2008★ 79 cited

Lithium abundances of halo dwarfs based on excitation temperature. I. LTE

A. Hosford, S. G. Ryan, A. E. Garcia Perez +2

The discovery of the Spite plateau in the abundances of 7Li for metal-poor stars led to the determination of an observationally deduced primordial lithium abundance. However, after…

astro-ph2008★ 53 cited

The Keck Aperture Masking Experiment: spectro-interferometry of 3 Mira Variables from 1.1 to 3.8 microns

H. C. Woodruff, M. J. Ireland, P. G. Tuthill +6

We present results from a spectro-interferometric study of the Miras o Cet, R Leo and W Hya obtained with the Keck Aperture Masking Experiment from 1998 Sep to 2002 Jul. The spectr…