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Evidence for solar-like oscillations in beta Hydri

Timothy R. Bedding, R. Paul Butler, Hans Kjeldsen +6

We have made a clear detection of excess power, providing strong evidence for solar-like oscillations in the G2 subgiant beta Hyi. We observed this star over five nights with the U…

astro-ph2000★ 54 cited

A revised Cepheid distance to NGC 4258 and a test of the distance scale

Jeffrey A. Newman, Laura Ferrarese, Peter B. Stetson +5

In a previous paper (Maoz et al. 1999), we reported a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cepheid distance to the galaxy NGC 4258 obtained using the calibrations and methods then standard…

astro-ph2000★ 3.3k cited

Final Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant

W. L. Freedman, B. F. Madore, B. K. Gibson +12

We present here the final results of the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to measure the Hubble constant. We summarize our method, the results and the uncertainties, tabulate our…

astro-ph2000★ 155 cited

First Results from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search - A Brown Dwarf Candidate and a 51 Peg-like Planet

C. G. Tinney, R. Paul Butler, Geoffrey W. Marcy +5

We report results from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search -- a survey for planets around 200 solar-type stars in the southern hemisphere, which is being carried out on the 3.9m Ang…

astro-ph2000★ 12 cited

A radio and optical study of Molonglo radio sources

C. H. Ishwara-Chandra, D. J. Saikia, P. J. McCarthy +1

We present multi-wavelength radio observations with the Very Large Array and narrow- and broad-band optical observations with the 2.5m telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory, of…

astro-ph2000★ 3 cited

A Young Stellar Cluster in the Nucleus of NGC 4449

T. Boeker, R. P. van der Marel, L. Mazzuca +4

We have obtained 1-2 A resolution optical Echellette spectra of the nuclear star cluster in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 4449. The light is clearly dominated by a very young (6-…