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astro-ph2001

An Upper Limit to the Mass of rho1 Cnc's Radial Velocity Companion

Melissa A. McGrath, Edmund Nelan, David C. Black +7

Doppler spectroscopy of rho1 Cnc has detected evidence of a companion with an orbital period of 14.65 days and a minimum mass of 0.88 Jupiter masses. Astrometric observations perfo…

astro-ph2001★ 14 cited

ISO-LWS two colour diagram of young stellar objects

S. Pezzuto

We present a [60--100] vs. [100--170] m two colour diagram for a sample of 61 young stellar objects (YSOs) observed with the Long Wavelength Spectrometer (LWS) on-board the Infr…

astro-ph2001★ 8 cited

A study of the gravitational wave form from pulsars II

S. R. Valluri, J. J. Drozd, F. A. Chishtie +4

We present analytical and numerical studies of the Fourier transform (FT) of the gravitational wave (GW) signal from a pulsar, taking into account the rotation and orbital motion o…

astro-ph2001

High resolution simulations of star formation

Henri M. J. Boffin, Neil Francis, Anthony P. Whitworth

In order to study the capabilities of SPH in self-gravitating hydrodynamical problems, we have performed a series of three-dimensional numerical simulations of the collapse of a ro…

astro-ph2001★ 131 cited

The initial conditions of isolated star formation. V: ISOPHOT imaging and the temperature and energy balance of pre-stellar cores

D. Ward-Thompson, P. Andre, J. M. Kirk

ISO data taken with the long-wavelength imaging photo-polarimeter ISOPHOT are presented of 18 pre-stellar cores at three far-infrared wavelengths - 90, 170 and 200 microns. Most of…

astro-ph2001★ 14 cited

Gas Rich Galaxies and the HI Mass Function

J. I. Davies, W. J. G. de Blok, R. M. Smith +4

We have developed an automated cross-correlation technique to detect 21cm emission in sample spectra obtained from the HI Parkes All Sky Survey. The initial sample selection was th…

astro-ph2001★ 81 cited

A blind HI survey of the M81 group

P. J. Boyce, R. F. Minchin, V. A. Kilborn +8

Results are presented of the first blind HI survey of the M81 group of galaxies. The data were taken as part of the HI Jodrell All Sky Survey (HIJASS). The survey reveals several n…

astro-ph2001★ 9 cited

Exact solutions of the aspherical axisymmetric gravo-magnetic condensation

Patrick Hennebelle

We find exact and explicit solutions of the axisymmetric MHD equations of a self-gravitating polytropic gas. These solutions are able to describe a flat (uniform density) subsonic…

astro-ph2001★ 22 cited

The nature of the dwarf population in Abell 868

Peter J. Boyce, Steven Phillipps, J. Bryn Jones +3

We present the results of a study of the morphology of the dwarf galaxy population in Abell 868, a rich, intermediate redshift (z=0.154) cluster which has a galaxy luminosity funct…

astro-ph2001★ 80 cited

Hydrodynamics of photoionized columns in the Eagle Nebula, M 16

R. J. R. Williams, D. Ward-Thompson, A. P. Whitworth

We present hydrodynamical simulations of the formation, structure and evolution of photoionized columns, with parameters based on those observed in the Eagle Nebula. On the basis o…

astro-ph2001★ 34 cited

Modelling submillimetre spectra of the protostellar infall candidates NGC1333-IRAS2 and Serpens SMM4

D. Ward-Thompson, H. D. Buckley

We present a radiative transfer model, which is applicable to the study of submillimetre spectral line observations of protostellar envelopes. The model uses an exact, non-LTE, sph…

astro-ph2001★ 55 cited

A Limit on the Large Angular Scale Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Brian G. Keating, Christopher W. O'Dell, Angelica de Oliveira-Costa +5

We present an upper limit on the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background at 7 degree angular scales in the frequency band between 26 and 36 GHz, produced by the POLAR exper…

astro-ph2001★ 356 cited

The SCUBA Local Universe Galaxy Survey II. 450 micron data - evidence for cold dust in bright IRAS Galaxies

Loretta Dunne, Stephen Eales

This is the second in a series of papers presenting results from the SCUBA Local Universe Galaxy Survey. In our first paper we provided 850 micron flux densities for 104 galaxies s…

astro-ph2001★ 81 cited

A turbulent MHD model for molecular clouds and a new method of accretion on to star-forming cores

D. Balsara, D. Ward-Thompson, R. M. Crutcher

We describe the results of a sequence of simulations of gravitational collapse in a turbulent magnetized region. The parameters are chosen to be representative of molecular cloud m…

astro-ph2001★ 349 cited

Multiple Peaks in the Angular Power Spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background: Significance and Consequences for Cosmology

P. de Bernardis, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +32

Three peaks and two dips have been detected in the power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background from the BOOMERANG experiment, at and $\ell \sim 420,…

astro-ph2001★ 36 cited

The BOOMERANG North America Instrument: a balloon-borne bolometric radiometer optimized for measurements of cosmic background radiation anisotropies from 0.3 to 4 degrees

F. Piacentini, P. A. R. Ade, R. Bathia +24

We describe the BOOMERANG North America (BNA) instrument, a balloon-borne bolometric radiometer designed to map the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation with 0.3 deg resolut…

astro-ph2001★ 177 cited

A SCUBA survey of the NGC 2068/2071 protoclusters

F. Motte, P. Andre, D. Ward-Thompson +1

We report the results of a submillimeter dust continuum survey of the protoclusters NGC 2068 and NGC 2071 in Orion B carried out at 850 microns and 450 microns with SCUBA on JCMT.…

astro-ph2001★ 817 cited

A measurement by BOOMERANG of multiple peaks in the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background

C. B. Netterfield, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +30

This paper presents a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background from l=75 to l=1025 (~10' to 5 degrees) from a combined analysis of four 150 GHz…

astro-ph2001★ 133 cited

FIRBACK: III. Catalog, Source counts, and cosmological implications of the 170 micron ISO Deep survey

Herve Dole, Richard Gispert, Guilaine Lagache +17

The FIRBACK (Far Infrared BACKground) survey is one of the deepest imaging surveys carried out at 170 microns with ISOPHOT onboard ISO, and is aimed at the study of the structure o…

astro-ph2001★ 9 cited

The milliJansky 12 micron Population: First Followup

D. L. Clements, F-X. Desert, A. Franceschini

We present the first results of our followup programme of optical imaging and spectroscopy of a deep 12 micron survey conducted with the ISO satellite (Clements et al. 1999). We fi…

astro-ph2001★ 23 cited

Observations of the bright radio sources in the North Celestial Pole region at the RATAN-600 radio telescope

M. G. Mingaliev, V. A. Stolyarov, R. D. Davies +3

A survey of the North Celestial Pole region using the RATAN-600 radio telescope at five frequencies in the range 2.3 to 21.7 GHz is described. Sources were chosen from the NVSS cat…

astro-ph2001★ 29 cited

Gravitational microlensing of planets: the influence of planetary phase and caustic orientation

Ceri E. Ashton, Geraint F. Lewis

Recent studies have demonstrated that detailed monitoring of gravitational microlensing events can reveal the presence of planets orbiting the microlensed source stars. With the po…

astro-ph2001★ 142 cited

Multi-Epoch Multiwavelength Spectra and Models for Blazar 3C~279

R. C. Hartman, M. Boettcher

Of the blazars detected by EGRET in GeV gamma rays, 3C 279 is not only the best-observed by EGRET, but also one of the best-monitored at lower frequencies. We have assembled eleven…

astro-ph2001★ 45 cited

High latitude Galactic dust emission in the BOOMERanG maps

S. Masi, P. A. R. Ade, J. J Bock +14

We present mm-wave observations obtained by the BOOMERanG experiment of Galactic emission at intermediate and high (b < -20 deg) Galactic latitudes. We find that this emission is w…