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astro-ph2005★ 140 cited

A CH3CN and HCO+ survey towards southern methanol masers associated with star formation

C. R. Purcell, R. Balasubramanyam, M. G. Burton +32

We present the initial results of a 3-mm spectral line survey towards 83 methanol maser selected massive star-forming regions. Here we report observations of the J=5-4 and 6-5 rota…

astro-ph2005★ 13 cited

The formation of brown dwarfs

A. P. Whitworth, S. P. Goodwin

We review four mechanisms for forming brown dwarfs: (i) turbulent fragmentation (producing very low-mass prestellar cores); (ii) gravitational instabilities in discs; (iii) dynamic…

astro-ph2005★ 15 cited

An investigation of the submillimeter background radiation using SCUBA and Spitzer

S. Dye, S. A. Eales, M. L. N. Ashby +8

We investigate the redshift dependence of the contribution to the extragalactic far-infrared/sub-millimeter background from galaxies detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope at 8um…

astro-ph2005★ 33 cited

Optical/near-infrared colours of early-type galaxies and constraints on their star formation histories

P. A. James, M. Salaris, J. I. Davies +2

(abridged) We introduce and discuss the properties of a theoretical (B-K)-(J-K) integrated colour diagram for single-age, single-metallicity stellar populations. This combination o…

astro-ph2005★ 68 cited

Resolution requirements for simulating gravitational fragmentation using SPH

D. A. Hubber, S. P. Goodwin, A. P. Whitworth

Jeans showed analytically that, in an infinite uniform-density isothermal gas, plane-wave perturbations collapse to dense sheets if their wavelength, , satisfies $λ> λ_{_{\rm JE…

hep-th2005★ 31 cited

kappa-Minkowski representations on Hilbert spaces

Alessandra Agostini

The algebra of functions on kappa-Minkowski noncommutative spacetime is studied as algebra of operators on Hilbert spaces. The representations of this algebra are constructed and c…

gr-qc2005★ 50 cited

Joint LIGO and TAMA300 Search for Gravitational Waves from Inspiralling Neutron Star Binaries

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, TAMA Collaboration

We search for coincident gravitational wave signals from inspiralling neutron star binaries using LIGO and TAMA300 data taken during early 2003. Using a simple trigger exchange met…

gr-qc2005★ 50 cited

Search for gravitational wave bursts in LIGO's third science run

LIGO Scientific Collaboration

We report on a search for gravitational wave bursts in data from the three LIGO interferometric detectors during their third science run. The search targets subsecond bursts in the…

astro-ph2005★ 2 cited

Observational characteristics of dense cores with deeply embedded young protostars

D. Stamatellos, A. P. Whitworth, S. P. Goodwin

Class 0 objects, which are thought to be the youngest protostars, are identified in terms of NIR or radio emission and/or the presence of molecular outflows. We present combined hy…

astro-ph2005★ 49 cited

Expected coalescence rates of NS-NS binaries for laser beam interferometers

J. A. de Freitas Pacheco, T. Regimbau, S. Vincent +1

The coalescence rate of two neutron stars (NS) is revisited. For estimation of the number of bound NS-NS and the probability of their coalescence in a timescale , the galactic s…

math.NT2005★ 1 cited

Best Simultaneous Diophantine Approximations under a Constraint on the Denominator

Iskander Aliev, Peter Gruber

We investigate the problem of best simultaneous Diophantine approximation under a constraint on the denominator, as proposed by Jurkat. New lower estimates for optimal approximatio…

astro-ph2005★ 341 cited

Bolocam Survey for 1.1 mm Dust Continuum Emission in the c2d Legacy Clouds. I. Perseus

M. L. Enoch, K. E. Young, J. Glenn +14

We have completed a 1.1 mm continuum survey of 7.5 sq deg of the Perseus Molecular Cloud using Bolocam at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. This represents the largest millime…

astro-ph2005★ 63 cited

COSMOGRAIL: the COSmological MOnitoring of GRAvItational Lenses II. SDSS J0924+0219: the redshift of the lensing galaxy, the quasar spectral variability and the Einstein rings

A. Eigenbrod, F. Courbin, S. Dye +6

(Abridged) We present our VLT/FORS1 deep spectroscopic observations of the gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J0924+0219, as well as archival HST/NICMOS and ACS images of the same…

gr-qc2005★ 103 cited

Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, B. Abbott et. al

We report on a search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in the data from the second science run of the LIGO interferometers. The search focused on binary sys…

astro-ph2005★ 6 cited

First ground-based 200-um observing with THUMPER on JCMT - sky characterisation and planet maps

D. Ward-Thompson, P. A. R. Ade, H. Araujo +19

We present observations that were carried out with the Two HUndred Micron PhotometER (THUMPER) mounted on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii, at a wavelength of 200…

cond-mat.other2005★ 76 cited

Origin of the inner ring in photoluminescence patterns of quantum well excitons

A. L. Ivanov, L. E. Smallwood, A. T. Hammack +3

In order to explain and model the inner ring in photoluminescence (PL) patterns of indirect excitons in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells (QWs), we develop a microscopic approach formulate…

astro-ph2005★ 27 cited

A Fluctuation Analysis of the Bolocam 1.1mm Lockman Hole Survey

Philip R. Maloney, Jason Glenn, James E. Aguirre +13

We perform a fluctuation analysis of the 1.1mm Bolocam Lockman Hole Survey, which covers 324 square arcmin to a very uniform point source-filtered RMS noise level of 1.4 mJy/beam.…

gr-qc2005★ 99 cited

First all-sky upper limits from LIGO on the strength of periodic gravitational waves using the Hough transform

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, B. Abbott

We perform a wide parameter space search for continuous gravitational waves over the whole sky and over a large range of values of the frequency and the first spin-down parameter.…

astro-ph2005★ 4 cited

A Dark Galaxy in the Virgo Cluster Imaged at 21-cm

R. F. Minchin, J. I. Davies, M. J. Disney +10

Dark Matter supposedly dominates the extragalactic, yet no totally dark structure of galactic proportions has ever been convincingly identified. Earlier (Minchin et al. 2005) we su…

astro-ph2005★ 25 cited

XMM-Newton Surveys of the Canada-France Redshift Survey Fields - III: The Environments of X-ray Selected AGN at 0.4<z<0.6

T. J. Waskett, S. A. Eales, W. K. Gear +3

The environmental properties of a sample of 31 hard X-ray selected AGN are investigated, from scales of 500 kpc down to 30 kpc, and are compared to a control sample of inactive gal…

astro-ph2005★ 11 cited

Perturbations of the Yang-Mills field in the universe

Wen Zhao

It has been suggested that the Yang-Mills (YM) field can be a kind of candidate for the inflationary field at high energy scales or the dark energy at very low energy scales, which…

gr-qc2005★ 63 cited

Upper limits from the LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational-wave bursts

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, TAMA Collaboration

We report on the first joint search for gravitational waves by the TAMA and LIGO collaborations. We looked for millisecond-duration unmodelled gravitational-wave bursts in 473 hr o…

astro-ph2005★ 84 cited

The SCUBA HAlf Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) -- I. Survey motivation, design and data processing

A. M. J. Mortier, S. Serjeant, J. S. Dunlop +2

The SCUBA HAlf Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) is a major blank-field extragalactic sub-mm survey underway at the James Clerk Maxwell telescope.SHADES aims to cover half a squ…

astro-ph2005★ 257 cited

A Measurement of the CMB <EE> Spectrum from the 2003 Flight of BOOMERANG

T. E. Montroy, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +34

We report measurements of the CMB polarization power spectra from the January 2003 Antarctic flight of BOOMERANG. The primary results come from six days of observation of a patch c…