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astro-ph2007★ 140 cited

The Spitzer Gould Belt Survey of Large Nearby Interstellar Clouds: Discovery of a Dense Embedded Cluster in the Serpens-Aquila Rift

R. A. Gutermuth, T. L. Bourke, L. E. Allen +12

We report the discovery of a nearby, embedded cluster of young stellar objects, associated filamentary infrared dark cloud, and 4.5 micron shock emission knots from outflows detect…

astro-ph2007★ 13 cited

Monitoring LMXBs with the Faulkes Telescopes

Fraser Lewis, David M. Russell, Rob P. Fender +1

We have been undertaking a monitoring project of 13 low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) using FT North since early 2006. The introduction of FT South has allowed us to extend this moni…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2007★ 7 cited

Time-dependent embedding

J. E. Inglesfield

A method of solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation is presented, in which a finite region of space is treated explicitly, with the boundary conditions for matching the wav…

math.SP2007★ 17 cited

Dirac-Sobolev inequalities and estimates for the zero modes of massless Dirac operators

A. Balinsky, W. D. Evans, Y. Saito

The paper analyses the decay of any zero modes that might exist for a massless Dirac operator $H:= \ba \cdot (1/i) \bgrad + Q, $ where is -matrix-valued and of orde…

astro-ph2007★ 27 cited

A sample of mJy radio sources at 1.4 GHz in the Lynx and Hercules fields - II. Cosmic evolution of the space density of FRI radio sources

E. E. Rigby, P. N. Best, I. A. G. Snellen

In this paper the cosmic evolution of the space density of Fanaroff & Riley Class I (FRI) radio sources is investigated out to z ~ 1, in order to understand the origin of the diffe…

astro-ph2007★ 127 cited

The SCUBA HAlf Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) -- VI. 350 micron mapping of submillimetre galaxies

Kristen Coppin, Mark Halpern, Douglas Scott +24

A follow-up survey using the Submillimetre High-Angular Resolution Camera (SHARC-II) at 350 microns has been carried out to map the regions around several 850 micron-selected sourc…

astro-ph2007★ 7 cited

2MASS Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster Spectroscopic Survey

R. A. H. Morris, S. Phillipps, J. B. Jones +5

The Fornax Cluster Spectroscopic Survey (FCSS) is an all-object survey of a region around the Fornax Cluster of galaxies undertaken using the 2dF multi-object spectrograph on the A…

gr-qc2007★ 32 cited

Robust Bayesian detection of unmodelled bursts

Antony C Searle, Patrick J Sutton, Massimo Tinto +1

A Bayesian treatment of the problem of detecting an unmodelled gravitational wave burst with a global network of gravitational wave observatories reveals that several previously pr…

astro-ph2007★ 50 cited

The SCUBA Half Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) - IX: the environment, mass and redshift dependence of star formation

S. Serjeant, S. Dye, A. Mortier +17

We present a comparison between the SCUBA Half Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) at 450 and 850 microns in the Lockman Hole East with a deep Spitzer Space Telescope survey at 3.…

gr-qc2007★ 63 cited

Search of S3 LIGO data for gravitational wave signals from spinning black hole and neutron star binary inspirals

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, B. Abbott

We report on the methods and results of the first dedicated search for gravitational waves emitted during the inspiral of compact binaries with spinning component bodies. We analyz…

astro-ph2007★ 26 cited

Understanding the WMAP Cold Spot mystery

Pavel D. Naselsky, Per Rex Christensen, Peter Coles +3

The first and third year data releases from the WMAP provide evidence of an anomalous Cold Spot (CS) at galactic latitude b=-57deg and longitude l=209deg. We have examined the prop…

astro-ph2007★ 556 cited

The UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey

P. W. Lucas, M. G. Hoare, A. Longmore +28

The UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey (GPS) is one of the five near infrared Public Legacy Surveys that are being undertaken by the UKIDSS consortium, using the Wide Field Camera on the…

astro-ph2007★ 184 cited

Implications for the Origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO Observations

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, K. Hurley

We analyzed the available LIGO data coincident with GRB 070201, a short duration hard spectrum gamma-ray burst whose electromagnetically determined sky position is coincident with…

astro-ph2007★ 90 cited

SANEPIC: A Map-Making Method for Timestream Data From Large Arrays

G. Patanchon, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +23

We describe a map-making method which we have developed for the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) experiment, but which should have general application t…

astro-ph2007★ 483 cited

The WFCAM Science Archive

N. C. Hambly, R. S. Collins, N. J. G. Cross +13

We describe the WFCAM Science Archive (WSA), which is the primary point of access for users of data from the wide-field infrared camera WFCAM on the United Kingdom Infrared Telesco…

astro-ph2007★ 82 cited

SCUBA and Spitzer observations of the Taurus molecular cloud - pulling the bull's tail

D. Nutter, J. M. Kirk, D. Stamatellos +1

We present continuum data from the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), and the Mid-Infrared Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS)…

astro-ph2007★ 47 cited

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2005: A 4 sq. deg Galactic Plane Survey in Vulpecula (l=59)

E. L. Chapin, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +24

We present the first results from a new 250, 350, and 500 micron Galactic Plane survey taken with the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) in 2005. This sur…

gr-qc2007★ 64 cited

Report on the second Mock LISA Data Challenge

Stanislav Babak, John G. Baker, Matthew J. Benacquista +40

The Mock LISA Data Challenges are a program to demonstrate LISA data-analysis capabilities and to encourage their development. Each round of challenges consists of several data set…

astro-ph2007★ 8 cited

Cosmic Covariance and the Low Quadrupole Anisotropy of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Data

Lung-Yih Chiang, Pavel D. Naselsky, Peter Coles

The quadrupole power of cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies seen in the WMAP data is puzzlingly low. In this paper we demonstrate that Minimum Variance Optim…

astro-ph2007★ 78 cited

The relationship between the prestellar core mass function and the stellar initial mass function

Simon P Goodwin, Dave Nutter, Pavel Kroupa +2

Stars form from dense molecular cores, and the mass function of these cores (the CMF) is often found to be similar to the form of the stellar initial mass function (IMF). This sugg…

gr-qc2007★ 72 cited

A Uniqueness theorem for 5-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell black holes

Stefan Hollands, Stoytcho Yazadjiev

In a previous paper arXiv:0707.2775 [gr-qc] we showed that stationary asymptotically flat vacuum black hole solutions in 5 dimensions with two commuting axial Killing fields can be…

astro-ph2007★ 53 cited

The Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey: II. A HI view of the Abell cluster 1367 and its outskirts

L. Cortese, R. F. Minchin, R. R. Auld +13

We present 21 cm HI line observations of 5x1 square degrees centered on the local Abell cluster 1367 obtained as part of the Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey. One hundred sources…

astro-ph2007★ 53 cited

The Effect of Primordial Non--Gaussianity on the Topology of Large-Scale Structure

Chiaki Hikage, Peter Coles, Margherita Grossi +4

We study the effect of primordial non-Gaussianity on the development of large-scale cosmic structure using high-resolution N-body simulations. In particular, we focus on the topolo…

astro-ph2007★ 148 cited

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope: BLAST

E. Pascale, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. Bock +27

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a sub-orbital surveying experiment designed to study the evolutionary history and processes of star formation in…