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astro-ph.SR2009★ 11 cited

The Evolution of Density Structure of Starless and Protostellar Cores

Chao-Ling Hung, Shih-Ping Lai, Chi-Hung Yan

We present a near-infrared extinction study of nine dense cores at evolutionary stages between starless to Class I. Our results show that the density structure of all but one obser…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 10 cited

The Equilibrium Structure of Prolate Magnetized Molecular Cores

Michael J. Cai, Ronald E. Taam

The structure of molecular cloud cores supported by thermal pressure and a poloidal magnetic field is reinvestigated in the magnetohydrostatic and axisymmetric approximation. In ad…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 38 cited

Millimeter Dust Emission in the GQ Lup System

Yu Dai, David J. Wilner, Sean M. Andrews +1

We present Submillimeter Array observations of the GQ Lup system at 1.3 millimeters wavelength with $0\farcs4$ (60 AU) resolution. Emission is detected from the position of t…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 8 cited

The TAOS Project Stellar Variability I. Detection of Low-Amplitude delta Scuti Stars

D. -W. Kim, P. Protopapas, C. Alcock +22

We analyzed data accumulated during 2005 and 2006 by the Taiwan-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) in order to detect short-period variable stars (periods of <~ 1 hour) such as del…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 23 cited

Study of HST counterparts to Chandra X-ray sources in the Globular Cluster M71

R. H. H. Huang, W. Becker, P. D. Edmonds +3

We report on archival Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of the globular cluster M71 (NGC 6838). These observations, covering the core of the globular cluster, were performe…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 4 cited

Candidate Coronagraphic Detections of Protoplanetary Disks around Four Young Stars

J. L. Karr, N. Ohashi, T. Kudo +1

We present potential detections of H-band scattered light emission around four young star, selected from a total sample of 45 young stars observed with the CIAO coronagraph of the…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 23 cited

Optical linear polarization in ultra cool dwarfs: A tool to probe dust in the ultra cool dwarf atmospheres

R. Tata, E. L. Martin, S. Sengupta +3

Aims.Recent studies have detected linear polarization in L dwarfs in the optical I band. Theoretical models have been developed to explain this polarization. These models predict h…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 33 cited

A spectral line survey of Orion KL in the bands 486-492 and 541-577 GHz with the Odin satellite I. The observational data

A. O. H. Olofsson, C. M. Persson, N. Koning +14

Spectral line surveys are useful since they allow identification of new molecules and new lines in uniformly calibrated data sets. Nonetheless, large portions of the sub-millimetre…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 76 cited

A spectral line survey of Orion KL in the bands 486-492 and 541-577 GHz with the Odin satellite II. Data analysis

C. M. Persson, A. O. H. Olofsson, N. Koning +14

We investigate the physical and chemical conditions in a typical star forming region, including an unbiased search for new molecules in a spectral region previously unobserved. Due…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 12 cited

Thermal Response of A Solar-like Atmosphere to An Electron Beam from A Hot Jupiter: A Numerical Experiment

Pin-Gao Gu, Takeru K. Suzuki

We investigate the thermal response of the atmosphere of a solar-type star to an electron beam injected from a hot Jupiter by performing a 1-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic numeric…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 48 cited

Magnetic Field Topology in Low-Mass Stars: Spectropolarimetric Observations of M Dwarfs

N. Phan-Bao, J. Lim, J. -F. Donati +2

(ABRIDGED) We report here our mapping of the magnetic field topology of the M4 dwarf G 164-31 (or Gl 490B), which is expected to be fully convective, based on time series data coll…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 55 cited

Stringent Limits on the Polarized Submillimeter Emission from Protoplanetary Disks

A. Meredith Hughes, David J. Wilner, Jungyeon Cho +4

We present arcsecond-resolution Submillimeter Array (SMA) polarimetric observations of the 880 um continuum emission from the protoplanetary disks around two nearby stars, HD 16329…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 23 cited

Evolutionary Status of Brightest and Youngest Source in the Orion Molecular Cloud-3 Region

Satoko Takahashi, Paul T. P. Ho, Ya-Wen Tang +2

The brightest continuum source in the Orion Molecular Cloud-3 region (OMC-3), MMS 6, was observed with the Very Large Array (VLA), the Nobeyama Millimeter Array (NMA), and the Subm…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 6 cited

Emission from a Young Protostellar Object I. Signatures of Young Embedded Outflows

M. Yamada, M. N. Machida, S. Inutsuka +1

We examine emission from a young protostellar object (YPO) with three-dimensional ideal MHD simulations and three-dimensional non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) line tra…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 6 cited

Shock-enhanced ammonia emission in the Egg nebula

Dinh-V-Trung, P. J. Chiu, J. Lim

We present high angular resolution observations of the NH(1,1), (2,2) and (3,3) inversion transitions from the Egg Nebula, the archetypical proto-planetary nebula. The spatial…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 25 cited

Water maser detections in southern candidates to post-AGB stars and Planetary Nebulae

O. Suárez, J. F. Gómez, L. F. Miranda +4

We intended to study the incidence and characteristics of water masers in the envelopes of stars in the post-AGB and PN evolutionary stages. We have used the 64-m antenna in Parkes…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 31 cited

Millimeter- and Submillimeter-Wave Observations of the OMC-2/3 region. IV Interaction between the Outflow and the Dense Gas in the Cluster Forming Region of OMC-2 FIR 6

Yoshito Shimajiri, Satoko Takahashi, Shigehisa Takakuwa +2

We have conducted millimeter interferometric observations of the Orion Molecular Cloud-2 (OMC-2) FIR 6 region at an angular resolution of 4$\arcsec$ - 7$\arcsec$ with the No…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 35 cited

Steady and Transient Radio Emission from Ultracool Dwarfs

R. A. Osten, N. Phan-Bao, S. L. Hawley +2

We detect radio emission in an additional two epochs of the ultracool dwarf binary LP 349- 25, finding that the observed emission is broadband and steady on timescales between 10s…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 96 cited

Evolution of Magnetic Fields in High Mass Star Formation: Linking field geometry and collapse for the W51 e2/e8 cores

Ya-Wen Tang, Paul T. P. Ho, Patrick M. Koch +3

We report our observational results of 870 m continuum emission and its linear polarization in the massive star formation site W51 e2/e8. Inferred from the linear polarization m…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 32 cited

Multiple Bipolar Molecular Outflows in the L1551 IRS5 Protostellar System

Po-Feng Wu, Shigehisa Takakuwa, Jeremy Lim

The multiple protostellar system L1551 IRS5 exhibits a large-scale bipolar molecular outflow. We have studied this outflow within ~4000 AU of its driving source(s) with the SubMill…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 66 cited

A ring/disk/outflow system associated with W51 North: a very massive star in the making

Luis A. Zapata, Paul T. P. Ho, Peter Schilke +4

Sensitive and high angular resolution ( 0.4\arcsec) SO[22 22] and SiO[54] line and 1.3 and 7 mm continuum observations made with the Submilli…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 18 cited

Probing the mass loss history of the yellow hypergiant IRC+10420

Dinh-V-Trung, Sebastien Muller, Jeremy Lim +2

We have used the sub-millimeter array to image the molecular envelope around IRC+10420. Our observations reveal a large and clumpy expanding envelope around the star. The molecular…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 3 cited

A Close Binary Star Resolved from Occultation by 87 Sylvia

Chi-Long Lin, Zhi-Wei Zhang, W. P. Chen +22

The star BD+29 1748 was resolved to be a close binary from its occultation by the asteroid 87 Sylvia on 2006 December 18 UT. Four telescopes were used to observe this event at two…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 160 cited

Evolution and Nucleosynthesis of Extremely Metal Poor & Metal-Free Low- and Intermediate-Mass Stars I: Stellar Yield Tables and the CEMPs

S. W. Campbell, J. C. Lattanzio, .

[Abridged] We calculate the structural evolution and nucleosynthesis of a grid of models covering the metallicity range: -6.5 < [Fe/H] < -3.0 (plus Z=0), and mass range: 0.85 < M <…