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astro-ph.SR2010★ 77 cited

An Interferometric Spectral-line Survey of IRC+10216 in the 345 GHz Band

Nimesh A. Patel, Ken H. Young, Carl A. Gottlieb +10

We report a spectral-line survey of the extreme carbon star IRC+10216 carried out between 293.9 and 354.8 GHz with the Submillimeter Array. A total of 442 lines were detected, more…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 4 cited

1.2 Meter Shielded Cassegrain Antenna for Close-Packed Radio Interferometer

Patrick M. Koch, Philippe Raffin, Yau-De Huang +17

Interferometric millimeter observations of the cosmic microwave background and clusters of galaxies with arcmin resolutions require antenna arrays with short spacings. Having all a…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 1 cited

The Interaction of Planets and Brown Dwarfs with AGB Stellar Winds

Hyosun Kim, Ronald E. Taam

Beyond the main sequence solar type stars undergo extensive mass loss, providing an environment where planet and brown dwarf companions interact with the surrounding material. To e…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 14 cited

The crystalline fraction of interstellar silicates in starburst galaxies

F. Kemper, A. J. Markwick, Paul M. Woods

We present a model using the evolution of the stellar population in a starburst galaxy to predict the crystallinity of the silicates in the interstellar medium of this galaxy. We t…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 70 cited

The 9.7 and 18 um silicate absorption profiles towards diffuse and molecular cloud lines-of-sight

J. M. van Breemen, M. Min, J. E. Chiar +8

Studying the composition of dust in the interstellar medium (ISM) is crucial in understanding the cycle of dust in our galaxy. The mid-infrared spectral signature of amorphous sili…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 33 cited

Spectropolarimetry of the superwind filaments of the starburst galaxy M82: kinematics of dust outflow

Michitoshi Yoshida, Koji S. Kawabata, Youichi Ohyama

Spectropolarimetry results for the starburst galaxy M82 are presented. The optical emission lines of the filaments in the energetic outflow ("superwind") from the nuclear starburst…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 87 cited

A tale of two GRB-SNe at a common redshift of z = 0.54

Z. Cano, D. Bersier, C. Guidorzi +71

We present ground-based and HST optical observations of the optical transients (OTs) of long-duration Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) 060729 and 090618, both at a redshift of z = 0.54. For…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 9 cited

Carbon-Chain and Organic Molecules around Very Low-Luminosity Protostellar Objects of L1521F-IRS and IRAM 04191+1522

Shigehisa Takakuwa, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Yuri Aikawa

We have observed dense gas around the Very Low-Luminosity Ob jects (VeLLOs) L1521F-IRS and IRAM 04191+1522 in carbon-chain and organic molecular lines with the Nobeyama 45 m telesc…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 93 cited

SMAObservations of GOODS 850-11 and GOODS 850-13 - First Examples of Multiple Submillimeter Sources Resolved by an Interferometer

Wei-Hao Wang, Lennox L. Cowie, Amy J. Barger +1

We carried out extremely sensitive Submillimeter Array (SMA) 340 GHz continuum imaging on two submillimeter galaxies (SMGs): GOODS 850-11 and GOODS 850-13. The observations reach s…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 77 cited

UWISH2 -- The UKIRT Widefield Infrared Survey for H2

D., Froebrich, C. J. +56

We present the goals and preliminary results of an unbiased, near-infrared, narrow-band imaging survey of the First Galactic Quadrant (10deg<l<65deg ; -1.3deg<b<+1.3deg). This area…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 12 cited

Fractal Structure of Isothermal Lines and Loops on the Cosmic Microwave Background

Naoki Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Yamazaki, Hiroto Kuninaka +4

The statistics of isothermal lines and loops of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation on the sky map is studied and the fractal structure is confirmed in the radiation te…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 137 cited

Vibrationally Excited HCN in the Luminous Infrared Galaxy NGC 4418

Kazushi Sakamoto, Susanne Aalto, Aaron S. Evans +2

Infrared pumping and its effect on the excitation of HCN molecules can be important when using rotational lines of HCN to probe dense molecular gas in galaxy nuclei. We report the…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 30 cited

Discovery of an expanding molecular bubble in Orion BN/KL

Luis A. Zapata, Laurent Loinard, Johannes Schmid-Burgk +3

During their infancy, stars are well known to expel matter violently in the form of well-defined, collimated outflows. A fairly unique exception is found in the Orion BN/KL star-fo…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 40 cited

The effect of coronal radiation on a residual inner disk in the low/hard spectral state of black hole X-ray binary systems

B. F. Liu, C. Done, Ronald E. Taam

Thermal conduction between a cool accretion disk and a hot inner corona can result in either evaporation of the disk or condensation of the hot corona. At low mass accretion rates,…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 214 cited

1.3 mm Wavelength VLBI of Sagittarius A*: Detection of Time-Variable Emission on Event Horizon Scales

Vincent L. Fish, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Christopher Beaudoin +27

Sagittarius A*, the ~4 x 10^6 solar mass black hole candidate at the Galactic Center, can be studied on Schwarzschild radius scales with (sub)millimeter wavelength Very Long Baseli…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 29 cited

Millimeter and submillimeter high angular resolution interferometric observations: dust in the heart of IRAS 18162-2048

M. Fernández-López, S. Curiel, J. M. Girart +3

The GGD27 complex includes the HH 80-81-80N system, which is one of the most powerful molecular outflows associated with a high mass star-forming region observed up to now. This ou…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 25 cited

High Velocity Molecular Outflows In Massive Cluster Forming Region G10.6-0.4

Hauyu Baobab Liu, Paul T. P. Ho, Qizhou Zhang

We report the arcsecond resolution SMA observations of the CO (2-1) transition in the massive cluster forming region G10.6-0.4. In these observations, the high velocity $^{1…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 1 cited

Supernova dust for the extinction law in a young infrared galaxy at z = 1

K. Kawara, H. Hirashita, T. Nozawa +6

We apply the supernova(SN) extinction curves to reproduce the observed properties of SST J1604+4304 which is a young infrared (IR) galaxy at z = 1. The SN extinction curves used in…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 18 cited

The magnetic field in the NGC 2024 FIR 5 dense core

Felipe de O. Alves, Josep M. Girart, Shih-Ping Lai +2

We used the Submillimeter Array (SMA) to observe the thermal polarized dust emission from the protostellar source NGC 2024 FIR 5. The polarized emission outlines a partial hourglas…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 4 cited

Cross-Power Spectrum and Its Application on Window Functions in the WMAP data

Lung-Yih Chiang, Fei-Fan Chen

Cross-power spectrum is a quadratic estimator between two maps that can provide unbiased estimate of the underlying power spectrum of the correlated signals, which is therefore use…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 80 cited

Near-Infrared Multi-Band Photometry of the Substellar Companion GJ 758 B

M. Janson, J. Carson, C. Thalmann +46

GJ 758 B is a cold (~600K) companion to a Sun-like star at 29 AU projected separation, which was recently detected with high-contrast imaging. Here we present photometry of the com…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 151 cited

Cluster Mass Profiles from a Bayesian Analysis of Weak Lensing Distortion and Magnification Measurements: Applications to Subaru Data

Keiichi Umetsu, Tom Broadhurst, Adi Zitrin +2

We directly construct model-independent mass profiles of galaxy clusters from combined weak-lensing distortion and magnification measurements within a Bayesian statistical framewor…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 10 cited

Detection of Strong Millimeter Emission from the Circumstellar Dust Disk Around V1094 Sco: Cold and Massive Disk around a T Tauri Star in a Quiescent Accretion Phase?

Takashi Tsukagoshi, Masao Saito, Yoshimi Kitamura +16

We present the discovery of a cold massive dust disk around the T Tauri star V1094 Sco in the Lupus molecular cloud from the 1.1 millimeter continuum observations with AzTEC on AST…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 53 cited

Evidence for gamma-ray emission from the low-mass X-ray binary system FIRST J102347.6+003841

P. H. Thomas Tam, Chung-Yue Hui, Regina H. H. Huang +6

The low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) system FIRST J102347.6+003841 hosts a newly born millisecond pulsar (MSP) PSR J1023+0038 that was revealed as the first and only known rotation-pow…