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astro-ph2009★ 399 cited

WASP-12b: The hottest transiting planet yet discovered

L. Hebb, A. Collier-Cameron, B. Loeillet +15

We report on the discovery of WASP-12b, a new transiting extrasolar planet with and . The planet and host star propertie…

astro-ph2008★ 76 cited

Stellar Population Models and Individual Element Abundances II: Stellar Spectra and Integrated Light Models

H. -c. Lee, G. Worthey, A. Dotter +7

The first paper in this series explored the effects of altering the chemical mixture of the stellar population on an element by element basis on stellar evolutionary tracks and iso…

astro-ph2008★ 110 cited

The Environments of Active Galactic Nuclei within the zCOSMOS Density Field

J. D. Silverman, K. Kovac, C. Knobel +58

The impact of environment on AGN activity up to z~1 is assessed by utilizing a mass-selected sample of galaxies from the 10k catalog of the zCOSMOS spectroscopic redshift survey. W…

astro-ph2008★ 6 cited

Dwarf Galaxy Clustering and Missing Satellites

R. G. Carlberg, M. Sullivan, D. Le Borgne

At redshifts around 0.1 the CFHT Legacy Survey Deep fields contain some 6x10^4 galaxies spanning the mass range from 10^5 to 10^12 Msun. We measure the stellar mass dependence of t…

astro-ph2008★ 27 cited

Metal enrichment of the neutral gas of blue compact dwarf galaxies: the compelling case of Pox 36

V. Lebouteiller, D. Kunth, T. X. Thuan +1

We present the analysis of the interstellar spectrum of Pox 36 with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE). Pox 36 was selected because of the relatively low foreground…

astro-ph2008★ 48 cited

A Millimetre Survey of Starburst Dominated Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies at z~2

J. D. Younger, A. Omont, N. Fiolet +6

We present millimetre observations of a sample of 12 high redshift ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) in the Extended Growth Strip (EGS). These objects were initially selecte…

astro-ph2008★ 8 cited

The extrasolar planet atmosphere and exosphere: Emission and transmission spectroscopy

Giovanna Tinetti, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu

We have entered the phase of extrasolar planets characterization, probing their atmospheres for molecules, constraining their horizontal and vertical temperature profiles and estim…

astro-ph2008★ 15 cited

An analysis of electron distributions in galaxy clusters by means of the flux ratio of iron lines FeXXV and XXVI

D. A. Prokhorov, F. Durret, V. A. Dogiel +1

The interpretation of hard X-ray emission from galaxy clusters is still ambiguous and different models proposed can be probed using various observational methods. Here we explore a…

astro-ph2008★ 104 cited

The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XVII. Super-Earth and Neptune-mass planets in multiple planet systems HD47186 and HD181433

F. Bouchy, M. Mayor, C. Lovis +8

This paper reports on the detection of two new multiple planet systems around solar-like stars HD47186 and HD181433. The first system includes a hot Neptune of 22.78 M_Earth at 4.0…

astro-ph2008★ 48 cited

A giant bar induced by a merger event at z=0.4?

Sébastien Peirani, Francois Hammer, Hector Flores +2

(Aims) We present a physical model of the formation of J033239.72-275154.7, a galaxy observed at z=0.41 and characterized by a big young bar of size 6 kpc. The study of this system…

astro-ph2008★ 40 cited

325-MHz observations of the ELAIS-N1 field using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope

S. K. Sirothia, M . Dennefeld, D. J. Saikia +3

We present observations of the European Large-Area {\it ISO} Survey-North 1 (ELAIS-N1) at 325 MHz using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), with the ultimate objective of i…

astro-ph2008★ 41 cited

Characterization of the HD 17156 planetary system

M. Barbieri, R. Alonso, S. Desidera +11

AIMS : To improve the parameters of the HD 17156 system (peculiar due to the eccentric and long orbital period of its transiting planet) and constrain the presence of stellar compa…

astro-ph2008★ 107 cited

The spatial clustering of X-ray selected AGN in the XMM-COSMOS field

R. Gilli, G. Zamorani, T. Miyaji +70

We study the spatial clustering of 538 X-ray selected AGN in the 2 deg^2 XMM-COSMOS field that are spectroscopically identified to I_{AB}<23 and span the redshift range z=0.2-3.0.…

astro-ph2008★ 109 cited

Gamma-ray and Radio Constraints of High Positron Rate Dark Matter Models Annihilating into New Light Particles

Lars Bergstrom, Gianfranco Bertone, Torsten Bringmann +2

The possibility of explaining the positron and electron excess recently found by the PAMELA and ATIC collaborations in terms of dark matter (DM) annihilation has attracted consider…

astro-ph2008

A New Window of Exploration in the Mass Spectrum: Strong Lensing by Galaxy Groups in the SL2S

M. Limousin, R. Cabanac, R. Gavazzi +21

The existence of strong lensing systems with Einstein radii (Re) covering the full mass spectrum, from ~1-2" (produced by galaxy scale dark matter haloes) to >10" (produced by gala…

astro-ph2008★ 59 cited

Phase-space structures II: Hierarchical Structure Finder

M. Maciejewski, S. Colombi, V. Springel +2

A new multi-dimensional Hierarchical Structure Finder (HSF) to study the phase-space structure of dark matter in N-body cosmological simulations is presented. The algorithm depends…

astro-ph2008★ 38 cited

Angular correlations in the cosmic gamma-ray background from dark matter annihilation around intermediate-mass black holes

Marco Taoso, Shin'ichiro Ando, Gianfranco Bertone +1

Dark matter (DM) annihilation could in principle contribute to the diffuse cosmic gamma-ray back- ground (CGB). While with standard assumptions for cosmological and particle physic…

astro-ph2008★ 11 cited

On the nature of faint Low Surface Brightness galaxies in the Coma cluster

C. Adami, R. Pello, M. P. Ulmer +5

This project is the continuation of our study of faint Low Surface Brightness Galaxies (fLSBs) in one of the densest nearby galaxy regions known, the Coma cluster. Our goal is to i…

astro-ph2008★ 77 cited

The Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey: A High-Resolution Spectroscopy Anthology

D. A. Dale, J. D. T. Smith, E. A. Schlawin +18

High resolution mid-infrared spectra are presented for 155 nuclear and extranuclear regions from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS). The fluxes for nine atomic for…

astro-ph2008★ 8 cited

The optical/X-ray connection: ICM iron content and galaxy optical luminosity in 20 galaxy clusters

T. F. Lagana, R. A. Dupke, L. Sodre +2

X-ray observations of galaxy clusters have shown that the intra-cluster gas has iron abundances of about one third of the solar value. These observations also show that part (if no…

astro-ph2008★ 193 cited

Photometric redshifts for the CFHTLS T0004 Deep and Wide fields

J. Coupon, O. Ilbert, M. Kilbinger +15

We compute photometric redshifts based on the template-fitting method in the fourth public release of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey. This unique multi-colour cat…

astro-ph2008★ 44 cited

Interstellar Extinction and Long-Period Variables in the Galactic Center

M. Schultheis, K. Sellgren, S. Ramirez +4

We use the Spitzer IRAC catalogue of the Galactic Center (GC) point sources (Ramirez et al. 2008) and combine it with new isochrones (Marigo et al. 2008) to derive extinctions base…

astro-ph2008★ 34 cited

Galaxy evolution in Abell 85: I. Cluster substructure and environmental effects on the blue galaxy population

H. Bravo-Alfaro, C. A. Caretta, C. Lobo +2

This series of papers explores the evolution of late-type galaxies in the rich cluster Abell 85. Here, we revisit the complex dynamical state of A 85 by using independent methods.…

astro-ph2008★ 3 cited

Missing baryons in shells around galaxy clusters

Dmitry Prokhorov

The cluster baryon fraction is estimated from the CMB-scattering leptonic component of the intracluster medium (ICM); however, the observed cluster baryon fraction is less than the…