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astro-ph2006★ 13 cited

A WENO Algorithm of the Temperature and Ionization Profiles around a Point Source

Jing-Mei Qiu, Long-Long Feng, Chi-Wang Shu +1

We develop a numerical solver for radiative transfer problems based on the weighted essentially nonoscillatory (WENO) scheme modified with anti-diffusive flux corrections, in order…

astro-ph2006★ 5 cited

Spectral Methods for Time-Dependent Studies of Accretion Flows. III. Three-Dimensional, Self-gravitating, Magnetohydrodynamic Disks

Chi-kwan Chan, Dimitrios Psaltis, Feryal Ozel

Accretion disks are three-dimensional, turbulent, often self-gravitating, magnetohydrodynamic flows, which can be modeled in detail with numerical simulations. In this paper, we pr…

astro-ph2006★ 110 cited

Proper Motions of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging. V: Final Measurement for Fornax

Slawomir Piatek, Carlton Pryor, Paul Bristow +5

The measured proper motion of Fornax, expressed in the equatorial coordinate system, is mas century. This proper motion is a weighted…

astro-ph2006★ 60 cited

Uncertainties in Supernova Yields I: 1D Explosions

Patrick A. Young, Chris L. Fryer

Theoretical nucleosynthetic yields from supernovae are sensitive to both the details of the progenitor star and the explosion calculation. We attempt to comprehensively identify th…

astro-ph2006★ 41 cited

MV Lyrae in Low, Intermediate, and High States

Albert P. Linnell, Paula Szkody, Boris Gansicke +4

We use analysis results from a low state of the VY Sculptoris system MV Lyrae, considered in an earlier paper (Hoard et al., 2004, ApJ, 604, 346), to study archival IUE spectra tak…

astro-ph2006★ 15 cited

An Illustration of Modeling Cataclysmic Variables: HST, FUSE, SDSS Spectra of SDSSJ080908.39+381406.2

Albert P. Linnell, D. W. Hoard, Paula Szkody +4

We use FUSE, HST, and SDSS spectra of the cataclysmic variable SDSSJ0809 to illustrate procedures for calculating and testing system models. Our final model has an accretion disk t…

cond-mat.other2006★ 77 cited

Rabi Oscillations at Exceptional Points in Microwave Billiards

B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, J. Metz +4

We experimentally investigated the decay behavior with time t of resonances near and at exceptional points, where two complex eigenvalues and also the associated eigenfunctions coa…

astro-ph2006★ 29 cited

Constraints on Braneworld Gravity Models from a Kinematic Limit on the Age of the Black Hole XTE J1118+480

Dimitrios Psaltis

In braneworld gravity models with a finite AdS curvature in the extra dimension, the AdS/CFT correspondence leads to a prediction for the lifetime of astrophysical black holes that…

astro-ph2006★ 58 cited

Searching for hidden Wolf-Rayet stars in the Galactic Plane - 15 new Wolf-Rayet stars

L. J. Hadfield, S. D. Van Dyk, P. W. Morris +3

We report the discovery of fifteen previously unknown Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars found as part of an infrared broad-band study of candidate WR stars in the Galaxy. We have derived an em…

astro-ph2006★ 20 cited

Hardness-Intensity Correlations in Magnetar Afterglows

Feryal Ozel, Tolga Guver

We explore the hardness-intensity correlations observed in several AXPs and SGRs within the framework of a thermally emitting magnetar model. Using our detailed atmosphere models a…

astro-ph2006★ 1.8k cited

New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae at z > 1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy

Adam G. Riess, Louis-Gregory Strolger, Stefano Casertano +18

We have discovered 21 new Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and have used them to trace the history of cosmic expansion over the last 10 billion yea…

astro-ph2006★ 50 cited

Early Ultraviolet, Optical and X-Ray Observations of the Type IIP SN 2005cs in M51 with Swift

Peter J. Brown, Luc Dessart, Stephen T. Holland +14

We report early photospheric-phase observations of the Type IIP Supernova (SN) 2005cs obtained by Swift's Ultraviolet-Optical and X-Ray Telescopes. Observations started within two…

astro-ph2006★ 73 cited

Multi-Dimensional Explorations in Supernova Theory

Adam Burrows, Luc Dessart, Christian D. Ott +1

In this paper, we bring together various of our published and unpublished findings from our recent 2D multi-group, flux-limited radiation hydrodynamic simulations of the collapse a…

hep-ex2006★ 16 cited

Measurement of the ppbar to ttbar production cross section at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV in the fully hadronic decay channel

D0 Collaboration, V. Abazov

A measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in proton anti-proton collisions at an interaction energy of sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV is presented. This analysis uses 405 pb-1…

astro-ph2006★ 33 cited

Observations of Herbig Ae Disks with Nulling Interferometry

W. M. Liu, P. M. Hinz, M. R. Meyer +5

We present the results of 10 micron nulling interferometric observations of 13 Herbig Ae stars using the Magellan I (Baade) and the MMT 6.5 m telescopes. A portion of the observati…

astro-ph2006★ 111 cited

The XMM-Newton wide-field survey in the COSMOS field. IV: X-ray spectral properties of Active Galactic Nuclei

V. Mainieri, G. Hasinger, N. Cappelluti +25

We present a detailed spectral analysis of point-like X-ray sources in the XMM-COSMOS field. Our sample of 135 sources only includes those that have more than 100 net counts in the…

astro-ph2006★ 315 cited

The XMM-Newton wide-field survey in the COSMOS field: VI. Statistical properties of clusters of galaxies

A. Finoguenov, L. Guzzo, G. Hasinger +30

We present the results of a search for galaxy clusters in the first 36 XMM-Newton pointings on the COSMOS field. We reach a depth for a total cluster flux in the 0.5-2 keV band of…

astro-ph2006★ 175 cited

The XMM-Newton wide-field survey in the COSMOS field: III. optical identification and multiwavelength properties of a large sample of X-ray selected sources

M. Brusa, G. Zamorani, A. Comastri +31

[ABRIGED] We present the optical identification of a sample of 695 X-ray sources detected in the first 1.3 deg^2 of the XMM-COSMOS survey, down to a 0.5-2 keV (2-10 keV) limiting f…

astro-ph2006★ 27 cited

The stellar content of the COSMOS field as derived from morphological and SED based gtar/galaxy Separation

A. C. Robin, R. M. Rich, H. Aussel +12

We report on the stellar content of the COSMOS two degree field, as derived from a rigorous star/galaxy separation approach developed for using stellar sources to define the point…

astro-ph2006★ 9 cited

A Potential Galaxy Threshing System in the Cosmos Field

S. S. Sasaki, Y. Taniguchi, N. Scoville +26

We report on the discovery of a new potential galaxy threshing system in the COSMOS 2 square degree field using the prime-focus camera, Suprime-Cam, on the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope.…

astro-ph2006★ 151 cited

Photometric Redshifts of Galaxies in COSMOS

B. Mobasher, P. Capak, N. Z. Scoville +26

We measure photometric redshifts and spectral types for galaxies in the COSMOS survey. We use template fitting technique combined with luminosity function priors and with the optio…

astro-ph2006

Detecting Obscured AGN in the Distant Universe with Spitzer

J. L. Donley, G. H. Rieke, P. G. Perez-Gonzalez +2

We present the results of a Spitzer search for obscured AGN in the Chandra Deep Field-North, using both radio-excess and mid-infrared power-law selection. AGN selected via the form…

astro-ph2006★ 67 cited

Assessing the massive young Sun hypothesis to solve the warm young Earth puzzle

David A. Minton, Renu Malhotra

A moderately massive early Sun has been proposed to resolve the so-called faint early Sun paradox. We calculate the time-evolution of the solar mass that would be required by this…

astro-ph2006★ 318 cited

The VLA-COSMOS Survey: II. Source Catalog of the Large Project

E. Schinnerer, V. Smolcic, C. L. Carilli +11

The VLA-COSMOS large project is described and its scientific objective is discussed. We present a catalog of ~ 3,600 radio sources found in the 2deg^2 COSMOS field at 1.4 GHz. The…