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astro-ph2008★ 20 cited

Performance of the Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer with Photoconductive Detector Arrays: An Application for the AKARI Far-Infrared Instrument

Mitsunobu Kawada, Hidenori Takahashi, Noriko Murakami +10

We have developed an imaging Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) for space-based far-infrared astronomical observations. The FTS employs a newly developed photoconductive detector…

astro-ph2008★ 52 cited

AKARI IRC survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud: Outline of the survey and initial results

Yoshifusa Ita, Takashi Onaka, Daisuke Kato +13

We observed an area of 10 deg^2 of the Large Magellanic Cloud using the Infrared Camera on board AKARI. The observations were carried out using five imaging filters (3, 7, 11, 15,…

astro-ph2008★ 50 cited

Suzaku Observations of Tycho's Supernova Remnant

T. Tamagawa, A. Hayato, S. Nakamura +19

Tycho's supernova remnant was observed by the XIS and HXD instruments onboard the Suzaku satellite on 2006 June 26-29 for 92 ks. The spectrum up to 30 keV was well fitted with a tw…

astro-ph2008★ 11 cited

Si and Fe depletion in Galactic star-forming regions observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope

Yoko Okada, Takashi Onaka, Takashi Miyata +4

We report the results of the mid-infrared spectroscopy of 14 Galactic star-forming regions with the high-resolution modules of the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on board the Spitzer…

astro-ph2008★ 21 cited

Enrichment of lead (Pb) in the Galactic halo

Wako Aoki, Satoshi Honda

We have determined lead (Pb) abundances for twelve red giants having [Fe/H] between -2.1 and -1.3, and its upper-limits for two lower metallicity objects, as well as the abundances…

astro-ph2008★ 47 cited

An extended star cluster at the outer edge of the spiral galaxy M33

Rima Stonkute, Vladas Vansevicius, Nobuo Arimoto +6

We report a discovery of an extended globular-like star cluster, M33-EC1, at the outer edge of the spiral galaxy M33. The distance to the cluster is 890 kpc, and it lies at a 12.5…