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astro-ph2008★ 82 cited

First Results from the Lick AGN Monitoring Project: The Mass of the Black Hole in Arp 151

Misty C. Bentz, Jonelle L. Walsh, Aaron J. Barth +24

We have recently completed a 64-night spectroscopic monitoring campaign at the Lick Observatory 3-m Shane telescope with the aim of measuring the masses of the black holes in 13 ne…

astro-ph2008★ 11 cited

A Study of the X-Ray Dust Scattering Halo of Cyg X-1 with a Cross-Correlation Method

Zhixing Ling, Shuang Nan Zhang, Jingen Xiang +1

X-ray photons scattered by the interstellar medium carry information about dust distribution, dust grain model, scattering cross section, and the distance of the source; they also…

astro-ph2008★ 1 cited

Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Bulges

Yu-Qing Lou, Yan-Fei Jiang

Growing evidence indicate supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in a mass range of lurking in central stellar bulges of galaxies.Extensive observ…

astro-ph2008★ 28 cited

Cosmology-Independent Distance Moduli of 42 Gamma-Ray Bursts between Redshift of 1.44 and 6.60

Nan Liang, Shuang Nan Zhang

This report is an update and extension of our paper accepted for publication in ApJ (arXiv:0802.4262). Since objects at the same redshift should have the same luminosity distance a…

astro-ph2008★ 16 cited

Systematic Distortion in Cosmic Microwave Background Maps

Hao Liu, Ti-Pei Li

To minimize instrumentally induced systematic errors, cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy experiments measure temperature differences across the sky using paires of horn a…

astro-ph2008★ 1 cited

Rebound Shock Breakouts of Exploding Massive Stars: A MHD Void Model

Ren-Yu Hu, Yu-Qing Lou

With a self-similar magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model of an exploding progenitor star and an outgoing rebound shock and with the thermal bremsstrahlung as the major radiation mechani…