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astro-ph.GA2011★ 115 cited

Evidence for Environmental Changes in the Submillimeter Dust Opacity

Peter G. Martin, Arabindo Roy, Sylvain Bontemps +25

The submillimeter opacity of dust in the diffuse Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) has been quantified using a pixel-by-pixel correlation of images of continuum emission with a pr…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 22 cited

Spectroscopic parameters for silacyclopropynylidene, SiC, from extensive astronomical observations toward CW Leo (IRC +10216) with the Herschel satellite

H. S. P. Müller, J. Cernicharo, M. Agúndez +5

A molecular line survey has been carried out toward the carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch star CW Leo employing the HIFI instrument on board of the Herschel satellite. Numerous f…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 29 cited

Optical Spectroscopic Survey of High Latitude WISE Selected Sources

Sean E. Lake, Edward L. Wright, Sara Petty +5

We report on the results of an optical spectroscopic survey at high Galactic latitude (b\geq30°) of a sample of WISE-selected targets, grouped by WISE W1 (λ_eff = 3.4 \mum) flux, w…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 21 cited

Non-Equilibrium Chemistry of Dynamically Evolving Prestellar Cores: II. Ionization and Magnetic Field

Konstantinos Tassis, Karen Willacy, Harold W. Yorke +1

We study the effect that non-equilibrium chemistry in dynamical models of collapsing molecular cloud cores has on measurements of the magnetic field in these cores, the degree of i…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 32 cited

Non-Equilibrium Chemistry of Dynamically Evolving Prestellar Cores: I. Basic Magnetic and Non-Magnetic Models and Parameter Studies

Konstantinos Tassis, Karen Willacy, Harold W. Yorke +1

We combine dynamical and non-equilibrium chemical modeling of evolving prestellar molecular cloud cores, and explore the evolution of molecular abundances in the contracting core.…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 14 cited

Analysis of WMAP 7-year Temperature Data: Astrophysics of the Galactic Haze

Davide Pietrobon, Krzysztof M. Gorski, James Bartlett +10

We analyse WMAP 7-year temperature data, jointly modeling the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Galactic foreground emission. We use the Commander code based on Gibbs sampling.…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 266 cited

The Magellanic Mopra Assessment (MAGMA). I. The Molecular Cloud Population of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Tony Wong, Annie Hughes, Jürgen Ott +15

We present the properties of an extensive sample of molecular clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) mapped at 11 pc resolution in the CO(1-0) line. We identify clouds as regio…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 31 cited

Multi-Epoch Observations of HD69830: High Resolution Spectroscopy and Limits to Variability

C. A. Beichman, C. M. Lisse, A. M. Tanner +7

The main-sequence solar-type star HD69830 has an unusually large amount of dusty debris orbiting close to three planets found via the radial velocity technique. In order to explore…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 20 cited

Jets and Wide Angle Outflows in Cepheus E: New Evidence from Spitzer

T. Velusamy, W. D. Langer, M. S. N. Kumar +1

In some protostellar objects both wide angle outflows and collimated jets are seen, while in others only one is observed. Spitzer provides unprecedented sensitivity in the infrared…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 48 cited

Herschel/HIFI Observations of Hydrogen Fluoride Toward Sagittarius B2(M)

R. R. Monje, M. Emprechtinger, T. G. Phillips +6

Herschel/HIFI observations have revealed the presence of widespread absorption by hydrogen fluoride (HF) J = 1-0 rotational transition, toward a number of Galactic sources. We pres…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 22 cited

Statistical Studies of Giant Pulse Emission from the Crab Pulsar

Walid A. Majid, Charles J. Naudet, Stephen T. Lowe +1

We have observed the Crab pulsar with the Deep Space Network (DSN) Goldstone 70 m antenna at 1664 MHz during three observing epochs for a total of 4 hours. Our data analysis has de…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 43 cited

Spitzer characterisation of dust in an anomalous emission region: the Perseus cloud

C. T. Tibbs, N. Flagey, R. Paladini +12

Anomalous microwave emission is known to exist in the Perseus cloud. One of the most promising candidates to explain this excess of emission is electric dipole radiation from rapid…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 170 cited

Herschel Measurements of Molecular Oxygen in Orion

Paul F. Goldsmith, Rene Liseau, Tom A. Bell +31

We report observations of three rotational transitions of molecular oxygen (O2) in emission from the H2 Peak 1 position of vibrationally excited molecular hydrogen in Orion. We obs…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 163 cited

The Magnetic Field in Taurus Probed by Infrared Polarization

Nicholas L. Chapman, Paul F. Goldsmith, Jorge L. Pineda +3

We present maps of the plane-of-sky magnetic field within two regions of the Taurus molecular cloud: one in the dense core L1495/B213 filament, the other in a diffuse region to the…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 8 cited

Volume Density Thresholds for Overall Star Formation imply Mass-Size Thresholds for Massive Star Formation

Genevieve Parmentier, Jens Kauffmann, Thushara Pillai +1

We aim at understanding the massive star formation (MSF) limit in the mass-size space of molecular structures recently proposed by Kauffmann &…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 23 cited

SWIFT Observations of the Arp 147 Ring galaxy system

Lisa Fogarty, Niranjan Thatte, Matthias Tecza +6

We present observations of Arp 147, a galaxy system comprising a collisionally-created ring galaxy and an early-type galaxy, using the Oxford SWIFT integral field spectrograph (IFS…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 160 cited

The RMS Survey: Critical Tests of Accretion Models for the Formation of Massive Stars

Ben Davies, Melvin G. Hoare, Stuart L. Lumsden +5

There is currently no accepted theoretical framework for the formation of the most massive stars, and the manner in which protostars continue to accrete and grow in mass beyond \si…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 2 cited

A New Recipe for Obtaining Central Volume Densities of Prestellar Cores from Size Measurements

Konstantinos Tassis, Harold W. Yorke

We propose a simple analytical method for estimating the central volume density of prestellar molecular cloud cores from their column density profiles. Prestellar cores feature a f…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 163 cited

Probing the initial conditions of high-mass star formation. II. Fragmentation, stability, and chemistry

T. Pillai, J. Kauffmann, F. Wyrowski +3

We present a new high-resolution study of pre-protocluster regions in tracers exclusively probing the coldest and dense gas (NH_2D). The data are used to constrain the chemical, th…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 9 cited

An Arecibo Search for Pulsars and Transient Sources in M33

N. D. R. Bhat, J. M. Cordes, P. J. Cox +4

We report on a systematic and sensitive search for pulsars and transient sources in the nearby spiral galaxy M33, conducted at 1.4 GHz with the Arecibo telescope's seven-beam recei…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 29 cited

The Physical Properties of High-Mass Star-Forming Clumps: A Systematic Comparison of Molecular Tracers

Megan Reiter, Yancy Shirley, Jingwen Wu +3

We present observations of HCO+ and H^13CO+, N2H+, HCS+, HCN and HN^13C, SO and ^34SO, CCH, SO_2, and CH_3OH-E towards a sample of 27 high-mass clumps coincident with water maser e…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 69 cited

Magnetic Field Structure around Low-Mass Class 0 Protostars: B335, L1527 and IC348-SMM2

J. A. Davidson, G. Novak, T. G. Matthews +6

We report new 350 micron polarization observations of the thermal dust emission from the cores surrounding the low-mass, Class 0 YSOs L1527, IC348-SMM2 and B335. We have inferred m…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 25 cited

A Millimeter-Wave Galactic Plane Survey With The BICEP Polarimeter

E. M. Bierman, T. Matsumura, C. D. Dowell +26

In addition to its potential to probe the Inflationary cosmological paradigm, millimeter-wave polarimetry is a powerful tool for studying the Milky Way galaxy's composition and mag…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 117 cited

Clustering of obscured and unobscured quasars in the Bootes field: Placing rapidly growing black holes in the cosmic web

Ryan C. Hickox, Adam D. Myers, Mark Brodwin +18

We present the first measurement of the spatial clustering of mid-infrared selected obscured and unobscured quasars, using a sample in the redshift range 0.7 < z < 1.8 selected fro…