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most citedThe Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

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astro-ph2008★ 5 cited

Variable Intrinsic Absorption in Mrk 279

Jennifer E. Scott, Nahum Arav, Jack R. Gabel +5

We examine the variability in the intrinsic absorption in the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 279 using three epochs of observations from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) and…

astro-ph2008★ 5.4k cited

The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

K. Abazajian

This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDS…

astro-ph2008★ 43 cited

Astrometry with the Keck-Interferometer: the ASTRA project and its science

Jorg-Uwe Pott, Julien Woillez, Rachel L. Akeson +22

The sensitivity and astrometry upgrade ASTRA of the Keck Interferometer is introduced. After a brief overview of the underlying interferometric principles, the technology and conce…

astro-ph2008★ 1 cited

Swift monitoring of Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients: the out-of-outburst behaviour and the flares from IGRJ17544-2916 and XTEJ1739-302

L. Sidoli, P. Romano, G. Cusumano +10

Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (SFXTs) are a sub-class of High Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) associated with OB supergiant companions and displaying transient X-ray activity. This…

astro-ph2008★ 8 cited

A QSO plus host system lensed into a 6" Einstein ring by a low redshift galaxy

Kajal K Ghosh, D. Narasimha

We report the serendipitous discovery of an "Einstein Ring" in the optical band from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data and associated four images of a background source. The…

astro-ph2008★ 82 cited

A Young Planet Search in Visible and IR Light: DN Tau, V836 Tau, and V827 Tau

L. Prato, M. Huerta, C. M. Johns-Krull +3

In searches for low-mass companions to late-type stars, correlation between radial velocity variations and line bisector slope changes indicates contamination by large starspots. T…