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most citedThe Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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astro-ph2003★ 79 cited

Massive Field Stars and the Stellar Clustering Law

M. S. Oey, N. L. King, J. Wm. Parker

The distribution of N*, the number of OB stars per association or cluster, appears to follow a universal power-law form in the local Universe. We evaluate the distributio…

astro-ph2003★ 88 cited

Intergalactic HII Regions Discovered in SINGG

E. V. Ryan-Weber, G. R. Meurer, K. C. Freeman +3

A number of very small isolated HII regions have been discovered at projected distances up to 30 kpc from their nearest galaxy. These HII regions appear as tiny emission line objec…

astro-ph2003★ 31 cited

Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectroscopy of Star-Forming Galaxies

Daniel A. Dale, Helene Roussel, Alessandra Contursi +9

The Palomar Integral Field Spectrograph was used to probe a variety of environments in nine nearby galaxies that span a range of morphological types, luminosities, metallicities, a…

astro-ph2003★ 24 cited

The Ofpe/WN9 stars in M33

Luciana Bianchi, Ralph Bohlin, Philip Massey

We present HST/STIS Ultraviolet spectra of the six known Ofpe/WN9 stars (``slash stars'') in M33. These stars were selected for showing the characteristics of the Ofpe/WN9 class fr…

astro-ph2003★ 180 cited

The Evolution of Massive Stars. I. Red Supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds

Philip Massey, K. A. G. Olsen

We investigate the red supergiant (RSG) content of the SMC and LMC using multi-object spectroscopy on a sample of red stars previously identified by {\it BVR} CCD photometry. We ob…

astro-ph2003★ 14 cited

Procedures, Resources, and Selected Results of the Deep Ecliptic Survey

M. W. Buie, R. L. Millis, L. H. Wasserman +8

The Deep Ecliptic Survey is a project whose goal is to survey a large area of the near-ecliptic region to a faint limiting magnitude (R ~ 24) in search of objects in the outer sola…