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most citedThe Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

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astro-ph2007★ 233 cited

The Complete Census of 70-um-Bright Debris Disks within the FEPS (Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems) Spitzer Legacy Survey of Sun-like Stars

Lynne A. Hillenbrand, John M. Carpenter, Jinyoung Serena Kim +7

(abbreviated) We report detection with the Spitzer Space Telescope of cool dust surrounding solar type stars. The observations were performed as part of the Legacy Science Program,…

astro-ph2007★ 109 cited

Evolution of Mid-IR Excess Around Sun-like Stars: Constraints on Models of Terrestrial Planet Formation

M. R. Meyer, J. M. Carpenter, E. E. Mamajek +11

We report observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) regarding the frequency of 24 micron excess emission toward sun-like stars. Our unbiased sample is comprised of 309 st…

astro-ph2007★ 333 cited

Atmospheric Parameters of Field L and T Dwarfs

Michael C. Cushing, Mark S. Marley, D. Saumon +6

We present an analysis of the 0.95-14.5 micron spectral energy distributions of nine field ultracool dwarfs with spectral types ranging from L1 to T4.5. Effective temperatures, gra…

astro-ph2007★ 817 cited

A Unified Theory for the Atmospheres of the Hot and Very Hot Jupiters: Two Classes of Irradiated Atmospheres

Jonathan J. Fortney, Katharina Lodders, Mark S. Marley +1

We highlight the importance of gaseous TiO and VO opacity on the highly irradiated close-in giant planets. The atmospheres of these planets naturally fall into two classes that are…

astro-ph2007★ 73 cited

New determination of the size and bulk density of the binary asteroid 22 Kalliope from observations of mutual eclipses

P. Descamps, F. Marchis, J. Pollock +16

In 2007, the M-type binary asteroid 22 Kalliope reached one of its annual equinoxes. As a consequence, the orbit plane of its small moon, Linus, was aligned closely to the Sun's li…

astro-ph2007★ 21 cited

NICMOS Observations of Shocked H_2 in Orion

Sean W. J. Colgan, A. S. B. Schultz, M. J. Kaufman +2

HST NICMOS narrowband images of the shocked molecular hydrogen emission in OMC-1 are analyzed to reveal new information on the BN/KL outflow. The outstanding morphological feature…