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most citedObservational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant

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astro-ph2006★ 16 cited

Radio and millimeter properties of Ly emitters in the COSMOS field: limits on radio AGN, submm galaxies, and dust obscuration

C. L. Carilli, T. Murayam, R. Wang +12

We present observations at 1.4 and 250 GHz of the Ly emitters (LAE) in the COSMOS field found by Murayama et al.. At 1.4 GHz there are 99 LAEs in the lower noise reg…

astro-ph2006★ 1 cited

Were most Low Mass X ray Binaries born in Globular Clusters?

Francesca D'Antona, Anamaria Teodorescu, Paolo Ventura

We summarize the status of art of the secular evolution of low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) and take a close look at the orbital period distribution of LMXBs and of binary milliseco…

astro-ph2006★ 1.8k cited

New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae at z > 1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy

Adam G. Riess, Louis-Gregory Strolger, Stefano Casertano +18

We have discovered 21 new Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and have used them to trace the history of cosmic expansion over the last 10 billion yea…

astro-ph2006★ 6 cited

Determining the Type, Redshift, and Phase of a Supernova Spectrum

Stéphane Blondin, John L. Tonry

We present an algorithm to identify the types of supernova spectra, and determine their redshift and phase. This algorithm, based on the correlation techniques of Tonry & Davis, is…

astro-ph2006★ 111 cited

The XMM-Newton wide-field survey in the COSMOS field. IV: X-ray spectral properties of Active Galactic Nuclei

V. Mainieri, G. Hasinger, N. Cappelluti +25

We present a detailed spectral analysis of point-like X-ray sources in the XMM-COSMOS field. Our sample of 135 sources only includes those that have more than 100 net counts in the…

astro-ph2006★ 315 cited

The XMM-Newton wide-field survey in the COSMOS field: VI. Statistical properties of clusters of galaxies

A. Finoguenov, L. Guzzo, G. Hasinger +30

We present the results of a search for galaxy clusters in the first 36 XMM-Newton pointings on the COSMOS field. We reach a depth for a total cluster flux in the 0.5-2 keV band of…

astro-ph2006★ 175 cited

The XMM-Newton wide-field survey in the COSMOS field: III. optical identification and multiwavelength properties of a large sample of X-ray selected sources

M. Brusa, G. Zamorani, A. Comastri +31

[ABRIGED] We present the optical identification of a sample of 695 X-ray sources detected in the first 1.3 deg^2 of the XMM-COSMOS survey, down to a 0.5-2 keV (2-10 keV) limiting f…

astro-ph2006★ 27 cited

The stellar content of the COSMOS field as derived from morphological and SED based gtar/galaxy Separation

A. C. Robin, R. M. Rich, H. Aussel +12

We report on the stellar content of the COSMOS two degree field, as derived from a rigorous star/galaxy separation approach developed for using stellar sources to define the point…

astro-ph2006★ 9 cited

A Potential Galaxy Threshing System in the Cosmos Field

S. S. Sasaki, Y. Taniguchi, N. Scoville +26

We report on the discovery of a new potential galaxy threshing system in the COSMOS 2 square degree field using the prime-focus camera, Suprime-Cam, on the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope.…

astro-ph2006★ 151 cited

Photometric Redshifts of Galaxies in COSMOS

B. Mobasher, P. Capak, N. Z. Scoville +26

We measure photometric redshifts and spectral types for galaxies in the COSMOS survey. We use template fitting technique combined with luminosity function priors and with the optio…

astro-ph2006★ 318 cited

The VLA-COSMOS Survey: II. Source Catalog of the Large Project

E. Schinnerer, V. Smolcic, C. L. Carilli +11

The VLA-COSMOS large project is described and its scientific objective is discussed. We present a catalog of ~ 3,600 radio sources found in the 2deg^2 COSMOS field at 1.4 GHz. The…

astro-ph2006★ 353 cited

The XMM-Newton wide-field survey in the COSMOS field: I. Survey description

G. Hasinger, N. Cappelluti, H. Brunner +21

We present the first set of XMM-Newton EPIC observations in the 2 square degree COSMOS field. The strength of the COSMOS project is the unprecedented combination of a large solid a…

astro-ph2006★ 2k cited

The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) -- Overview

N. Scoville, H. Aussel, M. Brusa +19

The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) is designed to probe the correlated evolution of galaxies, star formation, active galactic nuclei (AGN) and dark matter (DM) with large-scale s…

astro-ph2006★ 367 cited

The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS): Subaru Observations of the HST COSMOS Field

Y. Taniguchi, N. Scoville, T. Murayama +27

We present deep optical imaging observations of 2 square degree area, covered by the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS), made by the prime-focus Camera (Supreme-Cam) on the 8.2m Suba…

astro-ph2006★ 1k cited

zCOSMOS: A Large VLT/VIMOS redshift survey covering 0 < z < 3 in the COSMOS field

S. J. Lilly, O. Le Fevre, A. Renzini +42

zCOSMOS is a large redshift survey that is being undertaken in the COSMOS field using 600 hours of observation with the VIMOS spectrograph on the 8-m VLT. The survey is designed to…

astro-ph2006★ 142 cited

Densities of Solar System Objects from their Rotational Lightcurves

Pedro Lacerda, David Jewitt

We present models of the shapes of four Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) and Jovian Trojan (624) Hektor as ellipsoidal figures of equilibrium and Roche binaries. Our simulations select t…

astro-ph2006★ 149 cited

Warm Gas in the Inner Disks around Young Intermediate Mass Stars

Sean Brittain, Theodore Simon, Joan Najita +1

The characterization of gas in the inner disks around young stars is of particular interest because of its connection to planet formation. In order to study the gas in inner disks,…

astro-ph2006★ 175 cited

Large Structures and Galaxy Evolution in COSMOS at z < 1.1

N. Scoville, H. Aussel, A. Benson +25

We present the first identification of large-scale structures (LSS) at z in the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS). The structures are identified from adaptive smoothing of g…

astro-ph2006★ 510 cited

COSMOS : Hubble Space Telescope Observations

N. Scoville, A. Benson, A. W. Blain +50

The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) was initiated with an extensive allocation (590 orbits in Cycles 12-13) using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) for high resolution imaging. Her…

astro-ph2006★ 304 cited

Combining Strong and Weak Gravitational Lensing in Abell 1689

M. Limousin, J. Richard, E. Jullo +14

We present a reconstruction of the mass distribution of galaxy cluster Abell 1689 at z = 0.18 using detected strong lensing features from deep HST/ACS observations and extensive gr…

astro-ph2006★ 1 cited

A Survey for Supernovae in Massive High-Redshift Clusters

Keren Sharon, A. Gal-Yam, D. Maoz +12

We describe our ongoing program designed to measure the SN-Ia rate in a sample of massive z=0.5-0.9 galaxy clusters. The SN-Ia rate is a poorly known observable, especially at high…

astro-ph2006★ 35 cited

Diffraction-limited 3 um Spectroscopy of IRAS 04296+3429 and IRAS 05341+0852: Spatial Extent of Hydrocarbon Dust Emission and Dust Evolutionary Sequence

M. Goto, Sun Kwok, H. Takami +15

We present 3 um spectroscopy of the carbon-rich proto-planetary nebulae IRAS 04296+3429 and IRAS 05341+0852 conducted with the adaptive optics system at the Subaru Telescope. We ut…

astro-ph2006★ 32 cited

The Progenitors of Planetary Nebulae in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies

Michael G. Richer, Marshall L. McCall

We present chemical abundances for planetary nebulae and H II regions in the Local Group dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822 based upon spectroscopy obtained at the Canada-France-Hawai…

astro-ph2006★ 42 cited

Robust quantitative measures of cluster X-ray morphology, and comparisons between cluster characteristics

Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Hans Boehringer, J. Patrick Henry +2

To investigate the relationships between dynamical status and other important characteristics of galaxy clusters, we conducted a study of X-ray cluster morphology using a sample of…