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astro-ph2005★ 326 cited

Spitzer Observations of Massive Red Galaxies at High Redshift

Casey Papovich, L. A. Moustakas, M. Dickinson +18

We investigate the properties of massive galaxies at z=1-3.5 using HST observations, ground-based near-IR imaging, and Spitzer Space Telescope observations at 3-24 micron. We ident…

astro-ph2005★ 2 cited

CSL-1: Lensing by a Cosmic String or a Dark Matter Filament?

Malcolm Fairbairn

The lens candidate CSL-1 has been interpreted as evidence for a cosmic string. Here we test the hypothesis that the lensing comes from a tidally disrupted dark matter halo. We calc…

astro-ph2005★ 90 cited

Supernova limits on brane world cosmology

Malcolm Fairbairn, Ariel Goobar

By combining the first year data from the Supernova Legacy Survey (SN LS) and the recent detection of the baryon acoustic peak in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data, we are able to…

astro-ph2005★ 2.4k cited

The Supernova Legacy Survey: Measurement of Omega_M, Omega_Lambda and w from the First Year Data Set

P. Astier, J. Guy, N. Regnault +39

We present distance measurements to 71 high redshift type Ia supernovae discovered during the first year of the 5-year Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS). These events were detected an…

astro-ph2005★ 24 cited

Star--forming galaxies at intermediate redshifts: morphology, ages and sizes

Duilia. F. de Mello, Y. Wadadekar, T. Dahlen +2

We present the analysis of the deepest near-UV image obtained with HST using the WFPC2(F300W) as part of the parallel observations of the Ultra Deep Field campaign. The U-band 10si…

astro-ph2005★ 26 cited

The host galaxy cluster of the short gamma-ray burst GRB 050509B

K. Pedersen, A. Eliasdottir, J. Hjorth +7

The first arcsecond localization of a short gamma-ray burst, GRB 050509B, has enabled detailed studies of a short burst environment. We here report on studies of the environment of…

astro-ph2005★ 288 cited

The optical afterglow of the short gamma-ray burst GRB 050709

Jens Hjorth, Darach Watson, Johan P. U. Fynbo +9

It has long been known that there are two classes of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), mainly distinguished by their durations. The breakthrough in our understanding of long-duration GRBs (…

astro-ph2005★ 1 cited

Supernova Cosmology and the ESSENCE project

Jesper Sollerman, Claudio Aguilera, Andy Becker +27

The proper usage of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as distance indicators has revolutionized cosmology, and added a new dominant component to the energy density of the Universe, dark…

astro-ph2005★ 10 cited

Strong lensing, cosmology and lensing halos

Edvard Mortsell, Christoffer Sunesson

With future wide and deep cosmological sky surveys, a large number of gravitationally lensed, multiply imaged systems will be found. In addition to multiply imaged galaxies and qua…

astro-ph2005★ 5 cited

Odin detection of O2

R. Liseau, the Odin Team

We present the detection of molecular oxygen with Odin toward the dense molecular core rho Oph A, which is part of a region of active star formation. The observed spectral line is…

astro-ph2005★ 150 cited

Radio and X-Ray Emission as Probes of Type IIP Supernovae and Red Supergiant Mass Loss

Roger A. Chevalier, Claes Fransson, Tanja K. Nymark

Type IIP (plateau) supernovae are thought to come from stars with initial mass about 8-25 solar masses that end their lives as red supergiants. The expected stellar end points can…

astro-ph2005★ 57 cited

Spectra of High-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae and a Comparison with their Low-Redshift Counterparts

I. M. Hook, D. A. Howell, G. Aldering +32

We present spectra for 14 high-redshift (0.17 < z < 0.83) supernovae, which were discovered by the Supernova Cosmology Project as part of a campaign to measure cosmological paramet…

astro-ph2005★ 14 cited

Looking at quasars through galaxies

L. Ostman, A. Goobar, E. Mortsell

Observations of quasars (QSOs) shining through or close to galaxies offer a way to probe the properties of the foreground matter through dust extinction and gravitational lensing.…

astro-ph2005★ 61 cited

Limits to the muon flux from neutralino annihilations in the Sun with the AMANDA detector

The AMANDA collaboration, M. Ackermann

A search for an excess of muon-neutrinos from neutralino annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the AMANDA-II neutrino detector using data collected in 143.7 days of live…

astro-ph2005★ 139 cited

GRB 050509B: Constraints on short gamma-ray burst models

J. Hjorth, J. Sollerman, J. Gorosabel +19

We have obtained deep optical images with the Very Large Telescope at ESO of the first well-localized short-duration gamma-ray burst, GRB 050509B. From V and R imaging, initiated ~…

astro-ph2005★ 15 cited

Spectroscopy of twelve Type Ia supernovae at intermediate redshift

C. Balland, M. Mouchet, R. Pain +15

We present spectra of twelve Type Ia supernovae obtained in 1999 at the William Herschel Telescope and the Nordic Optical Telescope during a search for Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) a…

astro-ph2005★ 41 cited

Spectroscopic Observations and Analysis of the Unusual Type Ia SN 1999ac

The Supernova Cosmology Project, :, G. Garavini +55

We present optical spectra of the peculiar Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 1999ac. The data extend from -15 to +42 days with respect to B-band maximum and reveal an event that is unusual…

astro-ph2005★ 23 cited

Smoothed Particle Inference: A Kilo-Parametric Method for X-ray Galaxy Cluster Modeling

J. R. Peterson, P. J. Marshall, K. Andersson

We propose an ambitious new method that models the intracluster medium in clusters of galaxies as a set of X-ray emitting smoothed particles of plasma. Each smoothed particle is de…

astro-ph2005★ 81 cited

Direct reconstruction of the quintessence potential

Martin Sahlén, Andrew R. Liddle, David Parkinson

We describe an algorithm which directly determines the quintessence potential from observational data, without using an equation of state parametrisation. The strategy is to numeri…

astro-ph2005★ 126 cited

On the nature of nearby GRB/SN host galaxies

J. Sollerman, G. Ostlin, J. P. U. Fynbo +3

We present and discuss optical diagnostics of the low redshift (z<0.2) galaxies that are known to have hosted supernovae associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The three galaxies…

astro-ph2005★ 37 cited

Lensing magnification of supernovae in the GOODS-fields

Jakob Jonsson, Tomas Dahlen, Ariel Goobar +3

Gravitational lensing of high-redshift supernovae is potentially an important source of uncertainty when deriving cosmological parameters from the measured brightness of Type Ia su…

astro-ph2005★ 38 cited

Corrections for gravitational lensing of supernovae: better than average?

Christofer Gunnarsson, Tomas Dahlen, Ariel Goobar +2

We investigate the possibility of correcting for the magnification due to gravitational lensing of standard candle sources, such as Type Ia supernovae. Our method uses the observed…

astro-ph2005★ 28 cited

High-energetic Cosmic Antiprotons from Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter

Torsten Bringmann

The lightest Kaluza-Klein particle (LKP) in models with universal extra dimensions is an interesting dark matter candidate that has recently received great attention. Here, we inve…

astro-ph2005★ 17 cited

A large spin-up rate measured with INTEGRAL in the High Mass X-ray Binary Pulsar SAXJ2103.5+4545

L. Sidoli, S. Mereghetti, S. Larsson +7

The High Mass X-ray Binary Pulsar SAXJ2103.5+4545 has been observed with INTEGRAL several times during the last outburst in 2002-2004. We report a comprehensive study of all INTEGR…