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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★ 23 cited

Tentative detection of the gravitational magnification of type Ia supernovae

Jakob Jonsson, Tomas Dahlen, Ariel Goobar +2

The flux from distant type Ia supernovae (SN) is likely to be amplified or de-amplified by gravitational lensing due to matter distributions along the line-of-sight. A gravitationa…

astro-ph2006★ 13 cited

Application of an XMM-Newton EPIC Monte Carlo Technique to Analysis and Interpretation of Data for the Abell 1689, RX J0658-55 and Centaurus clusters of galaxies

K. E. Andersson, J. R. Peterson, G. M. Madejski

We propose a new Monte Carlo method to study extended X-ray sources with the European Photon Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard {\sl XMM-Newton}. The smoothed particle inference (SPI) te…

astro-ph2006★ 1 cited

Dark Matter on the Smallest Scales

E. R. Siegel, G. D'Amico, E. Di Napoli +5

This work investigates the dark matters structures that form on the smallest cosmological scales. We find that the types and abundances of structures which form at approximately Ea…

astro-ph2006★ 5 cited

The Peculiar Type Ia Supernova 2005hk

V. Stanishev, S. Taubenberger, G. Blanc +15

We present a preliminary analysis of an extensive set of optical observations of the Type Ia SN 2005hk. We show that the evolution of SN 2005hk closely follows that of the peculiar…

astro-ph2006★ 21 cited

Tuning Gravitationally Lensed Standard Sirens

Jakob Jonsson, Ariel Goobar, Edvard Mortsell

Gravitational waves emitted by chirping supermassive black hole binaries could in principle be used to obtain very accurate distance determinations. Provided they have an electroma…

astro-ph2006★ 66 cited

Five years of searches for point sources of astrophysical neutrinos with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope

A. Achterberg

We report the results of a five-year survey of the northern sky to search for point sources of high energy neutrinos. The search was performed on the data collected with the AMANDA…

astro-ph2006★ 6 cited

Type Ia SNe along redshift: the R(Si II) ratio and the expansion velocities in intermediate z supernovae

G. Altavilla, P. Ruiz-Lapuente, A. Balastegui +17

We study intermediate--z SNe Ia using the empirical physical diagrams which enable to learn about those SNe explosions. This information can be very useful to reduce systematic unc…

astro-ph2006★ 21 cited

Reconstructing the Thomson Optical Depth due to Patchy Reionization with 21-cm Fluctuation Maps

Gilbert Holder, Ilian T. Iliev, Garrelt Mellema

Large fluctuations in the electron column density can occur during the reionization process. We investigate the possibility of deriving the electron density fluctuations through de…

astro-ph2006★ 32 cited

Shining light through the Sun

Malcolm Fairbairn, Timur Rashba, Sergey Troitsky

It is shown that the Sun can become partially transparent to high energy photons in the presence of a pseudo-scalar. In particular, if the axion interpretation of the PVLAS result…

astro-ph2006★ 294 cited

Halting Type I planet migration in non-isothermal disks

S. -J. Paardekooper, G. Mellema

Aims: We investigate the effect of including a proper energy balance on the interaction of a low-mass planet with a protoplanetary disk. Methods: We use a three-dimensional version…

astro-ph2006★ 75 cited

Spitzer measurements of atomic and molecular abundances in the Type IIP SN 2005af

Rubina Kotak, Peter Meikle, Monica Pozzo +12

We present results based on Spitzer Space Telescope mid-infrared (3.6-30 micron) observations of the nearby IIP supernova 2005af. We report the first ever detection of the SiO mole…

astro-ph2006★ 76 cited

The Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect from Radiative Transfer Simulations of Patchy Reionization

Ilian T. Iliev, Ue-Li Pen, J. Richard Bond +2

We present the first calculation of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect due to the inhomogeneous reionization of the universe based on detailed large-scale radiative transf…

astro-ph2006★ 44 cited

On the selection of AGN neutrino source candidates for a source stacking analysis with neutrino telescopes

A. Achterberg et al.

The sensitivity of a search for sources of TeV neutrinos can be improved by grouping potential sources together into generic classes in a procedure that is known as source stacking…

astro-ph2006★ 106 cited

The Type Ia supernova 2004S, a clone of SN 2001el, and the optimal photometric bands for extinction estimation

Kevin Krisciunas, Peter M. Garnavich, Vallery Stanishev +9

We present optical (UBVRI) and near-infrared (YJHK) photometry of the normal Type Ia supernova 2004S. We also present eight optical spectra and one near-IR spectrum of SN 2004S. Th…

astro-ph2006★ 141 cited

Evolution of the Luminosity Function, Star Formation Rate, Morphology and Size of Star-forming Galaxies Selected at Rest-frame 1500A and 2800A

Tomas Dahlen, Bahram Mobasher, Mark Dickinson +4

Using the multiwavelength photometric and spectroscopic data covering the CDF-S obtained within the GOODS, we investigate the rest-frame UV properties of galaxies to z~2.2, includi…

astro-ph2006★ 196 cited

SN 2004aw: Confirming Diversity of Type Ic Supernovae

S. Taubenberger, A. Pastorello, P. A. Mazzali +24

Optical and near-infrared observations of the Type Ic supernova (SN) 2004aw are presented, obtained from day -3 to day +413 with respect to the B-band maximum. The photometric evol…

astro-ph2006★ 183 cited

Baryonic Pinching of Galactic Dark Matter Halos

Michael Gustafsson, Malcolm Fairbairn, Jesper Sommer-Larsen

High resolution cosmological N-body simulations of four galaxy-scale dark matter halos are compared to corresponding N-body/hydrodynamical simulations containing dark matter, stars…

astro-ph2006★ 6 cited

Near Ultraviolet sources in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey Fields

Duilia de Mello, T. Dahlen, J. P. Gardner +1

We present an Ultraviolet (UV) selected sample of 268 objects in the two fields of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS). We used the parallel observations taken with…

astro-ph2006★ 325 cited

Circumstellar Emission from Type Ib and Ic Supernovae

Roger A. Chevalier, Claes Fransson

The presumed Wolf-Rayet star progenitors of Type Ib/c supernovae have fast, low density winds and the shock waves generated by the supernova interaction with the wind are not expec…

astro-ph2006★ 19 cited

Limits on the high-energy gamma and neutrino fluxes from the SGR 1806-20 giant flare of December 27th, 2004 with the AMANDA-II detector

The IceCube Collaboration

On December 27th 2004, a giant gamma flare from the Soft Gamma-ray Repeater 1806-20 saturated many satellite gamma-ray detectors. This event was by more than two orders of magnitud…

astro-ph2006★ 23 cited

The Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect from Patchy Reionization: the View from the Simulations

Ilian T. Iliev, Ue-Li Pen, J. Richard Bond +2

We present the first calculation of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect due to the inhomogeneus reionization of the universe based on detailed large-scale radiative transfe…

astro-ph2006★ 29 cited

X-ray Radiation from the Annihilation of Dark Matter at the Galactic Center

Lars Bergstrom, Malcolm Fairbairn, Lidia Pieri

The existing and upcoming multiwavelength data from the Galactic Center suggest a comparative study in order to propose or rule out possible models which would explain the observat…

astro-ph2006

VADER - A Satellite Mission Concept For High Precision Dark Energy Studies

Rene Fassbender, Jutta Stegmaier, Anne-Marie Weijmans +8

We present a satellite mission concept to measure the dark energy equation of state parameter w with percent-level precision. The Very Ambitious Dark Energy Research satellite (VAD…