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astro-ph2000★ 5 cited

Deep-Imaging Observations of a Candidate of an Absorbed QSO at z=0.653, AX J131831+3341

M. Akiyama, K. Ohta, N. Tamura +12

The results of deep-imaging observations of a candidate of an absorbed QSO at z=0.653, AX J131831+3341, are presented. AX J131831+3341 was found during the course of optical follow…

astro-ph2000★ 232 cited

Colors of 2625 Quasars at 0<z<5 Measured in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric System

Gordon T. Richards, Xiaohui Fan, Donald P. Schneider +3

We present an empirical investigation of the colors of quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometric system. The sample studied includes 2625 quasars with SDSS photome…

astro-ph2000★ 2 cited

Recent results from the Tokyo axion helioscope experiment

Y. Inoue, T. Namba, S. Moriyama +4

We have searched for axions which could have been produced in the solar core using an axion helioscope with a 2.3m-long 4T superconducting magnet. Axion mass region up to m_a=0.26e…

gr-qc2000★ 82 cited

The First Search for Gravitational Waves from Inspiraling Compact Binaries using TAMA300 data

Hideyuki Tagoshi, Nobuyuki Kanda, Takahiro Tanaka +2

We analyzed 6 hours of data from the TAMA300 detector by matched filtering, searching for gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries. We incorporated a two-step hierarch…

astro-ph2000★ 51 cited

High-Redshift Quasars Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data V. Hobby-Eberly Telescope Observations

Donald P. Schneider, Xiaohui Fan, Michael A. Strauss +5

We report the discovery of 27 quasars with redshifts between 3.58 and 4.49. The objects were identified as high-redshift candidates based on their colors in Sloan Digital Sky Surve…

astro-ph2000★ 660 cited

The Luminosity Function of Galaxies in SDSS Commissioning Data

SDSS Collaboration, M. R. Blanton

During commissioning observations, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has produced one of the largest existing galaxy redshift samples selected from CCD images. Using 11,275 galax…