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astro-ph2008★ 21 cited

MAGIC Observations of PG 1553+113 during a Multiwavelength Campaign in July 2006

MAGIC Collaboration, Albert

The active galactic nucleus PG 1553+113 was observed by the MAGIC telescope in July 2006 during a multiwavelength campaign, in which telescopes in the optical, X-ray, and very high…

astro-ph2008★ 112 cited

The June 2008 flare of Markarian 421 from optical to TeV energies

The Agile Collaboration, Webt Collaboration, Magic Collaboration +2

We present optical, X-ray, high energy ( GeV) and very high energy ( GeV; VHE) observations of the high-frequency peaked blazar Mrk 421 taken betwee…

astro-ph2008★ 125 cited

Improving the performance of the single-dish Cherenkov telescope MAGIC through the use of signal timing

MAGIC Collaboration

The Cherenkov light flashes produced by Extensive Air Showers are very short in time. A high bandwidth and fast digitizing readout, therefore, can minimize the influence of the bac…

astro-ph2008★ 33 cited

Exploring Parameter Constraints on Quintessential Dark Energy: the Inverse Power Law Model

Mark Yashar, Brandon Bozek, Augusta Abrahamse +2

We report on the results of a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) analysis of an inverse power law (IPL) quintessence model using the Dark Energy Task Force (DETF) simulated data sets…

astro-ph2008★ 19 cited

MAGIC upper limits to the VHE gamma-ray flux of 3C454.3 in high emission state

H. Anderhub, S. Vercellone, I. Donnarumma +2

We report upper limits to the very high energy flux (E>100 GeV) of the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C454.3 (z=0.859) derived by the Cherenkov telescope MAGIC during the high states…

astro-ph2008★ 21 cited

Probing Spectroscopic Variability of Galaxies & Narrow-Line Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Ching-Wa Yip, Andrew Connolly, Daniel Vanden Berk +10

Under the unified model for active galactic nuclei (AGNs), narrow-line (Type 2) AGNs are, in fact, broad-line (Type 1) AGNs but each with a heavily obscured accretion disk. We woul…

astro-ph2008★ 7 cited

Parametrization and Classification of 20 Billion LSST Objects: Lessons from SDSS

Z. Ivezic, T. Axelrod, A. C. Becker

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be a large, wide-field ground-based system designed to obtain, starting in 2015, multiple images of the sky that is visible from Cer…

astro-ph2008★ 187 cited

Evolution of the Color-Magnitude Relation in Galaxy Clusters at z ~1 from the ACS Intermediate Redshift Cluster Survey

Simona Mei, Brad P. Holden, John P. Blakeslee +10

We apply detailed observations of the Color-Magnitude Relation (CMR) with the ACS/HST to study galaxy evolution in eight clusters at z~1. The early-type red sequence is well define…

astro-ph2008★ 43 cited

Dark Matter in the Galaxy Cluster CL J1226+3332 at Z=0.89

M. J. Jee, J. A. Tyson

We present a weak-lensing analysis of the galaxy cluster CL J1226+3332 at z=0.89 using Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys images. The cluster is the hottest (>10 ke…

astro-ph2008★ 60 cited

Discovery of a very high energy gamma-ray signal from the 3C 66A/B region

MAGIC Collaboration, E. Aliu

The MAGIC telescope observed the region around the distant blazar 3C 66A for 54.2 h in 2007 August-December. The observations resulted in the discovery of a gamma-ray source at ene…

astro-ph2008★ 604 cited

Determining Star Formation Rates for Infrared Galaxies

G. H. Rieke, A. Alonso-Herrero, B. J. Weiner +5

We show that measures of star formation rates (SFRs) for infrared galaxies using either single-band 24 um or extinction-corrected Paschen-alpha luminosities are consistent in the t…

astro-ph2008★ 59 cited

Upper Limits on the VHE gamma-ray Emission from the Willman 1 Satellite Galaxy with the MAGIC telescope

MAGIC Collaboration, E. Aliu

We present the result of the observation of the ultrafaint dwarf galaxy Willman 1 performed with the 17 m MAGIC telescope during 15.5 hr between March and May 2008. No significant…

astro-ph2008★ 317 cited

A measurement of large-scale peculiar velocities of clusters of galaxies: results and cosmological implications

A. Kashlinsky, F. Atrio-Barandela, D. Kocevski +1

Peculiar velocities of clusters of galaxies can be measured by studying the fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) generated by the scattering of the microwave photo…

astro-ph2008★ 28 cited

Properties of Galaxies Hosting X-ray Selected Active Galactic Nuclei in the Cl1604 Supercluster at z=0.9

Dale D. Kocevski, Lori M. Lubin, Brian C. Lemaux +4

To investigate the role of feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in driving the evolution of their host galaxies, we have carried out a study of the environments and optical p…

astro-ph2008★ 82 cited

A measurement of large-scale peculiar velocities of clusters of galaxies: technical details

A. Kashlinsky, F. Atrio-Barandela, D. Kocevski +1

This paper presents detailed analysis of large-scale peculiar motions derived from a sample of ~ 700 X-ray clusters and cosmic microwave background (CMB) data obtained with WMAP. W…

astro-ph2008★ 90 cited

The Observations of Redshift Evolution in Large Scale Environments (ORELSE) Survey : I. The Survey Design and First Results on Cl 0023+0423 at z = 0.84 and RX J1821.6+6827 at z = 0.82

L. M. Lubin, R. R. Gal, B. C. Lemaux +2

We present the Observations of Redshift Evolution in Large Scale Environments (ORELSE) survey, a systematic search for structure on scales greater than 10 Mpc around 20 well-known…

astro-ph2008★ 40 cited

Five New High-Redshift Quasar Lenses from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Naohisa Inada, Masamune Oguri, Min-Su Shin +7

We report the discovery of five gravitationally lensed quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). All five systems are selected as two-image lensed quasar candidates from a…

astro-ph2008★ 157 cited

The FIRST-2MASS Red Quasar Survey II: An anomalously high fraction of LoBALs in searches for dust-reddened quasars

Tanya Urrutia, Robert H. Becker, Richard L. White +4

We present results on a survey to find extremely dust-reddened Type-1 Quasars. Combining the FIRST radio survey, the 2MASS Infrared Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we have…

astro-ph2008

LSST and the Dark Sector: Image Processing Challenges

J. A. Tyson, C. Roat, J. Bosch +1

Next generation probes of dark matter and dark energy require high precision reconstruction of faint galaxy shapes from hundreds of dithered exposures. Current practice is to stack…

astro-ph2008★ 40 cited

The Environmental Dependence of Properties of Galaxies around the RDCSJ0910+54 Cluster at z=1.1

M. Tanaka, A. Finoguenov, T. Kodama +6

(Abridged) We report on the environmental dependence of properties of galaxies around the RDCSJ0910+54 cluster at z=1.1. We have obtained multi-band wide-field images of the cluste…

astro-ph2008★ 13 cited

First bounds on the high-energy emission from isolated Wolf-Rayet binary systems

MAGIC Collaboration, E. Aliu

High-energy gamma-ray emission is theoretically expected to arise in tight binary star systems (with high mass loss and high velocity winds), although the evidence of this relation…

astro-ph2008★ 55 cited

The TEXES Survey For H2 Emission From Protoplanetary Disks

M. A. Bitner, M. J. Richter, J. H. Lacy +9

We report the results of a search for pure rotational molecular hydrogen emission from the circumstellar environments of young stellar objects with disks using the Texas Echelon Cr…

astro-ph2008★ 67 cited

Spectral, Spatial, and Time properties of the hydrogen nebula around exoplanet HD209458b

Lotfi Ben-Jaffel

All far ultraviolet observations of HD209458 tend to support a scenario in which the inflated hydrogen atmosphere of its planetary companion strongly absorbs the stellar \lya flux…

astro-ph2008★ 27 cited

The DEEP2 Redshift Survey: Lyman Alpha Emitters in the Spectroscopic Database

Marcin Sawicki, Brian C. Lemaux, Puragra Guhathakurta +7

We present the first results of a search for Lyman-alpha emitters (LAEs) in the DEEP2 spectroscopic database that uses a search technique that is different from but complementary t…