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astro-ph.GA2011★ 76 cited

Surviving the hole I: Spatially resolved chemistry around Sgr A*

S. Martín, J. Martín-Pintado, M. Montero-Castaño +2

The interstellar region within the few central parsecs around the super-massive black hole, Sgr A* at the very Galactic center is composed by a number of overlapping molecular stru…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 42 cited

Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations of Galaxy Formation: Exploring Numerical and Physical Parameters

Cameron Hummels, Greg Bryan

We carry out adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) cosmological simulations of Milky-Way mass halos in order to investigate the formation of disk-like galaxies in a Λ-dominated Cold Dark…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 128 cited

PSR J1841-0500: a radio pulsar that mostly is not there

F. Camilo, S. M. Ransom, S. Chatterjee +2

In a search for radio pulsations from the magnetar 1E 1841-045, we have discovered the unrelated pulsar J1841-0500, with rotation period P=0.9 s and characteristic age 0.4 Myr. One…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 129 cited

Uncloaking globular clusters in the inner Galaxy

Javier Alonso-García, Mario Mateo, Bodhisattva Sen +4

Extensive photometric studies of the globular clusters located towards the center of the Milky Way have been historically neglected. The presence of patchy differential reddening i…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 28 cited

PSR J2030+3641: radio discovery and gamma-ray study of a middle-aged pulsar in the now identified Fermi-LAT source 1FGL J2030.0+3641

F. Camilo, M. Kerr, P. S. Ray +14

In a radio search with the Green Bank Telescope of three unidentified low Galactic latitude Fermi-LAT sources, we have discovered the middle-aged pulsar J2030+3641, associated with…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 82 cited

Fermi Detection of a Luminous Gamma-ray Pulsar in a Globular Cluster

The Fermi LAT Collaboration

We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope detection of gamma-ray (>100 megaelectronvolts) pulsations from pulsar J1823-3021A in the globular cluster NGC 6624 with high significance…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 88 cited

A High Resolution Study of the HI-H2 Transition across the Perseus Molecular Cloud

Min-Young Lee, Snezana Stanimirovic, Kevin A. Douglas +12

To investigate the fundamental principles of H2 formation in a giant molecular cloud (GMC), we derive the HI and H2 surface density (Sigma_HI and Sigma_H2) images of the Perseus mo…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 51 cited

Head-Tail Clouds: Drops to Probe the Diffuse Galactic Halo

M. E. Putman, D. R. Saul, E. Mets

A head-tail high-velocity cloud (HVC) is a neutral hydrogen halo cloud that appears to be interacting with the diffuse halo medium as evident by its compressed head trailed by a re…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 67 cited

The Local Leo Cold Cloud and New Limits on a Local Hot Bubble

J. E. G. Peek, Carl Heiles, Kathryn M. G. Peek +2

We present a multi-wavelength study of the local Leo cold cloud (LLCC), a very nearby, very cold cloud in the interstellar medium. Through stellar absorption studies we find that t…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 29 cited

The Shortest Period Detached Binary White Dwarf System

Mukremin Kilic, Warren R. Brown, S. J. Kenyon +6

We identify SDSS J010657.39-100003.3 (hereafter J0106-1000) as the shortest period detached binary white dwarf (WD) system currently known. We targeted J0106-1000 as part of our ra…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 31 cited

Arecibo PALFA Survey and Einstein@Home: Binary Pulsar Discovery by Volunteer Computing

B. Knispel, P. Lazarus, B. Allen +35

We report the discovery of the 20.7 ms binary pulsar J1952+2630, made using the distributed computing project Einstein@Home in Pulsar ALFA survey observations with the Arecibo tele…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 31 cited

The Recent Star Formation in NGC 6822: an Ultraviolet Study

Boryana V. Efremova, Luciana Bianchi, David A. Thilker +15

We characterize the star formation in the low-metallicity galaxy NGC 6822 over the past few hundred million years, using GALEX far-UV (FUV, 1344-1786 A) and near-UV (NUV, 1771-2831…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 25 cited

Mapping differential reddening in the inner Galactic globular cluster system

Javier Alonso-García, Mario Mateo, Bodhisattva Sen +2

A serious limitation in the study of many globular clusters -- especially those located near the Galactic Center -- has been the existence of large and differential extinction by f…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 323 cited

Galaxia: a code to generate a synthetic survey of the Milky Way

Sanjib Sharma, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Kathryn V. Johnston +1

We present here a fast code for creating a synthetic survey of the Milky Way. Given one or more color-magnitude bounds, a survey size and geometry, the code returns a catalog of st…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 152 cited

Ice and Dust in the Quiescent Medium of Isolated Dense Cores

A. C. A. Boogert, T. L. Huard, A. M. Cook +6

The relation between ices in the envelopes and disks surrounding YSOs and those in the quiescent interstellar medium is investigated. For a sample of 31 stars behind isolated dense…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 216 cited

The GALFA-HI Survey: Data Release 1

J. E. G. Peek, Carl Heiles, Kevin A. Douglas +10

We present the Galactic Arecibo L-Band Feed Array HI (GALFA-HI) survey, and its first full data release (DR1). GALFA-HI is a high resolution (~ 4'), large area (13000 deg^2), high…