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astro-ph2003★ 109 cited

Dynamical Mass Constraints on Low-Mass Pre-Main-Sequence Stellar Evolutionary Tracks: An Eclipsing Binary in Orion with a 1.0 Msun Primary and an 0.7 Msun Secondary

Keivan G. Stassun, Robert D. Mathieu, Luiz Paulo R. Vaz +2

We report the discovery of a double-lined, spectroscopic, eclipsing binary in the Orion star-forming region. We analyze the system spectroscopically and photometrically to empirica…

astro-ph2003★ 99 cited

Searching for Planets in the Hyades III: The Quest for Short-Period Planets

D. Paulson, S. Saar, W. Cochran +1

We have been using the Keck I High Resolution Spectrograph (HIRES) to search for planetary companions in the Hyades cluster. We selected four stars from this sample which showed si…

astro-ph2003★ 112 cited

Galactic Point Sources of TeV Antineutrinos

Luis A. Anchordoqui, Haim Goldberg, Francis Halzen +1

High energy cosmic ray experiments have identified an excess from the region of the Galactic Plane in a limited energy range around eV (EeV). This is very suggestive of n…

astro-ph2003★ 7 cited

The Uncertainty in Newton's Constant and Precision Predictions of the Primordial Helium Abundance

Robert J. Scherrer

The current uncertainty in Newton's constant, G_N, is of the order of 0.15%. For values of the baryon to photon ratio consistent with both cosmic microwave background observations…

astro-ph2003★ 1.5k cited

New Constraints on , , and w from an Independent Set of Eleven High-Redshift Supernovae Observed with HST

R. A. Knop, G. Aldering, R. Amanullah +45

We report measurements of , , and w from eleven supernovae at z=0.36-0.86 with high-quality lightcurves measured using WFPC-2 on the HST. This is an independent set of hi…

astro-ph2003★ 47 cited

The intrinsic colour dispersion in Type Ia supernovae

S. Nobili, A. Goobar, R. Knop +1

The properties of low-redshift Type Ia supernovae are investigated using published multi-band optical broadband data from the Calan/Tololo and CfA surveys. The average time evoluti…

astro-ph2003★ 5 cited

Physics with Cosmic Neutrinos, PeV to ZeV

Thomas J. Weiler

We begin with a brief overview of highest-energy cosmic ray data, and the experiments which will perform neutrino astronomy. We then discuss two particle physics aspects of neutrin…

astro-ph2003★ 70 cited

Fine Scale Temperature Fluctuations in the the Orion Nebula and the t^2 Problem

C. R. O'Dell, M. Peimbert, A. Peimbert

We present a high spatial resolution map of the columnar electron temperature (Tc) of a region to the south west of the Trapezium in the Orion Nebula. This map was derived from Hub…

astro-ph2003★ 88 cited

Detections of Ro-Vibrational H Emission from the Disks of T Tauri Stars

J. S. Bary, D. A. Weintraub, J. H. Kastner

We report the detection of quiescent H_2 emission in the v=1-0 S(1) line at 2.12183 um in the circumstellar environment of two classical T Tauri stars, GG Tau A and LkCa 15, in hig…