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astro-ph2008★ 1 cited

Search for the magnetic field of the O7.5 III star xi Persei

H. F. Henrichs, R. S. Schnerr, J. A. de Jong +3

Cyclical wind variability is an ubiquitous but as yet unexplained feature among OB stars. The O7.5 III(n)((f)) star xi Persei is the brightest representative of this class on the N…

astro-ph2008★ 70 cited

Large grains in disks around young stars: ATCA observations of WW Cha, RU Lup, and CS Cha

Dave Lommen, Sarah Maddison, Chris Wright +3

Grains in disks around young stars grow from interstellar submicron sizes to planetesimals over the course of several Myr. Thermal emission of large grains or pebbles can be best o…

astro-ph2008★ 5 cited

Observations of the transiting planet TrES-2 with the AIU Jena telescope in Großschwabhausen

St. Raetz, M. Mugrauer, T. O. B. Schmidt +9

We have started high precision photometric monitoring observations at the AIU Jena observatory in Grossschwabhausen near Jena in fall 2006. We used a 25 cm Cassegrain telescope equ…

astro-ph2008★ 110 cited

The Environments of Active Galactic Nuclei within the zCOSMOS Density Field

J. D. Silverman, K. Kovac, C. Knobel +58

The impact of environment on AGN activity up to z~1 is assessed by utilizing a mass-selected sample of galaxies from the 10k catalog of the zCOSMOS spectroscopic redshift survey. W…

astro-ph2008★ 140 cited

Fermi LAT Observations of the Vela Pulsar

A. A. Abdo

The Vela pulsar is the brightest persistent source in the GeV sky and thus is the traditional first target for new gamma-ray observatories. We report here on initial Fermi Large Ar…

astro-ph2008★ 105 cited

Ground-based calibration and characterization of the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Detectors

Elisabetta Bissaldi, Andreas von Kienlin, Giselher G. Lichti +18

One of the scientific objectives of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). The Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) was designed to detect a…