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astro-ph2006★ 110 cited

Proper Motions of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging. V: Final Measurement for Fornax

Slawomir Piatek, Carlton Pryor, Paul Bristow +5

The measured proper motion of Fornax, expressed in the equatorial coordinate system, is mas century. This proper motion is a weighted…

astro-ph2006★ 339 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Monitor Telescope Pipeline

D. L. Tucker, S. Kent, M. W. Richmond +31

The photometric calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a multi-step process which involves data from three different telescopes: the 1.0-m telescope at the US Naval…

astro-ph2006★ 58 cited

Infrared and Optical Observations of GRB 030115 and its Extremely Red Host Galaxy: Implications for Dark Bursts

Andrew Levan, Andrew Fruchter, James Rhoads +24

We present near-infrared (nIR) and optical observations of the afterglow of GRB 030115. Discovered in an infrared search at Kitt Peak 5 hours after the burst trigger, this afterglo…

astro-ph2006★ 41 cited

V1647 Ori: The X-ray Evolution of a Pre-main Sequence Accretion Burst

J. H. Kastner, M. Richmond, N. Grosso +6

We present Chandra X-ray Observatory monitoring observations of the recent accretion outburst displayed by the pre-main sequence (pre-MS) star V1647 Ori. The X-ray observations wer…

astro-ph2006★ 424 cited

A Catalog of Spectroscopically Confirmed White Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4

Daniel J. Eisenstein, James Liebert, Hugh C. Harris +13

We present a catalog of 9316 spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4. We have selected the stars through photometric cuts and spec…