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most citedThe clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

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astro-ph2008★ 7 cited

Search for Primordial Black Holes with SGARFACE

M. Schroedter, F. Krennrich, S. LeBohec +7

The Short GAmma Ray Front Air Cherenkov Experiment (SGARFACE) uses the Whipple 10 m telescope to search for bursts of rays. SGARFACE is sensitive to bursts with duration from a…

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★ 60 cited

Discovery of Very High-Energy Gamma-Ray Radiation from the BL Lac 1ES 0806+524

VERITAS Collaboration, V. Acciari, E. Aliu +90

The high-frequency-peaked BL-Lacertae object \objectname{1ES 0806+524}, at redshift z=0.138, was observed in the very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray regime by VERITAS between November…

astro-ph2008★ 89 cited

Rapid Formation of Icy Super-Earths and the Cores of Gas Giant Planets

Scott J. Kenyon, Benjamin C. Bromley

We describe a coagulation model that leads to the rapid formation of super-Earths and the cores of gas giant planets. Interaction of collision fragments with the gaseous disk is th…

astro-ph2008

Towards micro-arcsecond spatial resolution with Air Cherenkov Telescope arrays as optical intensity interferometers

W. J. de Wit, S. LeBohec, J. A. Hinton +3

In this poster contribution we highlight the equivalence between an Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) array and an Intensity Interferometer for a range of technical requiremen…

astro-ph2008

Extracting Information from the Gravitational Redshift of Compact Rotating Objects

Paul Nunez, Marek Nowakowski

When rotation is not taken into account, the measurement of the Gravitational Redshift can provide unique information about the compactness () of the star. Rotation alters the…