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astro-ph2008★ 20 cited

MOST photometry of the enigmatic PMS pulsator HD 142666

K. Zwintz, T. Kallinger, D. B. Guenther +11

We present precise photometry of the pulsating Herbig Ae star HD 142666 obtained in two consecutive years with the MOST (Microvariability & Oscilations of STars) satellite. Previou…

astro-ph2008★ 21 cited

Sources of contamination to weak lensing tomography: redshift-dependent shear measurement bias

Elisabetta Semboloni, Ismael Tereno, Ludovic van Waerbeke +1

The current methods available to estimate gravitational shear from astronomical images of galaxies introduce systematic errors which can affect the accuracy of weak lensing cosmolo…

astro-ph2008★ 73 cited

STAGES: the Space Telescope A901/2 Galaxy Evolution Survey

M. E. Gray, Christian Wolf, Marco Barden +26

We present an overview of the Space Telescope A901/2 Galaxy Evolution Survey (STAGES). STAGES is a multiwavelength project designed to probe physical drivers of galaxy evolution ac…

astro-ph2008★ 215 cited

The STAGES view of red spirals and dusty red galaxies: Mass-dependent quenching of star-formation in cluster infall

Christian Wolf, Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca, Michael Balogh +22

We investigate the properties of optically passive spirals and dusty red galaxies in the A901/2 cluster complex at redshift ~0.17 using restframe near-UV-optical SEDs, 24 micron IR…

astro-ph2008★ 180 cited

CARS: the CFHTLS-Archive-Research Survey; I. Five-band multi-colour data from 37 sq. deg. CFHTLS-Wide observations

T. Erben, H. Hildebrandt, M. Lerchster +10

We present the CFHTLS-Archive-Research Survey (CARS). It is a virtual multi-colour survey based on public archive images from the CFHT-Legacy-Survey. Our main scientific interests…

astro-ph2008★ 46 cited

PSR J1753-2240: A mildly recycled pulsar in an eccentric binary system

M. J. Keith, M. Kramer, A. G. Lyne +5

We report the discovery of PSR J1753-2240 in the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey database. This 95-ms pulsar is in an eccentric binary system with a 13.6-day orbital period. Period…

astro-ph2008★ 34 cited

The nature of p-modes and granulation in HD 49933 observed by CoRoT

T. Kallinger, M. Gruberbauer, D. B. Guenther +2

Context: Recent observations of HD49933 by the space-photometric mission CoRoT provide photometric evidence of solar type oscillations in a star other than our Sun. The first publi…

astro-ph2008★ 125 cited

Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Bayesian Estimation of CMB Polarization Maps

J. Dunkley, D. N. Spergel, E. Komatsu +17

We describe a sampling method to estimate the polarized CMB signal from observed maps of the sky. We use a Metropolis-within-Gibbs algorithm to estimate the polarized CMB map, cont…

astro-ph2008★ 229 cited

Stellar activity of planetary host star HD 189733

I. Boisse, C. Moutou, A. Vidal-Madjar +20

Extra-solar planet search programs require high-precision velocity measurements. They need to study how to disentangle radial-velocity variations due to Doppler motion from the noi…

astro-ph2008★ 134 cited

Arecibo Pulsar Survey Using ALFA: Probing Radio Pulsar Intermittency and Transients

J. S. Deneva, J. M. Cordes, M. A. McLaughlin +23

We present radio transient search algorithms, results, and statistics from the ongoing Arecibo Pulsar ALFA (PALFA) Survey of the Galactic plane. We have discovered seven objects by…

astro-ph2008★ 43 cited

The local FIR Galaxy Colour-Luminosity distribution: A reference for BLAST, and Herschel/SPIRE sub-mm surveys

Edward L. Chapin, David H. Hughes, Itziar Aretxaga

We measure the local galaxy far-infrared (FIR) 60-to-100 um colour-luminosity distribution using an all-sky IRAS survey. This distribution is an important reference for the next ge…

astro-ph2008★ 414 cited

Science with ASKAP - the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder

S. Johnston, R. Taylor, M. Bailes +47

[ABRIDGED VERSION] The future of cm and m-wave astronomy lies with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a telescope under development by a consortium of 17 countries. The SKA will be…

astro-ph2008★ 11 cited

MOST discovers a multimode delta Scuti star in a triple system: HD 61199

M. Hareter, O. Kochukhov, H. Lehmann +13

A field star, HD 61199 (V ~ 8), simultaneously observed with Procyon by the MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of STars) satellite in continuous runs of 34, 17, and 34 days in 2…

astro-ph2008

Resolved Properties of Extragalactic Giant Molecular Clouds

Alberto D. Bolatto, Adam K. Leroy, Erik Rosolowsky +2

Giant molecular clouds (GMCs) are the major reservoirs of molecular gas in galaxies, and the starting point for star formation. As such, their properties play a key role in setting…

astro-ph2008★ 82 cited

Photometric variability of the T Tauri star TW Hya on time scales of hours to years

Slavek M. Rucinski, Jaymie M. Matthews, Rainer Kuschnig +7

MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of STars) and ASAS (All Sky Automated Survey) observations have been used to characterize photometric variability of TW Hya on time scales fro…

astro-ph2008★ 51 cited

The clustering and abundance of star-forming and passive galaxies at

W. G. Hartley, K. P. Lane, O. Almaini +8

We use the UKIDSS Ultra-deep survey (UDS), currently the deepest panoramic near infra-red survey, together with deep Subaru optical imaging to measure the clustering, number counts…

astro-ph2008★ 28 cited

MOST satellite photometry of stars in the M67 field: Eclipsing binaries, blue stragglers and delta-Scuti variables

Theodor Pribulla, Slavek Rucinski, Jaymie M. Matthews +7

We present two series of MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of STars) space-based photometry, covering nearly continuously 10 days in 2004 and 30 days in 2007, of selected varia…

astro-ph2008★ 112 cited

Can we avoid dark energy?

J. P. Zibin, A. Moss, D. Scott

The idea that we live near the centre of a large, nonlinear void has attracted attention recently as an alternative to dark energy or modified gravity. We show that an appropriate…

astro-ph2008★ 22 cited

Sersiclets - A Matched Filter Extension of Shapelets for Weak Lensing Studies

Wai-Hin Wayne Ngan, Ludovic Van Waerbeke, Andisheh Mahdavi +2

The precision study of dark matter using weak lensing by large scale structure is strongly constrained by the accuracy with which one can measure galaxy shapes. Several methods hav…

astro-ph2008★ 104 cited

Obscured star formation in intermediate-density environments: A Spitzer study of the Abell 901/902 supercluster

A. Gallazzi, E. F. Bell, C. Wolf +23

We explore the amount of obscured star-formation as a function of environment in the A901/902 supercluster at z=0.165 in conjunction with a field sample drawn from the A901 and CDF…

astro-ph2008★ 112 cited

The nature of faint Spitzer-selected dust-obscured galaxies

Alexandra Pope, R. Shane Bussmann, Arjun Dey +12

We use deep far-IR, submm, radio and X-ray imaging and mid-IR spectroscopy to explore the nature of a sample of Spitzer-selected dust-obscured galaxies (DOGs) in GOODS-N. A sample…

astro-ph2008★ 527 cited

The Resolved Properties of Extragalactic Giant Molecular Clouds

Alberto D. Bolatto, Adam K. Leroy, Erik Rosolowsky +2

We use high spatial resolution observations of CO to systematically measure the resolved size-line width, luminosity-line width, luminosity-size, and the mass-luminosity relations…

astro-ph2008★ 48 cited

Gauging the cosmic microwave background

J. P. Zibin, Douglas Scott

We provide a new derivation of the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), and find an exact expression that can be readily expanded perturbatively. Close attention…

astro-ph2008★ 4 cited

Radio-Loud QSOs and Sub-Millimeter Galaxies: Space Distributions

J V Wall

A picture has emerged connecting QSOs with Sub-Millimetre Galaxies (SMGs) through an evolutionary sequence in which forming galaxies are initially FIR-luminous but X-ray weak, simi…