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astro-ph2008★ 3 cited

Tests of achromatic phase shifters performed on the SYNAPSE test bench: a progress report

Pavel Gabor, Peter A. Schuller, Bruno Chazelas +16

The achromatic phase shifter (APS) is a component of the Bracewell nulling interferometer studied in preparation for future space missions (viz. Darwin/TPF-I) focusing on spectrosc…

astro-ph2008★ 8 cited

Modelling solar-like variability for the detection of Earth-like planetary transits. II) Performance of the three-spot modelling, harmonic function fitting, iterative non-linear filtering and sliding boxcar filtering

A. S. Bonomo, S. Aigrain, P. Bordé +1

We present a comparison of four methods of filtering solar-like variability to increase the efficiency of detection of Earth-like planetary transits by means of box-shaped transit…

astro-ph2008★ 40 cited

325-MHz observations of the ELAIS-N1 field using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope

S. K. Sirothia, M . Dennefeld, D. J. Saikia +3

We present observations of the European Large-Area {\it ISO} Survey-North 1 (ELAIS-N1) at 325 MHz using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), with the ultimate objective of i…

astro-ph2008★ 18 cited

Magnetic activity in the photosphere of CoRoT-Exo-2a. Active longitudes and short-term spot cycle in a young Sun-like star

A. F. Lanza, I. Pagano, G. Leto +18

The space experiment CoRoT has recently detected transits by a hot Jupiter across the disc of an active G7V star (CoRoT-Exo-2a) that can be considered as a good proxy for the Sun a…

astro-ph2008★ 9 cited

Systematic thermal reduction of neutronization in core-collapse supernovae

A. F. Fantina, P. Donati, P. M. Pizzochero

We investigate to what extent the temperature dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy can affect the neutronization of the stellar core prior to neutrino trapping during gravitat…

astro-ph2008★ 6 cited

A strict lower-limit EBL: Applications on gamma-ray absorption

Tanja M. Kneiske, Herve Dole

A strict lower limit flux for the extragalactic background light from ultraviolet to the far-infrared photon energies is presented. The spectral energy distribution is derived usin…

astro-ph2008

H2 Energetics in Galaxy-wide Shocks: Insights in Starburst Triggering and Galaxy Formation

P. Guillard, F. Boulanger

Spitzer space telescope observations led to the surprising detection of a diverse set of extragalactic sources whose infrared spectra are dominated by line emission of molecular hy…

astro-ph2008★ 604 cited

Determining Star Formation Rates for Infrared Galaxies

G. H. Rieke, A. Alonso-Herrero, B. J. Weiner +5

We show that measures of star formation rates (SFRs) for infrared galaxies using either single-band 24 um or extinction-corrected Paschen-alpha luminosities are consistent in the t…

astro-ph2008★ 16 cited

PHotometry Assisted Spectral Extraction (PHASE) and identification of SNLS supernovae

S. Baumont, C. Balland, P. Astier +7

Aim: We present new extraction and identification techniques for supernova (SN) spectra developed within the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) collaboration. Method: The new spectral…

astro-ph2008★ 26 cited

The EUV Sun as the superposition of elementary Suns

P. -O. Amblard, S. Moussaoui, T. Dudok de Wit +4

Many studies assume that the solar irradiance in the EUV can be decomposed into different contributions, which makes the modelling of the spectral variability considerably easier.…

astro-ph2008★ 37 cited

Biases on the cosmological parameters and thermal SZ residuals

Nicolas Taburet, Nabila Aghanim, Marian Douspis +1

We examine the biases induced on cosmological parameters when the presence of secondary anisotropies is not taken into account in Cosmic Microwave Background analyses. We first dev…

astro-ph2008★ 11 cited

The impact of dust on the scaling properties of galaxy clusters

Antonio C. da Silva, Andrea Catalano, Ludovic Montier +3

We investigate the effect of dust on the scaling properties of galaxy clusters based on hydrodynamic N-body simulations of structure formation. We have simulated five dust models p…

astro-ph2008★ 41 cited

B-Pol: Detecting Primordial Gravitational Waves Generated During Inflation

Paolo de Bernardis, Martin Bucher, Carlo Burigana +1

B-Pol is a medium-class space mission aimed at detecting the primordial gravitational waves generated during inflation through high accuracy measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Ba…

astro-ph2008★ 33 cited

Cluster scaling relations from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations in dark energy dominated universe

N. Aghanim, A. C. da Silva, N. J. Nunes

Clusters are potentially powerful tools for cosmology provided their observed properties such as the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) or X-ray signals can be translated into physical quanti…

astro-ph2008★ 62 cited

A Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Galactic Cosmic Ray physics: I. Method and results for the Leaky Box Model

A. Putze, L. Derome, D. Maurin +2

Propagation of charged cosmic-rays in the Galaxy depends on the transport parameters, whose number can be large depending on the propagation model under scrutiny. A standard approa…

astro-ph2008★ 165 cited

Review: galactic angular momenta and angular momentum correlations in the cosmological large-scale structure

Bjoern Malte Schaefer

I review the theory of angular momentum acquisition of galaxies by tidal torquing, the resulting angular momentum distribution, the angular momentum correlation function and discus…

astro-ph2008★ 17 cited

Summary of the DUNE Mission Concept

Alexandre Refregier, Marian Douspis, the DUNE collaboration

The Dark UNiverse Explorer (DUNE) is a wide-field imaging mission concept whose primary goal is the study of dark energy and dark matter with unprecedented precision. To this end,…

astro-ph2008★ 6 cited

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and Faraday rotation contributions of galaxy groups to the CMB angular power spectrum

Hiroyuki Tashiro, Joseph Silk, Mathieu Langer +1

The S-Z effect and Faraday rotation from halos are examined over a wide mass range, an including gas condensation and magnetic field evolution. Contributions to the CMB angular pow…

astro-ph2008★ 158 cited

Testing the Evolutionary Link Between Submillimetre Galaxies and Quasars: CO Observations of QSOs at z~2

Kristen Coppin, Mark Swinbank, Roberto Neri +10

We have used the IRAM Plateau de Bure mm interferometer and the UKIRT 1-5 um Imager Spectrometer to test the connection between the major phases of spheroid growth and nuclear accr…

astro-ph2008★ 35 cited

Modified scalar and tensor spectra in spinor driven inflation

Damien Gredat, S. Shankaranarayanan

One of the firm predictions of the single-scalar field inflationary cosmology is the consistency relation between the scalar and tensor perturbations. It has been argued that such…

astro-ph2008★ 8 cited

Sensitivity of a Bolometric Interferometer to the CMB power spectrum

J. -Ch. Hamilton, R. Charlassier, C. Cressiot +3

Context. The search for B-mode polarization fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background is one of the main challenges of modern cosmology. The expected level of the B-mode sign…

astro-ph2008★ 635 cited

Observation of the suppression of the flux of cosmic rays above 4x10^19eV

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

The energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 2.5x10^18eV, derived from 20,000 events recorded at the Pierre Auger Observatory, is described. The spectral index gamma of the flux, J ~ E…

astro-ph2008★ 43 cited

The optical spectrum of a large isolated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon: hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene, C42H18

Damian L. Kokkin, Tyler P. Troy, Masakazu Nakajima +5

The first optical spectrum of an isolated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon large enough to survive the photophysical conditions of the interstellar medium is reported. Vibronic band…

astro-ph2008★ 26 cited

UHE tau neutrino flux regeneration while skimming the Earth

Oscar Blanch Bigas, Olivier Deligny, Kévin Payet +1

The detection of Earth-skimming tau neutrinos has turned into a very promising strategy for the observation of ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos. The sensitivity of this channel c…