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most citedSloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

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astro-ph2008★ 29 cited

The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury Program: A First Look at Resolved Stellar Population Tools

Thomas M. Brown, Kailash Sahu, Manuela Zoccali +12

[Abridged] When WFC3 is installed on HST, the community will have powerful new tools for investigating resolved stellar populations. The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury program will o…

astro-ph2008★ 79 cited

Unveiling the nature of INTEGRAL objects through optical spectroscopy. VII. Identification of 20 Galactic and extragalactic hard X-ray sources

N. Masetti, P. Parisi, E. Palazzi +17

Within the framework of our program of assessment of the nature of unidentified or poorly known INTEGRAL sources, we present here spectroscopy of optical objects, selected through…

astro-ph2008★ 59 cited

Low Mass Companions for Five Solar-Type Stars from the Magellan Planet Search Program

Dante Minniti, R. Paul Butler, Mercedes Lopez-Morales +5

We report low mass companions orbiting five Solar-type stars that have emerged from the Magellan precision Doppler velocity survey, with minimum (Msini) masses ranging from 1.2 to…

astro-ph2008★ 13 cited

Two Jupiter-Mass Planets Orbiting HD 154672 and HD 205739

Mercedes Lopez-Morales, R. Paul Butler, Debra A. Fischer +6

We report the detection of the first two planets from the N2K Doppler planet search program at the Magellan telescopes. The first planet has a mass of M sin i = 4.96 M_Jup and is o…

astro-ph2008★ 34 cited

Detection of period variations in extrasolar transiting planet OGLE-TR-111b

Rodrigo F. Díaz, Patricio Rojo, Mario Melita +4

Two consecutive transits of planetary companion OGLE-TR-111b were observed in the I band. Combining these observations with data from the literature, we find that the timing of the…

astro-ph2008★ 42 cited

Evidence of N2-Ice On the Surface of the Icy Dwarf Planet 136472 (2005 FY9)

S. C. Tegler, W. M. Grundy, F. Vilas +3

We present high signal precision optical reflectance spectra of 2005 FY9 taken with the Red Channel Spectrograph and the 6.5-m MMT telescope on 2006 March 4 UT (5000 - 9500 A; 6.33…