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most citedMeasurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae

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astro-ph2005★ 311 cited

A detailed spectral and morphological study of the gamma-ray supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946 with H.E.S.S

The HESS Collaboration, F. Aharonian

We present results from deep observations of the Galactic shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) RX J1713.7-3946 (also known as G347.3-0.5) conducted with the complete H.E.S.S. array i…

astro-ph2005★ 99 cited

Photometric selection of high-redshift type Ia supernovae

M. Sullivan, D. A. Howell, K. Perrett +26

We present a method for selecting high-redshift type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) located via rolling SN searches. The technique, using both color and magnitude information of events fro…

astro-ph2005★ 2.4k cited

The Supernova Legacy Survey: Measurement of Omega_M, Omega_Lambda and w from the First Year Data Set

P. Astier, J. Guy, N. Regnault +39

We present distance measurements to 71 high redshift type Ia supernovae discovered during the first year of the 5-year Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS). These events were detected an…

astro-ph2005★ 552 cited

The H.E.S.S. survey of the Inner Galaxy in very high-energy gamma-rays

The HESS Collaboration, F. Aharonian

We report on a survey of the inner part of the Galactic Plane in very high energy gamma-rays, with the H.E.S.S. Cherenkov telescope system. The Galactic Plane between +-30deg in lo…

astro-ph2005★ 81 cited

A possible association of the new VHE gamma-ray source HESS J1825--137 with the pulsar wind nebula G18.0--0.7

HESS Collaboration, F. A. Aharonian

We report on a possible association of the recently discovered very high-energy -ray source HESS J1825--137 with the pulsar wind nebula (commonly referred to as G 18.0--0.7) of…

astro-ph2005★ 224 cited

Gemini Spectroscopy of Supernovae from SNLS: Improving High Redshift SN Selection and Classification

D. A. Howell, M. Sullivan, K. Perrett +22

We present new techiques for improving the efficiency of supernova (SN) classification at high redshift using 64 candidates observed at Gemini North and South during the first year…

astro-ph2005★ 57 cited

Spectra of High-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae and a Comparison with their Low-Redshift Counterparts

I. M. Hook, D. A. Howell, G. Aldering +32

We present spectra for 14 high-redshift (0.17 < z < 0.83) supernovae, which were discovered by the Supernova Cosmology Project as part of a campaign to measure cosmological paramet…

astro-ph2005★ 547 cited

A low level of extragalactic background light as revealed by gamma-rays from blazars

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian

The diffuse extragalactic background light consists of the sum of the starlight emitted by galaxies through the history of the Universe, and it could also have an important contrib…

astro-ph2005★ 15 cited

Spectroscopy of twelve Type Ia supernovae at intermediate redshift

C. Balland, M. Mouchet, R. Pain +15

We present spectra of twelve Type Ia supernovae obtained in 1999 at the William Herschel Telescope and the Nordic Optical Telescope during a search for Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) a…

astro-ph2005★ 26 cited

A search for very high energy gamma-ray emission from the starburst galaxy NGC 253 with H.E.S.S

F. Aharonian et al.

We present the result of 28 hours of observations of the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 with the H.E.S.S. detector in 2003. We find no evidence for very high energy gamma-ray emis…

astro-ph2005★ 41 cited

Spectroscopic Observations and Analysis of the Unusual Type Ia SN 1999ac

The Supernova Cosmology Project, :, G. Garavini +55

We present optical spectra of the peculiar Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 1999ac. The data extend from -15 to +42 days with respect to B-band maximum and reveal an event that is unusual…

astro-ph2005★ 71 cited

Observations of Selected AGN with H.E.S.S

F. Aharonian et al.

A sample of selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) was observed in 2003 and 2004 with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), an array of imaging atmospheric-Cherenkov teles…

astro-ph2005★ 317 cited

SALT: a Spectral Adaptive Light curve Template for Type Ia Supernovae

J. Guy, P. Astier, S. Nobili +2

We present a new method to parameterize Type Ia Supernovae (SN Ia) multi-color light curves. The method was developed in order to analyze the large number of SN Ia multi-color ligh…

astro-ph2005★ 101 cited

Multi-wavelength observations of PKS 2155-304 with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, Aharonian

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) has observed the high-frequency peaked BL Lac object PKS2155-304 in 2003 between October 19 and November 26 in Very High Energy (VHE)…

astro-ph2005★ 348 cited

Discovery of the Binary Pulsar PSR B1259-63 in Very-High-Energy Gamma Rays around Periastron with H.E.S.S

F. Aharonian

We report the discovery of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission of the binary system PSR B1259-63/SS 2883 of a radio pulsar orbiting a massive, luminous Be star in a highly ec…

astro-ph2005★ 62 cited

Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter and Galactic Antiprotons

Aurelien Barrau, Pierre Salati, Geraldine Servant +4

Extra dimensions offer new ways to address long-standing problems in beyond the standard model particle physics. In some classes of extra-dimensional models, the lightest Kaluza-Kl…

astro-ph2005★ 81 cited

Observations of Mkn 421 in 2004 with H.E.S.S. at large zenith angles

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian

Mkn 421 was observed during a high flux state for nine nights in April and May 2004 with the fully operational High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) in Namibia. The observatio…

astro-ph2005★ 37 cited

Gravitational evolution of a perturbed lattice and its fluid limit

M. Joyce, B. Marcos, A. Gabrielli +2

We apply a simple linearization, well known in solid state physics, to approximate the evolution at early times of cosmological N-body simulations of gravity. In the limit that the…

astro-ph2005★ 186 cited

Detection of TeV gamma-ray Emission from the Shell-Type Supernova Remnant RX J0852.0-4622 with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. collaboration, :, F. Aharonian

We report the detection of TeV gamma-rays from the shell-type supernova remnant RX J0852.0-4622 with data of 3.2 h of live time recorded with H.E.S.S. in February 2004. An excess o…

astro-ph2005★ 72 cited

Serendipitous discovery of the unidentified extended TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1303-631

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian

The serendipitous discovery of an unidentified extended TeVgamma-ray source close to the galactic plane named HESS J1303-631 at a significance of 21 standard deviations is reported…

astro-ph2005★ 68 cited

Discovery of VHE Gamma Rays from PKS 2005-489

The H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, Aharonian

The high-frequency peaked BL Lac PKS 2005-489 (z=0.071) was observed in 2003 and 2004 with the H.E.S.S. stereoscopic array of imaging atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes in Namibia. A…

astro-ph2005★ 55 cited

Restframe I-band Hubble diagram for type Ia supernovae up to redshift z ~0.5

The Supernova Cosmology Project, :, S. Nobili +35

We present a novel technique for fitting restframe I-band light curves on a data set of 42 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Using the result of the fit, we construct a Hubble diagram w…

astro-ph2005★ 138 cited

Discovery of extended VHE gamma-ray emission from the asymmetric pulsar wind nebula in MSH 15-52 with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian

The Supernova Remnant MSH 15-52 has been observed in very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays using the H.E.S.S. 4-telescope array located in Namibia. A gamma-ray signal is detected at th…

astro-ph2005★ 181 cited

High-Velocity Features: a ubiquitous property of Type Ia SNe

P. A. Mazzali, S. Benetti, G. Altavilla +26

Evidence of high-velocity features such as those seen in the near-maximum spectra of some Type Ia Supernovae (eg SN 2000cx) has been searched for in the available SNIa spectra obse…