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astro-ph2008★ 74 cited

The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury I. The Star Formation History of the M81 Outer Disk

Benjamin F. Williams, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Anil C. Seth +16

The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury (ANGST) is a large Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) treasury program to obtain resolved stellar photometry for a…

astro-ph2008★ 53 cited

The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury II. Young Stars and their Relation to Halpha and UV Emission Timescales in the M81 Outer Disk

Stephanie M. Gogarten, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Benjamin F. Williams +11

We have obtained resolved stellar photometry from Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) observations of a field in the outer disk of M81 as part of the ACS…

astro-ph2008★ 159 cited

Scattered-Light Echoes from the Historical Galactic Supernovae Cassiopeia A and Tycho (SN 1572)

A. Rest, D. L. Welch, N. B. Suntzeff +16

We report the discovery of an extensive system of scattered light echo arclets associated with the recent supernovae in the local neighbourhood of the Milky Way: Tycho (SN 1572) an…

astro-ph2008★ 3.5k cited

LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

Željko Ivezić, Steven M. Kahn, J. Anthony Tyson +310

(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a sin…

astro-ph2008★ 127 cited

Revised bolometric corrections and interstellar extinction coefficients for the ACS and WFPC2 photometric systems

L. Girardi, J. Dalcanton, B. Williams +8

We present extensive tables of bolometric corrections and interstellar extinction coefficients for the WFPC2 and ACS (both WFC and HRC) photometric systems. They are derived from s…

astro-ph2008★ 120 cited

Spectral Identification of an Ancient Supernova using Light Echoes in the LMC

A. Rest, T. Matheson, S. Blondin +26

We report the successful identification of the type of the supernova responsible for the supernova remnant SNR 0509-675 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using Gemini spectra of…