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most citedThe FIRST Bright Quasar Survey. II. 60 Nights and 1200 Spectra Later

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astro-ph.CO2012★ 23 cited

A high molecular fraction in a sub-damped absorber at z=0.56

Neil H. M. Crighton, Jill Bechtold, Robert F. Carswell +8

Measuring rest-frame ultraviolet rotational transitions from the Lyman and Werner bands in absorption against a bright background continuum is one of the few ways to directly measu…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 46 cited

The Chandra Multi-Wavelength Project: Optical Spectroscopy and the Broadband Spectral Energy Distributions of X-ray Selected AGN

Markos Trichas, Paul J. Green, John D. Silverman +20

From optical spectroscopy of X-ray sources observed as part of ChaMP, we present redshifts and classifications for a total of 1569 Chandra sources from our targeted spectroscopic f…

astro-ph2006★ 11 cited

Lyman-Alpha Absorption in the Quasar Triplet Q0107-025A, Q0107-025B, and Q0107-0232: Data Calibration and Line Selection

C. E. Petry, C. D. Impey, J. L. Fenton +1

We present spectroscopic observations for quasars Q0107-025A, Q0107-025B, and Q0107-0232. For the first time, all data obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope's GHRS and FOS for t…

astro-ph2004★ 60 cited

HS 0837+4717 -- a metal-deficient blue compact galaxy with large nitrogen excess

Simon Pustilnik, Alexei Kniazev, Alexander Pramskij +5

(Abridged) We present the results of high S/N long-slit spectroscopy with the Multiple Mirror and the SAO 6-m telescopes, optical imaging with the Wise 1-m telescope and HI observa…

astro-ph2003★ 24 cited

Serendipity and the SDSS: Discovery of the Largest Known Planetary Nebula on the Sky

Paul C Hewett, Michael J Irwin, Evan D Skillman +4

Investigation of spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey reveals the presence of a region of ionized gas of >2 degrees diameter centered approximately at alpha = 10^h 37^m delta…

astro-ph2003★ 50 cited

Optical Spectropolarimetry of Quasi-Stellar Objects Discovered by the Two-Micron All Sky Survey

Paul S. Smith, Gary D. Schmidt, Dean C. Hines +1

Highly polarized QSOs discovered in the Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) have been observed to determine the source(s) of optical polarization in this near-infrared color-selected…