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astro-ph.IM2012★ 16 cited

Development of a New, Precise Near-infrared Doppler Wavelength Reference: A Fiber Fabry-Perot Interferometer

Samuel Halverson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Lawrence Ramsey +5

We present the ongoing development of a commercially available Micron Optics fiber-Fabry Perot Interferometer as a precise, stable, easy to use, and economic spectrograph reference…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 419 cited

The Milky Way's circular velocity curve between 4 and 14 kpc from APOGEE data

Jo Bovy, Carlos Allende Prieto, Timothy C. Beers +30

We measure the Milky Way's rotation curve over the Galactocentric range 4 kpc <~ R <~ 14 kpc from the first year of data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experi…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 1.5k cited

The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

III Collaboration, Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff +224

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 68 cited

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment: First Detection of High Velocity Milky Way Bar Stars

David L. Nidever, Gail Zasowski, Steven R. Majewski +33

Commissioning observations with the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III, have produced radial velocities (RVs)…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 153 cited

First Light LBT AO Images of HR 8799 bcde at 1.65 and 3.3 Microns: New Discrepancies between Young Planets and Old Brown Dwarfs

Andrew J. Skemer, Philip M. Hinz, Simone Esposito +45

As the only directly imaged multiple planet system, HR 8799 provides a unique opportunity to study the physical properties of several planets in parallel. In this paper, we image a…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 54 cited

The Gray Needle: Large Grains in the HD 15115 Debris Disk from LBT/PISCES/Ks and LBTI/LMIRcam/L' Adaptive Optics Imaging

Timothy J. Rodigas, Philip M. Hinz, Jarron Leisenring +52

We present diffraction-limited \ks band and \lprime adaptive optics images of the edge-on debris disk around the nearby F2 star HD 15115, obtained with a single 8.4 m primary mirro…