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astro-ph2006
Extrasolar Transiting Planet Search with Subaru Suprime-Cam
Seitaro Urakawa, Toru Yamada, Yasushi Suto +5
We report the results of a prototype photometric search for transiting extrasolar planets using Subaru Suprime-Cam. Out of about 100,000 stars monitored around the Galactic plane (…
astro-ph2005
Interstellar Extinction by Spheroidal Dust Grains
Ranjan Gupta, Tadashi Mukai, D. B. Vaidya +2
Observations of interstellar extinction and polarization indicate that the interstellar medium consists of aligned non-spherical dust grains which show variation in the interstella…
astro-ph2005
An analysis of the distribution of background star polarization in dark clouds
A. K. Sen, T. Mukai, R. Gupta +1
The polarization observed for stars background to dark clouds (Bok Globules) is often used as diagnostic to study the ongoing star formation processes in these clouds. Such polariz…