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most citedVISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV): The public ESO near-IR variability survey of the Milky Way

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astro-ph2005

ZEN and the search for high-redshift galaxies

J. P. Willis, F. Courbin, J-P. Kneib +1

We present the ZEN (z equals nine) survey: a deep, narrow J-band search for proto-galactic Lya emission at redshifts z=9. In the first phase of the survey, dubbed ZEN1, we combine…

astro-ph2005★ 34 cited

Discovery of Five New R Coronae Borealis Stars in the MACHO Galactic Bulge Database

A. Zaniewski, Geoffrey C. Clayton, D. L. Welch +3

We have identified five new R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars in the Galactic bulge using the MACHO Project photometry database, raising the total number of known Galactic RCB stars t…

astro-ph2005★ 377 cited

The N2K Consortium. II. A Transiting Hot Saturn Around HD 149026 With a Large Dense Core

B. Sato, D. A. Fischer, G. W. Henry +18

Doppler measurements from Subaru and Keck have revealed radial velocity variations in the V=8.15, G0IV star HD 149026 consistent with a Saturn-Mass planet in a 2.8766 day orbit. Ph…

astro-ph2005★ 145 cited

The Araucaria Project. Near-Infrared Photometry of Cepheid Variables in the Sculptor Galaxy NGC 300

W. Gieren, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski +4

We have obtained deep near-infrared images in J and K filters of three fields in the Sculptor galaxy NGC 300 with the ESO VLT and ISAAC camera. For 16 Cepheid variables in these fi…

astro-ph2005★ 98 cited

Proper Motions of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging. III: Measurement for Ursa Minor

S. Piatek, C. Pryor, P. Bristow +5

This article presents a measurement of the proper motion of the Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxy determined from images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in two distinct fiel…

astro-ph2005

Search for Double Transit Extrasolar Planetary Systems: Another Transiting Planet Around OGLE-TR-111 or a False Positive Detection?

Dante Minniti

The search for double transit planetary systems opens new possibilities for the transit searches and for studies of orbital stability, stellar irradiation, and migration scenarios,…