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Simultaneous Multiwavelength and Optical Microvariability Observations of CTA 102 (PKS J2232+1143)

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Author(s): Angela Osterman Meyer, H. Richard Miller, Kevin Marshall, Wesley T. Ryle, Hugh Aller, Margo Aller, and Tom Balonek
Affiliation(s): Evelyn L. Egan Observatory at Florida Gulf Coast University, College of Arts and Sciences, 10501 FGCU Blvd, S., Fort Myers, FL 33965, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, 1 Park Place ste. 730, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bucknell University, 701 Moore Avenue, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA; Department of Math and Physics, Thomas More College, 333 Thomas More Parkway, Crestview Hills, KY 41017, USA; Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, 500 Church St., 830 Dennison, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1042, USA; Foggy Bottom Observatory at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, USA

Upper Limits on the Number of Small Bodies in Sedna-Like Orbits by the TAOS Project

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Author(s): J.-H. Wang, M. J. Lehner, Z.-W. Zhang, F. B. Bianco, C. Alcock, W.-P. Chen, T. Axelrod, Y.-I. Byun, N. K. Coehlo, K. H. Cook, R. Dave, I. de Pater, R. Porrata, D.-W. Kim, S.-K. King, T. Lee, H.-C. Lin, J. J. Lissauer, S. L. Marshall, P. Protopapas, J. A. Rice, M. E. Schwamb, S.-Y. Wang, and C.-Y. Wen
Affiliation(s): Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica. P.O. Box 23-141, Taipei 106, Taiwan; Institute of Astronomy, National Central University, No. 300, Jhongda Rd, Jhongli City, Taoyuan County 320, Taiwan; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Steward Observatory, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Room N204, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA; Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon, Seoul 120-749, Republic of Korea; Department of Statistics, University of California Berkeley, 367 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA; Department of Astronomy, University of California Berkeley, 601 Campbell Hall, Berkeley CA 94720, USA; Space Science and Astrobiology Division 245-3, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA; Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2575 Sand Hill Road, MS 29, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA; Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 1201 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Mojave: Monitoring of Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei with VLBA Experiments. VI. Kinematics Analysis of a Complete Sample of Blazar Jets

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Author(s): M. L. Lister, M. H. Cohen, D. C. Homan, M. Kadler, K. I. Kellermann, Y. Y. Kovalev, E. Ros, T. Savolainen, and J. A. Zensus
Affiliation(s): Department of Physics, Purdue University, 525 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA; Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 249-17, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Denison University, Granville, OH 43023, USA; Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg, Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Sternwartstrasse 7, 96049 Bamberg, Germany; Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Erwin-Rommel Str. 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany; CRESST/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA; Universities Space Research Association, 10211 Wincopin Circle, Suite 500 Columbia, MD 21044, USA; National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475, USA; Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hugel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany; Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117997 Moscow, Russia; Departament d'Astronomia i Astrofisica, Universitat de Valencia, E-46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain

The Behavior of Novae Light Curves Before Eruption

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Author(s): Andrew C. Collazzi, Bradley E. Schaefer, Limin Xiao, Ashley Pagnotta, Peter Kroll, Klaus Lochel, and Arne A. Henden
Affiliation(s): Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA; Sonneberg Observatory, D 96515 Sonneberg, Germany; American Association of Variable Star Observers, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Tidal Dwarf Galaxies Around a Post-merger Galaxy, NGC 4922

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Author(s): Yun-Kyeong Sheen, Hyunjin Jeong, Sukyoung K. Yi, Ignacio Ferreras, Jennifer M. Lotz, Knut A. G. Olsen, Mark Dickinson, Sydney Barnes, Jang-Hyun Park, Chang H. Ree, Barry F. Madore, Tom A. Barlow, Tim Conrow, Karl Foster, Peter G. Friendman, Young-Wook Lee, D. Christopher Martin, Patrick Morrissey, Susan G. Neff, David Schiminovich, Mark Seibert, Todd Small, and Ted K. Wyder
Affiliation(s): Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Republic of Korea; Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6NT, UK; National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA; Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA; Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Hwaam 61-1, Yuseong, Daejeon 305-348, Republic of Korea; Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 813 Santa Barbara St., Pasadena, CA 91101, USA; California Institute of Technology, MC 405-47, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA; Department of Astronomy, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA

VLA Imaging of Virgo Spirals in Atomic Gas (VIVA). I. The Atlas and the H I Properties

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Author(s): Aeree Chung, J. H. van Gorkom, Jeffrey D. P. Kenney, Hugh Crowl, and Bernd Vollmer
Affiliation(s): Department of Astronomy, Columbia University, 550 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA; Department of Astronomy, Yale University, P.O. Box 208101, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'universite, 67000 Strasbourg, France; Currently NRAO Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, P.O. Box O, Socorro, NM 87801, USA.; Current address: Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, 710 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003-9305, USA.

Outflows in ρ Ophiuchi as Seen with the Spitzer Infrared Array Camera

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Author(s): Miaomiao Zhang and Hongchi Wang
Affiliation(s): Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China

Mg II Absorption Characteristics of a Volume-Limited Sample of Galaxies at z ~ 0.1

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Author(s): Elizabeth J. Barton and Jeff Cooke
Affiliation(s): Center for Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4575, USA; Gary McCue Postdoctoral Fellow.

Orientation of Brighter Galaxies in Nearby Galaxy Clusters

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Author(s): E. Panko, T. Juszczyk, and P. Flin
Affiliation(s): Astronomical Department, Odessa National University, Odessa, Ukraine; Czacki High School, Krakow, Poland; Institute of Physics, Jan Kochanowski University, ul. Swietokrzyska 15, Kielce 25-406, Poland

MASSCLEAN—Massive Cluster Evolution and Analysis Package: Description and Tests

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Author(s): Bogdan Popescu and M. M. Hanson
Affiliation(s): Physics Department, University of Cincinnati, 400 G/P, P.O. Box 210011, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0011, USA

H I Observations of the Ca II Absorbing Galaxies Mrk 1456 and SDSS J211701.26–002633.7

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Author(s): B. Cherinka, R. E. Schulte-Ladbeck, and J. L. Rosenberg
Affiliation(s): Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA