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    • 2MASS J17112318-2724315: A DEEPLY EMBEDDED LOW-MASS PROTOSTELLAR SYSTEM IN THE B59 MOLECULAR CLOUD 

      Riaz, B.; Martin, E. L.; Bouy, H.; Tata, R. (2009-08-01)
      We present near-infrared observations of the low-mass deeply embedded Class 0/I system 2MASS J17112318-2724315 (2M171123) in the B59 molecular cloud. Bright scattered light nebulosity is observed toward this source in the ...

    • High-resolution Doppler images of the spotted contact binary AE Phe 

      Barnes, J R; Lister, T A; Hilditch, R W; Cameron, A C (2004-03-11)
      We present Doppler images of the short period (P = 0.362 d) W UMa binary AE Phe. In order to obtain the necessary S/N ratio and time resolution required to see individual star-spot features in highly rotationally broadened ...

    • Surface images of the short period contact binary AE Phe 

      Barnes, J R; Lister, T A; Hilditch, R W; Cameron, A C (2004)
      We present high resolution Doppler images of the short period (P = 0.362 d) contact binary AE Phe. Using least squares deconvolution, we make use of the information content of the several thousand lines in each echelle ...

    • 2006 WHOLE EARTH TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS OF GD358: A NEW LOOK AT THE PROTOTYPE DBV 

      Provencal, J. L.; Montgomery, M. H.; Kanaan, A.; Shipman, H. L.; Childers, D.; Baran, A.; Kepler, S. O.; Reed, M.; Zhou, A.; Eggen, J.; Watson, T. K.; Winget, D. E.; Thompson, S. E.; Riaz, B.; Nitta, A.; Kleinman, S. J.; Crowe, R.; Slivkoff, J.; Sherard, P.; Purves, N.; Binder, P.; Knight, R.; Kim, S. -L.; Chen, Wen-Ping; Yang, M.; Lin, H. C.; Lin, C. C.; Chen, C. W.; Jiang, X. J.; Sergeev, A. V.; Mkrtichian, D.; Andreev, M.; Janulis, R.; Siwak, M.; Zola, S.; Koziel, D.; Stachowski, G.; Paparo, M.; Bognar, Zs.; Handler, G.; Lorenz, D.; Steininger, B.; Beck, P.; Nagel, T.; Kusterer, D.; Hoffman, A.; Reiff, E.; Kowalski, R.; Vauclair, G.; Charpinet, S.; Chevreton, M.; Solheim, J. E.; Pakstiene, E.; Fraga, L.; Dalessio, J. (2009-03-01)
      We report on the analysis of 436.1 hr of nearly continuous high-speed photometry on the pulsating DB white dwarf GD358 acquired with the Whole Earth Telescope (WET) during the 2006 international observing run, designated ...

    • Fibre Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) for the Subaru Telescope 

      Kimura, Masahiko; Maihara, Toshinori; Iwamuro, Fumihide; Akiyama, Masayuki; Tamura, Naoyuki; Dalton, Gavin B.; Takato, Naruhisa; Tait, Philip; Ohta, Kouji; Eto, Shigeru; Mochida, Daisaku; Elms, Brian; Kawate, Kaori; Kurakami, Tomio; Moritani, Yuuki; Noumaru, Junichi; Ohshima, Norio; Sumiyoshi, Masanao; Yabe, Kiyoto; Brzeski, Jurek; Farrell, Tony; Frost, Gabriella; Gillingham, Peter R.; Haynes, Roger; Moore, Anna M.; Muller, Rolf; Smedley, Scott; Smith, Greg; Bonfield, David G.; Brooks, Charles B.; Holmes, Alan R.; Lake, Emma Curtis; Lee, Hanshin; Lewis, Ian J.; Froud, Tim R.; Tosh, Ian A.; Woodhouse, Guy F.; Blackburn, Colin; Content, Robert; Dipper, Nigel; Murray, Graham; Sharples, Ray; Robertson, David J. (2010)
      Fibre Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) is the first near-infrared instrument with a wide field of view capable of acquiring spectra simultaneously from up to 400 objects. It has been developed as a common-use instrument ...

    • Deconvolution of high-resolution spectra as a signal-to-noise ratio enhancement method 

      Barnes, J R (2004-03-11)
      We demonstrate the use of singular value decomposition as a method for deconvolving high-resolution spectra of rapidly rotating stars. A convolution matrix can be built from the observed template spectrum of a slowly ...

    • The history of the cosmic supernova rate derived from the evolution of the host galaxies 

      Kobayashi, C; Tsujimoto, T; Nomoto, K; Kobayashi, Chiaki (2000-08-10)
      Ne make a prediction of the cosmic supernova rate history as a composite of the supernova rates in spiral and elliptical galaxies. Ne include the metallicity effect on the evolution of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progenitors ...

    • Differential rotation and star-spot evolution on HK Aqr in 2001 and 2002 

      Barnes, J R; James, D J; Cameron, A C (2004-08-01)
      We present images of the rapidly rotating (P-rot = 0.431 d) M1.5Ve dwarf HK Aqr, from data obtained during 2001 and 2002. Star-spots are found distributed at a range of latitudes during both observing seasons, but unlike ...

    • Imaging polarimetry of class I young stellar objects 

      Lucas, P.W.; Roche, P.F. (1998-09-21)
      We present near-infrared imaging polarimetry of three class I young stellar objects in the Taurus-Auriga dark cloud. We use Monte Carlo simulations to analyse the flux distributions and polarization patterns of these three ...

    • Butterfly star in Taurus: Structures of young stellar objects 

      Lucas, P.W.; Roche, P.F. (1997-04-21)
      We present high-resolution, near-infrared images of a sample of five low-mass young stellar objects in the Taurus-Auriga dark cloud, mostly observed with the 'shift and add' technique, together with deep polarimetric images. ...

    • Dense spot coverage and polar caps on SV Cam 

      Jeffers, S. V.; Cameron, A. Collier; Barnes, J. R.; Aufdenberg, J. P. (2006-08)
      We have used spectrophotometric data from nine Hubble Space Telescope orbits to eclipse-map the primary component of the RS CVn binary SV Cam. From these observations and its HIPPARCOS parallax we find that the surface ...

    • BROWN DWARF DISKS AT AGES OF 5-10 Myr 

      Riaz, Basmah; Lodieu, Nicolas; Gizis, John E. (2009-11-10)
      We present Spitzer/IRAC and MIPS 24 mu m observations for 28 brown dwarfs in the Upper Scorpius (UppSco) region. We find a disk fraction of 10.7%-(+ 8.7%)(3.3%) . One object shows a small excess at 24 mu m but none at ...

    • Luminosity functions of LMXBs in Centaurus A: globular clusters versus the field 

      Voss, R.; Gilfanov, M.; Sivakoff, G.R.; Kraft, R.P.; Jordan, A.; Raychaudhury, S.; Birkinshaw, M.; Brassington, Nicola; Croston, J.H.; Evans, D.A.; Forman, W.R.; Hardcastle, M.J.; Harris, W.E.; Jones, C.; Juett, A.M.; Murray, S.S.; Sarazin, C.L.; Woodley, K.A.; Worrall, D.M. (2009)
      We study the X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXB) in the nearby early-type galaxy Centaurus A, concentrating primarily on two aspects of binary populations: the XLF behavior at the low-luminosity ...

    • New results on particle acceleration in the Centaurus A jet and counterjet from a deep Chandra observation 

      Hardcastle, M.J.; Kraft, R.P.; Sivakoff, G.R.; Goodger, Joanna; Croston, J.H.; Jordan, A.; Evans, D.A.; Worrall, D.M.; Birkinshaw, M.; Raychaudhury, S.; Brassington, Nicola; Forman, W.R.; Harris, W.E.; Jones, C.; Juett, A.M.; Murray, S.S.; Nulsen, P.E.J.; Sarazin, C.L.; Woodley, K.A. (2007)
      We present new deep Chandra observations of the Centaurus A jet, with a combined on-source exposure time of 719 ks. These data allow detailed X-ray spectral measurements to be made along the jet out to its disappearance ...

    • Evidence for Non-Hydrostatic Gas Motions in the Hot Interstellar Medium of Centaurus A 

      Kraft, R.P.; Hardcastle, M.J.; Sivakoff, G.R.; Jordan, A.; Nulsen, P.E.J.; Birkinshaw, M.; Forman, W.R.; Jones, C.; Worrall, D.M.; Croston, J.H.; Evans, D.A.; Raychaudhury, S.; Murray, S.S.; Brassington, Nicola; Goodger, Joanna; Harris, W.E.; Juett, A.M.; Sarazin, C.L.; Woodley, K.A. (2008)
      We present preliminary results from a deep (600 ks) Chandra observation of the hot interstellar medium of the nearby early-type galaxy Centaurus A. We find a surface brightness discontinuity in the gas ~3.5 kpc from the ...

    • Long-term monitoring of the dynamics and particle acceleration of knots in the jet of Centaurus A 

      Goodger, Joanna; Hardcastle, M.J.; Croston, J.H.; Kraft, R.P.; Birkinshaw, M.; Evans, D.A.; Jordan, A.; Nulsen, P.E.J.; Sivakoff, G.R.; Worrall, D.M.; Brassington, Nicola; Forman, W.R.; Gilfanov, M.; Jones, C.; Murray, S.S.; Raychaudhury, S.; Sarazin, C.L.; Voss, R.; Woodley, K.A. (2010)
      We present new and archival multi-frequency radio and X-ray data for Centaurus A obtained over almost 20 years at the Very Large Array and with Chandra, with which we measure the X-ray and radio spectral indices of jet ...

    • Low-Mass X-ray Binaries and Globular Clusters in Centaurus A 

      Jordan, A.; Sivakoff, G.R.; McLaughlin, D.E.; Blakeslee, J.P.; Evans, D.A.; Kraft, R.P.; Hardcastle, M.J.; Peng, E.W.; Cote, P.; Croston, J.H.; Juett, A.M.; Minniti, D.; Raychaudhury, S.; Sarazin, C.L.; Worrall, S.M.; Harris, W.E.; Woodley, K.A.; Birkinshaw, M.; Brassington, Nicola; Forman, W.R.; Jones, C.; Murray, S.S. (2007)
      We present results of Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory observations of globular clusters (GCs) and low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) in the central regions of Centaurus A. Out of 440 GC candidates, we ...

    • Where Centaurus A gets its X-ray knottiness 

      Worrall, D.M.; Birkinshaw, M.; Kraft, R.P.; Sivakoff, G.R.; Jordan, A.; Hardcastle, M.J.; Brassington, Nicola; Croston, J.H.; Evans, D.A.; Forman, W.R.; Harris, W.E.; Jones, C.; Juett, A.M.; Murray, S.S.; Nulsen, P.E.J.; Raychaudhury, S.; Sarazin, C.L.; Woodley, K.A. (2008)
      We report an X-ray spectral study of the transverse structure of the Centaurus A jet using new data from the Chandra Cen A Very Large Project. We find that the spectrum steepens with increasing distance from the jet axis, ...

    • A Transient Black-Hole Low-Mass X-Ray Binary Candidate in Centaurus A 

      Sivakoff, G.R.; Kraft, R.P.; Jordan, A.; Juett, A.M.; Evans, D.A.; Forman, W.R.; Hardcastle, M.J.; Sarazin, C.L.; Birkinshaw, M.; Brassington, Nicola; Croston, J.H.; Harris, W.F.; Jones, C.; Murray, S.S.; Raychaudhury, S.; Woodley, K.A.; Worrall, D.M. (2008)
      We report the discovery of a bright transient X-ray source, CXOU J132518.2–430304, toward Centaurus A (Cen A) using six new Chandra X-Ray Observatory observations in 2007 March-May. Between 2003 and 2007, its flux has ...

    • Identifying counterfeit medicines using near infrared spectroscopy 

      Moffat, Anthony C.; Watt, Robert A.; Assi, Sulaf (2010)
      Counterfeit medicines are a growing threat to public health across the world and screening methods are needed to allow their rapid identification. A counterfeiter must duplicate both the physical characteristics and the ...