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Erratum: "Probing Elemental Abundances in SNR 1987A using XMM-Newton" (ApJ, 676, 361 [2008])
DOI: 10.1086/592089 Bibcode: 2008ApJ...687.1464H

Haberl, Frank; Heng, Kevin; Hasinger, Günther +1 more

2008 The Astrophysical Journal
XMM-Newton 0
Dependence of the Characteristics of Solar Wind Discontinuities and Shocks with Heliolatitude and Radial Distance
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-008-9244-2 Bibcode: 2008SoPh..252..195D

Dickson Benjamin, A.; Prabhakaran Nayar, S. R.

The distribution of the shocks in the heliosphere and their characteristic variations are investigated using Ulysses observations. The jumps in solar wind velocity, IMF magnitude, and proton density across the shocks and discontinuities are evaluated and used to characterize them. The distribution of these discontinuities with respect to heliolati…

2008 Solar Physics
Ulysses 0
The peculiar horizontal branch morphology of the Galactic globular clusters NGC 6388 and NGC 6441.
Bibcode: 2008MmSAI..79..398B

Buss, G.

I present multiband optical and UV Hubble Space Telescope photometry of the two Galactic globular clusters NGC 6388 and NGC 6441, in order to investigate the nature of the physical mechanism(s) responsible for the existence of an extended blue tail and of a slope in the horizontal branch. Further evidence that the horizontal branch tilt cannot be …

2008 Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana
eHST 0
Plasma Kinetics
Bibcode: 2008ISSIR...8...75D

Schwartz, Steven J.; Daly, Patrick W.; Lefebvre, Betrand

In Chapter 7 of ISSI SR-001, Schwartz et al. [1998] explain the basic ideas of analysis by means of plasma kinetics: Liouville mapping and finite gyroradius effects. Liouville mapping can be used to relate features of distribution functions such as heating, anisotropies or beams, to the field variations. It is based on the conservation of phase sp…

2008 ISSI Scientific Reports Series
Cluster 0
On analyses of satellite ion scale reconnection data
DOI: 10.1029/2007JA012652 Bibcode: 2008JGRA..113.6207M

Mozer, F. S.; Cully, C. M.

Analyses of satellite-measured fields and flows through reconnecting current sheets have assumed that the relative velocity of the satellite and the current sheet is in the direction of the current sheet normal. During analyses, this relative normal velocity has been removed by translation of the satellite data. The assumption that the relative mo…

2008 Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics)
Cluster 0
X-Ray and Optical Followup of Gamma-Ray (up to TeV) Sources
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.0710.4447 Bibcode: 2008ChJAS...8..124M

Masetti, N.

The imaging capabilities of the INTEGRAL and HESS observatories allow the study of hard X-ray and TeV sources with unprecedented positional accuracy. Here I review the multiwavelength followup studies which are currently being performed on the unidentified sources detected by these facilities in order to unveil their actual nature.

2008 Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement
INTEGRAL 0
Active galaxies
DOI: 10.1002/asna.200710901 Bibcode: 2008AN....329..151M

Matt, G.

In this paper I will review, in an unavoidably incomplete and biased way, the main results obtained by XMM-Newton on Active Galactic Nuclei. I will then highlight the major issues still open in which XMM-Newton can still give important contributions, expecially if the observing programs will shift in the future towards more long exposures of singl…

2008 Astronomische Nachrichten
XMM-Newton 0
Classifying the stellar environment around V838 Monocerotis
Bibcode: 2008RMxAC..34..135R

Schaefer, G. H.; Rosero-Rueda, V. A.; Bond, H. E. +2 more

The V838 Mon's behavior and the nature of the progenitor object are not well understood. Type B stars recently have been found in the vicinity of V838 Mon and it is thought that they may be part of a young open cluster. Since the cluster is in a spiral arm of the Galaxy, the identification of additional member stars is complicated; therefore, phot…

2008 Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series
eHST 0
QSO number counts to B < 24.5 from hubble space telescope WFPC2 images
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.07.032 Bibcode: 2008AdSpR..42..560B

Anderson, Scott F.; Beck-Winchatz, Bernhard

We have conducted a survey for faint quasars to B < 24.5, z < 2.1 based on archival high-latitude Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) images covering 0.04 deg2 of the sky in three filters spanning 2300 9600 Å. Taking advantage of the superb 0.1″ resolution of WFPC2, we have developed an approach to select …

2008 Advances in Space Research
eHST 0
Cross-identification of the hipparcos and 2MASS catalogs. Algorithm and programs
DOI: 10.1007/s11963-008-1007-5 Bibcode: 2008KPCB...24...51Z

Zolotukhina, A. V.; Lazorenko, P. F.; Kharin, A. S.

A procedure for the cross-identification of the Hipparcos and 2MASS catalogs was developed. The algorithm and the cross-identification software are described.

2008 Kinematics and Physics of Celestial Bodies
Hipparcos 0