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A historic jet-emission minimum reveals hidden spectral features in 3C 273
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200600023 Bibcode: 2006A&A...451L...1T

Lähteenmäki, A.; Foellmi, C.; O'Brien, P. T. +14 more

Aims. The aim of this work is to identify and study spectral features in the quasar 3C 273 usually blended by its strong jet emission.
Methods: . A historic minimum in the sub-millimetre emission of 3C 273 triggered coordinated multi-wavelength observations in June 2004. X-ray observations from the INTEGRAL, XMM-Newton and RXTE satellites are…

2006 Astronomy and Astrophysics
INTEGRAL XMM-Newton 30
Deep HST Photometry of NGC 6388: Age and Horizontal-Branch Luminosity
DOI: 10.1086/509720 Bibcode: 2006ApJ...651L.133C

Kinemuchi, Karen; Rich, R. M.; Catelan, M. +5 more

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, we have obtained the first color-magnitude diagram (CMD) to reach the main-sequence turnoff of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6388. From a comparison between the cluster CMD and that of 47 Tucanae, we find that the bulk of the stars in these two clusters have nearly the same age and chemical composition. On the…

2006 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 30
The star formation rate at redshift one: Hα spectroscopy with CIRPASS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10484.x Bibcode: 2006MNRAS.370..331D

Bunker, Andrew; Sharp, Robert; Dalton, Gavin +3 more

We have conducted an Hα survey of 38 0.77 <= z <= 1 galaxies over ~100arcmin2 of the Hubble Deep Field-North and Flanking Fields, to determine star formation rates (SFRs), with the near-IR multi-object spectrograph Cambridge Infrared Panoramic Survey Spectrograph (CIRPASS) on the William Herschel Telescope (WHT). This represents t…

2006 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 30
New southern blue compact dwarf galaxies in the 2dF Galaxy redshift survey
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20054458 Bibcode: 2006A&A...457...45P

Thuan, T. X.; Izotov, Y. I.; Papaderos, P. +3 more

Aims.Aiming to find new extremely metal-deficient star-forming galaxies we extracted from the Two-Degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) 100 K Data Release 14 emission-line galaxies with relatively strong [O iii] λ4363 emission.
Methods: .Spectroscopic and photometric studies of this sample and, in addition, of 7 Tololo and 2 UM galaxies…

2006 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 30
Spectral Irradiance Calibration in the Infrared. XVI. Improved Accuracy in the Infrared Spectra of the Secondary and Tertiary Standard Calibration Stars
DOI: 10.1086/505865 Bibcode: 2006AJ....132.1445E

Kraemer, Kathleen E.; Price, Stephan D.; Engelke, Charles W.

We have increased the spectral resolution and accuracy of the absolute infrared spectral flux for a subset of stellar standards created by Cohen and his collaborators in previous papers in this series. We combined the moderate-resolution (λ/Δλ~400) spectroscopy obtained on infrared standard stars by the Short Wavelength Spectrometer on the Infrare…

2006 The Astronomical Journal
ISO 30
Strange magnification pattern in the large separation lens SDSS J1004+4112 from optical to X-rays
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20064934 Bibcode: 2006A&A...454..493L

Christensen, L.; Schwope, A.; Wisotzki, L. +1 more

We present simultaneous XMM-Newton UV and X-ray observations of the quadruply lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112 (RBS 825). Simultaneously with the XMM-Newton observations we also performed integral field spectroscopy on the two closest lens images A and B using the Calar Alto PMAS spectrograph. In X-rays the widel…

2006 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 29
Simple Magnetic Flux Balance as an Indicator of Ne VIII Doppler Velocity Partitioning in an Equatorial Coronal Hole
DOI: 10.1086/505488 Bibcode: 2006ApJ...644L..87M

McIntosh, Scott W.; Davey, Alisdair R.; Hassler, Donald M.

We present a novel investigation into the relationship between simple estimates of magnetic flux balance and the Ne VIII Doppler velocity partitioning of a large equatorial coronal hole observed by the Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation spectrometer (SUMER) on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory in 1999 November. We demonstrate…

2006 The Astrophysical Journal
SOHO 29
Hard X-ray bursts detected by the IBIS telescope onboard the INTEGRAL observatory in 2003 2004
DOI: 10.1134/S1063773706070048 Bibcode: 2006AstL...32..456C

Sunyaev, R. A.; Grebenev, S. A.; Chelovekov, I. V.

All of the observations performed with the IBIS telescope onboard the INTEGRAL observatory during the first one and a half years of its in-orbit operation (from February 10, 2003, through July 2, 2004) have been analyzed to find X-ray bursts. The time history of the IBIS/ISGRI total count rate in the energy range 15-25 keV revealed 1077 bursts of …

2006 Astronomy Letters
INTEGRAL 29
Testing Rotational Mixing Predictions with New Boron Abundances in Main-Sequence B-Type Stars
DOI: 10.1086/500252 Bibcode: 2006ApJ...640.1039M

Lambert, D. L.; Mendel, J. T.; Venn, K. A. +2 more

New boron abundances for seven main-sequence B-type stars are determined from HST STIS spectroscopy around the B III 2066 Å line. Boron abundances provide a unique and critical test of stellar evolution models that include rotational mixing, since boron is destroyed in the surface layers of stars through shallow mixing long before other elements a…

2006 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 29
The Water Vapor Abundance in Orion KL Outflows
DOI: 10.1086/508259 Bibcode: 2006ApJ...649L..33C

Cernicharo, José; Viti, Serena; Barlow, Michael J. +7 more

We present the detection and modeling of more than 70 far-IR pure rotational lines of water vapor, including the 18O and 17O isotopologues, toward Orion KL. Observations were performed with the Long Wavelength Spectrometer in Fabry-Pérot mode (λ/Δλ~6800-9700) on board the Infrared Space Observatory between ~43 and 197 µ…

2006 The Astrophysical Journal
ISO 29