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Spatial Study with the Very Large Telescope of a New Resolved Edge-on Circumstellar Dust Disk Discovered at the Periphery of the ρ Ophiuchi Dark Cloud
DOI: 10.1086/367557 Bibcode: 2003ApJ...586..296G

Neuhäuser, R.; Grosso, N.; Alves, J. +3 more

We report the discovery in near-infrared (NIR) with SofI at the New Technology Telescope (NTT) of a resolved circumstellar dust disk around a 2MASS source at the periphery of the ρ Ophiuchi dark cloud. We present follow-up observations in J, H, and Ks bands, obtained with ISAAC at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) under 0.4" seeing conditi…

2003 The Astrophysical Journal
ISO 40
ISOCAM-CVF spectroscopy of the circumstellar environment of young stellar objects
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030158 Bibcode: 2003A&A...401..613A

Eiroa, C.; André, P.; Alexander, R. D. +2 more

We present the results of a mid-infrared (5-16.5 mu m) imaging spectroscopy survey of Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) and their surrounding environment in four low-mass star formation regions: RCrA, rho Ophiuchi, Serpens and Chamaeleon I. This survey was performed using ISOCAM and its Circular Variable Filters (CVF) and observed 42 YSO candidates: we…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
ISO 40
The Vela pulsar in the near-infrared
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030652 Bibcode: 2003A&A...406..645S

Sollerman, J.; Lundqvist, P.; Shibanov, Yu. A. +1 more

We report on the first detection of the Vela pulsar in the near-infrared with the VLT/ISAAC in the Js and H bands. The pulsar magnitudes are Js=22.71+/-0.10 and H=22.04+/-0.16. We compare our results with the available multiwavelength data and show that the dereddened phase-averaged optical spectrum of the pulsar can be fitte…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 40
L183 (L134N) Revisited. I. The very cold core and the ridge
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030903 Bibcode: 2003A&A...406L..59P

Miville-Deschênes, M. -A.; Lagache, G.; Teyssier, D. +8 more

We report new 1.2 mm continuum observations of the L183 (=L134N) dark cloud with the MAMBO bolometer array at IRAM. Combined with ISOCAM and ISOPHOT data at 7 and 200 mu m, this new observation is not compatible with the results found by Ward-Thompson et al. (\cite{Ward94}) with SCUBA and further analysed by L…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
ISO 40
X-ray and ultraviolet observations of the dwarf nova VW Hyi in quiescence
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2003.07199.x Bibcode: 2003MNRAS.346.1231P

Pandel, Dirk; Howell, Steve B.; Córdova, France A.

We present an analysis of X-ray and ultraviolet (UV) data of the dwarf nova VW Hyi that were obtained with XMM-Newton during the quiescent state. The X-ray spectrum indicates the presence of an optically thin plasma in the boundary layer that cools as it settles on to the white dwarf. The plasma has a continuous temperature distribution that is we…

2003 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 40
Statistical re-examination of reported emission lines in the X-ray afterglow of GRB 011211
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06051.x Bibcode: 2003MNRAS.339..600R

Sako, Masao; Rutledge, Robert E.

A 0.2-12 keV spectrum obtained with the XMM-Newton EPIC/pn instrument of GRB 011211, taken in the first 5 ks of a 27-ks observation, was found by Reeves et al. in 2002 to contain emission lines that were interpreted to be from MgXI, SiXIV, SXVI, ArXVIII and CaXX, at a lower redshift (zobs= 1.88) than that of the host galaxy (zhost<…

2003 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
XMM-Newton 40
Radio Emission Associated with Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources in the Galaxy Merger NGC 3256
DOI: 10.1086/379596 Bibcode: 2003ApJ...599.1043N

Neff, S. G.; Ulvestad, James S.; Campion, S. D.

We present new 6, 3.6, and 2 cm VLA radio observations of the nearby merger system NGC 3256, with resolutions of ~100 pc, which reveal compact radio sources embedded in more diffuse emission at all three wavelengths. The two radio nuclei are partially resolved, but the two dominant compact sources that remain coincide with the two most powerful co…

2003 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 39
An XMM-Newton-based X-ray survey of pre-main sequence stellar emission in the L1551 star-forming complex
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030305 Bibcode: 2003A&A...403..187F

Micela, G.; Favata, F.; Giardino, G. +2 more

We present a study of the X-ray sources present in the nearby L1551 star forming region, based on a deep XMM-Newton observation complemented with Chandra data for the brightest sources. Most known pre-main sequence stars in the region have been detected, most of them with sufficient statistics to allow a detailed study of the temporal and spectral…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 39
V, J, H and K imaging of the metal rich globular cluster NGC 6528. Reddening, metallicity, and distance based on cleaned colour-magnitude diagrams
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030295 Bibcode: 2003A&A...402..607M

Momany, Y.; Bedin, L. R.; Held, E. V. +6 more

New near-infrared observations of NGC 6528 are presented. The JHKs observations complement a previous HST/NICMOS data set by Ortolani et al. (\cite{ortolani01}), in that they sample a larger area, contain a more numerous sample of red giant stars, and include the K band. Also, archival HST data sets (separated by 6.093 years) were used …

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 39
Extragalactic globular clusters in the near infrared III. NGC 5846 and NGC 7192. Quantifying the age distribution of sub-populations
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030598 Bibcode: 2003A&A...405..487H

Minniti, D.; Hilker, M.; Kissler-Patig, M. +3 more

In this third paper of our series on near-IR and optical photometry of globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies we concentrate on the photometric results for NGC 5846 and NGC 7192, two group ellipticals, and on a first comparison between the globular cluster systems investigated so far. In NGC 5846 the colour-colour diagram shows clear bi-m…

2003 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 39