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STIS and GHRS Observations of Warm and Hot Gas Overlying the Scutum Supershell (GS 018-04+44)
DOI: 10.1086/318411 Bibcode: 2001ApJ...547..907S

Sembach, Kenneth R.; Savage, Blair D.; Howk, J. Christopher

We present Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) observations of interstellar UV absorption toward HD 177989, a B0 III star at 4.9 kpc in the direction l=17.8d, b=-11.9d. The line of sight passes through the high-latitude ejecta of the Scutum supershell (GS 018-06+44), which is ~5° in diameter …

2001 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 17
H2, HD, and CO at the edge of 30 Dor in the LMC: The line of sight to Sk-69 246
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20011302 Bibcode: 2001A&A...379...82B

de Boer, K. S.; Bluhm, H.

FUSE and IUE observations of Sk-69 246, a WN 6 star to the north of 30 Dor, reveal the existence of LMC interstellar gas in at least 3 velocity components. In one of these components FUSE spectra show strong absorption by molecular hydrogen with a column density of log N(H_2)=19.6. We invest…

2001 Astronomy and Astrophysics
IUE 17
XMM-Newton EPIC observation of SMC SNR 0102-72.3 EPIC Observation of SMC SNR 0102-72.3
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20000015 Bibcode: 2001A&A...365L.237S

Haberl, F.; Filipović, M. D.; Sasaki, M. +2 more

Results from observations of the young oxygen-rich supernova remnant SNR 0102-72.3 in the Small Magellanic Cloud during the calibration phase of the XMM-Newton Observatory are presented. Both EPIC-PN and MOS observations show a ringlike structure with a radius of ~ 15arcsec already known from Einstein, ROSAT and Chandra observat…

2001 Astronomy and Astrophysics
XMM-Newton 17
Cygnus X-3 with ISO: investigating the wind
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04129.x Bibcode: 2001MNRAS.322..177O

Fender, R. P.; Ogley, R. N.; Bell Burnell, S. J.

We have observed the energetic binary Cygnus X-3 in both quiescent and flaring states between 4 and 16µm using the ISO satellite. We find that the quiescent source shows the thermal free-free spectrum typical of a hot, fast stellar wind, such as from a massive helium star. The quiescent mass-loss rate arising from a spherically symmetric, no…

2001 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Ultraviolet Spectrophotometry of Variable Early-Type Be and B Stars Derived from High-Resolution IUE Data
DOI: 10.1086/323846 Bibcode: 2001ApJ...562..998S

Smith, Myron A.

High-dispersion IUE data encode significant information about aggregate line absorptions that cannot be conveniently extracted from individual stellar spectra. Here we apply a new technique in which fluxes from each echelle order of a short-wavelength IUE spectrum are binned together to construct low-resolution spectra of a rapidly varying B or Be…

2001 The Astrophysical Journal
IUE 17
First Detections of Molecular Gas Associated with the Wolf-Rayet Ring Nebula NGC 3199
DOI: 10.1086/323950 Bibcode: 2001ApJ...563..875M

Marston, A. P.

This paper presents the first observations of molecular gas associated with the Wolf-Rayet ring nebula NGC 3199 around the WR star WR 18. This includes first observations of the molecules HCN, HCO+, CN, and HNC seen in any Wolf-Rayet ring nebula. Our observations immediately suggest the presence of high-density molecular gas (>10

2001 The Astrophysical Journal
Hipparcos 17
UV spectra of T Tauri stars from the HST and IUE satellites: BP Tau
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20011108 Bibcode: 2001A&A...377..557E

Vittone, A. A.; Errico, L.; Lamzin, S. A.

Ultraviolet spectra of BP Tau observed with HST/GHRS and IUE satellites were analysed. We found that BP Tau activity can be explained in the frame of a disk accretion model if we assume that the stellar magnetic axis is strongly inclined to the disk plane. The following set of accretion process parameters were derived: relative surface area of the…

2001 Astronomy and Astrophysics
IUE eHST 17
Search for a Near-Infrared Counterpart to the Cassiopeia A X-Ray Point Source
DOI: 10.1086/322459 Bibcode: 2001ApJ...558..270K

Kulkarni, S. R.; Kaplan, D. L.; Murray, S. S.

We report deep near-infrared and optical observations of the X-ray point source in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, CXO J232327.9+584842. We have identified a J=21.4+/-0.3 mag and a Ks=20.5+/-0.3 mag source within the 1 σ error circle, but we believe this source is a foreground Population II star with Teff=2600-2800 K at a…

2001 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 17
Molecular gas and dust in NGC 4550. A galaxy with two counterrotating stellar disks
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20010860 Bibcode: 2001A&A...375..797W

Henkel, C.; Wiklind, T.

We report the detection of 1 x 107 Msun of molecular gas in the central region of the S0/E7 galaxy NGC 4550, inferred from observations of CO(1-0) emission. Dust is detected in HST WFPC2 images and found to be asymmetrically distributed around the nucleus, only extending to a galactocentric distance of 7'' (600 pc). The shape…

2001 Astronomy and Astrophysics
eHST 17
The distance to Supernova 1998aq in NGC 3982
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.05005.x Bibcode: 2001MNRAS.328L...1S

Gibson, Brad K.; Stetson, Peter B.

The distance to NGC 3982, host galaxy to the Type Ia supernova SN 1998aq, is derived using 32 Cepheids discovered in archival multi-epoch Hubble Space Telescope observations. Employing recent Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid period-luminosity relations and absolute zero-point, we find a distance to NGC 3982 of [formmu3]20.5+/-0.8 (r) +/-1.7 (s)Mpc, …

2001 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
eHST 17