350 μm Polarimetry from the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory

Author(s): Jessie L. Dotson, John E. Vaillancourt, Larry Kirby, C. Darren Dowell, Roger H. Hildebrand, and Jacqueline A. Davidson
Affiliation(s): NASA Ames Research Center, Astrophysics Branch, MS 245-6, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA; Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA; Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA; University of Western Australia, Australia; Current address: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, Universities Space Research Association, NASA Ames Research Center, MS 211-3, Moffet Field, CA 94035, USA.; Also at Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, [...]

Contribution to the Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background from the Cascades of very High Energy Gamma Rays from Blazars

Author(s): Tonia M. Venters
Affiliation(s): Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Presented as part of a dissertation to the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree.; NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD [...]



SDSS J1254+0846: A Binary Quasar Caught in the Act of Merging

Author(s): Paul J. Green, Adam D. Myers, Wayne A. Barkhouse, John S. Mulchaey, Vardha N. Bennert, Thomas J. Cox, and Thomas L. Aldcroft
Affiliation(s): Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801-3080, USA; Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA; The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA; Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA; Visiting Astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) under cooperative agreement with the National Science [...]

Characterization of the Millimeter-Wave Polarization of Centaurus A with QUaD

Author(s): M. Zemcov, P. Ade, J. Bock, M. Bowden, M. L. Brown, G. Cahill, P. G. Castro, S. Church, T. Culverhouse, R. B. Friedman, K. Ganga, W. K. Gear, S. Gupta, J. Hinderks, J. Kovac, A. E. Lange, E. Leitch, S. J. Melhuish, Y. Memari, J. A. Murphy, A. Orlando, C. O’ Sullivan, L. Piccirillo, C. Pryke, N. Rajguru, B. Rusholme, R. Schwarz, A. N. Taylor, K. L. Thompson, A. H. Turner, E. Y. S. Wu (QUaD collaboration)
Affiliation(s): Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109, USA; California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Queen’s Buildings, The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK; Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and Department of Physics, Stanford University, 382 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Kavli Institute for Cosmology and Cavendish Astrophysics, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHA, UK; Department of Experimental Physics, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland; CENTRA, Departamento de Fisica, Edificio Ciencia, Piso 4, Instituto Superior Tecnico – IST, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal; Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; APC/Universite Paris 7-Denis Diderot/CNRS, Batiment Condorcet, 10, rue Alice Domon et Leonie Duquet, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France; Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK; Current address: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA; Current address: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; Current address: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK; Current address: Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, [...]

The Faint End of the Quasar Luminosity Function at z ~ 4

Author(s): Eilat Glikman, Milan Bogosavljevic, S. G. Djorgovski, Daniel Stern, Arjun Dey, Buell T. Jannuzi, and Ashish Mahabal
Affiliation(s): Astronomy Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Department of Physics and Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Yale University, P.O. Box 208121, New Haven, CT 06520-8121, USA; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA; National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA; NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow.; Visiting Astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under cooperative agreement with the National Science [...]



The Baryonic Acoustic Feature and Large-Scale Clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Luminous Red Galaxy Sample

Author(s): Eyal A. Kazin, Michael R. Blanton, Roman Scoccimarro, Cameron K. McBride, Andreas A. Berlind, Neta A. Bahcall, Jon Brinkmann, Paul Czarapata, Joshua A. Frieman, Stephen M. Kent, Donald P. Schneider, and Alexander S. Szalay
Affiliation(s): Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University, 4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, 1807 Station B, Nashville, TN 37235, USA; Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA; Apache Point Observatory, P.O. Box 59, Sunspot, NM 88349, USA; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA; Particle Astrophysics Center, Fermilab, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA; Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; MS 127, Fermilab, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3701 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, [...]

Detection of Planetary Emission from the Exoplanet Tres-2 Using Spitzer/IRAC

Author(s): Francis T. O’Donovan, David Charbonneau, Joseph Harrington, N. Madhusudhan, Sara Seager, Drake Deming, and Heather A. Knutson
Affiliation(s): Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA; California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA; Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Planetary Systems Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mail Code 693, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA; NASA Postdoctoral Program [...]

The Weak s-Process in Massive Stars and its Dependence on the Neutron Capture Cross Sections

Author(s): M. Pignatari, R. Gallino, M. Heil, M. Wiescher, F. Kappeler, F. Herwig, and S. Bisterzo
Affiliation(s): Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8P5C2 Canada; Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA; TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T2A3, Canada; Dipartimento di Fisica Generale, Universita di Torino, Via Pietro Giuria 1, Torino 10125, Italy; Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung (GSI), D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany; Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut fur Kernphysik, Postfach 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe, [...]

Evaluating the Calorimeter Model with Broadband, Continuous Spectra of Starburst Galaxies Observed with the Allen Telescope Array

Author(s): Peter K. G. Williams and Geoffrey C. Bower
Affiliation(s): Department of Astronomy, University of California, 601 Campbell Hall # 3411, Berkeley, CA 94720-3411, [...]

Multifrequency Radio Measurements of Supernova 1987A Over 22 Years

Author(s): G. Zanardo, L. Staveley-Smith, Lewis Ball, B. M. Gaensler, M. J. Kesteven, R. N. Manchester, C.-Y. Ng, A. K. Tzioumis, and T. M. Potter
Affiliation(s): International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), School of Physics M013, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia; CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia; Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; Premier’s Fellow in Radio Astronomy; Australian Research Council Federation Fellow; CSIRO [...]