Institute of Astronomy

Recent IoA Publications

17 May 2013

Lucky Imaging of transiting planet host stars with LuckyCam

F. Faedi (Warwick), T. Staley (Cambridge), Y.Gomez Maqueo Chew (Warwick/Vanderbilt), D. Pollacco (Warwick), S. Dhital (Vanderbilt), S. C. C. Barros (LAM Marseille), I. Skillen (ING), L. Hebb (Vanderbilt), C. Mackay (Cambridge), C. A. Watson (QUB)

15 May 2013

What is on Tap? The Role of Spin in Compact Objects and Relativistic Jets

Ashley L. King, Jon M. Miller, Kayhan Gultekin, Dominic J. Walton, Andrew C. Fabian, Christopher S. Reynolds, Paul Nandra

Mapping dust through emission and absorption in nearby galaxies

K. Kreckel, B. Groves, E. Schinnerer, B. D. Johnson, G. Aniano, D. Calzetti, K. V. Croxall, B. T. Draine, K. D. Gordon, A. F. Crocker, D. A. Dale, L. K. Hunt, R. C. Kennicutt, S. E. Meidt, J. D. T. Smith, F. S. Tabatabaei

A physical model for cosmological simulations of galaxy formation

Mark Vogelsberger (1), Shy Genel (1), Debora Sijacki (1,2), Paul Torrey (1), Volker Springel (3), Lars Hernquist (1) ((1) Harvard/CfA, (2) IoA Cambridge, (3) HITS))

14 May 2013

The evolution of the global stellar mass function of star clusters: an analytic description

Henny J.G.L.M. Lamers, Holger Baumgardt, Mark Gieles

An Overview of the Dwarf Galaxy Survey

S. C. Madden, A. Remy Ruyer, M. Galametz, D. Cormier, V. Lebouteiller, F. Galliano, S. Hony, G. J. Bendo, M. W. L. Smith, M. Pohlen, H. Roussel, M. Sauvage, R. Wu, E. Sturm, A. Poglitsch, A. Contursi, V. Doublier, M. Baes, M. J. Barlow, A. Boselli, M. Boquien, L. R. Carlson, L. Ciesla, A. Cooray, L. Cortese, I. De Looze, J. A. Irwin, K. Isaak, J. Kamenetzky, O.L. Karczewski, N. Lu, J. A. MacHattie, B. O Halloran, T. J. Parkin, N. Rangwala, M. R. P. Schirm, B. Schulz, L. Spinoglio, M. Vaccari, C. D. Wilson, H. Wozniak

Evolutionary constraints on the planetary hypothesis for transition discs

C.J. Clarke, J.E. Owen

13 May 2013

SDSS J000555.90-100213.5: a hot, magnetic carbon-atmosphere WD rotating with a 2.1 day period

K. A. Lawrie, M. R. Burleigh, P. Dufour, S. T. Hodgkin

10 May 2013

The HST eXtreme Deep Field XDF: Combining all ACS and WFC3/IR Data on the HUDF Region into the Deepest Field Ever

G. D. Illingworth (UCSC), D. Magee (UCSC), P. A. Oesch (UCSC), R. J. Bouwens (Leiden), I. Labbe (Leiden), M. Stiavelli (STScI), P. G. van Dokkum (Yale), M. Franx (Leiden), M. Trenti (Cambridge), C. M. Carollo (ETH), V. Gonzalez (UCR)

08 May 2013

The 300km/s stellar stream near Segue 1: Insights From high-resolution spectroscopy of its brightest star

Anna Frebel (MIT), Ragnhild Lunnan (Harvard), Andrew R. Casey (ANU, MIT), John E. Norris (ANU), Rosemary F. G. Wyse (JHU), Gerard Gilmore (IoA)

07 May 2013

Constrained simulations of the Antennae Galaxies: Comparison with Herschel-PACS observations. (arXiv:1305.0828v2 [astro-ph.CO] UPDATED)

Simon J. Karl (1,2,3), T. Lunttila (4), T. Naab (3), P.H. Johansson (4), U. Klaas (5), M. Juvela (4) ((1) IoA, (2) KICC, (3) MPA, (4) Helsinki, (5) MPIA)

VLT/FORS2 observations of four high-luminosity ULX candidates

M. Heida, P. G. Jonker, M. A. P. Torres, T. P. Roberts, G. Miniutti, A. C. Fabian, E. M. Ratti

06 May 2013

Large gas reservoirs and free-free emission in two lensed star-forming galaxies at z=2.7

M. Aravena, E. J. Murphy, J. E. Aguirre, M. L. N. Ashby, B. A. Benson, M. Bothwell, M. Brodwin, J. E. Carlstrom, S. C. Chapman, T. M. Crawford, C. de Breuck, C. D. Fassnacht, A. H. Gonzalez, T. R. Greve, B. Gullberg, Y. Hezaveh, G. P. Holder, W. L. Holzapfel, R. Keisler, M. Malkan, D. P. Marrone, V. McIntyre, C. L. Reichardt, K. Sharon, J. S. Spilker, B. Stalder, A. A. Stark, J. D. Vieira, A. Weiss

03 May 2013

Cosmological growth and feedback from supermassive black holes

P. Mocz, Katherine M. Blundell, A.C. Fabian

02 May 2013

Choirs, HI Galaxy Groups: Catalogue and Detection of Star-forming Dwarf Group Members

Sarah M. Sweet, Gerhardt Meurer, Michael J. Drinkwater, Virginia Kilborn, Helga Dénes, Kenji Bekki, Dan Hanish, Henry Ferguson, Patricia Knezek, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Michael Dopita, Marianne T. Doyle-Pegg, Ed Elson, Ken Freeman, Tim Heckman, Robert Kennicutt, Ji Hoon Kim, Bärbel Koribalski, Martin Meyer, Mary Putman, Emma Ryan-Weber, Chris Smith, Lister Staveley-Smith, O. Ivy Wong, Rachel Webster, Jessica Werk, Martin Zwaan

A peculiar faint satellite in the remote outer halo of M31

Dougal Mackey, Avon Huxor, Nicolas Martin, Annette Ferguson, Aaron Dotter, Alan McConnachie, Rodrigo Ibata, Mike Irwin, Geraint Lewis, Charli Sakari, Nial Tanvir, Kim Venn

A multi-wavelength view of cooling vs. AGN heating in the X-ray luminous cool-core of Abell 3581

R.E.A. Canning, M. Sun, J.S. Sanders, T.E. Clarke, A.C. Fabian, S. Giacintucci, D.V. Lal, N. Werner, S.W. Allen, M. Donahue, R.M. Johnstone, P.E.J. Nulsen, C.L. Sarazin

29 April 2013

1ES 1927+654: a bare Seyfert 2

L. C. Gallo (1), C. MacMackin (1), R. Vasudevan (2), E. M. Cackett (3), A. C. Fabian (4), F. Panessa (5) ((1) Saint Mary's Univ. (2) Univ. of Maryland (3) Wayne State Univ. (4) IoA (5) IASF-INAF)

26 April 2013

The Column Density Distribution and Continuum Opacity of the Intergalactic and Circumgalactic Medium at Redshift <z>=2.4

Gwen C. Rudie, Charles C. Steidel, Alice E. Shapley, Max Pettini

25 April 2013

Asymmetric streaming motion in the Galactic bulge X-shaped structure revealed by the OGLE-III proper motions

R. Poleski, A. Udalski, A. Gould, M.K. Szymanski, I. Soszynski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, K. Ulaczyk, L. Wyrzykowski