PUBLICATIONS 2003 Journals/Circulars/Bulletins/Books In Press Presented at Meetings
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	PAPERS PRINTED IN JOURNALS,  ASTRONOMICAL CIRCULARS, BULLETINS & BOOKS

Abe, F., et al including Gal-Yam^1,2,A., Maoz^1,2,D. and Ofek^1,2E. "Probing the atmosphere of a solar-like star by galactic microlensing at high magnification", A&A, 411: 493, 2003.

Alves, Y.M., et al including Ibbetson ^1,2,P., Leibowitz^1,2,E. and Hemar ,S. "The Pulsating DB White Dwarf PG 1351+489", Baltic Astronomy, Volume 12: 33,2003.

Arieli ¹,Y. and Rephaeli¹,Y. "Dark Matter profiles in clusters of galaxies: a phenomenological approach", New Astronomy, 8:517, 2003.

Barkana ¹,R., Loeb, A.. "Spectral Signature of Cosmological Infall of Gas Around the First Quasars", Nature, Volume 421, Issue 6921: 341, 2003.

Battistelli, E .S et al including Rephaeli¹,Y. and Shimon ¹,M. "Cosmic microwave background temperature evolution by Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect observations", Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, 74: 316, 2003.

Battistelli, E. S., et al including Rephaeli¹,Y. and Shimon. ,M. "Triple Experiment Spectrum of the Sunyaev-Zeldoovich Effect in the Soma Clulster: HO", ApJ. 598: 75, 2003.

Castanheira, B. G., et al including Mazeh^1,2,T. "WET Observations of the DAV G185-32", Baltic Astronomy, 12: 39, 2003.

Chelouche^1,2,D. and Netzer^1,2,H. "Non-Sobolev modeling of radiation-pressure-driven flows in active galactic nuclei", MNRAS, 344: 223, 2003.

Chelouche^1,2,D. and Netzer^1,2,H. "Continuum shielding and flow dynamics in active galactic nuclei", MNRAS, 344: 233, 2003.

Chelouche^1,2,D. "Strong Gravitational lensing and the Structure of Quasar Outflows", ApJ. 596: L43, 2003.

Choi, Y. J., Brosch^1,2,N. and Prialnik, D. "Rotation Activity of KBO (29981) 1999 TD10" ICARUS, 165: 101, 2003.

Ciroi, S., Contini, M., Rafanelli, P. and Richter, G.M. "2-D spectroscopy and modeling of the biconocal ionized gas in NGC 4388", A&A, 400: 857, 2003

Contini, M. "An analysis of the emission line spectra of AG Pegasi between phases 7.34 and 9.44", MNRAS, 339: 125, 2003.

Contini, M. and Formiggini^1,2,L. "R Aquarii spectra revisited by SUMA",MNRAS, 339: 148, 2003.

Contini, M. and Contini, T. "Dust-to-gas ratios in the starburst regions of luminous infrared galaxies", MNRAS, 342:299,2003.

Contini, M.¹, Rodriguez-Ardila, A. and Viegas, S.M. "The Narrow Line Region of Ark 564", A&A, 408: 101, 2003.

Corbett, E.A., Croom, S.M., Boyle, B.J., Netzer^1,2,H., Miller, L., Outram, P.J., Shamls, T., Smith, R.J., Rhook, K. "Emission linewidths and QSO black hole mass estimates from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey", MNRAS, 343: 705, 2003.

Eichler, D. and Levinson¹,A. "Polarizating GRB via Scattering off a relativistic sheath", Ap.J. 596: L147, 2003.

Fox, D.W., et al including Gal-Yam^1,2,A. and Lipkin^1,2,Y. "Early optical emission from the -ray burst of 4 October, 2002", Nature, Volume 422, Issue 6929: 284, 2003.

Gabel, J. R. et al including Kaspi ^1,2,S. and Netzer^1,2,H. "The Ionized Gas and Nuclear Environment in NGC 3783. II. Averaged Hubble Space Telescope/STIS and Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Spectra", ApJ. 583: 178, 2003.

Galama, T. J. et al including Gal-Yam^1,2,A. "Hubble Space Telescope amd Ground-based Optical and Ultraviolet Observations of GRB 010222", ApJ. 587:135, 2003.

Gal-Yam^1,2,A., Maoz^1,2,D., Guhathakurta, P., and Filippenko, A.V. "A Population of Intergalactic Supernovae in Galaxy Clusters", AJ. 125: 1087,2003.

Gal-Yam^1,2,A., Ofek^1,2E., Polishook^1,2,D. Leibowitz^1,2,E. "GRB030329:OT B and R photometry, decline rate" GCN 1999 (2003)

Gal-Yam^1,2,A., Ofek^1,2E. and Polishook^1,2,D. "GRB030328: OT photometry" GCN 1984 (2003)

Gal-Yam^1,2,A.and Ofek^1,2E. "GRB030320: Optical Observations", GCN 1946 (2003)

Gal-Yam^1,2,A., Maoz^1,2,D., Prada, F., Guhathakurta, P., Filippenko, A.V., Chornock, R and Smith, G. "Supernova 2002lh", IAUC 8169, July 2003.

Gal-Yam^1,2,A. and Maoz^1,2,D. "No Supernovae 1998ev, 1999cu and 1999dc", IAUC 8171, July 2003

Gal-Yam^1,2,A., Maoz^1,2,D., Ofek^1,2E., Poznanski,^1,2D. Sharon ^1,2,K., Medizinski^1,2,E., Lipkin^1,2,Y., Prada, F., Guhathakurta, P., Challis, P., Matheson, T. and Kirshner, R. "Supernova 2003il", IAUC 8212, 2003.

Gaspar, A., et al including Kaspi ^1,2,S. "VRI CCD photometery of NGC 2126" A&A, 410: 879, 2003. (VizieR On-line Data Catalog: J/A+A/410/879)

Genzel R., et al including Sternberg¹,A. "The Stellar Cusp around the Supermassive Black Hole in the Galactic Center", ApJ. 594: 812, 2003.

Goldberg^1,2, D., Mazeh^1,2,T., and Latham, D.W. "On the Mass-Ratio Distribution of Spectroscopic Binaries", ApJ. 591: 397, 2003.

Hoffman, G. L., Brosch^1,2,N., Salpeter, E. E. and Carle, N. J. "Neutral Hydrogen Mapping of Virgo Cluster Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies", AJ, 126: 2774, 2003.

Kilkenny, D. et al including Leibowitz^1,2,E., Ibbetson^1,2,P., and Mendelson^1,2,H. "A Whole Earth Telescope campaign on the pulsating subdwarf B binary System PG 1336-018 (NY Vir)" MNRAS, 345: 834, 2003.

Levinson ¹,A. and Eichler D. "Baryon loading of Gamma Ray Bursts by pick-up neutrons", 2003, ApJ, 594, 19

Lipkin^1,2,Y. Leibowitz^1,2,E., Ofek^1,2E. Kaspi ^1,2,S., Gal-Yam^1,2,A. "GRB030329-OT rebrightens", GRB Circular Network, 2060: 1, 2003.

Lipkin^1,2,Y., Leibowitz^1,2,E. M., Ofek^1,2E. Kaspi ^1,2,S., Gal-Yam^1,2,A. and Mendelson^{1, 2},H. "GRB030329-OT rebrightens", GRB Circular Network, 2060: 1, 2003.

Lipkin^1,2,Y., Leibowitz^1,2,E., Ofek^1,2E., Gal-Yam^1,2,A. and Mendelson^{1, 2},H. "GRB030329 -- Constant OT Magnitude", GCN 2049 (2003)

Lipkin^1,2,Y., Ofek^1,2E., Gal-Yam^1,2,A., Leibowitz^1,2,E.,and Mendelson^{1, 2},H. "GRB030329 -- OT brightens", GCN 2045 (2003)

Lipkin^1,2,Y., Ofek^1,2E.. Gal-Yam^1,2,A. and Mendelson^{1, 2},H. "GRB030329 -- Light curve flattening", GCN 2034 (2003)

Lutz, D., Sturm, E., Genzel, R., Spoon, H.W.W., Moorwood, A.F.M., Netzer^1,2,H. and Sternberg¹,A. "ISO spectroscopy of star formation and active nuclei in the luminous infrared galaxy NGC 6240", A&A. 409: 867, 2003.

Markowitz, A. et al including Kaspi ^1,2,S. "X-Ray Fluctuation Power Spectral Densities of Seyfert 1 Galaxies", ApJ. 593: 96, 2003.

Masi, S. et al including Rephaeli¹,Y. "OLIMPO: A few arcmin resolution survey of the sky at mm and sub-mm wavelengths", Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, 74: 96, 2003.

Mazeh^1,2,T. and Zucker^1,2,S."A possible Correlation between Mass Ratio and Period Ratio in Multiple Planetary Systems", ApJ. 590: L115, 2003.

Mazeh^1,2,T., Simon, M., Prato, L., Markus^1,2,B. and Zucker^1,2,S. "The Mass Ratio Distribution in Main-Sequence Spectroscopic Binaries Measured by Infrared Sppppectroscopy", AJ, 599: 1344, 2003

Mukadam, A. S., et al. including Ibbetson ^1,2,P., Leibowitz^1,2,E., Ofek^1,2E. "Constraining the Evolution of ZZ Ceti", Baltic Astronomy, 12: 71. 2003.

Mukadam, A. S., et al. including Ibbetson ^1,2,P., Leibowitz^1,2,E., Ofek^1,2E. "Constraining the Evolution of ZZ Ceti", ApJ.594:961,2003.

Nakos, T. et al including Ofek^1,2E. and Gal-Yam^1,2,A. "A catalog of secondary photometric standard stars around gravitational lenses", A& A. 402:1157, 2003.

Netzer^1,2,H. "The Largest Black Holes and the Most Luminous Galaxies", ApJ. 583: L5, 2003.

Netzer^1,2,H., Kaspi ^1,2,S., Chelouche^1,2,D., et al, "The Ionised Gas and Nucleaar Environment in NGC 3783. IV. Variability and Modeling of the 900 Kilosecond Chandra Spectrum", AJ, 599: 933, 2003

Ofek^1,2E., Rix, H.-W. and Maoz^1,2,D. "The redshift distribution of gravitational lenses revisited: Constraints of galaxy mass evolution", MNRAS, 343: 639, 2003.

Ofek^1,2E., and Maoz^1,2,D. "Time Delay measurement of the Lensed quasar HE1104-1805" ,Apj.593:101,2003.

Ofek^1,2E. and Gal-Yam^1,2,A. "GRB030227 -- faint tentative OT candidate", GCN 1903 (2003)

Ofek^1,2E.. Gal-Yam^1,2,A., Lipkin^1,2,Y. Sharon ^1,2,K. and Medizinski^{1, 2},E. "GRB030329 -- near contemporaneous optical limits from CONCAM" GCN 2031(2003)

Ofek^1,2E, Choi,Y., Gal-Yam^1,2,A., and Lipkin^1,2,Y. "GRB030501 observation report" GCN 2201 (2003)

Ofek^1,2E., Poznanski^1,2,D. Gal-Yam^1,2,A. and Lipkin^1,2,Y. "SN 2003jd (SN/GRB?) - possible association with GRB 030929", GCN 2434, 2003.

Orio, M. et al including Leibowitz^1,2,E.. and Lipkin^1,2,Y. "V4743 Sagittarii", IAUC 8131, 2003.

Ott, T., et al including Sternberg¹,A. "Inward bound: studying the Galactic Centre with NAOS/CONICA", The Messenger (ISSN 0722-6691), No. 111: p.1,2003.

Pagano, I., et al including Brosch^1,2,N. "The World Space Observatory Project WSO/UV" Mem. S.A.It. Vol. 73, 23, 2003.

Persic, M. and Rephaeli¹,Y. "Starburst galaxies and the X-ray background", A&A, 399: 9, 2003.

Prato, L., Simon, M., Mazeh^1,2,T., McLean, I.S., Norman, D. and Zucker^1,2,S. Erratum: "The Smallest mass Ratio Young Star Spectroscopic Binaries" (ApJ, 569: 863 [2002] ApJ, 598: 1409, 2003.

Price, P. A. et al including Gal-Yam^1,2,A. Ofek^1,2E. and Lipkin^1,2,Y. "Discovery of GRB 020405 and Its Late Red Bump", ApJ. 589: 838, 2003.

Poznanski^{1, 2},D., Gal-Yam^1,2,A., Sharon ^1,2,K., Maoz^1,2,D., Jannuzi, B. T., Papenkova, M., Li, W. and Schwartz, M. "Supernovae 2003B, 2003Q, 2003R, 2003S and 2003T", IAUC 8058, 2003.

Rephaeli¹,Y. and Gruber, D. "RXTE Observations of A2256", ApJ, 595: 137,2003.

Sadeh¹,S. and Rephaeli¹,Y. "CMB Comptonization in Clusters: Spectral and Angular Power from Evolving Polytropic Gas", New Astron., 9: 159, 2003.

Schreiber, N. M., et al including Sternberg¹,A. "The Nature of Starburst Activity in M82", ApJ, 599: 193, 2003.

Schuh, S.L. et al including Leibowitz^1,2,E., Ibbetson^1,2,P., and Lipkin Y. "2MASS J0516288+260738: Discovery of the first eclipsing late K + Brown dwarf binary system?", A&A, 410: 649, 2003.

Share, G.H. et al including Kozlovsky¹,B.Z. "High-Resolution Observation of the Solar Positron-Electron Annihilation Line", ApJ. 595: L85, 2003.

Shemmer^1,2,O., Uttley, P., Netzer^1,2,H. and McHardy, I. M. "Complex Optical-X-ray Correlations in the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 4051", MNRAS, 343: 1341, 2003.

Shporer ^1,2,A., Ofek^1,2E., Mazeh^1,2,T. "Possible Nova in M33",IAUC 8199,2003.

Shimon ¹,M. and Rephaeli¹,Y. "Quantitative Description of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect: Analytic Approximations", New Astron, 9: 69, 2003.

Sternberg¹,A. "Astronomy: Hot gas around the Galaxy", Nature, Volume 421,Issue 6924: 708, 2003.

Sternberg¹,A., Hoffmann, T. L., Pauldrach, A. W. A. "Ionizing Photon Emission Rates from O- and Early B-Type Stars and Clusters", ApJ, 599: 1333, 2003.

Turner, J.L., Beck^1,2,S.C., Crosthwaite, L.P., Larkin, J.E., McLean, I.S. and Meier, D.S. "An extragalactic supernebula confined by gravity", Nature, 423, Issue 6940: 621, 2003.

Van Putten, M. H. P. M. and Levinson¹,A. "Theory and Astrophysical Consequences of a Magnetized Torus around a Rapidly Rotating Black Hole", ApJ. 584: 937, 2003.

Verma, A. et al including Sternberg¹,A. "A mid-infrared spectroscopic survey of starburst galaxies: Excitation and abundances", A&A. 403: 829, 2003.

Vignali, C., Brandt, W. N., Schneider, D. P., Garmire, G. P. and Kaspi ^1,2,S. "X-Ray Lighthouses of the High-Redshift Universe: Probing the Most Luminous z>4 Palomar Digital Sky Survey Quasars with Chandra", AJ, 125: 418, 2003.

Vignali, C. et al including Kaspi ^1,2,S. "Chandra and XMM-Newton Observations of the First Quasars: X-Rays from the Age of Cosmic Enlightenment", AJ. 125: 2876, 2003.

Vignali, C., et al including Kaspi ^1,2,S. "X-Rays from the high-redshift universe: The Chandra view", Astron. Nachr., 324: 163, 2003.

Wang, J.-M, and Netzer^1,2,H. "Extreme slim accretion disks and narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies: The nature of the soft X-ray hump", A&A 398: 927, 2003.

Zucker^1,2,S. Mazeh^1,2,T., Santos, N.C., Udry, S. and Mayor, M. "Multi-order TODCOR: Application to observations taken with the CORALIE echelle spectrograph. I. The system HD 41004", A&A. 404: 775, 2003.

	IN PRESS OR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION

Beck^1,2,S.C., Garrington, S., Turner, J. and van Dyck, S. "MERLIN nad VLA Observations of VII Zw 19", accepted for publication in AJ, 2003.

Stark, R., Beck^1,2,S.C. and 7 co-authors, "Probing the Early Stages of Low-Mass Star Formation", accepted for publication by A&A, 2003.

	PAPERS PRESENTED AT MEETINGS

Barstow, M., et al including Brosch^1,2,N. "The WSO: a world-class observatory for the ultraviolet", Future EUV/UV and Visible Apace Astrophysics Missions and Instrumentation. Edited by J. Chris Blades, Oswald H.W. Siegmund. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4854: 364, 2003.

Beck^1,2,S.C. and Turner, J.L. "An Introverted Starburst", IAU Symposium 217: Recycling Galactic and Intergalactic Matter. ASP Symposium 217 (2003)

Choi,Y., Brosch^1,2,N. and Prialnik, D. "Rotation Activity of KBO (29981) 1999 TD10" Proceedings of the IAU 8th Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting, VolumeII, held at National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, July 2-5, 2002. Edited by S. Ikeuchi., J. Hearnshaw and T. Hanawa, the ASof J, ASP Conference Series, 289: 39, 2003.

Corbett, E. et al including Netzer^1,2,H. "The correlation of line strength with QSO luminosity and redshift from composite spectra", Active Galactic Nuclei: from Central Engine to Host Galaxy , meeting held in Meudon, France, July 23-27, 2002. Eds: S. Collin, F. Combes and I. Shlosman. ASP, Conference Series, 290: 489, 2003.

Formiggini^1,2,L., "Hidden sd/wd Stars among the FAUST UV Sources Toward Ophiuchus", White Dwarfs. Proceedings of the conference held at the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy, NATO Science Series II, 105: 385, 2003.

Kaspi ^1,2,S., Netzer^1,2,H., Maoz^1,2,D., Shemmer ^1,2,O. , Brandt, W.-N. and Schneider, D.-P. "Reverberation Mapping of High-Redshift High-Luminosity Quasars", Active Galactic Nuclei: from Central Engine to Host Galaxy, meeting held in Meudon,France,July 23-27, 2002, eds. S. Collin, F, Combes and I. Shlosman. ASP, Conference Series, Vol. 290:615, 2003.

Masi, S., et al., including Rephaeli¹,Y. "OLIMPO: a balloon-borne, arcminute-resolution survey of the sky at mm and sub-mm wavelengths", in proceedings of the 16th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes, ed.: Barbara Warmbein, ESA SP-530, 557-560, 2003.

Netzer^1,2,H. "Where is the X-ray gas in Active Galactic Nuclei"? Active Galactic Nuclei: from Central Engine to Host Galaxy, meeting held in Meudon,France, July 23-27, 2002, eds. S. Collin, F, Combes and I. Shlosman. ASP,Conference Series, Vol. 290: 145, 2003.

Ribak, E. N., Laor, A., Faiman, D., Biyukov, S. and Brosch^1,2,N. "Converting PETAL, the 25m solar collector, into an astronomical research facility", Interferometry for Optical Astronomy II. Edited by Wesley, A. Traub. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4838: 1031, 2003.

Share, G. H. et al including Kozlovsky¹,B.Z. "High Resolution Observation of the Solar Positron-Electron Annihilation Line", American Astronomical Society, SPD meetingá #34: #14.08, 2003.

Shemmer ^1,2,O., Netzer^1,2,H. ,Oliva, E. and Maiolino, R. 2003, "The Metallicity-Luminosity Relationship in AGN: The Case of Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies" , Active Galactic Nuclei: from Central Engine to Host Galaxy, meeting held in Meudon, France, July 23-27, 2002, eds. S. Collin, F, Combes and I. Shlosman. ASP, Conference Series, Vol. 290: 255, 2003.

Turner, J. and Beck^1,2,S.C. "Watching the Birth of Globular Clusters", IAU Symposium 221: Star Formation at High Angular Resolution. ASP Symposium 221 (2003)

Verma, A. et al including Sternberg¹,A. "A MIR Spectroscopic Survey of Starburst Galaxies", Exploiting the ISO Data Archive. Infrared Astronomy in the Internet Age, held in Siguenza, Spain 24-27 June, 2002. Edited by C. Gry, S. Peschke, J. Matagne, P. Garcia-Lario, R. Lorente and A.Salama. Published as ESA Publications Series, ESA SP-511: 263, ESA, 2003.