THE RAYMOND AND BEVERLY SACKLER INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY

PUBLICATIONS 2006

The following are publications in refereed journals of members of the Sackler Institute of Astronomy:

Almoznino, E., Barkana, R., Beck, S. C., Brosch, N., Broadhurst, T. J., Contini, M., Formiggini, L., Goldman, I., Kaspi, S., Kozlovsky, B-Z., Leibowitz, E. M., Levinson, A., Maoz, D., Mazeh, T., Netzer, H., Rephaeli, Y., Sternberg, A. and Zucker, S.

Research workers and graduate students:

Almog, U., Arielli, Y., Bar-Or, C., Boger, G., Bromberg, O., Dzigan, Y., Horesh, A., Gemel, S., Gnat, O., Hoory, E., Lemze, D., Lipkin, Y., Medezinski, E., Moran, A., Naaman, M., Naoz, S., Ofir, A., Polishook, D., Poznanski, D., Rathouse, B., Tamuz, O., Sadeh, S., Sharon, K., Schjvarg, L. S., Sirotkin, A., Shporer, A., Trakhtenbrot, B., and Zoran, O.

PAPERS PRINTED IN JOURNALS

Almoznino, E.,Noah Brosch, N., Shara, M. and Zurek, D. "LMC far-UV HST observations" (Almoznino+, 2005) VizieR On-line Data Catalog; J/MNRAS/357/645. Originally published in 2005 MNRAS, 367.645A. 2006.

Auld, R. et al including Brosch, N. "The Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey: precursor observations of the NGC 628 group", MNRAS, 371: 1617, 2006.

Bakos, G.A., et al, including Shporer, A. and Mazeh, T. "Refined Parameters of the Planet Orbiting HD 189733", ApJ. 650: 1160, 2006.

Barkana, R. and Loeb, A. "Detecting reionization in the star formation histories of high-redshift galaxies", MNRAS, 371: 395, 2006.

Barkana, R. "The First Stars in the Universe and Cosmic Reionization", Science, 313: 5789: 931, 2006.

Barkana, R. and Loeb, A. "Light-cone anisotropy in 21-cm fluctuations during the epoch of reionization", MNRAS, Letters, 2006.

Barkana, R. "Separating out the Alcock-Paczynski effect on 21-cm fluctuations", MNRAS, 2006.

Boger, G. and Sternberg, A . "Bistability in Interstellar Gas-Phase Chemistry" ApJ. 645: 314, 2006.

Bromberg, O., Levinson, A. and van Putten M. "The gravitational-wave spectrum of a non-axisymmetric torus around a rapidly spinning black hole" New Astronomy, 11: 619, 2006.

Brosch, N., Bar-Or, C. and Malka, D. "Neighborhoods of isolated star forming dwarf galaxies", MNRAS, 368: 864, 2006.

Brosch, N., Davies, J., Festou, M.C., Gérard, J-C. "A view to the Future: Ultraviolet Studies of the Solar System", Astrophysics and Space Science, 303: 103, 2006.

Charpinet, S. et al including Lipkin, Y., Formiggini, L. and Leibowitz, E. "The rapidly pulsating subdwarf B star PG 1325+101. II. Structural parameters from asteroseismology", A&A, 459: 565-576, 2006.

Davies, R.L., et al including Sternberg, A. "The Star-forming Torus and Stellar Dynamical black Hole Mass in the Seyfert 1 Nucleus of NGC 3227", ApJ. 646: 754, 2006.

da Silva, R., Udry, S., Bouchy, F., Mayor, M., Mouton, C., Pont, F., Queloz, D., Santos, N.C., Segransan, D. and Zucker, S. "Elodie metallicity-biased search for transiting Hot Jupiters. I Two Hot Jupiters orbiting the slightly evolved stars HD 118203 and HD 149143", A&A, 446: 717, 2006.

de Castro, A., et al including Brosch, N. "Fundamental Problems in Astrophysics", Astrophysics and Space Science. 303: 133-145, 2006.

Desroches, L-B., et al including Kaspi, S. and Maoz, D. "Multiwavelength Monitoring of the Dwarf Seyfert I galaxy NGC 4395. III. Optical Variability and X-Ray/UV/Optical Correlations", ApJ. 650: 88, 2006.

Dolez, N. et al. including Leibowitz, E., Ibbetson, P, and Ofek, E. "Whole Earth telescope observations of the ZZ Ceti Star HL Tau 76", A&A. 446: 237, 2006.

Eichler, D. and Levinson A. "Are the Radiative Properties of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts Universal?" ApJ. 649: L5, 2006.

Formiggini, L. and Leibowitz, E.M. "The giant star of the symbiotic system YY Her: rotation, tidal wave, solar-type cycle and spots", MNRAS, 372: 1325-1332, 2006.

Förster Schreiber, N.M., Genzel, R., et al., including Sternberg, A. "SINFONI Integral Field Spectroscopy of z-2 UV-selected Galaxies Rotation Curves and Dynamical Evolution", ApJ. 645: 1062, 2006.

Gal-Yam, Y., Ofek. E. O., Poznanski, D., Levinson, A. et al. "Radio and Optical Follow-up Observations of a Uniform Radio Transient Search: Implications for Gamma-Ray Bursts and Supernovae", ApJ. 639: 331, 2006.

Genzel et al., including Sternberg, A. "The rapid formation of a large rotating disk galaxy three billion years after the Big Bang", Nature, 442:issue 7104: 786, 2006.

Golimowski, D.A et al including Broadhurst, T.J. "Hubble Space Telescope ACS Multiband Coronagraphic Imaging of the Debris Disk around beta Pictoris", AJ. 131: 3109, 2006.

Henry, A., Turner, J.L., Beck, S.C., Crosthwaite, L.P. and Meier, D.S. "Brackett Lines from the Super Star Cluster nebulae in He 2-10", accepted for publication in AJ.

Kaspi, S. and Behar, E. "The High-Velocity Outflow of PG 1211+143 May not be That Fast", ApJ. 636: 674, 2006.

Kaspi, S., Brandt, W. N., Maoz, D., Netzer, H., Schneider, D.P.,, and Shemmer O. "Reverberation Mapping of High-Luminosity Quasars: First Results". Accepted for publication in the ApJ. 2006.

Kong, X., et al including Broadhurst, T. "A Wide Area Survey for High-Redshift Massive Galaxies. I. Number Counts and Clustering of GzKs and EROs", ApJ. 638: 72, 2006.

Kraemer, S. B., et al including Netzer, H. "Simultaneous Ultraviolet and X-Ray Observations of the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151. II. Physical Conditions in the UV Absorbers", ApJ. Supplement Series, 167: 161-176, 2006.

Leibowitz, E. M. and Formiggini, L. "Multiperiodic variations in the last 104-yr light curve of the symbiotic star BF Cyg", MNRAS, 366: 675, 2006.

Leibowitz, E., et al including Lipkin, Y. "Variability and multiperiodic oscillations in the X-ray light curve of the classical nova V4743 Sgr", MNRAS, 371: 424, 2006.

Levinson, A. "General Relativistic, Neutrino-assisted Magnetohydrodynamic Winds-Theory and Application to Gamma-Ray Bursts. I. Schwarzschild Geometry." ApJ. 648: 510, 2006.

Mazeh, T., Tamuz, O. and North, P. "Automated analysis of eclipsing binary light curves - II. Statistical analysis of OGLE LMC eclipsing binaries", MNRAS, 367: 1531, 2006.

Mazeh, T., Tamuz, O. and North, P. "Automated Analysis of Light Curves of OGLE LMC Binaries: The Period distribution", Astrophysics and Space Science. Online first, 2006.

Mei, S., et al including Broadhurst, T. J. "Evolution of the Color-Magnitude Relation in High-Redshift Clusters: Blue Early-Type Galaxies and Red Pairs in RDCS J0910+5422", ApJ. 639: 81, 2006.

Mugrauer, M., Neuhäuser, R., Mazeh, T., Guenther, E., Fernández, M. and Broeg, C. "A search for wide visual companions of exoplanet host stars: the Calar Alto Survey", Astronomische Nachrichten, 327: 321, 2006.

Mugrauer, M., Seifahrt, A., Neuhäuser, R., Mazeh, T., "HD3651B: the first directly imaged brown dwarf companion of an exoplanet host star", MNRAS, 373: L31, 2006.

Mueller, S., et al including Sternberg, A. "SINFONI adaptive optics integral field spectroscopy of the Circinus Galaxy", A&A. 454: 481, 2006.

Naoz, S., Noter, S. and Barkana, R. "The first stars in the Universe", MNRAS, 373: L98, 2006.

Netzer, H., Mainieri, V., Rosati, P. and Trakhtenbrot, B. "The correlation of narrow line emission and X-ray luminosity in active galactic nuclei", A&A. 453: 525, 2006.

Netzer, H. "A Thermal Wind Model for the X-Ray Outflow in GRO J1655-40", ApJ. 652: L117-L120, 2006.

Ofek, E.O., Maoz, D., Rix, H-W., Kochanek, C.S and Falco, E.E. "Spectroscopic Redshifts for Seven Lens Galaxies", ApJ. 641: 70, 2006.

O'Neill, P.M., Kaspi, S., Laor, A., Nandra, K., Moran, E.C., Peterson, B.M., Desroches, L-B., Filippenko, A.V., Ho. L.C. and Maoz, D. "Multiwavelength Monitoring of the Dwarf Seyfert I Galaxy NGC 4395. II. X-Ray and Ultraviolet Continuum Variability", ApJ. 645: 160, 2006.

Overzier, R. A. et al including Broadhurst, T. J. "Clustering of Star-forming Galaxies near a Radio Galaxy at z=5.2", ApJ. 637: 58, 2006.

Paumard, T., Genzel, R., et al. including Sternberg, A. "The Two Young Star Disks in the Central Parsec of the Galaxy: Properties, Dynamics and Formation", ApJ. 643: 1011, 2006.

Persic, M. and Rephaeli, Y. "Galactic star-formation rates gauged by stellar end-products", A&A, in press, 2006.

Peterson, B.M., et al. including Kaspi, S. and Maoz, D. Erratum: "Multiwavelength Monitoring of the Dwarf Seyfert I Galaxy NGC 4395. I. A Reverberation-based Measurement of the Black Hole Mass", (ApJ. 632: 799 [2005]) ApJ. 641: 638, 2006.

Pont, F., Zucker, S. and Queloz, D. "The effect of red noise on planetary transit detection", MNRAS, on line early, 2006.

Rephaeli, Y., Gruber, D. and Arieli, Y. "Long RXTE Observations of A2163", ApJ. 649: 673, 2006.

Retter, A., Zhang, B., Siess, L. and Levinson, A. "The planets capture model of V838 Monocerotis: conclusions for the penetration depth of the planet(s)", MNRAS, 370: 1573, 2006.

Röllig, M., Ossenkopf, V., Jeyakumar, S., Stutzki, J. and Sternberg, A. "[CH] 158 mum emission and metallicity in photon dominated regions", A&A. 451: 917, 2006.

Sadeh, S., Rephaeli, Y. and Silk J. "Impact of a non-Gaussian density field on Sunyaev-Zeldovich observables". MNRAS, 368: 1583, 2006.

Schweitzer, M., et al including Netzer, H. and Sternberg, A. "Spitzer-Quasar and ULIRG Evolution Study (QUEST). I. The Origin of the Far-Infrared Continuum of QSOs", ApJ. 649: 79, 2006.

Shemmer, O., Brandt, W.N., Netzer, H., Maiolino, R. and Kaspi, S. "The Hard X-Ray Spectral Slope as an Accretion Rate Indicator in Radio-quiet Active Galactic Nuclei", ApJ. 646: L29, 2006.

Shimon M., Rephaeli, Y., O'Shea, B.W. and Norman, M.L. "Cosmic microwave background polarization due to scattering in clusters", MNRAS, 368: 511, 2006.

Shporer, A. and Mazeh, T. "Long-term V-band monitoring of the bright stars of M33 at the Wise Observatory", MNRAS, 370: 1429, 2006.

Shporer, A., Hartman, J., Mazeh, T. and Pietsch, W. "Photometric Analysis of the Optical Counterpart of the black Hole HMXB M33 X-7", accepted for publication in A&A. 2006.

Silvotti, R. et al, including Lipkin, Y., Formiggini, L. and Leibowitz, E. "Oscillation modes of PG 1325+101" A&A. 459: 557, 2006.

Sozzetti, A., Udry, S., Zucker, S., Torres, G., Beuzit, J.L., Latham, D.W., Mayor, M., Mazeh, T., Naef, D., Pererier, C., Queloz, D. and Sivan, J-P. "A massive planet to the young disc star HD 81040", A&A. 449: 417, 2006.

Sturm, E., et al including Netzer, H., Maoz, D. and Sternberg, A. "Mid-Infrared Diagnostics of LINERS", ApJ. 653: L13-L16, 2006.

Tamuz, O., Mazeh, T. and North, P. "Automated analysis of eclipsing binary light curves - I. EBAS - a new Eclipsing Binary Automated Solver with EBOP", MNRAS, 367: 1521, 2006.

Tatischeff, V., Kozlovsky, B., Kiener, J. and Murphy, R.J. "Delayed X- and Gamma-Ray Line Emission from Solar Flare Radioactivity", ApJ. Suppl. Sesries, 165: 606, 2006.

Tsai, C-W., Turner, J.L., Beck, S.C., Crosthwaite, L.P.., Ho, P.T.P. and Meier, D.S. "Subarcsecond-Resolution Radio Maps of Nearby Spiral Galaxies", AJ. 132: 2383, 2006.

Winn, J.N. et al including Shporer, A. and Mazeh, T. "The Transit Light Curve Project. V. System Parameters and Stellar Rotation Period of HD 189733", Accepted for publication in AJ. 2006.

Zekser, K.C., White, R.L., Broadhurst, T.J. et al. "Mass Modeling of Abell 1689 Advanced Camera for Surveys Observations with a Perturbed Navarro-Frenk-White Model", ApJ. 640: 639, 2006.

Zheng, W., et al. including Broadhurst, T.J. "An Overdensity of Galaxies near the Most Distant Radio-loud Quasar", ApJ. 640: 574, 2006.

Zoran, O., Barkana, R. and Thompson, R. I. "A Cosmic relation between extinction and star formation", MNRAS, L, 2006.

Zucker, S., Alexander, T., Gillessen, S., Eisenhauer, F. and Genzel, R. "Probing Post-Newtonian Physics near the Galactic Black Hole with Stellar Redshift Measurements", ApJ. 639: L21, 2006.

Zucker, S. and Mazeh T. "TIRAVEL - Template-Independent Radial VELocity measurement", MNRAS, 371: 1513, 2006.

PAPERS PRESENTED AT MEETINGS

Alfonso, C., Henning, Th., Weldrake, D., Mazeh, T. and Dreizler, S. "Giant Transiting Planets Observations GITPO", Direct Imaging of Exoplanets: Science and Techniques, Proceedings of the IAU Colloquium #200, Edited by C. Aime and F. Vakili. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 79-82.

Brosch, N., Nemiroff, R. and Shamir, L. "Panoramic camera systems for meteor tracking and meteorite recovery", Astronomy in Antarctica, 26th meeting of the IAU. Special Session 7, 22-23 August, 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic, SPS7, #12.

Coe, D. A., Fuselier, E., Benitez, N., Broadhurst, T., Ford, H: ACS Science Team. "LensPerfect: Exact Massmap Solutions for Gravitationally Lensed Multiple Images", 2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting, 209, #21.03, 2006.

da Silva, R., Udry, S., et al. including Zucker, S. "Elodie metallicity-biased search for transiting hot Jupiters", Tenth Anniversary of 51 Peg-b: Status of and prospects for hot Jupiter studies. Colloquium held at Observatoire de Haute Provence, France, August 22-25, 2005. Edited by L. Arnold, F. Bouchy and C. Moutou. Published by Frontier Group, Paris (ISBN-2-914501-17.4). Proceedings p.135-137, 2006.

Davies, R., Genzel, R., Tacconi, L., Mueller, S.F. and Sternberg, A. "Star Formation and Molecular Gas in AGN", contribution to "Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies", held June 2006 in Japan.

Davies, R., Genzel, R., Tacconi, L., Mueller, S.F. and Sternberg, A. "Eddington limited starbursts in the central 10pc of AGN, and the Torus in NGC1068", Conference proceedings to appear in "The Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei", ed. L.C. Ho and J.-M. Wang (San Francisco: ASP), 2006

Ford, H. et al including Broadhurst, T. "The ACS IDT Investigation of the Evolution of Galxies and Clusters of Galaxies from z-0.2 to z - 7", Galaxy Evolution Across the Hubble Time, International Astronomical Union. Symposium 235, held 14-17 August, 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic, S235, #23.

Jee, M.J., et al including Broadhurst, T.J. ACS Science Team. "Discovery of a Dark Matter Ring in the Core of the Galaxy Cluster CL0024+17 at z=0.4", 2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #37.03, 2006.

Levinson, A. "High-Energy Aspects of Astrophysical Jets". Invited review, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A21 (2006) 6015.

Mazeh, T., Tamuz, O., Zucker, S. and Udalski, A.: The Wasp Consortium. "Sys-Rem - A new algorithm to remove systematic effects in large photometric datasets: application to OGLE and SuperWASP lightcurves", Tenth Anniversary of 51 Peg-b: Status of and prospects for hot Jupiter studies. Colloquium held at Observatoire de Haute Provence, France, August 22-25, 2005. Edited by L. Arnold, F. Bouchy and C. Moutou. Published by Frontier Group, Paris (ISBN-2-914501-17.4). Proceedings p.165-172, 2006.

Mazeh, T., Tamuz, O., Zucker, S. "The Sys-Rem Detrending Algorithm: Implementation and Testing", PASP proceedings of "Transiting Extrasolar Planets Workshop", MPIA Heidelberg Germany, 25-28th September 2006. Eds: C. Alfonso, D. Weldrake and T. Henning.

Mugrauer, M., Neuháuser, R., Mazeh, T. and Guenther, E. "Multiplicity of Exoplanet host stars", Tenth Anniversary of 51 Peg-b: Status of and prospects for hot Jupiter studies. Colloquium held at Observatoire de Haute Provence, France, August 22-25, 2005. Edited by L. Arnold, F. Bouchy and C. Moutou. Published by Frontier Group, Paris (ISBN-2-914501-17.4). Proceedings p.314-316, 2006.

Mugrauer, M., Neuháuser, R., Mazeh, T. and Guenther, E. "Multiplicity of Exoplanet host stars", Binary Stars as Critical Tools and Tests in Contemporary Astrophysics, International Astronomical Union Symposium 240, held 22-25 August, 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic, S240, #157.

Murphy, R.., Kozlovsky, B., Hua, X., Lingenfelter, R. and Share, G. "How Particle Acceleration, Magnetic Loop Transport and the solar Atmosphere Affect Gamma-ray and Neutron Production", American Astronomical Society, SPD meeting #37, #13.01, 2006.

Murphy, R.., Share, G.H. and Kozlovsky, B. Z. "LWS Studies of Gamma Rays Produced in the Earth's Atmosphere by Cosmic Rays and Solar Energetic Particle Events", American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #SH11A-0368.

Orio, M. et al, including Leibowitz, E. "RS Ophiuchi in outburst, seen with XMM-Newton and Chandra", The Ultraviolet Universe: Stars from Birth to Death, 26th meeting of the IAU, Joint Discussion 4, 16-17 August 2006, Prague, Czech Republic, JD04, #17.

Pasquini, L., et al, including Zucker, S. "CODEX: measuring the acceleration of the universe and beyond", The Scientific Requirements for Extremely Large Telescopes, Proceedings of the 232nd Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Cape Town, South Africa, November 14-18, 2005. Edited by Patricia Ann Whitelock; Michel Dennefeld; Bruno Leibundgut. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp.193-197.

Paumard, T., Genzel, R., et al. including Sternberg, A. "The Two Young Star Disks in the Central Parsec of the Galaxy: Properties, Dynamics and Formation", Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 54, Issue 1, pp. 199-207, 2006.

Plucinsky, P.P. et al, including Mazeh, T. and Shporer, A. "Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33): A First Look at the Hot Interstellar Medium", Triggered Star Formation in a Turbulent ISM, International Astronomical Union. Symposium 237, held 14-18 August, 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic, S237, #196.

Plucinsky, P.P. et al, including Mazeh, T. and Shporer, A. "Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33): A Deep X-ray Survey of the Nearest Face-on Spiral", 2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #87.01.

Polishook, D. and Brosch, N. "Observations of binary NEOs at the Wise Observatory", Near Earth Objects, Our Celestial Neighbors: Opportunity and Risk, International Astronomical Union, Symposium 236, held 14-18 August, 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic, S236, #34.

Polishook, D. and Brosch, N. "Many binaries among NEAs", invited paper for NASA's "Near Earth Object Detection, Characterization and Threat Mitigation", workshop, Colorado, June 2006.

Rephaeli, Y., Sadeh, S. and Shimon, M. "Modeling Integrated Properties and the Polarization of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect". Proceedings of the Francesco Melchiorri Memorial Conference, New Astronomy Reviews, in press 2006.

Sasaki, M. et al including Mazeh, T. and Shporer, A.: ChASeM33 team. "Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33): The X-ray Point Source Population of M33", 2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #87.02.

Sharon, K et al including Maoz, D. "A Survey for Supernovae in Massive High-Redshift Clusters", Proceedings of the Meeting "The Multicoloured Landscape of Compact Objects and their Explosive Origins", Cefalu, Italy, June 2006. To be published by AIP, Eds. L. Burderi et al.

Shporer, A., Mazeh, T., Moran, A., Bakos, G., Kovacs, G., and Mashal E. "The WHAT project", Tenth Anniversary of 51 Peg-b: Status of and prospects for hot Jupiter studies. Colloquium held at Observatoire de Haute Provence, France, August 22-25, 2005. Edited by L. Arnold, F. Bouchy and C. Moutou. Published by Frontier Group, Paris (ISBN-2-914501-17.4). Proceedings p.196-198, 2006.

Shporer, A., Mazeh, T., Moran, A., Bakos, G., Kovacs, G. "Searching for Variables in One of the WHAT Fields", PASP Proceedings of "Transiting Extrasolar Planets Workshop", MPIA Heidelberg, Germany, 25th-28th September 2006. Eds. C Alfonso., D. Weldrake and T. Henning.

Tsai, C-W., Turner, J.L., Beck, S.C., Crosthwaite, L.P., Ho, P.T.P. and Meier, D.S. "High Resolution Radio Maps of Four Nearby Spiral Galaxies". Proceedings of East Asian Young Astronomers Meeting, Kiyosato, Japan, February 2006.

ASTRONOMICAL CIRCULARS AND BULLETINS

Gonzalez-Riestra, R., Orio, M. and Leibowitz, E. "RS Ophiuchi", Astronomers Telegram, 8695, 2, 2006.

Pietsch, W., Plucinsky, P.P., Haberl, F., Shporer, A. and Mazeh, T. "Detection of the second eclipsing XRB in M33 by Chandra", Astronomers Telegram, 905, 10.2006.

Sharon, K., Gal-Yam, A. and Maoz, D. "Discovery of four SN candidates as a past of A Survey for Supernovae in Massive High-Redshift Clusters", Astronomers Telegram # 723, 1S, 2006.

Shporer, A., Hartman, J., Mazeh, T. and Pietsch, W. "Optical modulation of the new eclipsing XRB in M33", Astronomers Telegram 913, 10.2006.