THE RAYMOND AND BEVERLY SACKLER INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY
PUBLICATIONS 2003
The following are publications of members of the Sackler Institute of Astronomy:
Almoznino, E., Barkana, R., Beck, S. C., Brosch, N., Contini, M., Cuperman, S.,
Formiggini, L., Goldman, I., Kovetz, A., Kozlovsky, B-Z., Leibowitz, E. M., Levinson,
A., Maoz, D., Mazeh, T., Mendelson, H., Netzer, H., Rephaeli, Y. and Sternberg, A.
Research workers and graduate students:
Arielli, Y., Atar. O., Boger, G., Bromberg, O., Chelouche, D., Choi, Y. J., Choresh, A.,
Gal-Yam, A., Giveon, U., Gnat, O., Goldberg, D., Goldberg, E., Helled, R., Heller, A.,
Kaspi, S., Lipkin, Y., Mamou, Y., Markus, B., Medezinski, E.,Ofek, E. O., Ofir, A.,
Peles. O., Polishook, D., Rashkovan, V., Sadeh, S., Sharon, K., Sharon, O., Schjvarg, L.
S., Shelef, E., Shemmer, O., Shimon, M., Sirotkin, A., Shporer, A., Weingarten, C., and
Zucker, S.
Guest observers and their co-authors.
PAPERS PRINTED IN JOURNALS
Abe, F., et al including Gal-Yam, A., Maoz, D. and Ofek, E.O. "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, P., Leibowitz, E. and Hemar, S. "The Pulsating
DB White Dwarf PG 1351+489", Baltic Astronomy, Volume 12: 33, 2003.
Arieli, Y. and Rephaeli, Y. "Dark Matter profiles in clusters of galaxies: a
phenomenological approach", New Astronomy, 8: 517 2003.
Barkana, 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 Rephaeli, Y. and Shimon, 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 Rephaeli, 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, T. "WET Observations of the DAV G185-32",
Baltic Astronomy, 12: 39, 2003.
Chelouche, D. and Netzer, H. "Non-Sobolev modeling of radiation-pressure-driven
flows in active galactic nuclei", MNRAS, 344: 223, 2003.
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Chelouche, D. and Netzer, H. "Continuum shielding and flow dynamics in active
galactic nuclei", MNRAS, 344: 233, 2003.
Chelouche, D. "Strong Gravitational lensing and the Structure of Quasar Outflows",
ApJ. 596: L43, 2003.
Choi, Y. J., Brosch, 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., Viegas, S. M., and Campos, P. E. "The infrared X-Ray continuum
correlation in active galactic nuclei", MNRAS, 346: 37, 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, 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., 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, 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.
Davies, R. I., Sternberg, A., Lehnert, M. and Tacconi-Garman, L E. "Molecular
Hydrogen Excitation in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies", ApJ. 597: 907, 2003.
Eichler, D. and Levinson A. "Polarizating GRB via Scattering off a relativistic sheath",
Ap.J. 596: L147, 2003.
Fox, D.W., et al including Gal-Yam, A and Lipkin, 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, S. and Netzer, 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, A. "Hubble Space Telescope amd Ground-based
Optical and Ultraviolet Observations of GRB 010222", ApJ. 587: 135, 2003.
Gal-Yam, A., Maoz, D., Guhathakurta, P., and Filippenko, A.V. "A Population of
Intergalactic Supernovae in Galaxy Clusters", AJ. 125: 1087, 2003.
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Gaspar, A., et al including Kaspi, 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 Sternberg, A. "The Stellar Cusp around the Supermassive
Black Hole in the Galactic Center", ApJ. 594: 812, 2003.
Goldberg, D., Mazeh, T., and Latham, D.W. "On the Mass-Ratio Distribution of
Spectroscopic Binaries", ApJ. 591: 397, 2003.
Hoffman, G. L., Brosch, 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, E., Ibbetson, P. and Mendelson, H. "A Whole
Earth Telescope campaign on the pulsating subdwarf B binary System PG 1336018 (NY Vir)" MNRAS, 345: 834, 2003.
Levinson, A. and Eichler, D. "Baryon loading of Gamma Ray Bursts by pick-up
neutrons", ApJ. 594: 19, 2003.
Lutz, D., Sturm, E., Genzel, R., Spoon, H.W.W., Moorwood, A.F.M., Netzer, H. and
Sternberg, 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, S. "X-Ray Fluctuation Power Spectral Densities of
Seyfert 1 Galaxies", ApJ. 593: 96, 2003.
Masi, S. et al including Rephaeli, 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, T. and Zucker, S. "A possible Correlation between Mass Ratio and Period Ratio
in Multiple Planetary Systems", ApJ. 590: L115, 2003.
Mazeh, T., Simon, M., Prato, L., Markus, B. and Zucker, 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, P., Leibowitz, E., Ofek, E.O. "Constraining
the Evolution of ZZ Ceti", Baltic Astronomy, 12: 71. 2003.
Mukadam, A. S., et al. including Ibbetson, P., Leibowitz, E., Ofek, E.O. "Constraining
the Evolution of ZZ Ceti", ApJ. 594: 961, 2003.
Nakos, T. et al including Ofek, E. O. and Gal-Yam, A. "A catalog of secondary
photometric standard stars around gravitational lenses", A&A. 402: 1157, 2003.
Netzer, H. “The Largest Black Holes and the Most Luminous Galaxies”, ApJ. 583: L5,
2003.
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Netzer, H., Kaspi, S., Chelouche, 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, E. O., Rix, H.-W. and Maoz, D. "The redshift distribution of gravitational lenses
revisited: Constraints of galaxy mass evolution", MNRAS, 343: 639, 2003.
Ofek, E. O., and Maoz, D. "Time Delay measurement of the Lensed quasar HE11041805" ApJ. 594: 101, 2003.
Ott, T., et al including Sternberg, 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, N. "The World Space Observatory Project WSO/UV"
Mem. S.A.It. Vol. 73, 23, 2003.
Persic, M. and Rephaeli, Y. “Starburst galaxies and the X-ray background”, A&A, 399:
9, 2003.
Prato, L., Simon, M., Mazeh, T., McLean, I.S., Norman, D. and Zucker, 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, A., Ofek, E. O. and Lipkin, Y. "Discovery of GRB
020405 and Its Late Red Bump", ApJ. 589: 838, 2003.
Rephaeli, Y. and Gruber, D. "RXTE Observations of A2256", ApJ, 595: 137, 2003.
Sadeh, S. and Rephaeli, Y. "CMB Comptonization in Clusters: Spectral and Angular
Power from Evolving Polytropic Gas", New Astron., 9: 159, 2003.
Schreiber, N. M., et al including Sternberg, A. "The Nature of Starburst Activity in
M82", ApJ, 599: 193, 2003.
Schuh, S.L. et al including Leibowitz, E., Ibbetson, 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 Kozlovsky, B-Z. "High-Resolution Observation of the Solar
Positron-Electron Annihilation Line", ApJ. 595: L85, 2003.
Shemmer, O., Uttley, P., Netzer, H. and McHardy, I. M. "Complex Optical-X-ray
Correlations in the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 4051", MNRAS, 343:
1341, 2003.
Shimon, M. and Rephaeli, Y. "Quantitative Description of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich
Effect: Analytic Approximations", New Astron, 9: 69, 2003.
Sternberg, A. "Astronomy: Hot gas around the Galaxy", Nature, Volume 421, Issue
6924: 708, 2003.
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Sternberg, 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, S. C., Crosthwaite, L. P., Larkin, J. ., 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 Levinson A. “Theory and Astrophysical Consequences of a
Magnetized Torus around a Rapidly Rotating Black Hole”, ApJ. 584: 937, 2003.
Verma, A. et al including Sternberg, 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, 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, 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, S. "X-Rays from the high-redshift universe: The
Chandra view", Astron. Nachr., 324: 163, 2003.
Wang, J.-M, and Netzer, 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, S., Mazeh, 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
Beck, S.C., Garrington, S., Turner, J. and van Dyck, S. "MERLIN nad VLA Observations
of VII Zw 19", accepted for publication in AJ, 2003.
Contini, M., Viegas, S. M., Prieto, M. A. "The infrared continuum of active galactic
nuclei", accepted for publication in MNRAS, 2003.
Rephaeli, Y. and Gruber, D. "Spectral Analysis of RXTE Observations of A3667", ApJ.
in press, 2003.
Sadeh, S., Rephaeli, Y. "S-Z Anisotropy and Cluster Counts: Consistent Selection of  8
and the Temperatrue-Mass Relation", New Astronomy, in press.
Stark, R., Beck, S. C. and 7 co-authors, "Probing the Early Stages of Low-Mass Star
Formation", accepted for publication by A&A, 2003.
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PAPERS PRESENTED AT MEETINGS
Barstow, M., et al including Brosch, 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, S.C. and Turner, J.L. "An Introverted Starburst", IAU Symposium 217: Recycling
Galactic and Intergalactic Matter. ASP Symposium 217 (2003)
Choi, Y. J., Brosch, 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, 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, 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, S., Netzer, H., Maoz, D., Shemmer, 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 Rephaeli, 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, 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, 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 Kozlovsky, B-Z. "High Resolution Observation of the Solar
Positron-Electron Annihilation Line", American Astronomical Society, SPD
meeting #34: #14.08, 2003.
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Shemmer, O., Netzer, 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, 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 Sternberg, 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.
ASTRONOMICAL CIRCULARS AND BULLETINS
Gal Yam, A., Ofek, E. O., Polishook, D. and Leibowitz, E. M. "GRB030329: OT B and
R photometry, decline rate" GCN 1999 (2003)
Gal Yam, A., Ofek, E. O., and Polishook, D. "GRB030328: OT photometry" GCN 1984
(2003)
Gal Yam, A. and Ofek, E. O. "GRB030320: Optical Observations", GCN 1946 (2003)
Gal-Yam, A., Maoz, D., Prada, F., Guhathakurta, P., Filippenko, A.V., Chornock, R and
Smith, G. "Supernova 2002lh", IAUC 8169, July 2003.
Gal Yam, A. and Maoz, D. "No Supernovae 1998ev, 1999cu and 1999dc", IAUC 8171,
July 2003.
Gal-Yam, A., Maoz, D., Ofek, E.O., Poznanski, D., Sharon, K., Medezinski, E.,
Lipkin, Y., Prada, F., Guhathakurta, P., Challis, P., Matheson, T. and Kirshner, R.
"Supernova 2003il", IAUC 8212, 2003.
Lipkin, Y., Leibowitz, E. M. Ofek, E. O., Kaspi, S., Gal-Yam, A. and Mendelson, H.
"GRB030329-OT rebrightens", GRB Circular Network, 2060: 1, 2003.
Lipkin, Y., Leibowitz, E. M. Ofek, E. O., Gal-Yam, A. and Mendelson, H.
"GRB030329 – Constant OT Magnitude", GCN 2049 (2003)
Lipkin, Y., Ofek, E. O., Gal-Yam, A., Leibowitz, E. M. and Mendelson, H.
"GRB030329 – OT brightens", GCN 2045 (2003)
Lipkin, Y., Ofek, E. O., Gal-Yam, A. and Mendelson, H. "GRB030329 – Light curve
flattening", GCN 2034 (2003)
Ofek, E. O. and Gal Yam, A. "GRB030227 – faint tentative OT candidate", GCN 1903
(2003)
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Ofek, E. O., Gal Yam, A., Lipkin, Y., Sharon, K. and Medezinski, E. "GRB030329 –
near contemporaneous optical limits from CONCAM" GCN 2031 (2003)
Ofek, E. O., Choi, Y.-J., Gal Yam, A., and Lipkin, Y. "GRB030501 observation report"
GCN 2201 (2003)
Ofek, E. O., Poznanski, D., Gal-Yam, A. and Lipkin, Y. "SN 2003jd (SN/GRB?) –
possible association with GRB 030929", GCN 2434, 2003.
Orio, M. et al including Leibowitz, E. and Lipkin, Y. "V4743 Sagittarii", IAUC 8131,
2003.
Poznanski, D., Gal-Yam, A., Sharon, K., Maoz, D., Jannuzi, B. T., Papenkova, M., Li,
W. and Schwartz, M. “Supernovae 2003B, 2003Q, 2003R, 2003S and 2003T”,
IAUC 8058, 2003.
Shporer, A., Ofek, E. O. and Mazeh, T. "Possible Nova in M33", IAUC 8199, 2003.