Title: The faint "heartbeats" of IGR J17091-3624: an exceptional black-hole candidate Authors: D. Altamirano, T. Belloni, M. Linares, M. van der Klis, R. Wijnands, P. A. Curran, M. Kalamkar, H. Stiele, S. Motta, T. Munoz-Darias, P. Casella, H. Krimm We report on the first 180 days of RX...
Title: 2D kinematics of the edge-on spiral galaxy ESO 379-G006 Authors: M. Rosado, R.F. Gabbasov, P. Repetto, I. Fuentes-Carrera, P. Amram, M. Martos, O. Hernandez We present a kinematical study of the nearly edge-on galaxy ESO 379-G006 that shows the existence of extraplanar ionised gas. With F...
Title: Discovery of transient high-energy gamma-ray emission from the BL Lacertae object 5C 3.178 Authors: Hugh Dickinson, Christian Farnier We report the discovery of transient, point-like high energy gamma-ray emission coincident with the position of the suspected BL Lac object 5C 3.178. T...
A magnitude 13.3, type Ia supernova, 2009ig, was discovered on the 20th August, 2009 by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search in the spiral galaxy NGC 1015 in the constellation Cetus. The supernova is located 0.6" east and 22" north from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA = 02...
Hubble Sees Cosmic "Flying V" of Merging Galaxies This large "flying V" is actually two distinct objects - a pair of interacting galaxies known as IC 2184. Both the galaxies are seen almost edge-on in the large, faint northern constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe),...
The 300 - 670 metre wide asteroid 2008 DG17 will make a close pass (36.8 lunar distances, 0.0946 AU), travelling at 23.24 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th February, 2013 @ 09:25 UT ±07:22. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (o...
Title: Discovery of a Colour-Selected Quasar at z=5.50 Authors: Daniel Stern (1), Hyron Spinrad (2), Peter Eisenhardt (1), Andrew J. Bunker (3), Steve Dawson (2), S. A. Stanford (4 and 5), Richard Elston (6) ((1) JPL/Caltech, (2) UC-Berkeley, (3) IoA, Cambridge, (4) UC-Davis, (5) IGPP/LLNL, and...
Title: Kepler-68: Three Planets, One With a Density Between That of Earth and Ice Giants Authors: Ronald L. Gilliland, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Jason F. Rowe, Leslie Rogers, Guillermo Torres, Francois Fressin, Eric D. Lopez, Lars A. Buchhave, Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jean-Michel Desert, How...
Title: PESSTO monitoring of SN 2012hn: further heterogeneity among faint type I supernovae Authors: S. Valenti, F. Yuan, S. Taubenberger, K. Maguire, A. Pastorello, S. Benetti, S. J. Smartt, E. Cappellaro, D. A. Howell, L. Bildsten, K. Moore, M. Stritzinger, J. P. Anderson, S. Benitez-Herrera,...
Orbital elements:
2013 CJ89 Earth MOID = 0.4361 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 131.16916 (2000.0) P Q
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P 1.62 H 19....
Orbital elements:
2013 CL89 Earth MOID = 0.1369 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 307.01183 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.70674117 Peri. 321.01548 +0.33772145 +0.90909810
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P 1.39 H 19....
Orbital elements:
2013 CK89 Earth MOID = 0.3142 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 54.07850 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.27244637 Peri. 242.91022 +0.56843582 -0.82074660
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P 3.62 H 18.0...
Chris Willott (University of Ottawa) and a large international research team identified four new quasars at redshift greater than z = 6 from MegaCam imaging at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). Follow-up spectroscopy with GMOS at the Gemini South telescope (and the Marcario LRS at the...