Mysterious shaking rattled the Central Coast late Wednesday morning. It happened around 11:00 and was felt all the way from Santa Maria to Morro Bay. Some said it felt like a small earthquake. Others thought it may be another sonic boom. Caltech and seismic experts at UC Santa Barbara says there was n...
Title: SN 2005AP: A MOST BRILLIANT EXPLOSION Authors: Robert M. Quimby, Greg Aldering, J. Craig Wheeler, Peter Höflich, Carl W. Akerlof, Eli S. Rykoff We present unfiltered photometric observations with ROTSE-III and optical spectroscopic follow-up with the HET and Keck of the most luminous su...
Title: Interferometric Observations of V1663 Aquilae (Nova Aql 2005) Authors: B. F. Lane (Draper), A. Retter (Penn State), J. A. Eisner (Berkeley), Matthew W. Muterspaugh (Berkeley), R. R. Thompson (PTI), J. L. Sokoloski (Columbia) We have resolved the classical nova V1663 Aql using long-base...
Title: Masses, Luminosities, and Orbital Coplanarities of the mu Orionis Quadruple Star System from PHASES Differential Astrometry Authors: Matthew W. Muterspaugh (Berkeley), Benjamin F. Lane (Draper), Francis C. Fekel (Tennessee State), Maciej Konacki (NCAC Polish Academy of Sciences),...
Title: A purely reflective large wide-field telescope Authors: V.Yu. Terebizh The design of a fast three-mirror telescope with flat field of view 3 degree in diameter is proposed. The telescope does not include auxiliary lenses. As an example, we consider an f/1.25 reflector with the 8.4-m entra...
Shortly after 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, people around the Twin Cities metro reported seeing a metallic or flaming ball falling from the sky. Emergency dispatchers around the metro reported calls from around the metro of people seeing the object. Calls came in from Edina, Maple Grove, Inver Grove Heigh...
Rob H. McNaught (Siding Spring) discovered on October 09, 2007 a new comet, C/2007 T1, at magnitude 12.5. The discovery of C/2007 T1, was quickly confirmed by other observers. With this discovery Rob McNaught has now 38 comets to his credit. The preliminary orbital elements of the comet C/200...
JSAT Corporation of Japan has contracted with International Launch Services (ILS) for launch of its JCSAT-11 satellite on a Proton Breeze M vehicle in 2007. The companies announced the deal at the Satellite 2006 conference in Washington, D.C. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Title: The GBT350 Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane for Radio Pulsars and Transients Authors: J.W.T. Hessels, S.M. Ransom, V.M. Kaspi, M.S.E. Roberts, D.J. Champion, B.W. Stappers Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and Pulsar Spigot at 350MHz, we have surveyed the Northern Galactic Plane...
Title: HAT-P-5b: A Jupiter-like hot Jupiter Transiting a Bright Star Authors: G. A. Bakos (1,2), A. Shporer (3), A. Pal (4,1), G. Torres (1), Geza Kovacs (5), D. W. Latham (1), T. Mazeh (3), A. Ofir (3), R. W. Noyes (1), D. D. Sasselov (1), F. Bouchy (7), F. Pont (6), D. Queloz (6), S. Udry (6), G. Esquerdo...
Title: Superhumps and flickering in V1316 Cygni Authors: David Boyd, Christopher Lloyd, Robert Koff, Thomas Krajci, Bart Staels, Jerrold Foote, William Goff, Tonny Vanmunster, Lewis Cook, Joseph Patterson We present analysis and results of a coordinated CCD photometry campaign to observe th...
Indonesia is planning to build a suspension bridge from Sumatra to Sangian and on to Java. The bridge will be 50 kilometres long and cost about $12 billion. It will also be about 70 meters high to allow ships to pass beneath it. It will be the longest suspension bridge in the world and pass near some of the...
Scientists are studying whether a submerged extinct volcano may sit to the south of Kauai, a would-be sister island to the Garden Isle that never emerged above the ocean. They're testing the theory by examining 363 volcanic rocks recently collected from the sea floor around Kauai, Niihau and Kaula...
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