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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2013-08-31
    Description: Measurements of the velocity differences (delta v's) in pairs of galaxies from large statistical samples have often been used to estimate the average masses of binary galaxies. A basic prediction of these models is that the delta v distribution ought to decline monotonically. However, some peculiar aspects of the kinematics have been uncovered, with an anomalous preference for delta v approx. equal to 72 km s(sup-1) appearing to be present in the data. The authors examine a large sample of binary galaxies with accurate redshift measurements and confirm that the distribution of delta v's appears to be non-monotonic with peaks at 0 and approx. 72 km s (exp -1). The authors suggest that the non-zero peak results from the isolation criteria employed in defining samples of binaries and that it indicates there are two populations of binary orbits contributing to the observed delta v distribution.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Paired and Interacting Galaxies: International Astronomical Union Colloquium No. 124; p 485-490
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: We have carried out a systematic search for emission-line objects through photometrically calibrated CCD grism surveys with the Palomar 200-inch telescope in transit mode, covering 62 square degrees. These surveys have yielded 141 quasars detected by their C IV or Ly-alpha emission in the redshift range 2.0 - 4.7. We use this sample and the known flux limits to derive the slope of the luminosity function and the space density above a given line luminosity, as a function of redshift. While space densities are approximately constant at redshifts 2.0 - 3.0, they are declining steeply for redshifts larger than 3.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: In: The space distribution of quasars; Proceedings of the Workshop, Victoria, Canada, June 3-5, 1991 (A93-28776 10-90); p. 109-114; Discussi
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2019-07-12
    Description: Moderate-resolution spectroscopy of an unusual late-type faint emission-line star, PC 0025 + 0047, is reported. A very strong (greater than 250 A equivalent width) an H-alpha emission line was detected by the present automated line search algorithm. The spectrum was found to have two unresolved emission lines (H-alpha and H-beta) near zero velocity, superposed on the absorption spectrum of a very red M dwarf which has strong K I, and relatively weak bands of TiO. From the weakness of the subordinate lines of Na I (8192 A) and other spectral features, it is inferred that it is definitely a cooler, and probably fainter, analog of LHS 2924. The strength of the emission lines indicates that PC 0025 + 0447 is very young and may be a fading predecessor brown drawf at an estimated M(bol) approaching 14m at a distance of about 60 pc.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256); 102; 1180-119
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2019-07-12
    Description: Observations of PC 1247 + 3406, a quasar with a redshift of 4.897 + or - 0.011, is described on the basis of a four-filter CCD survey designed to detect quasars with redshifts between 4.0 and 5.5. The quasar was found to be about the same brightness as PC 1158 + 4635, a quasar with a 20th-magnitude redshift of 4.733 discovered in 1989. The properties of PC 1247 + 3406 are similar to other quasars with redshifts above 3, although the absorption due to intervening neutral hydrogen is about 20 percent less than expected. The flux in the spectrum abruptly drops at a wavelength of about 910 A in the quasar's rest frame. This quick encounter with a Lyman-limit system is frequently seen in other quasars with redshifts above 4.3.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256); 102; 837-840
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2019-07-12
    Description: A uniform set of photometry and high signal-to-noise moderate resolution spectroscopy of 33 quasars with redshifts larger than 3.1 is presented. The sample consists of 17 newly discovered quasars (two with redshifts in excess of 4.4) and 16 sources drawn from the literature. The objects in this sample have r magnitudes between 17.4 and 21.4; their luminosities range from -28.8 to -24.9. Three of the 33 objects are broad absorption line quasars. A number of possible high redshift damped Ly-alpha systems were found.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256); 101; 2004-201
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    Publication Date: 2019-07-12
    Description: Results are reported from a statistical analysis of published observational data on a sample of 860 northern dwarf and low-surface-brightness (D/LSB) galaxies with delta = 0 deg or greater and b between -40 and 40 deg, selected from the Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (Nilson et al., 1973). The results are presented in extensive redshift/space maps, histograms, graphs and tables and characterized in detail. It is shown that the distribution of D/LSB galaxies closely resembles that of bright galaxies, apparently ruling out biased-star-formation models predicting a uniform distribution of D/LSBs. Although bright galaxies outside clusters are somewhat more clustered than the H I-rich D/LSBs, the latters' pairwise peculiar velocity (460 + or - 50 km/sec) is similar to that of the former.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X); 370; 25-48
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  • 7
    Publication Date: 2019-07-12
    Description: A model of microlensing for image A of the gravitationally lensed QSO 2237 + 0305 for which Irwin et al. reported in 1989 an increase of the apparent luminosity by about 0.5 mag on a time scale of a few months is presented. The model, with the Salpeter mass function over the mass range of 0.1-1.0 solar mass and the transverse velocity of the lens (or observer) of 600 km/s, can reproduce the reported luminosity variation if the source of the optical continuum has a radius smaller than about 2 x 10 to the 15th cm. This size is compatible with the accretion disk interpretation of the big ultraviolet bump in quasar spectra. The model demonstrates a very large diversity of light curves while the source crosses individual microcaustics or clusters of microcaustics. It will take more than 100 yr before the full variety of light curves will be sampled by the observations.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X); 358; L33-L36
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 2019-07-12
    Description: If the Galaxy possesses a dark halo of massive objects, they will produce small but potentially detectable distortions in the images of distant, extended objects due to gravitational lensing effects. An illustrative analytic and a more realistic numerical model are presented for calculating the number and angular sizes of these distortions, and a specific example of a digital filter is described which could be used for the identification of such distortions. The sensitivity of possible searches for the effect in the image of M31 and the Galactic Center are discussed in some detail. Simulated images of distortions of various angular sizes in these fields as they would be expected to appear in ground-based and Space Telescope CCD frames are presented. A Galactic halo of black holes such as that proposed by Lacey and Ostriker might well be detectable ina practically realizable experiment.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256); 100; 146-155
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