Arriagada, Pamela, Butler, R. Paul, Minniti, Dante, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Shectman, Stephen A., Adams, Fred C., ...
Five new planets orbiting G and K dwarfs have emerged from the Magellan velocity survey. These companions are jovian-mass planets in eccentric (e \geq 0.24) intermediate and long-period orbits. HD...
LSST Science Book, Version 2.0 (2009)
Allison, Julius, Anderson, Scott F., Andrew, John R., Angel, J. Roger P., Armus, Lee, ...
A survey that can cover the sky in optical bands over wide fields to faint magnitudes with a fast cadence will enable many of the exciting science opportunities of the next decade. The Large Synoptic...
Stellar abundances tracing the formation of the galactic bulge (2009)
Barbuy, Beatriz, Zoccali, Manuela, Ortolani, Sergio, Hill, Vanessa, Renzini, Alvio, Meléndez, Jorge, ...
Evaluación de profesores universitarios por sus labores de investigación y creación (2009)
Dante Minniti, Pablo Irarrázaval, Ignacio Villegas, Fernando Pérez, Mauricio Ferrari
ABSTRACTThis work describes the evaluation process of faculty members in academic activities such as research and creation. It is aimed at reaching universal criteria relevant to all disciplines in...
Evaluación de profesores universitarios por sus labores de investigación y creación (2009)
Minniti, Dante, Irarrázaval, Pablo, Villegas, Ignacio, Pérez Oyarzun, Fernando, Ferrari, Mauricio
This work describes the evaluation process of faculty members in academic activities such as research and creation. It is aimed at reaching universal criteria relevant to all disciplines in order to...
The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury Program: A First Look at Resolved Stellar Population Tools (2008)
Brown, Thomas M., Sahu, Kailash, Zoccali, Manuela, Renzini, Alvio, Ferguson, Henry C., Anderson, Jay, ...
[Abridged] When WFC3 is installed on HST, the community will have powerful new tools for investigating resolved stellar populations. The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury program will obtain deep imaging...
Low Mass Companions for Five Solar-Type Stars from the Magellan Planet Search Program (2008)
Minniti, Dante, Butler, R. Paul, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Shectman, Stephen A., Adams, Fred C., Arriagada, Pamela, ...
We report low mass companions orbiting five Solar-type stars that have emerged from the Magellan precision Doppler velocity survey, with minimum (Msini) masses ranging from 1.2 to 25 Mjup. These...
Stellar Proper Motions in the Galactic Bulge from deep HST ACS/WFC Photometry (2008)
Clarkson, Will, Sahu, Kailash, Anderson, Jay, Smith, T. Ed., Brown, Thomas M., Rich, R. Michael, ...
We present stellar proper motions in the Galactic bulge from the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Search (SWEEPS) project using ACS/WFC on HST. Proper motions are extracted for more than...
Two Jupiter-Mass Planets Orbiting HD 154672 and HD 205739 (2008)
Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Butler, R. Paul, Fischer, Debra A., Minniti, Dante, Shectman, Stephen A., Takeda, Genya, ...
We report the detection of the first two planets from the N2K Doppler planet search program at the Magellan telescopes. The first planet has a mass of M sin i = 4.96 M_Jup and is orbiting the G3 IV...
Behind the Scenes of the Discovery of Two Extrasolar Planets: ESO Large Programme 666 (2008)
Minniti, Dante, Naef, Claudio, Udalski, Andrzej, Pont, Frédéric, Moutou, Claire, Santos, Nuno, ...
This is the story of the Large Programme 666, dedicated to discover sub-stellar objects (extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs), and to measure their masses, radii, and mean densities. We hunt selected...
Detection of period variations in extrasolar transiting planet OGLE-TR-111b (2008)
Díaz, Rodrigo F., Rojo, Patricio, Melita, Mario, Hoyer, Sergio, Minniti, Dante, Mauas, Pablo J. D., ...
Two consecutive transits of planetary companion OGLE-TR-111b were observed in the I band. Combining these observations with data from the literature, we find that the timing of the transits cannot be...
Commission 45: spectral classification (2008)
Giridhar, Sunetra, Gray, Richard O., Corbally, Christopher J., Eyer, Laurent, Irwin, Michael J., ...
This report gives an update of developments (since the last General Assembly at Prague) in the areas that are of relevance to the commission. In addition to numerous papers, a new monograph entitled...
Planets in the Galactic Bulge: Results from the SWEEPS Project (2007)
Sahu, Kailash C., Casertano, Stefano, Valenti, Jeff, Bond, Howard E., Brown, Thomas M., Smith, T. Ed, ...
The exoplanets discovered so far have been mostly around relatively nearby and bright stars. As a result, the host stars are mostly (i) in the Galactic disk, (ii) relatively massive, and (iii)...
Eva K. Grebel, Doug Geisler, Dante Minniti
Old and new tools for understanding the evolution of stars
Low-Mass X-ray Binaries and Globular Clusters in Centaurus A (2007)
Jordan, Andres, Sivakoff, Gregory R., McLaughlin, Dean E., Blakeslee, John P., Evans, Daniel A., Kraft, Ralph P., ...
We present results of Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of globular clusters (GCs) and low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) in the central regions of Centaurus A. Out of...
The Galactic Bulge: A Review (2007)
Minniti, Dante, Zoccali, Manuela
The Milky Way is the only galaxy for which we can resolve individual stars at all evolutionary phases, from the Galactic center to the outskirt. The last decade, thanks to the advent of near IR...
A search for planets transiting the M-dwarf debris disc host, AU Microscopii (2007)
Hebb, Leslie, Petro, Larry, Ford, Holland C., Ardila, David R., Toledo, Ignacio, Minniti, Dante, ...
We present high-cadence, high-precision multiband photometry of the young, M1Ve, debris disc star, AU Microscopii. The data were obtained in three continuum filters spanning a wavelength range from...
Hoyer, Sergio, Alegria, Sebastian Ramirez, Ivanov, Valentin D., Minniti, Dante, Pietrzynski, Grzegorz, Ruiz, Maria Teresa, ...
We present precise new V, I, and K-band photometry for the planetary transit candidate star OGLE-TR-82. Good seeing V-band images acquired with VIMOS instrument at ESO VLT allowed us to measure...
A Search for Planets Transiting the M Dwarf Debris Disk Host, AU Microscopii (2007)
Hebb, Leslie, Petro, Larry, Ford, Holland C., Ardila, David R., Toledo, Ignacio, Minniti, Dante, ...
We present high cadence, high precision multi-band photometry of the young, M1Ve, debris disk star, AU Microscopii. The data were obtained in three continuum filters spanning a wavelength range from...
Imaging and Spectroscopy of Ultra Steep Spectrum Radio Sources (2007)
Bornancini, Carlos G., De Breuck, Carlos, De Vries, Wim, Croft, Steve, Van Breugel, Wil, Rottgering, Huub, ...
We present a sample of 40 Ultra Steep Spectrum (USS, $\alpha \leq -1.3$, $S_{\nu}\propto \nu^{\alpha}$) radio sources selected from the Westerbork in the Southern Hemisphere (WISH) catalog. The USS...
Pont, Frederic, Moutou, Claire, Gillon, Michael, Udalski, Andrzej, Bouchy, Francois, Fernandes, Joao, ...
Transiting planets are essential to study the structure and evolution of extra-solar planets. For that purpose, it is important to measure precisely the radius of these planets. Here we report new...
Díaz, Rodrigo F., Ramírez, Sebastián, Fernández, José Miguel, Gallardo, José, Gieren, Wolfgang, Ivanov, Valentin D., ...
We present precise V and Ks-band transit photometry for the planetary host star OGLE-TR-113. Using the Ks-band photometry, we confirm the dwarf nature of OGLE-TR-113, and obtain new estimates for its...
Minniti, Dante, Fernández, José Miguel, Díaz, Rodrigo F., Udalski, Andrzej, Pietrzynski, Grzegorz, Gieren, Wolfgang, ...
We present accurate V-band photometry for a planetary transit of OGLE-TR-111 acquired with VIMOS at the ESO Very Large Telescope. The measurement of this transit allows to refine the planetary...
Commission 45: stellar classification (2007)
Corbally, Christopher, Giridhar, Sunetra, Bailer-Jones, Coryn, Humphreys, Roberta, Kirkpatrick, Davy, Evans, Tom Lloyd, ...
This report, like its predecessors, focuses on areas which have been especially active since the last General Assembly. Two major developments have been the unification of the T-dwarf standards and...
Piatek, Slawomir, Pryor, Carlton, Bristow, Paul, Olszewski, Edward W., Harris, Hugh C., Mateo, Mario, ...
The measured proper motion of Fornax, expressed in the equatorial coordinate system, is $(\mu_{\alpha},\mu_{\delta})=(47.6\pm 4.6,-36.0\pm 4.1)$ mas century$^{-1}$. This proper motion is a weighted...
Pont, Frederic, Moutou, Claire, Gillon, Michael, Udalski, Andrzej, Bouchy, Francois, Fernandes, Joao, ...
Transiting planets are essential to study the structure and evolution of extra-solar planets. For that purpose, it is important to measure precisely the radius of these planets. Here we report new...
Transiting extrasolar planetary candidates in the Galactic bulge (2006)
Kailash C. Sahu, Stefano Casertano, Howard E. Bond, Jeff Valenti, T. Ed Smith, Dante Minniti, ...
Transiting extrasolar planetary candidates in the Galactic bulge (2006)
Sahu, Kailash C., Casertano, Stefano, Bond, Howard E., Valenti, Jeff, Smith, T. Ed, Minniti, Dante, ...
More than 200 extrasolar planets have been discovered around relatively nearby stars, primarily through the Doppler line shifts owing to the reflex motions of their host stars, and more recently...
Lightcurves of Type Ia Supernovae from Near the Time of Explosion (2006)
Garg, Arti, Stubbs, Christopher W., Challis, Peter, Wood-Vasey, W. Michael, Blondin, Stephane, Huber, Mark E., ...
We present a set of 11 type Ia supernova (SN Ia) lightcurves with dense, pre-maximum sampling. These supernovae (SNe), in galaxies behind the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), were discovered by the...
Millimagnitude optical photometry for the transiting planetary candidate OGLE-TR-109 (2006)
Fernández, José Miguel, Minniti, Dante, Pietrzynski, Grzegorz, Gieren, Wolfgang, Ruiz, María Teresa, Zoccali, Manuela, ...
We present precise V-band photometry for the low-amplitude transit candidate star OGLE-TR-109. This is an extreme case among the transiting candidates found by the OGLE group because of the early...
HST Proper Motions and Stellar Dynamics in the Core of the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae (2006)
McLaughlin, Dean E., Anderson, Jay, Meylan, Georges, Gebhardt, Karl, Pryor, Carlton, Minniti, Dante, ...
We have used HST imaging of the central regions (R
Millimagnitude Optical Photometry for the Transiting Planetary Candidate OGLE-TR-109 (2006)
Fernandez, Jose Miguel, Minniti, Dante, Pietrzynski, Grzegorz, Gieren, Wolfgang, Ruiz, Maria Teresa, Zoccali, Manuela, ...
We present precise V-band photometry for the low-amplitude transit candidate star OGLE-TR-109. This is an extreme case among the transiting candidates found by the OGLE group because of the early...
The search for double transit planetary systems opens new possibilities for the transit searches and for studies of orbital stability, stellar irradiation, and migration scenarios, among others. We...
Debra A. Fischer, Gregory W. Henry, Greg Laughlin, R. Paul Butler, K. L. Tah, ...
Doppler measurements from Subaru and Keck have revealed radial velocity variations in the V 8:15, G0 IV star HD 149026 consistent with a Saturn-mass planet in a 2.8766 day orbit. Photometric...
Minniti, Dante, Rejkuba, Marina, Kennicutt Jr., Robert C.
VLT images in BVI are used to identify the ionizing source centered on Sersic 13, the largest HII region of the giant nearby galaxy NGC 5128 with log L_Halpha=39.6 erg/s. This ionizing source turns...
A transiting extrasolar giant planet around the star OGLE-TR-113 (2004)
Konacki, Maciej, Torres, Guillermo, Sasselov, Dimitar D., Pietrzynski, Grzegorz, Udalski, Andrzej, Jha, Saurabh, ...
We report the independent discovery of a new extrasolar transiting planet around OGLE-TR-113, a candidate star from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Small radial-velocity variations have...
The galaxy density environment of gamma-ray burst host galaxies (2004)
Bornancini, Carlos G., Martinez, Hector J., Lambas, Diego G., Floc'h, Emeric Le, Mirabel, I. Felix, Minniti, Dante
We analyze cross-correlation functions between Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) hosts and surrounding galaxies. We have used data obtained with the Very Large Telescope at Cerro Paranal (Chile), as well as...
Resolving the Stellar Population of the Standard Elliptical Galaxy NGC3379 (2003)
Gregg, Michael D., Ferguson, Henry C., Minniti, Dante, Tanvir, Nial, Catchpole, Robin
Using the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope, we have obtained F110W (J-band) and F160W (H-band) images of three fields in NGC3379, a...
Bornancini, Carlos G., Martinez, Hector J., Lambas, Diego G., De Vries, Wim, Van Breugel, Wil, De Breuck, Carlos, ...
We have analyzed galaxy properties in the neighborhood of 20 Ultra-Steep Spectrum Radio sources (USS) taken from the WISH catalog of De Breuck et al. (2002). Galaxies in these USS fields were...
Hubble Space Telescope Observations of cD Galaxies and their Globular Cluster Systems (2003)
Jordan, Andres, Cote, Patrick, West, Michael J., Marzke, Ronald O., Minniti, Dante, Rejkuba, Marina
We have used WFPC2 on the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain F450W and F814W images of four cD galaxies (NGC 541 in Abell 194, NGC 2832 in Abell 779, NGC 4839 in Abell 1656 and NGC 7768 in Abell 2666)...
Kinematic Evidence for an Old Stellar Halo in the Large Magellanic Cloud (2003)
Minniti, Dante, Borissova, Jura, Rejkuba, Marina, Alves, David R., Cook, Kem H., Freeman, Kenneth C.
The oldest and most metal-poor Milky Way stars form a kinematically hot halo, which motivates the two major formation scenarios for our galaxy: extended hierarchical accretion and rapid collapse. RR...
Minniti, Dante, Rejkuba, Marina, Akiyama, Sanae
VLT images in $BVI$ are used to identify the optical counterparts to bright CHANDRA X-ray points sources discovered by Kraft et al. (2001, ApJ, 560, 675) in NGC5128. Of a total of 111 X-ray point...
Extragalactic Globular Clusters in the Near Infrared: III. NGC 5846 and NGC 7192 (2003)
Hempel, Maren, Hilker, Michael, Kissler-Patig, Markus, Puzia, Thomas H., Minniti, Dante, Goudfrooij, Paul
In this third paper of our series on near-IR and optical photometry of globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies we concentrate on the photometric results for NGC 5846 and NGC 7192, two group...
Goudfrooij, Paul, Strader, Jay, Brenneman, Laura, Kissler-Patig, Markus, Minniti, Dante, Huizinga, Edwin
We have studied the globular cluster (GC) systems of 7 giant, edge-on spiral galaxies using Hubble Space Telescope imaging in V and I. The galaxy sample covers the Hubble types Sa to Sc, allowing us...
Extragalactic Globular Clusters in the Near Infrared I: A comparison between M87 and NGC 4478 (2002)
Kissler-Patig, Markus, Brodie, Jean P., Minniti, Dante
We compare optical and near infrared colours of globular clusters in M87, the central giant elliptical in Virgo, and NGC 4478, an intermediate luminosity galaxy in Virgo, close in projection to M87....
Puzia, Thomas H., Zepf, Stephen E., Kissler-Patig, Markus, Hilker, Michael, Minniti, Dante, Goudfrooij, Paul
We combine near-infrared photometry obtained with the VLT/ISAAC instrument and archival HST/WFPC2 optical images to determine VIK magnitudes and colours of globular clusters in two early-type...
K-Band Red Clump Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (2002)
Alves, David R., Rejkuba, Marina, Minniti, Dante, Cook, Kem H.
The Hipparcos I-band calibration of horizontal-branch red clump giants as standard candles has lead to controversial results for the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In an attempt to...
Goudfrooij, Paul, Alonso, M. Victoria, Maraston, Claudia, Minniti, Dante
The giant merger remnant galaxy NGC 1316 (Fornax A) is an ideal probe for studying the long-term effects of a past major merger on star cluster systems, given its spectroscopically derived merger age...
The Star Cluster Systems of the Magellanic Clouds (2001)
Da Costa, G.S., Grebel, Eva K., Geisler, Doug, Minniti, Dante
The characteristics of the cluster systems of the Magellanic Clouds, as inferred from integrated properties, are compared with those from individual cluster studies and from the field population. The...
I discuss specific topics of stellar populations where major progress is occurring. Large surveys like the MACHO Project are contributing to our understanding of the inner structure of our Galaxy....
Kinematics, ages, and metallicities of star clusters in NGC 1316: A 3 Gyr old merger remnant (2000)
Goudfrooij, Paul, Mack, Jennifer, Kissler-Patig, Markus, Meylan, Georges, Minniti, Dante
We report on multi-object spectroscopy of 37 candidate star clusters around the giant early-type radio galaxy NGC 1316 (Fornax A), the brightest galaxy in the Fornax cluster. For the star clusters in...
The Elliptical Galaxy formerly known as the Local Group: Merging the Globular Cluster Systems (2000)
Forbes, Duncan A., Masters, Karen L., Minniti, Dante, Barmby, Pauline
Prompted by a new catalogue of M31 globular clusters, we have collected together individual metallicity values for globular clusters in the Local Group. Although we briefly describe the globular...
The elliptical galaxy formerly known as the Local Group: merging the globular cluster systems (2000)
Forbes, Duncan A., Masters, Karen L., Minniti, Dante, Barmby, Pauline
Prompted by a new catalogue of M31 globular clusters, we have collected together individual metallicity values for globular clusters in the Local Group. Although we briefly describe the globular...
The elliptical galaxy formerly known as the Local Group: merging the globular cluster systems (2000)
Forbes, Duncan A., Masters, Karen L., Minniti, Dante, Barmby, Pauline
Prompted by a new catalogue of M31 globular clusters, we have collected together individual metallicity values for globular clusters in the Local Group. Although we briefly describe the globular...
The elliptical galaxy formerly known as the Local Group: merging the globular cluster systems (2000)
Forbes, Duncan A., Masters, Karen L., Minniti, Dante, Barmby, Pauline
Prompted by a new catalogue of M31 globular clusters, we have collected together individual metallicity values for globular clusters in the Local Group. Although we briefly describe the globular...
The elliptical galaxy formerly known as the Local Group: merging the globular cluster systems (2000)
Forbes, Duncan A., Masters, Karen L., Minniti, Dante, Barmby, Pauline
Prompted by a new catalogue of M31 globular clusters, we have collected together individual metallicity values for globular clusters in the Local Group. Although we briefly describe the globular...
Discovery of the optical counterpart and early optical observations of GRB 990712 (2000)
Sahu, Kailash C., Vreeswijk, P. M., Bakos, Gaspar A., Menzies, John W., Bragaglia, Angela, Frontera, Filippo, ...
We present the discovery observations of the optical counterpart of the gamma-ray burst GRB 990712 taken 4.16 hr after the outburst and discuss its light curve observed in the V, R, and I bands...
The elliptical galaxy formerly known as the Local Group: merging the globular cluster systems (2000)
Forbes, Duncan A., Masters, Karen L., Minniti, Dante, Barmby, Pauline
Prompted by a new catalogue of M31 globular clusters, we have collected together individual metallicity values for globular clusters in the Local Group. Although we briefly describe the globular...
Discovery of the optical counterpart and early optical observations of GRB 990712 (2000)
Sahu, Kailash C., Vreeswijk, P. M., Bakos, Gaspar A., Menzies, John W., Bragaglia, Angela, Frontera, Filippo, ...
We present the discovery observations of the optical counterpart of the gamma-ray burst GRB 990712 taken 4.16 hr after the outburst and discuss its light curve observed in the V, R, and I bands...
The elliptical galaxy formerly known as the Local Group: merging the globular cluster systems (2000)
Forbes, Duncan A., Masters, Karen L., Minniti, Dante, Barmby, Pauline
Prompted by a new catalogue of M31 globular clusters, we have collected together individual metallicity values for globular clusters in the Local Group. Although we briefly describe the globular...
Discovery of the optical counterpart and early optical observations of GRB 990712 (2000)
Sahu, Kailash C., Vreeswijk, P. M., Bakos, Gaspar A., Menzies, John W., Bragaglia, Angela, Frontera, Filippo, ...
We present the discovery observations of the optical counterpart of the gamma-ray burst GRB 990712 taken 4.16 hr after the outburst and discuss its light curve observed in the V, R, and I bands...
The elliptical galaxy formerly known as the Local Group: merging the globular cluster systems (2000)
Forbes, Duncan A., Masters, Karen L., Minniti, Dante, Barmby, Pauline
Prompted by a new catalogue of M31 globular clusters, we have collected together individual metallicity values for globular clusters in the Local Group. Although we briefly describe the globular...
Discovery of the optical counterpart and early optical observations of GRB 990712 (2000)
Sahu, Kailash C., Vreeswijk, P. M., Bakos, Gaspar A., Menzies, John W., Bragaglia, Angela, Frontera, Filippo, ...
We present the discovery observations of the optical counterpart of the gamma-ray burst GRB 990712 taken 4.16 hr after the outburst and discuss its light curve observed in the V, R, and I bands...
Ultra-Steep Spectrum Radio Galaxies at Hy Redshifts (1999)
Van Breugel, Wil, De Breuck, Carlos, Stanford, Adam, Röttgering, Huub, Miley, George, Stern, Daniel, ...
Radio sources have traditionally provided convenient beacons for probing the early Universe. Hy Spinrad was among the first of the tenacious breed of observers who would attempt to obtain optical...
VLT Spectroscopy of the z=4.11 Radio Galaxy TN J1338-1942 (1999)
De Breuck, Carlos, Van Breugel, Wil, Minniti, Dante, Miley, George, Rottgering, Huub, Stanford, S. A., ...
We present optical, infrared and radio data of the z=4.11 radio galaxy TN J1338-1942, including an intermediate resolution spectrum obtained with FORS1on the VLT Antu telescope. TN J1338-1942 was the...
Zijlstra, Albert A., Minniti, Dante
We have obtained V and I-band photometry for about 700 stars in the field of the dwarf irregular galaxy IC 5152, previously considered a possible member of the Local Group. Deep VI color-magnitude...
Kissler-Patig, Markus, Grillmair, Carl J., Meylan, Georges, Brodie, Jean P., Minniti, Dante, Goudfrooij, Paul
We investigate the kinematics of a combined sample of 74 globular clusters around NGC 1399. Their high velocity dispersion, increasing with radius, supports their association with the gravitational...
Minniti, Dante, Zijlstra, Albert, Alonso, M. Victoria
We have obtained V and I-band photometry for about 17500 stars in the field of the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC3109, located in the outskirts of the Local Group. The photometry allows us to study the...
Piatek, Slawomir, Pryor, Carlton, Bristow, Paul, Olszewski, Edward W., Harris, Hugh C., Mateo, Mario, ...
This article presents a measurement of the proper motion of the Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxy determined from images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in two distinct fields. Each field...
Constraints on the Merger Models of Elliptical Galaxies from their Globular Cluster Systems (1998)
Kissler-Patig, Markus, Forbes, Duncan A., Minniti, Dante
The discovery of proto-globular cluster candidates in many current-day mergers allows us to better understand the possible effects of a merger event on the globular cluster system of a galaxy, and to...
Constraints on the merger models of elliptical galaxies from their globular cluster systems (1998)
Kissler-Patig, Markus, Forbes, Duncan A., Minniti, Dante
The discovery of protoglobular cluster candidates in many present-day mergers allows us to understand better the possible effects of a merger event on the globular cluster system of a galaxy, and to...
Constraints on the merger models of elliptical galaxies from their globular cluster systems (1998)
Kissler-Patig, Markus, Forbes, Duncan A., Minniti, Dante
The discovery of protoglobular cluster candidates in many present-day mergers allows us to understand better the possible effects of a merger event on the globular cluster system of a galaxy, and to...
Constraints on the merger models of elliptical galaxies from their globular cluster systems (1998)
Kissler-Patig, Markus, Forbes, Duncan A., Minniti, Dante
The discovery of protoglobular cluster candidates in many present-day mergers allows us to understand better the possible effects of a merger event on the globular cluster system of a galaxy, and to...
Constraints on the merger models of elliptical galaxies from their globular cluster systems (1998)
Kissler-Patig, Markus, Forbes, Duncan A., Minniti, Dante
The discovery of protoglobular cluster candidates in many present-day mergers allows us to understand better the possible effects of a merger event on the globular cluster system of a galaxy, and to...
Radial Velocities of Globular Clusters in the Giant Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1399 (1997)
Minniti, Dante, Kissler-Patig, Markus, Goudfrooij, Paul, Meylan, Georges
We report on the radial velocity measurements of 18 globular clusters and one dE galaxy in the field of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1399, the dominant galaxy of the Fornax cluster. We present...
Imaging With STIS: Astronomy at V = 30 (1996)
Gregg, Michael D., Minniti, Dante
In February, 1997, the second Space Shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Observatory will install the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). This new instrument will greatly enhance the...
Dwarf Galaxies Also Have Stellar Halos (1996)
Minniti, Dante, Zijlstra, Albert
We present evidence for the existence of an old stellar halo in the dwarf irregular galaxy WLM, an isolated member of the Local Group. The halo consists of population-II stars, with low metallicities...
Field Stars and Clusters of the Galactic Bulge: Implications for Galaxy Formation (1995)
The results of a kinematic study of the Galactic bulge based on spectra of red giants in fields at projected distances of 1.4-1.8 kpc from the Galactic center are presented. There is a marked trend...