The Science Vision for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) (2009)
Roellig, T. L., Becklin, E. E., Evans, N. J., De Buizer, J. M., Meixner, M., ...
An updated Science Vision for the SOFIA project is presented, including an overview of the characteristics and capabilities of the observatory and first generation instruments. A primary focus is...
Ghez, A. M., Salim, S., Weinberg, N. N., Lu, J. R., Do, T., Dunn, J. K., ...
We report new precision measurements of the properties of our Galaxy's supermassive black hole. Based on astrometric (1995-2007) and radial velocity (RV; 2000-2007) measurements from the W. M. Keck...
Using The, Near Infrared, Camera On, The Hubble, Space Telescope, J. Farihi, ...
A search of 116 nearby young stars has been carried out in Cycle 13 with the Hubble Space Telescope using the Near Infrared Camera and Multi Object Spectrograph (NICMOS). Camera 2 coronagraphic...
Glenn Schneider, Bradford A. Smith, E. E. Becklin, David W. Koerner, Dean C. Hines, Patrick J. Lowrance, ...
We report the first near-infrared (NIR) imaging of a circumstellar annular disk around the young (∼8 Myr), Vega-like star HR 4796A. NICMOS coronagraph observations at 1.1 and 1.6 mm reveal a...
Patrick J. Lowrance, Glenn Schneider, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, E. E. Becklin, Alycia J. Weinberger, B. Zuckerman, ...
We present the discovery of a candidate substellar companion from a survey of nearby young stars made with the Near-Infrared Camera and Multiobject Spectrometer coronagraph on the Hubble Space...
Disks, Planetesimals, and Planets (2007)
F. Garzon, C. Eiroa, D. De Winter, T. J. Mahoney, A. J. Weinberger, E. E. Becklin, ...
Abstract. Using the coronagraph in the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope, we have imaged circumstellar disks around stars of age...
Stellar Companions and the Age of HD 141569 and its Circumstellar Disk (2007)
A. J. Weinberger, R. M. Rich, E. E. Becklin, B. Zuckerman, K. Matthews
We investigate the stellar environment of the Pictoris-like star HD 141569 with optical spectroscopy and near infrared imaging. The B9.5 Ve primary, and an M2 and an M4 type star both located in...
EMISSION FROM DISKS AROUND HERBIG Ae AND T TAURI STARS W.F. Thi (2007)
Van Dishoeck, W. F. Thi, G. A. Blake, M. R. Hogerheijde, V. Mannings, E. E. Becklin, ...
We present the initial results of a deep ISO-SWS survey for the low J pure rotational emission lines of H 2 toward a number of Herbig Ae and T Tauri stars. The objects are selected to be as isolated...
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G. Schneider, E. E. Becklin, B. A. Smith, A. J. Weinberger, M. Silverstone, D. C. Hines
We present new near-infrared (1.1 km) observations of the circumstellar environment of the planetbearing star 55 Cancri. With these Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images we are unable to conÐrm the...
A. J. Weinberger, E. E. Becklin, G. Schneider, M. Silverstone, D. Hines, B. A. Smith, ...
The face-on disk around TW Hya is imaged in scattered light at 1.1 and 1.6 m using the coronagraph in the Near Infrared Multi Object Spectrometer aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. Stellar light...
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The American Astronomical, A. J. Weinberger, E. E. Becklin, G. Schneider, E. I. Chiang, P. J. Lowrance, ...
The face-on disk around TW Hya is imaged in scattered light at 1.1 and 1.6 km using the coronagraph in the Near Infrared Camera and Multi Object Spectrometer aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.
Young Stellar Disks as the Sites of Planetary Evolution (2007)
Frontiers In Extrasolar, D. Deming, S. Seager, A. J. Weinberger, E. E. Becklin, G. Schneider
The physical conditions of circumstellar disks including their temperature pro les and compositions as a function of distance from their central stars will be inuenced and modi ed by nascent planets...
Imaging and Spectroscopy of Hot (Young) "Ultracool" Companions (2007)
G. Schneider, P.J. Lowrance, E. E. Becklin, J. D. Kirkpatrick, P. Plait, S.R. Heap, ...
We report the initial results from a program of HST/STIS spectroscopy of \hot" low-mass (brown dwarf) companions to nearby young stars identi ed in our HST/NICMOS coronagraphic imaging survey....
Patrick J. Lowrance, E. E. Becklin, Glenn Schneider, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Alycia J. Weinberger, B. Zuckerman, ...
We have used the F160W filter (1.4–1.8 m) and the coronagraph on the Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) on the Hubble Space Telescope to survey 45 single stars with a...