Francine R. Marleau

A new look at stellar outflows : Spitzer Observations of the HH 46/47 system (2008)

Noriega-Crespo, Alberto, Morris, Patrick, Marleau, Francine R., Carey, Sean, Boogert, Adwin, Van Dishoeck, Ewine, ...

We present the Early Release Observations of the HH 46/47 system and HH 46 IRS 1 source, taken with the three instruments aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope. The optically invisible southwest lobe,...

Absolute calibration and characterization of the multiband imaging photometer for Spitzer. IV. The spectral energy distribution mode (2008)

Lu, Nanyao, Smith, Paul S., Engelbracht, Charles W., Noriega-Crespo, Alberto, Morrison, Jane, Gordon, Karl D., ...

The spectral energy distribution (SED) mode of the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope provides low-spectral resolution (R ≈ 15–25) spectroscopy in...

Starburst Galaxies in Cluster-feeding Filaments Unveiled by Spitzer (2008)

Fadda, Dario, Biviano, Andrea, Marleau, Francine R., Storrie-Lombardi, L. J., Durret, Florence

We report the first direct detection with Spitzer of galaxy filaments. Using Spitzer and ancillary optical data, we have discovered two filamentary structures in the outskirts of the cluster Abell...

Starburst galaxies in cluster-feeding filaments unveiled by Spitzer (2007)

Fadda, Dario, Biviano, Andrea, Marleau, Francine R., Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa J., Durret, Florence

We report the first direct detection with Spitzer of galaxy filaments. Using Spitzer and ancillary optical data, we have discovered two filamentary structures in the outskirts of the cluster Abell...

A population of high-redshift type 2 quasars – I. Selection criteria and optical spectra (2006)

Martínez-Sansigre, Alejo, Rawlings, Steve, Lacy, Mark, Fadda, Dario, Jarvis, Matt J., Marleau, Francine R., ...

We discuss the relative merits of mid-infrared and X-ray selection of type 2 quasars. We describe the mid-infrared, near-infrared and radio selection criteria used to find a population of redshift...

The Spitzer Space Telescope Extragalactic First Look Survey: 24 μm Data Reduction, Catalog, and Source Identification (2006)

Fadda, Dario, Marleau, Francine R., Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa J., Makozov, David, Frayer, David T., Appleton, P. N., ...

We present the reduction of the 24 μm data obtained during the first cosmological survey performed by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Images of a region of sky at moderately high Galactic latitude (l =...

A population of high-redshift type-2 quasars-I. Selection Criteria and Optical Spectra (2006)

Martinez-Sansigre, Alejo, Rawlings, Steve, Lacy, Mark, Fadda, Dario, Jarvis, Matt J., Marleau, Francine R., ...

We discuss the relative merits of mid-infrared and X-ray selection of type-2 quasars. We describe the mid-infrared, near-infrared and radio selection criteria used to find a population of redshift...

Spitzer/MIPS infrared imaging of M31 : further evidence for a spiral-ring composite structure (2006)

Gordon, Karl D., Bailin, Jeremy, Engelbracht, Charles W., Rieke, George H., Misselt, Karl A., Latter, William B., ...

New images of M31 at 24, 70, and 160 µm taken with the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) reveal the morphology of the dust in this galaxy. This morphology is well represented by a...

Spitzer/MIPS infrared imaging of M31 : further evidence for a spiral-ring composite structure (2006)

Gordon, Karl D., Bailin, Jeremy, Engelbracht, Charles W., Rieke, George H., Misselt, Karl A., Latter, William B., ...

New images of M31 at 24, 70, and 160 µm taken with the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) reveal the morphology of the dust in this galaxy. This morphology is well represented by a...

Spitzer/MIPS infrared imaging of M31 : further evidence for a spiral-ring composite structure (2006)

Gordon, Karl D., Bailin, Jeremy, Engelbracht, Charles W., Rieke, George H., Misselt, Karl A., Latter, William B., ...

New images of M31 at 24, 70, and 160 µm taken with the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) reveal the morphology of the dust in this galaxy. This morphology is well represented by a...

Spitzer/MIPS infrared imaging of M31 : further evidence for a spiral-ring composite structure (2006)

Gordon, Karl D., Bailin, Jeremy, Engelbracht, Charles W., Rieke, George H., Misselt, Karl A., Latter, William B., ...

New images of M31 at 24, 70, and 160 µm taken with the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) reveal the morphology of the dust in this galaxy. This morphology is well represented by a...

A population of high-redshift type-2 quasars-I. Selection Criteria and Optical Spectra (2006)

Alejo Martínez-sansigre, Steve Rawlings, Mark Lacy, Dario Fadda, Matt J. Jarvis, Francine R. Marleau, ...

For a long time, a population of obscured (type-2) radioquiet quasars has been postulated from modelling the hard (energies � 1 keV) X-ray background as the sum of the emission from extragalactic...

Spitzer/MIPS infrared imaging of M31 : further evidence for a spiral-ring composite structure (2006)

Gordon, Karl D., Bailin, Jeremy, Engelbracht, Charles W., Rieke, George H., Misselt, Karl A., Latter, William B., ...

New images of M31 at 24, 70, and 160 µm taken with the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) reveal the morphology of the dust in this galaxy. This morphology is well represented by a...

Most supermassive black hole growth is obscured by dust (2005)

Martinez-Sansigre, Alejo, Rawlings, Steve, Lacy, Mark, Fadda, Dario, Marleau, Francine R., Simpson, Chris, ...

We present an alternative method to X-ray surveys for hunting down the high-redshift type-2 quasar population, using Spitzer and VLA data on the Spitzer First Look Survey. By demanding objects to be...

Point Source Extraction with MOPEX (2005)

Makovoz, David, Marleau, Francine R.

MOPEX (MOsaicking and Point source EXtraction) is a package developed at the Spitzer Science Center for astronomical image processing. We report on the point source extraction capabilities of MOPEX....

The obscuration by dust of most of the growth of supermassive black holes (2005)

Martinez-Sansigre, Alejo, Rawlings, Steve, Lacy, Mark, Fadda, Dario, Marleau, Francine R., Simpson, Chris, ...

Supermassive black holes underwent periods of exponential growth during which we seem them as quasars in the distant Universe. The summed emission from these quasars generates the cosmic X-ray...

The First Measurements of Galaxy Clustering from IRAC Data of the Spitzer First Look Survey (2004)

Fang, Fan, Shupe, David L., Wilson, Gillian, Lacy, Mark, Fadda, Dario, Jarrett, Tom, ...

We present the first results of the angular auto-correlation function of the galaxies detected by the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) instrument in the First Look Survey (FLS) of the Spitzer Space...

Extragalactic Source Counts at 24 Microns in the Spitzer First Look Survey (2004)

Marleau, Francine R., Fadda, D., Storrie-Lombardi, L. J., Helou, G., Makovoz, D., Frayer, D. T., ...

We present the Spitzer MIPS 24 micron source counts in the Extragalactic First Look Survey main, verification and ELAIS-N1 fields. Spitzer's increased sensitivity and efficiency in large areal...

The Nature of the Halo Population of NGC 5128 Resolved with NICMOS on the Hubble Space Telescope (2000)

Marleau, Francine R., Graham, James R., Liu, Michael C., Charlot, Stephane

We present the first infrared color-magnitude diagram (CMD) for the halo of a giant elliptical galaxy. The CMD for the stars in the halo of NGC 5128 (Centaurus A) was constructed from HST NICMOS...

The Stellar Content of the Halo of NGC 5907 from Deep HST NICMOS Imaging (2000)

Zepf, Stephen E., Liu, Michael C., Marleau, Francine R., Sackett, Penny D., Graham, James. R.

We present H-band images obtained with NICMOS of a field 75'' (5kpc) above the plane of the disk of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 5907. Ground-based observations have shown that NGC 5907 has a...

The Deepest Spectrum of the Universe? Constraints on the Lyman Continuum Background at High Redshift (1999)

Bunker, Andrew J., Marleau, Francine R., Graham, James R.

We describe an ongoing experiment to search for the meta-galactic Lyman-continuum background at z~2-3. We are obtaining one of the deepest optical spectra ever, using LRIS/Keck-II to search for the...

Seeking the Ultraviolet Ionizing Background at z~3 with the Keck Telescope (1998)

Bunker, Andrew J., Marleau, Francine R., Graham, James R.

We describe the initial results of a deep long-slit emission line search for redshifted (2.7

Quantitative Morphology of Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (1998)

Marleau, Francine R., Simard, Luc

We measure quantitative structural parameters of galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) on the drizzled F814W images. Our structural parameters are based on a two-component surface brightness made...

Rethinking the Model of Moving Cosmic Strings Producing Anisotropy in the Microwave Background (1995)

Marleau, Francine R., Dyer, Charles C., Palmer, Jody H.

We re-analyze the issue of redshifts induced by a moving cosmic string by looking at moving sources and observers on a conical spacetime in a fully relativistic approach. By replacing the concept of...

Complete Model of a Self-gravitating Cosmic String I. A New Class of Exact Solutions and Gravitational Lensing (1994)

Dyer, Charles C., Marleau, Francine R.

We find solutions of Einstein's field equation for topologically stable strings associated with the breaking of a U(1) symmetry. Strings form in many GUTs and are expected whenever the homotopy group...