Hyron Spinrad

Publication List Details

Period

1959 - 2009

Number

60

Co-Authors

A submillimetre galaxy at z=4.76 in the LABOCA survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (2009)

Coppin, Kristen, Smail, Ian, Alexander, David M., Weiss, Axel, Walter, Fabian, Swinbank, Mark, ...

We report on the identification of the highest redshift submm-selected source currently known: LESSJ033229.4-275619. This source was detected in the Large Apex BOlometer CAmera (LABOCA) Extended...

A luminosity function of Lyα-emitting galaxies at z ≈ 4.5¹´² (2008)

Dawson, Steve, Rhoads, James E., Malhotra, Sangeeta, Stern, Daniel, Wang, JunXian, Dey, Arjun, ...

We present a catalog of 59 z ≈ 4:5 Lyα-emitting galaxies spectroscopically confirmed in a campaign of Keck DEIMOS follow-up observations to candidates selected in the Large Area Lyα (LALA)...

Observations of the Ion Pile-up in Comets Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake (2007)

Antonin Bouchez And, Antonin H. Bouchez, Michael E. Brown, Hyron Spinrad, Anthony Misch, Resubmitted To Icarus

High resolution long-slit spectra of comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1) were obtained with the Hamilton Echelle Spectrograph of Lick Observatory in March and April 1997. H 2 O + column density profiles...

SERENDIPITOUSLY DETECTED GALAXIES IN THE HUBBLE DEEP FIELD1 (2007)

Steve Dawson, Daniel Stern, Andrew J. Bunker, Hyron Spinrad, Arjun Dey

We present a catalog of 74 galaxies detected serendipitously during a campaign of spectroscopic observations of the Hubble Deep Field North (HDF) and its environs. Among the identied objects are ve...

( 1998. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. THE PHOTOMETRIC GROWTH OF TWO SHOEMAKER-LEVY 9 IMPACT SITES ON JUPITER (2007)

Curtis Manning, Hyron Spinrad, Michael E. Brown, Ray L. Newburn, David Schlegel

We present our Ðndings on the photometric variability of the impact spots of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL 9) in the Jovian atmosphere. Extensive imaging and di†erential photometry of impact spots in...

A Luminosity Function of Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies at Redshift 4.5 (2007)

Dawson, Steve, Rhoads, James E., Malhotra, Sangeeta, Stern, Daniel, Wang, JunXian, Dey, Arjun, ...

We present a catalog of 59 z=4.5 Lyman alpha emitting galaxies spectroscopically confirmed in a campaign of Keck/DEIMOS follow-up observations to candidates selected in the Large Area Lyman Alpha...

A New Einstein Cross: A Highly Magnified, Intrinsically Faint Lyman-Alpha Emitter at z=2.7 (2006)

Bolton, Adam S., Moustakas, Leonidas A., Stern, Daniel, Burles, Scott, Dey, Arjun, Spinrad, Hyron

We report the discovery of a new Einstein cross at redshift z_S = 2.701 based on Lyman-alpha emission in a cruciform configuration around an SDSS luminous red galaxy (z_L = 0.331). The system was...

The Discovery of Three New z>5 Quasars in the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (2006)

Cool, Richard J., Kochanek, Christopher S., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Stern, Daniel, Brand, Kate, Brown, Michael J. I., ...

We present the discovery of three z>5 quasars in the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (AGES) spectroscopic observations of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS) Bootes Field. These quasars were...

CO emission and associated HI absorption from a massive gas reservoir surrounding the z=3 radio galaxy B3 J2330+3927 (2005)

De Breuck, Carlos, Neri, Roberto, Morganti, Raffaella, Omont, Alain, Rocca-Volmerange, Brigitte, Stern, Daniel, ...

We present results of a comprehensive multi-frequency study of the radio galaxy B3 J2330+3927. The 1.9\" wide radio source, consisting of 3 components, is bracketed by 2 objects in our Keck K-band...

The HST/ACS Grism Parallel Survey: II. First Results and a Catalog of Faint Emission-Line Galaxies at z < 1.6 (2005)

Drozdovsky, Igor, Yan, Lin, Chen, Hsiao-Wen, Stern, Daniel, Kennicutt Jr., Robert, Spinrad, Hyron, ...

We present the first results from the HST/ACS Grism Parallel Survey, a large program obtaining deep, slitless ACS grism spectroscopy of high-latitude HST parallel fields. We report on 11 high...

Spectroscopic Properties of the z=4.5 Lyman-alpha Emitters (2004)

Dawson, Steve, Rhoads, James E., Malhotra, Sangeeta, Stern, Daniel, Dey, Arjun, Spinrad, Hyron, ...

We present Keck/LRIS optical spectra of 17 Lya-emitting galaxies and one Lyman break galaxy at z=4.5 discovered in the Large Area Lyman Alpha (LALA) survey. The survey has identified a sample of ~350...

A Luminous Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxy at Redshift z=6.535: Discovery and Spectroscopic Confirmation (2004)

Rhoads, James E., Xu, Chun, Dawson, Steve, Dey, Arjun, Malhotra, Sangeeta, Wang, JunXian, ...

We present a redshift z=6.535 galaxy discovered by its Lyman alpha emission in a 9180A narrowband image from the Large Area Lyman Alpha (LALA) survey. The Ly-a line luminosity (1.1e43 erg/s) is among...

The Size Evolution of High Redshift Galaxies (2003)

Ferguson, Henry C., Dickinson, Mark, Giavalisco, Mauro, Kretchmer, Claudia, Ravindranath, Swara, Idzi, Rafal, ...

Hubble Space Telescope images of high-redshift galaxies selected via color and photometric redshifts are used to examine the size and axial-ratio distribution of galaxies as a function of redshift at...

The Most Distant Galaxies (2003)

Spinrad, Hyron

I review selected current observations of distant galaxies and our interpretation of the fragile (and occasionally contradictory) data. Galaxies at the ``contemporary limit'' of technology and...

Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Radio-Selected Galaxy Overdensity at z=1.11 (2003)

Stern, Daniel, Holden, Brad, Stanford, S. A., Spinrad, Hyron

We report the discovery of a galaxy overdensity at z=1.11 associated with the z=1.110 high-redshift radio galaxy MG0442+0202. The group, CL0442+0202, was found in a near-infrared survey of z>1 radio...

Illuminating Protogalaxies? The Discovery of Extended Lyman-alpha Emission around a QSO at z=4.5 (2003)

Bunker, Andrew, Smith, Joanna, Spinrad, Hyron, Stern, Daniel, Warren, Stephen

We have discovered extended Lyman-$\alpha$ emission around a $z=4.5$ QSO in a deep long-slit spectrum with Keck/LRIS at moderate spectral resolution ($R\approx 1000$). The line emission extends...

CO emission and associated HI absorption from a massive gas reservoir surrounding the z=3 radio galaxy B3 J2330+3927 (2003)

De Breuck, Carlos, Neri, Roberto, Morganti, Raffaella, Omont, Alain, Rocca-Volmerange, Brigitte, Stern, Daniel, ...

We present results of a comprehensive multi-frequency study of the radio galaxy B3 J2330+3927. The 1.9" wide radio source, consisting of 3 components, is bracketed by 2 objects in our Keck K-band...

CO emission and associated HI absorption from a massive gas reservoir surrounding the z=3 radio galaxy B3 J2330+3927 (2003)

De Breuck, Carlos, Neri, Roberto, Morganti, Raffaella, Omont, Alain, Rocca-Volmerange, Brigitte, Stern, Daniel, ...

We present results of a comprehensive multi-frequency study of the radio galaxy B3 J2330+3927. The 1.9\" wide radio source, consisting of 3 components, is bracketed by 2 objects in our Keck K-band...

CO emission and associated HI absorption from a massive gas reservoir surrounding the z=3 radio galaxy B3 J2330+3927 (2003)

De Breuck, Carlos, Neri, Roberto, Morganti, Raffaella, Omont, Alain, Rocca-Volmerange, Brigitte, Stern, Daniel, ...

We present results of a comprehensive multi-frequency study of the radio galaxy B3 J2330+3927. The 1.9\" wide radio source, consisting of 3 components, is bracketed by 2 objects in our Keck K-band...

Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of a High-Redshift, Hard X-ray Emitting Spiral Galaxy (2002)

Dawson, Steve, McCrady, Nate, Stern, Daniel, Eckart, Megan E., Spinrad, Hyron, Liu, Michael C., ...

We present optical and near-infrared Keck spectroscopy of CXOHDFN J123635.6+621424 (hereafter HDFX28), a hard X-ray source at a redshift of z = 2.011 in the flanking fields of the Hubble Deep...

Spectroscopic Confirmation of Three Redshift 5.7 Lyman-alpha Emitters from the Large Area Lyman Alpha Survey (2002)

Rhoads, James E., Dey, Arjun, Malhotra, Sangeeta, Stern, Daniel, Spinrad, Hyron, Jannuzi, Buell T., ...

Narrow-band searches for Lyman alpha emission are an efficient way of identifying star-forming galaxies at high redshifts. We present Keck telescope spectra confirming redshifts z = 5.7 for three...

HST Imaging of a z=1.55 Old Galaxy Group (2002)

Bunker, Andrew, Spinrad, Hyron, McLure, Ross, Dey, Arjun, Dunlop, James, Peacock, John, ...

We present high-resolution imaging in the rest-frame optical of the weak radio source LBDS53W091. Previous optical spectroscopy has shown that this object has an evolved stellar population of age...

SPICES II. Optical and Near-Infrared Identifications of Faint X-Ray Sources from Deep Chandra Observations of Lynx (2002)

Stern, Daniel, Tozzi, Paolo, Stanford, S. A., Rosati, Piero, Holden, Brad, Eisenhardt, Peter, ...

We present our first results on field X-ray sources detected in a deep, 184.7 ks observation with the ACIS-I camera on Chandra. The observations target the Lynx field of SPICES, and contains three...

A Galactic Wind at z = 5.190 (2002)

Dawson, Steve, Spinrad, Hyron, Dey, Arjun, Van Breugel, Wil, De Vries, Wim, Stern, Daniel, ...

We report the serendipitous detection in high-resolution optical spectroscopy of a strong, asymmetric Ly-alpha emission line at z = 5.190. The detection was made in a 2.25 hour exposure with the...

Chandra Detection of a TypeII Quasar at z=3.288 (2001)

Stern, Daniel, Moran, Edward C., Coil, Alison L., Connolly, Andrew, Davis, Marc, Dawson, Steve, ...

We report on observations of a TypeII quasar at redshift z=3.288, identified as a hard X-ray source in a 185 ks observation with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and as a high-redshift photometric...

A sample of 6C radio sources designed to find objects at redshift > 4: II --- spectrophotometry and emission line properties (2001)

Jarvis, Matt J., Rawlings, Steve, Lacy, Mark, Blundell, Katherine M., Bunker, Andrew J., Eales, Steve, ...

(Abridged) This is the second in a series of three papers which present and interpret basic observational data on the 6C* 151-MHz radio sample: a low-frequency selected sample which exploits...

Serendipitously Detected Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (2001)

Dawson, Steve, Stern, Daniel, Bunker, Andrew J., Spinrad, Hyron, Dey, Arjun

We present a catalog of 74 galaxies detected serendipitously during a campaign of spectroscopic observations of the Hubble Deep Field North (HDF) and its environs. Among the identified objects are...

The Farthest Known Supernova: Support for an Accelerating Universe and a Glimpse of the Epoch of Deceleration (2001)

Riess, Adam G., Nugent, Peter E., Schmidt, Brian P., Tonry, John, Dickinson, Mark, Gilliland, Ronald L., ...

We present photometric observations of an apparent Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) at a redshift of ~1.7, the farthest SN observed to date. SN 1997ff, was discovered in a repeat observation by the HST of...

The Large Area Lyman Alpha Survey (2001)

Rhoads, James E., Malhotra, Sangeeta, Dey, Arjun, Jannuzi, Buell T., Stern, Daniel, Spinrad, Hyron

The Lyman-$\alpha$ line is expected to be strong in the presence of active star formation and the absence of dust, making it a good tool for finding chemically primitive galaxies in the early...

The farthest known supernova: Support for an accelerating universe and a glimpse of the epoch of deceleration (2001)

Riess, Adam G., Nugent, Peter E., Schmidt, Brian P., Tonry, John, Dickinson, Mark, Gilliland, Ronald L., ...

We present photometric observations of an apparent Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) at a redshift of approximately 1.7, the farthest SN observed to date. The supernova, SN 1997, was discovered in a repeat...

Large Area Lyman Alpha survey: finding young galaxies at z=4.5 (2001)

Malhotra, Sangeeta, Rhoads, James, Dey, Arjun, Jannuzi, Buell, Stern, Daniel, Spinrad, Hyron

Strong Lyman-alpha emission is a signpost of young stars and the absence of dust and thus indicates young galaxies. To find such a population of young galaxies at z=4.5 we started the Large Area...

The Farthest Known Supernova: Support for an Accelerating Universe and a Glimpse of the Epoch of Deceleration,” Astrophys (2001)

Adam G. Riess, Peter E. Nugent, Ronald L. Gilliland, Brian P. Schmidt, John Tonry, Mark Dickinson, ...

We present photometric observations of an apparent Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) at a redshift of D1.7, the farthest SN observed to date. The supernova, SN 1997+, was discovered in a repeat observation...

First Results from the SPICES Survey (2000)

Stern, Daniel, Connolly, Andrew, Eisenhardt, Peter, Elston, Richard, Holden, Brad, Rosati, Piero, ...

We present first results from SPICES, the Spectroscopic, Photometric, Infrared-Chosen Extragalactic Survey. SPICES is comprised of four ~30 square arcminute high Galactic latitude fields with deep...

Evidence Against a Redshift z>6 for the Galaxy STIS 123627+621755 (2000)

Stern, Daniel, Eisenhardt, Peter, Spinrad, Hyron, Dawson, Steve, Van Breugel, Wil, Dey, Arjun, ...

The identification of galaxies at extreme distances provides our most direct information on the earliest phases of galaxy formation. The distance implied by redshifts z > 5 makes this a challenging...

UV Spectropolarimetry of Narrow-line Radio Galaxies (2000)

Kishimoto, Makoto, Antonucci, Robert, Cimatti, Andrea, Hurt, Todd, Dey, Arjun, Van Breugel, Wil, ...

We present the results of UV spectropolarimetry (2000 - 3000A) and far-UV spectroscopy (1500 - 2000A) of two low-redshift narrow-line radio galaxies (NLRGs) taken with the Faint Object Spectrograph...

The Dust Temperature of the "Dusty" Radio Galaxy MG 1019+0535: Evidence for an Outflow (2000)

Manning, Curtis, Spinrad, Hyron

Radio galaxies characteristically have strong Lya emission lines. However, a few have Lya equivalent widths that are substantially weaker in relation to other emission lines. One in particular was...

Stellar Populations and Galaxy Morphology at High Redshift (2000)

Bunker, Andrew, Spinrad, Hyron, Stern, Daniel, Thompson, Rodger, Moustakas, Leonidas, Davis, Marc, ...

In this article we investigate the morphology and stellar populations of high-redshift galaxies through multi-waveband HST imaging and ground-based spatially-resolved spectroscopy. We study the...

First Results from the Large Area Lyman Alpha Survey (2000)

Rhoads, James E., Malhotra, Sangeeta, Dey, Arjun, Stern, Daniel, Spinrad, Hyron, Jannuzi, Buell

We report on a new survey for z=4.5 Lyman alpha sources, the Large Area Lyman Alpha (LALA) survey. Our survey achieves an unprecedented combination of volume and sensitivity by using narrow-band...

Discovery of a Color-Selected Quasar at z=5.50 (2000)

Stern, Daniel, Spinrad, Hyron, Eisenhardt, Peter, Bunker, Andrew J., Dawson, Steve, Stanford, S. A., ...

We present observations of RD J030117+002025, a quasar at z=5.50 discovered from deep, multi-color, ground-based observations covering 74 square arcmin. This is the most distant quasar or AGN...

One-Line Redshifts and Searches for High-Redshift Lyman-Alpha Emission (2000)

Stern, Daniel, Bunker, Andrew J., Spinrad, Hyron, Dey, Arjun

We report the serendipitous discovery of two objects close in projection with fairly strong emission lines at long wavelength (~9190 A). One (A) seems not to be hosted by any galaxy brighter than...

A Serendipitous Search for High-Redshift Lyman alpha Emission: Two Primeval Galaxy Candidates at z~3 (2000)

Manning, Curtis, Stern, Daniel, Spinrad, Hyron, Bunker, Andrew J.

In the course of our ongoing search for serendipitous high-redshift Lyman alpha (LyA) Emissionin deep archival Keck spectra, we discovered two very high equivalent width (W_{obs} ~ 450A, 2-sigma) LyA...

Search Techniques for Distant Galaxies (1999)

Stern, Daniel, Spinrad, Hyron

How and when do galaxies form? Studies of the microwave background radiation reveal that the Universe is spectacularly homogenous at redshift z~1000. Observations of the local Universe reveal that by...

A Serendipitous Search for Hy-Redshift Ly$Alpha$ Emission: A Case Study of Two Sources at $z\simeq 3$ (1999)

Manning, Curtis, Stern, Daniel, Spinrad, Hyron, Bunker, Andrew J.

In the course of our on-going search for serendipitous high-redshift LyA emission in deep archival Keck spectra, we discovered two LyA emission line candidates in a moderate dispersion...

An X-ray Selected Galaxy Cluster at z=1.26 (1999)

Rosati, Piero, Stanford, S. A., Eisenhardt, Peter R., Elston, Richard, Spinrad, Hyron, Stern, Daniel, ...

We report the discovery of an X-ray luminous galaxy cluster at z=1.26. RXJ0848.9+4452 was selected as an X-ray cluster candidate in the ROSAT Deep Cluster Survey, on the basis of its spatial extent....

New High-Redshift Radio Galaxies from the MIT-Green Bank Catalog (1998)

Stern, Daniel, Dey, Arjun, Spinrad, Hyron, Maxfield, Leslie, Dickinson, Mark, Schlegel, David, ...

We present optical identifications and redshifts for seventeen new high-redshift radio sources. Fifteen of these sources are radio galaxies; the remaining two are high-redshift, steep-spectrum,...

A Galaxy at z=5.34 (1998)

Dey, Arjun, Spinrad, Hyron, Stern, Daniel, Graham, James R., Chaffee, Frederic H.

We report the discovery of Lyman alpha emission from a galaxy at z=5.34, the first object at z>5 with a spectroscopically confirmed redshift. The faint continuum emission (m(8000A)=27 AB mag),...

Morphological Evolution in High Redshift Radio Galaxies and the Formation of Giant Elliptical Galaxies (1998)

Stanford, S. A., Spinrad, Hyron, Stern, Daniel, Graham, James R.

We present deep near-IR images of high redshift radio galaxies obtained with NIRC on the Keck I telescope. In most cases, the near-IR data sample rest wavelengths at ~4000 Angstroms, free of strong...

Spectroscopy of z>3 Lyman-limit Galaxies (1998)

Spinrad, Hyron, Dey, Arjun, Stern, Daniel, Bunker, Andrew

We discuss the spectral character of Lyman-limit-selected, star-forming galaxies at z>3. The rest-frame UV spectra of these faint galaxies may show Ly-alpha in either absorption or emission, probably...

An IR-Selected Galaxy Cluster at z=1.27 (1997)

Stanford, S. A., Elston, Richard, Eisenhardt, Peter, Spinrad, Hyron, Stern, Daniel, Dey, Arjun

We report the discovery of a galaxy cluster at z=1.27. ClG J0848+4453 was found in a near-IR field survey as a high density region of objects with very red J-K colors. Optical spectroscopy of a...

LBDS 53W091: An Old red Galaxy at z=1.552 (1997)

Spinrad, Hyron, Dey, Arjun, Stern, Daniel, Dunlop, James, Peacock, John, Jimenez, Raul, ...

The weak radio source LBDS 53W091 is associated with a very faint (R approx. 24.5) red (R-K approx. 5.8) galaxy. Long spectroscopic integrations with the W. M. Keck telescope have provided an...

On the Origin of the UV Continuum Emission from the High Redshift Radio Galaxy 3C256 (1996)

Dey, Arjun, Cimatti, Andrea, Van Breugel, Wil, Antonucci, Robert, Spinrad, Hyron

We report spectropolarimetric observations obtained with the W.M. Keck Telescope of the high redshift z=1.824 aligned radio galaxy 3C256. Our observations confirm that the spatially extended UV...

What is 3C 324? (1995)

Dickinson, Mark, Dey, Arjun, Spinrad, Hyron

We report ground based and HST observations of the z=1.206 radio galaxy 3C 324, a prototypical example of the radio-optical ``alignment effect.'' While infrared images shows a simple, round object...

The Radio Galaxy 3C265 Contains a Hidden Quasar Nucleus (1995)

Dey, Arjun, Spinrad, Hyron

We report the discovery of broad MgII emission from the high redshift radio galaxy 3C265 (z=0.81). We detect the broad line in the nuclear spectrum and in the spatially extended galaxian component,...

Discovery of a z=2.76 Dusty Radio Galaxy? (1994)

Dey, Arjun, Spinrad, Hyron, Dickinson, Mark

We report the discovery of a z=2.76 radio galaxy, MG1019+0535, with an unusual spectrum. Ly$\alpha$, which usually dominates the spectra of high redshift radio galaxies, is very weak and the...

Keck Observations of the Most Distant Galaxy: 8C1435+63 at z=4.25 (1994)

Spinrad, Hyron, Dey, Arjun, Graham, James R.

We report on Keck observations and confirm the redshift of the most distant galaxy known: 8C1435+63 at z=4.25. The spectrum shows a strong Ly$\alpha$ line, a Ly$\alpha$ forest continuum break and a...

Stellar populations in the nuclei of galaxies--[microform] /--by Hyron Spinrad. (1961)

Spinrad, Hyron.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Astronomy)--University of California, Berkeley, Sept. 1961.

Stellar populations in the nuclei of galaxies /--by Hyron Spinrad. (1961)

Spinrad, Hyron.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Astronomy)--University of California, Berkeley, Sept. 1961.

Observation of short-period variable stars [microform] / (1959)

Spinrad, Hyron.

Thesis (M.A. in Astronomy)--University of California, Berkeley, Jan. 1959.

Observation of short-period variable stars /--by Hyron Spinrad. (1959)

Spinrad, Hyron.

Thesis (M.A. in Astronomy)--University of California, Berkeley, Jan. 1959.