Médecine et médecins au Proche-Orient ancien (review) (2009)
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 83, Number 1, Spring 2009
Hypervelocity Stars: From the Galactic Center to the Halo (2008)
Kenyon, S. J., Bromley, B. C., Geller, M. J., Brown, W. R.
Hypervelocity stars (HVS) traverse the Galaxy from the central black hole to the outer halo. We show that the Galactic potential within 200 pc acts as a high pass filter preventing low velocity HVS...
The Mass Profile Of The Coma Galaxy Cluster (2007)
M. J. Geller, Geller Antonaldo Diaferio, M. J. Kurtz
We use a new redshift survey complete to mR ' 15:4 within 4:25 o from the center of the Coma cluster to measure the mass profile of the cluster to r 5:5h \Gamma1 Mpc. We extend the profile to r...
Boehringer, H., Schuecker, P., Pratt, G. W., Arnaud, M., Ponman, T. J., Croston, J. H., ...
The largest uncertainty for cosmological studies using clusters of galaxies is introduced by our limited knowledge of the statistics of galaxy cluster structure, and of the scaling relations between...
Evil demons: canonical Utukkū Lemnūtu incantations (2007)
Introduction: Everyone knows that all the ills of life, from headaches to athlete's foot and from minor annoyances (like a broken shoelace) to major catastrophes (like a fallen soufflé) are the...
Deconstructing Talmudic magic (2006)
Book description: The present volume arose from a colloquium on magic and divination intended to apply the study of the history of the classical tradition to the specific area of magic. Magic is...
Kewley, L. J., Geller, M. J., Barton, E. J.
We derive the first luminosity-metallicity relation for a large objectively selected sample of local galaxy pairs and we compare the pairs LZ relation with the relation for the Nearby Field Galaxy...
Renal and rectal disease texts (2005)
Book description: Previous volumes of Franz Köcher’s series on Babylonian and Assyrian medical literature have provided autograph copies of cuneiform medical tablets with extensive indices listing...
XMM-Newton and Gemini Observations of Eight RASSCALS Galaxy Groups (2005)
Mahdavi, A., Finoguenov, A., Boehringer, H., Geller, M. J., Henry, J. P.
We study the distribution of gas pressure and entropy in eight groups of galaxies belonging to the ROSAT All-Sky Survey / Center for Astrophysics Loose Systems (RASSCALS). We use archival and...
Aperture effects on Star Formation Rate, Metallicity and Reddening (2005)
Kewley, L. J., Jansen, R. A., Geller, M. J.
(Abridged) We use 101 galaxies selected from the Nearby Field Galaxy Survey (NFGS) to investigate the effect of aperture size on the star formation rate, metallicity and reddening determinations for...
K-band Properties of Well-Sampled Groups of Galaxies (2004)
Ramella, M., Boschin, W., Geller, M. J., Mahdavi, A., Rines, K.
We use a sample of 55 groups and 6 clusters of galaxies ranging in mass from 7 x 10^11 Msun to 1.5 x 10^15 Msun to examine the correlation of the Ks-band luminosity with mass discovered by Lin et al....
Rines, K., Geller, M. J., Diaferio, A., Kurtz, M. J., Jarrett, T. H.
CAIRNS (Cluster And Infall Region Nearby Survey) is a spectroscopic survey of the infall regions surrounding nine nearby rich clusters of galaxies. In Paper I, we used redshifts within $\sim 10\Mpc$...
A Redshift Survey of Nearby Galaxy Groups: the Shape of the Mass Density Profile (2004)
We constrain the mass profile and orbital structure of nearby groups and clusters of galaxies. Our method yields the joint probability distribution of the density slope n, the velocity anisotropy...
Ur III Incantations from the Frau Professor Hilprecht-Collection, Jena (2003)
Book description: This volume contains all of the Sumerian incantations from the time of the Third Dynasty of Ur (ca. 21002000 B.C.) housed in the Hilprecht Collection of Near Eastern Antiquities,...
Surveying the Inner Halo of the Galaxy with 2MASS-Selected Horizontal Branch Candidates (2003)
Brown, Warren R., Geller, M. J., Kenyon, S. J., Beers, T. C., Kurtz, M. J., Roll, J. B.
We use 2MASS photometry to select blue horizontal branch (BHB) candidates covering the sky |b|>15 deg. A 12.5
CAIRNS: The Cluster And Infall Region Nearby Survey I. Redshifts and Mass Profiles (2003)
Rines, K., Geller, M. J., Kurtz, M. J., Diaferio, A.
The CAIRNS (Cluster And Infall Region Nearby Survey) project is a spectroscopic survey of the infall regions surrounding eight nearby, rich, X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies. We collect 15665...
The Century Survey Galactic Halo Project I: Stellar Spectral Analysis (2003)
Brown, W. R., Prieto, C. Allende, Beers, T. C., Wilhelm, R., Geller, M. J., Kenyon, S. J., ...
The Century Survey Galactic Halo Project is a photometric and spectroscopic survey from which we select relatively blue stars (V-R
The H-alpha and Infrared Star Formation Rates for the Nearby Field Galaxy Survey (2002)
Kewley, L. J., Geller, M. J., Jansen, R. A., Dopita, M. A.
We investigate the H-alpha and infrared star formation rate (SFR) diagnostics for galaxies in the Nearby Field Galaxy Survey (NFGS). For the 81 galaxies in our sample, we derive H-alpha fluxes...
Infrared Mass-to-Light Profile Throughout the Infall Region of the Coma Cluster (2001)
Rines, K., Geller, M. J., Kurtz, M. J., Diaferio, A., Jarrett, T. H., Huchra, J. P.
Using a redshift survey of 1779 galaxies and photometry from the 2-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) covering 200 square degrees, we calculate independent mass and light profiles for the infall region of...
Redshifts for 2410 Galaxies in the Century Survey Region (2001)
Wegner, G., Thorstensen, J. R., Kurtz, M. J., Brown, W. R., Fabricant, D. G., Geller, M. J., ...
The `Century Survey' strip covers 102 square degrees within the limits 8.5h \leq \alpha_{1950} \leq 16.5h, 29.0 degrees \leq \delta_{1950} \leq 30.0 degrees. The strip passes through the Corona...
Star Formation in a Complete Spectroscopic Survey of Galaxies (2001)
Carter, B. J., Fabricant, D. G., Geller, M. J., Kurtz, M. J.
The 15R-North galaxy redshift survey is a uniform spectroscopic survey (S/N $\sim $10) covering the range 3650---7400\AA for 3149 galaxies with median redshift 0.05. The sample is 90% complete to...
X-ray Emitting Groups in the Infall Region of Abell 2199 (2001)
Rines, K., Mahdavi, A., Geller, M. J., Diaferio, A., Mohr, J. J., Wegner, G.
Using a large redshift survey covering 95 square degrees, we demonstrate that the infall region of Abell 2199 contains Abell 2197, one or two X-ray emitting groups, and up to five additional groups...
The Infall Region of Abell 576: Independent Mass and Light Profiles (2000)
Rines, K., Geller, M. J., Diaferio, A., Mohr, J. J., Wegner, G. A.
We describe observations of the nearby cluster of galaxies A576 beyond the virial radius and into the infall region. Using 1057 redshifts, we use the infall pattern in redshift space to determine the...
The RASSCALS: An X-ray and Optical Study of 260 Galaxy Groups (1999)
Mahdavi, A., Boehringer, H., Geller, M. J., Ramella, M.
We describe the ROSAT All-Sky Survey-Center for Astrophysics Loose Systems (RASSCALS), the largest X-ray and optical survey of low mass galaxy groups to date. We draw 260 groups from the combined...
We study the optical properties of a large sample of galaxies in low-density regions of the nearby universe. We make a 5/h Mpc-smoothed map of the galaxy density throughout the Center for...
We assess the morphology-density relation, H-alpha linewidth-density relation, and the effects of nearby companions for 300 galaxies selected from low-density environments of the Center for...
Kinematics and Mass Profile of AWM 7 (1999)
We have measured 492 redshifts (311 new) in the direction of the poor cluster AWM~7 and have identified 179 cluster members (73 new). We use two independent methods to derive a self-consistent mass...
The Mass Profile of the Coma Galaxy Cluster (1999)
Geller, M. J., Diaferio, Antonaldo, Kurtz, M. J.
We use a new redshift survey complete to m_R=15.4 within 4.25 deg from the center of the Coma cluster to measure the mass profile of the cluster to r=5.5 Mpc/h. We extend the profile to r=10 Mpc/h...
The Dynamics of Poor Systems of Galaxies (1999)
Mahdavi, A., Geller, M. J., Boehringer, H., Kurtz, M. J., Ramella, M.
We assemble and observe a sample of poor galaxy systems that is suitable for testing N-body simulations of hierarchical clustering (Navarro, Frenk, & White 1997; NFW) and other dynamical halo models...
Environments of Redshift Survey Compact Groups of Galaxies (1998)
Barton, E. J., De Carvalho, R. R., Geller, M. J.
Redshift Survey Compact Groups (RSCGs) are tight knots of N >= 3 galaxies selected from the CfA2+SSRS2 redshift survey. The selection is based on physical extent and association in redshift space...
The Galaxy Luminosity Function at z < 0.05: Dependence on Morphology (1998)
Marzke, R. O., Da Costa, L. N., Pellegrini, P. S., Willmer, C. N. A., Geller, M. J.
We investigate the dependence of the local galaxy luminosity function on morphology using 5,404 galaxies from the recently enlarged Second Southern Sky Redshift Survey (SSRS2). Over the range -22 \le...
The Southern Sky Redshift Survey (1998)
Da Costa, L. Nicolaci, Willmer, C. N. A., Pellegrini, P. S., Chaves, O. L., Rite, C., Maia, M. A. G., ...
We report redshifts, magnitudes and morphological classifications for 5369 galaxies with $m_B \leq 15.5$ and 57 galaxies fainter than this limit, in two regions covering a total of 1.70 steradians in...
A Dynamical Analysis of the Poor Galaxy Clusters A2626 and A2440 (1996)
Mohr, J. J., Geller, M. J., Wegner, G.
We use 189 new radial velocities, an $R$ band CCD mosiac, archival X-ray images, and gas temperatures to study substructure, masses, luminosity functions, and mass-to-light ratios in A2626 and A2440....
PAIRWISE VELOCITIES OF GALAXIES IN THE CFA AND SSRS2 REDSHIFT SURVEYS (1995)
Marzke, R. O., Geller, M. J., Da Costa, L. N., Huchra, J. P.
(compressed version) We combine the CfA Redshift Survey (CfA2) and the Southern Sky Redshift Survey (SSRS2) to estimate the pairwise velocity dispersion of galaxies $\sig12$ on a scale of $\sim 1...
COSMOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS FROM CLUSTER X-RAY MORPHOLOGIES (1995)
Mohr, J. J., Evrard, A. E., Fabricant, D. G., Geller, M. J.
We use a representative sample of 65 galaxy clusters observed with the Einstein IPC to constrain the range of cluster X-ray morphologies. We develop and apply quantitative and reproducible measures...
The Power Spectrum of Galaxies in the Nearby Universe (1994)
Da Costa, L. N., Vogeley, M. S., Geller, M. J., Huchra, J. P., Park, C.
We compute the power spectrum of galaxy density fluctuations in a recently completed redshift survey of optically-selected galaxies in the southern hemisphere (SSRS2). The amplitude and shape of the...
X-Ray and Optical Properties of Groups of Galaxies (1994)
Dell'Antonio, I. P., Geller, M. J., Fabricant, D. G.
We examine the relationship between the group x-ray luminosity in the 0.3-3.5 keV band and the measured velocity dispersion, and galaxy surface number density. We find definite correlations. Richer...