Koopmans, L. V. E., Bolton, A., Treu, T., Czoske, O., Auger, M. W., Barnabe, M., ...
Based on 58 SLACS strong-lens early-type galaxies with direct total-mass and stellar-velocity dispersion measurements, we find that inside one effective radius massive elliptical galaxies with M_eff...
Treu, T., Gavazzi, R., Gorecki, A., Marshall, P. J., Koopmans, L. V. E., Bolton, A. S., ...
We study the relation between the internal structure of early-type galaxies and their environment using 70 strong gravitational lenses from the Sloan ACS Lens Survey. The Sloan database is used to...
Marshall, P. J., Treu, T., Melbourne, J., Gavazzi, R., Bundy, K., Ammons, S. M., ...
We combine high-resolution images in four optical/infra-red bands, obtained with the laser guide star adaptive optics system on the Keck Telescope and with the Hubble Space Telescope, to study the...
Mapping the distribution of luminous and dark matter in strong lensing galaxies (2007)
Ferreras, I., Saha, P., Williams, L. L. R., Burles, S.
We present the distribution of luminous and dark matter in a set of strong lensing (early-type) galaxies. By combining two independent techniques - stellar population synthesis and gravitational...
The Interstellar Medium of GRB Host Galaxies I. Echelle Spectra of Swift GRB Afterglows (2006)
Prochaska, J. X., Bloom, J. S., Dessauges-Zavadsky, M., O'Meara, J. M., Foley, R. J., ...
We present optical echelle spectra of four gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows (GRB 050730, GRB 050820, GRB 051111, and GRB 060418) discovered during the first 1.5 years of operation of the Swift...
Koopmans, L. V. E., Treu, T., Bolton, A. S., Burles, S., Moustakas, L. A.
(Abridged) We present a joint gravitational lensing and stellar dynamical analysis of fifteen massive field early-type galaxies, selected from the Sloan Lens (SLACS) Survey. The following numerical...
A Gamma-Ray Burst Mission to Investigate the Properties of Dark Energy (2005)
Lamb, D. Q., Ricker, G. R., Lazzati, D., Ghirlanda, G., Ghisellini, G., Firmani, C., ...
[Abridged] Very recently, relations between the peak energy of Gamma-Ray Burst burst spectra, the isotropic-equivalent energy of the burst, and the radiated energy of the burst have been found. In a...
Eisenstein, D. J., Zehavi, I., Hogg, D. W., Scoccimarro, R., Blanton, M. R., Nichol, R. C., ...
We present the large-scale correlation function measured from a spectroscopic sample of 46,748 luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The survey region covers 0.72 h^{-3} Gpc^3 over...
The Linear Theory Power Spectrum from the Lyman-alpha Forest in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
McDonald, P., Seljak, U., Cen, R., Shih, D., Weinberg, D. H., Burles, S., ...
We analyze the SDSS Ly-alpha forest P_F(k,z) measurement to determine the linear theory power spectrum. Our analysis is based on fully hydrodynamic simulations, extended using hydro-PM simulations....
Seljak, U., Makarov, A., McDonald, P., Anderson, S., Bahcall, N., Brinkmann, J., ...
We combine the constraints from the recent Ly-alpha forest and bias analysis of the SDSS with previous constraints from SDSS galaxy clustering, the latest supernovae, and WMAP . Combining WMAP and...
Detection of Intergalactic HeII Absorption at Redshift 3.5 (2003)
Zheng, W., Chiu, K., Anderson, S. F., Schneider, D. P., Hogan, C. J., York, D. G., ...
The large number of quasars found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has allowed searches for elusive, clear lines of sight towards HeII Ly-alpha absorption, a sensitive probe of the intergalactic...
An Initial Survey of White Dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Harris, H. C., Liebert, J., Kleinman, S. J., Nitta, A., Anderson, S. F., Knapp, G. R., ...
An initial assessment is made of white dwarf and hot subdwarf stars observed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In a small area of sky (190 square degrees), observed much like the full survey will be,...
Sneden, C., Cowan, J. J., Lawler, J. E., Ivans, I. I., Burles, S., Beers, T. C., ...
High-resolution spectra obtained with three ground-based facilities and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have been combined to produce a new abundance analysis of CS 22892-052, an extremely...
The velocity dispersion function of early-type galaxies (2003)
Sheth, Ravi K., Bernardi, M., Schechter, P. L., Burles, S., Eisenstein, D. J., Finkbeiner, D. P., ...
The distribution of early-type galaxy velocity dispersions, phi(sigma), is measured using a sample drawn from the SDSS database. Its shape differs significantly from that which one obtains by simply...
Early-type galaxies in the SDSS. II. Correlations between observables (2003)
Bernardi, M., Sheth, R. K., Annis, J., Burles, S., Eisenstein, D. J., Finkbeiner, D. P., ...
A magnitude limited sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01 < z < 0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using morphological and spectral criteria. The...
Early-type galaxies in the SDSS. III. The Fundamental Plane (2003)
Bernardi, M., Sheth, R. K., Annis, J., Burles, S., Eisenstein, D. J., Finkbeiner, D. P., ...
A magnitude limited sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01 < z < 0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using morphological and spectral criteria. The...
Early-type galaxies in the SDSS. IV. Colors and chemical evolution (2003)
Bernardi, M., Sheth, R. K., Annis, J., Burles, S., Finkbeiner, D. P., Lupton, R. H., ...
The colors and chemical abundances of early-type galaxies at redshifts z
Early-type galaxies in the SDSS. I. The sample (2003)
Bernardi, M., Sheth, R. K., Annis, J., Burles, S., Eisenstein, D. J., Finkbeiner, D. P., ...
A sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01 < z < 0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using morphological and spectral criteria. This paper describes how...
A feature at z ~ 3.2 in the evolution of the Ly-alpha forest optical depth (2002)
Bernardi, M., Sheth, R. K., Subbarao, M., Richards, G. T., Burles, S., Connolly, A. J., ...
The effective optical depth in the Ly-alpha forest region of 1061 low-resolution QSO spectra drawn from the SDSS database decreases with decreasing redshift over the range 2.5 < z < 4. Although the...
Galaxy clustering in early Sloan Digital Sky Survey redshift data (2002)
Zehavi, I., Blanton, M. R., Frieman, J. A., Weinberg, D. H., Mo, H. J., Strauss, M. A., ...
We present the first measurements of clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxy redshift survey. Our sample consists of 29,300 galaxies with redshifts 5700 km s(-1) less than or equal...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release (2002)
Stoughton, C., Lupton, R. H., Bernardi, M., Blanton, M. R., Burles, S., Castander, F. J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of 10 6 galaxies, 100,000...
Early-type galaxies in the SDSS (2001)
Bernardi, M., Sheth, R. K., Annis, J., Burles, S., Eisenstein, D. J., Finkbeiner, D. P., ...
A sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01
Nucleosynthesis Clocks and the Age of the Galaxy (2001)
Truran, J. W., Burles, S., Cowan, J. J., Sneden, C.
Nucleocosmochronology involves the use of the abundances of radioactive nuclear species and their radiogenic decay daughters to establish the finite age of the elements and the time scale for their...
Eisenstein, D. J., Annis, J., Gunn, J. E., Szalay, A. S., Connolly, A. J., Nichol, R. C., ...
We describe the target selection and resulting properties of a spectroscopic sample of luminous, red galaxies (LRG) from the imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). These galaxies are...
A New Very Cool White Dwarf Discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2001)
Harris, H. C., Hansen, B. M. S., Liebert, J., Berk, D. E. Vanden, Anderson, S. F., Knapp, G. R., ...
Early data taken during commissioning of the SDSS have resulted in the discovery of a very cool white dwarf. It appears to have stronger collision induced absorption from molecular hydrogen than any...
Damped Lyman alpha systems at z=0.68 and z=1.15 towards HE 1122-1649 and HE 0515-4414 (2000)
Reimers, D., Tytler, D., Barlow, T., Burles, S.
Detailed analysis of the spectral lines from two low redshift damped Lyman alpha absorbers (DLA) confirms that they are a heterogeneous population. Both systems have low metal abundances of...
R-process abundances and cosmochronometers in old metal-poor halo stars (1998)
Pfeiffer, B., Cowan, J. J., Sneden, C., Burles, S., ...
Proc. IX. Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics, Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Bavaria; March 1998