S. Zucker

Publication List Details

Period

1989 - 2009

Number

59

Co-Authors

TRIMOR - three-dimensional correlation technique to analyze multi-order spectra of triple stellar systems; Application to HD188753 (2009)

Mazeh, T., Tsodikovich, Y., Segal, Y., Zucker, S., Eggenberger, A., Udry, S., ...

This paper presents a new algorithm, TRIMOR, to analyse multi-order spectra of triple systems. The algorithm is an extension of TRICOR, the three-dimensional correlation technique that derives the...

Removing systematics from the CoRoT light curves: I. Magnitude-Dependent Zero Point (2009)

Mazeh, T., Guterman, P., Aigrain, S., Zucker, S., Grinberg, N.

This paper presents an analysis that searched for systematic effects within the CoRoT exoplanet field light curves. The analysis identified a systematic effect that modified the zero point of most...

Noise properties of the CoRoT data: a planet-finding perspective (2009)

Aigrain, S., Pont, F., Fressin, F., Alapini, A., Alonso, R., Auvergne, M., ...

In this short paper, we study the photometric precision of stellar light curves obtained by the CoRoT satellite in its planet finding channel, with a particular emphasis on the timescales...

Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission . VI. CoRoT-Exo-3b: the first secure inhabitant of the brown-dwarf desert (2008)

Deleuil, M, Deeg, H J, Alonso, R, Bouchy, F, Rouan, D, Auvergne, M, ...

Context: The CoRoT space mission routinely provides high-precision photometric measurements of thousands of stars that have been continuously observed for months. Aims: The discovery and...

Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. IV. CoRoT-Exo-4b: a transiting planet in a 9.2 day synchronous orbit (2008)

Aigrain, S, Collier Cameron, A, Ollivier, M, Pont, F, Jorda, L, Almenara, J M, ...

CoRoT, the first space-based transit search, provides ultra-high-precision light curves with continuous time-sampling over periods of up to 5 months. This allows the detection of transiting planets...

Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission IV: CoRoT-Exo-4b: A transiting planet in a 9.2 day synchronous orbit (2008)

Aigrain, S., Cameron, A. Collier, Ollivier, M., Pont, F., Jorda, L., Almenara, J. M., ...

CoRoT, the first space-based transit search, provides ultra-high precision light curves with continuous time-sampling over periods, of up to 5 months. This allows the detection of transiting planets...

ELODIE metallicity-biased search for transiting Hot Jupiters V. An intermediate-period Jovian planet orbiting HD45652 (2008)

Santos, N. C., Udry, S., Bouchy, F., Da Silva, R., Loeillet, B., Mayor, M., ...

We present the detection of a 0.47 Jupiter mass planet in a 44-day period eccentric trajectory (e=0.39) orbiting the metal-rich star HD45652. This planet, the seventh giant planet discovered in the...

From Espresso to Codex (2008)

Liske, J., Pasquini, L., Bonifacio, P., Bouchy, F., Carswell, R. F., Cristiani, S., ...

CODEX and ESPRESSO are concepts for ultra-stable, high-resolution spectrographs at the E-ELT and VLT, respectively. Both instruments are well motivated by distinct sets of science drivers. However,...

Cosmic dynamics in the era of Extremely Large Telescopes (2008)

Liske, J., Grazian, A., Vanzella, E., Dessauges, M., Viel, M., Pasquini, L., ...

The redshifts of all cosmologically distant sources are expected to experience a small, systematic drift as a function of time due to the evolution of the Universe's expansion rate. A measurement of...

Cosmic dynamics in the era of Extremely Large Telescopes (2008)

Liske, Jochen, Grazian, Andrea, Vanzella, Eros, Dessauges, Miroslava, Viel, Matteo, Pasquini, Luca, ...

The redshifts of all cosmologically distant sources are expected to experience a small, systematic drift as a function of time due to the evolution of the Universe's expansion rate. A measurement of...

Cosmic dynamics in the era of Extremely Large Telescopes (2008)

Liske, Jochen, Grazian, Andrea, Vanzella, Eros, Dessauges, Miroslava, Viel, Matteo, Pasquini, Luca, ...

The redshifts of all cosmologically distant sources are expected to experience a small, systematic drift as a function of time due to the evolution of the Universe's expansion rate. A measurement of...

Cosmic dynamics in the era of Extremely Large Telescopes (2008)

Liske, Jochen, Grazian, Andrea, Vanzella, Eros, Dessauges, Miroslava, Viel, Matteo, Pasquini, Luca, ...

The redshifts of all cosmologically distant sources are expected to experience a small, systematic drift as a function of time due to the evolution of the Universe's expansion rate. A measurement of...

Cosmic dynamics in the era of Extremely Large Telescopes (2008)

Liske, Jochen, Grazian, Andrea, Vanzella, Eros, Dessauges, Miroslava, Viel, Matteo, Pasquini, Luca, ...

The redshifts of all cosmologically distant sources are expected to experience a small, systematic drift as a function of time due to the evolution of the Universe's expansion rate. A measurement of...

The CODEX-ESPRESSO experiment: cosmic dynamics, fundamental physics, planets and much more.. (2007)

Cristiani, S., Avila, G., Bonifacio, P., Bouchy, F., Carswell, B., D'Odorico, S., ...

CODEX, a high resolution, super-stable spectrograph to be fed by the E-ELT, the most powerful telescope ever conceived, will for the first time provide the possibility of directly measuring the...

Elodie metallicity-biased search for transiting Hot Jupiters IV. Intermediate period planets orbiting the stars HD43691 and HD132406 (2007)

Da Silva, R., Udry, S., Bouchy, F., Moutou, C., Mayor, M., ...

We report here the discovery of two planet candidates as a result of our planet-search programme biased in favour of high-metallicity stars, using the ELODIE spectrograph at the Observatoire de Haute...

The CODEX-ESPRESSO experiment: cosmic dynamics, fundamental physics, planets and much more (2007)

Cristiani, Stefano, Avila, Gerardo, Bonifacio, Piercarlo, Bouchy, Francois, Carswell, B., D'Odorico, Sandro D., ...

CODEX, a high-resolution, super-stable spectrograph to be fed by the E-ELT, the most powerful telescope ever conceived, will for the first time provide the possibility of directly measuring the...

The CODEX-ESPRESSO experiment: cosmic dynamics, fundamental physics, planets and much more (2007)

Cristiani, Stefano, Avila, Gerardo, Bonifacio, Piercarlo, Bouchy, Francois, Carswell, B., D'Odorico, Sandro D., ...

CODEX, a high-resolution, super-stable spectrograph to be fed by the E-ELT, the most powerful telescope ever conceived, will for the first time provide the possibility of directly measuring the...

A Massive Planet to the Young Disc Star HD 81040 (2006)

Sozzetti, A., Udry, S., Zucker, S., Torres, G., Beuzit, J. L., Latham, D. W., ...

We report the discovery of a massive planetary companion orbiting the young disc star HD 81040. Based on five years of precise radial-velocity measurements with the HIRES and ELODIE spectrographs, we...

Elodie metallicity-biased search for transiting Hot Jupiters I. Two Hot Jupiters orbiting the slightly evolved stars HD118203 and HD149143 (2006)

Da Silva, R., Udry, S., Bouchy, F., Mayor, M., Moutou, C., Pont, F., ...

We report the discovery of a new planet candidate orbiting the subgiant star HD118203 with a period of P=6.1335 days. The best Keplerian solution yields an eccentricity e=0.31 and a minimum mass...

A Massive Planet to the Young Disc Star HD 81040 (2006)

Sozzetti, A., Udry, S., Zucker, S., Torres, G., Beuzit, J. L., Latham, D. W., ...

We report the discovery of a massive planetary companion orbiting the young disc star HD 81040. Based on five years of precise radial-velocity measurements with the HIRES and ELODIE spectrographs, we...

A Massive Planet to the Young Disc Star HD 81040 (2006)

Sozzetti, A., Udry, S., Zucker, S., Torres, G., Beuzit, J. L., Latham, D. W., ...

We report the discovery of a massive planetary companion orbiting the young disc star HD 81040. Based on five years of precise radial-velocity measurements with the HIRES and ELODIE spectrographs, we...

A Massive Planet to the Young Disc Star HD 81040 (2005)

Sozzetti, A., Udry, S., Zucker, S., Torres, G., Beuzit, J. L., Latham, D. W., ...

We report the discovery of a massive planetary companion orbiting the young disc star HD 81040. Based on five years of precise radial-velocity measurements with the HIRES and ELODIE spectrographs, we...

Elodie metallicity-biased search for transiting Hot Jupiters I. Two Hot Jupiters orbiting the slightly evolved stars HD118203 and HD149143 (2005)

Da Silva, R., Udry, S., Bouchy, F., Mayor, M., Moutou, C., Pont, F., ...

We report the discovery of a new planet candidate orbiting the subgiant star HD118203 with a period of P=6.1335 days. The best Keplerian solution yields an eccentricity e=0.31 and a minimum mass...

SINFONI in the Galactic Center: young stars and IR flares in the central light month (2005)

Eisenhauer, F., Genzel, R., Alexander, T., Abuter, R., Paumard, T., Ott, T., ...

We report 75 milli-arcsec resolution, near-IR imaging spectroscopy within the central 30 light days of the Galactic Center [...]. To a limiting magnitude of K~16, 9 of 10 stars in the central 0.4...

Elodie metallicity-biased search for transiting Hot Jupiters I. Two Hot Jupiters orbiting the slightly evolved stars HD118203 and HD149143 (2005)

Da Silva, R., Udry, S., Bouchy, F., Mayor, M., Moutou, C., Pont, F., ...

We report the discovery of a new planet candidate orbiting the subgiant star HD118203 with a period of P=6.1335 days. The best Keplerian solution yields an eccentricity e=0.31 and a minimum mass...

Elodie metallicity-biased search for transiting Hot Jupiters I. Two Hot Jupiters orbiting the slightly evolved stars HD118203 and HD149143 (2005)

Da Silva, R., Udry, S., Bouchy, F., Mayor, M., Moutou, C., Pont, F., ...

We report the discovery of a new planet candidate orbiting the subgiant star HD118203 with a period of P=6.1335 days. The best Keplerian solution yields an eccentricity e=0.31 and a minimum mass...

Comparative blind test of five planetary transit detection algorithms on realistic synthetic light curves (2005)

Moutou, C., Pont, F.(Observatoire De Genève, Sauverny, Switzerland), Barge, P., Aigrain, S., Auvergne, M., Blouin, D., ...

Because photometric surveys of exoplanet transits are very promising sources of future discoveries, many algorithms are being developed to detect transit signals in stellar light curves. This paper...

algorithms on realistic synthetic light curves (2005)

C. Moutou, F. Pont, P. Barge, S. Aigrain, M. Auvergne, D. Blouin, ...

Comparative blind test of five planetary transit detection

Geometric diffusions as a tool for harmonic analysis and structure definition of data: Diffusion maps (2005)

R. R. Coifman, S. Lafon, A. B. Lee, M. Maggioni, F. Warner, S. Zucker

of contexts of data analysis, such as spectral graph theory, manifold learning, nonlinear principal components and kernel methods. We augment these approaches by showing that the diffusion distance...

An Upper Bound on the Flux Ratio of rho CrB's Companion at 1.6um (2004)

Bender, C., Simon, M., Prato, L., Mazeh, T., Zucker, S.

We use high resolution infrared spectroscopy to investigate the 2001 report by Gatewood and colleagues that rho CrB's candidate extrasolar planet companion is really a low-mass star with mass...

Eclipsing binaries in open clusters. III. V621 Per in chi Persei (2004)

Southworth, J., Zucker, S., Maxted, P. F. L., Smalley, B.

V621 Persei is a detached eclipsing binary in the open cluster chi Persei which is composed of an early B-type giant star and a main sequence secondary component. From high-resolution spectroscopic...

Planets in multiple-star systems:properties and Detections (2004)

Eggenberger, A., Mayor, M., Mazeh, T., Udry, S., Zucker, S.

Se presentan brevemente las propiedades orbitales de los planetas extrasolares, y se comparan con las de las estrellas binarias. Se discuten las similitudes y las diferencias entre ambas. Entre los...

The Mass Ratio Distribution in Main-Sequence Spectroscopic Binaries Measured by IR Spectroscopy (2003)

Mazeh, T., Simon, M., Prato, L., Markus, B., Zucker, S.

We report infrared spectroscopic observations of a large, well-defined sample of main-sequence, single-lined spectroscopic binaries in order to detect the secondaries and derive the mass ratio...

Multi-order TODCOR: application to observations taken with the CORALIE echelle spectrograph (2003)

Zucker, S., Mazeh, T., Santos, N. C., Udry, S., Mayor, M.

This paper presents an application of the TwO-Dimensional CORrelation (TODCOR) algorithm to multi-order spectra. The combination of many orders enables the detection and measurement of the radial...

Component Masses of the Young Spectroscopic Binary UZ Tau E (2002)

Prato, L., Simon, M., Mazeh, T., Zucker, S., McLean, I. S.

We report estimates of the masses of the component stars in the pre-main-sequence spectroscopic binary UZ Tau E. These results come from the combination of our measurements of the mass ratio,...

A box-fitting algorithm in the search for periodic transits (2002)

Kovács, G., Zucker, S., Mazeh, T.

We study the statistical characteristics of a box-fitting algorithm to analyze stellar photometric time series in the search for periodic transits by extrasolar planets. The algorithm searches for...

The Smallest Mass Ratio Young Star Spectroscopic Binaries (2002)

Prato, L., Simon, M., Mazeh, T., McLean, I. S., Norman, D., Zucker, S.

Using high resolution near-infrared spectroscopy with the Keck telescope, we have detected the radial velocity signatures of the cool secondary components in four optically identified...

A Planet Candidate in the Stellar Triple System HD178911 (2001)

Zucker, S., Naef, D., Latham, D. W., Mayor, M., Mazeh, T., Beuzit, J. L., ...

We report the detection of a low-mass companion orbiting the solar-type star HD178911B, the distant component of the stellar triple system HD178911. The variability of HD178911B was first detected...

IR Detection of Low-Mass Secondaries in Spectroscopic Binaries (2001)

Mazeh, T., Prato, L., Simon, M., Goldberg, E., Norman, D., Zucker, S.

This paper outlines an infrared spectroscopic technique to measure the radial velocities of faint secondaries in known single-lined binaries. The paper presents our H-band observations with the...

HD 80606 b, a planet on an extremely elongated orbit (2001)

Naef, D., Latham, D. W., Mayor, M., Mazeh, T., Beuzit, J. L., Drukier, G., ...

We report the detection of a planetary companion orbiting the solar-type star HD 80606, the brighter component of a wide binary with a projected separation of about 2000 AU. Using high-signal...

Comparison Between Extrasolar Planets and Low-Mass Secondaries (2000)

Mazeh, T., Zucker, S.

This paper compares the statistical features of the sample of discovered extrasolar planets with those of the secondaries in nearby spectroscopic binaries, in order to enable us to distinguish...

The Spectroscopic Orbit of the Planetary Companion Transiting HD209458 (2000)

Mazeh, T., Naef, D., Torres, G., Latham, D. W., Mayor, M., ...

We report a spectroscopic orbit with period P = 3.52433 +/- 0.00027 days for the planetary companion that transits the solar-type star HD209458. For the metallicity, mass, and radius of the star we...

Apolipoprotein E synthesis in human kidney, adrenal gland, and liver.

Blue, M L, Williams, D L, Zucker, S, Khan, S A, Blum, C B

Human tissues were incubated in vitro with radiolabeled amino acids to determine whether plasma apolipoproteins are synthesized in human kidney. Subsequently, tissue extracts were screened with...

Purification and characterization of a connective-tissue-degrading metalloproteinase from the cytosol of metastatic melanoma cells.

Zucker, S, Turpeenniemi-Hujanen, T, Ramamurthy, N, Wieman, J, Lysik, R, Gorevic, P, ...

A metalloproteinase with activity against type IV collagen, type I collagen and gelatin has been purified from the cytosol of a highly metastatic mouse melanoma by anion-exchange, zinc-chelated and...

Isolation and characterization of a trypsin-like serine proteinase from the membranes of Walker 256 carcino-sarcoma cells.

LaBombardi, V J, Shaw, E, DiStefano, J F, Beck, G, Brown, F, Zucker, S

A serine proteinase was isolated from Walker-256-carcino-sarcoma plasma-membrane-enriched preparations by affinity chromatography employing soya-bean trypsin inhibitor as the ligand. This enzyme was...

Apolipoprotein E synthesis in human kidney, adrenal gland, and liver.

Blue, M L, Williams, D L, Zucker, S, Khan, S A, Blum, C B

Human tissues were incubated in vitro with radiolabeled amino acids to determine whether plasma apolipoproteins are synthesized in human kidney. Subsequently, tissue extracts were screened with...

Purification and characterization of a connective-tissue-degrading metalloproteinase from the cytosol of metastatic melanoma cells.

Zucker, S, Turpeenniemi-Hujanen, T, Ramamurthy, N, Wieman, J, Lysik, R, Gorevic, P, ...

A metalloproteinase with activity against type IV collagen, type I collagen and gelatin has been purified from the cytosol of a highly metastatic mouse melanoma by anion-exchange, zinc-chelated and...

Isolation and characterization of a trypsin-like serine proteinase from the membranes of Walker 256 carcino-sarcoma cells.

LaBombardi, V J, Shaw, E, DiStefano, J F, Beck, G, Brown, F, Zucker, S

A serine proteinase was isolated from Walker-256-carcino-sarcoma plasma-membrane-enriched preparations by affinity chromatography employing soya-bean trypsin inhibitor as the ligand. This enzyme was...

Purification and characterisation of soluble tumour haemolytic factor isolated from oncogene transformed fibroblasts.

Zucker, S., Wieman, J., Lysik, R. M., Imhof, B., Farooqui, A. A.

Numerous studies have shown that intact cancer cells and cell extracts have the capacity to lyse erythrocytes in vitro. The transformation of NIH-3T3 fibroblasts by ras oncogenes has recently been...

Role for different cell proteinases in cancer invasion and cytolysis.

Zucker, S., Beck, G., DiStefano, J. F., Lysik, R. M.

The crucial role of non-plasminogen dependent serine proteinases is tissue invasive and cytolytic functions of Walker 256 cancer cells has been documented using a rat urinary bladder invasion and a...