NAIC/ARECIBO OBSERVATORY PUBLICATIONS

October 1, 2009 - September 30, 2010

This list of publications includes papers that result from NAIC support as well as from AO data.

 

*Bolded names are individuals who are currently scientific staff members, or were at the time of publication submission.

 

Astronomy papers published in refereed journals that present original observational data from the Arecibo Observatory are identified by a blue square (▪).   Papers identified below by a red circle (⚫) were published in refereed journals in FY2010 that exclusively involved archival data from AO, data from other telescopes, or were theoretical papers involving no new observational data.

RADIO ASTRONOMY

▪  Abdo, A. A., ... P. C. C. Freire...plus 178 co-authors, PSR J1907+0602: A Radio-Faint Gamma-Ray Pulsar Powering a Bright TeV Pulsar Wind Nebula, Astrophys. J., 711(1), pp. 64-74, March 2010

▪  Araya, E. D., P. Hofner, W. M. Goss, S. Kurtz, A. M. S. Richards, H. Linz, L. Olmi, and M. Sewilo, Quasi-Periodic Formaldehyde Maser Flares in the Massive Protostellar Object IRAS 18566+0408, Astrophys. J. Lett, 717(2), pp. L133-L137, July 2010

▪  Backus, I., D. Mitra, and J. M. Rankin, The beam topology and dynamic emission properties of pulsar B0943+10 -- VI. Discovery of a 'Q'-mode precursor and comparison with pulsar B1822-09, MNRAS, 404(1), pp. 30-41, May 2010

⚫ Belczynski, K., D. R. Lorimer, J. P. Ridley, and S. J. Curran, Double and Single Recycled Pulsars: An Evolutionary Puzzle?, eprint arXiv:0907.3486, 2009, submitted to MNRAS

▪  Black, G. J., D. B. Campbell, and J. K. Harmon, Radar Measurements of Mercury's North Pole at 70 cm Wavelength, 2009, Icarus, in press

▪  Brozovic, M., L. A. M. Benner, C. Magri, S. J. Ostro, D. J. Scheeres, J. D. Giorgini, M. C. Nolan, J. L. Margot, R. F. Jurgens, and R. Rose, Radar Observations and a Physical Model of Contact Binary Asteroid 4486 Mithra, Icarus, 208(1), pp. 207-220, July 2010

▪  Busch, M. W., S. R. Kukarni, W. Brisken, S. J. Ostro, L. A. M. Benner, J. D. Giorgini, and M. C. Nolan, Determining Asteroid Spin States Using Radar Speckles, 2010, Icarus, in press

⚫ Camilo, F....P. C. C. Freire, plus 25 co-authors, Radio Detection of LAT PSRs J1741-2054 and J2032+4127: No Longer Just Gamma-ray Pulsars, Astrophys. J., 705(1), pp. 1-13, Nov 2009

▪  Campbell, B. A., B. R. Hawke, L. M. Carter, R. R. Ghent, and D. B. Campbell, Rugged lava flows on the Moon revealed by Earth-based radar, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L22201, doi:10.1029/2009GL041087, Nov 2009

▪  Campbell, B. A., L. M. Carter, D. B. Campbell, M. Nolan, J. Chandler, R. R. Ghent, B. R. Hawke, R. F. Anderson and K. Wells, Earth-based 12.6-cm Wavelength Radar Mapping of the Moon: New Views of Impact Melt Distribution and Mare Physical Properties, 2010, Icarus, in press

▪  Campins, H., K. Hargrove, H. Pinilla-Alonso, E. S. Howell, M. S. Kelley, J. Licandro, T. Mothé-Diniz, Y. Fernández, and J. Ziffer, The Puzzling Icy Nature of Asteroid 24 Themis, submitted to Nature, Sept 2009

⚫ Campins, H., K. Hargrove, N. Pinilla-Alonso, E. S. Howell, M. S. Kelley, J. Licandro, T. Mothé-Diniz, Y. Fernández, and J. Ziffer, Water ice and organics on the surface of the asteroid 24 Themis, Nature, 464(7293), pp. 1320-1321, April 2010

▪  Carter, L. M., B. A. Campbell, B. R. Hawke, D. B. Campbell, and M. C. Nolan, Radar remote sensing of pyroclastic deposits in the southern Mare Serenitatis and Mare Vaporum regions of the Moon, J. Geophys. Res., 114, E11004, Nov 2009

▪  Catinella, B., D. Schiminovich, G. Kauffmann, S. Fabello, J. Wang, C. Hummels, J. Lemonias, S. M. Moran, R. Wu, R. Giovanelli, M. P. Haynes, T. M. Heckman, A. R. Basu-Zych, M. R. Blanton, J. Brinchmann, T. Budavári, T. Goncalves, B. D. Johnson, R. C. Kennicutt, B. F. Madore, C. D. Martin, M. R. Rich, L. J. Tacconi, D. A. Thilker, V. Wild, and T. K. Wyder, The GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey. I. Gas Fraction Scaling Relations of Massive Galaxies and First Data Release, MNRAS, 403(2), pp. 683-708, April 2010

▪  Chepurnov, A., A. Lazarian, S. Stanimirovic, C. Heiles, and J. E. G. Peek, Velocity Spectrum for H I at High Latitudes, Astrophys. J., 714(2), pp. 1398-1406, May 2010

▪  Cherinka, B., R. Schulte-Ladbeck, and J. Rosenberg, HI Observations of the Ca II absorbing galaxies Mrk 1456 and SDSS J211701.26-002633.7, Astron. J., 138(6), pp. 1714-1723, Dec 2009

▪  Courtois, H. M., R. B. Tully, J. R. Fisher, N. Bonhomme, M. Zavodny, and A. Barnes, The Extragalactic Distance Database: All Digital HI Profile Catalog, Astron. J., 138(6), pp. 1938-1956, Dec 2009

▪  Cremonese, G., J. Warell, J. K. Harmon, F. Leblanc, M. Mendillo, and A. Sprague, Techniques and Methods in Ground-Based Observation of Mercury, Planet. Space Sci., 58(1-2), pp. 61-78, Jan 2010

▪  Delbo, M., K. Walsh, M. Mueller, A. W. Harris, and E. S. Howell, The Cool Surfaces of Binary Near-Earth Asteroids, submitted to Icarus, May 2009

▪  Deneva, J. S., J. M. Cordes, M. A. McLaughlin, D. J. Nice, D. R. Lorimer, F. Crawford, N. D. R. Bhat, F. Camilo, D. J. Champion, P. C. C. Freire, S. Edel, V. I. Kondratiev, J. W. T. Hessels, F. A. Jenet, L. Kasian, V. M. Kaspi, M. Kramer, P. Lazarus, J. van Leeuwen, S. M. Ransom, I. H. Stairs, B. W. Stappers, A. Brazier, A. Venkataraman, J. A. Zollweg, and S. Bogdanov, Arecibo Pulsar Survey Using ALFA.  Probing Radio Pulsars Intermittency and Transients, Astrophys. J., 703(2), pp. 2259-2274, Oct 2009

⚫ Doyle, L. R., B. McCowan, S. Johnston, and S. F. Hanser, Information theory, animal communication, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, to appear in Act Astronautica, 2010

▪  Fermi LAT Collaboration, A. A. Abdo, The Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium, PSR J1907+0602: A Radio-Faint Gamma-Ray Pulsar Powering a Bright TeV Pulsar Wind Nebula, eprint arXiv:1001.0792, Jan 2010

▪  Fernandez, M.X., E. Momjian, C. J. Salter, and T. Ghosh, A Radio Spectral Line Study of the 2-Jy IRAS-NVSS Sample: Part I, Astron. J., 139(5), pp. 2066-2082, May 2010

▪  Force, M. M. and J. M. Rankin, Subpulse Modulation, Moding and Nulling of the Five-Component Pulsar B1737+13, MNRAS, 406(1), pp. 237-246, July 2010

▪  Ghent, R. R., V. Gupta, B. A. Campbell, S. A. Ferguson, J. C. W. Brown, R. L. Fergason, and L. M. Carter, Generation and Emplacement of Fine-grained Ejecta in Planetary Impacts, 2010, Icarus, in press

▪  Hankins, T. H. and J. M. Rankin, Arecibo Multi-Frequency Time-Aligned Pulsar Average-Profile and Polarization Database, Astron. J., 139(1), pp. 168-175, Jan 2010

▪  Harmon, J. K., M. C. Nolan, J. D. Giorgini, and E. S. Howell, Radar Observations of 8P/Tuttle: A Contact-Binary Comet, Icarus, 207(1), pp. 499-502, May 2010

▪  Harmon, J. K., M. A. Slade and M. S. Rice, Radar Imagery of Mercury's Putative Polar Ice:  1999-2005 Arecibo Results, 2010, submitted to Icarus

▪  Henning, P. A., C. M. Springob, R. F. Minchin, E. Momjian, B. Catinella, T. McIntyre, F. Day, E. Muller, B. Koribalski, J. L. Rosenberg, S. Schneider, L. Staveley-Smith, and W. van Driel, The Arecibo L-band Feed Array Zone of Avoidance Survey I: Precursor Observations through the Inner and Outer Galaxy, Astron. J., Vol. 139(6), pp. 2130-2147, June 2010

▪  Jenet, F. A., D. Fleckenstin, A. Ford, A. Garcia, R. Miller, J. Rivera, and K. Stovall, Apparent Faster-Than-Light Pulse Propagation in Interstellar Space:  A New Probe of the Interstellar Medium, Astrophys. J., 710(2), pp. 1718-1723, Feb 2010

▪  Kanekar, N., J. N. Chengalur, and T. Ghosh, Probing Fundamental Constant Evolution with Redshifted Conjugate-satellite OH Lines, Astrophys. J. Lett., 716(1), pp. L23-L26, June 2010

▪ Kniazev, A., N. Brosch, G. L. Hoffman, E. K. Grebel, D. B. Zucker, and S. A. Pustilnik, The Faint Outer Regions of the Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy: A Much Larger and Undisturbed Galaxy, MNRAS, 400(4), pp. 2054-2069, Dec 2009

▪  Koo, B-C., C. Heiles, S. Stanimirovic, and T. Troland, HI Zeeman Experiments of Shocked Atmoic Gas in Two Supernova Remnants Interacting with Molecular Clouds, Astron. J., 140(1), pp. 262-265, July 2010

⚫ Mantovani, F., A. Rossetti, W. Junor, D. J. Saikia, and C. J. Salter, Radio Polarimetry of 3C119, 3C318, and 3C343 at milliarcsecond resolution, 2010, to appear in Astron. Astrophys.

▪  McLaughlin, M. A., A. G. Lyne, E. F. Keane, M. Kramer, J. J. Miller, D. R. Lorimer, R. N. Manchester, F. Camilo, and I. H. Stairs, Timing Observations of Rotating Radio Transients, MNRAS, 400(3), pp. 1431-1438, Dec 2009

⚫ Nozette, S., P. Spudis, B. Bussey, R. Jensen, K. Raney, H. Winters, C. L. Lichtenberg, W. Marinelli, J. Crusan, M. Gates, and M. Robinson, The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) Technology Demonstration, Space Science Reviews, 150 (1-4), pp. 285-302, Jan 2010

 

▪  Ostro, S. J., R. D. West, L. C. Wye, H.A. Zebker, M.A. Janssen, B. Stiles, K. Kelleher, Y.Z. Anderson, R.A. Boehmer, P. Callahan, Y. Gim, G.A. Hamilton, W.T.K. Johnson, C. Veeramachaneni, R.D. Lorenz and the Cassini RADAR Team, New Cassini RADAR results for Saturn's icy satellites, Icarus, 206(2), pp. 498-506, April 2010

▪  Ostro, S. J., C. Magri, L.A.M. Benner, J.D. Giorgini, M.C. Nolan, A.A. Hine, M.W. Busch, J.L. Margot, Radar imaging of Asteroid 7 Iris, Icarus, 207(1), pp. 285-294, May 2010

⚫ Ostro, S. J., R. D. West, L. C. Wye, H. A. Zebker, M. A. Janssen, B. Stiles, K. Kelleher, Y. Z. Anderson, R. A. Boehmer, P. Callahan, Y. Gim, G. A. Hamilton, W. T. K. Johnson, C. Veeramachaneni, R. D. Lorenz, Cassini RADAR Tem, New Cassini RADAR results for Saturn's icy satellites, Icarus, 206(2), pp. 498-506, April 2010

▪  Pandian, J. D., K. M. Menten, and P. F. Goldsmith, The Arecibo Methanol Maser Galactic Plane Survey. III. Distances and Luminosities, Astrophys. J., 706(2), pp. 1609-1624, Dec 2009

⚫ Parsons, A. R., D. C. Backer, G. S. Foster, M. C. H. Wright, R. F. Bradley, N. E. Gugliucci, C. R. Parashare, E. E. Benoit, J. E. Aguirre, D. C. Jacobs, C. L. Carilli, D. Herne, M. J. Lynch, J. R. Manley, and D. J. Werthimer,The Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization: 8 Station Results, Astron. J., 139(4), pp. 1468-1480, April 2010

▪  Pshirkov, M. S. and A. V. Tuntsov, Local constraints on cosmic strings from photometry and pulsar timing, Phys. Rev. D., 81(8), id. 083519, April 2010

▪  Putman, M. E., J. E. G. Peek, A. Muratov, O. Gnedin, W. Hsu, K. A. Douglas, C. Heiles, S. Stanimirovic, E. J. Korpela, and S. J. Gibson, The Disruption and Fueling of M33, Astrophys. J., 703(2), pp. 1486-1501, Oct 2009

▪  Rose, J. A., P. Robertson, J. Miner, and L. Levy, Star Formation in Partially Gas-Depleted Spiral Galaxies, Astron. J., 139(2), pp. 765-782, Feb 2010

▪  Salter, C. J., D. J. Saikia, R. Minchin, T. Ghosh, and Y. Chandola, The Discovery of Host Galaxy HI Absorption in CTA 21, Astrophys. J. Lett., 715(2), pp. L117-L120, June 2010

▪  Schiminovich, D., B. Catinella, G. Kauffmann, S. Fabello, J. Wang, C. Hummels, J. Lemonias, S. M., Moran, R. Wu, R. Giovanelli, M. P. Haynes, T. M. Heckman, A. R. Basu-Zych, M. R. Blanton, J. Brinchmann, T. Budavari, T. Goncalves, B. D. Johnson, R. C. Kennicutt, B. F. Madore, C. D. Martin, M. R. Rich, L. J. Tacconi, D. A. Thilker, V. Wild, and T. K. Wyder, The GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey II: The Star Formation Efficiency of Massive Galaxies, 2010, to appear in MNRAS

▪  Scott, T. C., H. Bravo-Alfaro, E. Brinks, C. A. Caretta, L. Cortese, A. Boselli, M. J. Hardcastle, J. H. Croston, and I. Plauchu, Probing evolutionary mechanisms in galaxy clusters: neutral atomic hydrogen in Abell1367, MNRAS, 403(3), pp. 1175-1192, April 2010

▪  Shepard, M. K, B. E. Clark, M. Ockert-Bell, M. C. Nolan, E. S. Howell, C. Magri, J. D. Giorgini, L. A. M. Benner, S. J. Ostro, A. W. Harris, B. D. Warner, R. D. Stephens, and M. Mueller, A Radar Survey of M- and X-class Asteroids. II. Summary and Synthesis, Icarus, 208(1), pp. 221-237, July 2010

▪  Siemion, A., J. Von Korff, P. McMahon, E. Korpela, D. Werthimer, D. Anderson, G. Bower, J. Cobb, G. Foster, M. Lebofsky, J. van Leeuwen, W. Mallard, and M. Wagner, New SETI Sky Surveys for Radio Pulses, eprint arXiv:0811.3046, 2008, Acta Astronautica, in press

▪  Stanimirovic, S., J. M. Weisberg, Z. Pei, K. Tuttle, and J. T. Green, Arecibo Multi-Epoch HI Absorption Measurements Against Pulsars: Tiny-Scale Atomic Structure, 2010, to appear in the Astrophys. J.

▪  van Driel, W., S. E. Schneider, R. C. Kraan-Korteweg, and D. Monnier Ragaigne, HI line observations of 2MASS galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance, Astron. Astrophys., 505(1), pp. 29-44, Oct 2009

▪  Wells, K. S., D. B. Campbell, B. A. Campbell, and L. M. Carter, Detection of Small Lunar Secondary Craters in Circular Polarization Ratio Images, 2010, to appear in J. Geophys. Res.-Planets

▪  Zhong, C. X. and T. G. Yang, Analysis and Comparisons of Four Kinds of Ensemble Pulsar Time Algorithm, Acta Astron. Sinica, 50(4), pp. 425-437, Oct 2009

 

Abstracts & Conference Proceedings:

Abdo, A., Fermi Lab Collaboration, PSR J1907+0602 A Gamma-ray Pulsar Powering a Bright TeV PWN, AAS Meeting, #215, #388.05, Jan 2010

Arce De Jesus, Y., R. Minchin, and M. Baes, Determining the Synchrotron Radiation Contribution to the Submm Flux of Galaxies in the SCUBA Local Universe Galaxy Survey, AAS Meeting, #215, #412.10, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p. 248, Jan 2010

Auerswald, D. and J-h. Kang, An I-GALFA Study of Supernova Remnant G54.4-0.3 (HC40), AAS Meeting, #215, #454.09, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p. 469, Jan 2010

Bangale, P., Searches for Gamma Ray Pulsations from Recently Detected Radio Pulsars, AAS Meeting, #215, #453.11, Jan 2010

Begum, A., N. Ballering, S. Stanimirovic, K. Douglas, S. J. Gibson, J. Grcevich, C. Heiles, E. Korpela, M. Lee, J. E. G. Peek, and M. E. Putman, Results from the Arecibo Galactic HI Survey (GALFA-HI), AAS Meeting #214, #600.05, Dec 2009

Benner, L. A. M., Arecibo and Goldstone Radar Imaging of Near-Earth Asteroid, 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conf., held March 1-5, 2010 in The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1533, p. 2748, March 210

Beroiz, M., K. Stovall, F. Jenet, J. Cordes, D. Lorimer, D. Backer, and PALFA Consortium, Current Results at PALFA Survey at Arecibo Observatory, AAS Meeting #215, #453.09, Jan 2010

Borders, K. and B. M. Mendez, Infrared Astronomy Professional Development for K-12 Educators: WISE Telescope, AAS Meeting #215, #465.10, Jan 2010

Campbell, B. A., L. M. Carter, D. B. Campbell, M. Nolan, J. Chandler, R. R. Ghent, B. R. Hawke, R. F. Anderson, and K. Wells, Earth-Based S-Band Radar Mapping of the Moon: New Views of Impact Melt Distribution and Mare Physical Properties, 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conf., held March 1-5, 2010 in The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1533, p.1772

Campins, H., K. Hargrove, N. Pinilla-Alonso, E. S. Howell, M. S. Kelley, J. Licandro, T. Mothé-Diniz, Y. Fernández, and J. Ziffer, Astrobiology Science Conference 2010: Evolution and Life: Surviving Catastrophes and Extremes on Earth and Beyond, held April 26-20, 2010 in League City, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1538, p. 5431, April 2010

Catinella, B., D. Schiminovich, and G. Kauffmann, HI and Star Formation Properties of Massive Galaxies: First Results from the GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey, in "Hunting for the Dark: The Hidden Side of Galaxy Formation", Malta, 19-23 Oct. 2009, eds. V.P. Debattista & C.C. Popescu, AIP Conf. Proc., 1240, pp. 95-98, June 2010

Chambers, B. and D. Stinebring, Pulsar Scintillation Arclets Observed at Arecibo with Baseband Recording, AAS Meeting, #215, #453.18, Jan 2010

Crone, M. J. Turner, and ALFALFA Team, The Undergraduate ALFALFA Groups Project: Development of a Galaxy Environment Index, AAS Meeting #215, #451.02, Jan 2010

Crump, N., J. L. Rosenberg, and the ALFALFA Team, Catching a Gas-Rich Galaxy Group in Transition, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #216, #417.03, May 2010

Davis, J. and D. Hofmans, RuBisCo Stars and the Riddle of Life, Astrobiology Science Conference 2010: Evolution and Life: Surviving Catastrophes and Extremes on Earth and Beyond, held April 26-20, 2010 in League City, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1538, p. 5370, April 2010

Deneva, J. S., J. M. Cordes, and T. J. W. Lazio, Modeling the Galactic Center Pulsar Population, American Astronomical Society Meeting #215, #453.13; B.A.A.S., Vol. 42, p. 464, Jan 2010

Douglas, K. A., Tracing the Universe's Most Abundant Atom with the World's Largest Filled-Aperture Telescope, 2010, eprint arXiv:1001.4699, to appear in the proceedings of the conference "Astronomy and its Instruments Before and After Galileo" held in Venice, IT, 28 September - 2 October 2009

Dowell, J., L. van Zee, L. Hoffman, R. Giovanelli, M. Haynes, and ALFALFA Team, The HI Diameter Function of an ALFALFA-Selected Sample of Galaxies, AAS Meeting #215, #452.02, Jan 2010

Faesi, C. and B. M. Lewis, Steps Towards Understanding the Presence/absence Of 1612 MHz OH Masers in AGB Stars, AAS Meeting #215, #427.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p. 342, Jan 2010

Ford, A., R. Benavides, L. Garcia, A. Miller, R. Miller, and F. Jenet, ARCC Pulsar Plug-in for Google Sky: A Pulsar Outreach Tool, AAS Meeting #215, #453.06, Jan 2010

Force, M. and J. Rankin, Subpulse Modulation, Moding and Nulling of the Five-component Pulsar B1737+13, AAS Meeting, #215, #453.17, Jan 2010

Freire, P. and N. Wex, The Deceptively Boring PSR J1738+0333, June 2010, to appear in the Proc. of the 12th Marcel Grossmann meeting

Garcia, A., A. Ford, J. Rivera, F. Jenet, K. Stovall, D. Nice, and PALFA Consortium, Timing of J1917+1736, AAS Meeting, #215, #453.23, Jan 2010

Giorgini, J. D., Radar Astrometry and Earth Encounter Predictability, American Astronomical Society, DDA meeting #41, #6.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p. 931, May 2010

Haynes, M. P., The Importance of HI to the Gastrophysics of Galaxies, AAS Meeting, #215, #454.09, Jan 2010

Heiles, C. E., Polarization and Magnetic Fields in OH Megamasers , American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #216, #309.08, May 2010

Hummels, C. B., D. Schiminovich, D., B. Catinella, G. Kauffmann, and T. Heckman, The GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey (GASS): First Results, AAS Meeting #215, #370.04, Jan 2010

Jenet, F., A. Ford, A. Garcia, R. Miller, J. Rivera, and S. Kevin, Apparent Faster-than-light Pulse Propagation In Interstellar Space: A New Probe Of The Interstellar Medium, AAS Meeting, #215, #388.02, Jan 2010

Kang, J-h., B. Koo, and C. Salter, Newly Discovered Old Supernova Remnant, Fvw173.0+1.5, AAS Meeting, #215, #454.14, Jan 2010

Kent, B. R., The Virgo Cluster: HI Mass Function, Environment and Morphology, AAS Meeting #215, #436.14, Jan 2010

Koo, B-C., S. J. Gibson, J-h. Kang, K. A. Douglas, G. Park, J. E. G. Peek, E. J. Korpela, C. E. Heiles, and T. M. Bania, I-GALFA: The Inner-Galaxy ALFA Low-Latitude H I Survey, eprint arXiv:0912.3288, 2009, to appear in proceedings of IAU 2009 Special Session "The Galactic Plane - in Depth and Across the Spectrum"

Koopmann, R., R. Giovanelli, M. P. Haynes, B. R. Kent, and N. Brosch, ALFALFA HI Content and Star Formation of Early-type Dwarfs in The Virgo Cluster, AAS Meeting #215, #451.03, Jan 2010

Koopmann, R., R. Giovanelli, M. P. Haynes, B. R. Kent, and N. Brosch, ALFALFA HI Content and Star Formation of Early-type Dwarfs in The Virgo Cluster, in Galaxy Wars: Stellar Populations and Star Formation in Interacting Galaxies ASP Conf. Ser., 19-22 July 2009 at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, Eds. B. Smith, N. Bastian, S. J. U. Higdon, and J. L. Higdon, San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 423, p.101, June 2010

Koopmann, R., S. Higdon, T. J. Balonek, M. P. Haynes, and R. Giovanelli, The Undergraduate ALFALFA Team, AAS Meeting #215, #451.05, Jan 2010

Lam, M. and P. Demorest, Reduction of Interstellar Medium Scattering Effects in Millisecond Pulsar Timing, AAS Meeting, #215, #453.24, Jan 2010

Lewis, B. M., 1612 MHz Light Curve of V1511 Cyg, AAS Meeting #215, #417.16, Jan 2010

Margot, J. L. and J. D. Giorgini, Probing general relativity with radar astrometry in the inner solar system, in Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy: Dynamics, Reference Frames, and Data Analysis, Proc. of the Int'l Astronomical Union, IAU Symp., Vol. 261, p. 183-188, Jan 2010

Miller, A., F. A. Jenet, A. Rodriguez-Zermeno, and K. Stovall, The Arecibo Remote Command Center: Students Doing Science, AAS Meeting #215, #467.08, Jan 2010

Miller, R. B., K. Stovall, F. Jenet, and PALFA Consortium, ARCC Angel: Deliverance from the Tedium of Pulsar Candidate Viewing, AAS Meeting #215, #453.08, Jan 2010

Minchin, R. F., E. Momjian, and M. Baes, VLA Continuum Mapping of Four SLUGS Galaxies, AAS Meeting, #215, #454.09, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p. 247, Jan 2010

Nigra, L., B. M. Lewis, C. Edgar, P. Perillat, L. Quintero, S. Stanimirovic, and J. S. Gallagher, III, A Turn-Key Concept for Active Cancellation of Global Positioning System L3 Signal, to appear in Proc. of Science, RFI Mitigation Workshop, 29-31 March 2010, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Nolan, M. C., SBAG NEO Community White Paper Team, Near-Earth Objects Community Consensus White Paper, American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #41, #16.36, Dec 2009

Nolan, M. C., NEO Imaging White Paper Team, Imaging of Near-Earth Objects, American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #41, #16.35, Dec 2009

Nugent, C. R., J. L. Margot, C. T. Russell, M. C. Nolan, C. Magri, and J. D. Giorgini, SHAPE Modeling of (4) Vesta for Dawn Mission Support and SHAPE Inversion Validation, 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conf., held March 1-5, 2010 in The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1533, p. 2637, March 2010

O'Brien, K. S. Chin, S. M. Smith, R. A. Koopmann, and ALFALFA Team, ALFALFA HI Observations of the NGC 5846 Galaxy Group, AAS Meeting #215, #451.04, Jan 2010

O'Malley, E., R. A. Finn, and ALFALFA Team, HI Content of the MKW 10 Group Galaxies, AAS Meeting #215, #451.01, Jan 2010

Pavkovich, A., S. Stanimirovic, and C. Heiles, Thinnest Cold HI Clouds in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium, AAS Meeting #215, #415.19, Jan 2010

Peek, J. G., C. Heiles, K. M. G. Peek, and D. Meyer, The Leo Cloud: Our Local Bubble Laboratory, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #216, #206.01, May 2010

Qasim, D., T. Ghosh, R. Minchin, C. Salter, and P. Thomasson, MERLIN Imaging Of Methanimine Molecule (CH₂NH) In Arp 220, AAS Meeting #215, #412.02, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.246, Jan 2010

Rivera, J., L. Dartez, F. Ceballos, A. Garcia, A. Ford, K. Stovall, C. Wren, F. Jenet, and PALFA Consortium, The Little App that Could, AAS Meeting #215, #453.07, Jan 2010

Rivkin, A. S., J. C. Castillo, N. Abreu, E. I. Asphaug, A. F. Cheng, B. E. Clark, B. A. Cohen, P. G. Conrad, P. O. Hayne, E. S. Howell, plus 18 co-authors, The Case for Ceres: Report to the Planetary Science Decadal Survey Committee, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #P52A-08, Dec 2009

Salter, C. J., Y. Chandola, T. Ghosh, R. Minchin, and D. J. Saikia, Detection of HI Absorption In The Host Galaxy Of Quasar, CTA 21, AAS Meeting #215, #433.12, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p. 371, Jan 2010

Stovall, K., F. A. Jenet, S. Cantu, F. Ceballos, L. Dartez, M. Flores, A. Ford, A. Garcia, K. Kayal, J. Martinez, R. Miller, J. Rivera, K. Srygley, A. Miller, A. Zermeno, X. Siemens, J. Crighton, M. Anholm, J. Clayton, L. Price, M. Blemberg, R. Falk, Z. Fleischmann, A. Wierzbinski, and PALFA Consortium, Pulsar Search Results from the Arecibo Remote Command Center, AAS Meeting #215, #453.05, Jan 2010

Taylor, P. A. and J. L. Margot, Tidal Evolution of Close Binary Asteroid Systems, American Astronomical Society, DDA meeting #41, #2.05; B.A.A.S., Vol. 41, p. 925, May 2010

Zauderer, B. A., E. Momjian, T. Ghosh, and C. Salter, Radio Spectral Line Study of the 2 Jy IRAS-NVSS Sample: Further Results, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #216, #419.03, May 2010

 

Telegrams:

Hicks, M., S. Lowry, and P. Weissman, Long-slit CCD spectroscopy of planetary radar targets 1999 AP10 2000 TO64, and 2000 UJ1, The Astronomer's Telegram, #2283, Nov 2009

Hicks, M., J. Somers, T. Barajas, J. Foster, A. McAuley, and J. Shitanishi, Broad-band Photometry of the Binary Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2003 YT1, The Astronomer's Telegram, #2289, Nov 2009

Hicks, M. and K. Lawrence, Planetary radar targets 1999 AP10, 2000 TO64, 2000 UJ1, and 2000 XK44: Four S-complex near-Earth asteroids, The Astronomer's Telegram, #2323, Dec 2009

 Hicks, M., T. Barajas, J. Somers, J. Shitanishi, and D. Mayes, 217807 (2000 XK44): Broad-band photometry of a slowly rotating near-Earth asteroid, The Astronomer's Telegram, #2371, Jan 2010

Taylor, P. A., M. C. Nolan, E. S. Howell, C. Magri, L. A. M. Benner, M. Brozovic, J. D. Giorgini, M. W. Busch, M. K. Shepard, and J. L. Margot, 2000 CO_101, Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams, 1957, 1 (2009). Edited by Green, D. W. E., Oct 2009

 

 

 

SPACE & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

⚫  Abdu, M. A., I. S. Batista, C. G. M. Brum, J. W. MacDougall, A. M. Santos, J. R. de Souza, and J. H. A. Sobral, Solar Flux Effects on the Equatorial Evening Vertical Drift and Meridional Winds over Brazil: A Comparison Between Observational Data and the IRI Model and the HWM Representations, 2010, Advances in Space Res., in press

▪  Angeles, M. E., J. E. González, N. D. Ramírez-Beltrán, C. A. Tepley, and D. E. Comarazamy, Origins of the Caribbean Rainfall Bimodal Behavior, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 115(D11), June 2010

⚫  Erickson, P. J., L. P. Goncharenko, M. J. Nicolls, M. Ruohoniemi, and M. C. Kelley, Dynamics of North American Sector Ionospheric and Thermospheric Response During the November 2004 Superstorm, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., 72(4), pp. 292-301, March 2010

▪  Fentzke, J. T., D. Janches, I. Strelnikova, and M. Rapp, Meteoric Smoke Particle Properties Derived Using Dual-beam Arecibo UHF Observations of D-Region Spectra During Different Seasons, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., 71(17-18), pp. 1982-1991, Dec 2009

▪  Friedman, J.S., X. Zhang, X. Chu, and J. M. Forbes, Tropical 12-H Tide Longitude Structure, 2009, J. Geophys. Res., in press

▪  Hysell, D. L., E. Nossa, M. F. Larsen, J. Munro, M. P. Sulzer, and S. A. González, Sporadic E Layer Observations Over Arecibo Using Coherent and Incoherent Scatter Radar: Assessing Dynamic Stability in the Lower Thermosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 114(A12), CiteID A12303, Dec 2009

▪  Istomin, Ya. N. and T. B. Leyser, Kinetics of Density Striations Excited by Powerful Electromagnetic Waves in the Ionosphere, Phys. Plasmas, 17, 032903, 2010

▪  Kelley, M. C., R. R. Ilma, M. Nicolls, P. Erickson, L. Goncharenko, J. L. Chau, N. Aponte, and J. U. Kozyra, Spectacular Low- and Mid-Latitude Electrical Fields and Neutral Winds During a Superstorm, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., 72(4), pp. 285-291, March 2010

▪  Kelley, M. C. and W. J. Peria, Interaction of a High-power UHF Beam with the Ionosphere, Radio Science, 45(1), CiteID RS1001, Jan 2010

▪  Komathy, A., B. Wilson, X. Pi, V. Akopian, M. Dumett, B. Iijima, O. Verkhoglyadova, and A. J. Mannucci, JPL/USC GAIM: On the Impact of Using COSMIC and Ground-based GPS Measurements to Estimate Ionospheric Parameters, J. Geophys. Res., 115(A2), CiteID A02307, Feb 2010

⚫ Leonovich, L. A., and A. V. Tashchilin, Variations in Ionospheric Parameters During Solar Flares, Geomagnetism & Aeronomy, 49(7), pp.983-989, Dec 2009

▪  Martinis, C., J. Baumgardner, J. Wroten, and M. Mendillo, Seasonal Dependence of MSTIDs Obtained from 630.0 nm Airglow Imaging at Arecibo, Geophys. Res. Let., 37(11), Cite ID L11103, June 2010

▪  Mathews, J. D., S. J. Briczinski, A. Malhotra, and J. Cross, Extensive Meteoroid Fragmentation in V/UHF Radar Meteor Observations at Arecibo Observatory, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37(4), CiteID L04103, Feb 2010

⚫  Niranjan, K., B. Srivani, and W. S. Naidu, Daytime Descending Intermediate Layers Observed Over a Sub-tropical Indian Station Waltair During Low-solar Activity Period, Annales Geophys., 28(3), pp. 807-815, Mar 2010

▪  Pshirkov, M. S. and A. V. Tuntsov, Observational Constraints on Light Cosmic Strings From Photometry and Pulsar Timing, 2009, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

▪  Ratovsky, K. G., B. G. Shpynev, A. V. Oinats, and A. V. Medvedev, An Analysis of the Topside Ionosphere Parameters Based on the Long-duration Irkutsk Incoherent Scatter Radar Measurements, 2010, Advances in Space Res., in press

⚫  Sethi, N K., R. S. Dabas, P. Bhawre, and S. K. Sarkar, Bottomside Profile Shape Parameters During Low Solar Activity and Comparison with IRI-2007 Model, 2009, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., in press

⚫  Souza, J. R., C. G. M. Brum, M. A. Abdu, I. S. Batista, W. D. Asevedo Jr., G. J. Bailey, and J. A. Bittencourt, Parameterized regional ionospheric model and a comparison of its results with experimental data and IRI representations, 2010, Advances in Space Res., in press

 

Abstracts & Conference Proceedings:

 

Amirrezvani, A. S., C. G. Brum, S. A. Gonzalez, and N. Aponte, Climatology of the topside-protonosphere region over Arecibo Observatory based on Incoherent scatter radar data, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SA11A-1461, Dec 2009

 

Bernhardt, P. A., Recent Advances in Studies of Ionospheric Modification Using Rocket Exhaust (Invited), American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SA12A-01, Dec 2009

 

Bilen, S. G., P. Pribula, A. T. Kummer, A. C. Escobar, J. V. Urbina, P. A. Bernhardt, M. T. Rietveld, M. Kosch, S. A. Gonzalez, and J. M. Rosado-Roman, The OSIRIS CubeSat Mission: A System of Satellites for Investigating the Response of the Stimulated Ionosphere, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SM33C-1589, Dec 2009

 

Brum, C. G., A. Carrion Matta,  S. A. Gonzalez, and N. Aponte, Comparative study of the NmF2 and hmF2 registered by incoherent scatter radar with the AO and IRI models, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SA11A-1460, Dec 2009

 

Datta-Barua, S., G. S. Bust, N. Curtis, A. Reynolds, and G. Crowley, Estimating Density Gradients and Drivers from 3D Ionospheric Imaging, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SA12B-02

 

Fentzke, J. T., M. P. Sulzer, and S. A. Gonzalez, Simulation of ISR Spectrum in the Lower Thermosphere Using Various Collisional Models, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SA23A-1467

 

Friedman, J. S., J. T. Fentzke, R. Delgado, S. Raizada, Q. Zhou, and C. A. Tepley, Observations of sporadic metal atom, ion and electron layers in the MLT above Arecibo, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SA21B-1454, Dec 2009

 

Gonzalez, S. A., C. G. Brum, D. Centeno, C. Padilla, and N. Aponte, Comparison of the Arecibo's Incoherent Scatter Radar data with the IRI model for the weakest solar minimum since 1928, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SA31B-1426, Dec 2009

 

Martinis, C. R., J. L. Baumgardner, J. Wroten, and M. Mendillo, Conjugate Observations of Low and Mid Latitude Ionospheric Processes in the American Sector, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SA33A-1439, Dec 2009

 

Nozette, S., The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mini RF System (Invited), American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #U22A-05, Dec 2009

 

Papadopoulos, K., Ionospheric Current Drive at Low Frequencies (Invited), American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SA11B-01, Dec 2009

 

Plane, J. M., S. L. Broadley, C. L. Whalley, R. W. Saunders, J. Gomez Martin, D. Janches, and L. Dyrud, Differential Meteoric Ablation and its affects in the atmosphere (Invited), American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SA12B-02, Dec 2009

 

Santos, P. M., R. B. Kerr, J. Noto, C. G. Brum, S. A. Gonzalez, M. Migliozzi, and R. Garcia, Simultaneous O+ temperatures derived from OII 7320A line width and incoherent scatter radar at Arecibo, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SA11A-1459, Dec 2009

 

Seker, I., S. F. Fung, and J. D. Mathews, The Relation between Magnetospheric State Parameters and the Occurrence of Night-Time Mid-Latitude Plasma Depletions in the F-Region, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SA23B-1471, Dec 2009

 

Sulzer, M., The new Arecibo HF facility: Design, Construction, and Approaching Scientific Use (Invited), American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SA11B-03, Dec 2009

 

 

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