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The star-forming region W75N hosts bright OH masers that are observed to be variable. We present observations taken in 2008 of the ground-state OH maser transitions with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Multi-Element Radio-Linked…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Vincent L. Fish , Malcolm Gray , W. M. Goss , A. M. S. Richards

We present observations of a sample of Herbig AeBe stars, as well as the FU Orionis object V1057 Cygni. Our K-band (2.2 microns) observations from the Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI) used baselines of 110m and 85m, resulting in fringe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. P. Wilkin , R. L. Akeson

We present the second catalog of flaring gamma-ray sources (2FAV) detected with the Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA), a tool that blindly searches for transients over the entire sky observed by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 S. Abdollahi , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Albert , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra Gonzalez , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , J. Bregeon , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , R. A. Cameron , M. Caragiulo , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , A. Chekhtman , C. C. Cheung , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , J. Conrad , D. Costantin , F. Costanza , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , F. de Palma , A. Desai , R. Desiante , S. W. Digel , N. Di Lalla , M. Di Mauro , L. Di Venere , B. Donaggio , P. S. Drell , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , E. C. Ferrara , W. B. Focke , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , M. Giomi , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , J. E. Grove , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , E. Hays , D. Horan , T. Jogler , G. Jóhannesson , A. S. Johnson , D. Kocevski , M. Kuss , G. La Mura , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , J. Li , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , J. D. Magill , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , M. Mayer , M. N. Mazziotta , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , V. S. Paliya , D. Paneque , J. S. Perkins , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , F. Piron , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , C. Sgrò , D. Simone , E. J. Siskind , F. Spada , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , L. Stawarz , D. J. Suson , M. Takahashi , K. Tanaka , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , D. F. Torres , E. Torresi , G. Tosti , E. Troja , G. Vianello , K. S. Wood

Spectroscopic observations are a crucial step in driving major discoveries in the era of time-domain surveys. However, the pace of current spectroscopic surveys is increasingly unable to meet the demands of rapidly advancing large-scale…

The COBE Far InfraRed Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS) observations constitute an unbiased survey over the wavelength range from 100 um to 1 cm over 99% of the sky. Improved calibration of the FIRAS instrument and the inclusion of all of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. J. Fixsen , C. L. Bennett , J. C. Mather

Context: Maser emission from the H2O molecule probes the warm, inner circumstellar envelopes of oxygen-rich red giant and supergiant stars. Multi-maser transition studies can be used to put constraints on the density and temperature of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. M. Menten , A. Lundgren , A. Belloche , S. Thorwirth , M. J. Reid

In this paper, we present the distribution of $H_2O$ masers associated with the semi-regular variable star W Hydrae (W Hya). We have collected the radio interferometric data of the maser distribution taken with the Very Large Array (VLA),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Hiroshi Imai , Akiharu Nakagawa , Hiroshi Takaba

22 GHz water and 6.7 GHz methanol masers are usually thought as signposts of early stages of high-mass star formation but little is known about their associations and the physical environments they occur in. The aim was to obtain accurate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Bartkiewicz , M. Szymczak , Y. M. Pihlström , H. J. van Langevelde , A. Brunthaler , M. J. Reid

We analyze Ly-alpha fluoresced H2 lines observed in the UV spectrum of Mira B. We identify 13 different sequences fluoresced by 13 different H2 transitions within the Ly-alpha line. The observed H2 line ratios within these sequences imply…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Brian E. Wood , Margarita Karovska , John C. Raymond

The IRAS source, 19312+1950, exhibits SiO maser emission, which is predominantly detected in evolved stars enshrouded by a cold molecular envelope. In fact, the mojority of the observational properties of IRAS 19312+1950 is consistent with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jun-ichi Nakashima , Shuji Deguchi , Hiroshi Imai , Athol Kemball , B. M. Lewis

On January 10 and 13, 2001, Venus was observed for the first time with an X-ray astronomy satellite. The observation, performed with the ACIS-I and LETG/ACIS-S instruments on Chandra, yielded data of high spatial, spectral, and temporal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Dennerl , V. Burwitz , J. Englhauser , C. Lisse , S. Wolk

We present the first multi-frequency VLBA study of the quasar 0850+581 which appears to have a two-sided relativistic jet.Apparent velocity in the approaching jet changes from 3.4c to 7c with the separation from the core. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-18 E. V. Kravchenko , Y. Y. Kovalev

The GRAVITY instrument has been commissioned on the VLTI during 2016 and is now available to the astronomical community. It is the first optical interferometer capable of observing sources as faint as magnitude 19 in K-band. This is…

We report on a water maser survey towards a sample of 27 planetary nebulae (PNe) using the Robledo de Chavela and Medicina single-dish antennas, as well as the Very Large Array (VLA). Two detections have been obtained: the already known…

The East Asia VLBI Network (EAVN) has recently enabled dual-polarization observations at $22$ and $43\,\mathrm{GHz}$. We present the first systematic verification of its polarimetric performance using EAVN observations of M87, 3C 279, 3C…

We study the fringe visibility and the distinguishability of a general Mach-Zehnder interferometer with an asymmetric beam splitter. Both the fringe visibility V and the distinguishability D are affected by the input state of the particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Yanjun Liu , Jing Lu , Zhihui Peng , Lan Zhou , Dongning Zheng

We report dual-frequency very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations at 22 and 43 GHz toward the nucleus of a nearby radio galaxy NGC 4261. In particular, we present a VLBI image of the 22 GHz H2O maser line and its location in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Satoko Sawada-Satoh , Nozomu Kawakatu , Kotaro Niinuma , Seiji Kameno

We present a baseline sensitivity analysis of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) and its build-out stages to one-point statistics (variance, skewness, and kurtosis) of redshifted 21 cm intensity fluctuation from the Epoch of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-26 Piyanat Kittiwisit , Judd D. Bowman , Daniel C. Jacobs , Adam P. Beardsley , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan

Sub-arcsecond observations using the Very Large Array (VLA) are presented for low-luminosity water maser in M82, M51, and NGC4051. New maser features have been detected within the M82 starburst complex. They are largely associated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yoshiaki Hagiwara

Measurement of interferometric parameters values is affected by phase disturbance due especially to atmospheric turbulences. Algorithms of fringe sensing, aimed at fringe parameters identification, are based on interferometric models that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-27 Bonino Donata