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Fast infrared variability from a relativistic jet in GX 339-4

\mnras 404 (2010) L21-L25-L21-L25

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P Casella, TJ Maccarone, K O Brien, RP Fender, DM Russell, M van der Klis, A Pe Er, D Maitra, D Altamirano, T Belloni, G Kanbach, M Klein-Wolt, E Mason, P Soleri, A Stefanescu, K Wiersema, R Wijnands
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Formation of slowly rotating early-type galaxies via major mergers: a Resolution Study

(2010)

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M Bois, F Bournaud, E Emsellem, K Alatalo, L Blitz, M Bureau, M Cappellari, RL Davies, TA Davis, PT de Zeeuw, P-A Duc, S Khochfar, D Krajnovic, H Kuntschner, P-Y Lablanche, RM McDermid, R Morganti, T Naab, T Oosterloo, M Sarzi, N Scott, P Serra, A Weijmans, LM Young
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Investigating the disc-jet coupling in accreting compact objects using the black hole candidate Swift J1753.5-0127

(2010)

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P Soleri, RP Fender, V Tudose, D Maitra, M Bell, M Linares, D Altamirano, R Wijnands, T Belloni, P Casella, JCA Miller-Jones, T Muxlow, M Klein-Wolt, M Garrett, M van der Klis
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No evidence for black hole spin powering of jets in X-ray binaries

(2010)

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Rob Fender, Elena Gallo, David Russell
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Type II-P supernovae as standardized candles: Improvements using near-infrared data

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters 403:1 (2010) L11-L15

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K Maguire, R Kotak, SJ Smartt, A Pastorello, M Hamuy, F Bufano

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We present the first near-infrared Hubble diagram for Type II-P supernovae (SNe), to further explore their value as distance indicators. We use a modified version of the standardized candle method, which relies on the tight correlation between the absolute magnitudes of Type II-P SNe and their expansion velocities during the plateau phase. Although our sample contains only 12 II-P SNe and they are necessarily local (z < 0.02), we demonstrate using near-infrared JHK photometry that it may be possible to reduce the scatter in the Hubble diagram to 0.1-0.15 mag. While this is potentially similar to the dispersion seen for Type Ia SNe, we caution that this needs to be confirmed with a larger sample of II-P SNe in the Hubble flow. © 2010 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2010 RAS.
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