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Detection Rate Estimates of Gravity-waves Emitted During Parabolic Encounters of Stellar Black Holes in Globular Clusters

(2006)

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Bence Kocsis, Merse E Gaspar, Szabolcs Marka
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A photometric redshift of z = 6.39 ± 0.12 for GRB 050904

Nature 440:7081 (2006) 181-183

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JB Haislip, MC Nysewander, DE Reichart, A Levan, N Tanvir, SB Cenko, DB Fox, PA Price, AJ Castro-Tirado, J Gorosabel, CR Evans, E Figueredo, CL MacLeod, JR Kirschbrown, M Jelinek, S Guziy, A De Ugarte Postigo, ES Cypriano, A LaCluyze, J Graham, R Priddey, R Chapman, J Rhoads, AS Fruchter, DQ Lamb, C Kouveliotou, RAMJ Wijers, MB Bayliss, BP Schmidt, AM Soderberg, SR Kulkarni, FA Harrison, DS Moon, A Gal-Yam, MM Kasliwal, R Hudec, S Vitek, P Kubanek, JA Crain, AC Foster, JC Clemens, JW Bartelme, R Canterna, DH Hartmann, AA Henden, S Klose, HS Park, GG Williams, E Rol, P O'Brien, D Bersier, F Prada, S Pizarro, D Maturana, P Ugarte, A Alvarez, AJM Fernandez, MJ Jarvis, M Moles, E Alfaro, KM Ivarsen, ND Kumar, CE Mack, CM Zdarowicz, N Gehrels, S Barthelmy, DN Burrows

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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their afterglows are the most brilliant transient events in the Universe. Both the bursts themselves and their afterglows have been predicted to be visible out to redshifts of z ≈ 20, and therefore to be powerful probes of the early Universe1,2. The burst GRB 000131, at z = 4.50, was hitherto the most distant such event identified3. Here we report the discovery of the bright near-infrared afterglow of GRB 050904 (ref. 4). From our measurements of the near-infrared afterglow, and our failure to detect the optical afterglow, we determine the photometric redshift of the burst to be z = 6.39-0.12+0.11 (refs 5-7). Subsequently, it was measured8 spectroscopically to be z = 6.29 ± 0.01, in agreement with our photometric estimate. These results demonstrate that GRBs can be used to trace the star formation, metallicity, and reionization histories of the early Universe. © 2006 Nature Publishing Group.
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Mid-Infrared Identifications of SCUBA Galaxies in the CUDSS 14-Hour Field with the Spitzer Space Telescope

(2006)

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MLN Ashby, S Dye, J-S Huang, S Eales, SP Willner, TMA Webb, D Rigopoulou, E Egami, H McCracken, S Lilly, S Miyazaki, M Brodwin, M Blaylock, J Cadien, GG Fazio
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The SAURON project - VII. Integral-field absorption and emission-line kinematics of 24 spiral galaxy bulges

(2006)

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J Falcón-Barroso, R Bacon, M Bureau, M Cappellari, RL Davies, PT de Zeeuw, E Emsellem, K Fathi, D Krajnovic, H Kuntschner, RM McDermid, RF Peletier, M Sarzi
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Galaxies Under the Cosmic Microscope: Resolved Spectroscopy and New Constraints on the z=1 Tully-Fisher relation

(2006)

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M Swinbank, R Bower, GP Smith, Ian Smail, J-P Kneib, R Ellis, D Stark, A Bunker
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