The Nature of the Progenitor of the Type II-P Supernova 1999em**Based on observations at the William Herschel Telescope on La Palma and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope.

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 565:2 (2002) 1089-1100

Authors:

Stephen J Smartt, Gerard F Gilmore, Christopher A Tout, Simon T Hodgkin

The SAURON project — II. Sample and early results

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 329:3 (2002) 513-530

Authors:

P Tim de Zeeuw, M Bureau, Eric Emsellem, R Bacon, C Marcella Carollo, Y Copin, Roger L Davies, Harald Kuntschner, Bryan W Miller, G Monnet, Reynier F Peletier, EK Verolme

A SAURON study of M32: measuring the intrinsic flattening and the central black hole mass

(2002)

Authors:

EK Verolme, M Cappellari, Y Copin, RP van der Marel, R Bacon, M Bureau, RL Davies, BM Miller, PT de Zeeuw

The Hard Truth about Some "Soft" X-ray Transients

(2002)

Authors:

RM Bandyopadhyay, C Brocksopp, RP Fender

Abstract:

We have accumulated multiwavelength lightcurves for eight black hole X-ray binaries which have been observed to enter a supposed ``soft X-ray transient'' outburst, but which in fact remained in the low/hard state throughout the outburst. Comparison of the lightcurve morphologies, spectral behaviour, properties of the QPOs and the radio jet provides the first study of such objects as a subclass of X-ray transients (XRTs). However, rather than assuming that these hard state XRTs are different from ``canonical'' soft XRTs, we prefer to consider the possibility that a new analysis of both soft and hard state XRTs in a spectral context will provide a model capable of explaining the outburst mechanisms for the majority of black hole X-ray binaries.

A SAURON study of M32: measuring the intrinsic flattening and the central black hole mass

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 335:3 (2002) 517-525

Authors:

EK Verolme, M Cappellari, Y Copin, RP van der Marel, R Bacon, M Bureau, RL Davies, BM Miller, PT de Zeeuw