Spiral galaxies in the SAURON survey
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 3:S245 (2007) 271-276
Abstract:
We discuss some recent integral field spectroscopy using the SAURON instrument of a sample consisting of 24 early-type spirals, part of the SAURON Survey, and 18 late-type spirals. Using 2-dimensional maps of their stellar radial velocity, velocity dispersion, and absorption line strength, it is now much easier to understand the nature of nearby galactic bulges. We discuss a few highlights of this work, and point out some new ideas about the formation of galactic bulges. © 2008 Copyright International Astronomical Union 2008.Study of exclusive charmless semileptonic B decays and extraction of |Vub| at CLEO
Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 76:1 (2007) 012007
Supermassive black holes from OASIS and SAURON integral-field kinematics
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 3:S245 (2007) 215-218
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Supermassive black holes are a key element in our understanding of how galaxies form. Most of the progress in this very active field of research is based on just ~30 determination of black hole masses, accumulated over the past decade. We illustrate how integral-field spectroscopy, and in particular our OASIS modeling effort can help improve the current situation. © 2008 Copyright International Astronomical Union 2008.Measurement of the top-quark mass using missing ET+jets events with secondary vertex b-tagging at CDF II
Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology 75:11 (2007)
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We present a measurement of the top-quark mass in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV which uses events with an inclusive signature of missing transverse energy and jets. The event selection is sensitive to tt̄→W+bW- b̄→lνbqq′b̄ independent of the lepton flavor and results in a large acceptance for W→τν decays. All-hadronic tt̄ decays and events with identified electrons or muons are vetoed to provide a statistically independent sample with respect to all previous measurements. The top-quark mass is inferred from the distribution of the scalar sum of all jet transverse energies and the missing transverse energy. Using 311pb-1 of integrated luminosity recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab, we measure a top-quark mass mt=172.3-9.6+10.8(stat)±10.8(syst)GeV/c2. While the uncertainty on mt is larger than that of other measurements, the result is statistically uncorrelated with those of other methods and thus can help to reduce the overall mt uncertainty when combined with other existing measurements. © 2007 The American Physical Society.The spectral energy distribution of quiescent black hole X-ray binaries: new constraints from Spitzer
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