Hard x-ray and ir observations of cygnus x-3

Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series 120:4 (1996) 235-238

Authors:

SM Matz, RP Fender, SJ Bell Burnell, JE Grove, MS Strickman

Abstract:

In 1994 June-July we obtained nearly concurrent measurements of Cyg X-3 in hard X-rays and the infrared, using the OSSE instrument on GRO and the UKIRT. OSSE made a high significance measurement of the hard X-ray (> 50 keV) orbital light curve. Five days after the end of the OSSE observations we obtained a good IR /f-band light curve from data covering one orbit of Cyg X-3. Measurements of the light curve phase and shape probe the geometry of the system and the physics of radiation production and scattering. We determined for the first time that the light curve phases are consistent at these two different wavelengths. The light curve shapes were both marginally inconsistent (at about the 0.2% level) with the canonical soft X-ray shape measured by EXOSAT in 1983-1985. Underlying variations in DC IR flux and flaring during the observation make it difficult to draw unambiguous conclusions; more observations, with better IR coverage, are needed.

Ratios of bottom meson branching fractions involving Jψ mesons and determination of b quark fragmentation fractions

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 54:11 (1996) 6596-6609

Authors:

F Abe, H Akimoto, A Akopian, MG Albrow, SR Amendolia, D Amidei, J Antos, C Anway-Wiese, S Aota, G Apollinari, T Asakawa, W Ashmanskas, M Atac, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, W Badgett, S Bagdasarov, MW Bailey, J Bao, P de Barbaro, A Barbaro-Galtieri, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, E Barzi, G Bauer, T Baumann, F Bedeschi, S Behrends, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, D Benjamin, J Benlloch, J Bensinger, D Benton, A Beretvas, JP Berge, J Berryhill, S Bertolucci, B Bevensee, A Bhatti, K Biery, M Binkley, D Bisello, RE Blair, C Blocker, A Bodek, W Bokhari, G Bolla, V Bolognesi, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, L Breccia, C Bromberg, N Bruner, E Buckley-Geer, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, A Byon-Wagner, KL Byrum, J Cammerata, C Campagnari, M Campbell, A Caner, W Carithers, D Carlsmith, A Castro, D Cauz, Y Cen, F Cervelli, PS Chang, PT Chang, HY Chao, J Chapman, MT Cheng, G Chiarelli, T Chikamatsu, CN Chiou, L Christofek, S Cihangir, AG Clark, M Cobal, M Contreras, J Conway, J Cooper, M Cordelli, C Couyoumtzelis, D Crane, D Cronin-Hennessy, R Culbertson, JD Cunningham, T Daniels, F DeJongh, S Delchamps, S Dell'Agnello, M Dell'Orso, R Demina, L Demortier, B Denby, M Deninno, PF Derwent, T Devlin, JR Dittmann, S Donati, J Done, T Dorigo, A Dunn, N Eddy, K Einsweiler, JE Elias, R Ely, E Engels, D Errede, S Errede, Q Fan, I Fiori, B Flaugher, GW Foster, M Franklin, M Frautschi, J Freeman, J Friedman, TA Fuess, Y Fukui, S Funaki, G Gagliardi, S Galeotti, M Gallinaro, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, S Geer, DW Gerdes, P Giannetti, N Giokaris, P Giromini, L Gladney, D Glenzinski, M Gold, J Gonzalez, A Gordon, AT Goshaw, K Goulianos, H Grassmann, L Groer, C Grosso-Pilcher, G Guillian, RS Guo, C Haber, E Hafen, SR Hahn, R Hamilton, R Handler, RM Hans, K Hara, AD Hardman, B Harral, RM Harris, SA Hauger, J Hauser, C Hawk, E Hayashi, J Heinrich, KD Hoffman, M Hohlmann, C Holck, R Hollebeek, L Holloway, A Hölscher, S Hong, G Houk, P Hu, BT Huffman, R Hughes, J Huston, J Huth, J Hylen, H Ikeda, M Incagli, J Incandela, G Introzzi, J Iwai, Y Iwata, H Jensen, U Joshi, RW Kadel, E Kajfasz, H Kambara, T Kamon, T Kaneko, K Karr, H Kasha, Y Kato, TA Keaffaber, L Keeble, K Kelley, RD Kennedy, R Kephart, P Kesten, D Kestenbaum, RM Keup, H Keutelian, F Keyvan, B Kharadia, BJ Kim, DH Kim, HS Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, YK Kim, L Kirsch, P Koehn, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, S Kopp, K Kordas, A Korytov, W Koska, E Kovacs, W Kowald, M Krasberg, J Kroll, M Kruse, T Kuwabara, SE Kuhlmann, E Kuns, AT Laasanen, N Labanca, S Lammel, JI Lamoureux, T LeCompte, S Leone, JD Lewis, P Limon, M Lindgren, TM Liss, N Lockyer, O Long, C Loomis, M Loreti, J Lu, D Lucchesi, P Lukens, S Lusin, J Lys, K Maeshima, A Maghakian, P Maksimovic, M Mangano, J Mansour, M Mariotti, JP Marriner, A Martin, JAJ Matthews, R Mattingly, P McIntyre, P Melese, A Menzione, E Meschi, S Metzler, C Miao, T Miao, G Michail, R Miller, H Minato, S Miscetti, M Mishina, H Mitsushio, T Miyamoto, S Miyashita, N Moggi, Y Morita, J Mueller, A Mukherjee, T Muller, P Murat, H Nakada, I Nakano, C Nelson, D Neuberger, C Newman-Holmes, M Ninomiya, L Nodulman, SH Oh, KE Ohl, T Ohmoto, T Ohsugi, R Oishi, M Okabe, T Okusawa, R Oliveira, J Olsen, C Pagliarone, R Paoletti, V Papadimitriou, SP Pappas, S Park, A Parri, J Patrick, G Pauletta, M Paulini, A Perazzo, L Pescara, MD Peters, TJ Phillips, G Piacentino, M Pillai, KT Pitts, R Plunkett, L Pondrom, J Proudfoot, F Ptohos, G Punzi, K Ragan, A Ribon, F Rimondi, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, J Romano, L Rosenson, R Roser, WK Sakumoto, D Saltzberg, A Sansoni, L Santi, H Sato, V Scarpine, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, A Scribano, S Segler, S Seidel, Y Seiya, G Sganos, MD Shapiro, NM Shaw, Q Shen, PF Shepard, M Shimojima, M Shochet, J Siegrist, A Sill, P Sinervo, P Singh, J Skarha, K Sliwa, FD Snider, T Song, J Spalding, T Speer, P Sphicas, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, L Spiegel, L Stanco, J Steele, A Stefanini, K Strahl, J Strait, R Ströhmer, D Stuart, G Sullivan, A Soumarokov, K Sumorok, J Suzuki, T Takada, T Takahashi, T Takano, K Takikawa, N Tamura, F Tartarelli, W Taylor, PK Teng, Y Teramoto, S Tether, D Theriot, TL Thomas, R Thun, M Timko, P Tipton, A Titov, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, A Tollestrup, J Tonnison, JF de Troconiz, S Truitt, J Tseng, N Turini, T Uchida, N Uemura, F Ukegawa, G Unal, J Valls, SC van den Brink, S Vejcik, G Velev, R Vidal, M Vondracek, D Vucinic, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, J Wahl, C Wang, CH Wang, G Wang, J Wang, MJ Wang, QF Wang, A Warburton, T Watts, R Webb, C Wei, C Wendt, H Wenzel, WC Wester, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, R Wilkinson, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, D Wolinski, J Wolinski, X Wu, J Wyss, A Yagil, W Yao, K Yasuoka, Y Ye, GP Yeh, P Yeh, M Yin, J Yoh, C Yosef, T Yoshida, D Yovanovitch, I Yu, L Yu, JC Yun, A Zanetti, F Zetti, L Zhang, W Zhang, S Zucchelli

Low noise electronics for the CLEO III silicon detector

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment Elsevier 383:1 (1996) 189-192

Authors:

H Kagan, J Alexander, A Bean, C Bebek, G Brandenburg, C Darling, J Duboscq, J Fast, A Foland, KK Gan, P Hopman, R Kass, P Kim, N Menon, D Miller, B Nemati, J Oliver, C Rush, I Shipsey, P Skubic, MB Spencer, C Uhl, C Ward, R Wilson, M Yurko, MM Zoeller

Quenched Radio Emission in Cygnus X-3

The Astronomical Journal American Astronomical Society 112 (1996) 2690

Authors:

EB Waltman, RS Foster, GG Pooley, RP Fender, FD Ghigo

A Search for Nonresonant B+→h+h-h+ Decays

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 77:22 (1996) 4503-4507

Authors:

T Bergfeld, BI Eisenstein, J Ernst, GE Gladding, GD Gollin, E Johnson, I Karliner, M Palmer, M Selen, JJ Thaler, KW Edwards, A Bellerive, DI Britton, R Janicek, DB MacFarlane, KW McLean, PM Patel, AJ Sadoff, R Ammar, P Baringer, A Bean, D Besson, D Coppage, C Darling, R Davis, N Hancock, S Kotov, I Kravchenko, N Kwak, S Anderson, Y Kubota, M Lattery, JJ O'Neill, S Patton, R Poling, T Riehle, A Smith, V Savinov, MS Alam, SB Athar, Z Ling, AH Mahmood, H Severini, S Timm, F Wappler, A Anastassov, S Blinov, JE Duboscq, R Fulton, D Fujino, KK Gan, T Hart, K Honscheid, H Kagan, R Kass, J Lee, M Sung, A Undrus, R Wanke, A Wolf, MM Zoeller, B Nemati, SJ Richichi, WR Ross, P Skubic, M Wood, M Bishai, J Fast, E Gerndt, JW Hinson, DH Miller, EI Shibata, IPJ Shipsey, M Yurko, L Gibbons, SD Johnson, Y Kwon, S Roberts, EH Thorndike, CP Jessop, K Lingel, H Marsiske, ML Perl, SF Schaffner, D Ugolini, R Wang, X Zhou, TE Coan, V Fadeyev, I Korolkov, Y Maravin, I Narsky, V Shelkov, R Stroynowski, J Staeck, I Volobouev, J Ye, M Artuso, A Efimov, M Gao, M Goldberg, R Greene, F Frasconi, D He, S Kopp, GC Moneti, R Mountain, Y Mukhin, S Schuh, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, X Xing, J Bartelt, SE Csorna, V Jain, S Marka, A Freyberger, R Godang, D Gibaut, K Kinoshita, IC Lai, P Pomianowski, S Schrenk, G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, L Perera, B Barish, M Chadha, S Chan, G Eigen, JS Miller, C O'Grady, M Schmidtler, J Urheim, AJ Weinstein, F Würthwein, DM Asner, DW Bliss, WS Brower, G Masek, HP Paar, J Gronberg, CM Korte, DJ Lange, R Kutschke, S Menary, RJ Morrison, S Nakanishi, HN Nelson, TK Nelson, C Qiao, JD Richman, D Roberts, A Ryd, H Tajima, MS Witherell, R Balest, BH Behrens, K Cho, WT Ford, H Park, P Rankin, J Roy, JG Smith, JP Alexander, C Bebek, BE Berger, K Berkelman, K Bloom, DG Cassel, HA Cho, DM Coffman, DS Crowcroft, M Dickson, PS Drell, R Ehrlich, R Elia, AD Foland, P Gaidarev, B Gittelman, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, PI Hopman, SL Jones, J Kandaswamy, N Katayama, PC Kim, DL Kreinick, T Lee, Y Liu, GS Ludwig, J Masui, J Mevissen, NB Mistry, CR Ng, E Nordberg, M Ogg, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Soffer, C Ward, P Avery, M Athanas, CD Jones, M Lohner, C Prescott, S Yang, J Yelton, J Zheng, G Brandenburg, RA Briere, DY-J Kim, T Liu, M Saulnier, R Wilson, H Yamamoto, TE Browder, F Li, Y Li, JL Rodriguez