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Discovered at the VATT Discovered at the VATT The Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT) has produced a number of important scientific results over its 25 The Andromeda year history. Some of its most important programs may well Galaxy (image from Wikipedia) is too those be going on right now, whose true significance will large to fit into the only be revealed in hindsight! But even limiting our look VATT field of view. to research projects that are now essentially completed, there But concentrating have already been a number of significant findings coming on small areas of this galaxy, from the VATT. detailed images from the VATT (bottom images from Tomaney and How do you judge what is significant? One way is to see Crotts) could be compared to find what scientific papers have been written based on VATT momentary bursts results, and how often those papers have been cited by of light. subsequent work that relies on VATT discoveries. You can The top images track this at a NASA website called the Astrophysics Data show the raw data at two different System which records every scientific paper published in times; the bottom major journals in the field of astrophysics, and how often images subtract the average of they have been cited. Here are some of the areas of research that region from where, according to this NASA site, the VATT has made a each image above. The bright big impact: spot on the right is a momentary gravitational lens event. MACHOs: A mysterious source of gravitational attraction, dubbed “Dark Matter,” was first hinted at in the 1930s in studies of the motions of distant galaxies. By the 1980s, Dark exactly opposite to them from us. Two astronomers from Matter’s existence was not only well established, but a Columbia University, Austin Tomaney and Arlin Crotts, number or arguments showed that it was a completely assisted by Specola astronomers Fr. Chris Corbally and unexpected type of material, different from ordinary Fr. Richard Boyle, surveyed the nearby Andromeda atoms. Two candidate materials were proposed, with the Galaxy to look for these flashes of light. Their results, whimsical acronyms of MACHOs (Massive Compact published in the Astronomical Journal in 1996, showed Halo Objects) and WIMPs (Weakly Interacting conclusively that while such microlensing events were Massive Particles). The great thing about these proposals indeed observed, they were far too few to account for the was that they could be tested. And in one of its very first Dark Matter known to exist in the Andromeda Galaxy. programs, the VATT was instrumental in testing, and This work has been cited more than 160 times since its eliminating, the MACHO hypothesis. publication. If there were indeed many “MACHOs”, massive but compact objects orbiting in the halos around a The Evolution of Galaxies: galaxy, would we be able to see them? Not directly; by In the mid 1990s, the world of astronomy was astounded definition, they would be dark and compact. But their by the “Hubble Deep Field” image, made when the Hubble gravity should cause a number of “microlensing” events, Space Telescope was directed to image a seemingly “empty” momentarily focusing the light of any star lined up piece of space. By exposing its camera for many days, a remarkable number were they all the same, or did they come in different of faint, very distant, and thus very old, galaxies came to populations? Because they are so small and distant, light. Yet, ironically, a full analysis of this image required the only data we have are their orbits and their average another bit of science that no one had done yet: a similar set colors. Beginning in the late 1990s, Steve Tegler at of images, at a similar resolution, of galaxies much closer to Northern Arizona University and Bill Romanishin from us in space and time. Only then could one see just what was the University of Oklahoma collaborated with Br. Guy the same, and what had changed, in galaxy morphology over Consolmagno on a 15 year program of observations to the age of the universe. measure KBO colors using the VATT. These objects are faint (a million times fainter than the faintest star visible to the naked eye) and appear to move in the sky quickly enough that you cannot image them for more than five minutes before their images start to blur. The VATT and its CCD camera were the ideal system; with its sharp seeing it could concentrate the faint light onto a few pixels, while its field of view was sufficient to ensure that suitable comparison stars would be imaged alongside the object. The result of a key 2000 paper published inNature (with more than 130 citations) is that these objects come in two distinct color groups. Some of these objects were found to have the reddest optical colors in the solar The 11HUGS survey of system, while the others are gray: their surfaces reflect galaxies imaged galaxies of all types located within sunlight without absorbing any particular color. Follow 11 megaparsecs of Earth to up work at the VATT showed how these colors were compare their characteristics to far distant galaxies like connected to the nature of their orbits. All of the objects these, to the left, from the that have near-circular orbits larger than Pluto’s orbit Hubble Space Telescope Deep Field. have extremely red surfaces; but of those objects whose orbits have been perturbed in inclination or eccentricity, about half are gray. In order to create this comparison set of images, the VATT was employed in several surveys of the colors and morphologies of local galaxies. Robert Kennicutt of the Carnegie Institute set up the “11HUGS” (11 Megaparsecs H-alpha Ultraviolet Galactic Survey) team, which included Fr. José Funes, to make these observations. A 2009 overview paper of their work by Janice Lee and collaborators (including Fr. Funes) citing VATT data has been referenced more than 350 times. Meanwhile, companion work by Violet Taylor, a student of Rogier Windhorst at Arizona State University, and collaborators has been cited more than 75 times. Kuiper Belt Object Colors: Kuiper-belt objects (KBOs) are an ancient reservoir of comets beyond Neptune’s orbit. First discovered in the The centaur 5145 Pholus orbits from Saturn out to beyond Neptune; it was one of hundreds of trans-Neptunian objects surveyed in three colors.This mid 1990s, the most basic question about these faint is a composite of images taken with red, green, and blue filters: notice the and distant objects was to characterize what was there: colored dots marking its passage in front of a distant galaxy. per cubic centimeter, much less than the density of the basaltic meteorite fragments. This indicates that at least one, if not both, of the binary components has a highly fractured internal structure. This finding has important implications for understanding how fragments may have been broken off from their original parent body and re- accumulated into a binary system. Other highly cited papers: There are many other widely cited papers based on observations made at the VATT. Among the most cited works Among the solar system objects discovered and tracked at the (citation counts as of January 2020): VATT was a pair of asteroids in orbit about each other whose colors and orbits conned them with the important asteroid 4 Vesta, shown here in a NASA image from the Dawn Spacecraft. G. Hallinan and collaborators, including Fr. Boyle, “Periodic Bursts of Coherent Radio Emission from an Ultracool Dwarf ”, in The Astrophysical Journal, 2007 (135 Extending the Inventory of the citations) Solar System: E. M. Corsini and collaborators, including Fr. Funes, Fr. Richard Boyle and his colleagues have been using “Dark matter in early-type spiral galaxies: the case the VATT for more than twenty years in their survey of of NGC 2179 and of NGC 2775”, in Astronomy and open star clusters. This work is ongoing, and its ultimate Astrophysics, 1999 (76 citations). significance is still developing. But in the meanwhile, with all that time at the telescope, they have had the Liese van Zee and collaborators, “Stellar Populations opportunity to go “fishing” for discoveries closer to of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies: UBVRI Photometry of home. Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster”, in The Astronomical Journal, 2004 (75 citations) Since 2009 Fr. Richard Boyle and collaborators K. Cernis and V. Laugalys at the Vilnius Observatory in E. Flaccomio and collaborators, “BVRI photometry of Lithuania have been doing astrometry on asteroids the star-forming region NGC 2264: the initial mass and trans-Neptunian objects. As a result of their function and star-forming rate”, in Astronomy and observations, over a hundred new asteroids and KBOs Astrophysics, 1999 (61 citations) have been discovered at the VATT. One in particular is large enough to be nearly dwarf-planet sized. Following Krzysztof Stanek and collaborators, “Rapid UBVRI IAU conventions that such objects are named for deities Follow-up of the Highly Collimated Optical Afterglow related to creation, they have named it Praamzius for the of GRB 010222”, in The Astrophysical Journal, 2001 (51 goddess of creation in Lithuanian mythology. citations) Meanwhile, in 2001-2003, Bill and Elizabeth Ryan from New Mexico Tech and their collaborator C. T. Martinez K. G. Strassmeier and collaborators, including Fr. Gabor, from the University of New Mexico used the VATT to “PEPSI: The high-resolution échelle spectrograph and observe asteroid 3782 Celle, which has been associated polarimeter for the Large Binocular Telescope”, in both dynamically and spectroscopically with the Vesta Astronomische Nachrichten, 2015 (45 citations) asteroid family — the likely source of the basaltic achondrite meteorite family. Anne J. Verbiscer and collaborators, “Near-infrared spectra of the leading and trailing hemispheres of During the 2002-2003 run, dips in the brightness of Enceladus”, in Icarus, 2006 (43 citations).
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