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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19876-9 - Deep-Sky Companions: The Secret Deep Stephen James O’Meara Index More information Index 3C 48, 253, 254 Barnard, Edward Emerson, Cat Scratch Galaxy see NGC 5907 3C 273 (Secret Deep 9), 253–255 117–118, 119, 306, 346–347, CEab Cassiopeiae, 461, 462 9 “Stitchpunks” (Stock 2), 39–41 357, 375, 409 Cederblad, Sven, 437 47 Tucanae, 331 Barnard’s Loop (Sh2-276), 116, Celestial Handbook, Burnham’s, 27 120–121, 410 Cepheids, 461 A Descent into the Maelstrom, 170 Barth, Aaron J., 193 Ceres, 263 A Photographic Atlas of Selected Basel 3, 456 CF Cassiopeiae, 461, 462 Regions of the Milky Way, 409 Bauval, Robert, 105 Chandra X-Ray Observatory Abell, George O., 361 BD þ651637, 437 (spacecraft), 177, 192, 255, Abramenkov E. A., 116 BD þ651638, 437 263, 307, 308 ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury Bedke, J., 268 Cheeseburger Nebula see Secret (ANGST) program, 176 Bekmambetov, Timur, 41 Deep 101 active galactic nucleus (AGN), 171, Bellazzini, Michele, 139, 227 Chen, W. P., 129 192–193, 215, 219, 220, 223, Bennett, Jack, 331 Cepheus Bubble, 437, 441 231, 241 Bigourdan, Camille Guillaume, Cepheus OB2 association, 437, ADS 5817, 149, 150 360–361, 435–436 441, 443 Albuquerque Astronomical black holes, 220–221, 240, 241, 258, Cheshire Cat asterism, 99 Society, 136 259, 392–394 Chies-Santos, A. L., 293 Alcala´, Juan, 89 Blue Flash Nebula see NGC 6905 Christensen, Tommy, 388, 389–390 Alessi J20046–1030, 397 Bode, Johann, 134 Chu, Y.-H., 365, 366 Alessi J20053þ4732 see O’Meara 3 Bohigas, J., 302 Clymer, William F., 124 Alessi J23407þ0757, 397 Bolton, Charles Thomas, 393 Coccato, Lodovico, 241 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Bonato, C., 101 Coe, Steve, 96 99, 457 Bond, George Phillips, 282 Cohen, Martin, 81, 143, 144 Allen, Richard Hinkley, 181 Bond, Howard, 112 Collinder, 104–109 Aller, Lawrence H., 327, 426 Borissova, Jura, 317, 318 Collinder 70 (Secret Deep 24), Alpha Persei Moving Cluster, 52, 69 Boulade, Olivier, 283 104–109, 130 Anandaro, B. G., 75–76 Bowyer, S., 392 Collinder 121, 130 Anderson, M. F., 94 Boyd, Lyle Gifford, 124 Collinder, 463 (Secret Deep 5), Andreuzzi, Gloria, 421 Box Nebula see NGC 6309 35–37 Andrievsky, Sergey M., 357 Brain Nebula see NGC 7538 Collinder 465, 147 Antares, 308 Bratton, Mark, 436 Collinder 466, 147 Apollonius, 154 Bright Spiral Galaxy Survey, Collinder, Per Arne, 36, 106, 361 Arbour, Ron, 184 206, 231 Collins, Peter, 111, 312 Archinal, Brent A., 7, 40, 360, 397 Bril, Henk, 209–210 Coma Berenices Cluster, 61 Arentoft, T., 94 Broken Heart see NGC 2281 comets Arias, Lorena, 153 Bruce Lee Cluster see NGC 7160 9P/Tempel Arion, Douglas N., 162 Burke, Christopher J., 53 17P/Holmes, 60–61 Arp, Halton, 192, 239, 357 Burnham, Sherbourne Wesley, 55P/Tempel–Tuttle Aryal, Binil, 76 425–426 C/1969 Y1 (Comet Bennett), 331 Asselin, Louis, 21 Burnham’s Nebula see NGC 7026 of 1746 (De Cheseaux’s), 61 asymptotic giant branch (AGB) Burton, Tim, 41 of 1758, 61 Stars, 76, 112, 162, 327, Buta, Ron, 265 Copeland, Leland, 239 342, 401, 426 Copeland, Ralph, 400–401 Atlas Ce´leste (Fortin’s), 210 Cacace, Ben, 99 Copeland’s Septet, 400 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, 192, 239 Caged Spirit Nebula see NGC 6905 Copernicus (journal), 400 Atlas of the Heavens, 191 California Nebula, 118, 119 core-collapse clusters, 337 Aveni, Anthony, 105 Canis Major dwarf, 139–140, 141 Corradi, Romano L. M., 186–187, Canis Major OB1 association, 303 Baade, Walter, 226, 336, 337 148–149 Corwin, Hal, 108, 248–249, 263, 347, Baade Window, 336 Canis Major R1 association, 148 360–361, 375–376, 436–437 Bailey, Solon Irving, 124, 317 Cannistra, Steve, 99 Cosmic Bat see NGC 1788 Balaguer-Nu´n˜ez, L., 94 Cappa, C. E., 157 Cosmic Butterflies, 431 Balick, Bruce, 404 Capuchin, De Rhieta, 184 Cosmic Rosebud see NGC 7129 Bally, John, 130 Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies, 202, 268 Cox, P., 342 Barbon, Roberto, 456 Carney, Bruce W., 322–323 Crawford, Earl of, 400 Barbuy, Beatriz, 337 Carroll, Lewis, 457 Crimson Butterfly see NGC 2346 Barkhatova, Klavdiia Carswell, Robert F., 313 Crystal Ball (NGC 1514), 74–77 Aleksandrovna, 389 Cassiopeia OB2 association, Cuesta, Luis, 415 Barnard 139, 375 455, 456 Cuffey, James, 84, 85 Index 477 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19876-9 - Deep-Sky Companions: The Secret Deep Stephen James O’Meara Index More information Curtis, Heber Doust, 161, 302, 317, Eta Carinae, 198 Gondoin, Philippe, 192 327, 365, 431, 450 European Southern Observatory, 89 Goodriche, John, 451 Cygnus OB2 association, 409 EV Scuti, 357, 358 Goudfrooij, Paul, 293 Cygnus OB3 association, 394 Evans, Inese I., 227 Gould, Andrew, 65 Cygnus OB9 association, 409 Evans, Aneurin (Nye), 332 Gowney, Kim, 406 Cygnus Rift, 442 Evans, Robert, 45, 184 Gramer, Lew, 329 Cygnus Star Cloud, 409 event horizon, 393 Great Nebula in Auriga, 100 Cygnus Superbubble, 409 Ewing, Anne, 393 Grebel, Eva K., 287, 288 Cygnus X-1 (Secret Deep 93), Exclamation Mark see NGC 6309 Greenstein, Jesse, 254 392–394 extragalactic radio source Gregory, Robert L., 119 Cygnus X complex, 409, 410 (EGRS), 171 Guerrero, Martin A., 384, 401 Czyzak, S. J., 327 Eye and Brain, 119 Gupta, Alok C., 462 Eyes, The, see NGC 4435 and Gutermuth, Rob, 438 d’Arrest, Heinrich Louis, 84, 85, NGC 4438 132, 317 Hajian, Arsen, 366 Dal Farra, E., 211 Fabian, Walter, 176 Hale, George Ellery, 306 Dame, Thomas M., 130 Faith, Edward, 219 Halley, Edmond, 276 Dandelion Puff Ball see NGC 6751 Feibelman, Walter, 76, 415, 426 Haro, Guillermo, 21 Darth Vader’s Starfighter see NGC Fellhauer, Michael, 287 Harrington, J. Patrick, 450 936 Feltzing, Sofia, 336, 337 Harris, Hugh C., 282 Davies, Richard I., 192 Filho, M. E., 231 Hartmann, Johannes, 107 Davis, Helen, 317 Fisher, David, 222 Harvard College Observatory, 124 Deep-Impact (space probe), 326 Flammarion, Camille, 281 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Deep Space Network, 231 Fleming, Williamina Paton, Astrophysics, 220 Deharveng, L., 70 123–124, 301–302 Hartung, Ernst J., 156 de Lalande. Joseph Je´rome le FLIERs, 401 Hassan, Samia M., 456 Franc¸ais, 210 Fly see NGC 1931 HD 10494, 32 Deliyannis, Constantine, 167 Flying Eye see NGC 2359 HD 167638, 348 Delta Cephei, 451 Flying Geese Cluster see NGC 6939 HD 167815, 348 Delta Ceti, 43 Forbes, Duncan A., 139–140, 361 HD 293815, 90–91 Delta Cygni, 390 Fortin, F., 210 HD 313094 þ HD 313095, 348 Delta Scuti stars, 94–95 Fossil Footprint see NGC 1491 HD 54387, 148 Delta Virginis, 265 Foster, D. C., 40 HD 56925, 157 de Vaucouleurs, Gerard, 268 Foxface Nebula see NGC 1788 HDE 226868 see Cygnus X-1 Dewangan, G. C., 269 Freeland, Emily, 167 Heiles, Carl, 130, 132 Diamond Ring Nebula see NGC Friel, Eileen D., 226 Henry Draper Extension (HDE) 6844 From the Earth to the Moon, 181 catalogue, 393 Djorgovski, S. 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    Abasic requirement for studying the heavens is determining where in the sky things are. To specify sky positions, astronomers have developed several coordinate systems. Each uses a coordinate grid projected on to the celestial sphere, in analogy to the geographic coordinate system used on the surface of the Earth. The coordinate systems differ only in their choice of the fundamental plane, which divides the sky into two equal hemispheres along a great circle (the fundamental plane of the geographic system is the Earth's equator) . Each coordinate system is named for its choice of fundamental plane. The equatorial coordinate system is probably the most widely used celestial coordinate system. It is also the one most closely related to the geographic coordinate system, because they use the same fun­ damental plane and the same poles. The projection of the Earth's equator onto the celestial sphere is called the celestial equator. Similarly, projecting the geographic poles on to the celest ial sphere defines the north and south celestial poles. However, there is an important difference between the equatorial and geographic coordinate systems: the geographic system is fixed to the Earth; it rotates as the Earth does . The equatorial system is fixed to the stars, so it appears to rotate across the sky with the stars, but of course it's really the Earth rotating under the fixed sky. The latitudinal (latitude-like) angle of the equatorial system is called declination (Dec for short) . It measures the angle of an object above or below the celestial equator. The longitud inal angle is called the right ascension (RA for short).
  • The Third Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope M

    The Third Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope M

    The Astrophysical Journal, 810:14 (34pp), 2015 September 1 doi:10.1088/0004-637X/810/1/14 © 2015. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. THE THIRD CATALOG OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI DETECTED BY THE FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE M. Ackermann1, M. Ajello2, W. B. Atwood3, L. Baldini4, J. Ballet5, G. Barbiellini6,7, D. Bastieri8,9, J. Becerra Gonzalez10,11, R. Bellazzini12, E. Bissaldi13, R. D. Blandford14, E. D. Bloom14, R. Bonino15,16, E. Bottacini14, T. J. Brandt10, J. Bregeon17, R. J. Britto18, P. Bruel19, R. Buehler1, S. Buson8,9, G. A. Caliandro14,20, R. A. Cameron14, M. Caragiulo13, P. A. Caraveo21, B. Carpenter10,22, J. M. Casandjian5, E. Cavazzuti23, C. Cecchi24,25, E. Charles14, A. Chekhtman26, C. C. Cheung27, J. Chiang14, G. Chiaro9, S. Ciprini23,24,28, R. Claus14, J. Cohen-Tanugi17, L. R. Cominsky29, J. Conrad30,31,32,70, S. Cutini23,24,28,R.D’Abrusco33,F.D’Ammando34,35, A. de Angelis36, R. Desiante6,37, S. W. Digel14, L. Di Venere38, P. S. Drell14, C. Favuzzi13,38, S. J. Fegan19, E. C. Ferrara10, J. Finke27, W. B. Focke14, A. Franckowiak14, L. Fuhrmann39, Y. Fukazawa40, A. K. Furniss14, P. Fusco13,38, F. Gargano13, D. Gasparrini23,24,28, N. Giglietto13,38, P. Giommi23, F. Giordano13,38, M. Giroletti34, T. Glanzman14, G. Godfrey14, I. A. Grenier5, J. E. Grove27, S. Guiriec10,2,71, J. W. Hewitt41,42, A. B. Hill14,43,68, D. Horan19, R. Itoh40, G. Jóhannesson44, A. S. Johnson14, W. N. Johnson27, J. Kataoka45,T.Kawano40, F. Krauss46, M. Kuss12, G. La Mura9,47, S. Larsson30,31,48, L.
  • The B3-VLA CSS Sample⋆

    The B3-VLA CSS Sample⋆

    A&A 528, A110 (2011) Astronomy DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201015379 & c ESO 2011 Astrophysics The B3-VLA CSS sample VIII. New optical identifications from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey The ultraviolet-optical spectral energy distribution of the young radio sources C. Fanti1,R.Fanti1, A. Zanichelli1, D. Dallacasa1,2, and C. Stanghellini1 1 Istituto di Radioastronomia – INAF, via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy e-mail: [email protected] 2 Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Bologna, via Ranzani 1, 40127 Bologna, Italy Received 12 July 2010 / Accepted 22 December 2010 ABSTRACT Context. Compact steep-spectrum radio sources and giga-hertz peaked spectrum radio sources (CSS/GPS) are generally considered to be mostly young radio sources. In recent years we studied at many wavelengths a sample of these objects selected from the B3-VLA catalog: the B3-VLA CSS sample. Only ≈60% of the sources were optically identified. Aims. We aim to increase the number of optical identifications and study the properties of the host galaxies of young radio sources. Methods. We cross-correlated the CSS B3-VLA sample with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), DR7, and complemented the SDSS photometry with available GALEX (DR 4/5 and 6) and near-IR data from UKIRT and 2MASS. Results. We obtained new identifications and photometric redshifts for eight faint galaxies and for one quasar and two quasar candi- dates. Overall we have 27 galaxies with SDSS photometry in five bands, for which we derived the ultraviolet-optical spectral energy distribution (UV-O-SED). We extended our investigation to additional CSS/GPS selected from the literature.