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Four Faint T Dwarfs from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Southern Stripe

(2007)

Authors:

Kuenley Chiu, Michael C Liu, Linhua Jiang, Katelyn N Allers, Daniel P Stark, Andrew Bunker, Xiaohui Fan, Karl Glazebrook, Trent J Dupuy

Pre-Merger Localization of Gravitational-Wave Standard Sirens With LISA: Triggered Search for an Electromagnetic Counterpart

(2007)

Authors:

Bence Kocsis, Zoltan Haiman, Kristen Menou

Tidal Disruption of Stellar Objects by Hard Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

(2007)

Authors:

Xian Chen, FK Liu, John Magorrian

Triaxial orbit based galaxy models with an application to the (apparent) decoupled core galaxy NGC 4365

(2007)

Authors:

RCE van den Bosch, G van de Ven, EK Verolme, M Cappellari, PT de Zeeuw

3D kinematics of high-z galaxies as seen through the gravitational telescope

ESO Astrophysics Symposia 2007 (2007) 387-391

Authors:

M Lemoine-Busserolle, SF Sánchez, M Kissler-Patig, R Pelló, JP Kneib, A Bunker, T Contini

Abstract:

The study of the physical properties of high-redshift galaxies has become one of the major goals of extragalactic astronomy. In particular the massassembly histories of galaxies have been the focus of many studies at redshifts 1 to 3. In the purpose of probing the dynamics of intermediate and high-redshift galaxies, we have designed a research program to carry out a near-infrared spectroscopic follow up of spatially resolved distant galaxies. Here, we present the results for A370-A5 (z=1.341), an arc behind the lens cluster Abell 370 (z=0.374), observed in the case of science verification programme of SINFONI/VLT. The natural magni fication due to massive galaxy clusters allows to spatially resolve and constrain the dynamics of young star forming galaxies 1 to 3 magnitudes fainter than those selected in blank fields. Thus, the study of lensed galaxies allows to probe a low mass regime of galaxies not accessible in standard observation. In this particular case, we found that the gas distribution and kinematics are consistent with a bipolar outflow with a range of velocities of v ∼ 100km/s. © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.