July 1, 2007 -June 30, 2008

ASTRONOMY

 

Black, G.J.,  Campbell, D.B. and Carter, L.M., Arecibo radar observations of Rhea, Dione, Tethys, and Enceladus, Icarus, Volume 191, Issue 2, p. 702-711, Nov. 2007.

 

Busch, M.W.; Giorgini, J.D.; Ostro, S. J.; Benner, L.A.M.; Jurgens, R.F.; Rose, R.; Hicks, M.D.; Pravec, P.; Kusnirak, P.; Ireland, M. J.; et al, Physical modeling of near-Earth Asteroid (29075) 1950 DA, Icarus, 190, pp. 608-621, Oct. 2007.

 

Chepurnov, A.; Lazarian, A.; Stanimirovic, S.; Peek, J. E. G.; Heiles, C., Velocity Spectrum for HI at High Latitudes, in press, Astrophysics, 2007.

 

Cortese, L.; Minchin, R. F.; Auld, R. R.; Davies, J. I.; Catinella, B.; Momjian, E.; Rosenberg, J. L.; Taylor, R.; Gavazzi, G.; O'Neil, K.; and 6 coauthors,

The Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey - II. A HI view of the Abell Cluster 1367 and its Outskirts, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., Vol. 383, Issue 4, pp. 1519-1537, 2008.

 

di Serego Alighieri, S., Gavazzi, G., Giovanardi, C., Giovanelli, R., Grossi, M., Haynes, M.P., Kent, B.R., Koopmann, R.A., Pellegrini, S., Scodeggio, M. 
& Trinchieri, G., The HI Content of Early-Type Galaxies from the ALFALFA survey: I. Catalogued HI sources in the Virgo Cluster,  Astron. Astrophys. 
474, 851, 2007.
 
Freire, Paulo C. C.; Ransom, Scott M.; Begin, Steve; Stairs, Ingrid H.; Hessels, Jason W. T.; Frey, Lucille H.; Camilo, Fernando, Eight New Millisecond Pulsars in NGC 6440 and NGC 6441, Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal, 2007.
 

Freire, P.C., Ransom, S.M., and Gupta, Y., Timing the Eccentric  Millisecond Pulsar in NGC 1851, Submitted to Astrophys., 2007.

 

Freire, Paulo C. C.; Wolszczan, Alex; van den Berg, Maureen; Hessels, Jason W. T., A Massive Neutron Star in the Globular Cluster M5, Submitted to ApJ, 2007.

 

Gavazzi, G.; Giovanelli, R.; Haynes, M.P.; Fabello, S.; Fumagalli, M.; Kent, B. R.; Koopmann, R.A.; Brosch, N.; Hoffman, G. L.; Salzer, J. J.; Boselli, A., HI Content and other Structural Properties of Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster from the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey, accepted for publication in Astron. and Astrophys., 2008.

Gupta, N., Salter, C. J., Saikia, D. J., Ghosh, T., and Jeyakumar, S., Probing radio source environments via HI and OH absorption, submitted to MNRAS, May 2006.

Hankins, T. H.; Rankin, J. M., Arecibo Multi-frequency Time-Aligned Pulsar Average-Profile and Polarization Database, Astrophys. J., submitted, 2008.

Haynes, M.P., Giovanelli, R. & Kent, B.R., NGC 4254: An Act of Harassment Uncovered by the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey, Astrophys. J. (Letters), 665, L19, August 10, 2007.
 
Herfindal, Jeffrey; Rankin, Joanna, Deep Analyses of Nulling in Arecibo Pulsars Reveal Further Periodic Behavior, Astrophys. J., submitted, 2008.
 
Hessels, J. W. T.; Ransom, S. M.; Stairs, I. H.; Kaspi, V. M.; Freire, P. C. C., A 1.4-GHz Arecibo Survey for Pulsars in Globular Clusters, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 670, Issue 1, pp. 363-378, Nov 2007.
 
Kent, B.R., Giovanelli, R., Haynes, M.P., Saintonge, A., Stierwalt, S., Balonek, T., Brosch, N., Catinella, B., Koopmann, R.A., Momjian, E. & Spekkens, K.,  Optically Unseen HI Detections towards the Virgo Cluster detected in the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey, 2007, Astrophys. J. (Letters), 665, L15, 10 August, 2007.
 
Lee, J-J.; Koo, B-C.; Yun, M.S.; Stanimirović, S.; Heiles, C.; Heyer, M., A 21 cm Spectral and Continuum Study of IC 443 Using the Very Large Array and the Arecibo Telescope, Astron. J., Vol. 135, Issue 3, pp. 796-808, 2008.
 
Lorimer, D. R.; Freire, P. C. C.; Stairs, I. H.; Kramer, M.; McLaughlin, M. A.; Burgay, M.; Thorsett, S. E.; Dewey, R. J.; Lyne, A. G.; Manchester, R. N.; and 3 coauthors, Age constraints in the double pulsar system J0737-3039, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 379, Issue 1, Page 282-288, Aug. 2007.
 
Meisel, David D.; Kero, Johan; SzaszCsilla; Sidorov, Vladimir; Briczinski, Stan, Physical Characteristics of Kazan Minor Showers as Determined by Correlations with the Arecibo UHF, Earth, Moon, and Planets, Dec. 2007.
 
Minchin, R.; Davies, J.; Disney, M.; Grossi, M.; Sabatini, S.; Boyce, P.; Garcia, D.; Impey, C.; Jordan, C.; Lang, R.; and 3 coauthors, 21-cm Synthesis Observations of VIRGOHI 21 - a Possible Dark Galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, accepted to ApJ, 2007.
 
Pandian, J. D.; Goldsmith, Paul F., The Arecibo Methanol Maser Galactic Plane Survey - II: Statistical and Multi-wavelength Counterpart Analysis, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 112, Issue A10, CiteID A10310 Oct.  2007.
 
Rickett, B.; Coles, B.; McLaughlin, M.; Bank, J.; Lyne, A.; Stairs, I.; Ferdman, R.; Freire, P.; Camilo, F., Interstellar scintillation of the double pulsar J0737-3039: effects of anisotropy, Astronomical & Astrophysical Transactions, vol. 26, issue 6, pp. 541-547, Dec. 2007.
 
Saintonge, A., Giovanelli, R., Haynes, M.P., Hoffman, G.L., Kent,  Martin, A. M.; Stierwalt, S. and Brosch, N., The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey: V. The Hi source Catalog of the Anti-VirgoRegion at δ = +27°.,  Astron. J., Vol. 135, Issue 2, pp. 588-604 (2008).
 
Springob, C.M., Masters, K.L., Haynes, M.P. and Giovanelli, R., SFI++ II: A New I-band Tully-Fisher Catalog, Derivation of Peculiar Velocities and Dataset Properties, 2007, Astrophys. J. Suppl. (in press).
 
Weisberg, J. M.; Stanimirovic, S.; Xilouris, K.; Hedden, A.; de la Fuente, A.; Anderson, S. B.; Jenet, F. A., Arecibo HI Absorption Measurements of Pulsars and the Electron Density at Intermediate Longitudes in the First Galactic Quadrant, Accepted by Astrophys. J., Sept. 2007.
 

Conference Proceedings & Abstracts:

Ansdell, Megan; Howell, E. S.; Nolan, M.; Magri, C., Physical Modeling Of Near Earth Asteroid 2004wg1 From Arecibo Observatory Radar Data, American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #39, #35.07, Oct. 2007.
 
Cohen, Marshall H. Genesis of the 1000-foot Dish at Arecibo, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #71.04, Dec. 2007.
 
DeBackLevens; Stanimirovic, S.; Heiles, C.; Kanekar, N.; Heitsch, F., Arecibo Studies of the Thinnest Galactic HI Clouds, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #139.19, Dec. 2007.
 
DoelemanSheperd, High Sensitivity VLBI Science with Arecibo, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #114.04, Dec. 2007. 
 
Freire, Paulo C. C., Super-Massive Neutron Stars, To appear in the proceedings of "40 Years of Pulsars: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and More", August 12-17, 2007, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
 
Freire, Paulo C. C.; Jacoby, Bryan A.; Bailes, Matthew, PSR J1738+0333: a new gravitational laboratory, To appear in the proceedings of "40 Years of Pulsars: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and More", August 12-17, 2007, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
 
Freire, Paulo C. C.; Ransom, Scott M.; Begin, Steve; Stairs, Ingrid H.; Hessels, Jason W. T.; Frey, Lucille H.; Camilo, Fernando, Eight new MSPs in NGC 6440 and NGC 6441, To appear in the proceedings of "40 Years of Pulsars: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and More", August 12-17, 2007, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
 
Freire, Paulo C. C.; Ransom, Scott M.; Gupta, Yashwant, The Eccentric Binary Millisecond Pulsar in NGC 1851, To appear in the proceedings of "40 Years of Pulsars: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and More", August 12-17, 2007, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
 
Giovanelli, R., ALFALFA: an Exploration of the z=0 HI Universe, proceedings of "100 Years of Cosmology" conference, Venice 2007. to appear in Nuovo Cimento, 2008.
 
Giovanelli, R. ALFALFA: Cosmology in the Local Universe, 2007, IAU Symposium #244, "Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons", J.I. Davies and M.J. Disney, eds. (Cambridge Univ. Press), in press. astro-ph/0707.3278, 2008.
 
Harmon, J. K.; Nolan, M. C.,  Arecibo Radar Imaging of Mars During the 2005 Opposition, Seventh International Conference on Mars, held July 9-13, 2007 in Pasadena, California, LPI Contribution No. 1353, p.3136, July, 2007.
 
Haynes, M.P. ALFALFA: The Search for (almost) Dark Galaxies across the HI Mass Function 2007, IAU Symposium #244, "Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons", J.I. Davies and M.J. Disney, eds. (Cambridge Univ. Press), in press, astro-ph/0707.3273.
 
Haynes, M.P. HI Cosmology in the Local Universe with ALFALFA, 2007, "Frontiers of Astrophysics", 2007 A. Bridle, J. Condon & G. Hunt eds. ASP Conference Series, in press, astro-ph/0708.2547
 
Higdon, S. & Higdon, J. Tidal Dwarfs and Tails, 2007, IAU Symposium #244, "Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons", J.I. Davies and M.J. Disney, eds. (Cambridge Univ. Press), in press
 
Jenet, Fredrick; Miller, A.; Rodriguez-Zermeno, A.; Stovall, K.; van Straten, W., The Arecibo Remote Command Center: Inspiring the Next Generation of Astrophysicists, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #05.17, Dec. 2007. 
 
Jiménez-Esteban, F.; Engels, D.; García-Lario, P., Near-IR/Optical Monitoring Program of the Arecibo Sample of OH/IR Stars, Why Galaxies Care About AGB Stars: Their Importance as Actors and Probes. ASP Conference Series, Vol. 378, proceedings of the conference held 7-11 August 2006 at University Campus, Vienna, Austria. Edited by F. Kerschbaum, C. Charbonnel, and R. F. Wing. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2007., p.307, Nov. 2007.
 
Kent, B.R., HI Clouds in the Virgo Cluster, 2007, IAU Symposium #244, "Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons", J.I. Davies and M.J. Disney, eds. (Cambridge Univ. Press), in press. astro-ph/0708.1422
 
Koopmann, R. Virgo Early-Type Dwarfs in ALFALFA, 2007, IAU Symposium #244, "Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons", J.I. Davies and M.J. Disney, eds. (Cambridge Univ. Press), in press, astro-ph/0707.3275
 
Koopmann, R., A 500 kpc HI Tail of the Virgo Pair NGC 4532/DDO 137 Detected by ALFALFA, 2007, IAU Symposium #244, "Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons", J.I. Davies and M.J. Disney, eds. (Cambridge Univ. Press) in press, astro-ph/0707.3277, 2008.
 
Lewis, B. M., Some of What 1612 MHz Masers Tell Us about the dM/dt of OH/IR Stars, Why Galaxies Care About AGB Stars: Their Importance as Actors and Probes. ASP Conference Series, Vol. 378, proceedings of the conference held 7-11 August 2006 at University Campus, Vienna, Austria. Edited by F. Kerschbaum, C. Charbonnel, and R. F. Wing. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2007., p.311, 2007.
 
Lewis, B. M., Understanding High-latitude OH/IR Star Color Mimics, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #104.21, 2007.
 
Lovell, Amy J.; Howell, E. S., Arecibo OH Mapping Observations of Comet C/2006 M4 SWAN, American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #39, #53.07, Oct. 2007.
 
Martin, A., The Distribution of ALFALFA Galaxies, 2007, IAU Symposium #244, "Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons", J.I. Davies and M.J. Disney, eds. (Cambridge Univ. Press), in press, astro-ph/0707.3281
 
Minchin, Robert F.; Falony, S.; Baes, M., A Synchrotron Survey of SLUGS Galaxies with the Arecibo Observatory 305-m Telescope, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #141.02, Dec. 2007.
 
Nice, David J.; Stairs, I. H.; Kasian, L. E., Arecibo Observations of Relativistic Binary Pulsars J0621+1002 and J0751+1807: Refined Mass Measurements, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #102.06, Dec 2007.
 
Nolan, Michael C.; Magri, C.; Ostro, S. J.; Benner, L. A.; Giorgini, J. D.; Howell, E. S.; Hudson, R. S., The Shape and Spin of 101955 (1999 RQ36) from Arecibo and Goldstone Radar Imaging, American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #39, #13.06, Oct. 2007.
 
Possenti, A.; Burgay, M.; Kramer, M.; Lyne, A.; McLaughlin, M.; Lorimer, D.; Stairs, I.; Ferdman, R.; Manchester, D.; Hobbs, G.; and 4 coauthors, Secular and orbital changes in emission from J0737-3039 system, AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 924, pp. 591-597, 2007.
 
Stierwalt, S., ALFALFA in the Leo Region: Looking for Missing Satellites in HI, 2007, IAU Symposium #244, "Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons", J.I. Davies and M.J. Disney, eds. (Cambridge Univ. Press), in press, astro-ph/0707.3243
 
Stovall, Kevin; Azcona, I.; Ponce, A.; Leal, B.; Cantu, C.; Miller, A.; Rodriguez-Zermeno, A.; Jenet, F., Pulsar Search Results from the Arecibo Remote Command Center, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #102.05, Dec 2007.
 
Thompson, David J.; GLAST LAT Collaboration, Arecibo Synergy with GLAST: Unidentified Sources and More, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #114.03,  Dec. 2007.
 
Wu, Catharine J.; Lewis, B. M., Mass-Loss Rates in High-Latitude OH/IR Stars, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #51.19, 2007.
 

 

AERONOMY

Friedman, J. S., and X. Chu (2007), Nocturnal Temperature Structure in the Mesopause Region over the Arecibo Observatory (18.35 N, 66.75 W): Seasonal variations, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 112, Issue D14, CiteID D14107, Jul. 2007.

Goncharenko, L.P., Foster, J.C., Coster, A.J., Huang, C., Aponte, N. and Paxton, L.J., Observations of a Positive Storm Phase on September 10, 2005, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., in press, 2007.

Janches, D., Close, S. and Fentzke, J.T., A comparison of detection sensitivity between ALTAIR and Arecibo meteor observations: Can High Power and Large Aperture radars detect low velocity meteor head-echoes, Icarus, Vol. 193, Issue 1, p. 105-111, Jan 2008.

Lee, M. C.; Pradipta, R.; Burke, W. J.; Labno, A.; Burton, L. M.; Cohen, J. A.; Dorfman, S. E.; Coster, A. J.; Sulzer, M. P.; Kuo, S. P., Did Tsunami-Launched Gravity Waves Trigger Ionospheric Turbulence over Arecibo?, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 113, Issue A1, CiteID A01302, Jan. 2008.

 Livneh, D. J.; SekerI.; Djuth, F. T.; Mathews, J. D., Continuous Quasiperiodic Thermospheric Waves Over Arecibo, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 112, Issue A7, CiteID A07313, July 2007.

Martinis, C.; Mendillo, M., Equatorial spread F-related airglow depletions at Arecibo and conjugate observations, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 112, Issue A10, CiteID A10310, Oct 2007.

Mathews, J. D.; Briczinski, S. J.; MeiselD. D.; Heinselman, C. J., Radio and Meteor Science Outcomes From Comparisons of Meteor Radar Observations at AMISR Poker Flat, Sondrestrom, and Arecibo, Earth, Moon, and Planets, Oct. 2007.

Rodrigues, F. S.; Nicolls, M. J.; Woodman, R.; Hysell, D. L.; Chau, J. L.; González, S. A., Ion gyroresonance observations at Jicamarca revisited, Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 13, CiteID L13107, July 2007.

Strelnikova, I.; Rapp, M.; Raizada, S.; Sulzer, Mike, Meteor smoke particle properties derived from Arecibo incoherent scatter radar observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 34, Issue 15, CiteID L15815, July 2007.

Waldrop, L. S., González, S. A., Kerr, R. B., Sulzer, M. P., Kudeki, E., and Kamalabadi, F., Neutral Oxygen Density Derived Under Charge Exchange Equilibrium in the Topside Ionosphere, J. Geophys. Res., in press, 2006.

Waldrop, L. S.; Kerr, R.; Richards, P., Photoelectron impact excitation of OI 8446 Å emission observed from Arecibo Observatory, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 113, Issue A1, CiteID A01303, Jan 2008.

Wen, C.-H.; Briczinski, S. J.; Livneh, D. J.; Doherty, J. F.; Mathews, J. D., Pulse-level Interference and Meteor Processing of Arecibo ISR data, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 69, Issue 9, p. 973-980, Aug. 2007.

Zhou, Q. Raizada, S., Tepley, C.A. and Plane, J. M.C., Seasonal and Diurnal Variation of Electron and Iron Concentrations at the Meteor Heights Above Arecibo, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., Vol. 70, 49-60, Jan 2008.

 


Conference Proceedings & Abstracts:

 

Fentzke, J. T.; Janches, D., A Semi-empirical Model of the Contribution from Sporadic Meteoroid Sources on the Meteor Input Function (MIF) Observed at Arecibo, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SA41A-0277, Dec. 2007.

 

Friedman, J. S.; Farias-Gutierrez, P.; Chu, X.; Forbes, J.; Zhang, X.; Xu, J., Seasonal nocturnal temperature structure of the mesopause over Arecibo and comparisons with TIMED-SABER, American Geophys. Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SA41A-0287, Dec. 2007.

 

Raizada, S.; Sulzer, M.; Nicolls, M.; Tepley, C. A.; Gonzalez, S., Inferring D-Region Parameters Over Arecibo Using Incoherent Scatter Radar, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SA41A-0263, Dec, 2007.

 

Sulzer, M. P.; Gonzalez, S. A., The New Arecibo High Frequency Facility: Plans for the Science and the Facility, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SA11A-0296, Dec. 2007.

 

 

(Feb. 25, 2008)

Carmen Segarra