- Optical & Interpretative Astronomy -

2002

Refereed Journals

• T.H. Puzia, R.P. Saglia, M. Kissler-Patig, C. Maraston, L. Greggio, A. Renzini, & S. Ortolani: Integrated Spectroscopy of Bulge Globular Clusters and Fields. I. The Data Base and Comparison of Individual Lick Indices in Clusters and Bulge, 2002, A&A, 395, 45 (astro-ph/0208231)

• C.S. Botzler, J. Snigula, R. Bender, N. Drory, G. Feulner, G.J. Hill, U. Hopp, C. Maraston, C. Mendes de Oliveira, Large-Scale Structure in the NIR-Selected MUNICS Survey, (astro-ph/0210329)

• U. Hopp, R.E. Schulte-Ladbeck, J. Kerp Searching for an Intrinsic Stellar Population in Compact High-Velocity Clouds (astro-ph/0209429)

• S. Tremaine, K. Gebhardt, R. Bender, G. Bower, A. Dressler, S. M. Faber, A. V. Filippenko, R. Green, C. Grillmair, L. C. Ho, J. Kormendy, T. R. Lauer, J. Magorrian, J. Pinkney, D. Richstone, 2002 The slope of the black-hole mass versus velocity dispersion correlation AJ,574,740 (astro-ph/0203468)

• J. Beuing,R. Bender, C. Mendes de Oliveira,D. Thomas, & C. Maraston, 2002, Line-strength indices and velocity dispersions for 148 early-type galaxies in different environments, A&A, 395, 431

• R.P. Saglia, C. Maraston, D. Thomas, R. Bender, M. Colless, 2002, The puzzlingly small CaII triplet absorption in elliptical galaxies, (ApJL, 2002, 579, L13)

• J. Snigula, N. Drory, R. Bender, C.S. Botzler, G. Fuelner, U. Hopp, 2002 he Munich Near-Infrared Cluster Survey - IV. Biases in the completeness of near-infrared imaging data, MNRAS,336,1329, (astro-ph/0207455)

• T.R. Lauer, K. Gebhardt, D. Richstone, S. Tremain, R. Bender, G. Bower, A. Dressler, S.M. Faber, A.V. Filippenko, R. Green, et. al., 2002 Galaxies with a Central Minimum in Stellar Luminosity Density, AJ,124,L1975, (astro-ph/0206122)

• D. Mehlert, S. Noll, I. Appenzeller, R.P. Saglia, A. Boehm, K.J. Fricke, J. Heidt, U. Hopp, K. Jaeger, C. Moellenhoff, O. Stahl, B.L. Ziegler, 2002, Evidence for chemical evolution in the spectra of high redshift galaxies, A&A, 393, 809 (astro-ph/0208231)

• T.H. Puzia, S.E. Zepf, M. Kissler-Patig, M. Hilker, D. Minniti, & P. Goudfrooij: Extragalactic globular clusters in the near-infrared. II. The globular cluster systems of NGC 3115 and NGC 4365, 2002, A&A, 391, 45 (astro-ph/0206147)

• R. E. Schulte-Ladbeck, U. Hopp, I. O. Drozdovsky, Laura Greggio, Mary M. Crone: The Oldest Stars of the Extremely Metal-Poor Local Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxy Leo A, 2002, AJ, 124, 896, August 2002 (astro-ph/0205052)

• I. O. Drozdovsky, R. E. Schulte-Ladbeck, U. Hopp, L. Greggio, M. M. Crone: The dwarf Irregular/Wolf-Rayet galaxy NGC 4214: I. Stellar content, a new distance, and global parameters, 2002, AJ, 124, 811 (astro-ph/0205011)

• A. Caccianiga, M.J. Marcha, S. Anton, K.-H. Mack and M.J. Neeser: The CLASS blazar survey - II. Optical properties, 2002, MNRAS, 329, 877. CLASS.ps.gz or mnr_5062.pdf

• C.A. Gössl, A. Riffeser: Image reduction pipeline for the detection of variable sources in highly crowded fields, 2002, A&A, 381, 1095. (astro-ph/0110704)

• M.J. Neeser, P.D. Sackett, G. De Marchi, and F. Paresce: Detection of a Thick Disk in the edge-on Low Surface Brightness Galaxy ESO 342-G017. I. VLT Photometry in V and R Bands, 2002, A&A, 383, 472. astro-ph/0201141

• Z. Sekanina, E. Jehin, H. Boehnhardt, X. Bonfils, O. Schuetz, D. Thomas, 2002 Recurring Outbursts and Nuclear Fragmentation of Comet C/2001 A2 (LINEAR) ApJ,572,679

• B.L. Ziegler, A. Böhm, K.J. Fricke, K. Jäger, H. Nicklas, R. Bender, N. Drory, A. Gabasch, R.P. Saglia, S. Seitz, J. Heidt, D. Mehlert, S. Noll, E. Sutorius: The evolution of the Tully-Fischer relation of spiral galaxies, 2002, ApJ, 564L, 69 (ApJ, 2002, 564,L72)

Conference Proceedings

• R. E. Schulte-Ladbeck, I. O. Drozdovsky, M. Belfort, U. Hopp The Resolved Red Giant Branches of E/S0 Galaxies, (Ap&SS,2002, 284,909)

• U. Hopp, R.E. Schulte-Ladbeck, J. Kerp Searching for an Intrinsic Stellar Population in Compact High-Velocity Clouds (astro-ph/0209429)

• A. Riffeser, C.A. Gössl, C. Ries: Supernova SN2002ap, 2002, IAUC, 7825.

• U. Hopp, L. Greggio Comparing the old Stellar Population in Globulars and Dwarf Galaxies: The Cases of Phoenix and Leo A (astro-ph/0209260)

• D. Thomas, R. Bender, U. Hopp, C. Maraston, L. Greggio, 2002 Kinematics and stellar populations of 17 dwarf early-type galaxies. To appear in the proceedings of "The Evolution of Galaxies. III - From Simple Approaches to Self-consistent Models" (Kiel, July 2002), G. Hensler et al. (eds.) (astroph/0210474)

• M.Kissler-Patig, T.H.Puzia, R.Bender, P.Goudfrooij, M.Hempel, C.Maraston, T.Richtler, R.Saglia, D.Thomas,2002 The Chemistry of Extragalactic Globular Clusters. to appear in the proceedings of "Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems", ed. M. Kissler-Patig, Springer (astroph/0210419)

• D. Thomas, C. Maraston, R. Bender, 2002 The Epochs of Early-Type Galaxy Formation Astrophysics and Space Science, v. 281, Issue 1, p. 371-374 (2002).

• C. Maraston, M. Kissler-Patig, J. Brodie, P. Barmby, J. Huchra, 2002 AGB Phase Transition in Globular Clusters: A Tool for Dating Starbursts. Astrophysics and Space Science, v. 281, Issue 1, p. 137-138 (2002).

• C.S. Botzler, J. Snigula, R. Bender, N. Drory, G. Feulner, G.J. Hill, U. Hopp, C. Maraston, C. Mendes de Oliveira, 2002 Large-Scale Structure in the NIR-Selected MUNICS Survey. To appear in "The Evolution of Galaxies III. From Simple Approaches to Self-Consistent Models", proceedings of the 3rd EuroConference on the evolution of galaxies, held in Kiel, Germany, July 16-20, 2002 (astro-ph/0210329)

• J. Heidt, I. Appenzeller, R. Bender, K.J. Fricke, FDF-Team, 2002 The FORS Deep Field: Photometry, photometric redshifts and first spectroscopic results. Astrophysics and Space Science, v. 281, Issue 1, p. 539-540 (2002).

• R. Genzel, R. Hofmann, D. Tomono, N. Thatte, F. Eisenhauer, M. Lehnert, M. Tecza, R. Bender, 2002 CROMOS: A Cryogenic Near-Infrared, Multi-Object Spectrometer for the VLT. Scientific Drivers for ESO Future VLT/VLTI Instrumentation Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 11-15 June, 2001. p. 118.