SAO Student News
For each SAO e-zine, we would like to share some of the exciting astronomy news stories from our studnets. If you have an item that you would like included in future e-zines, please let us know. News Items In September 2006, SAO Masters students Eduardo Manuel Alvarez officially opened OLASU, the Observatorio Los Algarrobos, Salto, Uruguay. The observatory is home to a Meade LX-90 8" and a Meade LX-200R 12" which are housed in a 3.6m dome on the roof of Eduardo's home. The opening was attended by Dr. Gonzalo Tancredi, an astronomer from the Departamento de Astronomia in Montevideo who studies comets and Near Earth Asteroids and played a leading role in the proposal of the newly accepted definition of a planet at the General Assembly of the IAU in Prague this year, and Prof. Gonzalo Vicino, a retired astronomer and author of several books on relativity and cosmology.For more details, see: SAO Student Publications & Presentations We are proud to announcement publications and conference presentations of our SAO students and alumni for the past year. Below is a list of some publications and presentations that we are aware of. Please advice SAO if you have any new work you would like mentioned in future SAO e-zines. Papers Published:
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Peterson, J. and Mackie, G. (2006),
"A Brief History of the Astrophysical Research Consortium and the Apache Point Observatory",
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 109
P.D. Shankland, E.J. Rivera, G. Laughlin, D.L. Blank, A. Price, B. Gary,
R. Bissinger, F. Ringwald, G. White, G.W. Henry, P. McGee, A.S. Wolf, B. Carter, S. Lee,
J. Biggs, B. Monard, M.C.B. Ashley (2006), "On the Search For Transits of the Planets Orbiting
Gl 876", Astrophysical Journal, accepted (to appear in Dec 2006 v653)
Greenhill, J. G., Hill, K. M., Dieters, S., Fienberg, K., Howlett, M., Meijers, A.,
Munro, A., Senkbeil, C. (2006), "Decrease in the orbital period of dwarf nova OY Carinae",
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 372, p.1129
Gay, P. L., Price, A., Searle, T. (2006),
"Astronomy Podcasting: A Low-Cost Tool for Affecting Attitudes in Diverse Audiences"
Astronomy Education Review, vol. 5, p36
Price, A., Gay, P. L., Searle, T., Brissenden, G. (2006),
"A History and Informal Assessment of the 'Slacker Astronomy' Podcast"
Astronomy Education Review, vol. 5, p.53
Templeton, M. R., Leaman, R., Szkody, P., Henden, A., Cook, L., Starkey, D., et al.
(2006), "The Recently Discovered Dwarf Nova System ASAS J002511+1217.2: A New WZ Sagittae Star",
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 118, p236
Imada, A., Kato, T., Kubota, K., Uemura, M., Ishioka, R., Kiyota, S., Kinugasa, K.,
Maehara, H., Nakajima, K., Monard, B., Starkey, D. R., Oksanen, A., Nogami, D. (2006),
"The 2003/2004 Superoutburst of SDSS J013701.06-091234.9", Publications of the Astronomical
Society of Japan, vol.58, p143
Behrend, R. et al. (including Starkey, D. R.) (2006),
"Four new binary minor planets: (854) Frostia, (1089) Tama, (1313) Berna, (4492) Debussy"
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 446, p.1177
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Poster presented at the 2006 IAU General Assembly in Prague, Czech Republic
A. Price, P. Gay, Searle, T.
"Podcast, Blogs and New Media Outreach Techniques For Addressing Busy Lifestyles"