2006

Nr. ADS citations Authors Title Bibcode Instruments Program ID
  SN        
           
1240 Astier, P.; Guy, J.; Regnault, N. et al. The Supernova Legacy Survey: measurement of ΩM, ΩΛ and w from the first year data set 2006A&A...447...31A FORS1 171.A-0486
197 Pian, E.; Mazzali, P. A.; Masetti, N. et al. An optical supernova associated with the X-ray flash XRF 060218 2006Natur.442.1011P , UVES, FORS1, FORS2 076.A-0737 076.D-0015
161 Sullivan, M.; Le Borgne, D.; Pritchet, C. J. et al. Rates and Properties of Type Ia Supernovae as a Function of Mass and Star Formation in Their Host Galaxies 2006ApJ...648..868S FORS1 171.A-0486
129 Mazzali, Paolo A.; Deng, Jinsong; Nomoto, Ken'ichi et al. A neutron-star-driven X-ray flash associated with supernova SN 2006aj 2006Natur.442.1018M , FORS1, FORS2 076.D-0015
75 Neill, J. D.; Sullivan, M.; Balam, D. et al. The Type Ia Supernova Rate at z~0.5 from the Supernova Legacy Survey 2006AJ....132.1126N FORS1 171.A-0486
61 Elias-Rosa, N.; Benetti, S.; Cappellaro, E. et al. Anomalous extinction behaviour towards the Type Ia SN 2003cg 2006MNRAS.369.1880E WFI, SOFI, FORS1, ISAAC 71.D-0281 071.A-9006 073.D-0853 074.D-0340
55 Mazzali, Paolo A.; Deng, Jinsong; Pian, Elena et al. Models for the Type Ic Hypernova SN 2003lw associated with GRB 031203 2006ApJ...645.1323M FORS1, FORS2 073.D-0255
51 Clocchiatti, Alejandro; Schmidt, Brian P.; Filippenko, Alexei V. et al. Hubble Space Telescope and Ground-based Observations of Type Ia Supernovae at Redshift 0.5: Cosmological Implications 2006ApJ...642....1C WFI, FORS1, ISAAC 64.O-0391 64.O-0404 67.D-0422
45 Sullivan, M.; Howell, D. A.; Perrett, K. et al. Photometric Selection of High-Redshift Type Ia Supernova Candidates 2006AJ....131..960S FORS1 171.A-0486
41 Taubenberger, S.; Pastorello, A.; Mazzali, P. A. et al. SN 2004aw: confirming diversity of Type Ic supernovae 2006MNRAS.371.1459T FORS2 074.D-0161
37 Wang, Lifan; Baade, Dietrich; Höflich, Peter et al. Premaximum Spectropolarimetry of the Type Ia SN 2004dt 2006ApJ...653..490W FORS1 073.D-0565
36 Blondin, Stéphane; Dessart, Luc; Leibundgut, Bruno et al. Using Line Profiles to Test the Fraternity of Type Ia Supernovae at High and Low Redshifts 2006AJ....131.1648B FORS1 170.A-0519
21 Jönsson, J.; Dahlén, T.; Goobar, A. et al. Lensing Magnification of Supernovae in the GOODS Fields 2006ApJ...639..991J FORS1 66.A-0270 67.A-0418
           
  Stars/Stellar Populations        
           
53 Grocholski, Aaron J.; Cole, Andrew A.; Sarajedini, Ata; Geisler, Doug; Smith, Verne V. Ca II Triplet Spectroscopy of Large Magellanic Cloud Red Giants. I. Abundances and Velocities for a Sample of Populous Clusters 2006AJ....132.1630G FORS2 074.B-0417
53 Guieu, S.; Dougados, C.; Monin, J.-L.; Magnier, E.; Martín, E. L. Seventeen new very low-mass members in Taurus. The brown dwarf deficit revisited 2006A&A...446..485G FORS1 68.C-0450 70.C-0715
47 Bagnulo, S.; Landstreet, J. D.; Mason, E. et al. Searchingfor links between magnetic fields and stellar evolution. I. A survey ofmagnetic fields in open cluster A- and B-type stars with FORS1 2006A&A...450..777B FORS1 68.D-0403 70.D-0352 073.D-0498 074.D-0488 272.D-5026
46 Hubrig, S.; Briquet, M.; Schöller, M. et al. Discovery of magnetic fields in the βCephei star ξ1 CMa and in several slowly pulsating B stars* 2006MNRAS.369L..61H FORS1 072.D-0377 073.D-0464 073.D-0466 075.D-0295
46 Kochukhov, O.; Bagnulo, S. Evolutionary state of magnetic chemically peculiar stars 2006A&A...450..763K FORS1 71.D-0308 072.D-0377 073.D-0464
38 Hubrig, S.; North, P.; Schöller, M.; Mathys, G. Evolutionof magnetic fields in stars across the upper main sequence: I.Catalogue of magnetic field measurements with FORS 1 at the VLT 2006AN....327..289H FORS1 71.D-0308 072.D-0377 073.D-0464 075.D-0295
36 Mauron, N.; Huggins, P. J. Imaging the circumstellar envelopes of AGB stars 2006A&A...452..257M FORS1 63.I-0177
32 Hubrig, S.; Yudin, R. V.; Schöller, M.; Pogodin, M. A. Accurate magnetic field measurements of Vega-like stars and Herbig Ae/Be stars 2006A&A...446.1089H FORS1 072.D-0377 073.D-0464 074.C-0463 075.D-0507
32 Moni Bidin, C.; Moehler, S.; Piotto, G. et al. The lack of close binaries among hot horizontal branch stars in NGC 6752 2006A&A...451..499M FORS2 69.D-0682
24 Schuberth, Y.; Richtler, T.; Dirsch, B. et al. Dynamics of the NGC 4636 globular cluster system. An extremely dark matter dominated galaxy? 2006A&A...459..391S FORS2 69.B-0366
22 Moehler, S.; Sweigart, A. V. Observationsof the hot horizontal-branch stars in the metal-rich bulge globularcluster NGC 6388. Indications of helium enrichment and a lesson incrowded field spectroscopy 2006A&A...455..943M FORS2 69.D-0231
21 Monin, J.-L.; Ménard, F.; Peretto, N. Disc orientations in pre-main-sequence multiple systems. A study in southern star formation regions 2006A&A...446..201M , FORS1 60.A-9203
20 Bresolin, Fabio; Pietrzyński, Grzegorz; Urbaneja, Miguel A. et al. The Araucaria Project: VLT Spectra of Blue Supergiants in WLM- Classification and First Abundances 2006ApJ...648.1007B FORS2 171.D-0004
20 Clayton, Geoffrey C.; Kerber, F.; Pirzkal, N. et al. V605 Aquilae: The Older Twin of Sakurai's Object 2006ApJ...646L..69C FORS2 67.D-0405
           
  Solar Systems        
           
29 Jayawardhana, Ray; Ivanov, Valentin D. Discovery of a Young Planetary-Mass Binary 2006Sci...313.1279J , FORS2, ISAAC 277.C-5012
25 Fornasier, S.; Belskaya, I.; Fulchignoni, M.; Barucci, M. A.; Barbieri, C. First albedo determination of 2867 Steins, target of the Rosetta mission 2006A&A...449L...9F FORS1 075.C-0201
           
  Instrumentation        
           
27 Patat, Ferdinando; Romaniello, Martino Error Analysis for Dual-Beam Optical Linear Polarimetry 2006PASP..118..146P FORS1 66.A-0397 69.C-0579 69.D-0461 072.A-0025
           
  GRB        
           
155 Fynbo, Johan P. U.; Watson, Darach; Thöne, Christina C. et al. No supernovae associated with two long-duration γ-ray bursts 2006Natur.444.1047F , FORS1, FORS2 077.D-0661
144 Della Valle, M.; Chincarini, G.; Panagia, N. et al. An enigmatic long-lasting γ-ray burst not accompanied by a bright supernova 2006Natur.444.1050D , FORS1, FORS2 077.D-0425 077.D-0805
79 Watson, D.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Ledoux, C. et al. A logNHI = 22.6 Damped Lyα Absorber in a Dark Gamma-Ray Burst: The Environment of GRB 050401 2006ApJ...652.1011W FORS2 075.D-0270
74 Jakobsson, P.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Ledoux, C. et al. H I column densities of z > 2 Swift gamma-ray bursts 2006A&A...460L..13J FORS1 077.D-0661
59 Covino, S.; Malesani, D.; Israel, G. L. et al. Optical emission from GRB 050709: a short/hard GRB in a star-forming galaxy 2006A&A...447L...5C FORS1, FORS2 075.D-0468 075.D-0787
52 Hammer, F.; Flores, H.; Schaerer, D. et al. Detectionof Wolf-Rayet stars in host galaxies of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs): areGRBs produced by runaway massive stars ejected from high stellardensity regions? 2006A&A...454..103H FORS2 073.B-0482
39 Della Valle, M.; Malesani, D.; Bloom, J. S. et al. Hypernova Signatures in the Late Rebrightening of GRB 050525A 2006ApJ...642L.103D FORS2 075.D-0468
33 Vreeswijk, P. M.; Smette, A.; Fruchter, A. S. et al. Low-resolution VLT spectroscopy of GRBs 991216, 011211 and 021211 2006A&A...447..145V FORS1, FORS2 64.H-0313 70.D-0523 165.H-0464
31 Ferrero, P.; Kann, D. A.; Zeh, A. et al. The GRB 060218/SN 2006aj event in the context of other gamma-ray burst supernovae 2006A&A...457..857F FORS1, FORS2 076.D-0015
27 Levan, Andrew; Fruchter, Andrew; Rhoads, James et al. Infrared and Optical Observations of GRB 030115 and its Extremely Red Host Galaxy: Implications for Dark Bursts 2006ApJ...647..471L SOFI, FORS1, FORS2, ISAAC 69.D-0701
           
  DM/Dynamics        
           
343 Clowe, Douglas; Bradač, Maruša; Gonzalez, Anthony H. et al. A Direct Empirical Proof of the Existence of Dark Matter 2006ApJ...648L.109C , WFI, FORS1 60.A-9203 64.O-0332 072.A-0511
27 Bamford, S. P.; Aragón-Salamanca, A.; Milvang-Jensen, B. The Tully-Fisher relation of distant field galaxies 2006MNRAS.366..308B FORS2 66.A-0376 69.A-0312
           
  Cosmology        
           
159 Fontana, A.; Salimbeni, S.; Grazian, A. et al. The Galaxy mass function up to z =4 in the GOODS-MUSIC sample: into the epoch of formation of massive galaxies 2006A&A...459..745F , WFI, FORS2, ISAAC, VIMOS 60.A-9120 64.O-0643 66.A-0572 68.A-0544 163.N-0210 164.O-0561 168.A-0485 170.A-0788
124 Vanzella, E.; Cristiani, S.; Dickinson, M. et al. The great observatories origins deep survey. VLT/FORS2 spectroscopy in the GOODS-South Field: Part II 2006A&A...454..423V , FORS2 170.A-0788
121 Trujillo, Ignacio; Förster Schreiber, Natascha M.; Rudnick, Gregory et al. The Size Evolution of Galaxies since z~3: Combining SDSS, GEMS, and FIRES 2006ApJ...650...18T FORS1, ISAAC 164.O-0612
105 Poggianti, Bianca M.; von der Linden, Anja; De Lucia, Gabriella et al. The Evolution of the Star Formation Activity in Galaxies and Its Dependence on Environment 2006ApJ...642..188P SOFI, FORS2 166.A-0162
71 Rudnick, Gregory; Labbé, Ivo; Förster Schreiber, Natascha M. et al. Measuringthe Average Evolution of Luminous Galaxies at z < 3: TheRest-Frame Optical Luminosity Density, Spectral Energy Distribution,and Stellar Mass Density 2006ApJ...650..624R FORS1, ISAAC 164.O-0612
65 Franceschini, A.; Rodighiero, G.; Cassata, P. et al. Cosmic evolution of the galaxy's mass and luminosity functions by morphological type from multi-wavelength data in the CDF-South 2006A&A...453..397F , FORS2, ISAAC 074.A-0709 168.A-0485 170.A-0788
55 Richard, J.; Pelló, R.; Schaerer, D.; Le Borgne, J.-F.; Kneib, J.-P. Constraining the population of 6 ⪉ {z} ⪉ 10 star-forming galaxies with deep near-IR images of lensing clusters 2006A&A...456..861R FORS2, ISAAC 69.A-0508 70.A-0355 073.A-0471 271.A-5013 272.A-5049
49 Nilsson, K. K.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Møller, P.; Sommer-Larsen, J.; Ledoux, C. A Lyman-α blob in the GOODS South field: evidence for cold accretion onto a dark matter halo 2006A&A...452L..23N , FORS1 70.A-0447 274.A-5029
46 Förster Schreiber, N. M.; Franx, M.; Labbé, I. et al. Faint Infrared Extragalactic Survey: Data and Source Catalog of the MS 1054-03 Field 2006AJ....131.1891F , FORS1, ISAAC 164.O-0612
45 Clowe, D.; Schneider, P.; Aragón-Salamanca, A. et al. Weak lensing mass reconstructions of the ESO Distant Cluster Survey 2006A&A...451..395C FORS2 166.A-0162
43 Pannella, M.; Hopp, U.; Saglia, R. P. et al. The Evolution of the Mass Function Split by Morphology up to Redshift 1 in the FORS Deep and the GOODS-S Fields 2006ApJ...639L...1P , FORS1, FORS2, ISAAC 63.O-0005 64.O-0149 64.O-0229 64.P-0150 65.O-0048 65.O-0049 66.A-0547 68.A-0013 69.A-0104 168.A-0485
38 Rettura, A.; Rosati, P.; Strazzullo, V. et al. Comparing dynamical and photometric-stellar masses of early-type galaxies at z ~ 1 2006A&A...458..717R , FORS2, ISAAC 70.A-0548 168.A-0485 169.A-0458 170.A-0788
38 van der Wel, A.; Franx, M.; Wuyts, S. et al. Comparing Dynamical and Photometric Mass Estimates of Low- and High-Redshift Galaxies: Random and Systematic Uncertainties 2006ApJ...652...97V , FORS2, ISAAC 168.A-0485 169.A-0458
34 Liang, Y. C.; Hammer, F.; Flores, H. Significant evolution of the stellar mass-metallicity relation since z ~ 0.65 2006A&A...447..113L FORS2 174.B-0328
30 Pierre, M.; Pacaud, F.; Duc, P.-A. et al. The XMM Large-Scale Structure survey: a well-controlled X-ray cluster sample over the D1 CFHTLS area 2006MNRAS.372..591P , EMMI, FORS2, VIMOS 70.A-0283 70.A-9007 072.A-0104 072.A-0312 074.A-0360 074.A-0476
27 Elíasdóttir, Á.; Hjorth, J.; Toft, S.; Burud, I.; Paraficz, D. Extinction Curves of Lensing Galaxies out to z = 1 2006ApJS..166..443E FORS1, ISAAC 65.O-0666 66.A-0264
25 Saracco, P.; Fiano, A.; Chincarini, G. et al. Probing the evolution of the near-infrared luminosity function of galaxies to z~= 3 in the Hubble Deep Field-South 2006MNRAS.367..349S , FORS2, ISAAC 70.B-0144 164.O-0612
24 Lamareille, F.; Contini, T.; Brinchmann, J. et al. Spectrophotometric properties of galaxies at intermediate redshifts (z ~ 0.2-1.0). II. The Luminosity - Metallicity relation 2006A&A...448..907L FORS1, FORS2 64.O-0439 65.O-0367 67.B-0255 69.A-0358 072.A-0603
24 van der Wel, A.; Franx, M.; van Dokkum, P. G. et al. The Evolution of Rest-Frame K-Band Properties of Early-Type Galaxies from z = 1 to the Present1, 2006ApJ...636L..21V FORS2 169.A-0458
23 Eigenbrod, A.; Courbin, F.; Dye, S. et al. COSMOGRAIL:the COSmological MOnitoring of GRAvItational Lenses. II. SDSSJ0924+0219: the redshift of the lensing galaxy, the quasar spectralvariability and the Einstein rings 2006A&A...451..747E FORS1 074.A-0563
23 Eigenbrod, A.; Courbin, F.; Meylan, G.; Vuissoz, C.; Magain, P. COSMOGRAIL:the COSmological MOnitoring of GRAvItational Lenses. III. Redshift ofthe lensing galaxy in eight gravitationally lensed quasars 2006A&A...451..759E FORS1 64.O-0259 074.A-0563 075.A-0377
23 Marcillac, D.; Elbaz, D.; Charlot, S. et al. The star formation history of luminous infrared galaxies 2006A&A...458..369M FORS2 66.A-0599
22 Gabasch, A.; Hopp, U.; Feulner, G. et al. The evolution of the luminosity functions in the FORS deep field from low to high redshift. II. The red bands 2006A&A...448..101G SOFI, FORS1, FORS2 63.O-0005 64.O-0149 64.O-0158 64.O-0229 64.P-0150 65.O-0048 65.O-0049 66.A-0547 68.A-0013 69.A-0104
20 de Mello, D. F.; Wadadekar, Y.; Dahlen, T.; Casertano, S.; Gardner, J. P. Star-forming Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts: Morphology, Ages, and Sizes 2006AJ....131..216D , SOFI, FORS1, ISAAC 66.A-0270 168.A-0485
20 di Serego Alighieri, Sperello; Lanzoni, Barbara; Jørgensen, Inger The Influence of Mass and Environment on the Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies 2006ApJ...647L..99D FORS2 70.A-0548
           
  Compact Objects        
           
35 Negueruela, Ignacio; Smith, David M.; Harrison, Thomas E.; Torrejón, José Miguel The Optical Counterpart to the Peculiar X-Ray Transient XTE J1739-302 2006ApJ...638..982N FORS1, SUSI2 073.D-0081
28 Bassa, C. G.; van Kerkwijk, M. H.; Koester, D.; Verbunt, F. The masses of PSR J1911-5958A and its white dwarf companion 2006A&A...456..295B FORS1 71.D-0013 71.D-0232 073.D-0039 073.D-0067
26 Casares, J.; Cornelisse, R.; Steeghs, D. et al. Detection of the irradiated donor in the LMXBs 4U 1636-536 (=V801 Ara) and 4U 1735-444 (=V926 Sco) 2006MNRAS.373.1235C FORS2 71.D-0372
26 Southworth, John; Gänsicke, B. T.; Marsh, T. R. et al. VLT/FORS spectroscopy of faint cataclysmic variables discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 2006MNRAS.373..687S FORS2 076.D-0326
25 Nelemans, G.; Jonker, P. G.; Steeghs, D. Optical spectroscopy of (candidate) ultracompact X-ray binaries: constraints on the composition of the donor stars 2006MNRAS.370..255N , UVES, FORS2 073.D-0486 269.D-5026
21 Jonker, P. G.; Bassa, C. G.; Nelemans, G. et al. The neutron star soft X-ray transient 1H 1905+000 in quiescence* 2006MNRAS.368.1803J FORS2 073.D-0486
           
  AGN        
           
48 Rigby, J. R.; Rieke, G. H.; Donley, J. L.; Alonso-Herrero, A.; Pérez-González, P. G. Why X-Ray-selected Active Galactic Nuclei Appear Optically Dull 2006ApJ...645..115R FORS1, FORS2 66.A-0270 67.A-0418
39 Sbarufatti, B.; Treves, A.; Falomo, R. et al. ESOVery Large Telescope Optical Spectroscopy of BL Lacertae Objects. II.New Redshifts, Featureless Objects, and Classification Assessments 2006AJ....132....1S FORS1, FORS2 71.B-0488 72.B-0212 073.B-0112
38 Merritt, David; Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa; Robinson, Andrew et al. The nature of the HE0450-2958 system 2006MNRAS.367.1746M FORS1 66.B-0139
31 Holt, J.; Tadhunter, C.; Morganti, R. et al. The co-evolution of the obscured quasar PKS 1549-79 and its host galaxy: evidence for a high accretion rate and warm outflow 2006MNRAS.370.1633H EMMI, SOFI, FORS1 69.B-0548 71.B-0320 073.B-0792
20 Gavignaud, I.; Bongiorno, A.; Paltani, S. et al. The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey: the faint type-1 AGN sample 2006A&A...457...79G , FORS1, VIMOS 070.A-9007 076.A-0808 272.A-5047