Papers by members of the Rensselaer Astrophysics Group
in 1997 & 1998

Authors from the Astro group are underlined.
Preprints/Reprints available by e-mail request to authors (click on "request preprint/reprint").
Available formats and links to other databases are listed in [square brackets].

• "Detailed Chemical Modeling of the Circumstellar Envelopes of Carbon Stars: Application to IRC +10216," by S.D. Doty, & C.M. Leung, ApJ, 502, 898 (1998).
  [ADS Abstract]

• "A near-infrared study of IRAS-selected T Tauri stars in Chamaeleon II," by K.A. Larson, D.C.B. Whittet, T. Prusti, & J.E. Chiar, A&A, 337, 465-471 (1998).
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• "ISO-SWS observations of infrared absorption bands of the diffuse interstellar medium: The 6.2 micron feature of aromatic compounds," by W.A. Schutte, K.A. van der Hucht, D.C.B. Whittet, A.C.A. Boogert, A.G.G.M. Tielens, P.W. Morris, J.M. Greenberg, P.M. Williams, E.F. van Dishoeck, J.E. Chiar, & Th. de Graauw, A&A, 337, 261-274 (1998).
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• "The 10 micron profile of molecular-cloud and diffuse ISM silicate dust," by J.E. Bowey, A.J. Adamson, & D.C.B. Whittet, MNRAS, 298, 131-138 (1998).
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• "The gas/solid methane abundance ratio toward deeply embedded protostars," by A.C.A. Boogert, F.P. Helmich, E.F. van Dishoeck, W.A. Schutte, A.G.G.M. Tielens, & D.C.B. Whittet, A&A, 336, 352-358 (1998).
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• "Modeling Extinction and Infrared Emission from Fractal Dust Grains: Fractal Dimension as a Shape Parameter," by M.E. Fogel & C.M. Leung, ApJ, 501, 175 (1998).
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• "Solar system observations by the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photopolarimeter Experiment - III. The first ultraviolet linear spectropolarimetry of the Moon," by G.K. Fox, A.D. Code, C.M. Anderson, B.L. Babler, K.S. Bjorkman, J.J. Johnson, M.R. Meade, K.H. Nordsieck, A.J. Weitenbeck, & N.E.B. Zellner, MNRAS, 298, 303-309 (1998).
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• "Processing of Icy Mantles in Protostellar Envelopes," by J.E. Chiar, P.A. Gerakines, D.C.B. Whittet, Y.J. Pendleton, A.G.G.M. Tielens, A.J. Adamson, & A.C.A. Boogert, ApJ, 498, 716 (1998).
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• "Detection of Abundant CO₂ Ice in the Quiescent Dark Cloud Medium toward Elias 16," by D.C.B. Whittet, P.A. Gerakines, A.G.G.M. Tielens, A.J. Adamson, A.C.A. Boogert, J.E. Chiar, Th. de Graauw, P. Ehrenfreund, T. Prusti, W.A. Schutte, B. Vandenbussche, & E.F. van Dishoeck, ApJ, 498, L159 (1998).
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• "Narrow-Band Filters for Optical Communications," by N.E.B. Zellner, JPL Publication 98-01 (1998).
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• "Infrared Spectroscopy of Dust in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium toward Cygnus OB2 No. 12," by D.C.B. Whittet, A.C.A. Boogert, P.A. Gerakines, W.A. Schutte, A.G.G.M. Tielens, Th. de Graauw, T. Prusti, E.F. van Dishoeck, P.R. Wesselius, & C.M. Wright, ApJ, 490, 729-734 (1997).
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• "On the distance to the Chamaeleon I and II associations," by D.C.B. Whittet, T. Prusti, G.A.P. Franco, P.A. Gerakines, D. Kilkenny, K.A. Larson, & P.R. Wesselius, A&A, 327, 1194-1205 (1997).
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• "Interstellar polarization in the Taurus dark clouds: Wavelength dependent position angles and cloud structure near TMC-1," by D.W. Messinger, D.C.B. Whittet, & W.G. Roberge, ApJ, 487, 314 (1997).
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• "Infrared spectroscopy of interstellar apolar ice analogs," by P. Ehrenfeund, A.C.A. Boogert, P.A. Gerakines, A.G.G.M. Tielens, & E.F. van Dishoeck, A&A, 328, 649-669 (1997).
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• "An adiabatic approximation for grain alignment theory," by W.G. Roberge, MNRAS, 291, 345-352 (1997).
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• "Barnett Relaxation in Thermally Rotating Grains," by A. Lazarian & W.G. Roberge, ApJ, 484, 230 (1997).
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• "Cosmic rays and grain alignment," by A. Lazarian & W.G. Roberge, MNRAS, 287, 941-946 (1997).
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• "Ultra--High-Resolution Observations of Interstellar Na i and Ca ii K toward the High Galactic Latitude Star HD 28497," by C.J. Blades, M.S. Sahu, L. He, I.A. Crawford, M.J. Barlow, & F. Diego, ApJ, 478, 648 (1997).
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• "Ultraviolet interstellar linear polarization. IV. Cross-calibration between the Wisconsin ultraviolet photo-polarimeter experiment and the faint object spectrograph," by G.C. Clayton, M.J. Wolff, R.G. Allen, B.L. Babler, M.R. Meade, K.H. Hordsieck, C.M. Anderson, P.G. Martin, & D.C.B. Whittet, AJ, 114, 1132-1137 (1997).
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• "Ambipolar Diffusion and Far-Infrared Polarization from the Galactic Circumnuclear Disk," by S.J. Desch & W.G. Roberge, ApJ, 475, L115 (1997).
  [ADS Abstract]

• "Gas temperature distribution in the IRC+10216 circumstellar envelope," by S.D. Doty & C.M. Leung, MNRAS, 286, 1003-1011 (1997).
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• "Evidence for a Bipolar Geometry in R Coronae Borealis?" by G.C. Clayton, K.S. Bjorkman, K.H. Nordsieck, N.E.B. Zellner, & R.E. Schulte-Ladbeck, ApJ, 476, 870 (1997).
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• "Ultraviolet Spectropolarimetry of Three Classical Novae Early in Outburst: Evidence for Aspherical Shells," by J.J. Johnson, C.M. Anderson, K.S. Bjorkman, A.D. Code, G.K. Fox, A.J. Weitenbeck, W. Sanders, B.L. Babler, M.R. Meade, N.E.B. Zellner, R.J. Edgar, A.M. Magalhaes, G.C. Clayton, R.E. Schulte-Ladbeck, J.E. Herald, & O.L. Lupie, AJ, 113, 2200 (1997).
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