W.M. Keck Observatory Bibliography

Science Bibliography

A collection of articles referencing data collected at W.M. Keck Observatory.
The bibliography is limited to articles published in refereed journals.


2009

106 update 30June09

Allers, K.; Liu, M.; Shkolnik, E.; et. al.
2MASS 22344161+4041387AB: A Wide, Young, Accreting, Low-Mass Binary in the LkHa233 Group
ApJ 697 824 | 2009 May
AO HIRES LGS NIRC2 OSIRIS
article

Alves-Brito, A.; Forbes, D.; Mendel, J.; et. al.
The outer halo globular clusters of M31
MNRAS early view | 2009
HIRES

Ammons, S.; Melbourne, J.; Max, C.; et. al.
Spatially Resolved Stellar Populations of Eight GOODS-South AGN at z~1
AJ 137 470 | 2009
AO LGS NIRC2
article

Aspin, C.; Greene, T.; Reipurth, B.
V1647 Orionis: Keck/NIRSPEC 2 µm Echelle Observations
AJ 137 2968 | 2009 February
NIRSPEC
article

Bakos, G.; Pal, A.; Torres, G.; et. al.
HAT-P-10b: A Light and Moderately Hot Jupiter Transiting A K Dwarf
ApJ 696 1950 | 2009 May
HIRES

Baldovin-Saavedra, C.; Audard, M.; Duchêne, G.; et. al.
HDE 245059: A Weak-Lined T Tauri Binary Revealed by Chandra and Keck
ApJ 697 493 | 2009 May
AO NIRSPEC NIRSPAO
article

Barbary, K.; Dawson, K.; Tokita, K.; et. al.
Discovery of AN Unusual Optical Transient with the Hubble Space Telescope
ApJ 690 1358 | 2009 January
article

Barth, A.; Strigari, L.; Bentz, M.; et. al.
Dynamical Constraints on the Masses of the Nuclear Star Cluster and Black Hole in the Late-Type Spiral Galaxy NGC 3621
ApJ 690 1031 | 2009 January
ESI
article

Bean, J. L.; Seifahrt, A.
The architecture of the GJ 876 planetary system. Masses and orbital coplanarity for planets b and c
A&A 496 249 | 2009 March
HIRES
article

Beasley, M.; Cenarro, A.; Strader, J.; Brodie, J.
Evidence for the Disky Origin of Luminous Virgo Dwarf Ellipticals from the Kinematics of Their Globular Cluster Systems
AJ 137 5146 | 2009 June
article

Becker, G.; Rauch, M.; Sargent, W.
High Redshift Metals I.: The Decline of C IV at z > 5.3
ApJ 698 1010 | 2009 June
NIRSPEC

Boden, A.; Akeson, R.; Sargent, A.; et. al.
Interferometric Evidence for Resolved Warm Dust in the DQ Tau System
ApJ 696 L111 | 2009 May
AO IF
article

Boesgaard, A.; Krugler Hollek, J.
Beryllium Abundances in Stars of One Solar Mass
ApJ 691 1412 | 2009 February
HIRES
article

Boesgaard, A.; Jensen, E.; Deliyannis, C.
Abundances in Turnoff Stars in the Old, Metal-Rich Open Cluster, NGC 6791
AJ 137 4949 | 2009 June
HIRES
article

Burningham, B.; Pinfield, D.; Leggett, S.; et. al.
The discovery of an M4+T8.5 binary system
MNRAS 395 1237 | 2009 May
AO LGS NIRC2
article

Bussmann, R.; Dey, A; Lotz, J.; et. al.
Hubble Space Telescope Morphologies of z ~ 2 Dust Obscured Galaxies. I. Power-Law Sources
ApJ 693 750 | 2009 March
DEIMOS LRIS
article

Butler, R.; Howard, A.; Vogt, S.; Wright, J.
Nondetection of the Neptune-Mass Planet Reported Around GJ 176
ApJ 691 1738 | 2009 February
HIRES
article

Collins, M.; Chapman, S.; Irwin, M.; et. al.
A spectroscopic survey of EC4, an extended cluster in Andromeda's halo
MNRAS 396 1619 | 2009 July
DEIMOS
article

Comerford, J.; Gerke, B.; Newman, J.; et. al.
Inspiralling Supermassive Black Holes: A New Signpost for Galaxy Mergers
submitted to ApJ | 2009
article

Cowie, L.; Barger, A.; Trouille, L.
Measuring the Sources of the Intergalactic Ionizing Flux
ApJ 692 1476 | 2009 February
article

Cunningham, N.; Moeckel, N.; Bally, J.
A Pulsed, Precessing Jet in Cepheus A
ApJ 692 943 | 2009 February
LWS
article

Daddi, E.; Dannerbauer, H.; Stern, D.; et. al.
Two Bright Submillimeter Galaxies in a z = 4.05 Protocluster in Goods-North, and Accurate Radio- Infrared Photometric Redshifts
ApJ 694 1517 | 2009 April
DEIMOS
article

Dahm, S.; Carpenter, J.
Spitzer Spectroscopy of Circumstellar Disks in the 5 Myr Old Upper Scorpius OB Association
Accepted by AJ | 2009
HIRES

Davies, B.; Origlia, L.; Kudritzki, R.; et. al.
The Chemical Abundances in the Galactic Center from the Atmospheres of Red Supergiants
ApJ 694 46 | 2009 March
NIRSPEC
article

Davies, B.; Origlia, L.; Kudritzki, R.; et. al.
Chemical Abundance Patterns in the Inner Galaxy: The Scutum Red Supergiant Clusters
ApJ 696 2014 | 2009 May
NIRSPEC

Do, T.; Ghez, A.; Morris, M.; et. al.
A Near-Infrared Variability Study of the Galactic Black Hole: A Red Noise Source with NO Detected Periodicity
ApJ 691 1021 | 2009 February
AO LGS NGS
article

Drummond, J.; Christou, J.; Nelson, J.
Triaxial ellipsoid dimensions and poles of asteroids from AO observations at the Keck-II telescope
Icarus - in Press | 2009
AO NGS NIRC2
article

Dupuy, T.; Liu, M; Ireland, M.
Dynamical Mass of the Substellar Benchmark Binary HD 130948BC
ApJ 692 729 | 2009
AO NGS NIRC2
article

Eisner, J.; Graham, J.; Akeson, R.; Najita, J.
Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy of Sub-AU-Sized Regions of T Tauri and Herbig Ae/Be Disks
ApJ 692 309 | 2009 February
IF
article

Foley, R.; Matheson, T.; Blondin, S.; et. al.
Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Supernovae from the Essence Project: The First Four Years
AJ 137 3731 | 2009 April
DEIMOS ESI LRIS
article

Foley, R.; Chornock, R.; Filippenko, A.; et. al.
SN 2008ha: An Extremely Low Luminosity and Exceptionally Low Energy Supernova
AJ 138 376 | 2009 August
LRIS
article

Gezari, S.; Heckman, T.; Cenko, S.; et. al.
Luminous Thermal Flares from Quiescent Supermassive Black Holes
ApJ 698 1367 | 2009 June
LRIS

González Hernández, J.; Ruiz-Lapuente, P.; Filippenko, A.; et. al.
The Chemical Abundances of Tycho G in Supernova Remnant 1572
ApJ 691 1 | 2009 January
HIRES
article

Hammel, H.; Sromovsky, L.; Fry, P.; et. al.
The Dark Spot in the atmosphere of Uranus in 2006: Discovery, description, and dynamical simulations
Icarus 201 257 | 2009 May
AO NIRC2
article

Harrison, T.; Bornak, J.; Howell, Steve B.
Infrared Photometry and Spectroscopy of VY Aqr and EI Psc: Two Short-Period Cataclysmic Variables With Curious Secondary Stars
AJ 137 4061 | 2009 April
NIRSPEC
article

Hau, G.; Spitler, L.; Forbes, D.; et. al.
An ultra-compact dwarf around the Sombrero galaxy (M104): the nearest massive UCD
MNRAS 394 L97 | 2009 March
DEIMOS LRIS
article

Herczeg, G.; Cruz, K.; Hillenbrand, L.
Measuring tiny mass accretion rates onto young brown dwarfs
ApJ 696 1589 | 2009 May
LRIS

Hicks, E.; Davies, R.; Malkan, M.; et. al.
The Role of Molecular Gas in Obscuring Seyfert Active Galactic Nuclei
ApJ 696 448 | 2009 May
OSIRIS
article

Hildebrandt, H.; Pielorz, J.; Erben, T.; et. al.
CARS: the CFHTLS-Archive-Research Survey. II. Weighing dark matter halos of Lyman-break galaxies at z = 3-5
A&A 498 725 | 2009 May
DEIMOS
article

Holden, B.; Franx, M.; Illingworth, G.; et. al.
The Ellipticities of Cluster Early-type Galaxies from z ~ 1 to z ~ 0: No Evolution in the Overall Distribution of Bulge-to-Disk Ratios
ApJ 693 617 | 2009 March
DEIMOS LRIS
article

Howard, A.; Johnson, J.; Marcy, G.; et. al.
The NASA-UC Eta-Earth Program. I. A Super-Earth Orbiting HD 7924
ApJ 696 75 | 2009 May
HIRES
article

Hsieh, H.; Jewitt, D.; Ishiguro, M.
Physical Properties of Main-Belt Comet P/2005 u1 (read)
AJ 137 157 | 2009 January
LRIS
article

Hsieh, H.; Jewitt, D.; Fernandez, Y.
Albedos of Main-Belt Comets 133P/Elst-Pizarro and 176P/LINEAR
ApJ 694 L111 | 2009 April
LRIS
article

Hu, E.; Cowie, L.; Kakazu, Y.; Barger, A.
Deep Spectroscopy of Ultra-Strong Emission-Line Galaxies
ApJ 698 2014 | 2009 June
DEIMOS
article

Ilbert, O.; Capak, P.; Salvato, M.; et. al.
Cosmos Photometric Redshifts with 30-BANDS for 2-deg2
ApJ 690 1236 | 2009 January
DEIMOS
article

Jewitt, D.; Yang, B.; Haghighipour, N.
Main-Belt Comet P/2008 R1 (Garradd)
AJ 137 4313 | 2009 May
LRIS
article

Jewitt, D.
The Active Centaurs
AJ 137 4296 | 2009 May
LRIS
article

Jordi, K; Grebel, E.; Hilker, M.; et. al.
Testing Fundamental Physics with Distant Star Clusters: Analysis of Observational Data on Palomar 14
AJ 137 4586 | 2009 June
HIRES
article

Kaminski, T.; Schmidt, M.; Tylenda, R.; et. al.
Keck/HIRES Spectroscopy of V838 Monocerotis in October 2005
ApJS 182 33 | 2009 May
HIRES
article

Kawakita, H.; Kobayashi, H.
Formation Conditions of Icy Materials in Comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz). II. Diagnostics Using Nuclear Spin Temperatures and Deuterium-to-Hydrogen Ratios in Cometary Molecules
ApJ 693 388 | 2009 March
NIRSPEC
article

Kocevski, D.; Lubin, L.; Gal, R.; et. al.
Chandra Observations of the CL1604 Supercluster at z = 0.9: Evidence for AN Overdensity of Active Galactic Nuclei
ApJ 690 295 | 2009 January
LRIS DEIMOS
article

Lai, D.; Rockosi, C.; Bolte, M.; et. al.
A Unique Star in the Outer Halo of the Milky Way
ApJ 697 L63 | 2009 May
ESI

Langland-Shula, L.; Vogt, S.; Charbonneau, D.; et. al.
A HIRES/Keck Spectroscopic Investigation of the Measurement of Sodium in the Atmosphere of HD 209458b
ApJ 696 1355 | 2009
HIRES
article

Laughlin, G.; Deming, D.; Langton, J.; et. al.
Rapid heating of the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet
Nature 457, 562 | 2009 January

Laver, C.; de Pater, I.
The global distribution of sulfur dioxide ice on Io, observed with OSIRIS on the W.M. Keck telescope
Icarus 201 172 | 2009 May
OSIRIS
article

Lu, J.; Ghez, A.; Hornstein, S.; et. al.
A Disk of Young Stars at the Galactic Center as Determined by Individual Stellar Orbits
ApJ 690 1463 | 2009 January
AO
article

Lubin, L.; Gal, R.; Lemaux, B.; et. al.
The Observations of Redshift Evolution in Large Scale Environments (ORELSE) Survey : I. The Survey Design and First Results on Cl 0023+0423 at z = 0.84 and RX J1821.6+6827 at z = 0.82
AJ 137 4867 | 2009 June
DEIMOS

Luo, B.; Brandt, W.; Silverman, J.; et. al.
Discovery of the Most Distant Double-Peaked Emitter at z = 1.369
ApJ 695 1227 | 2009 April
DEIMOS
article

Ly, C.; Malkan, M.; Treu, T.; et. al.
Lyman Break Galaxies at z ˜ 1.8-2.8: GALEX/NUV Imaging of the Subaru Deep Field
ApJ 697 1410 | 2009 June
LRIS
article

Ma, C.; Ebeling, H.; Barrett, E.
An X-Ray/Optical Study of the Complex Dynamics of the Core of the Massive Intermediate-Redshift Cluster MACSJ0717.5+3745
ApJ 693 L56 | 2009 March
DEIMOS
article

Mace, G.; Prato, L.; Wasserman, L.; et. al.
The Highly Eccentric Pre-Main-Sequence Spectroscopic Binary RX J0529.3+1210
AJ 137 3487 | 2009 March
NIRSPEC
article

Maeda, K.; Kawabata, K.; Li, W.; et. al.
Subaru and Keck Observations of the Peculiar Type Ia Supernova 2006GZ at Late Phases
ApJ 690 1745 | 2009 January
LRIS
article

Martinache, F.; Rojas-Ayala, B.; Ireland, M.; et. al.
Visual Orbit of the Low-Mass Binary GJ 164 AB
ApJ 695 1183 | 2009 April
AO NIRC2
article

Melbourne, J.; Bussman, S.; Brand, K.; et. al.
High Redshift Dust Obscured Galaxies, A Morphology-SED Connection Revealed by Keck Adaptive Optics
AJ 137 4854 | 2009 June
AO LGS NGS NIRC2
article

Meléndez, J.; Barbuy, B.
Both accurate and precise gf-values for Fe II lines
A&A 497 611 | 2009 April
HIRES
article

Meléndez, J.; Cohen, J. G.
The Rise of the AGB in the Galactic Halo: Mg Isotopic Ratios and High Precision Elemental Abundances in M71 Giants
ApJ 699 2017 | 2009 July
HIRES
article

Melis, C.; Zuckerman, B.; Song, I.; et. al.
A Substantial Dust Disk Surrounding an Actively Accreting First-Ascent Giant Star
ApJ 696 1964 | 2009 May
AO HIRES NGS NIRC2

Metchev, S.; Hillenbrand, L.
The Palomar/Keck Adaptive Optics Survey of Young Solar Analogs: Evidence for a Universal Companion Mass Function
accepted by ApJ Supplements | 2009
AO

Miller, A.; Chornock, R.; Perley, D.; et. al.
The Exceptionally Luminous Type II-Linear Supernova 2008es
ApJ 690 1303 | 2009 January
LRIS
article

Mumma, M.; Villaneuva, G.; Novak, R.; et. al.
Strong Release of Methane on Mars in Northern Summer 2003
Science 323 1041 | 2009 February

Najita, J.; Doppmann, G.; Carr, J.; et. al.
High-Resolution K-Band Spectroscopy of MWC 480 and V1331 Cyg
ApJ 691 738 | 2009 January
NIRSPEC
article

Najita, J.; Doppmann, G.; Bitner, M.; et. al.
High-Resolution Spectroscopy of [Ne II] Emission from AA Tau and GM Aur
ApJ 697 957 | 2009 May
NIRSPEC
article

Ouchi, M.; Ono, Y.; Egami, E.; et. al.
Discovery of a Giant Lya Emitter Near the Reionization Epoch
ApJ 696 1164 | 2009 May
DEIMOS
article

Patel, S.; Kelson, D.; Holden, B.; et. al.
A Wide-Field Study of the z ~ 0.8 Cluster RX J0152.7–1357: The Role of Environment in the Formation of the Red Sequence
ApJ 694 1349 | 2009 April
article

Peek, K.; Johnson, J.; Fischer, D.; et. al.
Old, Rich, and Eccentric: Two Jovian Planets Orbiting Evolved Metal-Rich Stars
accepted PASP | 2009
article

Perley, D.; Metzger, B.; Granot, J.; et. al.
GRB 080503: Implications of a Naked Short Gamma-Ray Burst Dominated by Extended Emission
ApJ 696 1871 | 2009 May
LRIS

Poznanski, D.; Butler, N.; Filippenko, A.; et. al.
Improved Standardization of Type II-P Supernovae: Application to an Expanded Sample
ApJ 694 1067 | 2009 April
DEIMOS LRIS
article

Prochaska, J.; Sheffer, Y.; Perley, D.; et. al.
The First Positive Detection of Molecular Gas in a GRB Host Galaxy
ApJ 691 L27 | 2009 January
article

Prochaska, J.; Hennawi, J.
Quasars Probing Quasars. III. New Clues to Feedback, Quenching, and the Physics of Massive Galaxy Formation
ApJ 690 1558 | 2009 January
HIRES
article

Ragozzine, D.; Brown, M.
Orbits and Masses of the Satellites of the Dwarf Planet Haumea (2003 EL61)
AJ 137 4766 | 2009 June
AO LGS NIRC2
article

Rahmani, H.; Saslaw, W.; Tavasoli, S.
The Spatial Distribution Function of Galaxies at High Redshift
ApJ 695.1121 | 2009 April
DEIMOS LRIS
article

Reach, W.; Faied, D.; Rho, J.; et. al.
Properties of Protostars in the Elephant Trunk in the Globule IC 1396A
ApJ 690 683 | 2009 January
NIRSPEC
article

Reddy, N.; Steidel, C.
A Steep Faint-End Slope of the UV Luminosity Function at z ~ 2-3: Implications for the Global Stellar Mass Density and Star Formation in Low-Mass Halos
ApJ 692 778 | 2009 February
LRIS
article

Reiners, A.; Basri, G.; Browning, M.
Evidence for Magnetic Flux Saturation in Rapidly Rotating M Stars
ApJ 692 538 | 2009 February
HIRES
article

Romanowsky, A.; Strader, J.; Spitler, L.; et. al.
Mapping The Dark Side with DEIMOS: Globular Clusters, X-Ray Gas, and Dark Matter in the NGC 1407 Group
AJ 137 4956 | 2009 June
DEIMOS LRIS
article

Ryan-Weber, E.; Pettini, M.; Madau, P.; Zych, B.
A downturn in intergalactic C iv as redshift 6 is approached
MNRAS 395 1476 | 2009 May
NIRSPEC
article

Sato, T.; Martin, C.; Noeske, K.; et. al.
AEGIS: The Nature of the Host Galaxies of Low-Ionization Outflows at z < 0.6
ApJ 696 214 | 2009 May
DEIMOS
article

Schneider, N.; Burger, M.; Schaller, E.; et. al.
No sodium in the vapour plumes of Enceladus
Nature 459 1102 | 2009 June
HIRES
article

Schwarzschild, B.
Direct imaging reveals exoplanets in orbital motion
PhT 66 11 | 2009 January
article

Seo, H.; Kim, S.; Kim, J.; et. al.
Titan at 3 microns: Newly identified spectral features and an improved analysis of haze opacity
Icarus 199 449 | 2009 February
NIRSPEC
article

Shkolnik, E.; Liu, M.; Reid, I.
Identifying the Young Low-mass Stars within 25 pc. I. Spectroscopic Observations
ApJ 699 649 | 2009 July
HIRES
article

Smith, N.; Silverman, J.; Chornock, R.; et. al.
Coronal Lines and Dust Formation in SN 2005ip: Not the Brightest, but the Hottest Type IIn Supernova
ApJ 695 1334 | 2009 April
DEIMOS LRIS
article

Smith, N.; Ganeshalingam, M.; Chornock, R.; et. al.
SN 2008S: A Cool Super-Eddington Wind in a Supernova Impostor
ApJ 697 L49 | 2009 May
LRIS

Sozzetti, A.; Torres, G.; Charbonneau, D.; et. al.
A New Spectroscopic and Photometric Analysis of the Transiting Planet Systems TrES-3 and TrES-4
ApJ 691 1145 | 2009 February
HIRES
article

Sozzetti, A.; Torres, G.; Latham, D.; et. al.
A Keck HIRES Doppler Search for Planets Orbiting Metal-Poor Dwarfs. II. On the Frequency of Giant Planets in the Metal-Poor Regime
ApJ 697 544 | 2009 May
HIRES
article

Urrutia, T.; Becker, R.; White, R.; et. al.
The FIRST-2MASS Red Quasar Survey. II. An Anomalously High Fraction of LoBALs in Searches for Dust-Reddened Quasars
ApJ 698 1095 | 2009 June
ESI LRIS

Veras, D.; Ford, E.
Secular Evolution of HD 12661: a System Caught at AN Unlikely Time
ApJ 690 L1 | 2009 January 1
article

Vinkó, J.; Sárneczky, K.; Balog, Z.; et. al.
The Young, Massive, Star Cluster Sandage-96 After the Explosion of Supernova 2004dj in NGC 2403
ApJ 695 619 | 2009 April
DEIMOS
article

Walkowicz, L.; Hawley, S.
Tracers of Chromospheric Structure. I. Observations of Ca II K and Ha in M Dwarfs
AJ 137 3297 | 2009 February
HIRES
article

Wang, X.; Li, W.; Filippenko, A.; et. al.
The Golden Standard Type Ia Supernova 2005cf: Observations from the Ultraviolet to the Near-Infrared Wavebands
ApJ 697 380 | 2009 May
DEIMOS LRIS

West, A.; Basri, G.
A First Look at Rotation in Inactive Late-Type M Dwarfs
ApJ 693 1283 | 2009 March
HIRES
article

Williams, K.; Bolte, M.; Koester, D.
Probing the Lower Mass Limit for Supernova Progenitors and the High-Mass End of the Initial-Final Mass Relation from White Dwarfs in the Open Cluster M35 (NGC 2168)
ApJ 693 355 | 2009 March
LRIS
article

Winn, J.; Holman, M.; Henry, G.; et. al.
The Transit Light Curve Project. X. A Christmas Transit of HD 17156b
ApJ 693 794 | 2009 March
HIRES
article

Woodruff, H.; Ireland, M.; Tuthill, P.; et. al.
The Keck Aperture Masking Experiment: Spectro-Interferometry of Three Mira Variables from 1.1 to 3.8 µm
ApJ 691 1328 | 2009 February
NIRC
article

Wright, J.; Upadhyay, S.; Marcy, G.; et. al.
Ten New and Updated Multiplanet Systems and a Survey of Exoplanetary Systems
ApJ 693 1084 | 2009 March
HIRES
article

Wright, J.; Fischer, D.; Ford, E.; et. al.
A Third Giant Planet Orbiting HIP 14810
ApJ 699 L97 | 2009 July
HIRES
article