Hydra CTIO Publications

Refereed Publications for Hydra-CTIO Multiobject Spectrograph on Blanco 4-m Telescope

(last updated February 2012)

• Constraints on the Formation of the Galactic Bulge from Na, Al, and Heavy-element Abundances in Plaut's Field (Johnson et al. 2012, ApJ, 749, 175)
• Alpha Enhancement and the Metallicity Distribution Function of Plaut's Window (Johnson et al. 2011, ApJ. 732, 108)
• A Chemical Abundance Study of Red Giants in Open Clusters NGC 2204 and NGC 2243 (Jacobson, Friel, & Pilachowski, 2011, AJ, 141, 58)
• The Kinematics of the Globular Cluster System of NGC 5128 with a New Large Sample of Radial Velocity Measurements (Woodley et al., 2010, AJ, 139, 1871)
• Chemical Abundances for 855 Giants in the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) (Johnson & Pilachowski, 2010, ApJ, 722, 1373)
• Planetary Nebulae in Face-On Spiral Galaxies. II. Planetary Nebula Spectroscopy (Herrmann & Ciardullo, 2009, ApJ, 703, 894)
• Kinematics at the Edge of the Galactic Bulge: Evidence for Cylindrical Rotation (Howard et al. 2009, ApJ, 702, L153)
• A Large Sample Study of Red Giants in the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) (Johnson et al., 2009, ApJ, 698, 2048)
• The Bulge Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA). I. Sample Selection and a Rotation Curve (Howard et al. 2008, ApJ, 688, 1060)
• Open Clusters as Galactic Disk Tracers. I. Project Motivation, Cluster Membership, and Bulk Three-Dimensional Kinematics (Frinchaboy & Majewski, 2008, AJ, 136, 118)
• Fe and Al Abundances for 180 Red Giants in the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) (Johnson et al., 2008, ApJ, 681, 1505)
• The Bulge Radial Velocity Assay: Techniques and a Rotation Curve (Rich et al. 2007, ApJ, 658, L29)
• Stellar Rotation in Young Clusters. I. Evolution of Projected Rotational Velocity Distributions (Huang & Gies, 2006, ApJ, 648, 580)
• Exploring Halo Substructure with Giant Stars. VI. Extended Distributions of Giant Stars around the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: How Reliable Are They? (Majewski et al. 2005, AJ, 130, 2677)
• The Globular Cluster Systems of the Sculptor Group (Olsen et al., 2004, AJ, 127, 2674)
• Hydra Observations of Aluminum Abundances in the Red Giants of the Globular Clusters M80 and NGC 6752; (Cavallo, Suntzeff, & Pilachowski, 2004, AJ, 127, 3411)
• Dark Matter: Local Volume Density versus Total Surface Density (Chen et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 762)

If we have missed one of your Hydra-CTIO publications, please email instrument scientist David James at djames ctio noao edu