Publications

(The names of Vatican Observatory staff and visiting astronomers are noted in boldface.)

ABT, H. A. and CORBALLY, C. J. "The Maximum Age of Trapezium Systems," 2000, ApJ, 541, 841

BOYLE, R. P., SMRIGLIO, F., DASGUPTA, A., KAZLAUSKAS, A., STRAIZYS, V. and PHILIP, A. G. D. "Knowing the Error of Your Flat" (abstract) 1999, BAAS, 31, 150

BRITT D. T. and CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. "The Porosity of Dark Meteorites and the Structure of Low-Albedo Asteroids," 2000, Icarus, 146, 213-219

        . "Modeling the Structure of High Porosity Asteroids," 2000, submitted to Icarus

        . "Modeling the Structure of High Porosity Asteroids," 2000, Lunar Planet. Sci., XXXI

        . "Asteroid Bulk Density Implications of Recent Data," 2000, Meteoritics and Planet. Sci., 34, A34-A35

CARUANA, L. Holism and the Understanding of Science: Integrating the Analytical, Historical and Sociological, 2000, Series Title: New Critical Thinking in Philosophy, ed. Ashgate (UK: Aldershot)

CASANOVAS, J. "Gruáwort," 2000, in Sonne Entdecken, Christoph Scheiner 1575-1650 (Ingolstadt, 2000)

        . "L'astronomia nei collegi della Compagnia di Ges—," in Alle origini dell'universit… dell'Aquila (Rome: Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S.I), 251-260

        . "El antiguo observatorio de Pek¡n y los instrumentos astron¢micos de 1660," 2000, Astrum, 34-37

        . "Contributo della Specola Vaticana al progetto Carte du Ciel," 1999, in Atti del Convegno di Storia dell'Astronomia, ed. P. Calledda and E. Proverbio (Cagliari), 123-132

        . "Insegnamento dell'astronomia nei Collegi dei Gesuiti nel Settecento," 1997, in Atti del convegno su Giuseppe Toaldo e il suo Tempo, ed. L. Pigatto (Padua), 411-423

        . "A New Approach to Spherical Astronomy," 2000, in Astronomical Amusements, Papers in Honor of Jean Meeus, ed. F. Bonoli, S. De Meis, and A. Panaino (Milan), 23-32

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist, 2000 (New York: McGraw Hill)

        . "Scientist in the Vatican," 2000, Catholic Digest, 64, June, 66-71

        . "Al sole di mezzanotte," 2000, Popoli, June/July, 32-38

        . "Basaltic Achondrites, the Moon, and the Earth Geochemical Constraints on Origin Theories," 2000, Abstracts, Annual Meeting, Geochemistry Group, British Mineralogical and Geological Societies

        . "Apollo Samples and the Geochemical Determination of Basaltic Achondrite Parent Bodies," 2000, submitted to Earth Moon Plan

        . "Lithification Scenarios for Ordinary Chondrites", Meteoritics and Planet. Sci., 34, A45

        . Book review of Asteroids, A History by Curtis Peebles, 2000, in Sky and Telescope, in press

        . Book review of Turn Right at Orion by Mitchell Begelman, 2000, in Meteoritics and Planetary Science, submitted

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. and Davis D. M. Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope-- and How to Find Them, Third Edition, 2000 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press)

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J., TEGLER, S. C., RETTIG, T., and ROMANISHIN, W. "Size, Shape, Rotation, and Color of the Outer Solar System Object 1999 TD10," 2000, BAAS, in press

CORBALLY, C. J. "The 'Widening Center' of ZCRS," 1999, ZCRS Reports, 1, 3

        . "The Heavens Declare God's Glory," 2000, Bible Alive, June

        . "The Vatican Observatory Summer Schools in Observational Astronomy and Astrophysics" (abstract), 2000, in XXIV meeting of the IAU, Special Session on   Astronomy for Developing Countries, IAUSS, 24, 7

CORBALLY, C. J., ed. Standard Star Newsletter No. 28, 2000, for IAU Working Group on Standard Stars

CORBALLY, C. J., GARRISON, R. F., RUEGER, W., and STAGG, C. R. "G-Dwarf Stars in the Galactic Halo," 1999, Ap&SS 265, 187

CORBALLY, C., STRAIZYS, V., and LAUGALYS, V. "Interstellar Extinction Law in the Vicinity of the North American and Pelican Nebulae," 1999, BAAS, 31, 1478

COYNE, G. V. "Il Dio che si svela nell'universo," 2000, L'Osservatore Romano, 25 May, 3

        . "Preuves scientifiques de l'existence de planŠtes habitables hors du systŠme solarie. Un dŠfi pour la pens‚e religieuse," 2000, in Dieu, L'�glise et Extraterrestres, ed. Alexandre Vigne, trans. M-C. Grun‚lius-de-Neuville (Lu‡on, France: �ditions Question), 29-46

        . "The Scientific Venture and Materialism: False Premises," 2000, in Space or Spaces as Paradigms of Mental Categories (Milan: Fondazione Carlo Erba), 7-19.

        . "The Evolution of Intelligent Life on the Earth and Possibly Elsewhere: Reflections from a Religious Tradition," 2000, in Many Worlds: The New Universe, Extraterrestrial Life, and the Theological Implications, ed. S. Dick (Philadelphia and London: Templeton Foundation Press), 177-188

        . "Introduction: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective," 2001, in The Far Future Universe, ed. G. F. R. Ellis (Philadelphia and London: Templeton Foundation Press), submitted for publication

        . "The Church in D ialogue with Science: The Wojtyla Years," 2000, in New Catholic Encyclopedia (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, Gale Group)

        . "A Brief History of the Age of the Universe," 2001, in The Faces of Time, ed. E. Sindoni and G. Giorello (Casale Monferrato, Italy: Piemme), submitted for publication

        . "Origins and Creation," 2001, in First Steps in the Origin of Life in the Universe, ed. J. Chela-Flores, T. Owen, and F. Raulin (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers), submitted for publication

        . "Direzione della Specola Vaticana," 2000, Attivit… della Santa Sede 1999, 1456-1468

        . "Vatican Observatory," in Interdisciplinary Dictionary of Faith and Science, ed. A. Strumia and G. Tanzella-Nitti, to be published

COYNE, G. and OMIZZOLO, A. Viandanti nel Cosmo: Astronomia e Senso della Vita, 2000 (Arnaldo Mondadori Editore, S.p.A.: Milan)

CRISTIANI, S., GRAZIAN, A., OMIZZOLO, A., and CORBALLY, C. "Mining the Local Universe: The QSO Space Density," 2000, in Mining the Sky, Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE Joint Astronomy Conference, astro-ph/0010562 (preprint)

FUNES, J. G. and CORSINI, E. M. "Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies" Conference Highlights, 2000, PASP 112, 1510

        . "Galassie a disco alla Pontificia Universit… Gregoriana," 2000, Civilt… Cattolica, 3611, 444-450  

FUNES, J. G., and CORSINI, E. M., ed. Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies (San Francisco: Conference Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific), to be published

GRAY, R. O. and CORBALLY, C. J. "A Spectroscopic Search for Peculiar A-Type Stars in Open Clusters," 1999, BAAS, 31, 1441

GRAZIAN, A., CRISTIANI, S., D'ODORICO, V., OMIZZOLO, A., and PIZZELLA, A. "The Asiago-ESO/RASS QSO Survey. I. The Catalog and the Local QSO Luminosity Function," 2000, AJ, 119, 2540

GUPTA, R. D. and RICHARDS, D. St.P. "Moment Properties of the Multivariate Dirichlet Distributions," 2000, J. Multivariate Analysis, in press

HELLER, M. Book review of The God of Evolution: A Trinitarian Theology by D. Edwards, 1999, in Tarnowskie Studia Teologiczne, 18/2, 333-335

        . "Report on Science and Religion Forum," 1999, Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 25, 103-105

        . "Science et Transcendence, Convergences," 2000, Num‚ro sp‚ecial: Science et religion, Universit‚ Interdisciplinaire de Paris, Spring, 14-19

        . "Cosmological Singularity and the Creation of the Universe," 2000, Zygon, 35, 665-685

HELLER, M., LAMBERT, D., and MADORE, B. "A Brief History of Noncommutative Space-Time," 1998, Acta Cosmologica, 2D.4, no. 1, 51-69

        . "Some Conceptual Problems of the Groupoid Approach to Noncommutative Quantization of Gravity," 1998, Acta Cosmologica, 24, no. 1, 71-85

HELLER, M., SASIN, W., and ODRZYGàYDY, Z. "State Vector Reduction as a Shadow of Noncommutative Dynamics," 2000, J. Math. Phys. 41, 5168-5179

LISZKA, L., PACHOLCZYK, A. G., and STOEGER, W. R. "Extraction of a Deterministic Component from ROSAT X-Ray Data Using a Wavelet Transform and the Principal Component Analysis. II. The Data Analysis," 2000, A&A, 354, 847-852

        . "Active Galactic Nuclei. VI. ROSAT Variability of Seyfert Galaxies," 2000, ApJ, 540, 122-130

MAG¶LHAES, A. M., PEREYRA, A., MELGAREJO, R., and COYNE, G. V. "A Survey of Interstellar Polarization," 2000, Bull. Astron. Soc. Brazil, in press

OMIZZOLO, A. "Astronomy," in Interdisciplinary Dictionary of Faith and Science, ed. A. Strumia and G. Tanzella-Nitti, to be published

PIGNATELLI, E., CORSINI, E. M., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., SCARLATA, C., PIZZELLA, A., FUNES, J. G., ZEILINGER, W. W., BECKMAN, J. E., and BERTOLA, F. "Modeling the Gaseous and Stellar Kinematics in the Disk Galaxies NGC 772, NGC 3898, and NGC 7782," 2000, MNRAS, accepted for publication

SARZI, M., CORSINI, E. M., PIZZELLA, A., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., CAPPELLARI, M., FUNES, J. G., and BERTOLA, F. "NGC 4672. A New Case of an Early-Type Disk Galaxy with an Orthogonally Decoupled Core," 2000, A&A, 360, 439

STOEGER, W. R. "The Mind-Brain Problem, the Laws of Nature and Constitutive Relationships," 1999, in Neuroscience and the Person: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, ed. R. J. Russell, N. Murphy, T. C. Meyering, and M. A. Arbib (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications), 129-146

        . "Scientific Accounts of Ultimate Catastrophes in Our Life-Bearing Universe," 2000, in The End of the World and the Ends of God, ed. J. Polkinghorne and M. Welker (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International), 19-28

        . "Cultural Cosmology and the Impact of the Natural Sciences on Philosophy and Culture," 2000, in The End of the World and the Ends of God, ed. J. Polkinghorne and M. Welker (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International), 65-77

        . "Can God Really Act in the World and in Our Lives," 2000, in God for the 21st Century, 2000, ed. R. Stannard (Philadelphia and London: Templeton Foundation Press), 166-168

        . "Epistemological and Ontological Issues Arising from Quantum Theory," 2001, in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory, ed. R. J. Russell, J. Polkinghorne, and P. Clayton (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications), to be published

        . "Cosmology," 2001, in Interdisciplinary Dictionary of Faith and Science, ed. A. Strumia and G. Tanzella-Nitti, to be published

        . "Cosmology. VI. Modern History of Science," 2001, in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, New Edition, ed. H. D. Betz (J. C. B. Mohr Publishing House), to be published

        . "What is 'the Universe' Which Cosmology Studies?" 2000, in Philosophy in Science, Vol. IX, ed. W. R. Stoeger, M. Heller, and J. Zycinski (Tucson, Arizona: Pachart Publishing House), to be published

        . "Aesthetics and Theology and Science," 2000, in Proceedings of the 55th Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America (Report on the Theology and Natural Sciences Group Session), ed. M. Downey (Washington, DC: CTSA), 144-145

STRAIZYS, V., CORBALLY, C., and LAUGALYS, V. "Interstellar Extinction Law in the Vicinity of the North American and Pelican Nebulae," 1999, Balt. A., 8, 355

TERES, G. "History and Research Work of the Vatican Observatory, From Rome to Arizona," 1998, in Scientia unit in Fide, ed. E. Nemesszeghy (Kecskemet: Korda), Vol. II, 273-311, in Hungarian

        . "Christian Chronology and the Star of Bethlehem," 2000, in Uj Ember (Budapest: Uj Ember), in Hungarian

        . The Bible and Astronomy, 2000 (Budapest: Springer Orvosi Kiado)