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Publications

BARTASIUTE, S., ASLAN, Z., BOYLE, R.P., KHARCHENKO, N. V., OSSIPKOV, L. P., and SPERAUSKAS, J. “Stellar Populations of the Galactic Disk: Metallicity Distribution and Kinematics,” 2003, Baltic Astronomy, 12, 539

BOYLE, R.P., JANUSZ, R., LAUGALYS, V., and PHILIP, A.G. DAVIS. “CCD Flatfield Correction by Differential Stellar Photometry: Automated Methods,” (abstract) 2003, BAAS, 35, 1207

BOYLE, R.P., JANUSZ, R., PHILIP, A.G. DAVIS, KAZLAUSKAS, A., and LAUGALYS, V. “Flatfielding Errors in Strömvil CCD Photometry,” 2003, Baltic Astronomy, 12, 476

BOYLE, R.P., LAUGALYS, V., and PHILIP, A.G.D. “Flatfield Correction by Differential CCD Photometry in M 67,” (abstract) 2002, BAAS, 34, 1257

BUDZIK, S. and HELLER, M., eds. Fides Quaerens Intellectum, Quaestiones ad disputandum-2, 2002 (Tarnów: Biblos)

BRITT, D. T. and CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. “Stony Meteorite Porosities and Densities: A Review of the Data through 2001,” 2003, Meteorit. Planet. Sci., 38, 1161-1180

CARUANA, L. “Science Interacting with Philosophy: The Case of Ludwig Wittgenstein,” 2003, Gregorianum, 84/3, 584-616

CASANOVAS, J. Entries in the Diccionario Histórico de la Compańía de Jesús, eds. C. E. O’Neill and J. M. Rodríguez (Rome: Institutum Historicum; Madrid: Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 2001): “Astronomia,” 259-263; “Calendario Gregoriano,” 602-603; “Copernicanismo,” 940-943; “Hagen, J. G.,” 1864-1865; “Kepler, J.,” 2189; “Rodés Campdera, L.,” 3386

COCCATO, L., CORSINI, E. M., PIZZELLA, A., FUNES, J. G., BERTOLA, F. “Minor-Axis Velocity Gradients in Disk Galaxies,” 2003, accepted for publication in A&A

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. Book Review of The Life and Death of Planet Earth by Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, 2003, Meteorit. Planet. Sci., 38, 1131-1132

____ . “God Under the Dome,” 2003, in Proceedings of the 39th Great Lakes Planetarium Association Annual Conference, ed. D. W. Smith, in press

____ . “Meteoritical Evidence and Constraints on Impacts and Disruption,” 2003, Abstracts, 6th Workshop on Catastrophic Disruption in the Solar System, 8

____ . “Religion, Science Fiction, and the Real Universe,” 2003, Argentus, 3, 3-8

____ . “Remote Sensing the Whole Meteorite,” 2003, Program and Abstracts, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 264

____ . “The Composition and Evolution of a Geophysically Reasonable Moon Produced by a Giant Impact,” 2003, Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXIV, 1165

____ . “Grappling with a Universe,” 2004, Company, 21, 27-29

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J., RUSSELL, S. S., and JEFFRIES, T. E. “REE Studies of Three Lunar Highland Meteorites: Clues to the Ancient Lunar Crust,” 2003, Program and Abstracts, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 266

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J., WEIDENSCHILLING, S. J., and BRITT, D. T. “Forming Well-Compacted Meteorites by Shock Events in the Solar Nebula,” 2003, Meteorit. Planet. Sci., 38, A128

CORBALLY, C. J. “The Anchor Points in Bob Garrison's Astronomical Life,” 2003, in The Garrison Festschrift, eds. Gray, R. O., Corbally, C. J., Philip, A. G. D. (Schenectady: L. Davis Press), 77-85

____ . “History of the Vatican Observatory and Its Castel Gandolfo Headquarters,” 2003, in Depth & Details, A Reader's Guide to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, ed. Betsy Eble (Morrisville: Lulu Press), 97-99

____ . “Working Group on Standard Stars,” 2002, in Transactions of the IAU: Reports on Astronomy, ed. H. Rickman (Dordrecht: D.Reidel Publishing), Vol. XXVA, 264

____ . Book review of The Bible and Astronomy: The Magi and the Star in the Gospel by Gustav Teres, 2003, ESSSAT-News, 13:2 (July) 10-11

CORBALLY, C. J., GARRISON, R. F., GRAY, R. O. “Finding High Priority Projects for Stellar Physics Through Spectroscopy,” 2003, in The Future of Small Telescopes in the New Millennium, ed. T. D. Oswalt, Vol. III (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers), 93-109

COYNE, G. V. “Modern Cosmology and the Image of God as Creator,” 2002, in Memorie della Societŕ Astronomica Italiana, Special No. 1, 206-214

____ . “Le Origini e la Creazione,” 2003, in Epistemologia de las Ciencias, La Vida Humana, Su Especifidad, ed. L. Archideo (Buenos Aires: CIAFIC Ediciones), 179- 202

____ . “The Sacred Cows of Religion and Science Meet,” 2003, in Science and Religion: Ruminations on the Cosmos, eds. C. Impey and C. Petry (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications), 19-34

____ . “An Overview of Cosmic Evolution,” 2003, in Life in the Universe: >From the Miller Experiment to the Search for Life on Other Worlds, ed. J. Seckbach (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004), in press

____ . “Origins and Creation,” in An Anthology: In the Beginning, About Human Existence and Other Absurdities, ed. T. D. Wabbel (Dusseldorf: PATMOS Publishers, 2004), in press

____ . “Scienza e Fede,” in Alessandro Volta: Nel Bicentenario dell’Invenzione della Pila, 1799-1999, Atti delle Celebrazioni (Como: Comitato Nazionale, 2002), 248-259

____ . “Modern Cosmology and Life’s Meaning,” 2003, in The Cultural Values of Science, ed. W. Arber (Vatican City: Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze, 2003), 101-109

____ . “Presentation of Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church,” 2003, in Reviews in Philosophy and Science (Tarnów: Biblos), 5-12

____ . “The Church’s Most Recent Attempt to Dispel the Galileo Myth,” 2003, in The Church and Galileo, ed. E. McMullin (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press), in press

____ . “Una Breve Storia dell’Etŕ dell’Universo,” 2002, in Il Tempo fra Scienza e Filosofia, eds. G. Giorello, E. Sindoni, and C. Sinigaglia (Milan: Edizioni Unicopli 2002), 130-133

____ . “The Sacred Cows of Religion and Science Meet,” 2003, in International Symposium on Astrophysics Research and on the Dialogue between Science and Religion, eds. C. Impey and C. Petry (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications 2003), 15-25

____ . “Science and Religion: Can We Talk?” 2003, Sky & Telescope, December

CROTTS, A.P.S., DE JONG, J.T.A., UGLESICH, R.R., BALTZ, E.A., KUIJKEN, K.H., SACKETT, P.D., BOYLE, R.P., SUTHERLAND, W.J., CSERESNJES, P., CORBALLY, C.J., GYUK, G., and WIDROW, L.M. “Results from Two Surveys Indicating Massive Lensing Objects in the Halo of M31,” (abstract) 2003, BAAS, 35, 1406

CROTTS, A., UGLESICH, R., BALTZ, E., DE JONG, J, BOYLE, R., CORBALLY, C., and GOULD, A. “Evidence for Halo Microlensing from a Survey of M31,” 2003, abstract in ASTRO_ABSTRACT_BOOK.pdf of International Astronomical Union, 25th General Assembly, Sydney, Australia

CROTTS, A., UGLESICH, R., BALTZ, E., DE JONG, J., BOYLE, R., CORBALLY, C., and GOULD, A. “Evidence for Halo Microlensing from a Survey of M31,” 2003, Abstracts: International Astronomical Union, 25th General Assembly

CROTTS, A. P. S., UGLESICH, R., TOMANEY, A., BOYLE, R., CORBALLY, C., DeJONG, J. “Variable Stars from the VATT/Columbia Survey of Microlensing in M31,” 2002, in Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 193, in press

ELLIS, G. F. R., KIRCHNER, U., and STOEGER, W. R. “Multiverses and Physical Cosmology,” 2003, MNRAS, in press

FUNES, J. G. “La Imagen del Universo y Algunas de Sus Implicaciones Filosóficas,” 2002, Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 58, 953

____ . “Galaxy Quest ... for Sense,” 2003, in International Symposium on Astrophysics Research and on the Dialogue between Science and Religion, eds. C. Impey and C. Petry (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications 2003), 182- 184

FUNES, J. G., GUTIERREZ, C., PRADA, F., AZZARO, M., RIBEIRO, M.B. “Star Formation in Satellite Galaxies,” 2003, Proceedings of Satellites and Tidal Streams, La Palma

FUNES, J. G., REJKUBA, M., MINNITI, D., AKIYAMA, S., KENNICUTT, R. C. “Star Formation in the Disk of NGC 5128,” 2002, BAAS, 34, 1137

GRAY, R. O., CORBALLY, C. J., GARRISON, R. F., McFADDEN, M. T., KLUTTZ, K. A., ROBINSON, P. E., O'DONOGHUE, A. A. “The Nearby Stars (NStars) Program at Appalachian State University, Vatican Observatory, and David Dunlap Observatory,” 2002, BAAS, 34, 1223

GRAY, R. O., CORBALLY, C. J., GARRISON, R. F., McFADDEN, M. T., KLUTTZ, K. A., ROBINSON, P. E., O'DONOGHUE, A. A., KNOX, E. R. “Metallicities of Stars with Planets from the NStars Program,” 2003, in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 219, in press

GRAY, R. O., CORBALLY, C. J., GARRISON, R. F., McFADDEN, M. T., ROBINSON, P. E. “Contributions to the Nearby Stars (NStars) Project: Spectroscopy of Stars Earlier than M0 within 40 parsecs: The Northern Sample. I,” 2003, AJ, 126, 2048-2059

GRAY, R. O., CORBALLY, C. J., PHILIP, A. G. D., eds. The Garrison Festschrift, 2003 (Schenectady: L. Davis Press)

HELLER, M. Creative Tension–Essays on Science and Religion, 2003 (Philadelphia–London: Templeton Foundation Press)

____ . “Noncommutative Unification of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. A Finite Model,” 2003, General Relativity and Gravitation, in press

____ . “Algebraic Self-Duality as the Ultimate Explanation,” 2003, Foundations of Science, in press

____ . “Time of the Universe,” 2002, in The Far-Future Universe: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective, ed. G. F. R. Ellis (Philadelphia-London: Templeton Foundation Press 2002), 63-64

____ . “Philosophical and Theological Consequences of Cosmology,” 2002, in Fides Quaerens Intellectum, eds. S. Budzik, M. Heller (Tarnów: Biblos 2002), 15-26, in Polish

____ . “Discussion: What Does Really Move: The Earth or the Sun?” 2002, in Polish Academy of Science and Art, History of Science Commission, Monograph 5, 51-72, in Polish

____ . The Unity of Science: The Unity of the World? 2003, eds. M. Heller and J. M˙czka (Kraków: OBI; Tarnów: Biblos), in Polish

____ . “Beauty as a Criterion of Truth,” 2003, in The Unity of Science: The Unity of the World? eds. M. Heller and J. M˙czka (Kraków: OBI; Tarnów: Biblos), in Polish

HELLER, M., ODRZYGÓZDZ, Z., PYSIAK, L., and SASIN, W. “Structure of Malicious Singularities,” 2003, Int. J. Theor. Phys., 42

JANUSZ, R., and BOYLE, R.P. “The CommandLog: A Comprehensive Method to Extract Precise Stellar Photometry from CCD Exposures,” 2003, J. Astron. Data, 9, 4

JANUSZ, R., BOYLE, R.P., and PHILIP, A. G. DAVIS. “Reduction of CCD Images for Stellar Photometry on the VATT,” 2003, Baltic Astronomy, 12, 484

KAZLAUSKAS, A., STRAIZYS, V., BOYLE, R.P., PHILIP, A.G.D., LAUGALYS, V., CERNIS, K., and SPERAUSKAS, J. “Calibration of the Strömvil Photometric System,” 2003, Baltic Astronomy, 12, 491

KIKWAYA, J.-B., THUILLOT, W., and BERTHIER, J. “Pluto-Charon: A Test of the Astrometric Approach for Finding Asteroid Satellites,” 2003, BAAS, abstract 36-03

KOCH, G. “Direzione della Specola Vaticana,” 2003, in Attivitŕ della Santa Sede 2002, 1378-1394

LAUGALYS, V., BOYLE, R.P., KAZLAUSKAS, A., VRBA, F.J., PHILIP, A.G.D., and STRAIŽYS, V. “Large-scale Errors in CCD Photometry of M 67,” 2003, Baltic Astronomy, 12, 497

MINNITI, D., REJKUBA, M., FUNES, J. G., AKIYAMA, S. “Optical Counterparts of X-Ray Point Sources Observed by CHANDRA in NGC 5128: 23 New Globular Clusters,” 2004, ApJ, in press

MINNITI, D., REJKUBA, M., FUNES, J. G., KENNICUTT, R. C. “The Most Exciting Massive Binary Cluster in NGC 5128: Clues to the Formation of Globular Clusters,” 2003, ApJ, submitted

PHILIP, A. G. DAVIS, BOYLE, R.P., STRAIZYS, V., and KAZLAUSKAS, A. “Setting up of the Strömvil System Standards and Standard Regions,” 2003, Baltic Astronomy, 12, 471

PIZZELLA, A., CORSINI, E. M., BERTOLA, F., COCCATO, L., MAGORRIAN, J., SARZI, M., and FUNES, J. G. “Central DM Density Cuspiness in LSB’s: A Stellar Kinematics Approach,” 2003, Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 220 on Dark Matter in Galaxies, in press

RIBEIRO, M. B. and STOEGER, W. R. “Relativistic Cosmology Number Counts and the Luminosity Function,” 2003, ApJ, 592, 1-16

ROCHETTE, P. , SAGNOTTI, L., CONSOLMAGNO, G., DENISE, M., FOLCO, L., OSETE, M., and PESONEN, L. “Magnetic Classification of Stony Meteorites: 1. Ordinary Chondrites,” 2003, Meteorit. Planet. Sci., 38 251-268

ROCHETTE, P. , SAGNOTTI, L., CONSOLMAGNO, G., DENISE, M., FOLCO, L., GATTACCECA, J., OSETE, M., and PESONEN, L. “Magnetic Classification of Meteorites,” 2003, Abstracts, EGU Annual Meeting

ROSSI, C., POLCLARO, V. F., VIOTTI, R. F., FILIPPI, A, PEDICELLI, S., and OMIZZOLO, A. “On the Analysis of Old Objective-Prism Plate Spectra with Modern Systems,” 2003, in ASP Conference Series 30, 1-4

SPERAUSKAS, J., ASLAN, Z., BARTASIUTE, S., and BOYLE, R.P. “Radial Velocities of Stars in the Mega Proper Motion Fields at High Galactic Latitudes,” 2002, Baltic Astronomy, 11, 465

SPERAUSKAS, J., BOYLE, R.P., HARLOW, J., JAHREISS, H., and UPGREN, A.R. “An Ongoing Program of Radial Velocities of Nearby Stars,” (abstract) 2003, BAAS, 35, 1273

STOEGER, W. R. “Report on the Theology and Natural Sciences Program Group Session: Adam and Eve, Modern Genetics and Original Sin,” 2002, in Proceedings of the 57th Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA), ed. R. C. Sparks, 187-189

____ . “Report on the Theology and Natural Sciences Program Group Session: Genes, Original Sin and the Human Proclivity to Evil, and a Method for Reformulating Doctrines in Light of Scientific Knowledge,” 2003, in Proceedings of the 58th Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA), ed. R. C. Sparks, 133-135

____ . Book Review of Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy and Literature by Peter Pesic (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2002), 2003, The Journal of Religion, 83, 485-487

____ . “The Anthropic Principle Revisited,” 2003, Philosophy in Science, Vol. 10, eds. W. R. Stoeger, M. Heller, and J. Zycinski (Tucson, Arizona: Pachart Publishing House), pp. 9-33.

____ . “Divine Action in a Broken World,” 2003, in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cosmology and Biological Evolution, eds. H. D. Regan and M. Worthing (Adelaide, Australia: Australia Theological Forum), in press

____ . “The Emergence of Novelty in the Universe and Divine Action,” 2003, Omega: Indian Journal of Science and Religion (Kerela, India: Institute of Science and Religion), in press

STOEGER, W. R., HELLER, M., and ZYCINSKI, J. eds. Philosophy in Science, Vol. 10 (Tucson, AZ: Pachart Publishing House, 2003), 288 pp.

STRAIT, M. M. and CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. “Porosity of Basaltic Materials: Terrestrial and Meteoritic Samples,” Meteorit. Planet. Sci., 38, A106

STRAIZYS, V., KAZLAUSKAS, A., CERNIAUSKAS, A., BOYLE, R.P., VRBA, F.J., PHILIP, A.G. DAVIS, LAUGALYS, V., CERNIS, K., and SMRIGLIO, F. “Overlapping Open Clusters NGC 1750 and NGC 1758 behind the Taurus Dark Clouds. II. CCD Photometry in the Vilnius System,” 2003, Baltic Astronomy, 12, 323

TEGLER, S. C., ROMANISHIN, W., and CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. “Correlation of Kuiper Belt Object Colors With Orbital Properties: Gray Objects in Hot Orbits,” BAAS, Abstract, 49-06

____ . “Color Patterns in the Kuiper Belt: A Possible Primordial Origin,” 2004, ApJ Lett, 599:L49-L52, 2003 December

TERES, G., S. J. “Die Vatikanische Sternwarte. Geschicte und Forschungsarbeit,” 2003, Stimmen der Zeit 5, 291-300

UGLESICH, R., CROTTS, A.P.S., BALTZ, E., DE JONG, J., TOMANEY, A., BOYLE, R., CORBALLY, C., and GOULD, A. “Evidence for Halo Microlensing in M31,” (abstract) 2002, BAAS, 34, 1277

UGLESICH, R.R., CROTTS, A.P.S., BALTZ, E.A., DE JONG, J, BOYLE, R.P., and CORBALLY, C.J. “Evidence of Halo Microlensing in M31,” Ap.J. (submitted)

 

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