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Publications

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

ARAÚJO, M. E. and STOEGER, W. R. "The Exact Spherically Symmetric Dust Solution of the Field Equations in Observational Coordinates with Cosmological Data Functions," 1999, Phys. Rev. D., 60, 104020-1-104020-7

ARAÚJO, M. E., ARCURI, R. C., BEDRAN, M. L., de FREITAS, L. R., and STOEGER, W. R. "Integrating Einstein's Field Equations in Observational Coordinates with Cosmological Data Functions: The Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson- Walker k=1 Case," 1999, submitted for publication

BERTOLA, F., CORSINI, E. M., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., PIZZELLA, A., SARZI, M., CAPPELLARI, M., and FUNES, J. G. "The Bulge-Disk Orthogonal Decoupling in Galaxies: NGC 4698," 1999, ApJ, 519, L17

BERTOLA, F., CORSINI, E. M., CAPPELLARI, M., SARZI, M., PIZZELLA, A., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., and FUNES, J. G. "The Bulge-Disk Orthogonal Decoupling in Galaxies: NGC 4698 and NGC 4672," 1999, in When and How do Bulges Form and Evolve?, Proceedings of the STScI Mini-Workshop, Baltimore, Maryland, October 5-7, 1998, ed. C. M. Carollo, H. C. Ferguson, R. F. G. Wyse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), in press

BRITT, D. T. and CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. "Asteroid Rubble Piles: How Big Are the Pieces?," 1999, Meteorit. Planet. Sci., 33, A2

______."The Porosity of Dark Meteorites and the Structure of Low-Albedo Asteroids," 2000, submitted to Icarus

CAPPELLARI, M., BERTOLA, F., CORSINI, E. M., FUNES, J. G., PIZZELLA, A., and SARZI, M. "The Intrinsic Shape of Bulges," 1999, in Galaxy Dynamics: from the Early Universe to the Present, Proceedings of the 15th IAP meeting, Paris, July 9-13, 1999, ed. F. Combes, G. A. Mamon, and V. Charmandaris (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series), in press

CAPPELLARI, M., BERTOLA, F., CORSINI, E. M., FUNES, J. G., PIZZELLA, A., and VEGA BELTRAN, J. C. "Searching for Low-Mass Supermassive Black Holes," 1999, in Proceedings of Network Italiano: Formazione ed Evoluzione delle Galassie, May 18-19, Universitá di Padova, in press

CARBONE, L., CARDONE, G., CASANOVAS, J., MANCUSO, S., and PALLADINO, F. "La sede storica degli Studi Superiori di Matematica a Napoli nella sua attuale configurazione," 1997, Rendiconto dell'Accademia di Napoli, 45, 31-66

CASANOVAS, J. "Secchi: primera clasificación spectral de las estrellas," 1999, Astrum., 148, 69-70

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. "Midnight Sun," 1999, Company, 17, Spring, 27-30

______."The Ultimate Easter Egg Hunt," 1999, Meteorite, 5, 8-11

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. and BRITT, D. T. "Turning Meteorites into Rock: Constraints on Asteroid Physical Evolution," 1999, Lunar Planet Science, XXX

______."The Internal Structure of Rubble-Pile Asteroids. Program and Abstracts," 1999, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J., BLAND, P. A., and STRAIT, M. M. "Weathering and Porosity: A Preliminary SEM Study of Weathered Meteorites," 1999, Lunar Planet Science, XXX

______."A Preliminary SEM Study of Microcrack Porosity in Meteorites," 1999, Meteorit. Planet. Sci., 33, A28-A29

CORBALLY, C. J. "What If There Were Other Inhabited Worlds," 1997, Studies in Science and Theology, 5, 77-88

______. "Thomas Digges and Giordano Bruno: 400 Years of Plurality of Worlds," 1999, BAAS, 31, 863

______. Editor, Standard Star Newsletter No. 26, 1999, for IAU Working Group on Standard Stars

______. Editor, Standard Star Newsletter No. 27, 1999, for IAU Working Group on Standard Stars

CORBALLY, C. J., and GRAY, R. O. "Strömgren Photometry and MK Classification in h and Chi Persei," 1998, BAAS, 30, 1321

CORBALLY, C. J., GRAY, R. O., and PHILIP, A. G. D. "Spectral Characteristics, Photometry, and Fundamental Parameters of FHB Stars," 1997, in The Third Conference on Faint Blue Stars, ed. A. G. D. Philip, J. W. Liebert, and R. A. Saffer, (Schenectady: L. Davis Press), 143-162

CORSINI, E. M., PIZZELLA, A., SARZI, M., CINZANO, P., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., FUNES, J. G., BERTOLA, F., PERSIC, M., and SALUCCI, P. "Dark Matter in Early-Type Spiral Galaxies: The Case of NGC 2179 and of NGC 2775," 1999, A&AS, 342, 671

BOYLE, R. P., PHILIP, A. G. D., and STRAIZYS, V. "Strömvil Photometry of Clusters. II. The Open Cluster M67" (abstract), 1998, BAAS, 30, 1348

CORSINI, E. M., PIZZELLA, A., SARZI, M., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., CAPPELLARI, M., FUNES, J. G., and BERTOLA, F. "Counterrotating Gaseous Components in the Early-Type Galaxy IC 4889," 1999, in Galaxy Dynamics: from the Early Universe to the Present, Proceedings of the 15th IAP meeting, Paris, July 9-13, 1999, ed. F. Combes, G. A. Mamon, and V. Charmandaris (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series), in press

CORSINI, E. M., PIZZELLA, A., SARZI, M., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., CAPPELLARI, M., FUNES, J. G., and BERTOLA, F. "Multiple Acquisition Events in the Elliptical Galaxy IC 4889," 1999, in Proceedings of Network Italiano: Formazione ed Evoluzione delle Galassie, May 18-19, Università di Padova, in press

COYNE, G. V. "Riciclati dalle Stelle," 1999, in Orrizonti e Limiti della Scienza: Decima Cattedra dei non Credenti, ed: Carlo Maria Martini (Milan: Raffaello Cortina Editore), 27-33

______."L'Inesauribile Segreto dell'Universo," 1999, Nuntium, 8, 122

______."Evidence for the Existence of Extra-solar Planets: Challenges for Religious Thought," 1999, in L'Espace Territoire d'Évangile, ed. Alexandre Vigne (Château de Combas, France: Editions Haute Terre)

______. Book Review of The Sun in the Church, J. L. Heilbron, 1999, Nature, 402, 579

______."The Vatican: Art and Astronomy," 1999, in The Vatican Observatory and the Arts: The Sculpture of John David Mooney at Castel Gandolfo, J. D. Mooney (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications), 9-13

______."The Scientific Venture and Materialism: False Premises," 1999, in Space or Spaces as Paradigms or Mental Categories (Milan: Fondazione Carlo Erba), in press

______."The Many Worlds and Religion," 1999, in The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, in press

______."Direzione della Specola Vaticana," 1999, Attività della Santa Sede 1998, 1349-1360

______."Science and Religious Belief," 1999, in International Symposium on Astrophysics Research and Science Education, ed. C. Impey (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications), 3-10

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

FAVATA, F., FLACCOMIO, E., SCIORTINO, S., MICELA, G., DAMIANI, F., CORBALLY, C., TOMANEY, A., HARNDEN, F. R., JR., and SCHACHTER, J. "X-Ray and Optical Observations of the Star Forming Region NGC 2264," 1997, in Cool Stars in Clusters and Associations: Magnetic Activity and Age Indicators, ed. G. Micela, R. Pallavicini, and S. Sciortino, MmSAI, 68, 1073

FLACCOMIO, E., MICELA, G., SCIORTINO, S., FAVATA, F., CORBALLY, C., and TOMANEY, A. "BVRI Photometry of the Star-Forming Region NGC 2264: The Initial Mass Function and Star-Forming Rate," 1999, A&A, 345, 521

FUNES, J. G., CAPPELLARI, M., CORSINI, E. M., PIZZELLA, A., SARZI, M., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., and BERTOLA, F. "Kinematic Properties of the Gas in the Central Region of Galaxies," 1999, in Proceedings of the 15th IAP Meeting, Paris, July 9-13, 1999, ed. F. Combes, G. A. Mamon, and V. Charmandaris (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series), in press

FUNES, J. G., CAPPELLARI, M., CORSINI, E. M., PIZZELLA, A., SARZI, M., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., and BERTOLA, F. "Position-Velocity Diagrams in the Central Region of Disk Galaxies," 1999, in Proceedings of Network Italiano: Formazione ed Evoluzione delle Galassie, May 18-19, Università di Padova, in press.

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," 1999, submitted to AJ

HELLER, M. "Is the Universe Mathematical?," 1998, Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 22, 3-14 (in Polish)

______."Beauty as a Criterion of Truth," 1998, Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 22, 115-122 (in Polish)

______."Mathematics, Romantic Language of Science," 1998, Universitas, 21, 4-8 (in Polish)

______."What Does It Mean the 'Universe'?," 1998, Znak, 522, 52-67 (in Polish)

______."Limits of Physics and Cosmology," 1998, in Nauka, Religia, Dzieje, Proceedings of the 9th Seminar, Castel Gandolfo, August 5-7, 1997, ed. J. Janik (Krakow: Jagiellonian University), 87-102 (in Polish)

______."Time and Timelessness in Cosmology," 1998, in The Future of Science Has Begun: What Is Time?--A Multidisiplinary Approach, (Milan: Fondazione Carlo Erba), 57-77

______."Time and History," 1998, Filozoficzne w Nauce, 23, 37-52 (in Polish)

______."Against Foundationalism," 1999, in Sense and Nonsense in Science and Philosophy, ed. M. Heller, J. Maczka, and J. Urbaniec (Kraków: OBI; Tarnów: Biblos), 81-101

______."Scientific Image of the World at the End of the Century," 1998, Studies in Science and Theology, 6, 63-69

______."Galileo in Moscow," 1999, Tygodnik Powszechny, nr 28 (2609), 11 lipca s. 16 (in Polish)

______."The Need of the Christian Education," 1999, Culture and Faith, VII-3, 199-201

______."Natural Sciences and Natural Philosophy," 1998, Roczniki Filozoficzne (KUL), 46, 3, 7-14 (in Polish)

HELLER, M., MACZKA, J., and URBANIEC, J., ed. Sense and Nonsense in Science and Philosophy (Kraków: OBI; Tarnów: Biblos), 1999

HELLER, M. and MACZKA, J. "Whitehead and Einstein: Two Styles of Thinking," 1998, Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 23, 3-20 (in Polish)

HELLER, M. and SASIN, S. "Einstein-Podolski-Rosen Experiment from Noncommutative Geometry," 1998, in Particles, Fields, and Gravitation, AIP Conference Proceedings, Lódz, Poland, April 1998, ed. J. Rembieliski (Woodbury, New York: American Institute of Physics), 234-241

______."Emergence of Time," 1998, Phys. Lett. A, 250, 48-54

______."Origin of Classical Singularities," 1999, General Relativity and Gravitation, 31, 555-570

______."Noncommutative Unification of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics," 1999, Int. J. Theor. Phys. 38, 1619-1642

KRING, D. A., HILL, D. H., GLEASON, J. D., BRITT, D. T., CONSOLMAGNO, G. J., FARMER, M., WILSON, S., and HAAG R. "Portales Valley: A Meteoritic Sample of the Brecciated and Metal-Veined Floor of an Impact Crater on an H-Chondrite Asteroid," 1999, Meteorit. Planet. Sci., 34, 663-669

LISKA, L., PACHOLCZYK, A. G., and STOEGER, W. R. "Extraction of a Deterministic Component from ROSAT X-ray Data Using a Wavelet Transform and Principal Component Analysis II: Data Analysis," 1999, accepted by A&AS

______."Active Galactic Nuclei VI: ROSAT Variability of Seyfert Galaxies," 1999, submitted to ApJ

MOSS, C. "Modern Scientific Cosmology and a Christian Understanding of Creation," 1999, Spirit ('Shensi'), No. 43, in press (translated and being published in Chinese for distribution in China, including Hong Kong, and Taiwan)

MOSS, C., and WHITTLE, M. "An H Survey of 8 Abell Clusters: The Dependence of Tidally-Induced Star Formation on Cluster Density," 1999, MNRAS, submitted for publication

PHILIP, A. G. D., BOYLE, R. P., and STRAIZYS, V. "Stromvil Photometry of Clusters. I. The Globular Cluster M5" (abstract), 1998, BAAS, 30, 1348

RUSSELL, R. J., STOEGER, W. R., and AYALA, F., ed. Evolutionary and Molecular Biology: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications), 1998

SARZI, M., CORSINI, E. M., CAPPELLARI, M., PIZZELLA, A., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., FUNES, J. G., and BERTOLA, F. "NGC 4672: A New Candidate for Bulge-to-Disk Decoupling in Spirals," 1999, in Galaxy Dynamics: from the Early Universe to the Present, Proceedings of the 15th IAP meeting, Paris, July 9-13, 1999, ed. F. Combes, G. A. Mamon, and V. Charmandaris (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series), in press

SARZI, M., CORSINI, E. M., PIZZELLA, A., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., CAPPELLARI, M., FUNES, J. G., and BERTOLA, F. "The Bulge-Disk Orthogonal Decoupling in Galaxies: NGC 4698," 1999, in The Evolution of Galaxies on Cosmological Timescales, Proceedings of the meeting held at Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, November 30-December 5, 1998, ed. J. E. Beckman, Ap&SS, in press

SARZI, M., CORSINI, E. M., CAPPELLARI, M., PIZZELLA, A., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., FUNES, J. G., and BERTOLA, F. "A New Candidate for Bulge-to-Disk Decoupling in Spirals: NGC 4672," 1999, in Proceedings of Network Italiano: Formazione ed Evoluzione delle Galassie, May 18-19, Università di Padova, in press

STOEGER, W. R. "Responses to Questions on Science and Religion," in Can Science Dispense with Religion, 1998, ed. Mehdi Golshani, (Tehran: Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies), 201-205

______."The Immanent Directionality of the Evolutionary Process and Its Relationship to Teleology," 1998, in Evolutionary and Molecular Biology: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, ed. R. J. Russell, W. R. Stoeger, and F. J. Ayala (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications), 163-190

______. Book Review of Silicon Snake Oil by Clifford Stoll, 1999, in The Catholic Social Science Review, IV, 271-273

______."The Significance of Scientific Cosmology for Christology," Report on the Theology and Natural Sciences Group Session, in Proceedings of the 54th Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America, ed. Michael Downey, CTSA, 1999, 141-142

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

______."Cultural Cosmology and the Impact of the Natural Sciences on Philosophy and Culture," 1999, in Science and Eschatology, ed. M. Welker, J. Polkinghorne, and W. Alston, (Princeton: Center of Theological Inquiry), in press

STOEGER, W. R., ARAÚJO, M. E., and GEBBIE, T. Erratum to the paper "The Limits on Cosmological Anisotropies and Inhomogeneities from COBE Data," 1999, ApJ, 476, 435-439; ApJ, 522, 559

STOEGER, W. R., HELLER, M., and ZYCINSKI, J., ed. Philosophy in Science, 1999, Volume VIII (Tucson, Arizona: Pachart Publishing House)

STOEGER, W. R., HELMI, A., and TORRES, D. "Averaging Einstein's Equations: The Linearized Case," 1999, submitted to ApJ

______."Scientific Accounts of Ultimate Catastrophies in Our Life-Bearing Universe," 1999, in Science and Eschatology, ed. M. Welker, J. Polkinghorne, and W. Alston, (Princeton: Center of Theological Inquiry), in press

TEGLER, S. C., RETTIG, T., WALSH, K., CONSOLMAGNO, G. J., and ROMANISHIN, W. "Optical Photometry of an Irregular Uranian Satellite and a Bare Comet Nucleus," 1999, BAAS, 31, 1095

 

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