Publications during 2008 based on observations acquired at Asiago Observatory

Publications on referee journals

• Agnoletto, I.; Benetti, S.; Cappellaro, E.; Zampieri, L.; Turatto, M.; Mazzali, P.; Pastorello, A.; Della Valle, M.; Bufano, F.; Harutyunyan, A.; Navasardyan, H.; Elias-Rosa, N.; Taubenberger, S.; Spiro, S.; Valenti, S.
  SN 2006gy: was it really extra-ordinary?
  ApJ, in press (arXiv:0810.0635)
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Tanaka, M.; Tominaga, N.; Nomoto, K.; Valenti, S.; Sahu, D. K.; Minezaki, T.; Yoshii, Y.; Yoshida, M.; Anupama, G. C.; Benetti, S.; Chincarini, G.; Della Valle, M.; Mazzali, P. A.; Pian, E.
  Type Ib Supernova 2008D associated with the Luminous X-ray Transient 080109: An Energetic Explosion of a Massive Helium Star
  ApJ in press (arXiv:0807.1674)
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Gal-Yam, A.; Bufano, F.; Barlow, T. A.; Baron, E.; Benetti, S.; Cappellaro, E.; Challis, P. J.; Ellis, R. S.; Filippenko, A. V.; Foley, R. J.; Fox, D. B.; Hicken, M.; Kirshner, R. P.; Leonard, D. C.; Li, W.; Maoz, D.; Matheson, T.; Mazzali, P. A.; Modjaz, M.; Nomoto, K.; Ofek, E. O.; Simon, J. D.; Small, T. A.; Smith, G. P.; Turatto, M.; Van Dyk, S. D.; Zampieri, L.
  GALEX Spectroscopy of SN 2005ay Suggests Ultraviolet Spectral Uniformity among Type II-P Supernovae
  ApJL, 685, 117
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Pignata, G.; Benetti, S.; Mazzali, P. A.; Kotak, R.; Patat, F.; Meikle, P.; Stehle, M.; Leibundgut, B.; Suntzeff, N. B.; Buson, L. M.; Cappellaro, E.; Clocchiatti, A.; Hamuy, M.; Maza, J.; Mendez, J.; Ruiz-Lapuente, P.; Salvo, M.; Schmidt, B. P.; Turatto, M.; Hillebrandt, W.
  Optical and infrared observations of SN 2002dj: some possible common properties of fast-expanding Type Ia supernovae
  MNRAS, 388, 971
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Wallerstein, G.; Harrison, T.; Munari, U.; Vanture, A.
  The Metallicity and Lithium Abundances of the Recurring Novae T CrB and RS Oph
  PASP, 120, 492
  1.82 + ECHELLE
• Zwitter, T.; Siebert, A.; Munari, U.; Freeman, K. C.; Siviero, A.; Watson, F. G.; Fulbright, J. P.; Wyse, R. F. G.; Campbell, R.; Seabroke, G. M.; Williams, M.; Steinmetz, M.; Bienayme, O.; Gilmore, G.; Grebel, E. K.; Helmi, A.; Navarro, J. F.; Anguiano, B.; Boeche, C.; Burton, D.; Cass, P.; Dawe, J.; Fiegert, K.; Hartley, M.; Russell, K.; Veltz, L.; Bailin, J.; Binney, J.; Bland-Hawthorn, J.; Brown, A.; Dehnen, W.; Evans, N. W.; Re Fiorentin, P.; Fiorucci, M.; Gerhard, O.; Gibson, B.; Kelz, A.; Kujken, K.; Matijevic, G.; Minchev, I.; Parker, Q. A.; Penarrubia, J.; Quillen, A.; Read, M. A.; Reid, W.; Roeser, S.; Ruchti, G.; Scholz, R.-D.; Smith, M. C.; Sordo, R.; Tolstoi, E.; Tomasella, L.; Vidrih, S.; Wylie-de Boer, E.
  The Radial Velocity Experiment (rave): Second Data Release
  AJ, 136, 421
  1.82 + ECHELLE
• Hachinger, S.; Mazzali, P.; Tanaka, M.; Hillebrandt, W.; Benetti, S.
  Spectral luminosity indicators in Type Ia supernovae. Understanding the (SiII) line-strength ratio and beyond
  MNRAS, 389, 1087
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Mazzali, P.; Sauer, D.; Pastorello, A.; Benetti, S.; Hillebrandt, W.
  Abundance stratification in Type Ia supernovae - II. The rapidly declining, spectroscopically normal SN2004eo
  MNRAS, 386, 1897
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Tanaka, M.; Mazzali, P.; Benetti, S.; Nomoto, K.; Elias-Rosa, N.; Kotak, R.; Pignata, G.; Stanishev, V.; Hachinger, S.
  The Outermost Ejecta of Type Ia Supernovae
  ApJ, 677, 448
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Elias-Rosa, N.; Benetti, S.; Turatto, M.; Cappellaro, E.; Valenti, S.; Arkharov, A. A.; Beckman, J. E.; di Paola, A.; Dolci, M.; Filippenko, A. V.; Foley, R. J.; Krisciunas, K.; Larionov, V. M.; Li, W.; Meikle, W. P. S.; Pastorello, A.; Valentini, G.; Hillebrandt, W.
  SN 2002cv: a heavily obscured Type Ia supernova
  MNRAS, 384, 107
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Valenti, S.; Elias-Rosa, N.; Taubenberger, S.; Stanishev, V.; Agnoletto, I.; Sauer, D.; Cappellaro, E.; Pastorello, A.; Benetti, S.; Riffeser, A.; Hopp, U.; Navasardyan, H.; Tsvetkov, D.; Lorenzi, V.; Patat, F.; Turatto, M.; Barbon, R.; Ciroi, S.; Di Mille, F.; Frandsen, S.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Laursen, P.; Mazzali, P. A.
  The Carbon-rich Type Ic SN 2007gr: The Photospheric Phase
  ApJ, 673L, 155
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Munari, U.; Siviero, A.; Henden, A.; Cardarelli, G.; Cherini, G.; Dallaporta, S.; Dalla Via, G.; Frigo, A.; Jurdana-Sepic, R.; Moretti, S.; Ochner, P.; Tomaselli, S.; Tomasoni, S.; Valisa, P.; Navasardyan, H.; Valentini, M.
  The nature and evolution of Nova Cygni 2006
  A&A, 492, 145
  1.82 + AFOSC+ ECHELLE
• Mazzali,P.; Valenti,S.; Della Valle,M.; Chincarini,G.; Sauer,D.; Benetti,S.; Pian,E.; Piran,T.; D'Elia,V.; Elias-Rosa,N.; Margutti,R.; Pasotti,F.; Antonelli,L.; Bufano,F.; Campana,S.; Cappellaro,E.; Covino,S.; D'Avanzo,P.; Fiore,F.; Fugazza,D.;Gilmozzi,R.; Hunter,D.; Maguire,K.; Maiorano,E.; Marziani,P.; Masetti,N.; Mirabel,F.; Navasardyan,H.; Nomoto,K.; Palazzi,E; Pastorello,A; Panagia,N; Pellizza,L.; Sari,R.; Smartt,S.; Tagliaferri,G.; Tanaka,.M; Taubenberger,S.; Tominaga,N.; Trundle,C.; Turatto,M.
  The Metamorphosis of Supernova SN 2008D/XRF 080109: A Link Between Supernovae and GRBs/Hypernovae
  Sci, 321, 1185
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Harutyunyan, A. H.; Pfahler, P.; Pastorello, A.; Taubenberger, S.; Turatto, M.; Cappellaro, E.; Benetti, S.; Elias-Rosa, N.; Navasardyan, H.; Valenti, S.; Stanishev, V.; Patat, F.; Riello, M.; Pignata, G.; Hillebrandt, W.
  ESC supernova spectroscopy of non-ESC targets
  A&A, 488, 383
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Pastorello, A.; Mattila, S.; Zampieri, L.; Della Valle, M.; Smartt, S. J.; Valenti, S.; Agnoletto, I.; Benetti, S.; Benn, C. R.; Branch, D.; Cappellaro, E.; Dennefeld, M.; Eldridge, J. J.; Gal-Yam, A.; Harutyunyan, A.; Hunter, I.; Kjeldsen, H.; Lipkin, Y.; Mazzali, P. A.; Milne, P.; Navasardyan, H.; Ofek, E. O.; Pian, E.; Shemmer, O.; Spiro, S.; Stathakis, R. A.; Taubenberger, S.; Turatto, M.; Yamaoka, H.
  Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium - I. Type Ibn (SN 2006jc-like) events
  MNRAS, 389, 113
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Decarli, R.; Labita, M.; Treves, A.; Falomo, R.
  On the geometry of broad emission region in quasars
  MNRAS, 387, 1237
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Munari, U.; Henden, A.; Valentini, M.; Siviero, A.; Dallaporta, S.; Ochner, P.; Tomasoni, S.
  Optical evolution of Nova Ophiuchi 2007 = V2615 Oph
  MNRAS, 387, 344
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Taubenberger, S.; Hachinger, S.; Pignata, G.; Mazzali, P. A.; Contreras, C.; Valenti, S.; Pastorello, A.; Elias-Rosa, N.; Bärnbantner, O.; Barwig, H.; Benetti, S.; Dolci, M.; Fliri, J.; Folatelli, G.; Freedman, W. L.; Gonzalez, S.; Hamuy, M.; Krzeminski, W.; Morrell, N.; Navasardyan, H.; Persson, S. E.; Phillips, M. M.; Ries, C.; Roth, M.; Suntzeff, N. B.; Turatto, M.; Hillebrandt, W.
  The underluminous Type Ia supernova 2005bl and the class of objects similar to SN 1991bg
  MNRAS, 385, 75
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Valenti, S.; Benetti, S.; Cappellaro, E.; Patat, F.; Mazzali, P.; Turatto, M.; Hurley, K.; Maeda, K.; Gal-Yam, A.; Foley, R. J.; Filippenko, A. V.; Pastorello, A.; Challis, P.; Frontera, F.; Harutyunyan, A.; Iye, M.; Kawabata, K.; Kirshner, R. P.; Li, W.; Lipkin, Y. M.; Matheson, T.; Nomoto, K.; Ofek, E. O.; Ohyama, Y.; Pian, E.; Poznanski, D.; Salvo, M.; Sauer, D. N.; Schmidt, B. P.; Soderberg, A.; Zampieri, L.
  The broad-lined Type Ic supernova 2003jd
  MNRAS, 383, 1485
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Muratorio, G.; Rossi, C.; Friedjung, M.
  Analysis of the variability of the luminous emission line star MWC 314
  A&A, 487, 637
  1.82 + ECHELLE
• Gigoyan, K. S.; Engels, D.; Mauron, N.; Hambaryan, V. V.; Rossi, C.; Gualandi, R.
  Late-type stars found in the FBS. New carbon stars
  Ap, 51, 209
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Naze, Y.; De Becker, M.; Rauw, G.; Barbieri, C.
  A binary signature in the non-thermal radio-emitter Cyg OB2 #9
  A&A, 483, 543
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Tomasella, L.; Munari, U.; Cassisi, S.; Siviero, A.; Dallaporta, S.; Sordo, R.; Zwitter, T.
  Asiago eclipsing binaries program. III. V570 Persei
  A&A, 483, 263
  1.82 + ECHELLE
• Iijima, T.; Nakanishi, H.
  Spectroscopic observations of the first helium nova V445 Puppis
  A&A, 482, 865
  1.82 + ECHELLE
• Masetti, N.; Mason, E.; Morelli, L.; Cellone, S. A.; McBride, V. A.; Palazzi, E.; Bassani, L.; Bazzano, A.; Bird, A. J.; Charles, P. A.; Dean, A. J.; Galaz, G.; Gehrels, N.; Landi, R.; Malizia, A.; Minniti, D.; Panessa, F.; Romero, G. E.; Stephen, J. B.; Ubertini, P.; Walter, R.
  Unveiling the nature of INTEGRAL objects through optical spectroscopy. VI. A multi-observatory identification campaign
  A&A, 482, 113
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Tomasella, L.; Munari, U.; Siviero, A.; Cassisi, S.; Dallaporta, S.; Zwitter, T.; Sordo, R.
  Asiago eclipsing binaries program. II. V505 Persei
  A&A, 480, 465
  1.82 + ECHELLE
• Henze, M.; Meusinger, H.; Pietsch, W.
  A systematic search for novae in M 31 on a large set of digitized archival Schmidt plates
  A&A, 477, 67
  Schmidt plate archive
• Munari, U.; Siviero, A.; Ochner, P.; Dallaporta, S.; Simoncelli, C.
  IRC-10443: a Multi-Periodic SRa Variable and the Nature of Long Secondary Periods in AGB Stars
  BaltA, 17, 223
  1.82 + ECHELLE
• Munari, U., Siviero, A., Graziani, M., Maitan, A., Henden, A., Baldinelli, L., Moretti, S., Tomaselli, S.
  StHa-55: a carbon Mira, not a symbiotic binary
  BaltA, 17, 301
  1.82 + ECHELLE

CBETs,IAU, GCN and IBVS circulars

• Navasardyan, H.; Benetti, S.; Cappellaro, E.; Turatto, M.; Harutyunyan, A.
  Supernova 2008ic
  CBET, 1614, 1
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Valenti, S.; Turatto, M.; Navasardyan, H.; Benetti, S.; Cappellaro, E.
  Early OT detection of XRF in NGC 2770 in asiago frames.
  GCN, 7163, 1
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Benetti, S.; Turatto, M.; Navasardyan, H.; Benatti, S.
  No New Variable in Canes Venatici
  CBET, 1373, 1
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Dimai, A.; Corelli, P.; Iafrate, G.
  Variable Star in Canes Venatici
  CBET, 1370, 1
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Iijima, T.
  BF Cygni
  CBET, 1351, 1
  1.82 + ECHELLE
• Taubenberger, S.; Elias-Rosa, N.; Harutyunyan, A.; Navasardyan, H.; Benetti, S.
  Supernova 2008ax in NGC 4490
  CBET, 1351, 1
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Navasardyan, H.; Benetti, S.; Harutyunyan, A.; Agnoletto, I.; Bufano, F.; Cappellaro, E.; Turatto, M.
  Supernova 2008bo in NGC 6643
  CBET, 1325, 1
  1.82 + AFOSC
• di Mille, F.; Ciroi, S.; Cracco, V.; Rafanelli, P.; Temporin, S.
  Nova in M33
  CBET, 1284, 1
  1.82 + AFOSC
• Itagaki, K.; Nakano, S.; Yamaoka, H.
  V1647 Orionis
  IAUC, 8968, 2
  Asiago plate archive
• Jurdana-Sepic, Rajka; Munari, Ulisse
  Plate archive photometry of the progenitors of Nova Cyg 2008 N.2 and Nova Sgr 2008
  IBVS, 5839, 1
  Schmidt plate archive

Other contributions

• Tomasella, L.; Cassisi, S.; Munari, U.; Siviero, A.
  Asiago eclipsing binaries program. Observations vs theory
  MmSAI, 79,753
  1.82 + ECHELLE
  
• Fulvio, D.; Blanco, C.; Cigna, M.; Gandolfi, D.
  CCD and photon-counting photometric observations of peculiar asteroids
  MSAIS, 12,12
  Schmidt