ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 97 05 19 6 v 1 2 4 M ay 1 99 7 To Appear in August 1997 PASP Probing the LHS

ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 97 11 24 4 v 1 2 0 N ov 1 99 7 POPULATION SYNTHESIS OF HIGH ENERGY TRANSIENTS RELATIVISTIC BINARY MERGING RATES

ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 99 05 37 6 v 1 2 8 M ay 1 99 9 A 6 . 4 - hr positive superhump period in TV

ar X iv : h ep - p h / 97 05 45 5 v 1 2 8 M ay 1 99 7 LECTURE 1 Spectral Fluctuations of the QCD Dirac Operator

ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 97 05 17 9 v 1 2 2 M ay 1 99 7 Discovery of an Optical Jet in the BL Lac Object 3 C 371

We have detected an optical jet in the BL Lac object 3C 371 that coincides with the radio jet in this object in the central few kpc. The most notable feature is a bright optical knot 3 ′′ (4 kpc) from the nucleus that occurs at the location where the jet apparently changes its direction by ∼ 30 •. The radio, near-infrared and optical observations of this knot are consistent with a single power-...

ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 97 05 05 3 v 1 8 M ay 1 99 7 Spectropolarimetry of FIRST 0840 + 3633

We present Keck spectropolarimetry of a rare “Iron LoBALQSO,” FIRST 0840+3633. The continuum is ∼4% polarized near 2000Å rest-frame, but falls to ∼2% at longer wavelengths, and maintains a relatively constant position angle of 50. The emission lines are unpolarized. The polarization increases up to ∼8% in the low-ionization absorption troughs of Mg II λ2800 and Al III λ1860. The polarization an...