The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Monday February 3

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• Blue Supergiants as a Tool for Extragalactic Distances - Theoretical Concepts
  Rolf-Peter Kudritzki and Norbert Przybilla (IfA, Hawaii)
  astro-ph/0301621

• No X-ray Bright Type II Quasars Among the Lyman-alpha Emitters
  S. Malhotra (STScI), J. X. Wang (JHU), J. E. Rhoads (STScI), T. M. Heckman (JHU), C.Norman (STScI)
  astro-ph/0301622

• Large-Scale Structure and Future Surveys
  Daniel Eisenstein (Steward Observatory)
  astro-ph/0301623

• Early-type galaxies in the SDSS. II. Correlations between observables
  M. Bernardi, R. K. Sheth, J. Annis, S. Burles, D. J. Eisenstein, D. P. Finkbeiner, D. W. Hogg, R. H. Lupton, D. J. Schlegel, M. Subbarao, et al
  astro-ph/0301624

• Early-type galaxies in the SDSS. III. The Fundamental Plane
  M. Bernardi, R. K. Sheth, J. Annis, S. Burles, D. J. Eisenstein, D. P. Finkbeiner, D. W. Hogg, R. H. Lupton, D. J. Schlegel, M. Subbarao, et al
  astro-ph/0301626

• The Detectability of the First Stars and Their Cluster Enrichment Signatures
  Evan Scannapieco, Raffaella Schneider, Andrea Ferrara
  astro-ph/0301628

• Early-type galaxies in the SDSS. IV. Colors and chemical evolution
  M. Bernardi, R. K. Sheth, J. Annis, S. Burles, D. P. Finkbeiner, R. H. Lupton, D. J. Schlegel, M. Subbarao, et al
  astro-ph/0301629

• Early-type galaxies in the SDSS. I. The sample
  M. Bernardi, R. K. Sheth, J. Annis, S. Burles, D. J. Eisenstein, D. P. Finkbeiner, D. W. Hogg, R. H. Lupton, D. J. Schlegel, M. Subbarao, et al
  astro-ph/0301631

• Probing dark energy using baryonic oscillations in the galaxy power spectrum as a cosmological ruler
  Chris Blake & Karl Glazebrook
  astro-ph/0301632

• The Fe XXII I(11.92 A)/I(11.77 A) Density Diagnostic
  Christopher W. Mauche, Duane A. Liedahl, Kevin B. Fournier (Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab.)
  astro-ph/0301633

• A Radio Flare from GRB 020405: Evidence for a Uniform Medium Around a Massive Stellar Progenitor
  E. Berger, A. M. Soderberg, D. A. Frail, and S. R. Kulkarni
  astro-ph/0301634

• The Discovery of a Very Narrow-Line Star Forming Obat a Redshift of 5.66ject
  Y. Taniguchi, M. Ajiki, T. Murayama, T. Nagao, S. Veilleux, D. B. Sanders, Y. Komiyama, Y. Shioya, S. S. Fujita, Y. Kakazu, S. Okamura, H. Ando, T. Nishimura, M. Hayashi, R. Ogasawara, and S. Ichikawa
  astro-ph/0301635

• Could the 55 Cnc Planetary System Really Be in the 3:1 Mean Motion Resonance?
  Ji Jianghui (1,3), H. Kinoshita (4), Liu Lin (2,3), Li Guangyu (1,3)((1)Purple Mountain Observatory, (2)Nanjing Univ., (3)NAOC, (4)NAOJ)
  astro-ph/0301636

• A new method of estimating the mass-to-light ratio of the Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxy
  M. A. Gomez-Flechoso (1 and 2) and D. Martinez-Delgado (3) ((1) Observatoire de Geneve, Sauverny, Switzerland, (2) Universidad Europea de Madrid, Villaviciosa de Odon, Madrid, Spain, (3)Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain)
  astro-ph/0301638

• Reconstruction of the primordial Universe by a Monge--Ampere--Kantorovich optimisation scheme
  R. Mohayaee (OCA, Nice), U. Frisch (OCA, Nice), S. Matarrese (Padova) and A. Sobolevskii (OCA, Nice)
  astro-ph/0301641

• Simulations of Early Structure Formation: Primordial Gas Clouds
  Naoki Yoshida (CfA), Tom Abel (Penn State), Lars Hernquist (CfA), Naoshi Sugiyama (NAOJ)
  astro-ph/0301645

• Spheroid and disk signatures in galaxy bulges
  Marc Balcells
  astro-ph/0301647

• The Stellar Content of M31's Bulge
  Andrew W. Stephens, Jay A. Frogel, D. L. DePoy, Wendy Freedman, Carme Gallart, Pascale Jablonka, Alvio Renzini, R. Michael Rich, and Roger Davies
  astro-ph/0301656

• Spontaneous baryogenesis in warm inflation
  Robert H. Brandenberger and Masahide Yamaguchi
  hep-ph/0301270

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