The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Thursday January 16

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• Evolution of the Mass Function of Dark Matter Haloes
  Darren Reed (Univ. of Washington), Jeffrey Gardner (Univ. of Pittsburg), Thomas Quinn (Univ. of Washington), Joachim Stadel (Univ. of Zurich), Mark Fardal (Univ. of Victoria), George Lake (Univ. of Washington), Fabio Governato (Univ. of Washington)
  astro-ph/0301270

• On the Life and Death of Satellite Haloes
  Giuliano Taffoni (Sissa, Trieste), Lucio Mayer (Zurich), Monica Colpi (Milano) & Fabio Governato (Seattle, The N-body Shop)
  astro-ph/0301271

• Can the dark energy equation-of-state parameter w be less than -1?
  Sean M. Carroll, Mark Hoffman, and Mark Trodden
  astro-ph/0301273

• The Northern Sky Optical Cluster Survey II: An Objective Cluster Catalog for 5800 Square Degrees
  R. R. Gal, R. R. de Carvalho, P. A. A. Lopes, S. G. Djorgovski, R. J. Brunner, A. A. Mahabal, S. C. Odewahn
  astro-ph/0301274

• A Study of the Luminosity and Mass Functions of the Young IC 348 Cluster using FLAMINGOS Wide-Field Near-Infrared Images
  A.A. Muench (1), E.A. Lada (1), C.J. Lada (2), R.J. Elston (1), J.F. Alves (3), M. Horrobin (1), T.H. Huard (2), J.L. Levine (1), S.N. Raines (1), and C. Roman-Zuniga (1) ((1) University of Florida, (2) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, (3) European Southern Observatory)
  astro-ph/0301276

• Gamma-Ray Burst Luminosity Functions Based on Luminosity Criteria
  Maarten Schmidt
  astro-ph/0301277

• Distances from Planetary Nebulae
  Robin Ciardullo (Penn State)
  astro-ph/0301279

• On Departures From a Power Law in the Galaxy Correlation Function
  Idit Zehavi, David H. Weinberg, Zheng Zheng, Andreas A. Berlind, Joshua A. Frieman, Roman Scoccimarro, Ravi K. Sheth, Michael R. Blanton, Max Tegmark, Houjun J. Mo, et al (for the SDSS Collaboration)
  astro-ph/0301280

• LSR0602+3910 -- The Brightest Brown Dwarf in the Sky?
  Samir Salim, Sebastien Lepine, R. Michael Rich, Michael M. Shara
  astro-ph/0301282

• Feedback Heating in Cluster and Galactic Cooling Flows
  Fabrizio Brighenti (University of California, Santa Cruz, CA and Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita di Bologna) and William G. Mathews (University of California, Santa Cruz, CA)
  astro-ph/0301283

• Effects of the Sound Speed of Quintessence on the Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure
  Simon DeDeo, R.R. Caldwell, and Paul J. Steinhardt
  astro-ph/0301284

• The effects of rotation on Wolf--Rayet stars and on the production of primary nitrogen by intermediate mass stars
  Georges Meynet and Max Pettini
  astro-ph/0301287

• Stellar yields in CNO from rotating stellar models
  Georges Meynet, Andre Maeder and Raphael Hirschi
  astro-ph/0301288

• Calibration of the Distance Scale from Cepheids
  Pascal Fouque, Jesper Storm, Wolfgang Gieren
  astro-ph/0301291

• Simulating IGM Reionization
  B. Ciardi, F. Stoehr, S.D.M. White (MPA)
  astro-ph/0301293

• The trispectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background on sub-degree angular scales: an analysis of the BOOMERanG data
  G.De Troia, P.A.R. Ade, J.J. Bock, J.R. Bond, A. Boscaleri, C.R. Contaldi, B.P. Crill, P. de Bernardis, P.G. Ferreira, M. Giacometti, E. Hivon, V.V. Hristov, M. Kunz, A.E. Lange, S. Masi, P.D. Mauskopf, P. Natoli, C.B. Netterfield, E. Pascale, F. Piacentini, G. Polenta, G. Romeo, J.E. Ruhl
  astro-ph/0301294

• On the Selection of Photometric Planetary Transits
  A.J. Drake
  astro-ph/0301295

• Fundamental Properties and Distances of LMC Eclipsing Binaries: IV. HV 5936
  E.L. Fitzpatrick, I. Ribas, E.F. Guinan, F.P. Maloney, and A. Claret
  astro-ph/0301296

• The X-ray-faint Emission of the Supermassive Nuclear Black Hole of IC1459
  G. Fabbiano (1), M. Elvis (1), S. Markoff (2), A. Siemiginowska (1), S. Pellegrini (3), A. Zezas (1), F. Nicastro (1), G. Trinchieri (4) and J. McDowell (1) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (2) Center for Space Research, MIT, (3) Universita' di Bologna, Italy, (4) Osservatorio di Brera, Milano, Italy)
  astro-ph/0301297

• Numerical simulations of interacting gas-rich barred galaxies. Vertical impact of small companions
  I. Berentzen (1&2), E. Athanassoula (2), C.H. Heller (3) and K.J. Fricke (1) ((1) Universitaets-Sternwarte Goettingen, Germany, (2) Observatoire de Marseille, France, (3) Georgia Southern University, USA)
  astro-ph/0301300

• Fine Structure of Dark Matter Halos and its Effect on Terrestrial Detection Experiments
  David Stiff, Lawrence M. Widrow (Queen's University)
  astro-ph/0301301

• Post-Newtonian Treatment of the VLBI Experiment on September 8, 2002
  Sergei M. Kopeikin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA)
  gr-qc/0212121

• Inflation without a beginning: a null boundary proposal
  Anthony Aguirre, Steven Gratton
  gr-qc/0301042

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