The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Monday March 17

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• Probing the Size of Low-Redshift Lyman-alpha Absorbers
  J. L. Rosenberg, R. Ganguly, M. L. Giroux, and J. T. Stocke
  astro-ph/0303308

• Stellar Contribution to the Galactic Bulge Microlensing Optical Depth
  Cheongho Han (Chungbuk National University) and Andrew Gould (Ohio State University)
  astro-ph/0303309

• Limits on thermal conduction in galaxy clusters
  Mikhail V. Medvedev, Adrian L. Melott (University of Kansas), Chris Miller (Carnegie Mellon University), Donald Horner (Space Telescope Science Institute)
  astro-ph/0303310

• Adiabatic Growth of Massive Black Holes
  Steinn Sigurdsson
  astro-ph/0303311

• The Dark Matter Distribution in Galaxy Cluster Cores
  M.W. Bautz & J.S. Arabadjis (MIT)
  astro-ph/0303313

• A Chandra Study of the Complex Structure in the Core of 2A 0335+096
  Pasquale Mazzotta (1,2) Alastair Edge (1) Maxim Markevitch (2) ((1)University of Durham, UK (2)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA)
  astro-ph/0303314

• Ejection of a Low Mass Star in a Young Stellar System in Taurus
  Laurent Loinard, Luis F. Rodriguez and Monica I. Rodriguez
  astro-ph/0303315

• Probing the Spatial Distribution of Extrasolar Planets with Gravitational Microlensing
  Cheongho Han (Chungbuk National University, Korea), Young Woon Kang (Sejong University, Korea)
  astro-ph/0303317

• Effects of dark-matter density profiles on bulge formation in very late-type galaxies
  Jie-Hao Huang (1), Zu-Gan Deng (2), Yan-Ning Fu (3) ((1) Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, (2) Department of Physics, Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3) Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing; National Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
  astro-ph/0303318

• High Resolution Simulations of the Global and Local ISM
  Miguel A. de Avillez (University of Evora, Portugal) and Dieter Breitschwerdt (MPE, Garching, Germany)
  astro-ph/0303322

• Spatial analysis of the Halpha emission in the local star-forming UCM galaxies
  P.G. Perez-Gonzalez (1), J. Zamorano (1), J. Gallego (1), A. Aragon-Salamanca (2), A. Gil de Paz (3) ((1) Universidad Complutense de Madrid, (2) University of Nottingham, (3) Carnegie Institution of Washington)
  astro-ph/0303323

• New optical and near-infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuations models. A primary distance indicator ranging from Globular Clusters to distant galaxies?
  M. Cantiello (1,2), G. Raimondo (1,3), E. Brocato (1,4), M. Capaccioli (5,6) ((1) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Collurania, Teramo, Italy; (2) Univ. Salerno, Italy and INFN sez. Napoli; (3) Univ. Roma "La Sapienza", Italy; (4) INFN-LNGS, L'Aquila, Italy; (5) Univ. Napoli "Federico II", Italy; (6) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy)
  astro-ph/0303325

• Field ZAMS stars in the solar neighborhood: Where have they come from ?
  R. Wichmann (1), J. H. M. M. Schmitt (1) ((1) Hamburger Sternwarte, Germany)
  astro-ph/0303326

• The Twin-Jet of NGC1052 at Radio, Optical, and X-ray Frequencies
  M. Kadler (1), E. Ros (1), J. Kerp (2), H. Falcke (1), J.A. Zensus (1), R.W. Pogge (3), G.V. Bicknell (4) ((1) MPIfR, (2) RAIUB, (3) Ohio State Univ., (4) Mt. Stromlo)
  astro-ph/0303327

• Galactic Center Shells and a Recurrent Starburst Model
  Yoshiaki Sofue (IoA, Univ. Tokyo)
  astro-ph/0303328

• Quasar Evolution Driven by Galaxy Encounters in Hierarchical Structures
  N. Menci (1), A. Cavaliere (2), A. Fontana (1), E. Giallongo (1), F. Poli (1), V. Vittorini (1) ((1) INAF, Osserv. Astronomico di Roma, (2) Dip. Fisica, II Univ. Roma)
  astro-ph/0303332

• Decline of the space density of quasars between z=2 and z=4
  M. Vigotti (1), R. Carballo (2,3), C.R. Benn (4), G. de Zotti (5), R. Fanti (6,1), J.I. Gonzalez Serrano (3), K.-H. Mack (1,7,8), J. Holt (9) ((1) Istituto di Radioastronomia del CNR, Bologna, Italy; (2) Dpto. de Matematica Aplicada y C. Computacion, Santander, Spain; (3) Instituto di Fisica de Cantabria, Santander, Spain; (4) Isaac Newton Group, Santa Cruz de La Palma, Spain; (5) INAF-Oss. Astr. Padova, Italy; (6) Dip. di Fisica, Bologna, Italy; (7) ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands; (8) Radioastronomisches Institut, Bonn, Germany; (9) Dep. of Physics and Astronomy, Sheffield, United Kingdom)
  astro-ph/0303333

• The large-scale anomalous microwave emission revisited by WMAP
  G. Lagache
  astro-ph/0303335

• The Incidence of Strong-Lensing Clusters in the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey
  Michael D. Gladders, Henk Hoekstra, H.K.C. Yee, Patrick B. Hall and L. Felipe Barrientos
  astro-ph/0303341

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