The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Tuesday May 20

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• Spectroscopic Constraints on the Surface Magnetic Field of the Accreting Neutron Star EXO 0748-676
  Abraham Loeb (IAS, Harvard)
  astro-ph/0305311

• The Age-Metallicity Relation of the Universe in Neutral Gas: The First 100 Damped Lya Systems
  Jason X. Prochaska (1), Eric Gawiser (2,3), Arthur M. Wolfe (2), Sandro Castro (4,5), & S. G. Djorgovski (4) ((1) UCO/Lick Observatory, (2) UC San Diego, (3) Yale University, (4) Caltech, (5) IPAC)
  astro-ph/0305314

• The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment Catalog of stellar proper motions in the OGLE-II Galactic bulge fields
  T. Sumi, X. Wu, A. Udalski, M. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, P. Wozniak, K. Zebrun, O. Szewczyk & L. Wyrzykowski
  astro-ph/0305315

• An HST/WFPC2 Survey for Brown Dwarf Binaries in the alpha Per and the Pleiades Open Clusters
  Eduardo L. Martin, David Barrado y Navascues, Isabelle Baraffe, Herve Bouy and Scott Dahm
  astro-ph/0305316

• Evidence for a Significant Intermediate-Age Population in the M31 Halo from Main Sequence Photometry
  Thomas M. Brown, Henry C. Ferguson, Ed Smith (STScI), Randy A. Kimble, Allen V. Sweigart (GSFC), Alvio Renzini (ESO), R. Michael Rich (UCLA), and Don A. VandenBerg (U. of Victoria)
  astro-ph/0305318

• Do Bulges of Early- and Late-type Spirals Have Different Morphology?
  K. Fathi (University of Nottingham, Observatoire de Lyon) and R. F. Peletier (University of Nottingham, Observatoire de Lyon)
  astro-ph/0305326

• 3-point temperature anisotropies in WMAP: Limits on CMB non-Gaussianities and non-linearities
  E.Gaztanaga (IEEC/CSIC, Barcelona), J.Wagg (INAOE, Mexico)
  astro-ph/0305327

• The First Supernova Explosions in the Universe
  Volker Bromm, Naoki Yoshida, Lars Hernquist
  astro-ph/0305333

• A Scheme to Unify Low-Power Accreting Black Holes - Jet-Dominated Accretion Flows and the Radio/X-Ray Correlation
  Heino Falcke (MPIfR Bonn), Elmar Koerding (MPIfR Bonn), Sera Markoff (MIT)
  astro-ph/0305335

• The Search for Extrasolar Earth-like planets
  S. Seager (Carnegie DTM and IAS)
  astro-ph/0305337

• The Significance of the Sodium Detection in the Extrasolar Planet HD209458b Atmosphere
  S. Seager (Carnegie DTM and IAS)
  astro-ph/0305338

• HST Snaphot Study of Variable Stars in Globular Clusters: Inner Region of NGC 6441
  Barton J. Pritzl, Horace A. Smith, Peter B. Stetson, Marcio Catelan, Allen V. Sweigart, Andrew C. Layden, R. Michael Rich
  astro-ph/0305339

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