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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Monday May 14

Beryllium in Ultra-Lithium-Deficient Halo Stars - The Blue Straggler Connection
Ann Merchant Boesgaard
arXiv:0705.1551
Milagro Constraints on Very High Energy Emission from Short Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts
A.A. Abdo, B.T. Allen, D. Berley, E. Blaufuss, S. Casanova, B.L. Dingus, R.W. Ellsworth, M.M. Gonzalez, J.A. Goodman, E. Hays, C.M. Hoffman, B.E. Kolterman, C.P. Lansdell, J.T. Linnemann, J.E. McEnery, A.I. Mincer, P. Nemethy, D.Noyes, J.M. Ryan, F.W. Samuelson, P.M. Saz Parkinson, A. Shoup, G. Sinnis, A.J. Smith, G.W. Sullivan, V. Vasileiou, G.P. Walker, D.A. Williams, X.W. Xu and G.B. Yodh (Milagro Collaboration).
arXiv:0705.1554
Cepheid Parallaxes and the Hubble Constant
Floor van Leeuwen, Michael W. Feast, Patricia A. Whitelock and Clifton D. Laney
arXiv:0705.1592
The baryon density at z=0.9-1.9 - Tracing the warm-hot intergalactic medium with broad Lyman alpha absorption
N. Prause, D. Reimers, C. Fechner, E. Janknecht
arXiv:0705.1633
WASP-1: A lithium- and metal-rich star with an oversized planet
H.C. Stempels, A. Collier Cameron, L. Hebb, B. Smalley and S. Frandsen
arXiv:0705.1677
On the nature of the short duration GRB 050906
A.J. Levan, N.R. Tanvir, P. Jakobsson, R. Chapman, J. Hjorth, R.S. Priddey, J.P.U. Fynbo, K. Hurley, B.L. Jensen, R. Johnson, J. Gorosabel, A.J. Castro-Tirado, M. Jarvis, D. Watson, K. Wiersema
arXiv:0705.1705
Cosmological Constraints from Type Ia Supernovae Peculiar Velocity Measurements
Christopher Gordon, Kate Land, Anze Slosar
arXiv:0705.1718

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