The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Friday 2008 July 25
- Towards an Accurate Determination of Parameters for Very Massive Stars: the Eclipsing Binary LMC-SC1-105.
Alceste Z. Bonanos (Carnegie Institution of Washington - DTM)
arXiv:0807.3742v1
- Age Determination of Six Intermediate-age SMC Star Clusters with HST/ACS.
Katharina Glatt, Eva K. Grebel, Elena Sabbi, John S. Gallagher, Antonella Nota, Marco Sirianni, Gisella Clementini, Monica Tosi, Daniel Harbeck, Andreas Koch, Andrea Kayser, Gary Da Costa
arXiv:0807.3744v1
- T-Lyr1-17236: A Long-Period Low-Mass Eclipsing Binary.
Jonathan Devor, David Charbonneau, Guillermo Torres, Cullen H. Blake, Russel J. White, Markus Rabus, Francis T. O'Donovan, Georgi Mandushev, Gaspar Bakos, Gabor Furesz, Andrew Szentgyorgyi
arXiv:0807.3746v1
- The Stellar Populations of Stripped Spiral Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster.
Hugh H. Crowl, Jeffrey D.P. Kenney (Yale University)
arXiv:0807.3747v1
- The effect of photo-ionization on the cooling rates of enriched, astrophysical plasmas.
Robert P.C. Wiersma, Joop Schaye, Britton D. Smith
arXiv:0807.3748v1
- The Size Distributions of Asteroid Families in the SDSS Moving Object Catalog 4.
Alex H. Parker, Zeljko Ivezic, Mario Juric, Robert H. Lupton, Michael D. Sekora, Adam F. Kowalski
arXiv:0807.3762v1
- Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission IV: CoRoT-Exo-4b: A transiting planet in a 9.2 day synchronous orbit.
S. Aigrain, A. Collier Cameron, M. Ollivier, F. Pont, L. Jorda, J. M. Almenara, R. Alonso, P. Barge, P. Borde, F. Bouchy, H. Deeg, R. De la Reza, M. Deleuil, R. Dvorak, A. Erikson, M. Fridlund, P. Gondoin, M. Gillon, T. Guillot, A. Hatzes, H. Lammer, A. F. Lanza, A. Leger, A. Llebaria, P. Magain, T. Mazeh, C. Moutou, M. Paetzold, C. Pinte, D. Queloz, H. Rauer, D. Rouan, J. Schneider, G. Wuchter, S. Zucker
arXiv:0807.3767v1
- The MagE Spectrograph.
J. L. Marshall (1), Scott Burles (2), Ian B. Thompson (1), Stephen A. Shectman (1), Bruce C. Bigelow (3), Gregory Burley (1), Christoph Birk (1), Jorge Estrada (1), Patricio Jones (4), Matthew Smith (2), Vince Kowal (1), Jerson Castillo (1), Robert Storts (1), Greg Ortiz (1) ((1) Carnegie Observatories, (2) MIT, (3) UCO Lick, (4)Las Campanas Observatory)
arXiv:0807.3774v1
- The FourStar Infrared Camera.
S. E. Persson (1), Robert Barkhouser (2), Christoph Birk (1), Randy Hammond (2), Albert Harding (2), E. R. Koch (3), J. L. Marshall (1), Patrick J. McCarthy (1), David Murphy (1), Joe Orndorff (2), Gregg Scharfstein (2), Stephen A. Shectman (1), Stephen Smee (2), Alan Uomoto (1) ((1) Carnegie Observatories, (2) Johns Hopkins, (3) Dedicated Micro Systems)
arXiv:0807.3777v1
- Spectral, Spatial, and Time properties of the hydrogen nebula around exoplanet HD209458b.
Lotfi Ben-Jaffel
arXiv:0807.3796v1
- Rotational velocities of the giants in symbiotic stars: III. Evidence of fast rotation in S-type symbiotics.
R.K. Zamanov, M.F. Bode, C.H.F. Melo, I.K. Stateva, R. Bachev, A. Gomboc, R. Konstantinova-Antova, K.A. Stoyanov
arXiv:0807.3817v1
- Tracing Galaxy Formation with Stellar Halos II: Relating Substructure in Phase- and Abundance-Space to Accretion Histories.
Kathryn V. Johnston (Columbia University) James S. Bullock (UC Irvine), Sanjib Sharma (Columbia University), Andreea Font (University of Durham), Brant E. Robertson (University of Chicago), Samuel N. Leitner (University of Chicago)
arXiv:0807.3911v1
brew.pl Version 2.2.3 [2008-06-25]