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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Thursday 2008 October 2
- Spectroscopic Confirmation of Two Massive Red-Sequence-Selected Galaxy Clusters at z ~ 1.2 in the SpARCS-North Cluster Survey.
Adam Muzzin, Gillian Wilson, H.K.C. Yee, Henk Hoekstra, David Gilbank, Jason Surace, Mark Lacy, Kris Blindert, Subhabrata Majumdar, Ricardo Demarco, Jonathan P. Gardner, Mike Gladders, Carol Lonsdale
arXiv:0810.0005v1
- Microlensing variability in the gravitationally lensed quasar QSO 2237+0305 = the Einstein Cross. II. Energy profile of the accretion disk.
A. Eigenbrod (1), F. Courbin (1), G. Meylan (1), E. Agol (2), T. Anguita (3), R. W. Schmidt (3), J. Wambsganss (3) ((1) Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, (2) University of Washington, USA, (3) Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg, Germany)
arXiv:0810.0011v1
- Fluctuations in the High-Redshift Lyman-Werner Background: Close Halo Pairs as the Origin of Supermassive Black Holes.
Mark Dijkstra, Zoltan Haiman, Andrei Mesinger, Stuart Wyithe
arXiv:0810.0014v1
- Detection of a Temperature Inversion in the Broadband Infrared Emission Spectrum of TrES-4.
Heather A. Knutson, David Charbonneau, Adam Burrows, Francis T. O'Donovan, Georgi Mandushev
arXiv:0810.0021v1
- The formation of compact massive self-gravitating discs in metal-free haloes with virial temperatures of ~ 13000-30000 K.
John A. Regan, Martin G. Haehnelt
arXiv:0810.0024v1
- The effect of progenitor age and metallicity on luminosity and 56Ni yield in Type Ia supernovae.
D. A. Howell, M. Sullivan, E. F. Brown, A. Conley, D. Le Borgne, E. Y. Hsiao, P. Astier, D. Balam, C. Balland, S. Basa, R. G. Carlberg, D. Fouchez, J. Guy, D. Hardin, I. M. Hook, R. Pain, K. Perrett, C. J. Pritchet, N. Regnault, S. Baumont, J. Le Du, C. Lidman, S. Perlmutter, N. Suzuki, E. S. Walker, J. C. Wheeler
arXiv:0810.0031v1
- Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Massive Red-Sequence-Selected Galaxy Cluster at z = 1.34 in the SpARCS-South Cluster Survey.
Gillian Wilson, Adam Muzzin, H.K.C. Yee, Mark Lacy, Jason Surace, David Gilbank, Kris Blindert, Henk Hoekstra, Subhabrata Majumdar, Ricardo Demarco, Jonathan P. Gardner, Michael D. Gladders, Carol Lonsdale
arXiv:0810.0036v1
- Gamma ray emission from SNR RX J1713.7-3946 and the origin of galactic cosmic rays.
G. Morlino, E. Amato, P. Blasi
arXiv:0810.0094v1
- Binarity at the L/T brown dwarf transition.
B. Goldman, H. Bouy, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, M. B. Stumpf, W. Brandner, T. Henning
arXiv:0810.0099v1
- The s process in massive stars at low metallicity. Effect of primary N14 from fast rotating stars.
M. Pignatari (1,2), R. Gallino (3,4), G. Meynet (5), R. Hirschi (1,6), F. Herwig (1,7), M. Wiescher (2) ((1) Keele University, Keele, UK, (2) JINA, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA, (3) Dipartimento di Fisica Generale, Universita' di Torino, Via Pietro Giuria 1, Torino, Italy, (4) Center for Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia, (5) Geneva Observatory, Sauverny, Switzerland, (6) IPMU, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, (7) Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada)
arXiv:0810.0182v1
- Corotational Instability of Inertial-Acoustic Modes in Black Hole Accretion Discs and Quasi-Periodic Oscillations.
Dong Lai, David Tsang
arXiv:0810.0203v1
- Galactic abundance gradients from Cepheids : On the iron abundance gradient around 10-12 kpc.
B. Lemasle, P. Francois, A. Piersimoni, S. Pedicelli, G. Bono, C.D. Laney, F. Primas, M. Romaniello
arXiv:0810.0205v1
- Dust Settling in Magnetorotationally-Driven Turbulent Discs I: Numerical Methods and Evidence for a Vigorous Streaming Instability.
Dinshaw S. Balsara, David A. Tilley, Terrence Rettig, Sean A. Brittain
arXiv:0810.0246v1
- Independent discovery and refined parameters of XO-5b: a hot Jupiter transiting a moderately faint star.
A. Pál (1,2), G.Á. Bakos (1,3), J. Fernandez (1), B. Sipöcz (2,1), G. Torres (1), D. W. Latham (1), Géza Kovács (4), R. W. Noyes (1), G. W. Marcy (5), D. A. Fischer (6), R. P. Butler (7), D. D. Sasselov (1), G. A. Esquerdo (1), A. Shporer (8), T. Mazeh (8), R. P. Stefanik (1), Gábor Kovács (1) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (2) Department of Astronomy, Eötvös Loránd University, (3) NSF Fellow, (4) Konkoly Observatory, Hungary, (5) Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley, (6) Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, (7) Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institute of Washington, (8) Wise Observatory, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)
arXiv:0810.0260v1
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