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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Wednesday 2008 October 15
- Building synthetic galaxy catalogues: a first look at the photometric redshift performance of Pan-STARRS.
Yan-Chuan Cai, Raul E. Angulo, Carlton M. Baugh, Shaun Cole, Carlos S. Frenk, Adrian Jenkins
arXiv:0810.2300v1
- Are the kinematics of DLAs in agreement with their arising in the gas disks of galaxies?.
Martin Zwaan (1), Fabian Walter (2), Emma Ryan-Weber (3), Elias Brinks (4), W.J.G. de Blok (5), Robert C. Kennicutt Jr. (3) ((1) ESO Garching, (2) MPIA Heidelberg, (3) IoA Cambridge, (4) U. Hertfordshire, (5) U. Cape Town)
arXiv:0810.2304v1
- GRB 080913 at redshift 6.7.
J. Greiner, T. Kruehler, J.P.U. Fynbo, A. Rossi, R. Schwarz, S. Klose, S. Savaglio, N.R. Tanvir, S. McBreen, T. Totani, B.B. Zhang, X.F. Wu, D. Watson, S.D. Barthelmy, A.P. Beardmore, P. Ferrero, N. Gehrels, D.A. Kann, N. Kawai, A. Kuepcue Yoldas, P. Meszaros, B. Milvang-Jensen, S.R. Oates, D. Pierini, P. Schady, K. Toma, P.M. Vreeswijk, A. Yoldas, B. Zhang, P. Afonso, K. Aoki, D.N. Burrows, C. Clemens, R. Filgas, Z. Haiman, D.H. Hartmann, G. Hasinger, J. Hjorth, E. Jehin, A.J. Levan, E.W. Liang, D. Malesani, T.-S. Pyo, S. Schulze, G. Szokoly, H. Terada, K. Wiersema
arXiv:0810.2314v1
- Our Nearest 15 Million Neighbors: The Field Low-Mass Stellar Luminosity and Mass Functions.
John J. Bochanski, Suzanne L. Hawley, I. Neill Reid, Kevin R. Covey, Andrew A. West, David A. Golimowski, Zeljko Ivezic
arXiv:0810.2343v1
- Rotational Mixing in Magellanic Clouds B Stars - Theory versus Observation.
I.Brott, I.Hunter, A. de Koter, N. Langer, D. Lennon, P. Dufton
arXiv:0810.2348v1
- The nature and evolution of Nova Cygni 2006.
U. Munari (1), A. Siviero (1), A. Henden (2), G. Cardarelli (3), G. Cherini (3), S. Dallaporta (3), G. Dalla Via (3), A. Frigo (3), R. Jurdana-Sepic (3), S. Moretti (3), P. Ochner (3), S. Tomaselli (3), S. Tomasoni (3), P. Valisa (3), H. Navasardyan (1), M. Valentini (4,1) (1: INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Asiago, Italy; 2: AAVSO, USA; 3: ANS Collaboration, Osservatorio Astronomico, Asiago, Italy; 4: Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma, Spain)
arXiv:0810.2387v1
- Geometrically Derived Timescales for Star Formation in Spiral Galaxies.
D. Tamburro, H.-W. Rix, F. Walter, E. Brinks, W.J.G. de Blok, R.C. Kennicutt, M.-M. Mac Low
arXiv:0810.2391v1
- A new standard: Age and distance for the open cluster NGC 6791 from the eclipsing binary member V20.
F. Grundahl, J. V. Clausen, S. Hardis, S. Frandsen
arXiv:0810.2407v1
- On the rapid TeV flaring activity of Markarian 501.
A. Mastichiadis, K. Moraitis
arXiv:0810.2420v1
- A new activity phase of the blazar 3C 454.3. Multifrequency observations by the WEBT and XMM-Newton in 2007-2008.
C. M. Raiteri, M. Villata, V. M. Larionov, M. A. Gurwell, W. P. Chen,et al
arXiv:0810.2424v1
- Gamma-Ray Burst at the extreme: " the naked-eye burst " GRB 080319B.
P.R. Wozniak, W.T. Vestrand, A.D. Panaitescu, J.A. Wren, H.R. Davis, R.R. White (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
arXiv:0810.2481v1
- Propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays.
Todor Stanev (Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware)
arXiv:0810.2501v1
- Obscured and powerful AGN and starburst activities at z~3.5.
M. Polletta, A. Omont, S. Berta, J. Bergeron, C. S. Stalin, P. Petitjean, M. Giorgetti, G. Trinchieri, R. Srianand, H. J. McCracken, Y. Pei, H. Dannerbauer
arXiv:0810.2518v1
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