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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Tuesday 2011 September 27
- Nonlinear Color-Metallicity Relations of Globular Clusters. II. A Test on the Nonlinearity Scenario for Color Bimodality Using the u-band Colors: The Case of M87 (NGC 4486).
Suk-Jin Yoon (1), Sangmo T. Sohn (2), Sang-Yoon Lee (1), Hak-Sub Kim (1), Jaeil Cho (1), Chul Chung (1), John P. Blakeslee (3) ((1) Dept of Astronomy & CGER, Yonsei University, Korea, (2) STScI, USA, (3) Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada)
arXiv:1109.5174v1
- Nonlinear Color-Metallicity Relations of Globular Clusters. III. On the Discrepancy in Metallicity between Globular Cluster Systems and their Parent Elliptical Galaxies.
Suk-Jin Yoon (1), Sang-Yoon Lee (1), John P. Blakeslee (2), Eric W. Peng (3), Sangmo T. Sohn (4), Jaeil Cho (1), Hak-Sub Kim (1), Chul Chung (1), Sooyoung Kim (1), Young-Wook Lee (1) ((1) Dept of Astronomy & CGER, Yonsei University, Korea, (2) Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada, (3) Dept of Astronomy & Kavli Institute for A &A, Peking University, China, (4) STScI, USA)
arXiv:1109.5178v1
- Ground-based detections of thermal emission from CoRoT-1b and WASP-12b.
Ming Zhao (1), John D. Monnier (2), Mark R. Swain (1), Travis Barman (3), Sasha Hinkley (4) ((1) Jet Propulsion Lab, (2) University of Michigan, (3) Lowell Observatory, (4) California Institute of Technology)
arXiv:1109.5179v1
- Toward Direct Detection of Hot Jupiters with Precision Closure Phase: Calibration Studies and First Results from the CHARA Array.
M. Zhao (1), J. D. Monnier (2), X. Che (2), E. Pedretti (3), N. Thureau (3), G. Schaefer (4), T. ten Brummelaar (4), A. Merand (5), S. T. Ridgway (6), H. McAlister (4), N. Turner (4), J. Sturmann (4), L. Sturmann (4), P. J. Goldfinger (4), C. Farrington (4) ((1) Jet Propulsion Lab, (2) University of Michigan, (3) SUPA, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK, (4) The CHARA Array, Georgia State University, (5) European Southern Observatory, (6) National Optical Astronomy Observatory, NOAO, Tucson, AZ)
arXiv:1109.5183v1
- Magnetars vs. high magnetic field pulsars: a theoretical interpretation of the apparent dichotomy.
Jose A. Pons (U. of Alicante, Spain), Rosalba Perna (Colorado/JILA)
arXiv:1109.5184v1
- Limiting properties of light and the universe with high energy photons from Fermi-detected Gamma Ray Bursts.
Robert J. Nemiroff, Justin Holmes, Ryan Connolly
arXiv:1109.5191v1
- Photometric Redshift Probability Distributions for Galaxies in the SDSS DR8.
Erin S. Sheldon, Carlos Cunha, Rachel Mandelbaum, J. Brinkmann, Benjamin A. Weaver
arXiv:1109.5192v1
- Exploring the Variable Sky with LINEAR. I. Photometric Recalibration with SDSS.
Branimir Sesar, J. Scott Stuart,Željko Ivezić, Dylan P. Morgan, Andrew C. Becker, Przemyslaw Wozniak
arXiv:1109.5227v1
- The Araucaria Project. Accurate determination of the dynamical mass of the classical Cepheid in the eclipsing system OGLE-LMC-CEP-1812.
G. Pietrzynski, I. Thompson, D. Graczyk., W. Gieren, B. Pilecki, A. Udalski, I. Soszynski, G. Bono, P. Konorski, N. Nardetto, J. Storm
arXiv:1109.5414v1
- Apparent Lorentz violation with superluminal Majorana neutrinos at OPERA?.
F. Tamburini (1), M. Laveder (2), ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of Padova, Padova, Italy (2) Department of Physics, University of Padova, Padova, Italy)
arXiv:1109.5445v1
- On the Mass-Loss Rates of Massive Stars in the Low-Metallicity Galaxies IC 1613, WLM and NGC 3109.
F. Tramper, H. Sana, A. de Koter, L. Kaper
arXiv:1109.5502v1
- Distance Scale Zero-Points from Galactic RR Lyrae Star Parallaxes.
G. Fritz Benedict, Barbara E. McArthur, Michael W. Feast, Thomas G. Barnes, Thomas E. Harrison, Jacob L. Bean, John W. Menzies, Brian Chaboyer, Luca Fossati, Nicole Nesvacil, Horace A. Smith, Katrien Kolenberg, C. D. Laney, Oleg Kochukhov, Edmund P. Nelan, D. V. Shulyak, Denise Taylor, Wendy L. Freedman
arXiv:1109.5631v1
- Jupiter models with improved ab initio hydrogen EOS (H-REOS.2).
Nadine Nettelmann, Andreas Becker, Bastian Holst, Ronald Redmer
arXiv:1109.5644v1
- The RAVE catalogue of stellar elemental abundances: first data release.
C. Boeche, A. Siebert, M. Williams, R.S. de Jong, M. Steinmetz, J.P. Fulbright, G.R. Ruchti, O. Bienaymé, J. Bland-Hawthorn, R. Campbell, K.C. Freeman, B. K. Gibson, G. Gilmore, E. K. Grebel, A. Helmi, U. Munari, J.F. Navarro, Q. A. Parker, W. Reid, G. M. Seabroke, A. Siviero, F. G. Watson, R. F. G. Wyse, T. Zwitter
arXiv:1109.5670v1
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