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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Thursday 2012 February 9
- High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy reveals the special nature of Wolf-Rayet star winds.
L. M. Oskinova, K. G. Gayley, W.-R. Hamann, D. P. Huenemoerder, R. Ignace, A. M. T. Pollock
arXiv:1202.1525v1
- Effects of Baryon Mass Loss on Profiles of Large Galactic Dark Matter Haloes.
Cinthia Ragone-Figueroa, Gian Luigi Granato, Mario G. Abadi
arXiv:1202.1527v1
- XMM-Newton Finds That SAX J1750.8-2900 May Harbor the Hottest, Most Luminous Known Neutron Star.
Alexander W. Lowell, John A. Tomsick, Craig O. Heinke, Arash Bodaghee, Steven E. Boggs, Philip Kaaret, Sylvain Chaty, Jerome Rodriguez, Roland Walter
arXiv:1202.1531v1
- SDSS Observations of Kuiper Belt Objects: Colors and Variability.
Eran O. Ofek
arXiv:1202.1538v1
- Infrared Variability of Evolved Protoplanetary Disks: Evidence for Scale Height Variations in the Inner Disk.
Kevin Flaherty (1), James Muzerolle (2), George Rieke (1), Robert Gutermuth (3), Zoltan Balog (4), William Herbst (5), S. T. Megeath (6), Maria Kun (7) ((1) University of Arizona, (2) STSCI, (3) University of Massachusetts, (4) MPIA, (5) Wesleyan University, (6) University of Toledo, (7) Konkoly Observatory)
arXiv:1202.1553v1
- Spitzer/MIPS 24 micron Observations of HD 209458b: 2.5 transits, 3 eclipses, and a Phase Curve Corrupted by Instrumental Sensitivity Variations.
Ian J. M. Crossfield, Heather Knutson, Jonathan Fortney, Adam Showman, Nicolas B. Cowan, Drake Deming
arXiv:1202.1562v1
- Long-term magnetic activity of a sample of M-dwarf stars from the HARPS program II. Activity and radial velocity.
J. Gomes da Silva, N. C. Santos, X. Bonfils, X. Delfosse, T. Forveille, S. Udry, X. Dumusque, C. Lovis
arXiv:1202.1564v1
- The Taiwan ECDFS Near-Infrared Survey: Very Bright End of the Luminosity Function at z > 7.
Bau-Ching Hsieh (1), Wei-Hao Wang (1), Haojing Yan (2), Lihwai Lin (1), Hiroshi Karoji (3 and 4), Jeremy Lim (1 and 5), Paul T. P. Ho (1 and 6), Chao-Wei Tsai (7) ((1) Institute of Astrophysics and Astronomy, Academia Sinica (ASIAA), (2) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri, (3) National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), (4) Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), University of Tokyo, (5) Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong, (6) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (7) Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology)
arXiv:1202.1576v1
- The Chandra view of the Largest Quasar Lens SDSS J1029+2623.
Naomi Ota, Masamune Oguri, Xinyu Dai, Christopher S. Kochanek, Gordon T. Richards, Eran O. Ofek, Roger D. Blandford, Tim Schrabback, Naohisa Inada
arXiv:1202.1645v1
- The Rare Earth Peak : An Overlooked r-Process Diagnostic.
M. Mumpower, G. McLaughlin, R. Surman
arXiv:1202.1758v1
- A massive exoplanet candidate around KOI-13: Independent confirmation by ellipsoidal variations.
D. Mislis, S. Hodgkin
arXiv:1202.1760v1
- Kinematical and chemical vertical structure of the Galactic thick disk I. Thick disk kinematics.
C. Moni Bidin, G. Carraro, R. A. Mendez
arXiv:1202.1799v1
- An H-band Spectroscopic Metallicity Calibration for M Dwarfs.
Ryan C. Terrien, Suvrath Mahadevan, Chad F. Bender, Rohit Deshpande, Lawrence W. Ramsey, John J. Bochanski
arXiv:1202.1800v1
- The molecular gas in Luminous Infrared Galaxies II: extreme physical conditions, and their effects on the X_{co} factor.
Padelis P. Papadopoulos, Paul van der Werf, E Xilouris, Kate G. Isaak, Yu Gao
arXiv:1202.1803v1
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