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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Wednesday 2012 November 28
- Mapping the Local Halo: Statistical Parallax Analysis of SDSS Low-Mass Subdwarfs.
John J. Bochanski, Antonia Savcheva, Andrew A. West, Suzanne L. Hawley
arXiv:1211.6104v1
- The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury IV. A Probabilistic Approach to Inferring the High Mass Stellar Initial Mass Function and Other Power-law Functions.
Daniel R. Weisz, Morgan Fouesneau, David W. Hogg, Hans-Walter Rix, Andrew E. Dolphin, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Daniel T. Foreman-Mackey, Dustin Lang, L. Clifton Johnson, Lori C. Beerman, Eric F. Bell, Karl D. Gordon, Dimitrios Gouliermis, Jason S. Kalirai, Evan D. Skillman, Benjamin F. Williams
arXiv:1211.6105v1
- The Nearest Millisecond Pulsar Revisited with XMM-Newton: Improved Mass-Radius Constraints for PSR J0437-4715.
Slavko Bogdanov (Columbia, McGill)
arXiv:1211.6113v1
- A Substantial Mass of Cool, Metal-Enriched Gas Surrounding the Progenitors of Modern-Day Ellipticals.
J. Xavier Prochaska (1,2), Joseph F. Hennawi (2), Robert A. Simcoe (3) ((1) UCO/Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz, (2) Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie, (3) MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research)
arXiv:1211.6131v1
- Very Low-mass Stellar and Substellar Companions to Solar-like Stars from Marvels Iii: A Short-Period Brown Dwarf Candidate Around An Active G0Iv Subgiant.
Bo Ma (Univ. Florida), Jian Ge, Rory Barnes, Justin R. Crepp, Nathan De Lee, Leticia Dutra-Ferreira, Massimiliano Esposito, Bruno Femenia, Scott W. Fleming, B. Scott Gaudi, Luan Ghezzi, Leslie Hebb, Jonay I. Gonzalez Hernandez, Brian L. Lee, G. F. Porto de Mello, Keivan G. Stassun, Ji Wang, John P. Wisniewski, Eric Agol, Dmitry Bizyaev, Phillip Cargile, Liang Chang, Luiz Nicolaci da Costa, Jason D. Eastman, Bruce Gary, Peng Jiang, Stephen R. Kane, Rui Li, Jian Liu, Suvrath Mahadevan, Marcio A. G. Maia, Demitri Muna, Duy Cuong Nguyen, Ricardo L. C. Ogando, Daniel Oravetz, Joshua Pepper, Martin Paegert, Carlos Allende Prieto, Rafael Rebolo, Basilio X. Santiago, Donald P. Schneider, Alaina Shelden, Audrey Simmons, Thirupathi Sivarani, J. C. van Eyken, Xiaoke Wan, Benjamin A. Weaver, Bo Zhao
arXiv:1211.6140v1
- Two Epochs of Globular Cluster Formation from Deep Fields Luminosity Functions: Implications for Reionization and the Milky Way Satellites.
Harley Katz, Massimo Ricotti
arXiv:1211.6153v1
- The SINS/zC-SINF Survey of z~2 Galaxy Kinematics: The Nature of Dispersion Dominated Galaxies.
Sarah F. Newman, Reinhard Genzel, Natascha M. Forster Schreiber, Kristen Shapiro Griffin, Chiara Mancini, Simon J. Lilly, Alvio Renzini, Nicolas Bouche, Andreas Burkert, Peter Buschkamp, C. Marcella Carollo, Giovanni Cresci, Ric Davies, Frank Eisenhauer, Shy Genel, Erin K. S. Hicks, Jaron Kurk, Dieter Lutz, Thorsten Naab, Yingjie Peng, Amiel Sternberg, Linda J. Tacconi, Stijn Wuyts, Gianni Zamorani
arXiv:1211.6160v1
- The Galactic R Coronae Borealis Stars and the Final He-shell Flash Object V4334 Sgr (Sakurai's Object): A Comparison.
B. P. Hema (1), Gajendra Pandey (1), David L. Lambert (2) ((1) Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala, Bangalore, India, (2) The W.J. McDonald Observatory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA)
arXiv:1211.6219v1
- Geosynchronous Microlens Parallaxes.
Andrew Gould (Ohio State University)
arXiv:1211.6384v1
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