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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Wednesday 2012 October 31
- Do magnetars really exist?.
Igor Malov
arXiv:1210.7797v1
- A Gemini ground-based transmission spectrum of WASP-29b: a featureless spectrum from 515 to 720nm.
N. P. Gibson (1 and 2), S. Aigrain (1), J. K. Barstow (1), T. M. Evans (1), L. N. Fletcher (1), P. G. J. Irwin (1) ((1) Oxford, (2) ESO)
arXiv:1210.7798v1
- Spectroscopic evidence of distinct stellar populations in the counter-rotating stellar disks of NGC 3593 and NGC 4550.
L. Coccato (1), L. Morelli (2, 3), A. Pizzella (2, 3), E. M. Corsini (2, 3), L. M. Buson (3), E. Dalla Bonta' (2, 3) ((1) European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse, Germany. (2) Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia"G. Galilei", Universita' di Padova, Italy. (3) INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy.)
arXiv:1210.7807v1
- Exploring the NRO Opportunity for a Hubble-sized Wide-field Near-IR Space Telescope -- NEW WFIRST.
Alan Dressler, David Spergel, Matt Mountain, Marc Postman, Erin Elliott, Eduardo Bendek, David Bennett, Julianne Dalcanton, Scott Gaudi, Neil Gehrels, Olivier Guyon, Christopher Hirata, Jason Kalirai, N. Jeremy Kasdin, Jeff Kruk, Bruce Macintosh, Sangeeta Malhotra, Matthew Penny, Saul Perlmutter, George Rieke, Adam Riess, James Rhoads, Stuart Shaklan, Rachel Somerville, Daniel Stern, Rodger Thompson, David Weinberg
arXiv:1210.7809v1
- The Galactic Magnetic Field.
Ronnie Jansson, Glennys R. Farrar
arXiv:1210.7820v1
- Search for Galactic PeV Gamma Rays with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
IceCube collaboration : M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, D. Altmann, K. Andeen, J. Auffenberg, X. Bai, M. Baker, S. W. Barwick, V. Baum, R. Bay, K. Beattie, J. J. Beatty, S. Bechet, J. Becker Tjus, K.-H. Becker, M. Bell, M. L. Benabderrahmane, S. BenZvi, J. Berdermann, P. Berghaus, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Bertrand, D. Z. Besson, D. Bindig, M. Bissok, E. Blaufuss, J. Blumenthal, D. J. Boersma, S. Bohaichuk, C. Bohm, D. Bose1, S. Böser, O. Botner, L. Brayeur, A. M. Brown, R. Bruijn, J. Brunner, S. Buitink, M. Carson, J. Casey, M. Casier, D. Chirkin, B. Christy, K. Clark, F. Clevermann, S. Cohen, D. F. Cowen, A. H. Cruz Silva, M. Danninger, J. Daughhetee, J. C. Davis, C. De Clercq, S. De Ridder, F. Descamps, P. Desiati, G. de Vries-Uiterweerd,et al. (214 additional authors not shown)
arXiv:1210.7992v1
- GJ 1214 reviewed : Trigonometric parallax, stellar parameters, new orbital solution and updated bulk properties for the super-Earth GJ 1214b.
Guillem Anglada-Escudé, Bárbara Rojas-Ayala, Alan P. Boss, Alicya J. Weinberger, James P. Lloyd
arXiv:1210.8087v1
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