The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Thursday 2016 June 16
- A DECam Search for an Optical Counterpart to the LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW151226
P. S. Cowperthwaite, E. Berger, M. Soares-Santos, J. Annis, D. Brout, D. A. Brown, E. Buckley-Geer, S. B. Cenko, H. Y. Chen, R. Chornock, H. T. Diehl, Z. Doctor, A. Drlica-Wagner, M. R. Drout, B. Farr, D. A. Finley, R. J. Foley, W. Fong, D. B. Fox, J. Frieman, J. Garcia-Bellido, M. S. S. Gill, R. A. Gruendl, K. Herner, D. E. Holz, D. Kasen, R. Kessler, H. Lin, R. Margutti, J. Marriner, T. Matheson, B. D. Metzger, E. H. Neilsen Jr., E. Quataert, A. Rest, M. Sako, D. Scolnic, N. Smith, F. Sobreira, G. M. Strampelli, V. A. Villar, A. R. Walker, W. Wester, P. K. G. Williams, B. Yanny, T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla, S. Allam, R. Armstrong, K. Bechtol, A. Benoit-Levy, E. Bertin, D. Brooks, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, F. J. Castander, C. E. Cunha, C. B. D'Andrea,et al. (40 additional authors not shown)
[ arXiv:1606.04538v1 | PDF File ]
- Liverpool Telescope follow-up of candidate electromagnetic counterparts during the first run of Advanced LIGO
C.M. Copperwheat, I.A. Steele, A.S. Piascik, D. Bersier, M.F. Bode, C.A. Collins, M.J. Darnley, D.K. Galloway, A. Gomboc, S. Kobayashi, G.P. Lamb, A.J. Levan, P.A. Mazzali, C.G. Mundell, E. Pian, D. Pollacco, D. Steeghs, N.R. Tanvir, K. Ulaczyk, K. Wiersema
[ arXiv:1606.04574v1 | PDF File ]
- A search for an optical counterpart to the gravitational wave event GW151226
S. J. Smartt, K. C. Chambers, K. W. Smith, M. E. Huber, D. R. Young, T.-W. Chen, C. Inserra, D. E. Wright, M. Coughlin, L. Denneau, H. Flewelling, A. Heinze, A. Jerkstrand, E. A. Magnier, K. Maguire, B. Mueller, A. Rest, A. Sherstyuk, B. Stalder, A. S. B. Schultz, C. W. Stubbs, J. Tonry, C. Waters, R. Wainscoat, M. Della Valle, M. Dennefeld, G. Dimitriadis, R. E. Firth, M. Fraser, C. Frohmaier, A. Gal-Yam, J. Harmanen, E. Kankare, R. Kotak, M. Kromer, I. Mandel, J. Sollerman, B. Gibson, N. Primak, M. Willman
[ arXiv:1606.04795v1 | PDF File ]
- The impact of the Star Formation Histories on the SFR-M$_{*}$ relation at z$\ge$2
L. P. Cassarà, D. Maccagni, B. Garilli, M. Scodeggio, R. Thomas, O. Le Fèvre, G. Zamorani, D. Schaerer, B.C. Lemaux, P. Cassata, V. Le Brun, L. Pentericci, L.A.M. Tasca, E. Vanzella, E. Zucca, R. Amorín, S. Bardelli, M. Castellano, A. Cimatti, O. Cucciati, A. Durkalec, A. Fontana, M. Giavalisco, A. Grazian, N. P. Hathi, O. Ilbert, S. Paltani, B. Ribeiro, V. Sommariva, M. Talia, L. Tresse, D. Vergani, P. Capak, S. Charlot, T. Contini, S. de la Torre, J. Dunlop, S. Fotopoulou, L. Guaita, A. Koekemoer, C. López-Sanjuan, Y. Mellier, J. Pforr, M. Salvato, N. Scoville, Y. Taniguchi, P. W. Wang
[ arXiv:1606.04823v1 | PDF File ]
- Multi-wavelength properties of IGR J05007-7047 (LXP 38.55) and identification as a Be X-ray binary pulsar in the LMC
G. Vasilopoulos, F. Haberl, C. Delvaux, R. Sturm, A. Udalski
[ arXiv:1606.04827v1 | PDF File ]
- The nucleosynthetic history of elements in the Galactic disk: [X/Fe] - age relations from high-precision spectroscopy
L. Spina, J. Meléndez, A. I. Karakas, I. Ramírez, T. R. Monroe, M. Asplund, D. Yong
[ arXiv:1606.04842v1 | PDF File ]
- GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
he LIGO Scientific Collaboration,the Virgo Collaboration
[ arXiv:1606.04855v1 | PDF File ]
- Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run
he LIGO Scientific Collaboration,the Virgo Collaboration
[ arXiv:1606.04856v1 | PDF File ]
- Merging black hole binaries in galactic nuclei: implications for advanced-LIGO detections
Fabio Antonini, Frederic A. Rasio
[ arXiv:1606.04889v1 | PDF File ]
- Searching the Gamma-ray Sky for Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Sources: Fermi GBM and LAT Observations of LVT151012 and GW151226
J. L. Racusin, E. Burns, A. Goldstein, V. Connaughton, C. A. Wilson-Hodge, P. Jenke, L. Blackburn, M. S. Briggs, J. Broida, J. Camp, N. Christensen, C. M. Hui, T. Littenberg, P. Shawhan, L. Singer, J. Veitch, P. N. Bhat, W. Cleveland, G. Fitzpatrick, M. H. Gibby, A. von Kienlin, S. McBreen, B. Mailyan, C. A. Meegan, W. S. Paciesas, R. D. Preece, O. J. Roberts, M. Stanbro, P. Veres, B.-B. Zhang, M. Ackermann, A. Albert, W. B. Atwood, M. Axelsson, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, M. G. Baring, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, R. Bonino, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, S. Buson, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, M. Caragiulo, P. A. Caraveo, E. Cavazzuti, E. Charles, J. Chiang, S. Ciprini, F. Costanza, A. Cuoco, S. Cutini, F. D'Ammando, F. de Palma,et al. (80 additional authors not shown)
[ arXiv:1606.04901v1 | PDF File ]
- Fermi Large Area Telescope Detection of Extended Gamma-Ray Emission from the Radio Galaxy Fornax A
he Fermi-LAT Collaboration
[ arXiv:1606.04905v1 | PDF File ]
- Stability of mass transfer from massive giants: double black-hole binary formation and ultra-luminous X-ray sources
K. Pavlovskii, N. Ivanova, K. Belczynski, K.X. Van
[ arXiv:1606.04921v1 | PDF File ]
Other Papers:
- Space-based Microlens Parallax Observation As a Way to Resolve the
Severe Degeneracy between Microlens-parallax and Lens-orbital Effect
arXiv:1606.01336
- Deciphering Contributions to the Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background from
2 GeV to 2 TeV
arXiv:1606.04101
brew.pl Version 2.4.1 [2014-10-20]