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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Wednesday August 16
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The Baryon Content of Extremely Low Mass Dwarf Galaxies
M. Geha, M. R. Blanton, M. Masjedi, A. A. West
Comments: 33 pages, 8 figures. Accepted to ApJ. Data available at
http://www.ociw.edu/~mgeha/research
astro-ph/0608295
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Dense Fe-Rich Ejecta in Supernova Remnants DEM L238 and DEM L249: A New
Class of Type Ia Supernova?
K. J. Borkowski, S. P. Hendrick and S. P. Reynolds
Comments: 24 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
astro-ph/0608297
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Discovery of a Metal-Line Absorber Associated with a Local Dwarf
Starburst Galaxy
Brian A. Keeney (1), John T. Stocke (1), Jessica L. Rosenberg (2),
Jason Tumlinson (3), and Donald G. York (4) ((1) CASA, Univ. of Colorado, (2)
NSF Fellow, CfA, (3) Yale, (4) Univ. of Chicago)
Comments: 31 pages, 8 figures; AJ in press; a version with high resolution
figures can be downloaded from
http://casa.colorado.edu/~keeney/research/papers/IC691.pdf
astro-ph/0608301
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The Deuterium to Hydrogen Abundance Ratio Towards the QSO SDSS1558-0031
John M. O'Meara, Scott Burles, Jason X. Prochaska, Gabe E. Prochter,
Rebecca A. Bernstein, and Kristin M. Burgess
Comments: 13 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal
Letters
astro-ph/0608302
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What is the Total Deuterium Abundance in the Local Galactic Disk?
Jeffrey L. Linsky, Bruce T. Draine, H. W. Moos, Edward B. Jenkins,
Brian E. Wood, Cristina Oliveira, William P. Blair, Scott D. Friedman, Cecile
Gry, David Knauth, Jeffrey W. Kruk, Sylvestre Lacour, Nicolas Lehner, Seth
Redfield, J. Michael Shull, George Sonneborn, Gerard M. Williger
Comments: 19 pages, 9 figures
Journal-ref: ApJ 647, 1106 (August 20, 2006)
astro-ph/0608308
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Discovery of a possible X-ray counterpart to HESS J1804-216
Aya Bamba (1), Katsuji Koyama (2), Junko S. Hiraga (1), John P. Hughes
(3), Takayoshi Kohmura (4), Motohide Kokubun (5), Yoshitomo Maeda (6),
Hironori Matsumoto (2), Atsushi Senda (1), Tadayuki Takahashi (6), Yohko
Tsuboi (7), Shigeo Yamauchi (8), Takayuki Yuasa (5) ((1) RIKEN, (2) Kyoto
Univ., (3) Rutgers Univ., (4) Kougakuin Univ., (5) Univ. of Tokyo, (6)
ISAS/JAXA, (7) Chuo Univ., (8) Iwate Univ.)
Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures, Publications of the Astronomical Society of
Japan, in press
astro-ph/0608310
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A new type of massive stellar death: no supernovae from two nearby long
gamma ray bursts
Johan P. U. Fynbo, Darach Watson, Christina C. Thoene, Jesper
Sollerman, Joshua S. Bloom, Tamara M. Davis, Jens Hjorth, Pall Jakobsson,
Uffe G. Joergensen, Arnaud Cassan, Jos\'e Mar\'ia Castro Cer\'on, Javier
Gorosabel, Tobias C. Hinse, Brian L. Jensen, Sylvio Klose, Daniel Kocevski,
Daniel Perley, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Maximilian D. Stritzinger, Paul
Vreeswijk, Ralph A. M. Wijers, Kristian G. Woller, Marta Zub, Dong Xu
Comments: Submitted to Nature on July 7. Posted on Nature website July 12, see
http://blogs.nature.com/nature/peerreview/trial/2006/07/a_new_type_of_massive_stellar.html Revised on August 10
astro-ph/0608313
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Correlation between the Peak Spectral Energy of Gamma-Ray Bursts and the
Peak Luminosity of the Underlying Supernovae: Implication for the Nature of
GRB-SN Connection
Li-Xin Li (MPA)
Comments: 10 pages, 8 figures and 1 table. Accepted by MNRAS
astro-ph/0608315
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GRB 060614: an enigmatic long-duration gamma-ray burst not due to a
hypernova
M. Della Valle, G. Chincarini, N. Panagia, G. Tagliaferri, D.
Malesani, V. Testa, D. Fugazza, S. Campana, S. Covino, S.T. Holland, V.
Mangano, L.A. Antonelli, P. D'Avanzo, F. Fiore, K. Hurley, I.F. Mirabel, S.
Piranomonte, and L. Stella
Comments: 13 pages, 3 figure. Submitted to Nature on 2006 Aug 9. Under embargo
to the popular press
astro-ph/0608322
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