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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Thursday August 31
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Cosmological Constraints from the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
M. Tegmark, D. Eisenstein, M. Strauss, D. Weinberg, M. Blanton, J.
Frieman, M. Fukugita, J. Gunn, A. Hamilton, G. Knapp, R. Nichol, J. Ostriker,
N. Padmanabhan, W. Percival, D. Schlegel, D. Schneider, R. Scoccimarro, U.
Seljak, H. Seo, M. Swanson, A. Szalay, M. Vogeley, J. Yoo, I. Zehavi, K.
Abazajian, S. Anderson, J. Annis, N. Bahcall, B. Bassett, A. Berlind, J.
Brinkmann, T. Budavari, F. Castander, A. Connolly, I. Csabai, M. Doi, D.
Finkbeiner, B. Gillespie, K. Glazebrook, G. Hennessy, D. Hogg, Z. Ivezic, B.
Jain, D. Johnston, S. Kent, D. Lamb, B. Lee, H. Lin, J. Loveday, R. Lupton,
J. Munn, K. Pan, C. Park, J. Peoples, J. Pier, A. Pope, M. Richmond, C.
Rockosi, R. Scranton, R. Sheth, A. Stebbins, C. Stoughton, I. Szapudi, D.
Tucker, D. Vanden Berk, B. Yanny, D. York
Comments: SDSS data and ppt figures available at
http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/sdss.html - 36 PRD pages, 25 figs. Belongs
together with astro-ph/0608635 and astro-ph/0608636
astro-ph/0608632
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The Weak Clustering of Gas-Rich Galaxies
Martin J. Meyer, Martin A. Zwaan, Rachel L. Webster, Michael J.I.
Brown and Lister Staveley-Smith
Comments: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Report-no: STScI Eprint #1735
astro-ph/0608633
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Baryonic Pinching of Galactic Dark Matter Haloes
Michael Gustafsson, Malcolm Fairbairn and Jesper Sommer-Larsen
Comments: 17 pages, 14 figures and 8 tables
astro-ph/0608634
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Measuring the matter density using baryon oscillations in the SDSS
Will J. Percival, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel J. Eisenstein, David H.
Weinberg, Masataka Fukugita, Adrian C. Pope, Donald P. Schneider, Alex S.
Szalay, Michael S. Vogeley, Idit Zehavi, Neta A. Bahcall, Jon Brinkmann,
Andrew J. Connolly, Jon Loveday, Avery Meiksin
Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJL
astro-ph/0608635
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The shape of the SDSS DR5 galaxy power spectrum
Will J. Percival, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Joshua A.
Frieman, Masataka Fukugita, Jon Loveday, Adrian C. Pope, Donald P. Schneider,
Alex S. Szalay, Max Tegmark, Michael S. Vogeley, David H. Weinberg, Idit
Zehavi, Neta A. Bahcall, Jon Brinkmann, Andrew J. Connolly, Avery Meiksin
Comments: 20 pages, 19 figures, submitted to ApJ
astro-ph/0608636
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Lightcurves of Type Ia Supernovae from Near the Time of Explosion
Arti Garg, Christopher W. Stubbs, Peter Challis, W. Michael
Wood-Vasey, Stephane Blondin, Mark E. Huber, Kem Cook, Sergei Nikolaev, Armin
Rest, R. Chris Smith, Knut Olsen, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Claudio Aguilera,
Jose Luis Prieto, Andrew Becker, Antonino Miceli, Gajus Miknaitis, Alejandro
Clocchiatti, Dante Minniti, Lorenzo Morelli, and Douglas L. Welch
Comments: 35 pages, 18 figures, 15 tables; Higher quality PDF available at
http://ctiokw.ctio.noao.edu/~sm/sm/SNrise/index.html; AJ accepted
astro-ph/0608639
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Growth of structure seeded by primordial black holes
Katherine J. Mack, Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Massimo Ricotti
Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to ApJ
astro-ph/0608642
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The Shear TEsting Programme 2: Factors affecting high precision weak
lensing analyses
Richard Massey, Catherine Heymans, Joel Berge, Gary Bernstein, Sarah
Bridle, Douglas Clowe, Hakon Dahle, Richard Ellis, Thomas Erben, Marco
Hetterscheidt, F. William High, Christopher Hirata, Henk Hoekstra, Patrick
Hudelot, Mike Jarvis, David Johnston, Konrad Kuijken, Vera Margoniner, Rachel
Mandelbaum, Yannick Mellier, Reiko Nakajima, Stephane Paulin-Henriksson,
Molly Peeples, Chris Roat, Alexandre Refregier, Jason Rhodes, Tim Schrabback,
Mischa Schirmer, Uros Seljak, Elisabetta Semboloni and Ludovic Van Waerbeke
Comments: 27 pages, 10 figures, MNRAS submitted
astro-ph/0608643
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NICMOS/HST Observations of the Embedded Cluster Associated with Mon R2:
Constraining the sub-stellar Initial Mass Function
M. Andersen, M. R. Meyer, B. Oppenheimer, C. Dougados, J. Carpenter
Comments: Accepted in AJ, Full version with Figure 1 in color can be found at
http://matisse.as.arizona.edu/mortena/download/monr2.ps
astro-ph/0608647
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0.5 Mpc-scale extended X-ray emission in 4C 23.56
O. Johnson, O. Almaini, P.N. Best, J. Dunlop
Comments: 5 pages, submitted to MNRAS Letters
astro-ph/0608656
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Extremely compact massive galaxies at z~1.4
I. Trujillo, G. Feulner, Y. Goranova, U. Hopp, M. Longhetti, P.
Saracco, R. Bender, V.Braito, R. Della Ceca, N. Drory, F. Mannucci and P.
Severgnini
Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS
letters
astro-ph/0608657
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Halting Type I planet migration in non-isothermal disks
S.-J. Paardekooper, G. Mellema
Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to A&A letters
astro-ph/0608658
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The Luminosity Function of high-redshift QSOs - A combined analysis of
GOODS and SDSS
F. Fontanot, S. Cristiani, P. Monaco, M. Nonino, E. Vanzella, W.N.
Brandt, A. Grazian, J. Mao
Comments: 17 pages, 13 ps figures, A&A accepted
astro-ph/0608664
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A Search for Nitrogen-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars
Jennifer A. Johnson (DAO/HIA/NRC), Falk Herwig (LANL), Timothy C.
Beers (MSU/JINA), and Norbert Christlieb (Hamburg)
Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures, to be published in ApJ
Report-no: LA-UR-06-5585
astro-ph/0608666
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Kinematics of planet-host stars and their relation with dynamical
streams in the solar neighbourhood
A. Ecuvillon (1), G. Israelian (1), F. Pont (2), N. C. Santos (2,3,4),
M. Mayor (2) ((1)Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain, (2)Observatoire
de Geneve, Switzerland, (3)Centro de Astronomia e Astrofisica de Universidade
de Lisboa, Observatorio Astronomico de Lisboa, Portugal, (4) Centro de
Geofisica de Evora, Portugal)
Comments: 14 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in A&A (28 August
2006)
astro-ph/0608669
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On the origin of the ultramassive white dwarf GD50
P. D. Dobbie (1), R. Napiwotzki (2), N. Lodieu (1), M. R. Burleigh
(1), M. A. Barstow (1), R. F. Jameson (1) ((1) University of Leicester, UK,
(2) University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
astro-ph/0608671
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Enhanced mergers of galaxies in low-redshift clusters
C. Moss (Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores
University)
Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 14 pages with 13 figures
astro-ph/0608672
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Gravitational Lensing in Modified Gravity and the Lensing of Merging
Clusters without Dark Matter
J. W. Moffat
Comments: 8 pages, one figure, LaTex file
astro-ph/0608675
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The Distance to the Virgo Cluster from a Recalibrated Tully-Fisher
Relation Based on HST Cepheids and a Demonstrated Teerikorpi Cluster
Incompleteness Bias
Allan Sandage (Obs. Carnegie Inst. Washington) and G.A. Tammann
(Astro. Inst. Univ. Basel)
Comments: 36 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to The ApJ
astro-ph/0608677
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Could GRB 060614 and its presumed host galaxy be a chance superposition?
B. E. Cobb, C. D. Bailyn, P. G. van Dokkum, and P. Natarajan (Yale)
Comments: Sumbitted to ApJ Letters
astro-ph/0608678
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