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The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey: Evolution of the Luminosity Function of 
Luminous Red Galaxies to z=0.6 
D. A. Wake (ICG Portsmouth, Durham), R. C. Nichol (ICG), D. J. 
Eisenstein (Steward), J. Loveday (Sussex), A. C. Edge (Durham), R. Cannon 
(AAO), I. Smail (Durham), D. P. Schneider (Penn State), Ryan Scranton (Pitt), 
D. Carson (ICG), N. P. Ross (Durham), R. J. Brunner, M. Colless, Warwick J. 
Couch, S. M. Croom, S. P. Driver, J. da Angela, S. Jester, R. de Propris, M. 
J. Drinkwater, J. Bland-Hawthorn, K. A. Pimbblet, I. G. Roseboom, T. Shanks, 
R. G. Sharp, J. Brinkmann 
Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 15 pages. See 
http://www.2slaq.info for further information 
astro-ph/0607629
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MegaZ-LRG: A photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS Luminous 
Red Galaxies 
Adrian Collister (IoA), Ofer Lahav (UCL), Chris Blake (UBC), Russell 
Cannon (AAO), Scott Croom (AAO), Michael Drinkwater (UQ), Alastair Edge 
(Durham), Daniel Eisenstein (Steward), Jon Loveday (Sussex), Robert Nichol 
(ICG Portsmouth), Kevin Pimbblet (UQ), Roberto De Propris (CTIO), Isaac 
Roseboom (UQ), Nic Ross (Durham), Donald P. Schneider (Penn State), Tom 
Shanks (Durham), David Wake (ICG, Durham) 
Comments: 9 pages, 13 figures. Submitted to MNRAS. The MegaZ-LRG catalogue is 
available upon request from the authors, until it becomes public from 
http://www.2slaq.info when the paper appears in the journal 
astro-ph/0607630
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The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) Luminous Red Galaxy Survey 
R. Cannon (AAO), M. Drinkwater (UQ), A. Edge (Durham), D. Eisenstein 
(Steward), R. C. Nichol (ICG Portsmouth), P. Outram (Durham), K. Pimbblet 
(UQ), R. De Propris (Bristol, CTIO), I. Roseboom (UQ), David Wake (ICG, 
Durham), P. Allen, J. Bland-Hawthorn, T. Bridges, D. Carson, K. Chiu, M. 
Colless, W. Couch, S. Croom, S. Driver, S. Fine, P. Hewett, J Loveday, N. 
Ross, E. M. Sadler, T. Shanks, R. Sharp, J. Allyn Smith, C. Stoughton, Peter 
Weilbacher, R. J. Brunner, A. Meiksin, D. P. Schneider 
Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 21 pages. The 2SLAQ LRG data 
discussed in this paper will become public when the paper appears in the 
journal. See http://www.2slaq.info for more information on the survey and 
data release, and a higher resolution version of the paper 
astro-ph/0607631
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The Hubble Ultra Deep Field 
Steven V. W. Beckwith, Massimo Stiavelli, Anton M. Koekemoer, John A. 
R. Caldwell, Henry C. Ferguson, Richard Hook, Ray A. Lucas, Louis E. 
Bergeron, Michael Corbin, Shardha Jogee, Nino Panagia, Massimo Robberto, 
Patricia Royle, Rachel S. Somerville, and Megan Sosey 
Comments: 44 pages, 18 figures, to appear in the Astronomical Journal October 
2006 
astro-ph/0607632
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The Evolution of Optical Depth in the Ly-alpha Forest: Evidence Against 
Reionization at z~6 
George D. Becker (Caltech), Michael Rauch (OCIW), Wallace L. W. 
Sargent (Caltech) 
Comments: 45 pages, 16 figures, submitted to ApJ 
astro-ph/0607633
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Size and properties of the narrow-line region in Seyfert-1 galaxies from 
spatially-resolved optical spectroscopy 
Nicola Bennert (1,2), Bruno Jungwiert (2,3,4), Stefanie Komossa (5), 
Martin Haas (1), Rolf Chini (1); ((1) AIRUB Univ. Bochum, (2) IGPP UC 
Riverside, (3) Astron. Institute Prague, (4) CRAL-Observatoire Lyon, (5) MPE 
Garching) 
Comments: 25 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in A&A 
astro-ph/0607636
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The Detailed Star Formation History in the Spheroid, Outer Disk, and 
Tidal Stream of the Andromeda Galaxy 
Thomas M. Brown, Ed Smith, Henry C. Ferguson (STScI), R. Michael Rich 
(UCLA), Puragra Guhathakurta (UCO/Lick), Alvio Renzini (INAF), Allen V. 
Sweigart & Randy A. Kimble (NASA/GSFC) 
Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. 29 pages, 23 
figures (including 9 in color), latex. Images and CMDs are significantly 
smoothed and degraded in this version; a version with high-quality figures is 
available at http://www.stsci.edu/~tbrown/m31sfh/preprint.pdf 
Report-no: STScI Eprint #1730 
astro-ph/0607637
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The distribution of the ISM in the Milky Way A three-dimensional 
large-scale model 
A. Misiriotis, E. M. Xilouris, J. Papamastorakis, P. Boumis, C. D. 
Goudis 
Comments: 14 Pages, 10 figures 
astro-ph/0607638
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Galaxy bimodality versus stellar mass and environment 
I. Baldry, M. Balogh, R. Bower, K. Glazebrook, R. Nichol, S. Bamford, 
T. Budavari 
Comments: 19 pages, 17 figures, submitted to MNRAS 
astro-ph/0607648
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Comparing Dynamical and Photometric Mass Estimates of Low- and 
High-Redshift Galaxies: Random and Systematic Uncertainties 
Arjen van der Wel, Marijn Franx, Stijn Wuyts, Pieter G. van Dokkum, 
Jiasheng Huang, Hans-Walter Rix, and Garth D. Illingworth 
Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ (12 pages, 11 figures) 
astro-ph/0607649
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Cosmic Evolution of Mass Accretion Rate and Metalicity in Active 
Galactic Nuclei 
Hagai Netzer and Benny Trakhtenbrot 
Comments: 10 pages 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ 
astro-ph/0607654
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X-Ray and Optical Flux Ratio Anomalies in Quadruply Lensed Quasars: I. 
Zooming in on Quasar Emission Regions 
David Pooley (UC Berkeley), Jeffrey A. Blackburne, Saul Rappaport, & 
Paul L. Schechter (MIT) 
Comments: 10 pages, submitted to ApJ, comments welcome 
astro-ph/0607655
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Is the SMC Bound to the LMC? The HST Proper Motion of the SMC 
Nitya Kallivayalil (CfA), Roeland P. van der Marel (STScI), Charles 
Alcock (CfA) 
Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ; 41 pages, 15 figures 
astro-ph/0606240
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Nonextensive statistical features of the Polish stock market 
fluctuations 
R.Rak, S.Drozdz, J.Kwapien 
Comments: 14 pages. Physica A in print 
Subj-class: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability; Computational Physics; 
Statistical Mechanics 
physics/0603071
 
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