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Microlens OGLE-2005-BLG-169 Implies Cool Neptune-Like Planets are Common
A. Gould, A. Udalski, D. An, D.P. Bennett, A.-Y. Zhou, S. Dong, N.J.
Rattenbury, B.S. Gaudi, P.C.M. Yock, I.A. Bond, G.W. Christie, K. Horne, J.
Anderson, K.Z. Stanek, D.L. DePoy, C. Han, J. McCormick, B.-G. Park, R.W.
Pogge, S.D. Poindexter, I. Soszynski, M.K. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G.
Pietrzynski, O. Szewczyk, L. Wyrzykowski, K. Ulaczyk, B. Paczynski, D.M.
Bramich, C. Snodgrass, I.A. Steele, M.J. Burgdorf, M.F. Bode, C.S. Botzler,
S. Mao, and S.C. Swaving (The MicroFUN, OGLE, and PLANET/RoboNet
collaborations)
Comments: Submitted to ApJ Letters, 9 text pages + 4 figures + 1 table
astro-ph/0603276
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Equilibrium Star Cluster Formation
Jonathan C. Tan (1,2), Mark R. Krumholz (3), Christopher F. McKee (4)
((1) Dept. of Astronomy, University of Florida, (2) Dept. of Physics,
ETH-Zurich, (3) Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, (4)
Depts. of Physics and Astronomy, UC Berkeley)
Comments: 5 pages, Accepted to ApJ Letters
astro-ph/0603278
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The shock break-out of GRB 060218/SN 2006aj
S. Campana, V. Mangano, A. J. Blustin, P. Brown, D.N. Burrows, G.
Chincarini, J.R. Cummings, G. Cusumano, M. Della Valle, D. Malesani, P.
Meszaros, J.A. Nousek, M. Page, T. Sakamoto, E. Waxman, B. Zhang, Z.G. Dai,
N. Gehrels, S. Immler, F.E. Marshall, K.O. Mason, A. Moretti, P.T. O'Brien,
J.P. Osborne, K.L. Page, P. Romano, P.W.A. Roming, G. Tagliaferri, L.R.
Cominsky, P. Giommi, O. Godet, J.A. Kennea, H. Krimm, L. Angelini, S.D.
Barthelmy, P.T. Boyd, D.M. Palmer, A.A. Wells, N.E. White
Comments: 14 pages, 3 color figures. Note: this paper has been submitted for
publication in Nature and it is embargoes for discussion in the popular press
astro-ph/0603279
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The faint afterglow and host galaxy of the short-hard GRB 060121
A.J. Levan, N.R. Tanvir, A.S. Fruchter, E. Rol, J. Fynbo, J. Hjorth,
G. Williams, E. Bergeron, D. Bersier, M. Bremer, T. Grav, P. Jakobsson, K.
Nilsson, E. Olszewski, R.S. Priddey, J. Rafferty, J. Rhoads
Comments: 4 pages, 2 Figures - submitted to ApJ Letters
astro-ph/0603282
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First Detection of NaI D lines in High-Redshift Damped Lyman-alpha
Systems
Sohei Kondo (1), Naoto Kobayashi (1), Yosuke Minowa (1), Takuji
Tsujimoto (2), Christopher W. Churchill (3), Naruhisa Takato (4), Masanori
Iye (2), Yukiko Kamata (2), Hiroshi Terada (4), Tae-Soo Pyo (4), Hideki
Takami (4), Yutaka Hayano (4), Tomio Kanzawa (4), D. Saint-Jacques (5),
Wolfgang Gaessler (6), Shin Oya (4), Ko Nedachi (1), Alan Tokunaga (7) ((1)
University of Tokyo, (2) National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, (3) New
Mexico State University, (4) Subaru Telescope, (5) University de Montreal,
(6) Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie, (7) University of Hawaii)
Comments: 22 pages, 6 Postscript figures, 3 tables, ApJ in press (Vol.643, 2
June 2006)
astro-ph/0603290
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A non-spherical core in the explosion of supernova SN 2004dj
Douglas C. Leonard, Alexei V. Filippenko, Mohan Ganeshalingam,
Franklin J. D. Serduke, Weidong Li, Brandon J. Swift, Avishay Gal-Yam, Ryan
J. Foley, Derek B. Fox, Sung Park, Jennifer L. Hoffman, Diane S. Wong
Comments: Accepted for publication by Nature (results embargoed until 23 March
2006); 14 pages, 2 figures
astro-ph/0603297
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Multiwavelength Monitoring of the Dwarf Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 4395. II.
X-ray and Ultraviolet Continuum Variability
Paul M. O'Neill (1), Shai Kaspi (2 and 3), Ari Laor (2), Kirpal Nandra
(1), Edward C. Moran (4), Bradley M. Peterson (5), Louis-Benoit Desroches
(6), Alexei V. Filippenko (6), Luis C. Ho (7) and Dan Maoz (3) ((1) Imperial
College London (2) Technion, Israel, (3) Tel-Aviv University, (4) Wesleyan
University, (5) Ohio State University, (6) University of California,
Berkeley, (7) Carnegie Observatories)
Comments: 31 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
astro-ph/0603312
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Why X-ray--Selected AGN Appear Optically Dull
J. R. Rigby (1), G. H. Rieke (1), J. L. Donley (1), A. Alonso-Herrero
(2) and P. G. P\'erez-Gonz\'alez (1) ((1) Steward Observatory, (2) CSIC)
Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal; 20 pages
High-res version here: http://satchmo.as.arizona.edu/~jrigby/optdull.ps
astro-ph/0603313
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New Praesepe white dwarfs and the initial mass-final mass relation
P.D. Dobbie (1), R. Napiwotzki (2), M.R. Burleigh (1), M.A. Barstow
(1), D. D. Boyce (1), S.L. Casewell (1), R.F. Jameson (1), I. Hubeny (3), G.
Fontaine (4) ((1) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, UK
(2) Science & Technology Research Institute, University of Hertfordshire, UK
(3) Steward Observatory and Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona
(4) Departement de Physique, Universite de Montreal, Canada)
Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
astro-ph/0603314
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VLT/UVES Spectroscopy of Individual Stars in Three Globular Clusters in
the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
Bruno Letarte, Vanessa Hill, Pascale Jablonka, Eline Tolstoy, Patrick
Francois, Georges Meylan
Comments: 16 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
astro-ph/0603315
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Anomalous extinction behaviour towards the Type Ia SN 2003cg
N. Elias-Rosa, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, M. Turatto, P. A. Mazzali,
F. Patat, W. P. S. Meikle, M. Stehle, A. Pastorello, G. Pignata, R. Kotak, A.
Harutyunyan, G. Altavilla, H. Navasardyan, Y. Qiu, M. E. Salvo, W.
Hillebrandt
Comments: 28 pages, 21 figures, submitted to MNRAS
astro-ph/0603316
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Beta decay radiation signature from neutron-rich gamma-ray bursts?
Soebur Razzaque and Peter Meszaros
Comments: 11 pages, 2 figures
astro-ph/0603322
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