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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Tuesday November 7
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A New Population of High Redshift Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts
E. Berger, D.B. Fox, P.A. Price, E. Nakar, A. Gal-Yam, D.E. Holz, B.P.
Schmidt, A. Cucchiara, S.B. Cenko, S.R. Kulkarni, A.M. Soderberg, D.A. Frail,
B.E. Penprase, A. Rau, E. Ofek, S.J. Bell Burnell, P.B. Cameron, L.L. Cowie,
M.A. Dopita, I. Hook, B.A. Peterson, Ph. Podsiadlowski, K.C. Roth, R.E.
Rutledge, S.S. Sheppard, A. Songaila
Comments: Submitted to ApJ; 6 figures, 1 table; comments are welcome
astro-ph/0611128
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The Shadow of Dark Matter
Stefano Profumo (Caltech) and Kris Sigurdson (IAS and UBC)
Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PRD
astro-ph/0611129
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Cosmic stellar relics in the Galactic halo
S. Salvadori (1), R. Schneider (2), A. Ferrara (1) ((1) SISSA/ISAS,
(2) INAF/OAA)
Comments: 16 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS
astro-ph/0611130
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The Milky Way Galaxy as a Strong Gravitational Lens
E.M. Shin (Cambridge), N.W. Evans (Cambridge)
Comments: MNRAS, in press
astro-ph/0611134
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Optical Spectroscopy of the Large Kuiper Belt Objects 136472 (2005 FY9)
and 136108 (2003 EL61)
S.C. Tegler, W. Grundy, W. Romanishin, G. Consolmagno, K. Mogren, and
F. Vilas
Comments: The paper will appear in the Astronomical Journal. The paper consists
of 17 pages (1 table and 6 figures)
astro-ph/0611135
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The 8 o'clock Arc: A Serendipitous Discovery of a Strongly Lensed Lyman
Break Galaxy in the SDSS DR4 Imaging Data
Sahar S. Allam, Douglas L. Tucker, Huan Lin, H. Thomas Diehl, James
Annis, Elizabeth J. Buckley-Geer, Joshua A. Frieman
Comments: 4 pages 5 figures, submitted to ApJ Letters
Report-no: Fermilab-PUB-06-413-A-CD-E
astro-ph/0611138
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Limits on the Radiative Decay of Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter from the
Unresolved Cosmic and Soft X-ray Backgrounds
Kevork N. Abazajian, Maxim Markevitch, Savvas M. Koushiappas, Ryan C.
Hickox
Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Report-no: UMD-PP-06-057, LA-UR 06-3820
astro-ph/0611144
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Swift Discovery of Gamma-Ray Bursts without Jet Break Feature in their
X-Ray Afterglows
G. Sato, R. Yamazaki, K. Ioka, T. Sakamoto, T. Takahashi, K. Nakazawa,
T. Nakamura, K. Toma, D. Hullinger, M. Tashiro, A. M. Parsons, H. A. Krimm,
S. D. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, D. N. Burrows, P. T. O'Brien, J. P. Osborne, G.
Chincarini, and D. Q. Lamb
Comments: 24 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
astro-ph/0611148
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Is Ursa Major II the Progenitor of the Orphan Stream?
M. Fellhauer (1), N.W. Evans (1), V. Belokurov (1), D.B. Zucker (1),
B. Yanny (2), M.I. Wilkinson (1), G. Gilmore (1), M.J. Irwin (1), D.M.
Bramich (1), S. Vidrih (1), P. Hewett (1), T. Beers (3) ((1) Cambridge, (2)
FNAL, (3) Michigan)
Comments: MNRAS, submitted
astro-ph/0611157
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How Tomographic Cosmic Shear Maps Lead to Constraints on Dark Energy
Properties
Hu Zhan, Lloyd Knox (UC Davis)
Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRD
astro-ph/0611159
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A SCUBA survey of Orion, the low-mass end of the core mass function
D. Nutter, D. Ward-Thompson
Comments: 9 pages, inc. 6 figures (+ Appendix; 1 Table = 6 pages)
astro-ph/0611164
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Constraints on parameters of radiatively decaying dark matter from the
galaxy cluster 1E0657-56
Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Maxim Markevitch
Comments: 6pp
astro-ph/0611168
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The Galactic Halo density distribution from photometric survey data:
results of a pilot study
M. Cignoni (1), V. Ripepi (1), M. Marconi (1), J. M. Alcala' (1), M.
Capaccioli (1), M. Pannella (2), R. Silvotti (1) ((1) INAF-OAC,
(2)Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Garching b. Muenchen)
Comments: 5 pages. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
astro-ph/0611169
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Infrared Transmission Spectra for Extrasolar Giant Planets
G. Tinetti, M. C. Liang, A. Vidal-Madjar, D. Ehrenreich, A. Lecavelier
des Etangs, Y. Yung
Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures, ApJ accepted
astro-ph/0611174
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The Resolved Stellar Populations of a Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy in the
Virgo Cluster
Patrick R. Durrell, Benjamin F. Williams, Robin Ciardullo, John J.
Feldmeier, Ted von Hippel, Steinn Sigurdsson, George H. Jacoby, Henry C.
Ferguson, Nial R. Tanvir, Magda Arnaboldi, Ortwin Gerhard, J. Alfonso L.
Aguerri, Ken Freeman, Matt Vinciguerra
Comments: 31 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in the ApJ
astro-ph/0611180
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Dynamics of the Narrow-Line Region in the Seyfert 2 Galaxy NGC 1068
V. Das, D. M. Crenshaw and S. B. Kraemer
Comments: Paper prepared by emulateapj version 10/09/06 and accepted for print
in ApJ
astro-ph/0611183
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