The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Wednesday August 8
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. III. Constraints on
Dark Energy from the Third Data Release Quasar Lens Catalog
Masamune Oguri, Naohisa Inada, Michael A. Strauss, Christopher S.
Kochanek, Gordon T. Richards, Donald P. Schneider, Robert H. Becker, Masataka
Fukugita, Michael D. Gregg, Patrick B. Hall, Joseph F. Hennawi, David E.
Johnston, Issha Kayo, Charles R. Keeton, Bartosz Pindor, Min-Su Shin, Edwin
L. Turner, Richard L. White, Donald G. York, Scott F. Anderson, Neta A.
Bahcall, Robert J. Brunner, Scott Burles, Francisco J. Castander, Kuenley
Chiu, Alejandro Clocchiatti, Daniel Eisenstein, Joshua A. Frieman, Yozo
Kawano, Robert Lupton, Tomoki Morokuma, Hans-Walter Rix, Ryan Scranton, Erin
Scott Sheldon
arXiv:0708.0825
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Stellar populations across the NGC4244 truncated galactic disk
Roelof S. de Jong, A.C. Seth, D.J. Radburn-Smith, E.F. Bell, T.M.
Brown, J.S. Bullock, S. Courteau, J.J. Dalcanton, H.C. Ferguson, P.
Goudfrooij, S. Holfeltz, B.W. Holwerda, C. Purcell, J. Sick, D.B. Zucker
arXiv:0708.0826
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. II. Statistical Lens
Sample from the Third Data Release
Naohisa Inada, Masamune Oguri, Robert H. Becker, Min-Su Shin, Gordon
T. Richards, Joseph F. Hennawi, Richard L. White, Bartosz Pindor, Michael A.
Strauss, Christopher S. Kochanek, David E. Johnston, Michael D. Gregg, Issha
Kayo, Daniel Eisenstein, Patrick B. Hall, Francisco J. Castander, Alejandro
Clocchiatti, Scott F. Anderson, Donald P. Schneider, Donald G. York, Robert
Lupton, Kuenley Chiu, Yozo Kawano, Ryan Scranton, Joshua A. Frieman, Charles
R. Keeton, Tomoki Morokuma, Hans-Walter Rix, Edwin L. Turner, Scott Burles,
Robert J. Brunner, Erin Scott Sheldon, Neta A. Bahcall, Masataka Fukugita
arXiv:0708.0828
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Two Jovian-Mass Planets in Earthlike Orbits
Sarah E. Robinson (1), Gregory Laughlin (1), Steven S. Vogt (1), Debra
A. Fischer (2), R. Paul Butler (3), Geoffrey W. Marcy (4), Gregory W. Henry
(5), Peter Driscoll (2,6), Genya Takeda (7), John A. Johnson (4) ((1)
UCO/Lick Observatory, (2) San Francisco State University, (3) Carnegie DTM,
(4) University of California, Berkeley, (5) Tennessee State University, (6)
Johns Hopkins University, (7) Northwestern University)
arXiv:0708.0832
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TrES-4: A Transiting Hot Jupiter of Very Low Density
Georgi Mandushev, Francis T. O'Donovan, David Charbonneau, Guillermo
Torres, David W. Latham, G\'asp\'ar \'A. Bakos, Edward W. Dunham, Alessandro
Sozzetti, Jos\'e M. Fern\'andez, Gilbert A. Esquerdo, Mark E. Everett,
Timothy M. Brown, Markus Rabus, Juan A. Belmonte, Lynne A. Hillenbrand
arXiv:0708.0834
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Rest-Frame Ultraviolet to Near Infrared Observations of an Interacting
Lyman Break Galaxy at z = 4.42
Joshua D. Younger, Jia-Sheng Huang, Giovanni G. Fazio, Thomas J. Cox,
Kamson Lai, Philip F. Hopkins, Lars Hernquist (Harvard/CfA), Casey J.
Papovich (Steward Observatory), Luc Simard (HIA/NRC), Lihwai Lin (UCO/Lick,
National Taiwan University), Yi-Wen Cheng (National Central University),
Haojin Yan (Carnegie Observatories), Dusan Keres (Harvard/CfA), and Alice E.
Shapley (Princeton)
arXiv:0708.0835
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Direct Observational Test Rules Out Small MgII Absorbers
Andrew Pontzen, Paul Hewett, Robert Carswell, Vivienne Wild
arXiv:0708.0847
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The Local Void is Really Empty
R. Brent Tully
arXiv:0708.0864
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The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XII. A giant planet
orbiting the metal-poor star HD171028
N.C. Santos, M. Mayor, F. Bouchy, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, S. Udry
arXiv:0708.0954
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