The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Wednesday August 15
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A discontinuity in the low-mass initial mass function
 Ingo Thies, Pavel Kroupa (Argelander-Institut f\"ur Astronomie, Bonn)
 arXiv:0708.1764
 
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The Oxygen Abundances of Luminous and Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies
 David S. N. Rupke, Sylvain Veilleux (Maryland), and Andrew J. Baker
  (Rutgers)
 arXiv:0708.1766
 
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Where, oh where has the r-process gone?
 Y.-Z. Qian, G. J. Wasserburg
 arXiv:0708.1767
 
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Specific Angular Momentum of Extrasolar Planetary Systems
 John C. Armstrong, Shane L. Larson and Rhett R. Zollinger
 arXiv:0708.1771
 
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Supernova SN2006gy as a first ever Quark Nova?
 Denis Leahy and Rachid Ouyed (University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta,
  Canada)
 arXiv:0708.1787
 
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The Infrared Astronomical Mission AKARI
 H. Murakami, H. Baba, P. Barthel, D.L. Clements, M. Cohen, Y. Doi, K.
  Enya, E. Figueredo, N. Fujishiro, H. Fujiwara, M. Fujiwara, P. Garcia-Lario,
  T. Goto, S. Hasegawa, Y. Hibi, T. Hirao, N. Hiromoto, S. S. Hong, K. Imai, M.
  Ishigaki, M. Ishiguro, D. Ishihara, Y. Ita, W.-S. Jeong, K. S. Jeong, H.
  Kaneda, H. Kataza, M. Kawada, T. Kawai, A. Kawamura, M. F. Kessler, Do
  Kester, T. Kii, D.C. Kim, W. Kim, H. Kobayashi, B.C. Koo, S. M. Kwon, H. M.
  Lee, R. Lorente, S. Makiuti, H. Matsuhara, T. Matsumoto, H. Matsuo, S.
  Matsuura, T.G. Mueller, N. Murakami, H. Nagata, T. Nakagawa, T. Naoi, M.
  Narita, M. Noda, S.H. Oh, A. Ohnishi, Y. Ohyama, Y. Okada, H. Okuda, S.
  Oliver, T. Onaka, T. Ootsubo, S. Oyabu, S. Pak, Y.S. Park, C. P. Pearson, M.
  Rowan-Robinson, T. Saito, I. Sakon, A. Salama, S. Sato, R.S. Savage, S.
  Serjeant, H. Shibai, M. Shirahata, J. J. Sohn, T. Suzuki, T. Takagi, H.
  Takahashi, T. Tanabe, T. T. Takeuchi, S. Takita, M. Thomson, K. Uemizu, M.
  Ueno, F. Usui, E. Verdugo, T. Wada, L. Wang, T. Watabe, H. Watarai, G. J.
  White, I. Yamamura, C. Yamauchi, A. Yasuda
 arXiv:0708.1796
 
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Confirming the Detection of an Intergalactic X-ray Absorber Toward PKS
  2155-304
 Taotao Fang (1), Claude R. Canizares (2), Yangsen Yao (2) ((1) UC
  Irvine, (2) MIT)
 arXiv:0708.1800
 
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Launch of the Space experiment PAMELA
 M. Casolino, P. Picozza, F. Altamura, A. Basili, N. De Simone, V. Di
  Felice, M. P. De Pascale, L. Marcelli, M. Minori, M. Nagni, R. Sparvoli, A.
  M. Galper, V. V. Mikhailov, M. F. Runtso, S. A. Voronov, Y. T. Yurkin, V. G.
  Zverev, G. Castellini, O. Adriani, L. Bonechi, M. Bongi, E. Taddei, E.
  Vannuccini, D. Fedele, P. Papini, S. B. Ricciarini, P. Spillantini, M.
  Ambriola, F. Cafagna, C. De Marzo, G. C. Barbarino, D. Campana, G. De Rosa,
  G. Osteria, S. Russo, G. A. Bazilevskaja, A. N. Kvashnin, O. Maksumov, S.
  Misin, Yu. I. Stozhkov, E. A. Bogomolov, S. Yu. Krutkov, N. N. Nikonov, V.
  Bonvicini, M. Boezio, J. Lundquist, E. Mocchiutti, A. Vacchi, G. Zampa, N.
  Zampa, L. Bongiorno, M. Ricci, P. Carlson, P. Hofverberg, J. Lund, S. Orsi,
  M. Pearce, W. Menn, M. Simon
 arXiv:0708.1808
 
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Spatial Distributions of Cold and Warm Interstellar Dust in M101
  Resolved with AKARI/Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS)
 T. Suzuki, H. Kaneda, T. Nakagawa, S. Makiuti, Y. Okada, H. Shibai, M.
  Kawada, Y. Doi
 arXiv:0708.1829
 
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A Wide-Field View of Leo II -- A Structural Analysis Using the SDSS
 Matthew G. Coleman (1), Katrin Jordi (2), Hans-Walter Rix (1), Eva K.
  Grebel (2) and Andreas Koch (3) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie,
  Heidelberg, Germany, (2) Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum fur
  Astronomie der Universitat Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, (3) Department of
  Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
 arXiv:0708.1853
 
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Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross-sections from the first
  ZEPLIN-II data
 G. J. Alner et al. (ZEPLIN-II Collaboration)
 arXiv:0708.1883
 
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Mapping the dark trajectory of the Bullet Cluster
 Xiao-Jun Bi, HongSheng Zhao
 arXiv:0708.1891
 
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