The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Monday December 3
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Clues to the Origin of the Mass-Metallicity Relation: Dependence on Star
Formation Rate and Galaxy Size
Sara L. Ellison, David R. Patton, Luc Simard, Alan W. McConnachie
arXiv:0711.4833
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On the variability of quasars: a link between Eddington ratio and
optical variability?
B. C. Wilhite, R. J. Brunner, C. J. Grier, D. P. Schneider and D. E.
Vanden Berk
arXiv:0711.4844
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An Overdensity of i-dropouts Among A Population of Excess Field Objects
in the Virgo Cluster
Haojing Yan (OCIW), Nimish Hathi (ASU) and Rogier Windhorst (ASU)
arXiv:0711.4845
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Dark Matter and Baryons in the Most X-ray Luminous and Merging Galaxy
Cluster RX J1347.5-1145
Maru\v{s}a Brada\v{c} (1 and 2), Tim Schrabback (3), Thomas Erben (3),
Michael McCourt (1), Evan Million (1), Adam Mantz (1), Steve Allen (1), Roger
Blandford (1), Aleksi Halkola (3), Hendrik Hildebrand (3), Marco Lombardi (4
and 5), Phil Marshall (2), Peter Schneider (3), Tommaso Treu (2), Jean-Paul
Kneib (6) ((1) KIPAC, Stanford, (2) UC Santa Barbara, (3) AIfA, Bonn, (4)
ESO, (5) Universita degli Studi, Milano, (6) OAMP, Marseille)
arXiv:0711.4850
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Habitable Climates
David S. Spiegel, Kristen Menou, Caleb A. Scharf (Columbia University)
arXiv:0711.4856
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Study of errors in strong gravitational lensing
Thomas P. Kling, Simonetta Frittelli
arXiv:0711.4977
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Rotation and Macroturbulence in Metal-poor Field Red Giant and Red
Horizontal Branch Stars
Bruce W. Carney (UNC), David F. Gray (UWO), David Yong (MSO), David W.
Latham (CfA), N. Manset (CFHT), R. Zelman (CFHT), John B. Laird (BGSU)
arXiv:0711.4984
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Merger Histories of Galaxy Halos and Implications for Disk Survival
Kyle R. Stewart (UC Irvine), James S. Bullock (UC Irvine), Risa H.
Wechsler (Standford), Ariyeh H. Maller(NYCCT), and Andrew R.
Zentner(University of Pittsburgh)
arXiv:0711.5027
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Perturbation theory and excursion set estimates of the probability
distribution function of dark matter, and a method for reconstructing the
initial distribution function
T. Y. Lam and R. K. Sheth
arXiv:0711.5029
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