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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Monday 2008 December 8
- Habitability of Super-Earth Planets around Other Suns: Models including Red Giant Branch Evolution.
W. von Bloh, M. Cuntz, K.-P. Schroeder, C. Bounama, S. Franck
arXiv:0812.1027v1
- Dynamical Tides in Rotating Planets and Stars.
Jeremy Goodman, Claire Lackner
arXiv:0812.1028v1
- A New Window of Exploration in the Mass Spectrum: Strong Lensing by Galaxy Groups in the SL2S.
M. Limousin, R. Cabanac, R. Gavazzi, J. P. Kneib, V. Motta, J. Richard, K. Thanjavur, G. Foex, D. Crampton, C. Faure, B. Fort, E. Jullo, P. Marshall, Y. Mellier, A. More, R. Pello, G. Soucail, S. Suyu, M. Swinbank, J. F. Sygnet, H. Tu, D. Valls-Gabaud, T. Verdugo, J. Willis
arXiv:0812.1033v1
- Stability of Relativistic Jets from Rotating, Accreting Black Holes via Fully Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations.
Jonathan C. McKinney, Roger D. Blandford (Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University)
arXiv:0812.1060v1
- XMM-Newton detects a relativistically broadened iron line in the spectrum of the ms X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658.
A.Papitto (1,2), T.Di Salvo, A.D'Aì, R.Iaria (3), L.Burderi, A.Riggio (4), M.T.Menna (2), N.R.Robba (3) ((1) Univ. Roma Tor Vergata, (2) INAF OAR, (3) Univ. Palermo, (4) Univ. Cagliari)
arXiv:0812.1149v1
- Result from the First Science Run of the ZEPLIN-III Dark Matter Search Experiment.
V. N. Lebedenko, H. M. Araujo, E. J. Barnes, A. Bewick, R. Cashmore, V. Chepel, D. Davidge, J. Dawson, T. Durkin, B. Edwards, C. Ghag, V. Graffagnino, M. Horn, A. S. Howard, A. J. Hughes, W. G. Jones, M. Joshi, G. E. Kalmus, A. G. Kovalenko, A. Lindote, I. Liubarsky, M. I. Lopes, R. Luscher, P. Majewski, A. StJ. Murphy, F. Neves, J. Pinto da Cunha, R. Preece, J. J. Quenby, P. R. Scovell, C. Silva, V. N. Solovov, N. J. T. Smith, P. F. Smith, V. N. Stekhanov, T. J. Sumnery, C. Thorne, R. J. Walker
arXiv:0812.1150v1
- Nearby young stars selected by proper motion. I. Four new members of the Beta Pictoris moving group from the Tycho-2 catalog.
Sebastien Lepine, Michal Simon
arXiv:0812.1159v1
- HATNet Field G205: Follow-Up Observations of 28 Transiting-Planet candidates and Confirmation of the Planet HAT-P-8b.
David W. Latham (1), GáspárÁ. Bakos (1,2), Guillermo Torres (1), Robert P. Stefanik (1), Robert W. Noyes (1), Géza Kovács (3), András Pál (1,4), Geoffrey W. Marcy (5), Debra A. Fischer (6), R. Paul Butler (7), Brigitta Sip\H{o)cz (4,1), Dimitar D. Sasselov (1), Gilbert A. Esquerdo (1), Steven S. Vogt (8), Joel D. Hartman (1), Gábor Kovács (1), József Lázár (9), István Papp (9), Pál Sári (9) ( (1)CfA, (2) NSF Fellow,(3) Konkoly Observatory,(4) ELTE,(5) UC Berkeley,(6) SFSU,(7) Carnegie,(8) UC Santa Cruz,(9) Hungarian Astronomical Association)
arXiv:0812.1161v1
- Cosmic-ray electron signatures of dark matter.
Martin Pohl
arXiv:0812.1174v1
- The Star Forming Universe at z=2.
S. Khochfar, J. Silk
arXiv:0812.1183v1
- Late time observations of GRB080319B: jet break, host galaxy and accompanying supernova.
Nial R. Tanvir, Evert Rol, Andrew Levan, Andrew Fruchter, Jonathan Granot, Karl M. Svensson, Paul T. O'Brien, Klaas Wiersema, Rhaana L. C. Starling, Pall Jakobsson, Johan Fynbo, Jens Hjorth, Peter Curran, Alexander J. van der Horst, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Judith L. Racusin, David N. Burrows, Frank Genet
arXiv:0812.1217v1
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