The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Tuesday February 5
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Equal- and unequal-mass mergers of disk and elliptical galaxies with
black holes: The M_BH-sigma and M_BH-M_* relations
Peter H. Johansson, Thorsten Naab, Andreas Burkert (USM, Munich)
arXiv:0802.0210
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Infrared Echoes Reveal the Shock Breakout of the Cas a Supernova
Eli Dwek and Richard G. Arendt
arXiv:0802.0221
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Gas and Dust Associated with the Strange, Isolated, Star BP Piscium
B. Zuckerman, C. Melis, Inseok Song, David S. Meier, Marshall D.
Perrin, Bruce Macintosh, Christian Marois, Alycia J. Weinberger, Joseph H.
Rhee, James R. Graham, Joel H. Kastner, Patrick Palmer, T. Forveille, E.E.
Becklin, D. J. Wilner, T. S. Barman, G. W. Marcy, M. S. Bessell
arXiv:0802.0226
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Breaking up the Magellanic Group into the Milky Way Halo: understanding
the ultra-compact dwarf galaxy properties
Elena D'Onghia (University of Zurich)
arXiv:0802.0302
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Integral field spectroscopy of four lensed quasars: analysis of their
neighborhood and evidence for microlensing
T. Anguita (1), C. Faure (1), A. Yonehara (1,2), J. Wambsganss (1),
J.-P. Kneib (3), G. Covone (4) and D. Alloin (5) ((1) ARI/Zentrum fuer
Astronomie, University of Heidelberg, (2) JSPS Fellowships for Research
Abroad, (3) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, (4) INAF, Naples, (5)
AIM, CEA/DSM-CNRS-Universite Paris 7)
arXiv:0802.0370
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A Survey About Nothing: Monitoring a Million Supergiants for Failed
Supernovae
C.S. Kochanek (1,3), J.F. Beacom (1,2,3), M.D. Kistler (2,3), J.L.
Prieto (1,3) K.Z. Stanek (1,3), T.A. Thompson (1,3), H. Yuksel (2,3) ((1)
Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, (2) Department of
Physics, The Ohio State University, (3) Center for Cosmology and
Astroparticle Physics, The Ohio State University)
arXiv:0802.0456
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Life and times of dwarf spheroidal galaxies
S. Salvadori (1), A. Ferrara (1), R. Schneider (2) ((1) Sissa/Isas,
(2) Inaf/Oaa)
arXiv:0802.0462
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On the Detectability of Oxygen X-ray Fluorescence and its Use as a Solar
Photospheric Abundance Diagnostic
Jeremy J. Drake, Barbara Ercolano
arXiv:0802.0492
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