The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Tuesday February 12
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X-Ray and Optical Microlensing in the Lensed Quasar PG 1115+080
Christopher W. Morgan (1 and 2), Christopher S. Kochanek (2 and 3),
Xinyu Dai (2 and 3), Nicholas D. Morgan (2) and Emilio E. Falco (4) ((1)
Department of Physics, U.S. Naval Academy, (2) Department of Astronomy, The
Ohio State University, (3) Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics,
The Ohio State University, (4) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
arXiv:0802.1210
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Handbook for the GREAT08 Challenge: An image analysis competition for
cosmological lensing
Sarah Bridle, John Shawe-Taylor, Adam Amara, Douglas Applegate,
Sreekumar T. Balan, Gary Bernstein, Joel Berge, Hakon Dahle, Thomas Erben,
Mandeep Gill, Alan Heavens, Catherine Heymans, Will High, Henk Hoekstra, Mike
Jarvis, Thomas Kitching, Jean-Paul Kneib, Konrad Kuijken, David Lagattuta,
Rachel Mandelbaum, Richard Massey, Yannick Mellier, Baback Moghaddam, Yassir
Moudden, Reiko Nakajima, Stephane Paulin-Henriksson, Sandrine Pires, Anais
Rassat, Alexandre Refregier, Jason Rhodes, Tim Schrabback, Elisabetta
Semboloni, Marina Shmakova, Ludovic van Waerbeke, Lisa Voigt, David Wittman
arXiv:0802.1214
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Probing the 3.6 Micron CIRB with Spitzer in 3 DIRBE Dark Spots
L.R. Levenson, E.L. Wright (UCLA)
arXiv:0802.1239
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Variability of the High-Magnetic Field X-ray Pulsar PSR J1846-0258
Associated with the Supernova Remnant Kes 75 as Revealed by the Chandra X-ray
Observatory
Harsha Sanjeev Kumar, Samar Safi-Harb
arXiv:0802.1242
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GRB 070714B - Discovery of the Highest Spectroscopically Confirmed Short
Burst Redshift
J. F. Graham (1 and 2), A. S. Fruchter (1), A. J. Levan (3), M.
Nysewander (1), N. R. Tanvir (4), T. Dahlen (1), D. Bersier (5), A. Pe'er (1)
((1) Space Science Telescope Institute, (2) Johns Hopkins University, (3)
University of Warwick, (4) University of Leicester, (5) Liverpool John Moores
University)
arXiv:0802.1346
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The many streams of the Magellanic Stream
Snezana Stanimirovic, Samantha Hoffman (UW Madison), Carl Heiles (UC
Berkeley), Kevin A. Douglas (SSL, UC Berkeley), Mary Putman (Univ. of
Michigan), Joshua E. G. Peek (UC Berkeley)
arXiv:0802.1349
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Understanding the relations between QSOs and their host galaxies from
combined HST imaging and VLT spectroscopy
Y. Letawe (1), P. Magain (1), G. Letawe (1), F. Courbin (2) and D.
Hutsem\'ekers (1) ((1) Universit\'e de Li\`ege, Belgium, (2) Ecole
Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
arXiv:0802.1386
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Fitting orbits to tidal streams
James Binney (Oxford University)
arXiv:0802.1485
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The long-period Galactic Cepheid RS Puppis - I. A geometric distance
from its light echoes
Pierre Kervella (LESIA), Antoine M\'erand (CHARA), Laszlo Szabados,
Pascal Fouqu\'e (OMP), David Bersier, Emanuela Pompei (ESO), Guy Perrin
(LESIA)
arXiv:0802.1501
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NLTE determination of the aluminium abundance in a homogeneous sample of
extremely metal-poor stars
S.M. Andrievsky (GEPI), M. Spite (GEPI), S.A. Korotin, F. Spite
(GEPI), P. Bonifacio (GEPI, Cifist, Inaf - Osservatorio Astronomico Di
Trieste), R. Cayrel (GEPI), V. Hill (GEPI), P. Fran\c{c}ois (GEPI)
arXiv:0802.1519
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