The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Tuesday June 3
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A Low-Mass Planet with a Possible Sub-Stellar-Mass Host in Microlensing
Event MOA-2007-BLG-192
D.P. Bennett, I.A. Bond, A. Udalski, T. Sumi, F. Abe, A. Fukui, K.
Furusawa, J.B. Hearnshaw, S. Holderness, Y. Itow, K. Kamiya, A.V. Korpela,
P.M. Kilmartin, W. Lin, C.H. Ling, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, N. Miyake, Y.
Muraki, M. Nagaya, T. Okumura, K. Ohnishi, Y.C. Perrott, N.J. Rattenbury, T.
Sako, To. Saito, S. Sato, L. Skuljan, D.J. Sullivan, W.L. Sweatman, P.J.
Tristram, P.C.M. Yock, M. Kubiak, M.K. Szymanski, G. Pietrzynski, I.
Soszynski, O. Szewczyk, L. Wyrzykowski, K. Ulaczyk, V. Batista, J.P.
Beaulieu, S. Brillant, A. Cassan, P. Fouque, P. Kervella, D. Kubas, and J.B.
Marquette
arXiv:0806.0025
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On the Eccentricity Distribution of Exoplanets from Radial Velocity
Surveys
Yue Shen (1), Edwin L. Turner (1,2) ((1) Princeton (2) IPMU)
arXiv:0806.0032
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The Swift Discovery of X-ray Afterglows Accompanying Short Bursts from
SGR 1900+14
Y. E. Nakagawa, T. Sakamoto, G. Sato, N. Gehrels, K. Hurley, and D. M.
Palmer
arXiv:0806.0099
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The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX): Description
and Early Pilot Survey Results
G. J. Hill (1), K. Gebhardt (1), E. Komatsu (1), N. Drory (2), P. J.
MacQueen (1), J. Adams (1), G. A. Blanc (1), R. Koehler (2), M. Rafal (1), M.
M. Roth (3), A. Kelz (3), C. Gronwall (4), R. Ciardullo (4), and D. P.
Schneider (4) ((1) McDonald Observatory & Department of Astronomy, University
of Texas at Austin, (2) MPE, (3) AIP, (4) Department of Astronomy,
Pennsylvania State University)
arXiv:0806.0183
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Nitrogen abundances in giant stars of the globular cluster NGC 6752
David Yong (1), Frank Grundahl (2), Jennifer A. Johnson (3), Martin
Asplund (4) ((1) RSAA, Mt Stromlo Observatory, (2) Univ. of Aarhus, (3) Ohio
State University, (4) MPA Garching)
arXiv:0806.0187
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SMA Imaging of CO(3-2) Line and 860 micron Continuum of Arp 220 :
Tracing the Spatial Distribution of Luminosity
Kazushi Sakamoto, Junzhi Wang, Martina C. Wiedner, Zhong Wang, Alison
B. Peck, Qizhou Zhang, Glen R. Petitpas, Paul T. P. Ho, and David J. Wilner
arXiv:0806.0217
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A Study of Quasar Proximity in O VI Absorbers at z=2-3
Andrew J. Fox (1,2), Jacqueline Bergeron (2), Patrick Petitjean (2,3)
((1) ESO-Chile, (2) IAP-Paris, (3) Observatoire de Paris)
arXiv:0806.0318
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Universal Weak Lensing Distortion of Cosmological Correlation Functions
Scott Dodelson, Fabian Schmidt, Alberto Vallinotto
arXiv:0806.0331
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Luminosity and surface brightness distribution of K-band galaxies from
the UKIDSS Large Area Survey
Anthony J. Smith (1), Jon Loveday (1), Nicholas J. G. Cross (2) ((1)
Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, (2) Institute for Astronomy,
University of Edinburgh)
arXiv:0806.0343
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Toward a Minimum Branching Fraction for Dark Matter Annihilation into
Electromagnetic Final States
James B. Dent, Robert J. Scherrer, and Thomas J. Weiler
arXiv:0806.0370
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Shock Breakout Emission from a Type Ib/c Supernova: XRF 080109/SN 2008D
Roger A. Chevalier, Claes Fransson
arXiv:0806.0371
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A Flat Photoionization Rate at 2<z<4.2: Evidence for a Stellar-Dominated
UV Background and Against a Decline of Cosmic Star Formation Beyond z~3
C.-A. Faucher-Giguere, A. Lidz, L. Hernquist, M. Zaldarriaga (Harvard
University)
arXiv:0806.0372
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