The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Monday May 19
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GRB 071003: Broadband Follow-up Observations of a Very Bright Gamma-Ray
Burst in a Galactic Halo
D. A. Perley, W. Li, R. Chornock, J. X. Prochaska, N. R. Butler, P.
Chandra, L. K. Pollack, J. S. Bloom, A. V. Filippenko, C. Akerlof, M. W.
Auger, S. B. Cenko, H.-W. Chen, C. D. Fassnacht, D. Fox, D. Frail, E. M.
Johansson, D. Le Mignant, M. Modjaz, M. A. Skinner, G. H. Smith, H. Swan, M.
A. van Dam, F. Yuan
arXiv:0805.2394
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An Eccentric Binary Millisecond Pulsar in the Galactic Plane
D. J. Champion, S. M. Ransom, P. Lazarus, F. Camilo, C. Bassa, V. M.
Kaspi, D. J. Nice, P. C. C. Freire, I. H. Stairs, J. van Leeuwen, B. W.
Stappers, J. M. Cordes, J. W. T. Hessels, D. R. Lorimer, Z. Arzoumanian, D.
C. Backer, N. D. R. Bhat, S. Chatterjee, I. Cognard, J. S. Deneva, C.-A.
Faucher-Giguere, B. M. Gaensler, J. L. Han, F. A. Jenet, L. Kasian, V. I.
Kondratiev, M. Kramer, J. Lazio, M. A. McLaughlin, A. Venkataraman, W.
Vlemmings
arXiv:0805.2396
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XO-5b: A Transiting Jupiter-sized Planet With A Four Day Period
Christopher J. Burke, P. R. McCullough, Jeff A. Valenti, Doug Long,
Christopher M. Johns-Krull, P. Machalek, Kenneth A. Janes, B. Taylor, Michael
L. Fleenor, Cindy N. Foote, Bruce L. Gary, Enrique Garcia-Melendo, J.
Gregorio, T. Vanmunster
arXiv:0805.2399
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Thermal Emission of Exoplanet XO-1b
Pavel Machalek, Peter R. McCullough, Christopher J. Burke, Jeff A.
Valenti, Adam Burrows, Joseph L. Hora
arXiv:0805.2418
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Turbulence and Magnetic Fields in the Large Scale Structure of the
Universe
Dongsu Ryu (Chungnam National University, Korea), Hyesung Kang (Pusan
National University, Korea), Jungyeon Cho (Chungnam National University,
Korea), and Santabrata Das (Sejong University, Korea)
arXiv:0805.2466
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A synthesis model for AGN evolution: supermassive black holes growth and
feedback modes
Andrea Merloni (MPE) and Sebastian Heinz (UW-Madison)
arXiv:0805.2499
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The Solar Neighborhood. XX. Discovery and Characterization of 21 New
Nearby White Dwarf Systems
John P. Subasavage (1), Todd J. Henry (1), P. Bergeron (2), P. Dufour
(3), Nigel C. Hambly (4), ((1) Georgia State University, (2) University of
Montreal, (3) University of Arizona, (4) University of Edinburgh)
arXiv:0805.2515
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GZK photon constraints on Planck scale Lorentz violation in QED
Luca Maccione (SISSA & INFN, Trieste), Stefano Liberati (SISSA & INFN,
Trieste)
arXiv:0805.2548
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Halo mass - concentration relation from weak lensing
Rachel Mandelbaum, Uros Seljak, Christopher M. Hirata
arXiv:0805.2552
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Young star clusters in interacting galaxies - NGC 1487 and NGC 4038/4039
Sabine Mengel, Matthew D. Lehnert, Niranjan A. Thatte, William D.
Vacca, Brad Whitmore and Rupali Chandar
arXiv:0805.2559
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WASP-7: The brightest transiting-exoplanet system in the Southern
hemisphere
Coel Hellier, D.R. Anderson, M. Gillon, T.A. Lister, P.F.L. Maxted, D.
Queloz, B. Smalley, A. Triaud, R.G. West, D.M. Wilson, K. Alsubai, S.J.
Bentley, A. Collier Cameron, L. Hebb, K. Horne, J. Irwin, S.R. Kane, M.
Mayor, F. Pepe, D. Pollacco, I. Skillen, S. Udry, P.J. Wheatley, D.J.
Christian, R. Enoch, C.A. Haswell, Y.C. Joshi, A.J. Norton, R. Ryans, R.A.
Street, I. Todd
arXiv:0805.2600
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