The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Wednesday May 21
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Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross-sections from the XENON10
experiment
J. Angle, E. Aprile, F. Arneodo, L. Baudis, A. Bernstein, A.
Bolozdynya, P. Brusov, L.C.C. Coelho, C.E. Dahl, L. DeViveiros, A.D. Ferella,
L.M.P. Fernandes, S. Fiorucci, R.J. Gaitskell, K.L. Giboni, R. Gomez, R.
Hasty, L. Kastens, J. Kwong, J.A.M. Lopes, N. Madden, A. Manalaysay, A.
Manzur, D.N. McKinsey, M.E. Monzani, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, J. Orboeck, G.
Plante, R. Santorelli, J.M.F. dos Santos, P. Shagin, T. Shutt, P. Sorensen,
S. Schulte, C. Winant, M. Yamashita, for the XENON10 Collaboration
arXiv:0805.2939
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A search for damped Lyman-alpha systems towards radio-loud quasars I:
The optical survey
Sara L. Ellison, Brian A. York, Max Pettini, Nissim Kanekar
arXiv:0805.2940
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A comprehensive Maximum Likelihood analysis of the structural properties
of faint Milky Way satellites
Nicolas F. Martin (1), Jelte T. A. de Jong (1) and Hans-Walter Rix (1)
((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie, Heildeberg)
arXiv:0805.2945
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The Atomic to Molecular Transition in Galaxies. I: An Analytic
Approximation for Photodissociation Fronts in Finite Clouds
Mark R. Krumholz, Christopher F. McKee, and Jason Tumlinson
arXiv:0805.2947
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Variability-selected active galactic nuclei from supernova search in the
Chandra deep field south
D. Trevese, K. Boutsia, F. Vagnetti, E. Cappellaro, S. Puccetti
arXiv:0805.2948
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On the time variability of geometrically-thin black hole accretion disks
I : the search for modes in simulated disks
Christopher S. Reynolds, M. Coleman Miller (Maryland)
arXiv:0805.2950
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Very Broad [O III]4959,5007 Emission from the NGC 4472 Globular Cluster
RZ2109 and Implications for the Mass of Its Black Hole X-ray Source
Stephen E. Zepf, Daniel Stern, Thomas J. Maccarone, Arunav Kundu, Marc
Kamionkowski, Katherine L. Rhode, John J. Salzer, Robin Ciardullo, Caryl
Gronwall
arXiv:0805.2952
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The Araucaria Project: VLT-spectroscopy of blue massive stars in NGC 55
N. Castro, A. Herrero, M. Garcia, C. Trundle, F. Bresolin, W. Gieren,
G. Pietrzynski, R.-P. Kudritzki, R. Demarco
arXiv:0805.2953
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Identifying stellar streams in the 1st RAVE public data release
Rainer Klement (MPIA), Burkhard Fuchs (ARI) and Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA)
arXiv:0805.2954
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A comprehensive comparison of the Sun to other stars: searching for
self-selection effects
Jose A. Robles, Charles H. Lineweaver, Daniel Grether, Chris Flynn,
Chas A. Egan, Michael B. Pracy, Johan Holmberg, Esko Gardner
arXiv:0805.2962
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The Metallicity of Diffuse Intrahalo Light
Chris W. Purcell, James S. Bullock, Andrew R. Zentner
arXiv:0805.2965
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Dark Energy Detected with Supervoids and Superclusters
Benjamin R. Granett, Mark C. Neyrinck, Istv\'an Szapudi (IfA, Hawaii)
arXiv:0805.2974
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The Second Galex Ultraviolet Variability (GUVV-2) Catalog
Jonathan M. Wheatley, Barry Y. Welsh, and Stanley E. Browne
arXiv:0805.2987
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The Heating of Thermal Electrons in Fast Collisionless Shocks: The
Integral Role of Cosmic Rays
Cara E. Rakowski (1,2), J. Martin Laming (1) and Parviz Ghavamian (3)
((1) Naval Research Laboratory (2) National Research Council Fellow (3) Space
Telescope Science Institute)
arXiv:0805.3084
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Galaxy Size Problem at z=3: Simulated Galaxies Are Too Small
M.K. Ryan Joung (Princeton), Renyue Cen (Princeton), Greg Bryan
(Columbia)
arXiv:0805.3150
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