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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Friday 2008 September 5
- How long should an astronomical paper be to increase its Impact?.
Krzysztof Zbigniew Stanek
arXiv:0809.0692v1
- The Gravitational Wave Signature of Core-Collapse Supernovae.
Christian D. Ott (TAPIR, Caltech)
arXiv:0809.0695v1
- The supermassive black hole of Fornax A.
N. Nowak (1,2), R. P. Saglia (1,2), J. Thomas (1,2), R. Bender (1,2), R. I. Davies (1), K. Gebhardt (3) ((1) MPE Garching, (2) USM Munich, (3) UT Austin)
arXiv:0809.0696v1
- An Infrared High Proper Motion Survey Using 2MASS and SDSS: Discovery of M, L and T Dwarfs.
Scott S. Sheppard (Carnegie Inst. of Wash.), Michael C. Cushing (Univ. of Hawaii)
arXiv:0809.0697v1
- Galaxy Zoo: Chiral correlation function of galaxy spins.
Anze Slosar, Kate Land, Steven Bamford, Chris Lintott, Dan Andreescu, Phil Murray, Robert Nichol, M. Jordan Raddick, Kevin Schawinski, Alex Szalay, Daniel Thomas, Jan Vandenberg
arXiv:0809.0717v1
- The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets: XIV. Gl 176b, a super-Earth rather than a Neptune, and at a different period.
T. Forveille, X. Bonfils, X. Delfosse, M. Gillon, S. Udry, F. Bouchy, C. Lovis, M. Mayor, F. Pepe, C. Perrier, D. Queloz, N. Santos, J.-L. Bertaux
arXiv:0809.0750v1
- Imaging the Molecular Gas in a z=3.9 Quasar Host Galaxy at 0.3 " Resolution: A Central, Sub-Kiloparsec Scale Star Formation Reservoir in APM 08279+5255.
Dominik A. Riechers (1,2,5), Fabian Walter (1), Christopher L. Carilli (3), Geraint F. Lewis (4) ((1) MPIA, Germany; (2) Caltech, USA; (3) NRAO, USA; (4) Univ. of Sydney, Australia; (5) Hubble Fellow)
arXiv:0809.0754v1
- High-energy electron observations by PPB-BETS flight in Antarctica.
S.Torii, T.Yamagami, T.Tamura, K.Yoshida, H.Kitamura, K.Anraku, J.Chang, M.Ejiri, I.Iijima, A.Kadokura, K.Kasahara, Y.Katayose, T.Kobayashi, Y.Komori, Y.Matsuzaka, K.Mizutani, H.Murakami, M.Namiki, J.Nishimura, S.Ohta, Y.Saito, M.Shibata, N.Tateyama, H.Yamagishi, T.Yamashita, T.Yuda
arXiv:0809.0760v1
- A High Yield of New Sightlines for the Study of Intergalactic Helium: Far-UV-Bright Quasars from SDSS, GALEX, and HST.
David Syphers (1), Scott F. Anderson (1), Wei Zheng (2), Daryl Haggard (1), Avery Meiksin (3), Kuenley Chiu (4), Craig Hogan (1), Donald P. Schneider (5), Donald G. York (6 and 7) ((1) University of Washington, (2) Johns Hopkins, (3) University of Edinburgh, (4) Anglo-Australian Observatory, (5) Pennsylvania State University, (6) University of Chicago, (7) Enrico Fermi Institute)
arXiv:0809.0765v1
- The High-Mass End of the Black Hole Mass Function: Mass Estimates in Brightest Cluster Galaxies.
E. Dalla Bonta' (1,2), L. Ferrarese (2), E. M. Corsini (1), J. Miralda-Escude' (3), L. Coccato (4), M. Sarzi (5), A. Pizzella (1), A. Beifiori (1) ((1) Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Italy, (2) Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, CA, (3) Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai, IEEC-CSIC/ICREA, (4) Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Garching bei Muenchen, Germany, (5) Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK)
arXiv:0809.0766v1
- On measuring the gravitational-wave background using Pulsar Timing Arrays.
Rutger van Haasteren, Yuri Levin, Patrick McDonald, Tingting Lu
arXiv:0809.0791v1
- Relative distances of Omega Centauri and 47 Tucanae.
G. Bono (INAF, Rome Univ.), P.B. Stetson (HIA-NRC), N. Sanna, A. Piersimoni (INAF), L.M. Freyhammer (Univ. Lancashire), Y. Bouzid (VUB, OBSS/WE), R. Buonanno (Rome Univ.), A. Calamida, F. Caputo, C.E. Corsi, A. Di Cecco, M. Dall'Ora, I. Ferraro, G. Iannicola (INAF), M. Monelli (IAC), M. Nonino, L. Pulone (INAF), C. Sterken (VUB, OBSS/WE), J. Storm (AIP), T. Tuvikene (VUB, OBBS/WE), A.R. Walker (CTIAO-NOAO)
arXiv:0809.0863v1
- Frequency analysis of Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud. New types of classical Cepheid pulsators.
P.Moskalik, Z. Kolaczkowski
arXiv:0809.0864v1
- Inferring the Inclination of a Black Hole Accretion Disk from Observations of its Polarized Continuum Radiation.
Li-Xin Li, Ramesh Narayan, Jeffrey E. McClintock
arXiv:0809.0866v1
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