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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Friday 2009 April 17
- Discovery of a bright radio transient in M82: a new radio supernova?.
A. Brunthaler (1), K.M. Menten (1), M.J. Reid (2), C. Henkel (1), G.C. Bower (3), H. Falcke (4,5) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (3) UC Berkeley (4) Universiteit Nijmegen, (5) ASTRON)
arXiv:0904.2388v1
- The depletion of carbon by extra mixing in metal-poor giants.
Richard J. Stancliffe, Ross P. Church, George C. Angelou, John C. Lattanzio (Centre for Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics, Monash University)
arXiv:0904.2393v1
- Astrophysical Uncertainties in the Cosmic Ray Electron and Positron Spectrum From Annihilating Dark Matter.
Melanie Simet, Dan Hooper
arXiv:0904.2398v1
- The first outburst of the new magnetar candidate SGR 0501+4516.
Nanda Rea, GianLuca Israel, Roberto Turolla, Paolo Esposito, Sandro Mereghetti, Diego Gotz, Silvia Zane, Andrea Tiengo, Kevin Hurley, Marco Feroci, Martin Still, Vladimir Yershov, Christoph Winkler, Rosalba Perna, Federico Bernardini, Pietro Ubertini, Luigi Stella, Sergio Campana, Michiel van der Klis, Peter M. Woods
arXiv:0904.2413v1
- Probing the birth of fast rotating magnetars through high-energy neutrinos.
Kohta Murase, Peter Meszaros, Bing Zhang
arXiv:0904.2509v1
- Extrasolar planet population synthesis I: Method, formation tracks and mass-distance distribution.
Christoph Mordasini, Yann Alibert, Willy Benz
arXiv:0904.2524v1
- Evidence for a Preferred Handedness of Spiral Galaxies.
Michael J. Longo
arXiv:0904.2529v1
- Revisiting the origin of the high metallicities of sub-damped Lyman-alpha systems.
Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky (Geneva Observatory, University of Geneva), Sara L. Ellison (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria), Michael T. Murphy (Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology)
arXiv:0904.2531v1
- Extrasolar planet population synthesis II: Statistical comparison with observation.
Christoph Mordasini, Yann Alibert, Willy Benz, Dominique Naef
arXiv:0904.2542v1
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