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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Monday 2009 August 10
- Discovery of the Very Red Near-Infrared and Optical Afterglow of the Short-Duration GRB 070724A.
E. Berger (Harvard), S. B. Cenko (UC Berkeley), D. B. Fox (PSU), A. Cucchiara (PSU)
arXiv:0908.0940v1
- VLT Spectropolarimetry of the optical transient in NGC300. Evidences for asymmetry in the circumstellar dust.
F. Patat, J.R. Maund, M.-T. Botticella, E. Cappellaro, A. Harutyunyan, M. Turatto
arXiv:0908.0942v1
- The M dwarf planet search programme at the ESO VLT + UVES. A search for terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of M dwarfs.
M. Zechmeister (1), M. Kürster (1), M. Endl (2) ((1) MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany, (2) University of Texas, Austin, USA)
arXiv:0908.0944v1
- Results of the GREAT08 Challenge: An image analysis competition for cosmological lensing.
Sarah Bridle, Sreekumar T. Balan, Matthias Bethge, Marc Gentile, Stefan Harmeling, Catherine Heymans, Michael Hirsch, Reshad Hosseini, Mike Jarvis, Donnacha Kirk, Thomas Kitching, Konrad Kuijken, Antony Lewis, Stephane Paulin-Henriksson, Bernhard Scholkopf, Malin Velander, Lisa Voigt, Dugan Witherick, Adam Amara, Gary Bernstein, Frederic Courbin, Mandeep Gill, Alan Heavens, Rachel Mandelbaum, Richard Massey, Baback Moghaddam, Anais Rassat, Alexandre Refregier, Jason Rhodes, Tim Schrabback, John Shawe-Taylor, Marina Shmakova, Ludovic van Waerbeke, David Wittman
arXiv:0908.0945v1
- Cosmic Evolution of Star Formation In SDSS Quasar Hosts Since z=1.
Yong Shi, George H. Rieke (Steward), Patrick Ogle (SSC), Linhua Jiang, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic (Steward)
arXiv:0908.0952v1
- Discovery of a close substellar companion to the hot subdwarf star HD 149382 - The decisive influence of substellar objects on late stellar evolution.
S. Geier, H. Edelmann, U. Heber, L. Morales-Rueda
arXiv:0908.1025v1
- Nuclear Disk Formation by Direct Collisions of Gas Clouds with the Central Black Hole.
Christian Alig, Andreas Burkert, Peter H. Johansson, Marc Schartmann
arXiv:0908.1100v1
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