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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Tuesday 2009 December 8
- Detectability of Oort cloud objects using Kepler.
Eran O. Ofek, Ehud Nakar
arXiv:0912.0948v1
- Protoplanetary migration in turbulent isothermal disks.
C. Baruteau, D. N. C. Lin
arXiv:0912.0964v1
- Fermi Large Area Telescope Measurements of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission at Intermediate Galactic Latitudes.
he Fermi-LAT Collaboration
arXiv:0912.0973v1
- Accretion-Driven Turbulence and the Transition to Global Instability in Young Galaxy Disks.
Bruce G. Elmegreen (1), Andreas Burkert (2) ((1) IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, (2) University Observatory Munich)
arXiv:0912.0996v1
- Near-infrared counterparts to Chandra X-ray sources toward the Galactic Center. II. Discovery of Wolf-Rayet stars and O supergiants.
Jon C. Mauerhan, Michael P. Muno, Mark R. Morris, Susan R. Stolovy, Angela S. Cotera
arXiv:0912.1055v1
- VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV): The public ESO near-IR variability survey of the Milky Way.
D. Minniti, P. W. Lucas, J. P. Emerson, R. K. Saito, M. Hempel, P. Pietrukowicz, A. V. Ahumada, M. V. Alonso, J. Alonso-García, J. I. Arias, R. M. Bandyopadhyay, R. H. Barbá, L. R. Bedin, E. Bica, J. Borissova, L. Bronfman, M. Catelan, J. J. Clariá, N. Cross, R. de Grijs, I. Dékány, J. E. Drew, C. Fariña, C. Feinstein, E. Fernández Lajús, R. C. Gamen, D. Geisler, W. Gieren, B. Goldman, O. González, G. Gunthardt, S. Gurovich, N. C. Hambly, M. J. Irwin, V. D. Ivanov, A. Jordán, E. Kerins, K. Kinemuchi, R. Kurtev, M. López-Corredoira, T. Maccarone, N. Masetti, D. Merlo, M. Messineo, I. F. Mirabel, L. Monaco, L. Morelli, N. Padilla, M. C. Parisi, G. Pignata, M. Rejkuba, A. Roman-Lopes, S. E. Sale, M. R. Schreiber, A. C. Schröder, M. Smith,et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
arXiv:0912.1056v1
- Ancient stars beyond the Local Group: RR Lyrae variables and Blue Horizontal Branch stars in Sculptor Group Dwarf Galaxies.
G. S. Da Costa, M. Rejkuba, H. Jerjen, E. K. Grebel
arXiv:0912.1069v1
- The Rise and Fall of Passive Disk Galaxies: Morphological Evolution Along the Red Sequence Revealed by COSMOS.
K. Bundy (UC Berkeley), C. Scarlata (SSC), C. M. Carollo (ETH), R. S. Ellis (Caltech), N. Drory (MPE), P. Hopkins (UC Berkeley), M. Salvato (Caltech), A. Leauthaud (LBL), A. M. Koekemoer (STScI), N. Murray (CITA), O. Ilbert (LAM), P. Oesch (ETH), C.-P. Ma (UC Berkeley), P. Capak (SSC), L. Pozzetti (Bologna), N. Scoville (Caltech)
arXiv:0912.1077v1
- Primordial Nucleosynthesis: A Cosmological Probe.
Gary Steigman
arXiv:0912.1114v1
- A Cold Neptune-Mass Planet OGLE-2007-BLG-368Lb: Cold Neptunes Are Common.
T. Sumi, D.P. Bennett, I.A. Bond, A. Udalski, V. Batista, M. Dominik, P. Fouqué, D. Kubas, A. Gould, B. Macintosh, K. Cook, S. Dong, L. Skuljan, A. Cassan,The MOA Collaboration : F. Abe, C.S. Botzler, A. Fukui, K. Furusawa, J.B. Hearnshaw, Y. Itow, K. Kamiya, P.M. Kilmartin, A. Korpela, W. Lin, C.H. Ling, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, N. Miyake, Y. Muraki, M. Nagaya, T. Nagayama, K. Ohnishi, T. Okumura, Y.C. Perrott, N. Rattenbury, To. Saito, T. Sako, D.J. Sullivan, W.L. Sweatman,P., P.C.M. Yock,The PLANET Collaboration : J.P. Beaulieu, A. Cole, Ch. Coutures, M.F. Duran, J. Greenhill, F. Jablonski, U. Marboeuf, E. Martioli, E. Pedretti, O. Pejcha, P. Rojo, M.D. Albrow, S. Brillant, M. Bode, D.M. Bramich, M.J. Burgdorf, J.A.R. Caldwell, H. Calitz, E. Corrales, S. Dieters, D. Dominis Prester,et al. (42 additional authors not shown)
arXiv:0912.1171v1
- Comparing the relation between star formation and galaxy mass in different environments.
Benedetta Vulcani (1 and 2), Bianca M. Poggianti (2), Rose A. Finn (3), Gregory Rudnick (4), Vandana Desai (5), Steven Bamford (6) ((1) Astronomical Department, Padova University, Italy, (2) INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Padova, Italy, (3) Department of Physics, Siena College, Loudonville, USA, (4) University of Kansas, Department of Physics and Astronomy, USA, (5) Spitzer Science Center, California Institute of Technology, USA, (6) School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
arXiv:0912.1180v1
- Simulations of the grand design galaxy M51: a case study for analysing tidally induced spiral structure.
C. L. Dobbs, C. Theis, J. E Pringle, M. R. Bate
arXiv:0912.1201v1
- Fermi Constrains Dark Matter Origin of High Energy Positron Anomaly.
Martin Pohl, David Eichler
arXiv:0912.1203v1
- Giant planet formation in stellar clusters: the effects of stellar fly-bys.
Moritz Fragner, Richard Nelson
arXiv:0912.1299v1
- The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey - VLT/ISAAC Near-Infrared Imaging of the GOODS-South Field.
J. Retzlaff, P. Rosati, M. Dickinson, B. Vandame, C. Rite, M. Nonino, C.Cesarsky,the GOODS Team
arXiv:0912.1306v2
- OB Stars & Stellar Bowshocks in Cygnus-X: A Novel Laboratory Estimating Stellar Mass Loss Rates.
Henry A. Kobulnicky (University of Wyoming), Ian J. Gilbert (Gove City College), Daniel C. Kiminki (University of Wyoming)
arXiv:0912.1314v1
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