The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Thursday 2009 December 10
- The Effect of Mass Ratio on the Morphology and Time-scales of Disc Galaxy Mergers.
Jennifer M. Lotz (NOAO), Patrik Jonsson (UCSC), T.J. Cox (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Joel R. Primack (UCSC)
arXiv:0912.1590v1
- Gas, dust and stars in the SCUBA galaxy, SMM J02399-0136: the EVLA reveals a colossal galactic nursery.
Rob Ivison (Edinburgh), Ian Smail, Padeli P. Papadopoulos, Isak Wold, Johan Richard, A.M. Swinbank, Jean-Paul Kneib, Frazer N. Owen
arXiv:0912.1591v1
- The Effect of Gas Fraction on the Morphology and Time-scales of Disc Galaxy Mergers.
Jennifer M. Lotz (NOAO), Patrik Jonsson (UCSC), T.J. Cox (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Joel R. Primack (UCSC)
arXiv:0912.1593v1
- Empirical Constraints on the Oblateness of an Exoplanet.
Joshua A. Carter, Joshua N. Winn
arXiv:0912.1594v1
- Parallactic Motion for Companion Discovery: An M-Dwarf Orbiting Alcor.
Neil Zimmerman (1,2), Ben R. Oppenheimer (2,1), Sasha Hinkley (3), Douglas Brenner (2), Ian R. Parry (4), Anand Sivaramakrishnan (2,5,6), Lynne Hillenbrand (3), Charles Beichman (7,8), Justin R. Crepp (3), Gautam Vasisht (8), Lewis C. Roberts Jr. (8), Rick Burruss (8), David L. King (4), Rémi Soummer (9), Richard Dekany (3), Michael Shao (8), Antonin Bouchez (3), Jennifer E. Roberts (8), Stephanie Hunt (4) ((1) Columbia, (2) AMNH, (3) Caltech, (4) IoA Cambridge, (5) Stony Brook, (6) CfAO, (7) NExScI, (8) JPL, (9) STScI)
arXiv:0912.1597v1
- High-resolution CO and radio imaging of z~2 ULIRGs: extended CO structures, and implications for the universal star formation law.
M. S. Bothwell (1), S. C. Chapman (1), L. Tacconi (2), Ian Smail (3), R. J. Ivison (4,5), C. M. Casey (1), F. Bertoldi (6), R. Beswick (7), A. Biggs (8), A. W. Blain (9), P. Cox (10), R. Genzel (2), T. R. Greve (11), R. Kennicutt (1), T. Muxlow (7), R. Neri (10), A. Omont (12) ((1) Cambridge, (2) Max-Planck Institut, (3) Durham, (4) UK Astronomy Technology Centre Edinburgh, (5) IfA Edinburgh, (6) Bonn, (7) Jodrell Bank, (8) ESO, (9) Caltech, (10) IRAM, (11) MPIA, (12) Paris)
arXiv:0912.1598v1
- Broad HI Absorbers as Metallicity-Independent Tracers of the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium.
Charles W. Danforth, John T. Stocke, J. Michael Shull (University of Colorado)
arXiv:0912.1603v1
- Environmental Effects in the Evolution of Galactic Bulges.
Lauren A. MacArthur (NRC-HIA/UVic), Richard S. Ellis (Caltech), Tommaso Treu (UCSB), Sean Moran (JHU)
arXiv:0912.1605v1
- The GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey. I. Gas Fraction Scaling Relations of Massive Galaxies and First Data Release.
Barbara Catinella, David Schiminovich, Guinevere Kauffmann, Silvia Fabello, Jing Wang, Cameron Hummels, Jenna Lemonias, Sean M. Moran, Ronin Wu, Riccardo Giovanelli, Martha P. Haynes, Timothy M. Heckman, Antara R. Basu-Zych, Michael R. Blanton, Jarle Brinchmann, Tamás Budavári, Thiago Gonçalves, Benjamin D. Johnson, Robert C. Kennicutt, Barry F. Madore, Christopher D. Martin, Michael R. Rich, Linda J. Tacconi, David A. Thilker, Vivienne Wild, Ted K. Wyder
arXiv:0912.1610v1
- Parent Stars of Extrasolar Planets. X. Lithium Abundances and vsini Revisited.
G. Gonzalez, M. K. Carlson, R. W. Tobin
arXiv:0912.1621v1
- Lyman break galaxy close and interacting pairs at z ~ 3.
Jeff Cooke, Joel C. Berrier, Elizabeth J. Barton, James S. Bullock, Arthur M. Wolfe
arXiv:0912.1632v1
- Radii of Rapidly-Rotating Stars, with Application to Transiting-Planet Hosts.
Timothy M. Brown (1) ((1) Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope)
arXiv:0912.1639v1
- Alternative diagnostic diagrams and the " forgotten " population of weak line galaxies in the SDSS.
R. Cid Fernandes (1), G. Stasinska (2), M. S. Schlickmann (1,3), A. Mateus (1), N. Vale Asari (1,2), W. Schoenell (1), L. Sodre Jr. (3); ((1) UFSC, Brazil, (2) LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, France, (3) USP, Brazil)
arXiv:0912.1643v1
- Reassessing the Source of Long-Period Comets.
Nathan A. Kaib, Thomas Quinn
arXiv:0912.1645v1
- The Type Ia Supernova Rate in Radio and Infrared Galaxies from the CFHT Supernova Legacy Survey.
M.L. Graham, C.J. Pritchet, M. Sullivan, D.A. Howell, S.D.J. Gwyn, P. Astier, C. Balland, S. Basa, R.G. Carlberg, A. Conley, D. Fouchez, J. Guy, D. Hardin, I.M. Hook, R. Pain, K. Perrett, N. Regnault, J. Rich, D. Balam, S. Fabbro, E.Y. Hsiao, A. Mourao, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, S. Perlmutter, V. Ruhlman-Kleider, N. Suzuki, H.K. Fakhouri, E.S. Walker
arXiv:0912.1646v1
- The spectral-temporal properties of the prompt pulses and rapid decay phase of GRBs.
R. Willingale, F. Genet, J. Granot, P.T. O'Brien
arXiv:0912.1759v1
- The TAOS Project Stellar Variability II. Detection of Low-Amplitude delta Scuti Stars.
D.-W. Kim, P. Protopapas, C. Alcock, Y.-I. Byun, J. Kyeong, B.-C. Lee, N. J. Wright, T. Axelrod, F. B. Bianco, W.-P. Chen, N. K. Coehlo, K. H. Cook, R. Dave, S.-K. King, T. Lee, M. J. Lehner, H.-C. Lin, S. L. Marshall, R. Porrata, J. A. Rice, M. E. Schwamb, J.-H. Wang, S.-Y. Wang, C.-Y. Wen, Z.-W. Zhang
arXiv:0912.1791v1
- Empirically Derived Integrated Stellar Yields of Fe-Peak Elements.
R.B.C. Henry, John J. Cowan, Jennifer Sobeck
arXiv:0912.1816v1
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