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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Friday 2009 January 9
- A top-heavy stellar initial mass function in starbursts as an explanation for the high mass-to-light ratios of ultra compact dwarf galaxies.
J. Dabringhausen, P. Kroupa, H. Baumgardt
arXiv:0901.0915v1
- A Determination of the Spin of the Black Hole Primary in LMC X-1.
Lijun Gou (1), Jeffrey E. McClintock (1), Jifeng Liu (1), Ramesh Narayan (1), James F. Steiner (1), Ronald A. Remillard (2), Jerome A. Orosz (3), Shane W. Davis (4) ((1) CfA (2) MIT (3) SDSU (4) IAS)
arXiv:0901.0920v1
- Spectroscopic binaries among Hipparcos M giants I. Data, orbits, and intrinsic variations.
B. Famaey, D. Pourbaix, A. Frankowski, S. Van Eck, M. Mayor, S. Udry, A. Jorissen
arXiv:0901.0934v1
- Spectroscopic binaries among Hipparcos M giants II. Binary frequency.
A. Frankowski, B. Famaey, S. Van Eck, M. Mayor, S. Udry, A. Jorissen
arXiv:0901.0937v1
- Spectroscopic binaries among Hipparcos M giants III. The eccentricity-period diagram and mass-transfer signatures.
A. Jorissen, A. Frankowski, B. Famaey, S. Van Eck
arXiv:0901.0938v1
- The Outer Disk of the Milky Way Seen in 21-cm Absorption.
John M. Dickey, Simon Strasser, B.M. Gaensler, Marijke Haverkorn, Dain Kavars, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, Jeroen Stil, A. R. Taylor
arXiv:0901.0968v1
- The metallicity of the most distant quasars.
Y. Juarez, R. Maiolino, R. Mujica, M. Pedani, S. Marinoni, T. Nagao, A. Marconi, E. Oliva
arXiv:0901.0974v1
- Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Seyfert Galaxies. Nuclear Activity and Stellar Population.
Cristina Ramos Almeida, Ana Maria Perez Garcia, Jose Antonio Acosta Pulido
arXiv:0901.0999v1
- Proper motions of thermally emitting isolated neutron stars measured with Chandra.
C. Motch, A.M. Pires, F. Haberl, A. Schwope, V.E. Zavlin
arXiv:0901.1006v1
- Superdense massive galaxies in the Nearby Universe.
Ignacio Trujillo, A. Javier Cenarro, Adriana de Lorenzo-Caceres, Alexandre Vazdekis, Ignacio G. de la Rosa, Antonio Cava
arXiv:0901.1032v1
- Feedback from central black holes in elliptical galaxies. I: models with either radiative or mechanical feedback but not both.
L. Ciotti (Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Bologna), J.P. Ostriker (Princeton University & IoA Cambridge), D. Proga (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada)
arXiv:0901.1089v1
- IR Dust Bubbles II: Probing the Detailed Structure and Young Massive Stellar Populations of Galactic HII Regions.
C. Watson, T. Corn, E.B. Churchwell, B.L. Babler, M.S. Povich, M.R. Meade, B.A. Whitney
arXiv:0901.1097v1
- The Cosmic Evolution of AGN in galaxy clusters.
Audrey Galametz, Daniel Stern, Peter R. M. Eisenhardt, Mark Brodwin, Michael J. I. Brown, Arjun Dey, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Buell T. Jannuzi, Leonidas A. Moustakas, S. Adam Stanford
arXiv:0901.1109v1
Other Papers:
- All-sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early S5
Data
arXiv:0810.0283
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