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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Monday 2009 January 12
- The Many Manifestations of Downsizing: Hierarchical Galaxy Formation Models confront Observations.
Fabio Fontanot (1), Gabriella De Lucia (2), Pierluigi Monaco (3,4), Rachel S. Somerville (1,5), Paola Santini (6,7) ((1) Max-Planck-Institute fuer Astronomie, Heidelberg; (2) Max-Planck-Institute fuer Astrophysik, Garching; (3) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste; (4) Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita' di Trieste; (5) Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore; (6) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma; (7) Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Roma"La Sapienza")
arXiv:0901.1130v1
- A gravitationally lensed water maser in the early Universe.
C.M.V. Impellizzeri (1), J.P. McKean (1), P. Castangia (1,2), A.L. Roy (1), C. Henkel (1), A. Brunthaler (1), O. Wucknitz (3) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn; (2) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari; (3) Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie, Bonn)
arXiv:0901.1132v1
- The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. V. Measurement and Recalibration of Surface Brightness Fluctuations and a Precise Value of the Fornax--Virgo Relative Distance.
John P. Blakeslee, Andres Jordan, Simona Mei, Patrick Cote, Laura Ferrarese, Leopoldo Infante, Eric W. Peng, John L. Tonry, Michael J. West
arXiv:0901.1138v1
- The Implications of a High Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate in Diffuse Interstellar Clouds.
Nick Indriolo, Brian D. Fields, Benjamin J. McCall
arXiv:0901.1143v1
- Structural Properties of Central Galaxies in Groups and Clusters.
Yicheng Guo (1), Daniel H. McIntosh (1, 6), H. J. Mo (1), Neal Katz (1), Frank C. van den Bosch (2), Martin Weinberg (1), Simone M. Weinmann (3), Anna Pasqual (2), Xiaohu Yang (4, 5) ((1) University of Massachusetts, Amherst, (2) MPIA, (3) MPA, (4) SHAO, (5) JOINGC of SHAO and USTC, (6) UMKC)
arXiv:0901.1150v2
- GASS: The Parkes Galactic All-Sky Survey. I. Survey Description, Goals, and Initial Data Release.
N. M. McClure-Griffiths, D. J. Pisano, M. R. Calabretta, H. A. Ford, F. J. Lockman, L. Staveley-Smith, P. M. W. Kalberla, J. Bailin, L. Dedes, S. Janowiecki, B. K. Gibson, T. Murphy, H. Nakanishi, K. Newton-McGee
arXiv:0901.1159v1
- Directly Determined Linear Radii and Effective Temperatures of Exoplanet Host Stars.
Gerard T. van Belle (ESO), Kaspar von Braun (NExScI)
arXiv:0901.1206v1
- The Earth as an extrasolar planet: The vegetation spectral signature today and during the last Quaternary climatic extrema.
Luc Arnold (OHP), François-Marie Bréon (CEA-DSM-LSCE), Simon Brewer (CEREGE)
arXiv:0901.1214v1
- Magnetostrophic MRI in the Earth ' s Outer Core.
Ludovic Petitdemange, Emmanuel Dormy, Steven A. Balbus
arXiv:0901.1217v1
- Comment on the claimed radial BAO detection by Gaztanaga et al.
Jordi Miralda-Escude
arXiv:0901.1219v1
- Star formation history in the SMC: the case of NGC602.
M. Cignoni (1 and 2), E. Sabbi (3 and 4), A. Nota (3 and 4), M. Tosi (2), S. Degl'Innocenti (5 and 6), P.G. Prada Moroni (5 and 6), L. Angeretti (2), Lynn Redding Carlson (7), J. Gallagher (8), M. Meixner (3), M. Sirianni (3 and 4), L.J. Smith (3,4,9) ((1) Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita' degli Studi di Bologna, Italy, (2) INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy,(3) Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA, (4) European Space Agency, Research and Scientific Support Department, Baltimore, USA, (5) Dipartimento di Fisica ``Enrico Fermi'', Universita' di Pisa, Italy, (6) INFN - Sezione di Pisa, largo Pontecorvo 3, Pisa, Italy, (7) Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Usa, (8) University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA, (9) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, UK)
arXiv:0901.1237v1
- A systematic fitting scheme for caustic-crossing microlensing events.
N. Kains, A. Cassan, K. Horne, M.D. Albrow, S. Dieters, P. Fouque, J. Greenhill, A. Udalski, M. Zub, D.P. Bennett, M. Dominik, J. Donatowicz, D. Kubas, Y. Tsapras, T. Anguita, V. Batista, J.-P. Beaulieu, S. Brillant, M. Bode, D.M. Bramich, M. Burgdorf, J.A.R. Caldwell, K.H. Cook, Ch. Coutures, D. Dominis Prester, U.G. Jorgensen, S. Kane, J.B. Marquette, R. Martin, J. Menzies, K.R. Pollard, N. Rattenbury, K.C. Sahu, C. Snodgrass, I. Steele, C. Vinter, J. Wambsganss, A. Williams, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, O. Szewczyk, M.K. Szymanski, K. Ulaczyk, L. Wyrzykowski
arXiv:0901.1285v1
- Resolving the obscuring torus in NGC 1068 with the power of infrared interferometry: Revealing the inner funnel of dust.
David Raban, Walter Jaffe, Huub Röttgering, Klaus Meisenheimer, Konrad R. W. Tristram
arXiv:0901.1306v1
- Blue Hook Stars in Globular Clusters.
A. Dieball, C. Knigge, T. J. Maccarone, K. S. Long, D. C. Hannikainen, D. Zurek, M. Shara
arXiv:0901.1309v1
Other Papers:
- Evolution and Nucleosynthesis of Extremely Metal Poor & Metal-Free Low-
and Intermediate-Mass Stars I: Stellar Yield Tables and the CEMPs
arXiv:0901.0799
- Cosmological Parameters from the QUaD CMB polarization experiment
arXiv:0901.0810
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