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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Tuesday 2009 July 21
- Cosmic Chronometers: Constraining the Equation of State of Dark Energy. II. A Spectroscopic Catalog of Red Galaxies in Galaxy Clusters.
Daniel Stern, Raul Jimenez, Licia Verde, S. Adam Stanford, Marc Kamionkowski
arXiv:0907.3152v1
- The Optical Structure of the Starburst Galaxy M82. II. Nebular Properties of the Disk and Inner-Wind.
M. S. Westmoquette (1), J. S. Gallagher (2), L. J. Smith (1 and 3), G. Trancho (4), N. Bastian (5), I. S. Konstantopoulos (1) ((1) UCL, (2) University of Wisconsin-Madison, (3) STScI and ESA, (4) Gemini, (5) Cambridge)
arXiv:0907.3162v1
- Active Galactic Nuclei and the Truncation of Star Formation in K+A Galaxies.
Michael J. I. Brown, John Moustakas, Nelson Caldwell, David Palamara, Richard J. Cool, Arjun Dey, Ryan Hickox, Buell T. Jannuzi, Stephen S. Murray, Dennis Zaritsky
arXiv:0907.3185v1
- The Cross-Calibration of Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM via Correlative Spectral Analysis of GRBs.
Michael Stamatikos (on behalf of the BAT/GBM Inter-calibration Team)
arXiv:0907.3190v1
- Collisions of white dwarfs as a new progenitor channel for type Ia supernovae.
S. Rosswog, D. Kasen, J. Guillochon, E. Ramirez-Ruiz
arXiv:0907.3196v1
- Binary Formation with Different Metallicities: Dependence on Initial Conditions.
Masahiro N. Machida, Kazuyuki Omukai, Tomoaki Matsumoto, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka
arXiv:0907.3257v1
- High-precision photometry by telescope defocussing. II. The transiting planetary system WASP-4.
John Southworth, T. C. Hinse, M. J. Burgdorf, M. Dominik, A. Hornstrup, U. G. Jorgensen, C. Liebig, D. Ricci, C. C. Thone, T. Anguita, V. Bozza, S. Calchi Novati, K. Harpsoe, L. Mancini, G. Masi, M. Mathiasen, S. Rahvar, G. Scarpetta, C. Snodgrass, J. Surdej, M. Zub
arXiv:0907.3356v1
- Uncovering the Origins of Spiral Structure by Measuring Radial Variation in Pattern Speeds.
Sharon E. Meidt, Richard J. Rand, Michael R. Merrifield
arXiv:0907.3443v1
- Low-Resolution Spectroscopy of Gamma-ray Burst Optical Afterglows: Biases in the Swift Sample and Characterization of the Absorbers.
J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Jakobsson, J. X. Prochaska, D. Malesani, C. Ledoux, A. de Ugarte Postigo, M. Nardini, P. M. Vreeswijk, J. Hjorth, J. Sollerman, H.-W. Chen, C. C. Thoene, G. Bjoernsson, J. S. Bloom, A. Castro-Tirado, L. Christensen, A. De Cia, J. U. Gorosabel, A. Jaunsen, B. L. Jensen, A. Levan, J. Maund, N. Masetti, B. Milvang-Jensen, E. Palazzi, D. A. Perley, E. Pian, E. Rol, P. Schady, R. Starling, N. Tanvir, D. J. Watson, K. Wiersema, D. Xu, T. Augusteijn, F. Grundahl, J. Telting, P.-O. Quirion
arXiv:0907.3449v1
- High Velocity Outflows in Narrow Absorption Line Quasars.
G. Chartas, J. Charlton, M. Eracleous, M. Giustini, P. Rodriguez Hidalgo, R. Ganguly, F. Hamann, T. Misawa, D. Tytler
arXiv:0907.3464v1
- The Quasar SDSS J105041.35+345631.3: Black Hole Recoil or Extreme Double-Peaked Emitter?.
G. A. Shields, D. J. Rosario, K. L. Smith, E. W. Bonning, S. Salviander, J. S. Kalirai, R. Strickler, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, A. A. Dutton, T. Treu, P. J. Marshall
arXiv:0907.3470v1
- Mass measurement of a single unseen star and detection efficiency to low mass planets for OGLE 2007-BLG-050.
V. Batista, Subo Dong, A. Gould, J.P. Beaulieu, A. Cassan, G.W. Christie, C. Han, A. Udalski, W. Allen, D.L. DePoy, A. Gal-Yam, B.S. Gaudi, B. Johnson, S. Kaspi, C.U. Lee, D. Maoz, J. McCormick, I. McGreer, B. Monard, T. Natusch, E. Ofek, B.-G. Park, R.W. Pogge, D. Polishook, A. Shporer, M.D. Albrow, D. P. Bennett, S. Brillant, M. Bode, D.M. Bramich, M. Burgdorf, J.A.R. Caldwell, H. Calitz, A. Cole, K. H. Cook, Ch. Coutures, S. Dieters, M. Dominik, D. Dominis Prester, J. Donatowicz, P. Fouqué, J. Greenhill, M. Hoffman, K. Horne, U.G. Jørgensen, N. Kains, S. Kane, D. Kubas, J.B. Marquette, R. Martin, P. Meintjes, J. Menzies, K.R. Pollard, K.C. Sahu, C. Snodgrass, I. Steele, Y. Tsapras, J. Wambsganss, A. Williams, M. Zub,Ł. Wyrzykowski, M. Kubiak, M.K. Szymański, G. Pietrzyński,et al. (32 additional authors not shown)
arXiv:0907.3471v2
Other Papers:
- Annealing a Follow-up Program: Improvement of the Dark Energy Figure of
Merit for Optical Galaxy Cluster Surveys
arXiv:0907.2690
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