The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Wednesday 2009 June 10
- A glimpse of the end of the dark ages: the gamma-ray burst of 23 April 2009 at redshift 8.3.
N. R. Tanvir, D. B. Fox, A. J. Levan, E. Berger, K. Wiersema, J. P. U. Fynbo, A. Cucchiara, T. Kruehler, N. Gehrels, J. S. Bloom, J. Greiner, P. Evans, E. Rol, F. Olivares, J. Hjorth, P. Jakobsson, J. Farihi, R. Willingale, R. L. C. Starling, S. B. Cenko, D. Perley, J. R. Maund, J. Duke, R. A. M. J. Wijers, A. J. Adamson, A. Allan, M. N. Bremer, D. N. Burrows, A. J. Castro Tirado, B. Cavanagh, A. de Ugarte Postigo, M. A. Dopita, T. A. Fatkhullin, A. S. Fruchter, R. J. Foley, J. Gorosabel, S. T. Holland, J. Kennea, T. Kerr, S. Klose, H. A. Krimm, V. N. Komarova, S. R. Kulkarni, A. S. Moskvitin, T. Naylor, B. E. Penprase, M. Perri, P. Podsiadlowski, K. Roth, R. E. Rutledge, T. Sakamoto, P. Schady, B. P. Schmidt, A. M. Soderberg, J. Sollerman, A. W. Stephens, G. Stratta, T. N. Ukwatta, D. Watson,et al. (3 additional authors not shown)
arXiv:0906.1577v2
- GRB 090423 reveals an exploding star at the epoch of re-ionization.
R. Salvaterra, M. Della Valle, S. Campana, G. Chincarini, S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo, A. Fernandez-Soto, C. Guidorzi, F. Mannucci, R. Margutti, C.C. Thoene, L.A. Antonelli, S.D. Barthelmy, M. De Pasquale, V. D'Elia, F. Fiore, D. Fugazza, L.K. Hunt, E. Maiorano, S. Marinoni, F.E. Marshall, E. Molinari, J. Nousek, E. Pian, J.L. Racusin, L. Stella, L. Amati, G. Andreuzzi, G. Cusumano, E.E. Fenimore, P. Ferrero, P. Giommi, D. Guetta, S.T. Holland, K. Hurley, G.L. Israel, J. Mao, C.B. Markwardt, N. Masetti, C. Pagani, E. Palazzi, D.M. Palmer, S. Piranomonte, G. Tagliaferri, V. Testa
arXiv:0906.1578v2
- CARS: The CFHTLS-Archive-Research Survey III. First detection of cosmic magnification in samples of normal high-z galaxies.
H. Hildebrandt, L. van Waerbeke, T. Erben
arXiv:0906.1580v1
- Diffuse molecular gas at high redshift: Detection of CO molecules and the 2175 {\AA} dust feature at z=1.64.
P. Noterdaeme, C. Ledoux, R. Srianand, P. Petitjean, S. Lopez
arXiv:0906.1585v1
- The Role of Planet Accretion in Creating the Next Generation of Red Giant Rapid Rotators.
Joleen K. Carlberg (1), Steven R. Majewski (1), Phil Arras (1) ((1) University of Virginia)
arXiv:0906.1587v1
- The Effect of Stellar Rotation on Colour-Magnitude Diagrams: On the apparent presence of multiple populations in intermediate age stellar clusters.
Nate Bastian (IoA, Cambridge), Selma de Mink (Utrecht)
arXiv:0906.1590v1
- Improved Distances to Type Ia Supernovae with Two Spectroscopic Subclasses.
Xiaofeng Wang (1,2), A. V. Filippenko (1), M. Ganeshalingam (1), W. Li (1), J. M. Silverman (1), L. Wang (3), R.Chornock (1), R.J.Foley (1,4), E.L.Gates (5), B. Macomber (1), F.J.D. Serduke (1), T.N.Steele (1), D. S. Wong (1) ((1) UC Berkeley, (2) Tsinghua University, (3) Texas A &M University, (4) Harvard University, (5) Lick Observatory)
arXiv:0906.1616v1
- Magnetically Torqued Neutrino-Dominated Accretion Flows for Gamma-ray Bursts.
W. H. Lei, D. X. Wang, L. Zhang, Z. M. Gan, Y. C. Zou, Y. Xie
arXiv:0906.1635v1
- The spin and orientation of dark matter halos within cosmic filaments.
Youcai Zhang, Xiaohu Yang, Andreas Faltenbacher, Volker Springel, Weipeng Lin, Huiyuan Wang
arXiv:0906.1654v1
- The escape of ionizing photons from supernova-dominated primordial galaxies.
Hidenobu Yajima, Masayuki Umemura, Masao Mori, Taishi Nakamoto
arXiv:0906.1658v1
- The Radial Distribution of the Two Stellar Populations in NGC 1851.
A. P. Milone, P. B. Stetson, G. Piotto, L. R. Bedin, J. Anderson, S. Cassisi, M. Salaris
arXiv:0906.1779v1
Other Papers:
- The UV background photoionization rate at 2.3 < z < 4.6 as measured from
the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
arXiv:0906.1484
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