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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Tuesday 2009 October 27
- A New Empirical Method to Infer the Starburst History of the Universe from Local Galaxy Properties.
Philip F. Hopkins (Berkeley), Lars Hernquist (CfA)
arXiv:0910.4582v1
- The Fermi Haze: A Gamma-Ray Counterpart to the Microwave Haze.
Gregory Dobler (KITP/UCSB, Harvard/CfA), Douglas P. Finkbeiner (Harvard/CfA), Ilias Cholis (NYU), Tracy R. Slatyer (Harvard/CfA), Neal Weiner (NYU)
arXiv:0910.4583v1
- Morphological Tests of the Pulsar and Dark Matter Interpretations of the WMAP Haze.
J. Patrick Harding, Kevork N. Abazajian (UMD)
arXiv:0910.4590v1
- The Sloan Bright Arcs Survey: Four Strongly Lensed Galaxies with Redshift > 2.
H. Thomas Diehl, Sahar S. Allam, James Annis, Elizabeth J. Buckley-Geer, Joshua A. Frieman, Donna Kubik, Jeffrey M. Kubo, Huan Lin, Douglas Tucker, Anderson West
arXiv:0910.4600v1
- Light Curve Templates and Galactic Distribution of RR Lyrae Stars from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82.
Branimir Sesar, Zeljko Ivezic, Skyler H. Grammer, Dylan P. Morgan, Andrew C. Becker, Mario Juric, Nathan De Lee, James Annis, Timothy C. Beers, Xiaohui Fan, Robert H. Lupton, James E. Gunn, Gillian R. Knapp, Linhua Jiang, Sebastian Jester, David E. Johnston, Hubert Lampeitl
arXiv:0910.4611v1
- Collisional evolution of eccentric planetesimal swarms.
M. C. Wyatt, M. Booth, M. J. Payne, L. J. Churcher
arXiv:0910.4725v1
- Metallicity Mapping with gri Photometry: The Virgo Overdensity and the Halos of the Galaxy.
Timothy C. Beers (1,2), Deokkeun An (3), Jennifer A. Johnson (4), Marc H. Pinsonneault (4), Donald M. Terndrup (4), Franck Delahaye (5), Young Sun Lee (1,2), Thomas Masseron (4), Daniela Carollo (6,7), Brian Yanny (8) ((1) Michigan State Univ., (2) Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, (3) IPAC, Caltech, (4) Ohio State Univ., (5) CEA-Saclay, France, (6) Australian National Univ., (7) INAF, Torino, (8) Fermilab)
arXiv:0910.4731v1
- Improved flux limits for neutrinos with energies above 10$^{22}$ eV from observations with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope.
O. Scholten, S. Buitink, J. Bacelar, R. Braun, A.G. de Bruyn, H. Falcke, K. Singh, B. Stappers, R.G. Strom, R. al Yahyaoui
arXiv:0910.4745v1
- Getting the astrophysics and particle physics of dark matter out of next-generation direct detection experiments.
Annika H. G. Peter
arXiv:0910.4765v1
- The size, density, and formation of the Orcus-Vanth system in the Kuiper belt.
M.E. Brown, D. Ragozzine, J. Stansberry, W.C. Fraser
arXiv:0910.4784v1
- Characterization and on-sky demonstration of an integrated photonic spectrograph for astronomy.
N. Cvetojevic, J.S. Lawrence, S.C. Ellis, J. Bland-Hawthorn, R. Haynes, A. Horton
arXiv:0910.4804v1
- Physical parameters of the Small Magellanic Cloud RR Lyrae stars and the distance scale.
Sukanta Deb, Harinder P. Singh
arXiv:0910.4806v1
- The Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum Measured with KASCADE-Grande.
A.Haungs (for the) KASCADE-Grande Collaboration
arXiv:0910.4824v1
- The progenitor mass of the magnetar SGR1900+14.
Ben Davies (Leeds/RIT), Don F. Figer (RIT), Rolf-Peter Kudritzki (IfA, Hawaii), Christine Trombley (RIT), Chryssa Kouveliotou (NASA - MSFC), Stefanie Wachter (SSC, Caltech)
arXiv:0910.4859v1
- Physical properties of the 0.94-day period transiting planetary system WASP-18.
John Southworth, T. C. Hinse, M. Dominik, M. Glitrup, U. G. Jorgensen, C. Liebig, M. Mathiasen, D. R. Anderson, V. Bozza, P. Browne, M. Burgdorf, S. Calchi. Novati, S. Dreizler, F. Finet, K. Harpsoe, F. Hessman, M. Hundertmark, G. Maier, L. Mancini, P. F. L. Maxted, S. Rahvar, D. Ricci, G. Scarpetta, J. Skottfelt, C. Snodgrass, J. Surdej, F. Zimmer
arXiv:0910.4875v1
- Millimagnitude Photometry for Transiting Extrasolar Planetary Candidates. V. Follow-up of 30 OGLE Transits. New Candidates.
P. Pietrukowicz (1,2), D. Minniti (1,3), R.F. Diaz (4), J.M. Fernandez (1,5), M. Zoccali (1), W. Gieren (6), G. Pietrzynski (6,7), M.T. Ruiz (8), A. Udalski (7), T. Szeifert (9), M. Hempel (1) ((1) Univ. Catolica de Chile, (2) Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland, (3) Vatican Observatory, (4) Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio, Argentina, (5) CfA, (6) Univ. de Concepcion, Chile, (7) Warsaw Univ. Obs., Poland, (8) Univ. de Chile, (9) ESO Santiago)
arXiv:0910.4892v1
- Balancing the Cosmic Energy Budget: The Cosmic X-ray Background, Blazars and the Compton Thick AGN Fraction.
A.R. Draper, D.R. Ballantyne
arXiv:0910.4904v1
- Molecular gas, CO, and star formation in galaxies: emergent empirical relations, feedback, and the evolution of very gas-rich systems.
Federico I. Pelupessy, Padelis P. Papadopoulos
arXiv:0910.4905v1
- A new measurement of the bulk flow of X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies.
A. Kashlinsky (GSFC), F. Atrio-Barandela (U Salamanca, Spain), H. Ebeling (IfA, Hawaii), A. Edge (U of Durham, UK), D. Kocevski (UCD)
arXiv:0910.4958v1
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