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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Thursday 2009 September 17
- Misaligned spin and orbital axes cause the anomalous precession of DI Herculis.
Simon Albrecht, Sabine Reffert, Ignas A. G. Snellen, Joshua N. Winn
arXiv:0909.2861v1
- Stellar Populations in Globular Cluster Cores: Evidence for a Peculiar Trend Among Red Giant Branch Stars.
N. Leigh, A. Sills, C. Knigge
arXiv:0909.2864v1
- Self-Regulated Black Hole Growth via Momentum Deposition in Galaxy Merger Simulations.
Jackson DeBuhr, Eliot Quataert, Chung-Pei Ma, Philip Hopkins (UC Berkeley)
arXiv:0909.2872v1
- A Search for Additional Planets in the NASA EPOXI Observations of the Exoplanet System GJ 436.
Sarah Ballard, Jessie L. Christiansen, David Charbonneau, Drake Deming, Matthew J. Holman, Daniel Fabrycky, Michael F. A'Hearn, Dennis D. Wellnitz, Richard K. Barry, Marc J. Kuchner, Timothy A. Livengood, Tilak Hewagama, Jessica M. Sunshine, Don L. Hampton, Carey M. Lisse, Sara Seager, Joseph F. Veverka
arXiv:0909.2875v1
- Short gamma-ray bursts from tidal capture and collisions of compact stars in globular clusters.
William H. Lee (IA-UNAM), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), Glenn van de Ven (IAS, MPIA)
arXiv:0909.2884v1
- Galaxy Zoo: Exploring the Motivations of Citizen Science Volunteers.
M. Jordan Raddick (Johns Hopkins University), Georgia Bracey, Pamela L. Gay (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville), Chris J. Lintott (Oxford University), Phil Murray (Fingerprint Digital Media), Kevin Schawinski (Einstein Fellow, Yale University), Alexander S. Szalay (Johns Hopkins University), Jan Vandenberg (Johns Hopkins University)
arXiv:0909.2925v1
- Structure and Kinematics of the Stellar Halos and Thick Disks of the Milky Way Based on Calibration Stars from SDSS DR7.
Daniela Carollo (1), Timothy C. Beers (2), Masashi Chiba (3), John E. Norris (1), Ken C. Freeman (1), Young Sun Lee (2), Zeljko Ivezic (4), Constance M. Rockosi (5), Brian Yanny (6) ((1) RSAA, ANU, Australia, (2) Michigan State Univ., (3) Tohoku Univ., Japan, (4) Univ. of Washington, (5) UC Santa Cruz, (6) FermiLab)
arXiv:0909.3019v1
- XMM-Newton Observations of a Complete Sample of Optically Selected Type 2 Seyfert Galaxies.
Stephanie M. LaMassa, Timothy M. Heckman, Andrew A. Ptak (JHU), Ann Hornschemeier (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Lucimara Martins (NAT - Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul), Paule Sonnentrucker (JHU), Christy Tremonti (MPIA)
arXiv:0909.3044v1
- Detection of Planetary Emission from the Exoplanet TrES-2 using Spitzer /IRAC.
Francis T. O'Donovan, David Charbonneau, Joseph Harrington, Sara Seager, N. Madhusudhan, Drake Deming, Heather A. Knutson
arXiv:0909.3073v1
- High-redshift elliptical galaxies: are they (all) really compact?.
C.Mancini, E. Daddi, A. Renzini, F. Salmi, H. J. McCracken, A. Cimatti, M. Onodera, M. Salvato, A. M. Koekemoer, H. Aussel, E. Le Floc'h, C. Willott
arXiv:0909.3088v1
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