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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Monday 2010 August 23
- The Near-Infrared Sky Surveyor.
Daniel Stern, James G. Bartlett, Mark Brodwin, Asantha Cooray, Roc Cutri, Arjun Dey, Peter Eisenhardt, Anthony Gonzalez, Jason Kalirai, Amy Mainzer, Leonidas Moustakas, Jason Rhodes, S. Adam Stanford, Edward L. Wright
arXiv:1008.3563v1
- HAT-P-25b: a Hot-Jupiter Transiting a Moderately Faint G Star.
S. N. Quinn (1), G.Á. Bakos (1,2), J. Hartman (1), G. Torres (1), G. Kovács (3), D. W. Latham (1), R. W. Noyes (1), D. A. Fischer (4), J. A. Johnson (5), G. W. Marcy (6), A. W. Howard (6), A. Szentgyorgyi (1), G. Fürész (1), L. A. Buchhave (1,7), B. Béky (1), D. D. Sasselov (1), R. P. Stefanik (1), G. Perumpilly (1,8), M. Everett (1), J. Lázár (9), I. Papp (9), P. Sári (9) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, (2) NSF Fellow, (3) Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary, (4) Yale University, New Haven, CT, (5) California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, (6) Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, (7) Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Denmark, (8) University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, (9) Hungarian Astronomical Association, Budapest)
arXiv:1008.3565v1
- Measuring the mass of solar system planets using pulsar timing.
D. J. Champion, G. B. Hobbs, R. N. Manchester, R. T. Edwards, D. C. Backer, M. Bailes, N. D. R. Bhat, S. Burke-Spolaor, W. Coles, P. B. Demorest, R. D. Ferdman, W. M. Folkner, A. W. Hotan, M. Kramer, A. N. Lommen, D. J. Nice, M. B. Purver, J. M. Sarkissian, I. H. Stairs, W. van Straten, J. P. W. Verbiest, D. R. B. Yardley
arXiv:1008.3607v1
- Design Concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array.
he CTA Consortium
arXiv:1008.3703v1
- Extremely metal-poor stars in classical dwarf spheroidal galaxies: Fornax, Sculptor and Sextans.
M. Tafelmeyer, P. Jablonka, V. Hill, M. Shetrone, E. Tolstoy, M.J. Irwin, G. Battaglia, A. Helmi, E. Starkenburg, K.A. Venn, T. Abel, P. Francois, A. Kaufer, P. North, F. Primas, T. Szeifert
arXiv:1008.3721v1
- The Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect of the Transiting Exoplanet XO-4b.
Norio Narita, Teruyuki Hirano, Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda, Joshua N. Winn, Matthew J. Holman, Bun'ei Sato, Wako Aoki, Motohide Tamura
arXiv:1008.3803v1
- Origins of the Thick Disk as Traced by the Alpha-Elements of Metal-Poor Giant Stars Selected from RAVE.
G. R. Ruchti, J. P. Fulbright, R. F. G. Wyse, G. F. Gilmore, O. Bienaymé, J. Binney, J. Bland-Hawthorn, R. Campbell, K. C. Freeman, B. K. Gibson, E. K. Grebel, A. Helmi, U. Munari, J. F. Navarro, Q. A. Parker, W. Reid, G. M. Seabroke, A. Siebert, A. Siviero, M. Steinmetz, F. G. Watson, M. Williams, T. Zwitter
arXiv:1008.3828v1
- The NIRSPEC Ultracool Dwarf Radial Velocity Survey.
Cullen H. Blake, David Charbonneau, Russel J. White
arXiv:1008.3874v1
- HAT-P-17b,c: A Transiting, Eccentric, Hot Saturn and a Long-period, Cold Jupiter.
A. W. Howard, G.Á. Bakos, J. Hartman, G. Torres, A. Shporer, T. Mazeh, Geza Kovacs, D. W. Latham, R. W. Noyes, D. A. Fischer, J. A. Johnson, G. W. Marcy, G. A. Esquerdo, B. Béky, R. P. Butler, D. D. Sasselov, R. P. Stefanik, G. Perumpilly, J. Lázár, I. Papp, P. Sári
arXiv:1008.3898v1
Other Papers:
- The inner structure and kinematics of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy as a
product of tidal stirring
arXiv:1008.3464
- Transformations in the Fall: The Birth of the Early-Type Galaxies
arXiv:1008.3386
- SEGUE-2 Limits on Metal-Rich Old-Population Hypervelocity Stars In the
Galactic Halo
arXiv:1008.2384
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