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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Friday 2010 August 27
- Displaying the Heterogeneity of the SN 2002cx-like Subclass of Type Ia Supernovae with Observations of the Pan-STARRS-1 Discovered SN2009ku.
G. Narayan, R. J. Foley, E. Berger, M. T. Botticella, R. Chornock, M. E. Huber, A. Rest, D. Scolnic, S. Smartt, A. M. Soderberg, W. S. Burgett, K. C. Chambers, G. Gates, T. Grav, N. Kaiser, R. P. Kirshner, E. A. Magnier, J .S. Morgan, P. A. Price, A. G. Riess, C. W. Stubbs, W. E. Sweeney, J. L. Tonry, R. J. Wainscoat, W. M. Wood-Vasey
arXiv:1008.4353v1
- The Spectral Energy Distribution of Post-Starburst Galaxies in the NEWFIRM Medium-Band Survey: A Low Contribution from TP-AGB Stars.
Mariska Kriek, Ivo Labbe, Charlie Conroy, Katherine Whitaker, Pieter van Dokkum, Gabriel Brammer, Marijn Franx, Garth Illingworth, Danilo Marchesini, Adam Muzzin, Ryan Quadri, Gregory Rudnick
arXiv:1008.4357v1
- Constraining the low-mass end of the Initial Mass Function with Gravitational Lensing.
Ignacio Ferreras (1), Prasenjit Saha (2), Dominik Leier (3), Frederic Courbin (4), Emilio E. Falco (5) ((1) MSSL/UCL, (2) Zurich, (3) ARI/Heidelberg, (4) EPFL/Lausanne, (5) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
arXiv:1008.4363v1
- Detailed abundances of Red Giants in the Globular Cluster NGC~1851: C+N+O and the Origin of Multiple Populations.
Sandro Villanova, Douglas Geisler, Giampaolo Piotto
arXiv:1008.4372v1
- Modeling Kepler transit light curves as false positives: Rejection of blend scenarios for KOI-377, and strong evidence for a super-Earth-size planet in a multiple system.
Guillermo Torres (1), François Fressin (1), Natalie M. Batalha (2), William J. Borucki (3), Timothy M. Brown (4), Stephen T. Bryson (3), Lars A. Buchhave (5), David Charbonneau (1), David R. Ciardi (6), Edward W. Dunham (7), Daniel C. Fabrycky (1), Eric B. Ford (8), Thomas N. Gautier III (9), Ronald L. Gilliland (10), Matthew J. Holman (1), Steve B. Howell (11), Howard Isaacson (12), Jon M. Jenkins (13), David G. Koch (3), David W. Latham (1), Jack J. Lissauer (3), Geoffrey W. Marcy (14), David G. Monet (15), Andrej Prsa (16), Darin Ragozzine (1), Jason F. Rowe (3,17), Dimitar D. Sasselov (1) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (2) San Jose State University, (3) NASA Ames Research Center, (4) Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope, (5) Niels Bohr Institute, (6) NASA Exoplanet Science Institute/Caltech, (7) Lowell Observatory, (8) University of Florida, (9) Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, (10) Space Telescope Science Institute, (11) National Optical Astronomy Observatory, (12) San Francisco State University, (13) SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center, (14) University of California - Berkeley, (15) US Naval Observatory, (16) Villanova University, (17) NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow)
arXiv:1008.4393v1
- Simulations of galaxy formation with radiative transfer: Hydrogen reionisation and radiative feedback.
Margarita Petkova, Volker Springel
arXiv:1008.4459v1
- Incidence of MgII absorbers towards Blazars and the GRB/QSO puzzle.
Jacqueline Bergeron (1), Patrick Boissé (1), Brice Ménard (2) ((1) Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, (2) CITA)
arXiv:1008.4468v1
- Direct detection of a substellar companion to the young nearby star PZ Telescopii.
M. Mugrauer, N. Vogt, R. Neuhhäuser, T.O.B. Schmidt
arXiv:1008.4506v1
- Circumventing the radiation pressure barrier in the formation of massive stars via disk accretion.
Rolf Kuiper, Hubert Klahr, Henrik Beuther, Thomas Henning
arXiv:1008.4516v1
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