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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Monday 2010 August 30
- Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Extrasolar Planet HR 8799 b.
Brendan P. Bowler, Michael C. Liu, Trent J. Dupuy, Michael C. Cushing
arXiv:1008.4582v1
- A Halo Model with Environment Dependence: Theoretical Considerations.
Héctor Gil-Marín, Raul Jimenez, Licia Verde
arXiv:1008.4583v1
- A Complete Spectroscopic Survey of the Milky Way satellite Segue 1: Dark matter content, stellar membership and binary properties from a Bayesian analysis.
Gregory D. Martinez, Quinn E. Minor, James Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat, Joshua D. Simon, Marla Geha
arXiv:1008.4585v1
- A Theory of Mulicolor Black Body Emission from Relativistically Expanding Plasmas.
Asaf Pe'er, Felix Ryde
arXiv:1008.4590v1
- The HARPS search for southern extrasolar planets. XXIII. 8 planetary companions to low-activity solar-type stars.
Dominique Naef, Michel Mayor, Gaspare Lo Curto, Francois Bouchy, Christophe Lovis, Claire Moutou, Willy Benz, Francesco Pepe, Didier Queloz, Nuno C. Santos, Damien Segransan, Stephane Udry, Xavier Bonfils, Xavier Delfosse, Thierry Forveille, Guillaume Hebrard, Christoph Mordasini, Christian Perrier, Isabelle Boisse, Danuta Sosnowska
arXiv:1008.4600v1
- A Local Baseline of the Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Active Galaxies. I. Methodology and Results of Pilot Study.
Vardha Nicola Bennert (1), Matthew W. Auger (1), Tommaso Treu (1), Jong-Hak Woo (2), Matthew A. Malkan (3) ((1) UCSB, (2) Seoul National University, (3) UCLA)
arXiv:1008.4602v1
- Constraints on Quasar Lifetimes and Beaming from the HeII Lyman-alpha Forest.
Steven Furlanetto (UCLA), Adam Lidz (Penn)
arXiv:1008.4609v1
- Astrophysical Supercomputing with GPUs: Critical Decisions for Early Adopters.
Christopher J. Fluke (1), David G. Barnes (1), Benjamin R. Barsdell (1), Amr H. Hassan (1) ((1) Swinburne University of Technology)
arXiv:1008.4623v1
- Secular Aberration Drift and IAU Definition of ICRS.
Oleg Titov
arXiv:1008.4634v1
- Understanding Physical Conditions in High Redshift Galaxies through C I Fine Structure Lines: Data and Methodology.
Regina A. Jorgenson (1), Arthur M. Wolfe (2), J. Xavier Prochaska (3) ((1) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, (2) UC San Diego, (3) UC Santa Cruz)
arXiv:1008.4676v1
- Data analysis recipes: Fitting a model to data.
David W. Hogg (NYU, MPIA), Jo Bovy (NYU), Dustin Lang (Toronto, Princeton)
arXiv:1008.4686v1
- Primordial Nucleosynthesis: The Predicted and Observed Abundances and Their Consequences.
Gary Steigman
arXiv:1008.4765v1
- Spectral evolution of Fermi/GBM short Gamma-Ray Bursts.
G. Ghirlanda (1), G. Ghisellini (1), L. Nava (2), D. Burlon (3) ((1) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, (2) SISSA/ISAS - Trieste, (3) MPE - Garching)
arXiv:1008.4767v1
- STIS Spectroscopy of the Central 14 pc of NGC 3998: Evidence for an Inflow.
Nick Devereux
arXiv:1008.4775v1
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