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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Tuesday 2010 August 31
- GTC OSIRIS Transiting Exoplanet Atmospheric Survey: Detection of potassium in XO-2b from spectrophotometry.
D. K. Sing, J.-M. Desert, J. J. Fortney, A. Lecavelier des Etangs, G. E. Ballester, J. Cepa, D. Ehrenreich, M. Lopez-Morales, F. Pont, M. Shabram, A. Vidal-Madjar
arXiv:1008.4795v1
- Single or Double Degenerate Progenitors? Searching for Shock Emission in the SDSS-II Type Ia Supernovae.
Brian T. Hayden, Peter M. Garnavich, Daniel Kasen, Benjamin Dilday, Joshua A. Frieman, Saurabh W. Jha, Hubert Lampeitl, Robert C. Nichol, Masao Sako, Donald P. Schneider, Mathew Smith, Jesper Sollerman, J. Craig Wheeler
arXiv:1008.4797v1
- Gas expulsion by quasar-driven winds as a solution to the over-cooling problem in galaxy groups and clusters.
Ian G. McCarthy, Joop Schaye, Richard G. Bower, Trevor J. Ponman, Craig M. Booth, Claudio Dalla Vecchia, Volker Springel
arXiv:1008.4799v1
- Probing potassium in the atmosphere of HD 80606b with tunable filter transit spectrophotometry from the Gran Telescopio Canarias.
Knicole D. Colon (University of Florida), Eric B. Ford (University of Florida), Seth Redfield (Wesleyan University), Jonathan J. Fortney (University of California, Santa Cruz), Megan Shabram (University of California, Santa Cruz), Hans J. Deeg (IAC, Universidad de La Laguna), Suvrath Mahadevan (Pennsylvania State University)
arXiv:1008.4800v1
- Cosmological Constraints from Strong Gravitational Lensing in Galaxy Clusters.
Eric Jullo, Priyamvada Natarajan, Jean-Paul Kneib, Anson d'Aloisio, Marceau Limousin, Johan Richard, Carlo Schimd
arXiv:1008.4802v1
- Group-finding with photometric redshifts: The Photo-z Probability Peaks algorithm.
Bryan Gillis, Michael J. Hudson
arXiv:1008.4827v1
- Spitzer Space Telescope Constraint on the Stellar Mass of a z = 6.96 Lyman Alpha Emitter.
Kazuaki Ota, Chun Ly, Matthew A. Malkan, Kentaro Motohara, Masao Hayashi, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Tomoki Morokuma, Masanori Iye, Nobunari Kashikawa, Takashi Hattori
arXiv:1008.4837v1
- Lyman Alpha Emitters at z=7 in the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey Field: Photometric Candidates and Luminosity Function.
Kazuaki Ota, Masanori Iye, Nobunari Kashikawa, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Masami Ouchi, Tomonori Totani, Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi, Masahiro Nagashima, Atsushi Harayama, Natsuki Kodaka, Tomoki Morokuma, Hisanori Furusawa, Akito Tajitsu, Takashi Hattori
arXiv:1008.4842v1
- The Astronomical, Astrobiological and Planetary Science Case for Interstellar Spaceflight.
Ian A. Crawford
arXiv:1008.4893v1
- The Effect of Environment on Massive Star Formation.
Rowan J Smith, Paul C. Clark, Simon C. O. Glover, Ian A. Bonnell, Ralf S. Klessen
arXiv:1008.4932v1
- Small simple impact craters.
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
arXiv:1008.5011v1
- Galaxy Motions, Turbulence and Conduction in Clusters of Galaxies.
M. Ruszkowski (Michigan), S. Peng Oh (UCSB)
arXiv:1008.5016v1
- Could the planets around HR 8799 be brown dwarfs?.
Amaya Moro-Martin, George H. Rieke, Kate Y. L. Su
arXiv:1008.5021v1
- Chandra and XMM-Newton view of the Warm Absorbing Gas in Mrk 290.
Shuinai Zhang, Li Ji, Herman L. Marshall, Anna Lia Longinotti, Dan Evans, Qiusheng Gu
arXiv:1008.5079v1
- Proto-Magnetars as GRB Central Engines: Uncertainties, Limitations, and Particulars.
Todd A. Thompson, Brian D. Metzger, Niccolò Bucciantini
arXiv:1008.5138v1
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