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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Monday 2010 January 18
- Disentangling the morpho-kinematic properties of a face-on meger at z~0.7.
Isaura Fuentes-Carrera (1,2), Hector Flores (1), Yanbin Yang (1,3), Sebastien Peirani (4), Francois Hammer (1), Myriam Rodrigues (1,5), Chantal Balkowski (1) ((1) GEPI, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon (France), (2) ESFM-IPN (Mexico), (3) NAO (China), (4) IAP (France), (5) CENTRA (Portugal))
arXiv:1001.2564v1
- The Mysterious Merger of NGC6868 and NGC6861 in the Telescopium Group.
M. E. Machacek (1), E. O'Sullivan (1 and 2), S.W. Randall (1), C. Jones (1), W. R. Forman (1) ((1) CfA, (2) Univ. of Birmingham)
arXiv:1001.2567v1
- Probing the Inner Jet of the Quasar PKS 1510-089 with Multi-waveband Monitoring during Strong Gamma-ray Activity.
Alan P. Marscher, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Valeri M. Larionov, Margo F. Aller, Hugh D. Aller, Anne Lähteenmäki, Iván Agudo, Paul S. Smith, Mark Gurwell, Vladimir A. Hagen-Thorn, Tatiana S. Konstantinova, Elena G. Larionova, Liudmilla V. Larionova, Daria A. Melnichuk, Dmitry A. Blinov, Evgenia N. Kopatskaya, Ivan S. Troitsky, Merja Tornikoski, Talvikki Hovatta, Gary D. Schmidt, Francesca D. D'Arcangelo, Dipesh Bhattarai, Brian Taylor, Alice R. Olmstead, Emily Manne-Nicholas, Mar Roca-Sogorb, José L. Gómez, Ian M. McHardy, Omar Kurtanidze, Maria G. Nikolashvili, Givi N. Kimeridze, Lorand A. Sigua
arXiv:1001.2574v1
- Discovery of Variability in the Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission of 1ES 1218+304 with VERITAS.
he VERITAS Collaboration : V. A. Acciari, E. Aliu, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, D. Boltuch, M. Böttcher, S. M. Bradbury, V. Bugaev, K. Byrum, A. Cesarini, L. Ciupik, P. Cogan, W. Cui, R. Dickherber, C. Duke, A. Falcone, J. P. Finley, G. Finnegan, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, N. Galante, D. Gall, K. Gibbs, R. Guenette, G. H. Gillanders, S. Godambe, J. Grube, D. Hanna, C. M. Hui, T. B. Humensky, A. Imran, P. Kaaret, N. Karlsson, M. Kertzman, D. Kieda, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, M. J. Lang, S. LeBohec, G. Maier, S. McArthur, A. McCann, P. Moriarty, T. Nagai, R. A. Ong, A. N. Otte, D. Pandel, J. S. Perkins, A. Pichel, M. Pohl, J. Quinn, K. Ragan, L. C. Reyes, P. T. Reynolds, E. Roache, H. J. Rose, M. Schroedter, G. H. Sembroski, A. W. Smith, D. Steele, S. P. Swordy, M. Theiling, S. Thibadeau, V. V. Vassiliev,et al. (6 additional authors not shown)
arXiv:1001.2590v1
- The Survival of Water within Extrasolar Minor Planets.
M. Jura, S. Xu (UCLA)
arXiv:1001.2595v2
- Planetesimal Accretion in Binary Systems: Could Planets Form Around Alpha Centauri B ?.
Ji-Wei Xie, Ji-Lin Zhou, Jian Ge
arXiv:1001.2614v1
- Stellar Mass Estimation Based on IRAC Photometry for Spitzer SWIRE-field Galaxies.
Yi-Nan Zhu, Hong Wu, Hai-Ning Li, Chen Cao
arXiv:1001.2627v1
- The Shapes of BCGs and normal Ellipticals in Nearby Clusters.
G. Fasano (1), D. Bettoni (1), B. Ascaso (2,5), G. Tormen (3), B.M. Poggianti (1), T. Valentinuzzi (3), M. D'Onofrio (3), J. Fritz (1), A. Moretti (1), A. Omizzolo (1,9), A. Cava (4,1), M. Moles (5), A. Dressler (6), W.J. Couch (7), P. Kjaergaard (8), ((1) INAF-OA Padova,(2) Dept. of Physics, Univ. of California, (3) Dip. Astron. Univ. Padova, (4) IAC Spain, (5) IAA Spain, (6) Carnegie Institution of Washington, (7) Swinburne University, Australia, (8) Copenhagen University Observatory)
arXiv:1001.2701v1
- XMM-Newton unveils the complex iron K alpha region of Mrk 279.
E. Costantini (1), J.S. Kaastra (1 and 2), K. Korista (3), J. Ebrero (1), N. Arav (4), G. Kriss (5), K.C. Steenbrugge (6) ((1) SRON, (2) Utrecht University, (3) WMU, (4) VT, (5) STSci, (6) Oxford University)
arXiv:1001.2712v1
- ULAS J141623.94$ + $134836.3 - a faint common proper motion companion of a nearby L dwarf. Serendipitous discovery of a Y dwarf candidate in UKIDSS DR6.
R.-D. Scholz
arXiv:1001.2743v1
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