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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Thursday 2010 January 21
- Planet-planet scattering in planetesimal disks II: Predictions for outer extrasolar planetary systems.
Sean N. Raymond, Philip J. Armitage, Noel Gorelick
arXiv:1001.3409v1
- Optical Variability of Bright Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud Using 10 Years of ASAS Data.
D. M. Szczygiel, K. Z. Stanek, A. Z. Bonanos, G. Pojmanski, B. Pilecki, J. L. Prieto
arXiv:1001.3410v1
- Parallel HOP: A Scalable Halo Finder for Massive Cosmological Data Sets.
Stephen Skory (1), Matthew J. Turk (1), Michael L. Norman (1), Alison L. Coil (1) ((1) Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego)
arXiv:1001.3411v1
- A Deep HST Search for Escaping Lyman Continuum Flux at z~1.3: Evidence for an Evolving Ionizing Emissivity.
Brian Siana (1), Harry I Teplitz (2), Henry C. Ferguson (3), Thomas M. Brown (3), Mauro Giavalisco (4), Mark Dickinson (5), Ranga-Ram Chary (2), Duilia F. de Mello (6), Christopher J. Conselice (7), Carrie R. Bridge (8), Jonathan P. Gardner (8), James W. Colbert (2), Claudia Scarlata (2) ((1) Caltech, (2) SSC, (3) STScI, (4) UMass, (5) NOAO, (6) Catholic U, (7) Nottingham, (8) GSFC)
arXiv:1001.3412v1
- The H-alpha Variations of eta Carinae During the 2009.0 Spectroscopic Event.
N. D. Richardson, D. R. Gies, T. J. Henry, E. Fernandez-Lajus, A. T. Okazaki
arXiv:1001.3414v1
- A first direct measurement of the intergalactic medium temperature around a quasar at z=6.
James S. Bolton (Melbourne), George D. Becker (IoA/KICC), J. Stuart B. Wyithe (Melbourne), Martin G. Haehnelt (IoA/KICC), Wallace L.W. Sargent (Caltech)
arXiv:1001.3415v1
- On the evolution of a star cluster and its multiple stellar systems following gas dispersal.
Nickolas Moeckel, Matthew R. Bate
arXiv:1001.3417v1
- Observations of Transiting Hot Compact Objects.
Jason F. Rowe (NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, NASA Ames Research Center), William J. Borucki (NASA Ames Research Center), David Koch (NASA Ames Research Center), Steve B. Howell (National Optical Astronomy Observatory), Gibor Basri (University of California, Berkeley), Natalie Batalha (San Jose State University), Timothy M. Brown (Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope), Douglas Caldwell (SETI Institute), William D. Cochran (University of Texas), Edward Dunham (Lowell Observatory), Andrea K. Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Jonathan J. Fortney (University of California, Santa Cruz), Thomas N. Gautier III (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology), Ronald L. Gilliland (Space Telescope Science Institute), Jon Jenkins (SETI Institute), David W. Latham (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), et al. (5 additional authors not shown)
arXiv:1001.3420v1
- Imprints of dark energy on cosmic structure formation: II) Non-Universality of the halo mass function.
J. Courtin, Y. Rasera, J.-M. Alimi, P.-S. Corasaniti, V. Boucher, A. Fuzfa
arXiv:1001.3425v1
- The Rise and Fall of Type Ia Supernova Light Curves in the SDSS-II Supernova Survey.
Brian T. Hayden, Peter M. Garnavich, Richard Kessler, Joshua A. Frieman, Saurabh W. Jha, David Cinabro, Benjamin Dilday, Daniel Kasen, John Marriner, Robert C. Nichol, Adam G. Riess, Masao Sako, Donald P. Schneider, Mathew Smith, Jesper Sollerman, Bruce Bassett
arXiv:1001.3428v1
- Impact of baryon physics on dark matter structures: a detailed simulation study of halo density profiles.
Alan R. Duffy, Joop Schaye, Scott T. Kay, Claudio Dalla Vecchia, Richard A. Battye, C. M. Booth
arXiv:1001.3447v1
- Discovery of mHz X-ray Oscillations in a Transient Ultraluminous X-ray Source in M82.
Hua Feng (Tsinghua), Fengyun Rao (Tsinghua), Philip Kaaret (U. Iowa)
arXiv:1001.3456v1
- A statistical procedure for the identification of positrons in the PAMELA experiment.
O. Adriani, G. C. Barbarino, G. A. Bazilevskaya, R. Bellotti, M. Boezio, E. A. Bogomolov, L. Bonechi, M. Bongi, V. Bonvicini, S. Borisov, S. Bottai, A. Bruno, F. Cafagna, D. Campana, R. Carbone, P. Carlson, M. Casolino, G. Castellini, L. Consiglio, M. P. De Pascale, C. De Santis, N. De Simone, V. Di Felice, A. M. Galper, W. Gillard, L. Grishantseva, P. Hofverberg, G. Jerse, S. V. Koldashov, S. Y. Krutkov, A. N. Kvashnin, A. Leonov, V. Malvezzi, L. Marcelli, W. Menn, V. V. Mikhailov, E. Mocchiutti, A. Monaco, N. Mori, N. Nikonov, G. Osteria, P. Papini, M. Pearce, P. Picozza, M. Ricci, S. B. Ricciarini, L. Rossetto, M. Simon, R. Sparvoli, P. Spillantini, Y. I. Stozhkov, A. Vacchi, E. Vannuccini, G. Vasilyev, S. A. Voronov, J. Wu, Y. T. Yurkin, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, V. G. Zverev, D. Marinucci
arXiv:1001.3522v1
- Discovery of the first wide L dwarf + giant binary system and eight other ultra-cool dwarfs in wide binaries.
Z.H. Zhang, D. J. Pinfield, A. C. Day-Jones, B. Burningham, H. R. A. Jones, S. Yu, J. S. Jenkins, Z. Han, M. C. Galvez-Ortiz, J. Gallardo, A. E. Garcia Perez, D. Weights, C. G. Tinney, R. S. Pokorny
arXiv:1001.3609v1
- Atmospheric Chemistry in Giant Planets, Brown Dwarfs, and Low-Mass Dwarf Stars III. Iron, Magnesium, and Silicon.
Channon Visscher, Katharina Lodders, Bruce Fegley Jr
arXiv:1001.3639v1
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