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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Tuesday 2011 December 13
- Light echoes reveal an unexpectedly cool Eta Carinae during its 19th-century Great Eruption.
A. Rest, J. L. Prieto, N. R. Walborn, N. Smith, F. B. Bianco, R. Chornock, D. L. Welch, D. A. Howell, M. E. Huber, R. J. Foley, W. Fong, B. Sinnott, H. E. Bond, R. C. Smith, I. Toledo, D. Minniti, K. Mandel
arXiv:1112.2210v1
- Time-Series Photometry of Stars in and around the Lagoon Nebula. I. Rotation Periods of 290 Low-Mass Pre-Main-Sequence Stars in NGC 6530.
Calen B. Henderson, Keivan G. Stassun
arXiv:1112.2211v1
- The Metallicity Distribution Functions of SEGUE G and K dwarfs: Constraints for Disk Chemical Evolution and Formation.
Katharine J. Schlesinger, Jennifer A. Johnson, Constance M. Rockosi, Young Sun Lee, Heather L. Morrison, Ralph Schoenrich, Carlos Allende Prieto, Timothy C. Beers, Brian Yanny, Paul Harding, Donald P. Schneider, Cristina Chiappini, Luiz N. da Costa, Marcio A.G. Maia, Ivan Minchev, Helio Rocha-Pinto, Basilio X. Santiago
arXiv:1112.2214v1
- The Origin of Disks and Spheroids in Simulated Galaxies.
Laura V. Sales, Julio F. Navarro, Tom Theuns, Joop Schaye, Simon D. M. White, Carlos S. Frenk, Robert A. Crain, Claudio Dalla Vecchia
arXiv:1112.2220v1
- Nonlinear pulsations of red supergiants.
Yuri A. Fadeyev
arXiv:1112.2365v1
- A pre-Caloris synchronous rotation for Mercury.
Mark A. Wieczorek, Alexandre C. M. Correia, Mathieu Le Feuvre, Jacques Laskar, Nicolas Rambaux
arXiv:1112.2384v1
- The faint " heartbeats " of IGR J17091-3624: an exceptional black-hole candidate.
D. Altamirano, T. Belloni, M. Linares, M. van der Klis, R. Wijnands, P. A. Curran, M. Kalamkar, H. Stiele, S. Motta, T. Munoz-Darias, P. Casella, H. Krimm
arXiv:1112.2393v1
- Stellar metallicity of star-forming galaxies at z ~ 3.
Veronica Sommariva, Filippo Mannucci, Giovanni Cresci, Roberto Maiolino, Alessandro Marconi, Tohru Nagao, Andrea Baroni, Andrea Grazian
arXiv:1112.2403v1
- Spectrum and mass composition of cosmic rays in the energy range 10^15-10^18 eV derived from the Yakutsk array data.
S. P. Knurenko, A. Sabourov
arXiv:1112.2430v1
- Feeding compact bulges and supermassive black holes with low angular-momentum cosmic gas at high redshift.
Yohan Dubois, Christophe Pichon, Martin Haehnelt, Taysun Kimm, Adrianne Slyz, Julien Devriendt, Dmitry Pogosyan
arXiv:1112.2479v1
- Fermi/LAT observations of 1ES 0229+200: implications for extragalactic magnetic fields and background light.
Ievgen Vovk, Andrew M. Taylor, Dmitri Semikoz, Andrii Neronov
arXiv:1112.2534v1
- The Timing of Nine Globular Cluster Pulsars.
Ryan S. Lynch, Paulo C. C. Freire, Scott M. Ransom, Bryan A. Jacoby
arXiv:1112.2612v1
- Intense Electromagnetic Outbursts from Collapsing Hypermassive Neutron Stars.
Luis Lehner, Carlos Palenzuela, Steven L. Liebling, Christopher Thompson, Chad Hanna
arXiv:1112.2622v1
- First Results from Z-FOURGE: Discovery of a Candidate Cluster at z = 2.2 in COSMOS.
Lee R. Spitler, Ivo Labbé, Karl Glazebrook, S. Eric Persson, Andy Monson, Casey Papovich, Kim-Vy H. Tran, Greg B. Poole, Ryan Quadri, Pieter van Dokkum, Daniel D. Kelson, Glenn G. Kacprzak, Patrick J. McCarthy, David Murphy, Caroline Straatman, Vithal Tilvi
arXiv:1112.2691v1
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