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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Tuesday 2011 March 15
- Observational evidence for a metal rich atmosphere on the super-Earth GJ1214b.
Jean-Michel Désert, Jacob Bean, Eliza Miller-Ricci Kempton, Zachory K. Berta, David Charbonneau, Jonathan Irwin, Jonathan J. Fortney, Christopher J. Burke, Philip Nutzman
arXiv:1103.2370v1
- The formation of the eccentric-orbit millisecond pulsar J1903+0327 and the origin of single millisecond pulsars.
Simon Portegies Zwart (Leiden Observatory), Ed van den Heuvel (UvA), Joeri van Leeuwen (ASTRON), Gijs Nelemans (Radboud University)
arXiv:1103.2375v1
- Confronting the models of 3:2 quasiperiodic oscillations with the rapid spin of the microquasar GRS 1915+105.
Gabriel Torok, Andrea Kotrlova, Eva Sramkova, Zdenek Stuchlik
arXiv:1103.2438v1
- AKARI Detections of Hot Dust in Luminous Infrared Galaxies.
S. Oyabu (1), D. Ishihara (1), M. Malkan (2), H. Matsuhara (3), T. Wada (3), T. Nakagawa (3), Y. Ohyama (4), Y. Toba (3,5), T. Onaka (6), S. Takita (3,5), H. Kataza (3), I. Yamamura (3), M. Shirahata (3) ((1) Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, (2) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, (3) Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, (4) Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, (5) Department of Space and Astronautical Science, the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), (6) Department of Astronomy, University of Tokyo)
arXiv:1103.2453v1
- A New Concept for Direct Imaging and Spectral Characterization of Exoplanets in Multi-planet Systems.
Taro Matsuo, Wesley A. Traub, Makoto Hattori, Motohide Tamura
arXiv:1103.2535v1
- Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-type Stars from Kepler.
Andrew W. Howard, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Stephen T. Bryson, Jon M. Jenkins, Jason F. Rowe, Natalie M. Batalha, William J. Borucki, David G. Koch, Edward W. Dunham, Thomas N. Gautier III, Jeffrey Van Cleve, William D. Cochran, David W. Latham, Jack J. Lissauer, Guillermo Torres, Timothy M. Brown, Ronald L. Gilliland, Lars A. Buchhave, Douglas A. Caldwell, Jorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, David Ciardi, Francois Fressin, Michael R. Haas, Steve B. Howell, Hans Kjeldsen, Sara Seager, Leslie Rogers, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Jason H. Steffen, Gibor S. Basri, David Charbonneau, Jessie Christiansen, Bruce Clarke, Andrea Dupree, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Debra A. Fischer, Eric B. Ford, Jonathan J. Fortney, Jill Tarter, Forrest R. Girouard, Matthew J. Holman, John Asher Johnson, Todd C. Klaus, Pavel Machalek, Althea V. Moorhead,et al. (17 additional authors not shown)
arXiv:1103.2541v1
- The Population of High Redshift AGNs in the Chandra COSMOS survey.
F. Civano (1), M. Brusa (2), A. Comastri (3), M. Elvis (1), M. Salvato (4), G. Zamorani (3), P. Capak (5), F. Fiore (6), R. Gilli (3), H. Hao (1), H. Ikeda (7), Y. Kakazu (5), J. S. Kartaltepe (8), D. Masters (5,9), T. Miyaji (10), M. Mignoli (3), S. Puccetti (11), F. Shankar (12), J. Silverman (13), C. Vignali (14), A. Zezas (1,15) ((1) Harvard Smithsonian Center for astrophysics, (2) Max Planck Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, (3) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, (4) Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, (5) California Institute of Technology, (6) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, (7) Ehime University, Japan, (8) Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, (9) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Riverside, (10) Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico-Ensenada, (11) ASI Science Data Center, (12) Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik, Garching, (13) Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), (14) Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita' di Bologna, (15) Physics Department, University of Crete)
arXiv:1103.2570v1
- High resolution elemental abundance analysis of the Hyades Supercluster.
G.M. De Silva, K.C. Freeman, J. Bland-Hawthorn, M. Asplund, M. Williams, J. Holmberg
arXiv:1103.2588v1
- WASP-23b: a transiting hot Jupiter around a K dwarf and its Rossiter-McLaughlin effect.
Amaury H.M.J. Triaud, Didier Queloz, Coel Hellier, Michael Gillon, Barry Smalley, Leslie Hebb, Andrew Collier Cameron, David Anderson, Isabelle Boisse, Guillaume Hebrard, Emmanuel Jehin, Tim Lister, Christophe Lovis, Pierre F.L. Maxted, Francesco Pepe, Don Pollacco, Damien Segransan, Elaine Simpson, Stephane Udry, Richard West
arXiv:1103.2603v1
- Prospects for a Dark Matter annihilation signal towards the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy with ground based Cherenkov telescopes.
A. Viana, C.M. Medina, J. Peñarrubia, P. Brun, J.F. Glicenstein, K. Kosack, E. Moulin, M. Naumann-Godo, B. Peyaud
arXiv:1103.2627v1
- The Angular Diameter and Effective Temperature of the Lithium-Rich K Giant HD 148293 from the CHARA Array.
Ellyn K. Baines, Harold A. McAlister, Theo A. ten Brummelaar, Nils H. Turner, Judit Sturmann, Laszlo Sturmann, P. J. Goldfinger, Christopher D. Farrington, Stephen T. Ridgway
arXiv:1103.2742v1
- Five New and Three Improved Mutual Orbits of Transneptunian Binaries.
W.M. Grundy, K.S. Noll, F. Nimmo, H.G. Roe, M.W. Buie, S.B. Porter, S.D. Benecchi, D.C. Stephens, H.F. Levison, J.A. Stansberry
arXiv:1103.2751v1
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