The Daily Brew
Selected astro-ph abstracts for Monday 2012 August 6
- The Derivation, Properties and Value of Kepler's Combined Differential Photometric Precision.
Jessie L. Christiansen, Jon M. Jenkins, Thomas S. Barclay, Christopher J. Burke, Douglas A. Caldwell, Bruce D. Clarke, Jie Li, Shawn Seader, Jeffrey C. Smith, Martin C. Stumpe, Peter Tenenbaum, Susan E. Thompson, Joseph D. Twicken, Jeffrey Van Cleve
arXiv:1208.0595v1
- Weighing the Giants I: Weak Lensing Masses for 51 Massive Galaxy Clusters - Project Overview, Data Analysis Methods, and Cluster Images.
Anja von der Linden (1), Mark T. Allen (1), Douglas E. Applegate (1), Patrick L. Kelly (1), Steven W. Allen (1), Harald Ebeling (2), Patricia R. Burchat (1), David L. Burke (1), David Donovan (2), R. Glenn Morris (1), Roger Blandford (1), Thomas Erben (3), Adam Mantz (4) ((1) KIPAC Stanford/SLAC, (2) IfA Hawaii, (3) AIfA Bonn, (4) KICP Chicago)
arXiv:1208.0597v1
- The G305 star-forming complex: Embedded Massive Star Formation Discovered by Herschel Hi-GAL.
A. Faimali, M. A. Thompson, L. Hindson, J. S. Urquhart, M. Pestalozzi, S. Carey, S. Shenoy, M. Veneziani, S. Molinari, J. S. Clark
arXiv:1208.0599v1
- Weighing the Giants II: Improved Calibration of Photometry from Stellar Colors and Accurate Photometric Redshifts.
Patrick L. Kelly (1), Anja von der Linden (1), Douglas E. Applegate (1), Mark T. Allen (1), Steven W. Allen (1), Patricia R. Burchat (1), David L. Burke (1), Harald Ebeling (2), Peter Capak (3), Oliver Czoske (4), David Donovan (2), Adam Mantz (5), R. Glenn Morris (1) ((1) KIPAC Stanford/SLAC, (2) IfA Hawaii, (3) Caltech, (4) IfA Vienna, (5) KICP Chicago)
arXiv:1208.0602v1
- A Bayesian algorithm for model selection applied to caustic-crossing binary-lens microlensing events.
N. Kains, P. Browne, K. Horne, M. Hundertmark, A. Cassan
arXiv:1208.0604v1
- Weighing the Giants III: Methods and Measurements of Accurate Galaxy Cluster Weak-Lensing Masses.
Douglas E. Applegate (1), Anja von der Linden (1), Patrick L. Kelly (1), Mark T. Allen (1), Steven W. Allen (1), Patricia R. Burchat (1), David L. Burke (1), Harald Ebeling (2), Adam Mantz (3), R. Glenn Morris (1) ((1) KIPAC Stanford/SLAC, (2) IfA Hawaii, (3) KICP Chicago)
arXiv:1208.0605v1
- The Canadian Cluster Comparison Project: weak lensing masses and SZ scaling relations.
Henk Hoekstra, Andisheh Mahdavi, Arif Babul, Chris Bildfell
arXiv:1208.0606v1
- A UV Ultra-luminous Lyman Break Galaxy at Z=2.78 in NDWFS Bootes Field.
Fuyan Bian (1), Xiaohui Fan (1), Linhua Jiang (1), Arjun Dey (2), Richard F. Green (3), Roberto Maiolino (4), Fabian Walter (5), Ian McGreer (1), Ran Wang (1), Yen-Ting Lin (6) ((1) Steward Observatory, (2) NOAO, (3) LBTO, (4) Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, (5) MPIA, (6) Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
arXiv:1208.0607v1
- The role of stellar mass and environment for cluster blue fraction, AGN fraction and star-formation indicators from a targeted analysis of Abell 1691.
Kevin A. Pimbblet, Peter C. Jensen
arXiv:1208.0667v1
- Constraints on Cosmic Rays, Magnetic Fields, and Dark Matter from Gamma-Ray Observations of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies with VERITAS and Fermi.
he Veritas Collaboration with C. Pfrommer, A. Pinzke : T. Arlen, T. Aune, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, A. Bouvier, J. H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, K. Byrum, A. Cannon, A. Cesarini, L. Ciupik, E. Collins-Hughes, M. P. Connolly, W. Cui, R. Dickherber, J. Dumm, A. Falcone, S. Federici, Q. Feng, J. P. Finley, G. Finnegan, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, N. Galante, D. Gall, S. Godambe, S. Griffin, J. Grube, G. Gyuk, J. Holder, H. Huan, G. Hughes, T. B. Humensky, A. Imran, P. Kaaret, N. Karlsson, M. Kertzman, Y. Khassen, D. Kieda, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, K. Lee, A. S Madhavan, G. Maier, P. Majumdar, S. McArthur, A. McCann, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, T. Nelson, A. O'Faoláin de Bhróithe, R. A. Ong, M. Orr, A. N. Otte, N. Park, J. S. Perkins, M. Pohl, H. Prokoph, J. Quinn, K. Ragan, L. C. Reyes,et al. (21 additional authors not shown)
arXiv:1208.0676v1
- New determination of the 13C(a, n)16O reaction rate and its influence on the s-process nucleosynthesis in AGB stars.
B. Guo, Z. H. Li, M. Lugaro, J. Buntain, D. Y. Pang, Y. J. Li, J. Su, S. Q. Yan, X. X. Bai, Y. S. Chen, Q. W. Fan, S. J. Jin, A. I. Karakas, E. T. Li, Z. C. Li, G. Lian, J. C. Liu, X. Liu, J. R. Shi, N. C. Shu, B. X. Wang, Y. B. Wang, S. Zeng, W. P. Liu
arXiv:1208.0714v1
- Do R Coronae Borealis Stars Form from Double White Dwarf Mergers?.
Jan. E. Staff, Athira Menon, Falk Herwig, Wesley Even, Chris L. Fryer, Patrick M. Motl, Tom Geballe, Marco Pignatari, Geoffrey C. Clayton, Joel E. Tohline
arXiv:1208.0732v1
- Optical Monitoring of the Broad-Line Radio Galaxy 3C390.3.
Matthias Dietrich, Bradley M. Peterson, Catherine J. Grier, Misty C. Bentz, Jason Eastman, Stephan Frank, Raymond Gonzalez, Jennifer L. Marshall, Darren L. DePoy, Jose L. Prieto
arXiv:1208.0781v1
- Dynamical evolution and spin-orbit resonances of potentially habitable exoplanets. The case of GJ 581d.
Valeri V. Makarov, Ciprian Berghea, Michael Efroimsky
arXiv:1208.0814v1
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