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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Wednesday 2012 June 13
- Hydrodynamical Simulations to Determine the Feeding Rate of Black Holes by the Tidal Disruption of Stars: The Importance of the Impact Parameter and Stellar Structure.
James Guillochon (1), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (1) ((1) UC Santa Cruz)
arXiv:1206.2350v1
- Magnetic Braking Formulation for Sun-Like Stars: Dependence on Dipole Field Strength and Rotation Rate.
Sean P. Matt (1), Keith B. MacGregor (2), Marc H. Pinsonneault (3), Thomas P. Greene (4) ((1) CEA Saclay, France, (2) HAO/NCAR, (3) Ohio State University, (4) NASA Ames Research Center)
arXiv:1206.2354v1
- A complete sample of bright Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts: X-ray afterglow luminosity and its correlation with the prompt emission.
P. D'Avanzo, R. Salvaterra, B. Sbarufatti, L. Nava, A. Melandri, M. G. Bernardini, S. Campana, S. Covino, D. Fugazza, G. Ghirlanda, G. Ghisellini, V. La Parola, M. Perri, S. D. Vergani, G. Tagliaferri
arXiv:1206.2357v1
- Dark satellites and the morphology of dwarf galaxies.
Amina Helmi, L. V. Sales, E. Starkenburg, T. K. Starkenburg, C. A. Vera-Ciro, G. De Lucia, Y.-S. Li
arXiv:1206.2359v1
- Newborn spheroids at high redshift: when and how did the dominant, old stars in today's massive galaxies form?.
S. Kaviraj, S. Cohen, R. S. Ellis, S. Peirani, R. A. Windhorst, R. W. O'Connell, J. Silk, B. C. Whitmore, N. P. Hathi, R. E. Ryan Jr, M. A. Dopita, J. A. Frogel, A. Dekel
arXiv:1206.2360v1
- Pre-main-sequence isochrones -- I. The Pleiades benchmark.
Cameron P. M. Bell, Tim Naylor, N. J. Mayne, R. D. Jeffries, S. P. Littlefair
arXiv:1206.2361v1
- Herschel imaging of 61 Vir: implications for the prevalence of debris in low-mass planetary systems.
M. C. Wyatt, G. Kennedy, B. Sibthorpe, A. Moro-Martin, J.-F. Lestrade, R. J. Ivison, B. Matthews, S. Udry, J. S. Greaves, P. Kalas, S. Lawler, K. Y. L. Su, G. H. Rieke, G. Bryden, J. Horner, J. J. Kavelaars, D. Wilner
arXiv:1206.2370v1
- On the astrophysical robustness of neutron star merger r-process.
O. Korobkin, S. Rosswog, A. Arcones, C. Winteler
arXiv:1206.2379v1
- Evolutionary trajectories of ultra-compact "black widow" pulsars with very low mass companions.
O. G. Benvenuto, M. A. De Vito, J. E. Horvath
arXiv:1206.2389v1
- Discovery of New Faint Northern Galactic Planetary Nebulae.
Agnes Acker, Henri M. J. Boffin, Nicolas Outters, Brent Miszalski, Laurence Sabin, Pascal Le Du, Filipe Alves
arXiv:1206.2477v1
- Explosion Mechanisms of Core-Collapse Supernovae.
H.-Thomas Janka (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching)
arXiv:1206.2503v1
- Constraining Very Heavy Dark Matter Using Diffuse Backgrounds of Neutrinos and Cascaded Gamma Rays.
Kohta Murase, John F. Beacom
arXiv:1206.2595v1
- A spectroscopic survey of Andromeda's Western Shelf.
Mark A. Fardal, Puragra Guhathakurta, Karoline M. Gilbert, Erik J. Tollerud, Jason S. Kalirai, Mikito Tanaka, Rachael Beaton, Masashi Chiba, Yutaka Komiyama, Masanori Iye
arXiv:1206.2619v1
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