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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Thursday 2012 May 17
- Precision Measurement of The Most Distant Spectroscopically-Confirmed Supernova Ia with the Hubble Space Telescope.
D. Rubin, R. A. Knop, E. Rykoff, G. Aldering, R. Amanullah, K. Barbary, M. S. Burns, A. Conley, N. Connolly, S. Deustua, V. Fadeyev, H. K. Fakhouri, A. S. Fruchter, R. A. Gibbons, G. Goldhaber, A. Goobar, E. Y. Hsiao, X. Huang, M. Kowalski, C. Lidman, J. Meyers, J. Nordin, S. Perlmutter, C. Saunders, A. L. Spadafora, V. Stanishev, N. Suzuki, L. Wang
arXiv:1205.3494v1
- Runaway Stars and the Escape of Ionizing Radiation from High-Redshift Galaxies.
Charlie Conroy, Kaitlin Kratter
arXiv:1205.3495v1
- Detection of Weak Circumstellar Gas around the DAZ White Dwarf WD 1124-293: Evidence for the Accretion of Multiple Asteroids.
J. H. Debes, M. Kilic, F. Faedi, E. L. Shkolnik, M. Lopez-Morales, A. J. Weinberger, C. Slesnick, R. G. West
arXiv:1205.3503v1
- 870 micron Imaging of a Transitional Disk in Upper Scorpius: Holdover from the Era of Giant Planet Formation?.
Geoffrey S. Mathews, Jonathan P. Williams, Francois Menard
arXiv:1205.3545v1
- Discovery of the most isolated globular cluster in the local universe.
In Sung Jang, Sungsoon Lim, Hong Soo Park, Myung Gyoon Lee
arXiv:1205.3559v1
- Progenitor-Explosion Connection and Remnant Birth Masses for Neutrino-Driven Supernovae of Iron-Core Progenitors.
Marcella Ugliano (1), H.-Thomas Janka (1), Andreas Marek (1), Almudena Arcones (2,3) ((1) MPI for Astrophysics, Garching, (2) TU Darmstadt, (3) GSI Darmstadt)
arXiv:1205.3657v1
- Chemical compositions of thin-disk, high-metallicity red horizontal-branch field stars.
M. Afşar, C. Sneden, B.-Q. For
arXiv:1205.3659v1
- A Second Giant Planet in 3:2 Mean-Motion Resonance in the HD 204313 System.
Paul Robertson, J. Horner, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Michael Endl, William D. Cochran, Phillip J. MacQueen, Erik J. Brugamyer, Attila E. Simon, Stuart I. Barnes, Caroline Caldwell
arXiv:1205.3689v1
- Discovery of the Optical/Ultraviolet/Gamma-ray Counterpart to the Eclipsing Millisecond Pulsar J1816+4510.
D. L. Kaplan, K. Stovall, S. M. Ransom, M. S. E. Roberts, R. Kotulla, A. M. Archibald, C. M. Biwer, J. Boyles, L. Dartez, D. F. Day, A. J. Ford, A. Garcia, J. W. T. Hessels, F. A. Jenet, C. Karako, V. M. Kaspi, V. I. Kondratiev, D. R. Lorimer, R. S. Lynch, M. A. McLaughlin, M. D. W. Rohr, X. Siemens, I. H. Stairs, J. van Leeuwen
arXiv:1205.3699v1
- X-ray emission from star-forming galaxies - II. Hot interstellar medium.
S. Mineo (1,2), M. Gilfanov (2,3), R. Sunyaev (2,3) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (2) Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, (3) Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences)
arXiv:1205.3715v1
- The frequency of giant planets around metal-poor stars.
A. Mortier, N. C. Santos, A. Sozzetti, M. Mayor, D. Latham, X. Bonfils, S. Udry
arXiv:1205.3723v1
- Hubble Space Telescope Observations of an Outer Field in Omega Centauri: A Definitive Helium Abundance.
I. R. King (1), L. R. Bedin (2), S. Cassisi (3), A. P. Milone (4), A. Bellini (5), G. Piotto (5), J. Anderson (6), A. Pietrinferni (3), D. Cordier (7) ((1) Univ.of Washington Seattle, (2) INAF-OAPD, (3) INAF-OATE, (4) IAC, (5) Univ.PD, (6) STScI, (7) Observatoire de Besançon)
arXiv:1205.3760v1
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