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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Sunday 2012 November 18
- The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: weighing the neutrino mass using the galaxy power spectrum of the CMASS sample.
Gong-Bo Zhao, Shun Saito, Will J. Percival, Ashley J. Ross, Francesco Montesano, Matteo Viel, Donald P. Schneider, David J. Ernst, Marc Manera, Jordi Miralda-Escude, Nicholas P. Ross, Lado Samushia, Ariel G. Sanchez, Molly E. C. Swanson, Daniel Thomas, Rita Tojeiro, Christophe Yeche, Donald G. York
arXiv:1211.3741v1
- The rotation rates of massive stars: the role of binary interaction trough tides, mass transfer and mergers.
S. E. de Mink, N. Langer, R. G. Izzard, H. Sana, A. de Koter
arXiv:1211.3742v1
- Direct Imaging Discovery of a `Super-Jupiter' Around the late B-Type Star Kappa And.
J. Carson, C. Thalmann, M. Janson, T. Kozakis, M. Bonnefoy, B. Biller, J. Schlieder, T. Currie, M. McElwain, M. Goto, T. Henning, W. Brandner, M. Feldt, R. Kandori, M. Kuzuhara, L. Stevens, P. Wong, K. Gainey, M. Fukagawa, Y. Kuwada, T. Brandt, J. Kwon, L. Abe, S. Egner, C. Grady, O. Guyon, J. Hashimoto, Y. Hayano, M. Hayashi, S. Hayashi, K. Hodapp, M. Ishii, M. Iye, G. Knapp, T. Kudo, N. Kusakabe, T. Matsuo, S. Miyama, J. Morino, A. Moro-Martin, T. Nishimura, T. Pyo, E. Serabyn, H. Suto, R. Suzuki, M. Takami, N. Takato, H. Terada, E. Turner, M. Watanabe, J. Wisniewski, T. Yamada, H. Takami, T. Usuda, M. Tamura
arXiv:1211.3744v1
- Massive black hole seeds born via direct gas collapse in galaxy mergers: their properties, statistics and environment.
Silvia Bonoli, Lucio Mayer, Simone Callegari (University of Zurich)
arXiv:1211.3752v1
- Modeling the distribution of Mg II absorbers around galaxies using Background Galaxies & Quasars.
R. Bordoloi, S. J. Lilly, G. G. Kacprzak, C. W. Churchill
arXiv:1211.3774v1
- MOA-2010-BLG-073L: An M-Dwarf with a Substellar Companion at the Planet/Brown Dwarf Boundary.
R. A. Street, J.-Y. Choi, Y. Tsapras, C. Han, K. Furusawa, M. Hundertmark, A. Gould, T. Sumi, I. A. Bond, D. Wouters, R. Zellem, A. Udalski, C. Snodgrass, K. Horne, M. Dominik, P. Browne, N. Kains, D. M. Bramich, D. Bajek, I. A. Steele, F. Abe, D. P. Bennett, C. S. Botzler, P. Chote, M. Freeman, A. Fukui, P. Harris, Y. Itow, C. H. Ling, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, N. Miyake, Y. Muraki, T. Nagayama, S. Nishimaya, K. Ohnishi, N. Rattenbury, To. Saito, D. J. Sullivan, D. Suzuki, W. L. Sweatman, P. J. Tristram, K. Wada, P. C. M. Yock, M. K. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, R. Poleski, K. Ulaczyk, L. Wyrzykowski, J. Yee, I.-G. Shin, C.-U. Lee, J. Skowron, L. Andrade De Almeida, D. L. DePoy, B. S. Gaudi, L.-W. Hung, F. Jablonski, S. Kaspi, N. Klein, K.-H. Hwang, J.-R. Koo, D. Maoz,et al. (64 additional authors not shown)
arXiv:1211.3782v1
- Is a tabletop search for Planck scale signals feasible.
Jacob D. Bekenstein
arXiv:1211.3816v1
- Fundamental Parameters of the Milky Way Galaxy Based on VLBI astrometry.
Mareki Honma, Takumi Nagayama, Kazuma Ando, Takeshi Bushimata, Yoon Kyung Choi, Toshihiro Handa, Tomoya Hirota, Hiroshi Imai, Takaaki Jike, Mi Kyoung Kim, Osamu Kameya, Noriyuki Kawaguchi, Hideyuki Kobayashi, Tomoharu Kurayama, Seisuke Kuji, Naoko Matsumoto, Seiji Manabe, Takeshi Miyaji, Kazuhito Motogi, Akiharu Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Notaro Niinuma, Chung Sik Oh, Toshihiro Omodaka, Tomoaki Oyama, Nobuyuki Sakai, Katsuhisa Sato, Mayumi Sato, Katsunori Shibata, Satoshi Shiozaki, Kazuyoshi Sunada, Yoshiaki Tamura, Yuji Ueno, Aya Yamauchi
arXiv:1211.3843v1
- Super AGB and AGB evolution and the chemical inventory in NGC 2419.
Paolo Ventura, Francesca D'Antona, Marcella Di Criscienzo, Roberta Carini, Annibale D'Ercole, Enrico Vesperini
arXiv:1211.3857v1
- A two-phase scenario for bulge assembly in LCDM cosmologies.
A. Obreja (1), R. Domínguez-Tenreiro (1), C. Brook (1), F. J. Martínez-Serrano (2), M. Doménech-Moral (2), A. Serna (2), M. Mollá (3), G. Stinson (4) ((1) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco Madrid, Spain, (2) Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche Alicante, Spain, (3) CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain, (4) Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany)
arXiv:1211.3906v1
- The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: the low redshift sample.
John K. Parejko, Tomomi Sunayama, Nikhil Padmanabhan, David A. Wake, Andreas A. Berlind, Dmitry Bizyaev, Michael Blanton, Adam S. Bolton, Frank van den Bosch, Jon Brinkmann, Joel R. Brownstein, Luiz Alberto Nicolaci da Costa, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Hong Guo, Eyal Kazin, Marcio Maia, Elena Malanushenko, Claudia Maraston, Cameron K. McBride, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel J. Oravetz, Kaike Pan, Will J. Percival, Francisco Prada, Ashley J. Ross, Nicholas P. Ross, David J. Schlegel, Don Schneider, Audrey E. Simmons, Ramin Skibba, Jeremy Tinker, Rita Tojeiro, Benjamin A. Weaver, Andrew Wetzel, Martin White, David H. Weinberg, Daniel Thomas, Idit Zehavi, Zheng Zheng
arXiv:1211.3976v1
- New M, L, and T Dwarf Companions to Nearby Stars from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
Kevin L. Luhman, Nicholas P. Loutrel, Nicholas S. McCurdy, Gregory N. Mace, Nicole D. Melso, Kimberly M. Star, Michael D. Young, Ryan C. Terrien, Ian S. McLean, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Katherine L. Rhode
arXiv:1211.3977v1
- The orientation dependence of quasar single-epoch black hole mass scaling relationships.
Jessie C. Runnoe, Michael Brotherton, Zhaohui Shang, Beverley Wills, Michael DiPompeo
arXiv:1211.3984v1
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