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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Wednesday 2012 November 21
- The Peculiar Balmer Decrement of SN 2009ip: Constraints on Circumstellar Geometry.
Emily M. Levesque, Guy S. Stringfellow, Adam G. Ginsburg, John Bally, Brian A. Keeney
arXiv:1211.4577v1
- A possible impact near the Milky Way of a former major merger in the Local Group.
Sylvain Fouquet, François Hammer, Yanbin Yang, Mathieu Puech, Hector Flores
arXiv:1211.4583v1
- The rate of WD-WD head-on collisions may be as high as the SNe Ia rate.
Boaz Katz (IAS), Subo Dong (IAS)
arXiv:1211.4584v1
- The imminent detection of gravitational waves from massive black-hole binaries with pulsar timing arrays.
Sean T. McWilliams, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Frans Pretorius
arXiv:1211.4590v1
- The extremely low-metallicity tail of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy.
Else Starkenburg, Vanessa Hill, Eline Tolstoy, Patrick Francois, Mike J. Irwin, Leon Boschman, Kim A. Venn, Thomas J. L. de Boer, Bertrand Lemasle, Pascale Jablonka, Giuseppina Battaglia, Paul Groot, Lex Kaper
arXiv:1211.4592v1
- The Ring Nebula Around the Blue Supergiant SBW1: Pre-Explosion Snapshot of a SN 1987A Twin.
Nathan Smith, W. David Arnett, John Bally, Adam Ginsburg, Alexei V. Filippenko
arXiv:1211.4612v1
- Allan Sandage and the Distance Scale.
G.A. Tammann, B. Reindl (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Basel)
arXiv:1211.4655v1
- RR Lyrae stars seen from space.
Elisabeth Guggenberger
arXiv:1211.4802v1
- Toward a VLBI resolution of the Pleiades distance controversy.
Carl Melis, M. J. Reid, A. J. Mioduszewski, J. R. Stauffer, G. C. Bower
arXiv:1211.4849v1
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