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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Friday 2014 February 28
- In hot bubble: why superbubble feedback works and isolated supernovae do not?
Prateek Sharma, Arpita Roy, Biman B. Nath, Yuri Shchekinov
[ arXiv:1402.6695v1 | PDF File ]
- Broadband Eclipse Spectra of Exoplanets are Featureless
C.J. Hansen, J.C. Schwartz, N.B. Cowan (Northwestern University)
[ arXiv:1402.6699v1 | PDF File ]
- The Characterization of the Gamma-Ray Signal from the Central Milky Way: A Compelling Case for Annihilating Dark Matter
Tansu Daylan, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Dan Hooper, Tim Linden, Stephen K. N. Portillo, Nicholas L. Rodd, Tracy R. Slatyer
[ arXiv:1402.6703v1 | PDF File ]
- Airships: A New Horizon for Science
Sarah H. Miller (UCI), Robert Fesen (Dartmouth), Lynne Hillenbrand (Caltech), Jason Rhodes (NASA JPL), Gil Baird (ILC Dover), Geoffrey Blake (Caltech), Jeff Booth (JPL), David E. Carlile (Lockheed Martin ADP), Riley Duren (JPL), Frederick G. Edworthy (Aeros), Brent Freeze (Sorlox Corporation), Randall R. Friedl (JPL), Paul F. Goldsmith (JPL), Jeffery L. Hall (JPL), Scott E. Hoffman (Northrop Grumman), Scott E. Hovarter (Lockheed Martin Space Systems), Rebecca M. Jensen-Clem (Caltech), Ross M. Jones (JPL), Jens Kauffmann (Caltech), Alina Kiessling (JPL), Oliver G. King (Caltech), Nick Konidaris (Caltech), Timothy L. Lachenmeier (Near Space Corporation), Steven D. Lord (Caltech/IPAC), Jessica Neu (JPL), Gregory R. Quetin (University of Washington), Alan Ram (Northrop Grumman), Stanley Sander (JPL), et al. (8 additional authors not shown)
[ arXiv:1402.6706v1 | PDF File ]
- On the minimal accuracy required for simulating self-gravitating systems by means of direct N-body methods
Simon Portegies Zwart, Tjarda Boekholt (Sterrewacht Leiden)
[ arXiv:1402.6713v1 | PDF File ]
- Quasar feedback and the origin of radio emission in radio-quiet quasars
Nadia L. Zakamska (Johns Hopkins University), Jenny E. Greene (Princeton)
[ arXiv:1402.6736v1 | PDF File ]
- X-ray Spectral Components in the Afterglow of GRB 130925A
Eric C. Bellm, Nicolas M. Barriere, Varun Bhalerao, Steven E. Boggs, S. Bradley Cenko, Finn E. Christensen, William W. Craig, Karl Forster, Chris L. Fryer, Charles J. Hailey, Fiona A. Harrison, Assaf Horesh, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Kristin K. Madsen, Jon M. Miller, Eran O. Ofek, Daniel A. Perley, Vikram R. Rana, Stephen P. Reynolds, Daniel Stern, John A. Tomsick, William W. Zhang
[ arXiv:1402.6755v1 | PDF File ]
- Type Ia supernova bolometric light curves and ejected mass estimates from the Nearby Supernova Factory
R. Scalzo, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, S. Bongard, C. Buton, F. Cellier-Holzem, M. Childress, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, H. K. Fakhouri, E. Gangler, J. Guy, A. Kim, M. Kowalski, M. Kromer, J. Nordin, P. Nugent, K. Paech, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, M. Rigault, K. Runge, C. Saunders, S. A. Sim, G. Smadja, C. Tao, S. Taubenberger, R. C. Thomas, B. A. Weaver
[ arXiv:1402.6842v1 | PDF File ]
- Gemini multi-conjugate adaptive optics system review II: Commissioning, operation and overall performance
Benoit Neichel (1 and 2), François Rigaut (3), Fabrice Vidal (1), Marcos A. van Dam (1 and 4), Vincent Garrel (1), Eleazar Rodrigo Carrasco (1), Peter Pessev (1), Claudia Winge (1), Maxime Boccas (1), Céline d'Orgeville (3), Gustavo Arriagada (1), Andrew Serio (1), Vincent Fesquet (1), William N. Rambold (1), Javier Lührs (1), Cristian Moreno (1), Gaston Gausachs (1), Ramon L. Galvez (1), Vanessa Montes (1), Tomislav B. Vucina (1), Eduardo Marin (1), Cristian Urrutia (1), Ariel Lopez (1), Sarah J. Diggs (1), Claudio Marchant (1), Angelic W. Ebbers (1), Chadwick Trujillo (1), Matthieu Bec (5), Gelys Trancho (5), Peter McGregor (3), Peter J. Young (3), Felipe Colazo (6), Michelle L. Edwards (7) ((1) Gemini Observatory, AURA, Chile (2) Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LAM (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille) UMR, Marseille, France, (3) the Australian National University, RSAA, Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australia, (4) Flat Wavefronts, New Zealand, (5) Giant Magellan Telescope Organization Corporation USA, (6) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt USA, (7) LBT Observatory, University of Arizona, USA)
[ arXiv:1402.6906v1 | PDF File ]
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XIV. The O-Type Stellar Content of 30 Doradus
N. R. Walborn (1), H. Sana (1,2), S. Simon-Diaz (3,4), J. Maiz Apellaniz (5), W. D. Taylor (6), C. J. Evans (7), N. Markova (8), D. J. Lennon (9), A. de Koter (2,10) ((1) Space Telescope Science Institute, (2) Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, (3) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, (4) Universidad de La Laguna, (5) Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia-CSIC, (6) Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, Institute for Astronomy, (7) UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, (8) Institute of Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, (9) ESA, European Space Astronomy Centre, (10) Instituut voor Sterrenkunde)
[ arXiv:1402.6969v1 | PDF File ]
- Super-Critical Growth of Massive Black Holes from Stellar-Mass Seeds
Piero Madau, Francesco Haardt, Massimo Dotti
[ arXiv:1402.6995v1 | PDF File ]
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