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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Wednesday 2015 May 27
- Active galactic nuclei flicker: an observational estimate of the duration of black hole growth phases of ~1e5 years
Kevin Schawinski, Michael Koss, Simon Berney, Lia Sartori
[ arXiv:1505.06733v1 | PDF File ]
- Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of a Young Extrasolar Kuiper Belt in the Nearest OB Association
Thayne Currie, Carey M. Lisse, Marc J. Kuchner, Nikku Madhusudhan, Scott J. Kenyon, Christian Thalmann, Joseph Carson, John H. Debes
[ arXiv:1505.06734v1 | PDF File ]
- Initial-Final Mass Relation for 3 to 4 M$_\odot$ Progenitors of White Dwarfs from the Single Cluster NGC 2099
Jeffrey D. Cummings, Jason S. Kalirai, P.-E. Tremblay, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
[ arXiv:1505.06737v1 | PDF File ]
- KELT-8b: A highly inflated transiting hot Jupiter and a new technique for extracting high-precision radial velocities from noisy spectra
Benjamin J. Fulton, Karen A. Collins, B. Scott Gaudi, Keivan G. Stassun, Joshua Pepper, Thomas G. Beatty, Robert J. Siverd, Kaloyan Penev, Andrew W. Howard, Christoph Baranec, Giorgio Corfini, Jason D. Eastman, Joao Gregorio, Nicholas M. Law, Michael B. Lund, Thomas E. Oberst, Matthew T. Penny, Reed Riddle, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Daniel J. Stevens, Roberto Zambelli, Carl Ziegler, Allyson Bieryla, Giuseppe D`Ago, Darren L. DePoy, Eric L. N. Jensen, John F. Kielkopf, David W. Latham, Mark Manner, Jennifer Marshall, Kim K. McLeod, Phillip A. Reed
[ arXiv:1505.06738v1 | PDF File ]
- Production of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays via one-shot acceleration of galactic cosmic rays by jets
Damiano Caprioli (Princeton University)
[ arXiv:1505.06739v1 | PDF File ]
- GRB hosts through cosmic time - VLT/X-shooter emission-line spectroscopy of 96 GRB-selected galaxies at 0.1 < z < 3.6
T. Krühler, D. Malesani, J. P. U. Fynbo, O. E. Hartoog, J. Hjorth, P. Jakobsson, D. A. Perley, A. Rossi, P. Schady, S. Schulze, N. R. Tanvir, S. D. Vergani, K. Wiersema, P. M. J. Afonso, J. Bolmer, Z. Cano, S. Covino, V. D'Elia, A. de Ugarte Postigo, R. Filgas, M. Friis, J. F. Graham, J. Greiner, P. Goldoni, A. Gomboc, F. Hammer, J. Japelj, D. A. Kann, L. Kaper, S. Klose, A. J. Levan, G. Leloudas, B. Milvang-Jensen, A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, E. Palazzi, E. Pian, S. Piranomonte, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, S. Savaglio, J. Selsing, G. Tagliaferri, P. M. Vreeswijk, D. J. Watson, D. Xu
[ arXiv:1505.06743v1 | PDF File ]
- Light Curves of Core-Collapse Supernovae with Substantial Mass Loss using the New Open-Source SuperNova Explosion Code (SNEC)
V. Morozova (1), A. L. Piro (2), M. Renzo (3,1), C. D. Ott (1), D. Clausen (1), S. M. Couch (1), J. Ellis (1), L. F. Roberts (1) ((1) TAPIR, Caltech, (2) Carnegie, (3) Pisa)
[ arXiv:1505.06746v1 | PDF File ]
- A search for lithium in metal-poor L dwarfs
N. Lodieu (1,2), A. J. Burgasser (3,4), Y. Pavlenko (5,6), R. Rebolo (1,2,7) ((1) IAC, Tenerife, Spain, (2) Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, (3) University of California San Diego, USA, (4) Visiting professor at the IAC in Tenerife, (5) Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, (6) University of Hertfordshire, UK, (7) CSIC, Spain)
[ arXiv:1505.06858v1 | PDF File ]
- Exoplanet Detection Techniques
Debra A. Fischer, Andrew W. Howard, Greg P. Laughlin, Bruce Macintosh, Survrath Mahadevan, Johannes Sahlmann, Jennifer C. Yee
[ arXiv:1505.06869v1 | PDF File ]
- Spectrophotometric properties of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from the OSIRIS instrument onboard the ROSETTA spacecraft
S. Fornasier, P. H. Hasselmann, M.A. Barucci, C. Feller, S. Besse, C. Leyrat, L. Lara, P. J. Gutierrez, N. Oklay, C. Tubiana, F. Scholten, H. Sierks, C. Barbieri, P. L. Lamy, R. Rodrigo, D. Koschny, H. Rickman, H. U. Keller, J. Agarwal, M. F. A'Hearn, J.-L. Bertaux, I. Bertini, G. Cremonese, V. Da Deppo, B. Davidsson, S. Debei, M. De Cecco, M. Fulle, O. Groussin, C. Güttler, S. F. Hviid, W. Ip, L. Jorda, J. Knollenberg, G. Kovacs, R. Kramm, E. Kührt, M. Küppers, F. La Forgia, M. Lazzarin, J. J. Lopez Moreno, F. Marzari, K.-D. Matz, H. Michalik, F. Moreno, S. Mottola, G. Naletto, M. Pajola, A. Pommerol, F. Preusker, X. Shi, C. Snodgrass, N. Thomas, J.-B. Vincent
[ arXiv:1505.06888v1 | PDF File ]
- Tight asteroseismic constraints on core overshooting and diffusive mixing in the slowly rotating pulsating B8.3V star KIC 10526294
Ehsan Moravveji, Conny Aerts, Peter I. Papics, Santiago Andres Triana, Bram Vandoren
[ arXiv:1505.06902v1 | PDF File ]
- New XMM-Newton observation of the Phoenix cluster: properties of the cool core
P. Tozzi, F. Gastaldello, S. Molendi, S. Ettori, J. S. Santos, S. De Grandi, I. Balestra, P. Rosati, B. Altieri, G. Cresci, F. Menanteau, I. Valtchanov
[ arXiv:1505.06913v1 | PDF File ]
- Herschel spectroscopic observations of the compact obscured nucleus in Zw 049.057
N. Falstad, E. González-Alfonso, S. Aalto, P. P. van der Werf, J. Fischer, S. Veilleux, M. Meléndez, D. Farrah, H. A. Smith
[ arXiv:1505.06934v1 | PDF File ]
- H-ATLAS/GAMA and HeViCS - Dusty Early-Type Galaxies in Different Environments
N.K. Agius, S. di Serego Alighieri, S. Viaene, M. Baes, A.E. Sansom, N. Bourne, J. Bland-Hawthorn, S. Brough, T.A. Davis, I. De Looze, S.P. Driver, L. Dunne, S. Dye, S.A. Eales, T.M. Hughes, R.J. Ivison, L.S. Kelvin, S. Maddox, S. Mahajan, C. Pappalardo, A.S.G. Robotham, K. Rowlands, P. Temi E. Valiante
[ arXiv:1505.06947v1 | PDF File ]
- The Gaia-ESO Survey: Empirical determination of the precision of stellar radial velocities and projected rotation velocities
R. J. Jackson, R. D. Jeffries, J. Lewis, S. E. Koposov, G. G. Sacco, S. Randich, G. Gilmore, M. Asplund, J. Binney, P. Bonifacio, J. E. Drew, S. Feltzing, A. M. N. Ferguson, G. Micela, I. Neguerela, T. Prusti, H-W. Rix, A. Vallenari, E. J. Alfaro, C. Allende~Prieto, C. Babusiaux, T. Bensby, R. Blomme, A. Bragaglia, E. Flaccomio, P. Francois, N. Hambly, M. Irwin, A. J. Korn, A. C. Lanzafame, E. Pancino, A. Recio-Blanco, R. Smiljanic, S. Van Eck, N. Walton, A. Bayo, M. Bergemann, G. Carraro, M. T. Costado, F. Damiani, B. Edvardsson, E. Franciosini, A. Frasca, U. Heiter, V. Hill, A. Hourihane, P. Jofre, C. Lardo, P. de Laverny, K. Lind, L. Magrini, G. Marconi, C. Martayan, T. Masseron, L. Monaco, L. Morbidelli, L. Prisinzano, L. Sbordone, S. G. Sousa, C. C. Worley, S. Zaggia
[ arXiv:1505.07019v1 | PDF File ]
- Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Constraints on its origin from OSIRIS observations
H. Rickman (1,2), S. Marchi (3), M. F. A'Hearn (4), C. Barbieri (5), M. R. El-Maarry (6), C. Güttler (7), W.-H. Ip (8), H. U. Keller (9), P. Lamy (10), F. Marzari (5), M. Massironi (11,12), G. Naletto (12,13,14), M. Pajola (12), H. Sierks (7), OSIRIS Team ((1) P.A.S. Space Research Center, Warszawa, (2) Uppsala University, (3) Southwest Research Institute, (4) University of Maryland, (5) University of Padova, (6) University of Bern, (7) Max-Planck Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, (8) National Central University, Taiwan, (9) TU Braunschweig, (10) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, (11) Dipartimento di Geoscienze, University of Padova, (12) C.I.S.A.S., University of Padova, (13) Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, (14) CNR-IFN UOS, Padova LUXOR)
[ arXiv:1505.07021v1 | PDF File ]
- A CubeSat for Calibrating Ground-Based and Sub-Orbital Millimeter-Wave Polarimeters (CalSat)
Bradley R. Johnson, Clement J. Vourch, Timothy D. Drysdale, Andrew Kalman, Steve Fujikawa, Brian Keating, Jon Kaufman
[ arXiv:1505.07033v1 | PDF File ]
- The role of dynamics on the habitability of an Earth-like planet
E. Pilat-Lohinger
[ arXiv:1505.07039v1 | PDF File ]
- On the reach of perturbative descriptions for dark matter displacement fields
Tobias Baldauf, Emmanuel Schaan, Matias Zaldarriaga
[ arXiv:1505.07098v1 | PDF File ]
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