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Selected astro-ph abstracts for Friday 2017 December 15
- Sifting for Sapphires: Systematic Selection of Tidal Disruption Events in iPTF
T. Hung, S. Gezari, S.B. Cenko, S. van Velzen, N. Blagorodnova, Lin Yan, S. R. Kulkarni, R. Lunnan, T. Kupfer, G. Leloudas, A. K. H. Kong, P. E. Nugent, C. Fremling, Russ R. Laher, F. J. Masci, Y. Cao, R. Roy, T. Petrushevska
[ arXiv:1712.04936v1 | PDF File ]
- Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Dense Star Clusters: Highly-Eccentric, Highly-Spinning, and Repeated Binary Black Hole Mergers
Carl L. Rodriguez, Pau Amaro-Seoane, Sourav Chatterjee, Frederic A. Rasio
[ arXiv:1712.04937v1 | PDF File ]
- The Hypatia Catalog Database: A Web-Based Interface for Exploring Stellar Abundances
Natalie R. Hinkel, Dan Burger
[ arXiv:1712.04944v1 | PDF File ]
- Probing the nature of dark matter by forward modeling flux ratios in strong gravitational lenses
Daniel Gilman, Simon Birrer, Tommaso Treu, Charles R. Keeton
[ arXiv:1712.04945v1 | PDF File ]
- The dependence of cosmic ray driven galactic winds on halo mass
Svenja Jacob, Rüdiger Pakmor, Christine M. Simpson, Volker Springel, Christoph Pfrommer
[ arXiv:1712.04947v1 | PDF File ]
- The GALEX View of "Boyajian's Star" (KIC 8462852)
James. R. A. Davenport, Kevin R. Covey, Riley W. Clarke, Zachery Laycock, Scott W. Fleming, Tabetha S. Boyajian, Benjamin T. Montet, Bernie Shiao, Chase C. Million, David J. Wilson, Manuel Olmedo, Eric E. Mamajek, Daniel Olmedo, Miguel Chavez, Emanuele Bertone
[ arXiv:1712.04948v1 | PDF File ]
- A 3pi Search for Planet Nine at 3.4 microns with WISE and NEOWISE
A. M. Meisner, B. C. Bromley, S. J. Kenyon, T. E. Anderson
[ arXiv:1712.04950v1 | PDF File ]
- Umbrella sampling: a powerful method to sample tails of distributions
Charles Matthews (1), Jonathan Weare (1), Andrey Kravtsov (2) Elise Jennings (3, 4) ((1) Department of Statistics, and James Frank Institute, The University of Chicago, (2) Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, (3) Fermilab, (4) Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory)
[ arXiv:1712.05024v1 | PDF File ]
- Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning: A Five Planet Resonant Chain around Kepler-80 and an Eighth Planet around Kepler-90
Christopher J. Shallue, Andrew Vanderburg
[ arXiv:1712.05044v1 | PDF File ]
- Measuring Model-independent Masses and Radii of Single-Lined Eclipsing Binaries: Analytic Precision Estimates
Daniel J. Stevens, B. Scott Gaudi, Keivan G. Stassun
[ arXiv:1712.05046v1 | PDF File ]
- Unveiling the Hot Molecular Core in the Ultracompact \hii Region with Extended Emission G12.21--0.10
Eduardo de la Fuente, Miguel A. Trinidad, Alicia Porras, Carlos Rodriguez-Rico, Esteban D. Araya, Stanley Kurtz, Peter Hofner, Alberto Nigoche-Netro
[ arXiv:1712.05054v1 | PDF File ]
- A Molecular Line Survey toward the Nearby Galaxies NGC 1068, NGC 253, and IC 342 at 3 mm with the Nobeyama 45-m Radio Telescope: Impact of an AGN on 1 kpc Scale Molecular Abundances
Taku Nakajima, Shuro Takano, Kotaro Kohno, Nanase Harada, Eric Herbst
[ arXiv:1712.05070v1 | PDF File ]
- Not All Stars Are the Sun: Empirical Calibration of the Mixing Length for Metal-Poor Stars Using 1-D Stellar Evolution Models
Meridith Joyce, Brian Chaboyer
[ arXiv:1712.05082v1 | PDF File ]
- Seismic probing of the first dredge-up event through the eccentric red-giant/red-giant spectroscopic binary KIC9163796
P. G. Beck, T. Kallinger, K. Pavlovski, A. Palacios, A. Tkachenko, S. Mathis, R. A. Garcia, E. Corsaro, C. Johnston, B. Mosser, T. Ceillier, J.-D. do Nascimento Jr., G. Raskin
[ arXiv:1712.05208v1 | PDF File ]
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