Virtual Journal of Nuclear Astrophysics

JINA - Virtual Journal of Nuclear Astrophysics, 29 March 2013

Volume 11, Issue 13 (29 Articles)

# 1 - Design principles for effective physics instruction: A case from physics and everyday thinking
- Fred Goldberg
- American Journal of Physics - Volume: 78, Issue: 12
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# 2 - Helping scientists communicate to people
- Gordon J. Aubrecht, II
- American Journal of Physics - Volume: 79, Issue: 5
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# 3 - Astronomy’s discoveries and physics education
- Charles H. Holbrow
- American Journal of Physics - Volume: 80, Issue: 1
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# 4 - Preparing tutorial and recitation instructors: A pedagogical approach to focusing attention on content and student reasoning
- Benjamin T. Spike
- American Journal of Physics - Volume: 80, Issue: 11
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# 5 - Why do stars twinkle, and do they twinkle on Mars?
- Lorne Whitehead
- American Journal of Physics - Volume: 80, Issue: 11
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# 6 - New Computational Physics Section
- Jan Tobochnik
- American Journal of Physics - Volume: 80, Issue: 12
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# 7 - Use astronomy to teach physics
- Charles H. Holbrow
- American Journal of Physics - Volume: 80, Issue: 5
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# 8 - Guesstimation 2.0: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Napkin.
- Lawrence Weinstein
- American Journal of Physics - Volume: 81, Issue: 2
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# 9 - 3He: Does the problem persists?
- L. Guzman-Ramirez, J. E. Pineda, A. A. Zijlstra, R. Stancliffe, A. Karakas
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2013, Issue: 29 Mar
- arXiv:1303.5607 [pdf, other]
# 10 - A new extensive library of PHOENIX stellar atmospheres and synthetic spectra
- Tim-Oliver Husser, Sebastian Wende - von Berg, Stefan Dreizler, Derek Homeier, Ansgar Reiners, Travis Barman, Peter H. Hauschildt
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2013, Issue: 29 Mar
- arXiv:1303.5632 [pdf, ps, other]
# 11 - A PCA approach to stellar effective temperatures
- Julián Muñoz Bermejo, Andrés Asensio Ramos, Carlos Allende Prieto
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2013, Issue: 29 Mar
- arXiv:1303.7218 [pdf, ps, other]
# 12 - C, N, O, and Na Abundances of Cepheid Variables: Implications on the Mixing Process in the Envelope
- Y. Takeda, D.-I. Kang, I. Han, B.-C. Lee, K.-M. Kim
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2013, Issue: 29 Mar
- arXiv:1303.6593 [pdf, other]
# 13 - Europium s-process signature at close-to-solar metallicity in stardust SiC grains from AGB stars
- Janaina N. Avila, Trevor R. Ireland, Maria Lugaro, Frank Gyngard, Ernst Zinner, Sergio Cristallo, Peter Holden, Thomas Rauscher
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2013, Issue: 29 Mar
- arXiv:1303.5932 [pdf]
# 14 - Galaxy Zoo: Motivations of Citizen Scientists
- M. Jordan Raddick, Georgia Bracey, Pamela L. Gay, Chris J. Lintott, Carie Cardamone, Phil Murray, Kevin Schawinski, Alexander S. Szalay, Jan Vandenberg
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2013, Issue: 29 Mar
- arXiv:1303.6886 (cross-list from physics.ed-ph) [pdf]
# 15 - Impact of accretion on the statistics of neutron star masses
- Z. Cheng, A. Taani, Y.H. Zhao
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2013, Issue: 29 Mar
- arXiv:1303.6749 [pdf, ps, other]
# 16 - Main Sequence Star Populations in the Virgo Overdensity Region
- H. Jerjen (1), G.S. Da Costa (1), B. Willman (2), P. Tisserand (1), N. Arimoto (3,4), S. Okamoto (5), M. Mateo (6), I. Saviane (7), S. Walsh (8), M. Geha (9), A. Jordán (10,11), E. Olszewski (12), M. Walker (13), M. Zoccali (10,11), P. Kroupa (14) ((1) Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (2) Haverford College (3) National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (4) The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (5) Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (6) University of Michigan (7) European Southern Observatory (8) Australian Astronomical Observatory (9) Yale University (10) Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (11) The Milky Way Millennium Nucleus (12) The University of Arizona (13) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (14) Argelander Institute for Astronomy)
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2013, Issue: 29 Mar
- arXiv:1303.5489 [pdf, other]
# 17 - MESA and NuGrid Simulations of Classical Nova Outbursts: ONe Nova and Nucleosynthesis
- Pavel A. Denissenkov (UVic), James W. Truran (Chicago), Marco Pignatari (Basel), Reto Trappitsch (Chicago), Christian Ritter (Frankfurt), Falk Herwig (UVic), Umberto Battino (Basel), Kiana Setoodehnia (McMaster)
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2013, Issue: 29 Mar
- arXiv:1303.6265 [pdf, ps, other]
# 18 - Nitrogen isotopes in AGB carbon stars and presolar SiC grains: a challenge for stellar nucleosynthesis
- R. Hedrosa, C. Abia, M. Busso, S. Cristallo, I. Domínguez, S. Palmerini, B. Plez, O. Straniero
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2013, Issue: 29 Mar
- arXiv:1303.6418 [pdf, ps, other]
# 19 - Opacities and Spectra of the r-process Ejecta from Neutron Star Mergers
- Daniel Kasen, N.R. Badnell, Jennifer Barnes
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2013, Issue: 29 Mar
- arXiv:1303.5788 [pdf, other]
# 20 - Pulse profiles from thermally emitting neutron stars
- R. Turolla, L. Nobili
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2013, Issue: 29 Mar
- arXiv:1303.6835 [pdf, ps, other]
# 21 - SASI Activity in Three-Dimensional Neutrino-Hydrodynamics Simulations of Supernova Cores
- F. Hanke, B. Mueller, A. Wongwathanarat, A. Marek, H.-Th. Janka
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2013, Issue: 29 Mar
- arXiv:1303.6269 [pdf, ps, other]
# 22 - A Constrained-Path Quantum Monte-Carlo Approach for the Nuclear Shell Model
- Jérémy Bonnard, Olivier Juillet
- arXiv.org - Nuclear Theory - Volume: 2013, Issue: 29 Mar
- arXiv:1303.6778 [pdf, ps, other]
# 23 - Implications of a matter-radius measurement for the binding energy of, and existence of excited Efimov states in, Carbon-22
- B. Acharya, C. Ji, D. R. Phillips
- arXiv.org - Nuclear Theory - Volume: 2013, Issue: 29 Mar
- arXiv:1303.6720 [pdf, other]
# 24 - Uncertainty study of nuclear model parameters for the n+ ^{56}Fe reactions in the fast neutron region below 20 MeV
- Junfeng Duan, Stephan Pomp, Henrik Sjöstrand, Erwin Alhassan, Cecilia Gustavsson, Michael Österlund, Arjan Koning, Dimitri Rochman
- arXiv.org - Nuclear Theory - Volume: 2013, Issue: 29 Mar
- arXiv:1303.6115 [pdf, other]
# 25 - Big Bang Nucleosynthesis with a Non-Maxwellian Distribution
- C. A. Bertulani, J. Fuqua, and M. S. Hussein
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 767, Issue: 1
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# 26 - Production of ⁹Be through the α-fusion Reaction of Metal-poor Cosmic Rays and Stellar Flares
- Motohiko Kusakabe and Masahiro Kawasaki
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 767, Issue: 1
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# 27 - The Double Pulsar: Evidence for Neutron Star Formation without an Iron Core-collapse Supernova
- R. D. Ferdman, I. H. Stairs, M. Kramer, R. P. Breton, M. A. McLaughlin, P. C. C. Freire, A. Possenti, B. W. Stappers, V. M. Kaspi, R. N. Manchester, and A. G. Lyne
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 767, Issue: 1
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# 28 - The First Galaxies: Assembly under Radiative Feedback from the First Stars
- Andreas H. Pawlik, MiloÅ¡ MilosavljeviÄ, and Volker Bromm
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 767, Issue: 1
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# 29 - Three-dimensional Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations of Long-duration Gamma-Ray Burst Jets inside Massive Progenitor Stars
- D. LÃ³pez-CÃ¡mara, Brian J. Morsony, Mitchell C. Begelman, and Davide Lazzati
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 767, Issue: 1
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This material is based upon work supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Award Number DE-SC0026204.