Virtual Journal of Nuclear Astrophysics

JINA - Virtual Journal of Nuclear Astrophysics, 12 January 2007

Volume 5, Issue 2 (28 Articles)

# 1 - Broadband UBVR_CI_C Photometry of Horizontal-Branch and Metal-poor Candidates from the HK and Hamburg/ESO Surveys. I.
- Timothy C. Beers, Chris Flynn, Silvia Rossi, Jesper Sommer-Larsen, Ronald Wilhelm, Brian Marsteller, Young Sun Lee, Nathan De Lee, Julie Krugler, Constantine P. Deliyannis, Andrew T. Simmons, Elisabeth Mills, Franz-Josef Zickgraf, Johan Holmberg, Anna Ãnehag, Anders Eriksson, Donald M. Terndrup, Samir Salim, Johannes Andersen, Birgitta NordstrÃ¶m, Norbert Christlieb, Anna Frebel, and Jaehyon Rhee
- The Astrophysical Journal Supplement - Volume168, Issue 1
- ABSTRACT, FULL TEXT WITH ENHANCEMENTS, PDF (340 kB), PS
# 2 - Bayesian Evidence for a Cosmological Constant using new High-Redshift Supernovae Data
- Paolo Serra, Alan Heavens, Alessandro Melchiorri
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0701338 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 3 - The evolution of very massive stars
- H. Belkus, J. Van Bever, D. Vanbeveren
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0701334 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 4 - On the maximum value of the cosmic abundance of oxygen and the oxygen yield
- L.S.Pilyugin, T.X.Thuan, J.M.Vilchez
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0701332 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 5 - Photodissociation feedback of Population III stars on their neighbor prestellar cores
- Hajime Susa
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0701172 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 6 - Neutrino astronomy and gamma-ray bursts
- E. Waxman (Weizmann Inst.)
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0701170 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 7 - Spectroscopic Studies of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars with the Subaru High Dispersion Spectrograph. IV. The alpha-Element-Enhanced Metal-Poor Star BS16934-002
- Wako Aoki, Satoshi Honda, Timothy C. Beers, Masahide Takada-Hidai, Nobuyuki Iwamoto, Nozomu Tominaga, Hideyuki Umeda, Ken'ichi Nomoto, John E. Norris, Sean G. Ryan
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0701159 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 8 - Discovery of an Unusual Dwarf Galaxy in the Outskirts of the Milky Way
- M.J. Irwin (1), V. Belokurov (1), N.W. Evans (1), E.V. Ryan-Weber (1), J.T.A. de Jong (2), S. Koposov (2), D.B. Zucker (1), S.T. Hodgkin (1), G. Gilmore (1), P. Prema (1), L. Hebb (3), A. Begum (1), M. Fellhauer (1), P.C. Hewett (1), R.C. Kennicutt, Jr. (1), M.I. Wilkinson (1), D.M. Bramich (1), S. Vidrih (1), H.-W. Rix (2), T.C. Beers (4), J.C. Barentine (5), H. Brewington (5), M. Harvanek (5), J. Krzesinski (5,6), D. Long (5), A. Nitta (7), S.A. Snedden (5) ((1) Cambridge, (2) MPIA, (3) St Andrews, (4) MSU, (5) APO, (6) Cracow, (7) Gemini)
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0701154 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 9 - Ruling out a massive-assymptoic giant-branch star as the progenitor of supernova 2005cs
- J.J. Eldridge, S. Mattila, S.J. Smartt
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0701152 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 10 - Risks due to X-ray Flares during Astronaut Extravehicular Activity
- David S. Smith (UT-Austin, LPL), John M. Scalo (UT-Austin)
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0701314 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 11 - On the Primordial Helium Abundance and the DeltaY/DeltaO Ratio
- M. Peimbert (IA-Unam), V. Luridiana (IAA, Csic), A. Peimbert (IA-Unam), L. Carigi (IA-Unam)
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0701313 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 12 - Identifying the neutrino mass hierarchy with supernova neutrinos
- R. Tomas
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- hep-ph/0701060 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 13 - A Novel Mechanism for Type-I Superconductivity in Neutron Stars
- James Charbonneau, Ariel Zhitnitsky
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0701308 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 14 - Detection potential for the diffuse supernova neutrino background in the large liquid-scintillator detector LENA
- M. Wurm, F. von Feilitzsch, M. Goeger-Neff, K. A. Hochmuth, T. Marrodan Undagoitia, L. Oberauer, W. Potzel
- ArXiv - Astrophysics
- astro-ph/0701305 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 15 - Large-Mass Ultra-Low Noise Germanium Detectors: Performance and Applications in Neutrino and Astroparticle Physics
- P.S. Barbeau, J.I. Collar, O. Tench
- ArXiv - Nuclear Experiment
- nucl-ex/0701012 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 16 - Are low-energy nuclear observables sensitive to high-energy phase shifts?
- S.K. Bogner, R.J. Furnstahl, R.J. Perry, A. Schwenk
- ArXiv - Nuclear Experiment
- nucl-th/0701013 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 17 - Time-variability of alpha from realistic models of Oklo reactors
- C. R. Gould (1), E. I. Sharapov (2), S. K. Lamoreaux (3) ((1) Physics Department NC State University Raleigh NC USA, (2) Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Dubna Moscow region Russia, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos NM USA)
- ArXiv - Nuclear Experiment
- nucl-ex/0701019 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 18 - Supernova neutrino detection
- K. Scholberg
- ArXiv - Nuclear Experiment
- astro-ph/0701081 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 19 - First attempt to dynamically constrain the quadrupole mass moment of millisecond pulsars
- Lorenzo Iorio
- ArXiv - Nuclear Theory
- gr-qc/0611120 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 20 - A Novel Mechanism for Type-I Superconductivity in Neutron Stars
- James Charbonneau, Ariel Zhitnitsky
- ArXiv - Nuclear Theory
- astro-ph/0701308 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 21 - Calculation of beta-decay rates in a relativistic model with momentum-dependent self-energies
- T. Marketin, D. Vretenar, P. Ring
- ArXiv - Nuclear Theory
- nucl-th/0701025 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 22 - E0 emission in alpha + ¹²C fusion at astrophysical energies
- G. Baur, K. A. Snover
- ArXiv - Nuclear Theory
- nucl-th/0701027 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 23 - Dynamical determination of the quadrupole mass moment of a white dwarf
- Lorenzo Iorio
- ArXiv - Nuclear Theory
- gr-qc/0611126 [abs, ps, pdf, other]
# 24 - Helium and deuterium abundances as a test for the time variation of the fine structure constant and the Higgs vacuum expectation value
- N Chamoun, S J Landau, M E Mosquera and Hector Vucetich
- Journal of Physics G, Volume 34, Issue 2
- Abstract, References Full text: Acrobat PDF (271 KB)
# 25 - The lithium-rotation correlation for WTTS in Taurus Auriga
- Li-Feng Xing, Jian-Rong Shi and Jian-Yan Wei
- New Astronomy, Volume 12, Issue I4
- SummaryPlus, Full Text + Links, PDF (167 K)
# 26 - The G-dwarf problem in the Galactic spheroid
- R. Caimmi
- New Astronomy, Volume 12, Issue I4
- SummaryPlus, Full Text + Links, PDF (896 K)
# 27 - ASTRONOMY: A Supernova Riddle
- Douglas C. Leonard
- Science - Volume 315, Issue 5809 - 12 January 2007: 193-194.
- Summary, Full Text, PDF,
# 28 - Spectropolarimetric Diagnostics of Thermonuclear Supernova Explosions
- Lifan Wang, Dietrich Baade, and Ferdinando Patat
- Science - Volume 315, Issue 5809 - 12 January 2007: 212-214.
- Published online 30 November 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1121656] (in Science Express Reports) Abstract, Full Text, PDF, Supporting Online Material,

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.