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JINA - Virtual Journal of Nuclear Astrophysics, 4 December 2009

Volume 7, Issue 49 (60 Articles)

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• # 1 - A Deeper Look at Leo IV: Star Formation History and Extended Structure
  • D.J. Sand, A. Seth, E.W. Olszewski, B. Willman, D. Zaritsky, N. Kallivayalil
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0911.5352 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 2 - A High Rate of White Dwarf-Neutron Star Mergers & Their Transients
  • Todd A. Thompson, Matthew D. Kistler, K. Z. Stanek
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0009 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 3 - A Physically Motivated Closure Scheme for Radiative Transfer
  • Chi-kwan Chan (CfA)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0911.5351 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 4 - A wide angle view of the Sagittarius dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy. I: VIMOS photometry and radial velocities across Sgr dSph major and minor axis
  • G. Giuffrida, L. Sbordone, S. Zaggia, G. Marconi, P. Bonifacio, C. Izzo, T. Szeifert, R. Buonanno
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0911.5680 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 5 - Adiabatic Perturbations in Homologous Conventional Polytropic Core Collapses of a Spherical Star
  • Yi Cao, Yu-Qing Lou
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0317 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 6 - Analysis of Peculiarities of the Stellar Velocity Field in the Solar Neighborhood
  • V. V. Bobylev, A. T. Bajkova, A. A. Myllari
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0635 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 7 - AstroSim: Collaborative Visualization of an Astrophysics Simulation in Second Life
  • Arturo Nakasone, Helmut Prendinger, Simon Holland, Piet Hut, Jun Makino, Kenichi Miura
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0911.5683 [pdf]
• # 8 - Boo-1137 - An Extremely Metal-Poor Star in the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Boötes I
  • John E. Norris, David Yong, Gerard Gilmore, Rosemary F. G. Wyse
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0911.5350 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 9 - CaII Triplet Spectroscopy of Small Magellanic Cloud Red Giants. II. Abundances for a Sample of Field Stars
  • M. C. Parisi, D. Geisler, A. J. Grocholski, J. J. Claria, A. Sarajedini
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0682 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 10 - Chemical Abundances in Star-Forming Galaxies at High Redshift
  • Dawn K. Erb (UCSB)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0313 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 11 - Chemical Abundances of the Outer Halo Stars in the Milky Way
  • M. Ishigaki (1), M. Chiba (1), W. Aoki (2) ((1) Tohoku University, (2) National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0329 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 12 - Gravitational waves from neutron stars: Promises and challenges
  • N. Andersson, V. Ferrari, D.I. Jones, K.D. Kokkotas, B. Krishnan, J. Read, L. Rezzolla, B. Zink
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0384 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 13 - Hyperaccreting Disks around Magnetars for Gamma-Ray Bursts: Effects of Strong Magnetic Fields
  • Dong Zhang (OSU), Z. G. Dai (NJU)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0911.5528 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 14 - LSST Science Book, Version 2.0
  • LSST Science Collaborations: Paul A. Abell, Julius Allison, Scott F. Anderson, John R. Andrew, J. Roger P. Angel, Lee Armus, David Arnett, S. J. Asztalos, Tim S. Axelrod, Stephen Bailey, D. R. Ballantyne, Justin R. Bankert, Wayne A. Barkhouse, Jeffrey D. Barr, L. Felipe Barrientos, Aaron J. Barth, James G. Bartlett, Andrew C. Becker, Jacek Becla, Timothy C. Beers, Joseph P. Bernstein, Rahul Biswas, Michael R. Blanton, Joshua S. Bloom, John J. Bochanski, Pat Boeshaar, Kirk D. Borne, Marusa Bradac, W. N. Brandt, Carrie R. Bridge, Michael E. Brown, Robert J. Brunner, James S. Bullock, Adam J. Burgasser, James H. Burge, David L. Burke, Phillip A. Cargile, Srinivasan Chandrasekharan, George Chartas, Steven R. Chesley, You-Hua Chu, David Cinabro, Mark W. Claire, Charles F. Claver, Douglas Clowe, et al. (201 additional authors not shown)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0201 [pdf, other]
• # 15 - Nebular Spectra and Explosion Asymmetry of Type Ia Supernovae
  • Keiichi Maeda, Stefan Taubenberger, Jesper Sollerman, Paolo A. Mazzali, Giorgos Leloudas, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Kentaro Motohara
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0911.5484 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 16 - Neutrino Signal of Electron-Capture Supernovae from Core Collapse to Cooling
  • L. Huedepohl (1), B. Mueller (1), H.-Th. Janka (1), A. Marek (1), G.G Raffelt (2) ((1) MPI Astrophysik, Garching; (2) MPI Physik, Muenchen)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0260 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 17 - Neutron Capture Cross Sections for the Weak s Process
  • M. Heil, A. Juseviciute, F. Kaeppeler, R. Gallino, M. Pignatari, E. Uberseder
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0143 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 18 - SN 2006bt: A Perplexing, Troublesome, and Possibly Misleading Type Ia Supernova
  • Ryan J. Foley, Gautham Narayan, Peter J. Challis, Alexei V. Filippenko, Robert P. Kirshner, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Thea N. Steele
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0263 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 19 - Swift monitoring of the new accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGRJ17511-3057 in outburst
  • E. Bozzo, C. Ferrigno, M. Falanga, S. Campana, J.A. Kennea, A. Papitto
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0127 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 20 - Temperature Structure and Metallicity in H II Regions
  • Mónica Rodríguez, Jorge García-Rojas
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0302 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 21 - Testing spectral models for stellar populations with star clusters: I. Methodology
  • Roberto Cid Fernandes (1), Rosa M. Gonzalez Delgado (2) ((1) Univ. Santa Catarina, Brazil (2) IAA (CSIC), Spain)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0410 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 22 - Testing spectral models for stellar populations with star clusters: II. Results
  • Rosa M. Gonzalez Delgado (1), Roberto Cid Fernandes (2) ((1) IAA (CSIC), Spain (2) Univ. Santa Catarina, Brazil)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0413 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 23 - The bottom of the white dwarf cooling sequence in the old open cluster NGC 2158
  • L. R. Bedin (1), M. Salaris (2), I. R. King (3), G. Piotto (4), J. Anderson (1), S. Cassisi (5) ((1) STScI, (2) J.M.Univ.Liverpool, (3) Univ.of Washington Seattle, (4) Univ.PD, (5) INAF-Obs.Teramo)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0257 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 24 - The cluster Terzan 5 as a remnant of a primordial building block of the Galactic bulge
  • F. R. Ferraro (1), E. Dalessandro (1), A. Mucciarelli (1), G. Beccari (2), R. M. Rich (3), L. Origlia (4), B. Lanzoni (1), R. T. Rood (5), E. Valenti (6,7), M. Bellazzini (4), S. M. Ransom (8), G. Cocozza (4) ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of Bologna, (2) ESA, Space Science Department, The Netherlands, (3) Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, (4) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, (5) Astronomy Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, (6) ESO, Santiago, Chile, (7) Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Departamento de Astronomia)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0192 [pdf, other]
• # 25 - The Outbursts of Classical and Recurrent Novae
  • M.F. Bode
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0911.5254 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 26 - The Solar Photospheric Nitrogen Abundance: Determination with 3D and 1D Model Atmospheres
  • E. Maiorca, E. Caffau, P. Bonifacio, M. Busso, R. Faraggiana, M. Steffen, H.-G. Ludwig, I. Kamp
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0375 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 27 - Time scales of the s process - from minutes to ages
  • F. Käppeler, S. Bisterzo, R. Gallino, M. Heil, M. Pignatari, R. Reifarth, O. Straniero, S. Walter, N. Winckler, K. Wisshak
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0098 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 28 - Asymmetry dependence of neutron correlations in Ar isotopes
  • Jenny Lee, M.B. Tsang, D. Bazin, D. Coupland, V. Henzl, D. Henzlova, M. Kilburn, W.G. Lynch, A. Rogers, A. Sanetullaev, A. Signoracci, Z.Y. Sun, M. Youngs, K.Y. Chae, R.J. Charity, H.K. Cheung, M. Famiano, S. Hudan, P. OMalley, W.A. Peters, K. Schmitt, D. Shapira, L.G. Sobotka
  • arXiv.org - Nuclear Experiment - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0911.4857 [pdf]
• # 29 - Discovery of the Mercury Isotopes
  • D. Meierfrankenfeld, M. Thoennessen
  • arXiv.org - Nuclear Experiment - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0141 [pdf, other]
• # 30 - Discovery of the Titanium Isotopes
  • D. Meierfrankenfeld, M. Thoennessen
  • arXiv.org - Nuclear Experiment - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0139 [pdf, other]
• # 31 - A new insight into the observation of spectroscopic strength reduction in atomic nuclei: implication for the physical meaning of spectroscopic factors
  • N.K. Timofeyuk
  • arXiv.org - Nuclear Theory - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0911.5069 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 32 - Microscopic calculations of transport properties of neutron matter
  • Omar Benhar, Artur Polls, Marco Valli, Isaac Vidana
  • arXiv.org - Nuclear Theory - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0911.5097 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 33 - Neutron star cooling - a challenge to the nuclear mean field
  • Hoang Sy Than, Dao T. Khoa, Nguyen Van Giai
  • arXiv.org - Nuclear Theory - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0570 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 34 - Quantum Monte Carlo study of dilute neutron matter at finite temperatures
  • Gabriel Wlazlowski, Piotr Magierski
  • arXiv.org - Nuclear Theory - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0373 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 35 - Shear viscosity of $beta$-stable nuclear matter
  • Omar Benhar, Arianna Carbone
  • arXiv.org - Nuclear Theory - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0129 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 36 - Unitarity potentials and neutron matter at the unitary limit
  • Huan Dong, L.-W. Siu, T.T.S. Kuo, R. Machleidt
  • arXiv.org - Nuclear Theory - Volume: 2009, Issue: 4 Dec
  • arXiv:0912.0273 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 37 - A Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopic survey of the faint M 31 satellites And XV and And XVI
  • B. Letarte, S. C. Chapman, M. Collins, R. A. Ibata, M. J. Irwin, A. M. N. Ferguson, G. F. Lewis, N. Martin, A. McConnachie, N. Tanvir
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 400, Issue: 3
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• # 38 - Chemical evolution of local galaxies in a hierarchical model
  • F. Calura, N. Menci
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 400, Issue: 3
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• # 39 - Probing the epoch of reionization with Milky Way satellites
  • Joseph A. Muñoz, Piero Madau, Abraham Loeb, Jürg Diemand
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 400, Issue: 3
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• # 40 - Astrophysics: Different stellar demise
  • Norbert Langer
  • Nature - Volume: 462, Issue: 7273
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• # 41 - Supernova 2007bi as a pair-instability explosion
  • A. Gal-Yam, P. Mazzali, E. O. Ofek, P. E. Nugent, S. R. Kulkarni, M. M. Kasliwal, R. M. Quimby, A. V. Filippenko, S. B. Cenko, R. Chornock, R. Waldman, D. Kasen, M. Sullivan, E. C. Beshore, A. J. Drake, R. C. Thomas, J. S. Bloom, D. Poznanski, A. A. Miller, R. J. Foley, J. M. Silverman, I. Arcavi, R. S. Ellis & J. Deng
  • Nature - Volume: 462, Issue: 7273
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• # 42 - Underwater acoustics: The neutrino and the whale
  • Nature - Volume: 462, Issue: 7273
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• # 43 - Calculation of stellar electron-capture cross sections on nuclei based on microscopic Skyrme functionals
  • N. Paar, G. Colò, E. Khan, and D. Vretenar
  • Physical Review C - Volume: 80, Issue: 5
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• # 44 - Description of proton-neutron mixed-symmetry states near ¹³²Sn within a realistic large scale shell model
  • K. Sieja, G. Martínez-Pinedo, L. Coquard, and N. Pietralla
  • Physical Review C - Volume: 80, Issue: 5
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• # 45 - Erratum: Coulomb dissociation of ¹⁵C and radiative neutron capture on ¹⁴C [Phys. Rev. C 80, 024608 (2009)]
  • H. Esbensen and R. Reifarth
  • Physical Review C - Volume: 80, Issue: 5
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• # 46 - Experimental study of the beta-delayed neutron decay of ²¹N
  • Z. H. Li <i>et al.</i&gt,
  • Physical Review C - Volume: 80, Issue: 5
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• # 47 - Fine tuning in an effective field based relativistic mean field model, and properties of neutron-rich matter
  • A. Sulaksono and Kasmudin
  • Physical Review C - Volume: 80, Issue: 5
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• # 48 - Four-body continuum-discretized coupled-channels calculations
  • M. Rodríguez-Gallardo, J. M. Arias, J. Gómez-Camacho, A. M. Moro, I. J. Thompson, and J. A. Tostevin
  • Physical Review C - Volume: 80, Issue: 5
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• # 49 - gamma-ray spectroscopy study of states in ²⁷Si relevant for the ²⁶Al^m(p,gamma)²⁷Si reaction in novae and supernovae
  • G. Lotay, P. J. Woods, D. Seweryniak, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. F. Janssens, and S. Zhu
  • Physical Review C - Volume: 80, Issue: 5
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• # 50 - Gamow shell-model calculations of drip-line oxygen isotopes
  • K. Tsukiyama, M. Hjorth-Jensen, and G. Hagen
  • Physical Review C - Volume: 80, Issue: 5
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• # 51 - High-precision (p,t) reaction measurement to determine ¹⁸Ne(alpha,p)²¹Na reaction rates
  • A. Matic, A. M. van den Berg, M. N. Harakeh, H. J. Wörtche, G. P. A. Berg, M. Couder, J. L. Fisker, J. Görres, P. LeBlanc, S. O'Brien, M. Wiescher, K. Fujita, K. Hatanaka, Y. Sakemi, Y. Shimizu, Y. Tameshige, A. Tamii, M. Yosoi, T. Adachi, Y. Fujita, Y. Shimbara, H. Fujita, T. Wakasa, P. O. Hess, B. A. Brown, and H. Schatz
  • Physical Review C - Volume: 80, Issue: 5
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• # 52 - Photoexcitation of astrophysically important states in ²⁶Mg
  • R. Longland, C. Iliadis, G. Rusev, A. P. Tonchev, R. J. deBoer, J. Görres, and M. Wiescher
  • Physical Review C - Volume: 80, Issue: 5
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• # 53 - Precision test of the isobaric multiplet mass equation for the A=32, T=2 quintet
  • A. A. Kwiatkowski, B. R. Barquest, G. Bollen, C. M. Campbell, D. L. Lincoln, D. J. Morrissey, G. K. Pang, A. M. Prinke, J. Savory, S. Schwarz, C. M. Folden III, D. Melconian, S. K. L. Sjue, and M. Block
  • Physical Review C - Volume: 80, Issue: 5
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• # 54 - Projected shell model description for high-spin states in neutron-rich Fe isotopes
  • Yang Sun, Ying-Chun Yang, Hong-Liang Liu, Kazunari Kaneko, Munetake Hasegawa, and Takahiro Mizusaki
  • Physical Review C - Volume: 80, Issue: 5
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• # 55 - Weak-interaction strength from charge-exchange reactions versus beta decay in the A=40 isoquintet
  • M. Bhattacharya, C. D. Goodman, and A. García
  • Physical Review C - Volume: 80, Issue: 5
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• # 56 - Reconstructing the neutron-star equation of state from astrophysical measurements
  • Feryal Özel and Dimitrios Psaltis
  • Physical Review D - Volume: 80, Issue: 10
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• # 57 - History of Science
  Researchers Writing for the Public
  • Melinda Baldwin<br /&gt,
  • Science - Volume: 326, Issue: 5958
  • Bowler argues that despite the professionalization of their disciplines, through the middle of the 20th century British scientists remained very active in writing about their work for general readers. Summary »| Full Text »| PDF »|
• # 58 - A Photometric Metallicity Estimate of the Virgo Stellar Overdensity
  • <em >Deokkeun An, Jennifer A. Johnson, Timothy C. Beers, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Donald M. Terndrup, Franck Delahaye, Young Sun Lee, Thomas Masseron, and Brian Yanny</em&gt,
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 707, Issue: 1
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• # 59 - Cosmic Origins Spectrograph Observations of the Chemical Composition of SNR LMC N132D
  • <em >Kevin France, Matthew Beasley, Brian A. Keeney, Charles W. Danforth, Cynthia S. Froning, James C. Green, and J. Michael Shull</em&gt,
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 707, Issue: 1
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• # 60 - Twins: The Two Shortest Period Non-Interacting Double Degenerate White Dwarf Stars
  • <em >F. Mullally, Carles Badenes, Susan E. Thompson, and Robert Lupton</em&gt,
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 707, Issue: 1
  • Abstract | References