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JINA - Segue Virtual Journal, 27 February 2015

Volume 10, Issue 8 (25 Articles)

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• # 1 - A User Interface for Semantically Oriented Data Mining of Astronomy Repositories
  • Brian Thomas, Edward Shaya
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2015, Issue: 27 Feb
  • arXiv:1502.06492 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 2 - An improved SPH scheme for cosmological simulations
  • A.M. Beck, G. Murante, A. Arth, R.-S. Remus, A.F. Teklu, J.M.F. Donnert, S. Planelles, M.C. Beck, P. Foerster, M. Imgrund, K. Dolag, S. Borgani
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2015, Issue: 27 Feb
  • arXiv:1502.07358 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 3 - Crowdfunding Astronomy with Google Sky
  • Travis S. Metcalfe (White Dwarf Research Corporation)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2015, Issue: 27 Feb
  • arXiv:1502.07393 (cross-list from physics.soc-ph) [pdf, ps, other]
• # 4 - Iron and s-elements abundance variations in NGC5286: comparison with anomalous globular clusters and Milky Way satellites
  • A. F. Marino, A. P. Milone, A. I. Karakas, L. Casagrande, D. Yong, L. Shingles, G. Da Costa, J. E. Norris, P.B. Stetson, K. Lind, M. Asplund, R. Collet, H. Jerjen, L. Sbordone, A. Aparicio, S. Cassisi
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2015, Issue: 27 Feb
  • arXiv:1502.07438 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 5 - On the Formation of Galactic Thick Disks
  • I. Minchev, M. Martig, D. Streich, C. Scannapieco, R. S. de Jong, M. Steinmetz
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2015, Issue: 27 Feb
  • arXiv:1502.06606 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 6 - Test for Radial Mixing of Stars in M31
  • Andrew Gould (OSU), Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2015, Issue: 27 Feb
  • arXiv:1502.05709 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 7 - The Gaia-LSST Synergy
  • Željko Ivezić, Steven M. Kahn, Patricia Eliason
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2015, Issue: 27 Feb
  • arXiv:1502.06555 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 8 - Big data: The revolution is digitized
  • Charles Seife digs into three studies of the wild new world of big data.
  • Nature - Volume: 518, Issue: 7540
  • 458-568
• # 9 - Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory
  • Kevin Bundy, Matthew A. Bershady, David R. Law, Renbin Yan, Niv Drory, Nicholas MacDonald, David A. Wake, Brian Cherinka, José R. Sánchez-Gallego, Anne-Marie Weijmans, Daniel Thomas, Christy Tremonti, Karen Masters, Lodovico Coccato, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca, Vladimir Avila-Reese, Carles Badenes, Jésus Falcón-Barroso, Francesco Belfiore, Dmitry Bizyaev, Guillermo A. Blanc, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Michael R. Blanton, Joel R. Brownstein, Nell Byler, Michele Cappellari, Charlie Conroy, Aaron A. Dutton, Eric Emsellem, James Etherington, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Hai Fu, James E. Gunn, Paul Harding, Evelyn J. Johnston, Guinevere Kauffmann, Karen Kinemuchi, Mark A. Klaene, Johan H. Knapen, Alexie Leauthaud, Cheng Li, Lihwai Lin, Roberto Maiolino, Viktor Malanushenko, Elena Malanushenko, Shude Mao, Claudia Maraston, Richard M. McDermid, Michael R. Merrifield, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel Oravetz, Kaike Pan, John K. Parejko, Sebastian F. Sanchez, David Schlegel, Audrey Simmons, Oliver Steele, Matthias Steinmetz, Karun Thanjavur, Benjamin A. Thompson, Jeremy L. Tinker, Remco C. E. van den Bosch, Kyle B. Westfall, David Wilkinson, Shelley Wright, Ting Xiao, and Kai Zhang
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 798, Issue: 1
  • View article PDF (4.19 MB)
• # 10 - A Machine-learning Method to Infer Fundamental Stellar Parameters from Photometric Light Curves
  • A. A. Miller, J. S. Bloom, J. W. Richards, Y. S. Lee, D. L. Starr, N. R. Butler, S. Tokarz, N. Smith, and J. A. Eisner
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 798, Issue: 2
  • View article PDF (2.83 MB)
• # 11 - Metallicity Evolution of the Six Most Luminous M31 Dwarf Satellites
  • Nhung Ho, Marla Geha, Erik J. Tollerud, Robert Zinn, Puragra Guhathakurta, and Luis C. Vargas
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 798, Issue: 2
  • View article PDF (5.20 MB)
• # 12 - Spectroscopic Analysis of Metal-poor Stars from LAMOST: Early Results
  • Hai-Ning Li, Gang Zhao, Norbert Christlieb, Liang Wang, Wei Wang, Yong Zhang, Yonghui Hou, and Hailong Yuan
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 798, Issue: 2
  • View article PDF (749 KB)
• # 13 - The Local Group in the Cosmic Web
  • J. E. Forero-Romero and R. González
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 799, Issue: 1
  • View article PDF (917 KB)
• # 14 - Tidal Stream Morphology as an Indicator of Dark Matter Halo Geometry: The Case of Palomar 5
  • Sarah Pearson, Andreas H. W. Küpper, Kathryn V. Johnston, and Adrian M. Price-Whelan
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 799, Issue: 1
  • View article PDF (1.30 MB)
• # 15 - On the Distance of the Globular Cluster M4 (NGC 6121) Using RR Lyrae Stars. I. Optical and Near-infrared Period-Luminosity and Period-Wesenheit Relations
  • V. F. Braga, M. Dall'Ora, G. Bono, P. B. Stetson, I. Ferraro, G. Iannicola, M. Marengo, J. Neeley, S. E. Persson, R. Buonanno, G. Coppola, W. Freedman, B. F. Madore, M. Marconi, N. Matsunaga, A. Monson, J. Rich, V. Scowcroft, and M. Seibert
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 799, Issue: 2
  • View article PDF (1.01 MB)
• # 16 - Stellar Color Regression: A Spectroscopy-based Method for Color Calibration to a Few Millimagnitude Accuracy and the Recalibration of Stripe 82
  • Haibo Yuan, Xiaowei Liu, Maosheng Xiang, Yang Huang, Huihua Zhang, and Bingqiu Chen
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 799, Issue: 2
  • View article PDF (3.54 MB)
• # 17 - Stellar Loci II. A Model-free Estimate of the Binary Fraction for Field FGK Stars
  • Haibo Yuan, Xiaowei Liu, Maosheng Xiang, Yang Huang, Bingqiu Chen, Yue Wu, Yonghui Hou, and Yong Zhang
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 799, Issue: 2
  • View article PDF (3.50 MB)
• # 18 - Stellar Loci. I. Metallicity Dependence and Intrinsic Widths
  • Haibo Yuan, Xiaowei Liu, Maosheng Xiang, Yang Huang, and Bingqiu Chen
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 799, Issue: 2
  • View article PDF (1.83 MB)
• # 19 - The Old, Super-metal-rich Open Cluster, NGC 6791—Elemental Abundances in Turn-off Stars from Keck/HIRES Spectra
  • Ann Merchant Boesgaard, Michael G. Lum, and Constantine P. Deliyannis
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 799, Issue: 2
  • View article PDF (732 KB)
• # 20 - Astrophysical Shrapnel: Discriminating among Near-Earth Stellar Explosion Sources of Live Radioactive Isotopes
  • Brian J. Fry, Brian D. Fields, and John R. Ellis
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 800, Issue: 1
  • View article PDF (740 KB)
• # 21 - Detection of a Distinct Metal-poor Stellar Halo in the Early-type Galaxy NGC 3115†
  • Mark B. Peacock, Jay Strader, Aaron J. Romanowsky, and Jean P. Brodie
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 800, Issue: 1
  • View article PDF (1.60 MB)
• # 22 - Light-element Abundances of Giant Stars in the Globular Cluster M71 (NGC 6838)
  • M. J. Cordero, C. A. Pilachowski, C. I. Johnson, and E. Vesperini
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 800, Issue: 1
  • View article PDF (679 KB)
• # 23 - Numerical Convergence In Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
  • Qirong Zhu, Lars Hernquist, and Yuexing Li
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 800, Issue: 1
  • View article PDF (1.05 MB)
• # 24 - The Most Metal-poor Damped Lyα Systems: An Insight into Dwarf Galaxies at High-redshift
  • Ryan J. Cooke, Max Pettini, and Regina A. Jorgenson
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 800, Issue: 1
  • View article PDF (770 KB)
• # 25 - The Power Spectrum of the Milky Way: Velocity Fluctuations in the Galactic Disk
  • Jo Bovy, Jonathan C. Bird, Ana E. García Pérez, Steven R. Majewski, David L. Nidever, and Gail Zasowski
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 800, Issue: 2
  • View article PDF (1.95 MB)