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JINA - Segue Virtual Journal, 23 November 2007

Volume 2, Issue 47 (57 Articles)

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• # 1 - A CATALOG OF NEW M33 STAR CLUSTERS BASED ON HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE WFPC2 IMAGES
  • Won-Kee Park and Myung Gyoon Lee
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 134, Issue: 6
  • Abstract       Full Text with Enhancements       PDF (594 kB)       PostScript
• # 2 - A Curious Milky Way Satellite in Ursa Major
  • D. B. Zucker, V. Belokurov, N. W. Evans, J. T. Kleyna, M. J. Irwin, M. I. Wilkinson, M. Fellhauer, D. M. Bramich, G. Gilmore, H. J. Newberg, B. Yanny, J. A. Smith, P. C. Hewett, E. F. Bell, H.-W. Rix, O. Y. Gnedin, S. Vidrih, R. F. G. Wyse, B. Willman, E. K. Grebel, D. P. Schneider, T. C. Beers, A. Y. Kniazev, J. C. Barentine, H. Brewington, J. Brinkmann, M. Harvanek, S. J. Kleinman, J. Krzesinski, D. Long, A. Nitta, and S. A. Snedden
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 650, Issue: 1
  • ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT | PDF (942 kB) | PS
• # 3 - A Direct Empirical Proof of the Existence of Dark Matter
  • Douglas Clowe, Maruša Bradač, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Maxim Markevitch, Scott W. Randall, Christine Jones, and Dennis Zaritsky
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 648, Issue: 2
  • ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT | PDF (983 kB) | PS
• # 4 - A near-ultraviolet view of the inner region of M 31 with the large binocular telescope
  • G. Beccari, M. Bellazzini, G. Clementini, L. Federici, F. Fusi Pecci, S. Galleti, P. Montegriffo, E. Giallongo, R. Ragazzoni, A. Grazian, A. Baruffolo, C. De Santis, E. Diolaiti, A. Di Paola, J. Farinato, A. Fontana, S. Gallozzi, F. Gasparo, G. Gentile, R. Green, J. Hill, O. Kuhn, N. Menci, F. Pasian, F. Pedichini, R. Smareglia, R. Speziali, V. Testa, D. Thompson, E. Vernet, and R. M. Wagner
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 476, Issue: 1
  • Abstract | PDF file (942.8 KB) | PS file (2.855 MB)
• # 5 - A new calibration of Galactic Cepheid period-luminosity relations from B to K bands, and a comparison to LMC relations
  • P. Fouqué, P. Arriagada, J. Storm, T. G. Barnes, N. Nardetto, A. Mérand, P. Kervella, W. Gieren, D. Bersier, G. F. Benedict, and B. E. McArthur
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 476, Issue: 1
  • Abstract | PDF file (190.0 KB) | PS file (78.46 KB)
• # 6 - A new grid of evolutionary synthesis models
  • M. Mollá, (1) M.L. García-Vargas, (2), Alessandro Bressan, (3), Pedro Gómez-Alvarez (4), ((1) Depto. de Investigacion Basica, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain, (2)FRACTAL, Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain, (3) INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padova, Italy, (4)ESAC, Villafranca del Castillo, Madrid Spain)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.3141 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 7 - A New View of the Dwarf Spheroidal Satellites of the Milky Way from VLT FLAMES: Where Are the Very Metal-poor Stars?
  • Amina Helmi, M. J. Irwin, E. Tolstoy, G. Battaglia, V. Hill, P. Jablonka, K. Venn, M. Shetrone, B. Letarte, N. Arimoto, T. Abel, P. Francois, A. Kaufer, F. Primas, K. Sadakane, and T. Szeifert
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 651, Issue: 2
  • ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT | PDF (240 kB) | PS
• # 8 - Astronomy: Sloan at five
  • Robert C. Kennicutt Jr
  • Nature - Volume: 450, Issue: 7169
  • Full Text | PDF (161K)
• # 9 - Beat Cepheids as Probes of Stellar and Galactic Metallicity: The New AGS Abundances
  • J. Robert Buchler
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.2682 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 10 - Beyond 1D: spectral line formation with 3D hydrodynamical model atmospheres of red giants
  • R. Collet, M. Asplund, R. Trampedach
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.3186 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 11 - Carbon-enhanced Metal-poor Stars: Osmium and Iridium Abundances in the Neutron-Capture–enhanced Subgiants CS 31062-050 and LP 625-44
  • Wako Aoki, Sara Bisterzo, Roberto Gallino, Timothy C. Beers, John E. Norris, Sean G. Ryan, and Stelios Tsangarides
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 650, Issue: 2
  • ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT WITH ENHANCEMENTS | PDF (324 kB) | PS
• # 12 - Deep near-infrared photometry of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Reconciling theory and observations
  • M. Salaris, E. V. Held, S. Ortolani, M. Gullieuszik, and Y. Momany
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 476, Issue: 1
  • Abstract | PDF file (778.1 KB) | PS file (366.3 KB)
• # 13 - Evolutionary studies of the Young Star Clusters: \NGC 1960, NGC 2453 and NGC 2384
  • Priya Hasan, G. C. Kilambi, S. N. Hasan
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.3104 [pdf, other]
• # 14 - Exploring Halo Substructure with Giant Stars: The Dynamics and Metallicity of the Dwarf Spheroidal in Boötes
  • Ricardo R. Muñoz, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Peter M. Frinchaboy, David L. Nidever, Steven R. Majewski, and Richard J. Patterson
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 650, Issue: 1
  • ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT | PDF (83 kB) | PS
• # 15 - EXPLORING THE LOCAL MILKY WAY: M DWARFS AS TRACERS OF GALACTIC POPULATIONS
  • John J. Bochanski, Jeffrey A. Munn, Suzanne L. Hawley, Andrew A. West, Kevin R. Covey, and Donald P. Schneider
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 134, Issue: 6
  • Abstract       Full Text       PDF (608 kB)       PostScript
• # 16 - EXPLORING THE VARIABLE SKY WITH THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
  • Branimir Sesar, Željko Ivezić, Robert H. Lupton, Mario Jurić, James E. Gunn, Gillian R. Knapp, Nathan De Lee, J. Allyn Smith, Gajus Miknaitis, Huan Lin, Douglas Tucker, Mamoru Doi, Masayuki Tanaka, Masataka Fukugita, Jon Holtzman, Steve Kent, Brian Yanny, David Schlegel, Douglas Finkbeiner, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Constance M. Rockosi, Nicholas Bond, Brian Lee, Chris Stoughton, Sebastian Jester, Hugh Harris, Paul Harding, Jon Brinkmann, Donald P. Schneider, Donald York, Michael W. Richmond, and Daniel Vanden Berk
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 134, Issue: 6
  • Abstract       Full Text with Enhancements       PDF (6096 kB)       PostScript
• # 17 - FIRST STELLAR ABUNDANCES IN THE DWARF IRREGULAR GALAXY IC 1613
  • Gražina Tautvaišienė, Doug Geisler, George Wallerstein, Jura Borissova, Dmitry Bizyaev, Bernard E. J. Pagel, Corinne Charbonnel, and Verne Smith
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 134, Issue: 6
  • Abstract       Full Text with Enhancements       PDF (1601 kB)       PostScript
• # 18 - Fluorine in R Coronae Borealis Stars
  • Gajendra Pandey (1), David L. Lambert (2), N. Kameswara Rao (1) ((1) Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India, (2) The W.J. McDonald Observatory, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.2363 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 19 - Formation of Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters
  • Natalia Ivanova, Craig O. Heinke, Frederic A. Rasio
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.3001 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 20 - Found: The Missing Blue Opacity in Atmosphere Models of Cool Hydrogen White Dwarfs
  • P. M. Kowalski and D. Saumon
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 651, Issue: 2
  • ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT WITH ENHANCEMENTS | PDF (92 kB) | PS
• # 21 - Galactic Globular Clusters Database: a progress report
  • M. Castellani
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.2932 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 22 - Germany sets up national academy of sciences
  • Nature - Volume: 450, Issue: 7169
  • Full Text | PDF (89K)
• # 23 - Hot DQ White Dwarf Stars: A New Challenge to Stellar Evolution
  • P. Dufour, J. Liebert, G. Fontaine, N. Behara
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.3458 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 24 - How binary interactions affect stellar population synthesis
  • Zhongmu Li, Zhanwen Han
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.2362 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 25 - IMPROVED PHOTOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS FOR RED STARS OBSERVED WITH THE SDSS PHOTOMETRIC TELESCOPE
  • James R. A. Davenport, John J. Bochanski, Kevin R. Covey, Suzanne L. Hawley, Andrew A. West, and Donald P. Schneider
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 134, Issue: 6
  • Abstract       Full Text       PDF (929 kB)       PostScript
• # 26 - Inhibition of thermohaline mixing by a magnetic field in Ap star descendants: Implications for the Galactic evolution of 3He
  • Corinne Charbonnel, Jean-Paul Zahn
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.3395 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 27 - M-Dwarfs at Large Heliocentric Distances
  • E. R. Stanway (Bristol, UK), M. N. Bremer (Bristol, UK), M. D. Lehnert (GEPI, Paris, Fr), J. J. Eldridge (IoA Cambridge, UK)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.2457 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 28 - Neutron Stars in Globular Clusters
  • Natalia Ivanova, Craig O. Heinke, Frederic A. Rasio
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.3181 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 29 - New ultracool and halo white dwarf candidates in SDSS Stripe 82
  • S. Vidrih, D. M. Bramich, P. C. Hewett, N. W. Evans, G. Gilmore, S. Hodgkin, M. Smith, L. Wyrzykowski, V. Belokurov, M. Fellhauer, M. J. Irwin, R. G. McMahon, D. Zucker, J. A. Munn, H. Lin, G. Miknaitis, H. C. Harris, R. H. Lupton and D. P. Schneider
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 382, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | References | Full Text HTML | Full Text PDF (651 KB) | Rights and Permissions
• # 30 - Nuclear Astrophysics Before 1957
  • Edwin E. Salpeter
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.3139 [pdf]
• # 31 - Observations of the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy by the H.E.S.S. experiment and search for a Dark Matter signal
  • HESS Collaboration: F. Aharonian, et al
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.2369 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 32 - Old open clusters in the outer Galactic disk
  • G. Carraro, D. Geisler, S. Villanova, P. M. Frinchaboy, and S. R. Majewski
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 476, Issue: 1
  • Abstract | PDF file (380.3 KB) | PS file (125.0 KB)
• # 33 - On the nature of the fast moving star S2 in the Galactic Center
  • F. Martins (1), S. Gillessen (1), F. Eisenhauer (1), R. Genzel (1,2), T. Ott (1), S. Trippe (1) ((1) MPE Garching, (2) Berkeley)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.3344 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 34 - Open clusters: their kinematics and metellicities
  • L. Chen, J.L. Hou, J.L.Zhao, R. de Grijs
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.2540 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 35 - PopStar: A new grid of Evolutionary Synthesis Models in the Virtual Observatory
  • Marisa García-Vargas (1), Mercedes Mollá, (2), Alessandro Bressan (3), Pedro Gómez-Alvarez (4) ((1) FRACTAL SLNE, Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain, (2)CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain, (3)INAF. Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padova, Italy, (4) ESAC, Villafranca del Castillo, Madrid, Spain)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.3373 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 36 - Quests of a theoretical astronomer
  • Owen Gingerich reviews <i>Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington</i&gt, by Matthew Stanley
  • Nature - Volume: 450, Issue: 7169
  • Full Text | PDF (95K)
• # 37 - Rare White dwarf stars with carbon atmospheres
  • P. Dufour, James Liebert, G. Fontaine, N. Behara
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.3227 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 38 - RR Lyrae Stars in the Boötes Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
  • Michael H. Siegel
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 649, Issue: 2
  • ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT | PDF (85 kB) | PS
• # 39 - Spatial distribution and galactic model parameters of cataclysmic variables
  • T. Ak, S. Bilir, S. Ak and Z. Eker
  • New Astronomy - Volume: 13, Issue: 3
  • SummaryPlus | Full Text + Links | PDF (488 K) | View Related Articles
• # 40 - Spectral models for solar-scaled and α-enhanced stellar populations
  • P. Coelho, G. Bruzual, S. Charlot, A. Weiss, B. Barbuy and J. W. Ferguson
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 382, Issue: 2
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• # 41 - Stellar evolution through the ages: period variations in galactic RRab stars as derived from the GEOS database and TAROT telescopes
  • J. F. Le Borgne, A. Paschke, J. Vandenbroere, E. Poretti, A. Klotz, M. Boër, Y. Damerdji, M. Martignoni, and F. Acerbi
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 476, Issue: 1
  • Abstract | PDF file (1.386 MB) | PS file (699.5 KB)
• # 42 - Substructure in Tidal Streams: Tributaries in the Anticenter Stream
  • C. J. Grillmair
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 651, Issue: 1
  • ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT | PDF (495 kB) | PS
• # 43 - The r-Process in Proto–Neutron Star Winds with Anisotropic Neutrino Emission
  • Shinya Wanajo
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 650, Issue: 1
  • ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT | PDF (107 kB) | PS
• # 44 - The abundances of nearby red clump giants
  • Y. J. Liu, G. Zhao, J. R. Shi, G. Pietrzyński and W. Gieren
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 382, Issue: 2
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• # 45 - The Carina-Near Moving Group
  • B. Zuckerman, M. S. Bessell, Inseok Song, and S. Kim
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 649, Issue: 2
  • ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT | PDF (209 kB) | PS
• # 46 - The Century Survey Galactic Halo Project III: A Complete 4300 deg^2 Survey of Blue Horizontal Branch Stars in the Metal-Weak Thick Disk and Inner Halo
  • Warren R. Brown (1), Timothy C. Beers (2), Ronald Wilhelm (3), Carlos Allende Prieto (4), Margaret J. Geller (1), Scott J. Kenyon (1), Michael J. Kurtz (1) ((1) SAO (2) MSU (3) TTU (4) UT Austin)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.2886 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 47 - The Discovery of Fluorine in Cool Extreme Helium Stars
  • Gajendra Pandey
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 648, Issue: 2
  • ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT | PDF (99 kB) | PS
• # 48 - The effect of massive binaries on stellar populations and supernova progenitors
  • John J. Eldridge, Robert G. Izzard, Christopher A. Tout
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.3079 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 49 - The formation of galaxy discs in a hierarchical universe
  • M. J. Stringer and A. J. Benson
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 382, Issue: 2
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• # 50 - The Local Group dwarf Leo T: HI on the brink of star formation
  • Emma V. Ryan-Weber (1), Ayesha Begum (1), Tom Oosterloo (2,3), Sabyasachi Pal (4) Michael J. Irwin (1), Vasily Belokurov (1), N. Wyn Evans (1), Daniel B. Zucker (1), ((1) IoA, Cambridge, (2) Astron, (3) Kapteyn Institute, (4) NCRA)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.2979 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 51 - The MW is an exceptionnally quiet galaxy: implications for spiral formation
  • M. Puech, F. Hammer, L. Chemin, H. Flores, M. Lehnert
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.2881 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 52 - The population of AM CVn stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  • G. H. A. Roelofs, G. Nelemans and P. J. Groot
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 382, Issue: 2
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• # 53 - The role of the star formation on the nitrogen abundance evolution
  • M. Mollá, (1), J. M. Vílchez, (2), A.I. Díaz, (3), M. Gavilán (3) ((1) CIEMAT, Departamento de Investigación Básica, Madrid, Spain, (2) Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Granada, Spain, (3) Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.3133 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 54 - UK astronomers stunned by Gemini withdrawal
  • Eric Hand
  • Nature - Volume: 450, Issue: 7169
  • Full Text | PDF (89K)
• # 55 - Volume limited dependent Galactic model parameters
  • S. Karaali, S. Bilir, E. Yaz, E. Hamzaoglu, R. Buser
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2007, Issue: 22 Nov
  • arXiv:0711.2355 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 56 - What can be deduced from open cluster metallicity measurements?
  • Chris Koen and Fred Lombard
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 382, Issue: 2
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• # 57 - White dwarf stars with carbon atmospheres
  • P. Dufour, J. Liebert, G. Fontaine &, N. Behara
  • Nature - Volume: 450, Issue: 7169
  • First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (169K)