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JINA - Segue Virtual Journal, 28 March 2008

Volume 3, Issue 13 (44 Articles)

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• # 1 - Effects of Metallicity on the Chemical Composition of Carbon Stars
  • J. M. Leisenring, F. Kemper, G. C. Sloan
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2008, Issue: 27 Mar
  • arXiv:0803.3067 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 2 - Effects of primordial chemistry on the cosmic microwave background
  • D. R. G. Schleicher, D. Galli, F. Palla, M. Camenzind, R. S. Klessen, M. Bartelmann, S. C. O. Glover
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2008, Issue: 27 Mar
  • arXiv:0803.3987 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 3 - Evidence for metallicity spreads in three massive M31 globular clusters
  • Isaura Fuentes-Carrera (1,2), Pascale Jablonka (3,4), Ata Sarajedini (5), Terry Bridges (6), George Djorgovski (7), Georges Meylan (4) ((1)Observatoire de Paris, (2)Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisica e Ciencias Atmosfericas-USP, (3)Observatoire de Geneve, (4)Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, (5)University of Florida, (6)Queen's University (7)California Institute of Technology)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2008, Issue: 27 Mar
  • arXiv:0803.3071 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 4 - Extragalactic Stellar Astronomy with the Brightest Stars in the Universe
  • R.-P. Kudritzki (1), M.A. Urbaneja (1), F. Bresolin (1), N. Przybilla (2) ((1) University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy, (2) Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg, Erlangen University)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2008, Issue: 27 Mar
  • arXiv:0803.3656 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 5 - Nucleosynthesis and Evolution of Massive Metal-Free Stars
  • Alexander Heger (1 and 2), S. E. Woosley (2) ((1) LANL, (2) UCSC)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2008, Issue: 27 Mar
  • arXiv:0803.3161 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 6 - Planetary Nebulae: Exposing the Top Polluters of the ISM
  • Joseph L. Hora, Massimo Marengo, Howard A. Smith, Luciano Cerrigone, William B. Latter
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2008, Issue: 27 Mar
  • arXiv:0803.3937 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 7 - Probing the Early Evolution of Young High-Mass Stars
  • E. Puga (KUL), A. Bik (ESO), L. B. M. F. Waters (API), Th. Henning (MPIA), L. Kaper (API), M. van den Ancker (ESO), A. Lenorzer (IAC), E. Churchwell (University of Wisconsin), S. Kurtz (UNAM), J. A. Rodon (MPIA), T. Vasyunina (MPIA), M. B. N. Kouwenhoven (University of Sheffield), H. Beuther (MPIA), H. Linz (MPIA), M. Horrobin (API), A. Stolte (UCLA), A. de Koter (API), W. F. Thi (Royal Observatory of Edinburgh), N. L. Martin-Hernandez (IAC), B. Acke (KUL), F. Comeron (ESO), G. van der Plas (ESO), Ch. Waelkens (KUL), C. Dominik (API), M. Feldt (MPIA)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2008, Issue: 27 Mar
  • arXiv:0803.3897 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 8 - SDSS 1507+02: A Halo Cataclysmic Variable?
  • J. Patterson, J. R. Thorstensen, C. Knigge
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2008, Issue: 27 Mar
  • arXiv:0803.3548 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 9 - The effect of rotation on the abundances of the chemical elements of the A-type stars in the Praesepe cluster
  • L. Fossati, S. Bagnulo, J. Landstreet, G. Wade, O. Kochukhov, R. Monier, W. Weiss, M. Gebran
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2008, Issue: 27 Mar
  • arXiv:0803.3540 [pdf, other]
• # 10 - The FLAMINGOS-2 Galactic Center Survey
  • Stephen S. Eikenberry (University of Florida)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2008, Issue: 27 Mar
  • arXiv:0803.3084 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 11 - The solar photospheric abundance of hafnium and thorium. Results from CO5BOLD 3D hydrodynamic model atmospheres
  • Elisabetta Caffau (GEPI), L. Sbordone (GEPI, Cifist), H.-G. Ludwig (GEPI, Cifist), P. Bonifacio (GEPI, Cifist, Inaf-Oat), M. Steffen (AIP), N.T. Behara (GEPI, Cifist)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2008, Issue: 27 Mar
  • arXiv:0803.3585 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 12 - Setting UBVRI Photometric Zero-Points Using Sloan Digital Sky Survey ugriz Magnitudes
  • <em >Taylor S. Chonis and C. Martin Gaskell</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 1
  • Abstract | References | Citing articles
• # 13 - The Distance of the First Overtone RR Lyrae Variables in the MACHO Large Magellanic Cloud Database: A New Method to Correct for the Effects of Crowding
  • <em >C. M. Clement, X. Xu and A. V. Muzzin</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 1
  • Abstract | References
• # 14 - The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Technical Summary
  • Joshua A. Frieman, Bruce Bassett, Andrew Becker, Changsu Choi, David Cinabro, Fritz DeJongh, Darren L. Depoy, Ben Dilday, Mamoru Doi, Peter M. Garnavich, Craig J. Hogan, Jon Holtzman, Myungshin Im, Saurabh Jha, Richard Kessler, Kohki Konishi, Hubert Lampeitl, John Marriner, Jennifer L. Marshall, David McGinnis, Gajus Miknaitis, Robert C. Nichol, Jose Luis Prieto, Adam G. Riess, Michael W. Richmond, Roger Romani, Masao Sako, Donald P. Schneider, Mathew Smith, Naohiro Takanashi, Kouichi Tokita, Kurt van der Heyden, Naoki Yasuda, Chen Zheng, Jennifer Adelman-McCarthy, James Annis, Roberto J. Assef, John Barentine, Ralf Bender, Roger D. Blandford, William N. Boroski, Malcolm Bremer, Howard Brewington, Chris A. Collins, Arlin Crotts, Jack Dembicky, Jason Eastman, Alastair Edge, Edmond Edmondson, Edward Elson, Michael E. Eyler, Alexei V. Filippenko, Ryan J. Foley, Stephan Frank, Ariel Goobar, Tina Gueth, James E. Gunn, Michael Harvanek, Ulrich Hopp, Yutaka Ihara, Želko Ivezić, Steven Kahn, Jared Kaplan, Stephen Kent, William Ketzeback, Scott J. Kleinman, Wolfram Kollatschny, Richard G Kron, Jurek Krzesiński, Dennis Lamenti, Giorgos Leloudas, Huan Lin, Daniel C. Long, John Lucey, Robert H. Lupton, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Russet J. McMillan, Javier Mendez, Christopher W. Morgan, Tomoki Morokuma, Atsuko Nitta, Linda Ostman, Kaike Pan, Constance M. Rockosi, A. Kathy Romer, Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente, Gabrelle Saurage, Katie Schlesinger, Stephanie A. Snedden, Jesper Sollerman, Chris Stoughton, Maximilian Stritzinger, Mark SubbaRao, Douglas Tucker, Petri Vaisanen, Linda C. Watson, Shannon Watters, J. Craig Wheeler, Brian Yanny and Donald York
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 1
  • Abstract | References | Citing articles
• # 15 - White Dwarf Luminosity and Mass Functions from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Spectra
  • <em >Steven DeGennaro, Ted von Hippel, D. E. Winget, S. O. Kepler, Atsuko Nitta, Detlev Koester and Leandro Althaus</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 1
  • Abstract | References | Citing articles
• # 16 - Abundance Pattern of Metal-Rich Stars from 14 Old and 24 Young Stars
  • <em >Y. Q. Chen, G. Zhao, H. Izumiura, J. K. Zhao, Y. J. Liu, S. Honda and M. Ohkubo</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | References
• # 17 - Fiducial Stellar Population Sequences for the u'g'r'i'z' System
  • <em >James L. Clem, Don A. VandenBerg and Peter B. Stetson</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | References
• # 18 - L-Dwarf Binaries in the 20-Parsec Sample
  • <em >I. Neill Reid, K. L. Cruz, Adam J. Burgasser and Michael C. Liu</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | References
• # 19 - The Century Survey Galactic Halo Project III: A Complete 4300 DEG² Survey of Blue Horizontal Branch Stars in the Metal-Weak Thick Disk and Inner Halo
  • <em >Warren R. Brown, Timothy C. Beers, Ronald Wilhelm, Carlos Allende Prieto, Margaret J. Geller, Scott J. Kenyon and Michael J. Kurtz</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | References
• # 20 - The Difference Between Metal-Poor and Metal-Rich Binaries
  • <em >Helmut A. Abt</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | References
• # 21 - The Extinction Toward the Galactic Bulge from RR Lyrae Stars
  • <em >Andrea Kunder, Piotr Popowski, Kem H. Cook and Brian Chaboyer</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | References
• # 22 - Constraining the Age-Activity Relation for Cool Stars: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 Low-Mass Star Spectroscopic Sample
  • <em >Andrew A. West, Suzanne L. Hawley, John J. Bochanski, Kevin R. Covey, I. Neill Reid, Saurav Dhital, Eric J. Hilton, and Michael Masuda</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 3
  • Abstract | References | Citing articles
• # 23 - Finding Extreme Subdwarfs
  • <em >J. L. Marshall</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 3
  • Abstract | References
• # 24 - Identification, Classifications, and Absolute Properties of 773 Eclipsing Binaries Found in the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey
  • <em >Jonathan Devor, David Charbonneau, Francis T. O'Donovan, Georgi Mandushev, and Guillermo Torres</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 3
  • Abstract | References
• # 25 - Light Element Abundances in Two Chemically Peculiar Stars: HD 104340 and HD 206983
  • <em >N. A. Drake and C. B. Pereira</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 3
  • Abstract | References
• # 26 - On the Galactic Absorption
  • H. M. Tovmassian, M. Rodríguez, and O. Yam
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 3
  • Abstract | References
• # 27 - Proper Motions of the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud: Re-Analysis of Hubble Space Telescope Data
  • <em >Slawomir Piatek, Carlton Pryor, and Edward W. Olszewski</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 3
  • Abstract | References
• # 28 - Rotation and Macroturbulence in Metal-Poor Field Red Giant and Red Horizontal Branch Stars
  • <em >Bruce W. Carney, David F. Gray, David Yong, David W. Latham, Nadine Manset, Rachel Zelman, and John B. Laird</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 3
  • Abstract | References
• # 29 - The Chemical Enrichment History of the Large Magellanic Cloud
  • <em >R. Carrera, C. Gallart, Eduardo Hardy, A. Aparicio, and R. Zinn</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 3
  • Abstract | References
• # 30 - A New Abundance Scale for the Globular Cluster 47 Tuc
  • <em >Andreas Koch and Andrew McWilliam</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 4
  • Abstract | References
• # 31 - Complexity on Small Scales. III. Iron and α Element Abundances in the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
  • <em >Andreas Koch, Eva K. Grebel, Gerard F. Gilmore, Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Jan T. Kleyna, Daniel R. Harbeck, Mark I. Wilkinson, and N. Wyn Evans</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 4
  • Abstract | References
• # 32 - Precise Estimates of the Synthetic Spectral Distances to DA White Dwarfs
  • <em >J. B. Holberg, P. Bergeron, and A. Gianninas</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 4
  • Abstract | References
• # 33 - The Globular Cluster M15. I. Identification, Discovery, and Period Determination of Variable Stars
  • <em >T. Michael Corwin, J. Borissova, Peter B. Stetson, M. Catelan, Horace A. Smith, R. Kurtev, and Andrew W. Stephens</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 135, Issue: 4
  • Abstract | References
• # 34 - A non-local thermodynamic equilibrum study of scandium in the Sun
  • H. W. Zhang, T. Gehren, and G. Zhao
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 481, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | PDF file (390.0 KB) | PS file (189.3 KB)
• # 35 - Atomic data from the IRON Project - LXV. Electron-impact excitation of Fe⁶⁺
  • M. C. Witthoeft and N. R. Badnell
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 481, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | PDF file (588.6 KB) | PS file (1.338 MB)
• # 36 - Nitrogen enrichment, boron depletion and magnetic fields in slowly-rotating B-type dwarfs
  • T. Morel, S. Hubrig, and M. Briquet
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 481, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | PDF file (428.2 KB) | PS file (143.2 KB)
• # 37 - NLTE determination of the aluminium abundance in a homogeneous sample of extremely metal-poor stars
  • S. M. Andrievsky, M. Spite, S. A. Korotin, F. Spite, P. Bonifacio, R. Cayrel, V. Hill, and P. François
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 481, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | PDF file (203.8 KB) | PS file (71.07 KB)
• # 38 - The distance to the Galactic centre based on Population II Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars
  • M. A. T. Groenewegen, A. Udalski, and G. Bono
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 481, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | PDF file (532.1 KB) | PS file (130.8 KB)
• # 39 - 1917–2008: A Space Optimist
  • Nature - Volume: 452, Issue: 7186
  • Full Text | PDF (62K)
• # 40 - Faculty protest at sale of Canadian observatory
  • Nature - Volume: 452, Issue: 7186
  • Full Text | PDF (100K)
• # 41 - The Impact of the ¹⁸F(α,p)²¹Ne Reaction on Asymptotic Giant Branch Nucleosynthesis
  • Amanda I. Karakas, Hye Young Lee, Maria Lugaro, J. Görres, and M. Wiescher
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 676, Issue: 2
  • Abstract-Full Text-PDF Version (2286 kB)
• # 42 - The Rotational Spectrum of TiO₂
  • S. Brünken, H. S. P. Müller, K. M. Menten, M. C. McCarthy, and P. Thaddeus
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 676, Issue: 2
  • Abstract-Full Text-PDF Version (188 kB)
• # 43 - Dark Matter Capture and Annihilation on the First Stars: Preliminary Estimates
  • Fabio Iocco
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 677, Issue: 1
  • Abstract-Full Text-PDF Version (66 kB)
• # 44 - The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  • Jennifer K. Adelman‐McCarthy, Marcel A. Agüeros, Sahar S. Allam, Carlos Allende Prieto, Kurt S.J. Anderson, Scott F. Anderson, James Annis, Neta A. Bahcall, C. A. L. Bailer‐Jones, Ivan K. Baldry, J. C. Barentine, Bruce A. Bassett, Andrew C. Becker, Timothy C. Beers, Eric F. Bell, Andreas A. Berlind, Mariangela Bernardi, Michael R. Blanton, John J. Bochanski, William N. Boroski, Jarle Brinchmann, J. Brinkmann, Robert J. Brunner, Tamás Budavári, Samuel Carliles, Michael A. Carr, Francisco J. Castander, David Cinabro, R. J. Cool, Kevin R. Covey, István Csabai, Carlos E. Cunha, James R. A. Davenport, Ben Dilday, Mamoru Doi, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Michael L. Evans, Xiaohui Fan, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Scott D. Friedman, Joshua A. Frieman, Masataka Fukugita, Boris T. Gänsicke, Evalyn Gates, Bruce Gillespie, Karl Glazebrook, Jim Gray, Eva K. Grebel, James E. Gunn, Vijay K. Gurbani, Patrick B. Hall, Paul Harding, Michael Harvanek, Suzanne L. Hawley, Jeffrey Hayes, Timothy M. Heckman, John S. Hendry, Robert B. Hindsley, Christopher M. Hirata, Craig J. Hogan, David W. Hogg, Joseph B. Hyde, Shin‐ichi Ichikawa, Željko Ivezić, Sebastian Jester, Jennifer A. Johnson, Anders M. Jorgensen, Mario Jurić, Stephen M. Kent, R. Kessler, S. J. Kleinman, G. R. Knapp, Richard G. Kron, Jurek Krzesinski, Nikolay Kuropatkin, Donald Q. Lamb, Hubert Lampeitl, Svetlana Lebedeva, Young Sun Lee, R. French Leger, Sébastien Lépine, Marcos Lima, Huan Lin, Daniel C. Long, Craig P. Loomis, Jon Loveday, Robert H. Lupton, Olena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Rachel Mandelbaum, Bruce Margon, John P. Marriner, David Martínez‐Delgado, Takahiko Matsubara, Peregrine M. McGehee, Timothy A. McKay, Avery Meiksin, Heather L. Morrison, Jeffrey A. Munn, Reiko Nakajima, Eric H. Neilsen, Jr., Heidi Jo Newberg, Robert C. Nichol, Tom Nicinski, Maria Nieto‐Santisteban, Atsuko Nitta, Sadanori Okamura, Russell Owen, Hiroaki Oyaizu, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Kaike Pan, Changbom Park, John Peoples, Jr., Jeffrey R. Pier, Adrian C. Pope, Norbert Purger, M. Jordan Raddick, Paola Re Fiorentin, Gordon T. Richards, Michael W. Richmond, Adam G. Riess, Hans‐Walter Rix, Constance M. Rockosi, Masao Sako, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Matthias R. Schreiber, Axel D. Schwope, Uroš, Seljak, Branimir Sesar, Erin Sheldon, Kazu Shimasaku, Thirupathi Sivarani, J. Allyn Smith, Stephanie A. Snedden, Matthias Steinmetz, Michael A. Strauss, Mark SubbaRao, Yasushi Suto, Alexander S. Szalay, István Szapudi, Paula Szkody, Max Tegmark, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Christy A. Tremonti, Douglas L. Tucker, Alan Uomoto, Daniel E. Vanden Berk, Jan Vandenberg, S. Vidrih, Michael S. Vogeley, Wolfgang Voges, Nicole P. Vogt, Yogesh Wadadekar, David H. Weinberg, Andrew A. West, Simon D. M. White, Brian C. Wilhite, Brian Yanny, D. R. Yocum, Donald G. York, Idit Zehavi, and Daniel B. Zucker
  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement - Volume: 175, Issue: 2
  • Abstract-Full Text-PDF Version (3580 kB)