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JINA - Segue Virtual Journal, 20 March 2009

Volume 4, Issue 12 (36 Articles)

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• # 1 - A Method for Simultaneous Determination of Metallicity and Reddening of a Globular Cluster based on the $V vs. (B-R)$ Color-Magnitude Diagram
  • A.N.Gerashchenko
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.2351 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 2 - An HST/ACS View of the Inhomogeneous Outer Halo of M31
  • J. C. Richardson, A. M. N. Ferguson, A. D. Mackey, M. J. Irwin, S. C. Chapman, A. Huxor, R. A. Ibata, G. F. Lewis, N. R. Tanvir
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.3258 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 3 - Astronomical Data Analysis and Sparsity: from Wavelets to Compressed Sensing
  • Jean-Luc Starck, Jerome Bobin
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.3383 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 4 - Chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge as traced by microlensed dwarf and subgiant stars. Detailed abundance analysis of OGLE-2008-BLG-209S
  • T. Bensby (1), J.A. Johnson (2), J. Cohen (3), S. Feltzing (4), A. Udalski (5), A. Gould (2), W. Huang (6), I. Thompson (7), J. Simmerer (4), D. Adén (4) ((1) European Southern Observatory, Santiago, Chile, (2) Dept. of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, (3) Palomar Observatory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, (4) Lund Observatory, Sweden, (5) Warzaw University Observatory, Poland, (6) Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, (7) The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pasadena, USA)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.3044 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 5 - Discovery of the Widest Very Low Mass Field Binary
  • Jacqueline Radigan, David Lafrenière, Ray Jayawardhana, René, Doyon
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.3251 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 6 - Distance to the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy using MACHO Project RR Lyrae stars
  • Andrea Kunder, Brian Chaboyer
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.3040 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 7 - Educating the Next Generation of Leading Scientists: Turning Ideas into Action
  • Michael Wood-Vasey (Pitt), Regina Schulte-Ladbeck (Pitt), William Blair (JHU), Kirk Borne (George Mason), Mark Clampin (NASA/GSFC), Ian Gatley (RIT), Paul Graf (Aerospace Solutions, LLC), Zeljko Ivezic (U Washington), Eugene Magnier (IfA), John Mather (NASA/GSFC), Christopher Stubbs (Harvard), Andrea Schweitzer (Little Thompson Observatory), Tony Spadafora (LBNL), Phil Stahl (NASA), Tony Tyson (UC Davis)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.3327 [pdf]
• # 8 - Globular cluster systems in nearby dwarf galaxies - II. Nuclear star clusters and their relation to massive Galactic globular clusters
  • Iskren Y. Georgiev (1), Michael Hilker (2), Thomas H. Puzia (3), Paul Goudfrooij (4), Holger Baumgardt (1) ((1) AIfA, Bonn, Germany; (2) ESO, Garching b. Munchen, Germany; (3) HIA, Victoria, Canada; (4) STScI, Baltimore, USA)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.2857 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 9 - High resolution NaI and CaII absorption observations towards M13, M15 and M33
  • B. Y. Welsh, J. M. Wheatley, R. Lallement
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.3268 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 10 - Kinematics of the Orion Nebula Cluster: Velocity Substructure and Spectroscopic Binaries
  • J. J. Tobin, L. Hartmann, G. Furesz, M. Mateo, S. T. Megeath
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.2775 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 11 - Laboratory Astrophysics and the State of Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • AAS WGLA: Nancy Brickhouse, John Cowan, Paul Drake, Steven Federman, Gary Ferland, Adam Frank, Wick Haxton, Eric Herbst, Keith Olive, Farid Salama, Daniel Wolf Savin, Lucy Ziurys
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.2469 [pdf]
• # 12 - Low-Energy Astrophysics: Stimulating the Reduction of Energy Consumption in the Next Decade
  • P.J. Marshall, N. Bennert, E.S. Rykoff, K.J. Shen, J.D.R. Steinfadt, J. Fregeau, R-R. Chary, K. Sheth, B. Weiner, K.B. Henisey, E.L. Quetin, R. Antonucci, D. Kaplan, P. Jonsson, M.W. Auger, C. Cardamone, T. Tao, D.E. Holz, M. Bradac, T.S. Metcalfe, S. McHugh, M. Elvis, B.J. Brewer, T. Urrutia, F. Guo, W. Hovest, R. Nakajima, B.-Q. For, D. Erb, D. Paneque
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.3384 [pdf]
• # 13 - Mapping the Galactic Halo VIII: Quantifying substructure
  • Else Starkenburg, Amina Helmi, Heather L. Morrison, Paul Harding, Hugo van Woerden, Mario Mateo, Edward W. Olszewski, Thirupathi Sivarani, John E. Norris, Kenneth C. Freeman, Stephen A. Shectman, R.C. Dohm-Palmer, Lucy Frey, Dan Oravetz
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.3043 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 14 - Multiple Population Theory: Extreme helium population problem
  • Sukyoung K. Yi
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.2891 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 15 - PHL5038: A spatially resolved white dwarf + brown dwarf binary
  • P.R. Steele, M.R. Burleigh, J. Farihi, B.T. Gaensicke, R.F. Jameson, P.D. Dobbie, M.A. Barstow
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.3219 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 16 - Photometric Calibrations for 21st Century Science
  • Stephen Kent, Mary Elizabeth Kaiser, Susana E.Deustua, J. Allyn Smith, Saul Adelman, Sahar Allam, Brian Baptista, Ralph C. Bohlin, James L. Clem, Alex Conley, Jerry Edelstein, Jay Elias, Ian Glass, Arne Henden, Steve Howell, Randy A. Kimble, Jeffrey W. Kruk, Michael Lampton, Eugene A. Magnier, Stephan R. McCandliss, Warren Moos, Nick Mostek, Stuart Mufson, Terry D. Oswalt, Saul Perlmutter, Carlos Allende Prieto, Bernard J. Rauscher, Adam Riess, Abhijit Saha, Mark Sullivan, Nicholas Suntzeff, Alan Tokunaga, Douglas Tucker, Robert Wing, Bruce Woodgate, Edward L. Wright
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.2799 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 17 - Resolving the timing problem of the globular clusters orbiting the Fornax dwarf galaxy
  • Garry W. Angus, Antonaldo Diaferio
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.2874 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 18 - The End of the White Dwarf Cooling Sequence in M4: an efficient approach
  • L. R. Bedin (1), M. Salaris (2), G. Piotto (3), J. Anderson (1), I. R. King (4), S. Cassisi (5) ((1) STScI, (2) J.M.Univ.Liverpool, (3) Univ.PD, (4) Univ.of Washington Seattle, (5) INAF-Obs.Teramo)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.2839 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 19 - The evolution of low-metallicity asymptotic giant branch stars and the formation of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars
  • Herbert H. B. Lau, Richard J. Stancliffe, Christopher A. Tout
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.2324 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 20 - The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Decennial Report
  • Michael J. Kurtz, Alberto Accomazzi, Stephen S. Murray
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.3228 [pdf]
• # 21 - The Star Formation Law at Low Surface Density
  • Ted K. Wyder (1), D. Christopher Martin (1), Tom A. Barlow (1), Karl Forster (1), Peter G. Friedman (1), Patrick Morrissey (1), Susan G. Neff (2), James D. Neill (1), David Schiminovich (3), Mark Seibert (4), Luciana Bianchi (5), Jose Donas (6), Timothy M. Heckman (7), Young-Wook Lee (8), Barrry F. Madore (4), Bruno Milliard (6), R. Michael Rich (9), Alex S. Szalay (7), Sukyoung K. Yi (8) ((1) California Institute of Technology, (2) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, (3) Columbia University, (4) Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, (5) Center for Astrophysical Science Johns Hopkins University, (6) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, (7) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Johns Hopkins University, (8) Yonsei University, (9) University of California Los Angeles)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.3015 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 22 - ULySS: A Full Spectrum Fitting Package
  • Mina Koleva, Philippe Prugniel, Antoine Bouchard, Yue Wu
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.2979 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 23 - Wide-Field Astronomical Surveys in the Next Decade
  • M.A. Strauss, J.A. Tyson, S.F. Anderson, T.S. Axelrod, A.C. Becker, S.J. Bickerton, M.R. Blanton, D.L. Burke, J.J. Condon, A.J. Connolly, A. Cooray, K.R. Covey, I. Csabai, H.C. Ferguson, Z. Ivezic, J. Kantor, S.M. Kent, G.R. Knapp, S.T. Myers, E.H. Neilsen, R.C. Nichol, M.J. Raddick, B.T. Soifer, M. Steinmetz, C.W. Stubbs, J.L. Tonry, L.M. Walkowicz, R.L. White, S. Wolff, W.M. Wood-Vasey, D.G. York
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 20 Mar
  • arXiv:0903.3149 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 24 - Could the Fermi Large Area Telescope detect $gamma$-rays from dark matter annihilation in the dwarf galaxies of the Local Group?
  • L. Pieri, A. Pizzella, E. M. Corsini, E. Dalla Bontà, and F. Bertola
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 496, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | PDF file (436.2 KB) | PS file (162.1 KB)
• # 25 - Depth estimation of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
  • S. Subramanian and A. Subramaniam
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 496, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | PDF file (770.9 KB) | PS file (568.2 KB)
• # 26 - Membership and lithium in the old, metal-poor open cluster Berkeley 32
  • S. Randich, G. Pace, L. Pastori, and A. Bragaglia
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 496, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | PDF file (402.9 KB) | PS file (760.2 KB)
• # 27 - Structure of the SMC - Stellar component distribution from 2MASS data
  • I. Gonidakis, E. Livanou, E. Kontizas, U. Klein, M. Kontizas, M. Belcheva, P. Tsalmantza, and A. Karampelas
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 496, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | PDF file (429.7 KB) | PS file (244.2 KB)
• # 28 - The origin of abundance gradients in the Milky Way: the predictions of different models
  • E. Colavitti, G. Cescutti, F. Matteucci, and G. Murante
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 496, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | PDF file (313.1 KB) | PS file (249.5 KB)
• # 29 - Asymptotic giant branch stars in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy
  • Patricia A. Whitelock, John W. Menzies, Michael W. Feast, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Toshihiko Tanabé, Yoshifusa Ita
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 394, Issue: 2
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• # 30 - Giants in the globular cluster omega Centauri: dust production, mass-loss and distance
  • Iain McDonald, Jacco Th. van Loon, Leen Decin, Martha L. Boyer, Andrea K. Dupree, Aneurin Evans, Robert D. Gehrz, Charles E. Woodward
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 394, Issue: 2
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• # 31 - Light element abundances in carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars
  • Richard J. Stancliffe
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 394, Issue: 2
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• # 32 - Post-common-envelope binaries from SDSS – V. Four eclipsing white dwarf main-sequence binaries
  • S. Pyrzas, B. T. Gänsicke, T. R. Marsh, A. Aungwerojwit, A. Rebassa-Mansergas, P. Rodríguez-Gil, J. Southworth, M. R. Schreiber, A. Nebot Gomez-Moran, D. Koester
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 394, Issue: 2
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• # 33 - Stellar overdensities in the halo: the extent of the Virgo overdensity^★
  • Stefan C. Keller, Gary S. Da Costa, Sayuri L. Prior
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 394, Issue: 2
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• # 34 - The UKIDSS–2MASS proper motion survey – I. Ultracool dwarfs from UKIDSS DR4
  • N. R. Deacon, N. C. Hambly, R. R. King, M. J. McCaughrean
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 394, Issue: 2
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• # 35 - Fashionably Late? Building Up The Milky Way'S Inner Halo
  • <em >Heather L. Morrison, Amina Helmi, Jiayang Sun, Peng Liu, Rongfang Gu, John E. Norris, Paul Harding, T. D. Kinman, Amanda A. Kepley, Kenneth C. Freeman, Mary Williams, and Jeffrey Van Duyne</em&gt,
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 694, Issue: 1
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• # 36 - The Chemical Abundances in the Galactic Center from the Atmospheres of Red Supergiants
  • <em >Ben Davies, Livia Origlia, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Don F. Figer, R. Michael Rich, and Francisco Najarro</em&gt,
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 694, Issue: 1
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