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JINA - Segue Virtual Journal, 10 April 2009

Volume 4, Issue 15 (35 Articles)

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• # 1 - BigBOSS: The Ground-Based Stage IV Dark Energy Experiment
  • David J. Schlegel (1), Chris Bebek (1), Henry Heetderks (1), Shirley Ho (1), Michael Lampton (1), Michael Levi (1), Nick Mostek (1), Nikhil Padmanabhan (1), Saul Perlmutter (1), Natalie Roe (1), Michael Sholl (1), George Smoot (1), Martin White (1), Arjun Dey (2), Tony Abraham (2), Buell Jannuzi (2), Dick Joyce (2), Ming Liang (2), Mike Merrill (2), Knut Olsen (2), Samir Salim (2) ((1) Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, (2) National Optical Astronomy Observatory)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 10 Apr
  • arXiv:0904.0468 [pdf]
• # 2 - Blue straggler stars in dwarf spheroidal galaxies II: Sculptor and Fornax
  • M. Mapelli, E. Ripamonti, G. Battaglia, E. Tolstoy, M. J. Irwin, B. Moore, S. Sigurdsson
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 10 Apr
  • arXiv:0904.0530 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 3 - Fully Automated Approaches to Analyze Large-Scale Astronomy Survey Data
  • A. Prsa, E. F. Guinan, E. J. Devinney, S. G. Engle, M. DeGeorge, G. P. McCook, P. A. Maurone, J. Pepper, D. J. James, D. H. Bradstreet, C. R. Alcock, J. Devor, R. Seaman, T. Zwitter, K. Long, R. E. Wilson, I. Ribas, A. Gimenez
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 10 Apr
  • arXiv:0904.0739 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 4 - GALEX-SDSS Catalogs for Statistical Studies
  • T. Budavari, S. Heinis, A. S. Szalay, M. Nieto-Santisteban, J. Gupchup, B. Shiao, M. Smith, R. Chang, G. Kauffmann, P. Morrissey, D. Schiminovich, B. Milliard, T. K. Wyder, D. C. Martin, T. A. Barlow, M. Seibert, K. Forster, L. Bianchi, J. Donas, P. G. Friedman, T. M. Heckman, Y.-W. Lee, B. F. Madore, S. G. Neff, R. M. Rich, B. Y. Welsh
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 10 Apr
  • arXiv:0904.1392 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 5 - Halo streams in the 7th SDSS data release
  • R. Klement (MPIA), H.-W. Rix (MPIA), C. Flynn (Tuorla), B. Fuchs (ARI), T. C. Beers (MSU), C. Allende Prieto (UT), D. Bizyaev (APO), H. Brewington (APO), Y. S. Lee (MSU), E. Malanushenko (APO), V. Malanushenko (APO), D. Oravetz (APO), K. Pan (APO), P. Re Fiorentin (MPIA), A. Simmons (APO), S. Snedden (APO)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 10 Apr
  • arXiv:0904.1003 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 6 - Kinematics of SDSS subdwarfs: Structure and substructure of the Milky Way halo
  • M.C. Smith (1), N.W. Evans (1), V. Belokurov (1), P.C. Hewett (1), D.M. Bramich (2), G. Gilmore (1), M.J. Irwin (1), S. Vidrih (3), D.B. Zucker (4) ((1) Cambridge, (2) ING, (3) Heidelberg, (4) Macquarie)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 10 Apr
  • arXiv:0904.1012 [pdf, other]
• # 7 - Lithium Abundances of Extremely Metal-Poor Turn-off Stars
  • Wako Aoki, Paul S. Barklem, Timothy C. Beers, Norbert Christlieb, Susumu Inoue, Ana E. Garcia Perez, John E. Norris, Daniela Carollo
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 10 Apr
  • arXiv:0904.1448 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 8 - On the Mass and Metallicity Distributions of the Parent AGB Stars of O-rich Presolar Stardust Grains
  • Larry R. Nittler
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 10 Apr
  • arXiv:0904.1388 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 9 - Stellar Metallicities and Kinematics in a Gas-Rich Dwarf Galaxy: First Calcium Triplet Spectroscopy of RGB Stars in WLM
  • Ryan Leaman, Andrew A. Cole, Kim A. Venn, Eline Tolstoy, Mike J. Irwin, Thomas Szeifert, Evan D. Skillman, Alan W. McConnachie
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 10 Apr
  • arXiv:0904.0657 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 10 - Sulphur in the Globular Clusters 47 Tucanae and NGC 6752
  • L. Sbordone, M. Limongi, A. Chieffi, E. Caffau, H.-G. Ludwig, P. Bonifacio
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 10 Apr
  • arXiv:0904.1417 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 11 - Testing Binary Population Synthesis Models with Hot Subdwarfs
  • Richard A. Wade, Ravi kumar Kopparapu (Penn State)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 10 Apr
  • arXiv:0904.0802 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 12 - The nature of the young and low-mass open clusters Pismis5, vdB80, NGC1931 and BDSB96
  • Charles Bonatto, Eduardo Bica
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 10 Apr
  • arXiv:0904.1321 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 13 - UBVRI Photometric Standard Stars Around the Celestial Equator: Updates and Additions
  • Arlo U. Landolt
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2009, Issue: 10 Apr
  • arXiv:0904.0638 [ps, pdf, other]
• # 14 - UBVRI Photometric Standard Stars Around the Celestial Equator: Updates and Additions
  • <em >Arlo U. Landolt</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 137, Issue: 5
  • Abstract | References
• # 15 - Distance to the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy Using Macho Project RR Lyrae Stars
  • <em >Andrea Kunder and Brian Chaboyer</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 137, Issue: 5
  • Abstract | References
• # 16 - Measuring the Undetectable: Proper Motions and Parallaxes of Very Faint Sources
  • <em >Dustin Lang, David W. Hogg, Sebastian Jester, and Hans-Walter Rix</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 137, Issue: 5
  • Abstract | References
• # 17 - New Neighbors: Parallaxes of 18 Nearby Stars Selected from the LSPM-North Catalog
  • Sébastien Lépine, John R. Thorstensen, Michael M. Shara, and R. Michael Rich
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 137, Issue: 5
  • Abstract | References
• # 18 - No Excess of RR Lyrae Stars in the Canis Major Overdensity
  • <em >Cecilia Mateu, A. Katherina Vivas, Robert Zinn, Lissa R. Miller, and Carlos Abad</em&gt,
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 137, Issue: 5
  • Abstract | References
• # 19 - SEGUE: A Spectroscopic Survey of 240,000 Stars with g = 14-20
  • Brian Yanny, Constance Rockosi, Heidi Jo Newberg, Gillian R. Knapp, Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy, Bonnie Alcorn, Sahar Allam, Carlos Allende Prieto, Deokkeun An, Kurt S. J. Anderson, Scott Anderson, Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones, Steve Bastian, Timothy C. Beers, Eric Bell, Vasily Belokurov, Dmitry Bizyaev, Norm Blythe, John J. Bochanski, William N. Boroski, Jarle Brinchmann, J. Brinkmann, Howard Brewington, Larry Carey, Kyle M. Cudworth, Michael Evans, N. W. Evans, Evalyn Gates, B. T. Gänsicke, Bruce Gillespie, Gerald Gilmore, Ada Nebot Gomez-Moran, Eva K. Grebel, Jim Greenwell, James E. Gunn, Cathy Jordan, Wendell Jordan, Paul Harding, Hugh Harris, John S. Hendry, Diana Holder, Inese I. Ivans, Željko Ivezič, Sebastian Jester, Jennifer A. Johnson, Stephen M. Kent, Scot Kleinman, Alexei Kniazev, Jurek Krzesinski, Richard Kron, Nikolay Kuropatkin, Svetlana Lebedeva, Young Sun Lee, R. French Leger, Sébastien Lépine, Steve Levine, Huan Lin, Daniel C. Long, Craig Loomis, Robert Lupton, Olena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Bruce Margon, David Martinez-Delgado, Peregrine McGehee, Dave Monet, Heather L. Morrison, Jeffrey A. Munn, Eric H. Neilsen, Atsuko Nitta, John E. Norris, Dan Oravetz, Russell Owen, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Kaike Pan, R. S. Peterson, Jeffrey R. Pier, Jared Platson, Paola Re Fiorentin, Gordon T. Richards, Hans-Walter Rix, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Matthias R. Schreiber, Axel Schwope, Valena Sibley, Audrey Simmons, Stephanie A. Snedden, J. Allyn Smith, Larry Stark, Fritz Stauffer, M. Steinmetz, C. Stoughton, Mark SubbaRao, Alex Szalay, Paula Szkody, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Sivarani Thirupathi, Douglas Tucker, Alan Uomoto, Dan Vanden Berk, Simon Vidrih, Yogesh Wadadekar, Shannon Watters, Ron Wilhelm, Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Jean Yarger, and Dan Zucker
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 137, Issue: 5
  • Abstract | References
• # 20 - The Kinematics of Late-Type Stars in the Solar Cylinder Studied with SDSS Data
  • Burkhard Fuchs, Christian Dettbarn, Hans-Walter Rix, Timothy C. Beers, Dmitry Bizyaev, Howard Brewington, Hartmut Jahreiß, Rainer Klement, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Dan Oravetz, Kaike Pan, Audrey Simmons, and Stephanie Snedden
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 137, Issue: 5
  • Abstract | References
• # 21 - The Proper Motion of the Magellanic Clouds. I. First Results and Description of the Program
  • Edgardo Costa, René, A. Méndez, Mario H. Pedreros, Maximiliano Moyano, Carme Gallart, Noelia Noël, Gustavo Baume, and Giovanni Carraro
  • Astronomical Journal - Volume: 137, Issue: 5
  • Abstract | References
• # 22 - A new implementation of the infrared flux method using the 2MASS catalogue
  • J. I. González Hernández and P. Bonifacio
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 497, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | PDF file (397.6 KB) | PS file (210.8 KB)
• # 23 - Both accurate and precise gf-values for Fe  II lines
  • J. Meléndez and B. Barbuy
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 497, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | PDF file (227.5 KB) | PS file (100.3 KB)
• # 24 - Chemical abundances of 451 stars from the HARPS GTO planet search program - Thin disc, thick disc, and planets
  • V. Neves, N. C. Santos, S. G. Sousa, A. C. M. Correia, and G. Israelian
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 497, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | PDF file (1.175 MB) | PS file (1.730 MB)
• # 25 - Multi-color photometry in wide field of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 3201
  • V. Kravtsov, G. Alcaíno, G. Marconi, and F. Alvarado
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 497, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | PDF file (1.281 MB) | PS file (1.165 MB)
• # 26 - Thermohaline mixing in super-AGB stars
  • L. Siess
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 497, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | PDF file (621.3 KB) | PS file (388.8 KB)
• # 27 - Ultra-cool dwarfs: new discoveries, proper motions, and improved spectral typing from SDSS and 2MASS photometric colors
  • Z. H. Zhang, R. S. Pokorny, H. R. A. Jones, D. J. Pinfield, P. S. Chen, Z. Han, D. Chen, M. C. Gálvez-Ortiz, and B. Burningham
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics - Volume: 497, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | PDF file (1.458 MB) | PS file (5.965 MB)
• # 28 - Discs of satellites: the new dwarf spheroidals
  • Manuel Metz, Pavel Kroupa, Helmut Jerjen
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 395, Issue: 1
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• # 29 - Probing the age and structure of the nearby very young open clusters NGC 2244 and 2239
  • C. Bonatto, E. Bica
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 395, Issue: 1
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• # 30 - Variable stars in the open cluster NGC 6811
  • Y.P. Luo, X.B. Zhang, C.Q. Luo, L.C. Deng, Z.Q. Luo
  • New Astronomy - Volume: 14, Issue: 6
  • PDF (744 K) | Related Articles
• # 31 - COSMOLOGY: Unlucky CLOVER: U.K. Halts Unfinished Telescope Project
  • Adrian Cho<br /&gt,
  • Science - Volume: 324, Issue: 5924
  • Summary: The United Kingdom has canceled a cosmology experiment that would have been Europe's prime contender in the race to trace the gravitational waves that rippled through the infant universe. Full Text »| PDF »|
• # 32 - Stochastic Self-Enrichment, Pre-Enrichment, and the Formation of Globular Clusters
  • <em >Jeremy Bailin and William E. Harris</em&gt,
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 695, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | References
• # 33 - The Physical Properties of Four ~600 K T Dwarfs
  • S. K. Leggett, Michael C. Cushing, D. Saumon, M. S. Marley, T. L. Roellig, S. J. Warren, Ben Burningham, H. R. A. Jones, J. D. Kirkpatrick, N. Lodieu, P. W. Lucas, A. K. Mainzer, E. L. Martín, M. J. McCaughrean, D. J. Pinfield, G. C. Sloan, R. L. Smart, M. Tamura, and J. Van Cleve
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 695, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | References
• # 34 - Erratum: "The Abundance Spread in the Boötes I Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy" (2008, ApJ, 689, L113)
  • <em >John E. Norris, Gerard Gilmore, Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Mark I. Wilkinson, V. Belokurov, N. Wyn Evans, and Daniel B. Zucker</em&gt,
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 695, Issue: 2
  • Abstract
• # 35 - Looking Outside the Galaxy: The Discovery of Chemical Anomalies in Three Old Large Magellanic Cloud Clusters
  • <em >Alessio Mucciarelli, Livia Origlia, Francesco R. Ferraro, and Elena Pancino</em&gt,
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 695, Issue: 2
  • Abstract | References