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JINA - Segue Virtual Journal, 20 August 2010

Volume 5, Issue 34 (28 Articles)

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• # 1 - A new globular cluster black hole in NGC 4472
  • Thomas J. Maccarone (University of Southampton), Arunav Kundu (Eureka Scientific), Stephen E. Zepf (Michigan State University), Katherine L. Rhode (Indiana University)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.2896 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 2 - CCD UBVRI Photometry of the Galactic open clusters: Be~89, Ru~135, and Be~10
  • Inci Akkaya, William J. Schuster, Raul Michel, Carlos Chavarria-K, Andre Moitinho, Roberto Vazquez, Yuksel Karatas
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.2867 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 3 - Chemical Abundances for 855 Giants in the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri (NGC 5139)
  • Christian I. Johnson, Catherine A. Pilachowski
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.2232 [pdf, other]
• # 4 - Determination of fundamental properties of an M31 globular cluster from main-sequence photometry
  • Jun Ma (1,2), Zhenyu Wu (1), Song Wang (1,3), Zhou Fan (1), Xu Zhou (1), Jianghua Wu (1), Zhaoji Jiang (1), Jiansheng Chen (1) ((1) National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (2) Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.2993 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 5 - Discovery of a T dwarf + white dwarf binary system
  • A.C. Day-Jones, D.J. Pinfield, M.T. Ruiz, H. Beaumont, B. Burningham, J. Gallardo, A. Gianninas, P. Bergeron, R. Napiwotzki, J.S. Jenkins, Z.H. Zhang, D. Murray, S. Catalan, J. Gomes
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.2960 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 6 - Galactic Small Scale Structure Revealed by the GALFA-HI Survey
  • Ayesha Begum, Snezana Stanimirovic, Joshua E. Peek, Nicholas Ballering, Carl Heiles, Kevin A. Douglas, Mary Putman, Steven Gibson, Jana Grcevich, Eric Korpela, Min-Young Lee, Destry Saul, John S. Gallagher III
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.3185 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 7 - GCN: a gaseous Galactic halo stream?
  • Shoko Jin (ARI/ZAH, University of Heidelberg)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.3164 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 8 - Local Universe Science with the E-ELT
  • Michael R. Merrifield (University of Nottingham)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.2709 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 9 - MAESTRO, CASTRO, and SEDONA -- Petascale Codes for Astrophysical Applications
  • A. Almgren, J. Bell, D. Kasen, M. Lijewski, A. Nonaka, P. Nugent, C. Rendleman, R. Thomas, M. Zingale
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.2801 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 10 - Milky Way Disk-Halo Transition in HI: Properties of the Cloud Population
  • H. Alyson Ford (1, 2 and 3), Felix J. Lockman (4), N. M. McClure-Griffiths (2) ((1) Swinburne, (2) ATNF-CASS, (3) University of Michigan, (4) NRAO)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.2760 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 11 - Monte Carlo Simulations of Star Clusters - VII. The globular cluster 47 Tuc
  • Mirek Giersz, Douglas C. Heggie
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.3048 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 12 - No detection of large-scale magnetic fields at the surfaces of Am and HgMn stars
  • M. Auriere, G.A. Wade, F. Lignieres, A. Hui-Bon-Hoa, J.D. Landstreet, I. Iliev, J.-F. Donati, P. Petit, T. Roudier, S. Theado
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.3086 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 13 - Open clusters towards the Galactic center: chemistry and dynamics. A VLT spectroscopic study of NGC6192, NGC6404, NGC6583
  • Laura Magrini, Sofia Randich, Manuela Zoccali, Lucie Jilkova, Giovanni Carraro, Daniele Galli, Enrico Maiorca, Maurizio Busso
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.3158 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 14 - Photometric identification of blue horizontal branch stars
  • Kester W. Smith, Coryn A.L. Bailer-Jones, Rainer J. Klement, Xiang-Xiang Xue
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.2446 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 15 - Probing Stellar Populations at z ~ 7 - 8
  • Steven L. Finkelstein
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.3173 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 16 - Protostellar Feedback Processes and the Mass of the First Stars
  • Jonathan C. Tan (1), Britton D. Smith (2), Brian W. O'Shea (3) ((1) Depts. of Astronomy & Physics, University of Florida, (2) Dept. of Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, (3) Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Michigan State University)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.3047 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 17 - Rotation of Halo Populations in the Milky Way and M31
  • A.J. Deason, V. Belokurov, N.W. Evans
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.3067 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 18 - SEGUE-2 Limits on Metal-Rich Old-Population Hypervelocity Stars In the Galactic Halo
  • Juna A. Kollmeier, Andrew Gould, Constance Rockosi, Timothy C. Beers, Gillian Knapp, Jennifer A. Johnson, Heather Morrison, Paul Harding, Young Sun Lee, Benjamin A. Weaver
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.2384 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 19 - The stellar population and metallicity distribution of the Sombrero galaxy
  • Jeremy Mould & Lee Spitler
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.2817 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 20 - WASP-37b: a 1.7 MJ exoplanet transiting a metal-poor star
  • E. K. Simpson (1), F. Faedi (1), S. C. C. Barros (1), D. J. A. Brown (2), A. Collier Cameron (2), L. Hebb (3), D. Pollacco (1), B. Smalley (4), I. Todd (1), O. W. Butters (5), G. Hebrard (6), J. McCormac (1), G. R. M. Miller (2), A. Santerne (7), R. A. Street (8), I. Skillen (9), A. H. M. J. Triaud (10), D. R. Anderson (4), J. Bento (11), I. Boisse (6), F. Bouchy (6 12), B. Enoch (2), C. A. Haswell (13), C. Hellier (4), S. Holmes (13), K. Horne (2), F. P. Keenan (1), T. A. Lister (8), P. F. L. Maxted (4), V. Moulds (1), C. Moutou (7), A. J. Norton (13), N. Parley (2), F. Pepe (10), D. Queloz (10), D. Segransan (10), A. M. S. Smith (4), H. C. Stempels (14), S. Udry (10), C. A. Watson (1), R. G. West (5), P. J. Wheatley (11) ((1) Queen's University Belfast, (2) University of St Andrews, (3) Vanderbilt University, (4) Keele University, (5) University of Leicester, (6) Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, (7) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, (8) Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, (9) Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, (10) Observatoire de Geneve, (11) University of Warwick, (12) Observatoire de Haute-Provence, (13) The Open University, (14) Uppsala University)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2010, Issue: 20 Aug
  • arXiv:1008.3096 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 21 - US survey sets cosmic priorities
  • Adam Mann
  • Nature - Volume: 466, Issue: 7309
  • Full Text | PDF (206K)
• # 22 - Astronomy
  U.S. Astronomers Unveil Stripped-Down ‘Short List’
  • Yudhijit Bhattacharjee<br /&gt,
  • Science - Volume: 329, Issue: 5994
  • Unlike previous decadal surveys of funding priorities in astronomy and astrophysics, which often produced unrealistically long "wish lists" of priorities, the sixth decadal survey released last week claims to have made some hard choices that hew to the realities of a tough budgetary climate. Summary »| Full Text »| PDF »|
• # 23 - The Chemistry of the Trailing Arm of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy
  • Stefan C. Keller, David Yong, and Gary S. Da Costa
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 720, Issue: 1
  • Abstract References Full text PDF (619 KB) View as HTML
• # 24 - Metal-rich M-Dwarf Planet Hosts: Metallicities with K-band Spectra
  • Bárbara Rojas-Ayala, Kevin R. Covey, Philip S. Muirhead, and James P. Lloyd
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 720, Issue: 1
  • Abstract References Full text PDF (416 KB) View as HTML
• # 25 - Nucleosynthesis in High-entropy Hot Bubbles of Supernovae and Abundance Patterns of Extremely Metal-poor Stars
  • Natsuko Izutani and Hideyuki Umeda
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 720, Issue: 1
  • Abstract References Full text PDF (224 KB) View as HTML
• # 26 - Our Milky Way as a Pure-disk Galaxy—A Challenge for Galaxy Formation
  • Juntai Shen, R. Michael Rich, John Kormendy, Christian D. Howard, Roberto De Propris, and Andrea Kunder
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 720, Issue: 1
  • Abstract References Full text PDF (434 KB) View as HTML
• # 27 - The Chemical Evolution of the Monoceros Ring/Galactic Anticenter Stellar Structure
  • Mei-Yin Chou, Steven R. Majewski, Katia Cunha, Verne V. Smith, Richard J. Patterson, and David Martínez-Delgado
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 720, Issue: 1
  • Abstract References Full text PDF (283 KB) View as HTML
• # 28 - The Mass Profile of the Galaxy to 80 kpc
  • Oleg Y. Gnedin, Warren R. Brown, Margaret J. Geller, and Scott J. Kenyon
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 720, Issue: 1
  • Abstract References Full text PDF (274 KB) View as HTML