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JINA - Segue Virtual Journal, 2 December 2011

Volume 6, Issue 48 (40 Articles)

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• # 1 - A new synthetic library of the Near-Infrared CaII triplet indices. I.Index Definition, Calibration and Relations with stellar atmospheric parameters
  • Wei Du, A-Li Luo, Yong-Heng Zhao
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1112.0123 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 2 - Allan Sandage and the Cosmic Expansion
  • G. A. Tammann, B. Reindl (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Basel)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1112.0170 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 3 - Around Gaia Alerts in 20 questions
  • Lukasz Wyrzykowski, Simon Hodgkin
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1112.0187 [pdf, other]
• # 4 - Detailed abundances for M giants in two inner bulge fields from Infrared Spectroscopy
  • R. Michael Rich, Livia Origlia, Elena Valenti
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1112.0306 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 5 - Effect of uncertainties in stellar model parameters on estimated masses and radii of single stars
  • Sarbani Basu (Yale), Graham A. Verner (Queen Mary and Birmingham, UK), William J. Chaplin (Birmingham, UK), Yvonne Elsworth (Birmingham, UK)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1111.6976 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 6 - First stars in Damped Lyman Alpha systems
  • Stefania Salvadori (1), Andrea Ferrara (2) ((1) Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands, (2) Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1111.6637 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 7 - Hot White Dwarfs
  • Edward M. Sion
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1111.6652 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 8 - M-dwarf metallicities - A high-resolution spectroscopic study in the near infrared
  • Anna Önehag, Ulrike Heiter, Bengt Gustafsson, Nikolai Piskunov, Bertrand Plez, Ansgar Reiners
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1112.0141 [pdf, other]
• # 9 - Metallicity distribution functions of the old populations of the Magellanic Clouds from RR Lyrae stars
  • Raoul Haschke, Eva K. Grebel, Sonia Duffau, Shoko Jin (Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1111.6586 [pdf, other]
• # 10 - Observational studies of Cepheid amplitudes. II Metallicity dependence of pulsation amplitudes
  • László, Szabados, Péter Klagyivik
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1112.0115 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 11 - Slicing and dicing the Milky Way disk in SDSS
  • Martin C. Smith (KIAA, Beijing), S. Hannah Whiteoak (IoA, Cambridge), N. W. Evans (IoA, Cambridge)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1111.6920 [pdf, other]
• # 12 - The dark matter halos of dwarf galaxies: a challenge for the LCDM paradigm?
  • Ismael Ferrero, Mario G. Abadi, Julio F. Navarro, Laura V. Sales, Sebastian Gurovich
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1111.6609 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 13 - The ELM Survey. III. A Successful Targeted Survey for Extremely Low Mass White Dwarfs
  • Warren R. Brown (1), Mukremin Kilic (2), Carlos Allende Prieto (3), Scott J. Kenyon (1) ((1) SAO, (2) OU, (3) IAC)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1111.6588 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 14 - The Initial-Final Mass Relation among White Dwarfs in Wide Binaries
  • Jingkun Zhao, Terry D. Oswalt, Lee Anne Willson, Qian Wang, Gang Zhao
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1112.0281 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 15 - The Milky Way has no thick disk
  • Jo Bovy (IAS), Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA), David W. Hogg (NYU, MPIA)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1111.6585 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 16 - The Sagittarius Streams in the Southern Galactic Hemisphere
  • Sergey E. Koposov (1,2), V. Belokurov (1), N. W. Evans (1), G. Gilmore (1), M. Gieles (1), M. J. Irwin (1), G. F. Lewis, M. Niederste-Ostholt (1), J. Peñarrubia, M. C. Smith, D. Bizyaev, E. Malanushenko, V. Malanushenko, D. P. Schneider, R. F. G. Wyse ((1) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK, (2) Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1111.7042 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 17 - Tidal Signatures in the Faintest Milky Way Satellites: The Detailed Properties of Leo V, Pisces II and Canes Venatici II
  • D. J. Sand, J. Strader, B. Willman, D. Zaritsky, B. McLeod, N. Caldwell, A. Seth, E. Olszewski
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1111.6608 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 18 - Time-Resolved Spectroscopy with SDSS
  • Steven Bickerton, Carles Badenes, Thomas Hettinger, Timothy Beers, Sonya Huang
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1111.6989 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 19 - UCAC3 Proper Motion Survey. II. Discovery Of New Proper Motion Stars In UCAC3 With 0.40" yr^-1 > mu >= 0.18" yr^-1 Between Declinations -47 deg and 00 deg
  • C. T. Finch, N. Zacharias, M. R. Boyd, T. J. Henry, N. C. Hambly
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1111.6805 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 20 - Unleashing the Power of Distributed CPU/GPU Architectures: Massive Astronomical Data Analysis and Visualization case study
  • A. H. Hassan, C. J. Fluke, D. G. Barnes
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1111.6661 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 21 - What is a Spectrum?
  • Adam S. Bolton (1), Stephen Bailey (2), Joel Brownstein (1), Parul Pandey (1), David Schlegel (2), Yiping Shu (1) ((1) Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Utah, (2) Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2011, Issue: 2 Dec
  • arXiv:1111.6525 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 22 - Contribution of fission to heavy-element nucleosynthesis in an astrophysical r-process
  • I. Yu. Korneev and I. V. Panov
  • Astronomy Letters - Volume: 37, Issue: 12
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• # 23 - Dark matter: Star sign
  • Anne Green
  • Nature-Physics - Volume: 7, Issue: 12
  • Full Text - Dark matterStar sign | PDF (278 KB) - Dark matterStar signSubject term: Astrophysics
• # 24 - Detection of Pristine Gas Two Billion Years After the Big Bang
  • Michele Fumagalli, John M. O'Meara, and J. Xavier Prochaska
  • Science - Volume: 334, Issue: 6060
  • Abstract Full Text Full Text (PDF) Supporting Online Material Podcast Interview
• # 25 - Protostellar Feedback Halts the Growth of the First Stars in the Universe
  • Takashi Hosokawa, Kazuyuki Omukai, Naoki Yoshida, and Harold W. Yorke
  • Science - Volume: 334, Issue: 6060
  • Abstract Full Text Full Text (PDF) Supporting Online Material
• # 26 - Constraints on the Universal C IV Mass Density at z ~ 6 from Early Infrared Spectra Obtained with the Magellan FIRE Spectrograph
  • Robert A. Simcoe, Kathy L. Cooksey, Michael Matejek, Adam J. Burgasser, John Bochanski, Elizabeth Lovegrove, Rebecca A. Bernstein, Judith L. Pipher, William J. Forrest, Craig McMurtry, Xiaohui Fan and John O'Meara
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 743, Issue: 1
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• # 27 - Discovery of Cold, Pristine Gas Possibly Accreting onto an Overdensity of Star-forming Galaxies at Redshift z ~ 1.6
  • Mauro Giavalisco, Eros Vanzella, Sara Salimbeni, Todd M. Tripp, Mark Dickinson, Paolo Cassata, Alvio Renzini, Yicheng Guo, Henry C. Ferguson, Mario Nonino, Andrea Cimatti, Jaron Kurk, Marco Mignoli and Yuping Tang
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 743, Issue: 1
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• # 28 - Finding Dwarf Galaxies from Their Tidal Imprints
  • Sukanya Chakrabarti, Frank Bigiel, Philip Chang and Leo Blitz
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 743, Issue: 1
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• # 29 - Hide and Seek between Andromeda's Halo, Disk, and Giant Stream
  • Gisella Clementini, Rodrigo Contreras Ramos, Luciana Federici, Giulia Macario, Giacomo Beccari, Vincenzo Testa, Michele Cignoni, Marcella Marconi, Vincenzo Ripepi, Monica Tosi, Michele Bellazzini, Flavio Fusi Pecci, Emiliano Diolaiti, Carla Cacciari, Bruno Marano, Emanuele Giallongo, Roberto Ragazzoni, Andrea Di Paola, Stefano Gallozzi and Riccardo Smareglia
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 743, Issue: 1
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• # 30 - How Typical Are the Local Group Dwarf Galaxies?
  • Daniel R. Weisz, Andrew E. Dolphin, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Evan D. Skillman, Jon Holtzman, Benjamin F. Williams, Karoline M. Gilbert, Anil C. Seth, Andrew Cole, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Keith Rosema, Igor D. Karachentsev, Kristen B. W. McQuinn and Dennis Zaritsky
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 743, Issue: 1
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• # 31 - The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. XI. The Three-dimensional Orientation of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy and Its Globular Clusters
  • Michael H. Siegel, Steven R. Majewski, David R. Law, Ata Sarajedini, Aaron Dotter, A. Marín-Franch, Brian Chaboyer, Jay Anderson, Antonio Aparicio, Luigi R. Bedin, Maren Hempel, Antonino Milone, Nathaniel Paust, Giampaolo Piotto, I. Neill Reid and Alfred Rosenberg
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 743, Issue: 1
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• # 32 - The Astrophysical Implications of Dust Formation during the Eruptions of Hot, Massive Stars
  • C. S. Kochanek
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 743, Issue: 1
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• # 33 - The Binary Fraction in the Globular Cluster M10 (NGC 6254): Comparing Core and Outer Regions
  • E. Dalessandro, B. Lanzoni, G. Beccari, A. Sollima, F. R. Ferraro and M. Pasquato
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 743, Issue: 1
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• # 34 - The Discovery of Y Dwarfs using Data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
  • Michael C. Cushing, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Christopher R. Gelino, Roger L. Griffith, Michael F. Skrutskie, A. Mainzer, Kenneth A. Marsh, Charles A. Beichman, Adam J. Burgasser, Lisa A. Prato, Robert A. Simcoe, Mark S. Marley, D. Saumon, Richard S. Freedman, Peter R. Eisenhardt and Edward L. Wright
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• # 35 - The Mass Distribution and Assembly of the Milky Way from the Properties of the Magellanic Clouds
  • Michael T. Busha, Philip J. Marshall, Risa H. Wechsler, Anatoly Klypin and Joel Primack
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• # 36 - A Spectroscopic Survey and Analysis of Bright, Hydrogen-rich White Dwarfs
  • A. Gianninas, P. Bergeron and M. T. Ruiz
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 743, Issue: 2
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• # 37 - Beryllium and Alpha-element Abundances in a Large Sample of Metal-poor Stars
  • Ann Merchant Boesgaard, Jeffrey A. Rich, Emily M. Levesque and Brendan P. Bowler
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 743, Issue: 2
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• # 38 - Hunting the Coolest Dwarfs: Methods and Early Results
  • A. Schneider, Carl Melis, Inseok Song and B. Zuckerman
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 743, Issue: 2
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• # 39 - Metal-poor Lithium-rich Giants in the Radial Velocity Experiment Survey
  • Gregory R. Ruchti, Jon P. Fulbright, Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Gerard F. Gilmore, Eva K. Grebel, Olivier Bienaymé, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Ken C. Freeman, Brad K. Gibson, Ulisse Munari, Julio F. Navarro, Quentin A. Parker, Warren Reid, George M. Seabroke, Arnaud Siebert, Alessandro Siviero, Matthias Steinmetz, Fred G. Watson, Mary Williams and Tomaz Zwitter
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• # 40 - Statistics of Satellite Galaxies around Milky-Way-like Hosts
  • Michael T. Busha, Risa H. Wechsler, Peter S. Behroozi, Brian F. Gerke, Anatoly A. Klypin and Joel R. Primack
  • The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 743, Issue: 2
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