Segue Virtual Journal

JINA - Segue Virtual Journal, 18 May 2012

Volume 7, Issue 20 (46 Articles)

# 1 - A new, precise measurement of the primordial abundance of Deuterium
- Max Pettini (1,2), Ryan Cooke (1,2) ((1) Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, (2) Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge)
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 18 May
- arXiv:1205.3785 [pdf, ps, other]
# 2 - A wide-area view of the Phoenix dwarf galaxy from VLT/FORS imaging
- Giuseppina Battaglia, Marina Rejkuba, Eline Tolstoy, Mike Irwin, Giacomo Beccari
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 18 May
- arXiv:1205.2704 [pdf, ps, other]
# 3 - Astrophysical and Structural Parameters of the Open Clusters NGC 6866, NGC 7062, and NGC 2360
- O. Gunes, Y. Karatas, C. Bonatto
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 18 May
- arXiv:1205.2760 [pdf, ps, other]
# 4 - Big Bang nucleosynthesis with a non-Maxwellian distribution
- C. A. Bertulani, J. Fuqua, M.S. Hussein
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 18 May
- arXiv:1205.4000 (cross-list from nucl-th) [pdf, other]
# 5 - Chemical compositions of thin-disk, high-metallicity red horizontal-branch field stars
- M. Afşar, C. Sneden, B.-Q. For
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 18 May
- arXiv:1205.3659 [pdf, ps, other]
# 6 - Constraints on model atmospheres from complex asteroseismology of the βCephei stars
- Wojciech Szewczuk, Przemysław Walczak, Jadwiga Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 18 May
- arXiv:1205.3796 [pdf, ps, other]
# 7 - Deuterium at high-redshift: Primordial abundance in the zabs = 2.621 damped Ly-alpha system towards CTQ247
- P. Noterdaeme, S. López, V. Dumont, C. Ledoux, P. Molaro, P. Petitjean
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 18 May
- arXiv:1205.3777 [pdf, ps, other]
# 8 - Discovery of the most isolated globular cluster in the local universe
- In Sung Jang, Sungsoon Lim, Hong Soo Park, Myung Gyoon Lee
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 18 May
- arXiv:1205.3559 [pdf, ps, other]
# 9 - Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Cosmological Constant Problem (But Were Afraid To Ask)
- Jerome Martin (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 18 May
- arXiv:1205.3365 [pdf, ps, other]
# 10 - Lithium production in the merging of white dwarf stars
- Richard Longland, Pablo Lorén-Aguilar, Jordi José, Enrique García-Berro, Leandro G. Althaus
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 18 May
- arXiv:1205.2538 [pdf, other]
# 11 - Slicing The Monoceros Overdensity with Suprime-Cam
- Blair C. Conn, Noelia E. D. Noël, Hans-Walter Rix, R. R. Lane, G. F. Lewis, M. J. Irwin, N. F. Martin, R. A. Ibata, A. Dolphin, S. Chapman
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 18 May
- arXiv:1205.3177 [pdf, other]
# 12 - Star Formation in the First Galaxies I: Collapse Delayed by Lyman-Werner Radiation
- Chalence Safranek-Shrader, Meghann Agarwal, Christoph Federrath, Anshu Dubey, Milos Milosavljevic, Volker Bromm
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 18 May
- arXiv:1205.3835 [pdf, other]
# 13 - The anticentre old open clusters Berkeley 27, Berkeley 34, and Berkeley 36: new additions to the BOCCE project
- P. Donati, A. Bragaglia, M. Cignoni, G. Cocozza, M. Tosi
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 18 May
- arXiv:1205.3684 [pdf, ps, other]
# 14 - The frequency of giant planets around metal-poor stars
- A. Mortier, N. C. Santos, A. Sozzetti, M. Mayor, D. Latham, X. Bonfils, S. Udry
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 18 May
- arXiv:1205.3723 [pdf, ps, other]
# 15 - The velocity dispersion and mass function of the outer halo globular cluster Palomar 4
- Matthias J. Frank, Michael Hilker, Holger Baumgardt, Patrick Côté, Eva K. Grebel, Hosein Haghi, Andreas H. W. Küpper, S. G. Djorgovski
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 18 May
- arXiv:1205.2693 [pdf, other]
# 16 - Variable Stars in the Globular Cluster M14
- Kyle E. Conroy, Andrew N. Darragh, Zheyu J. Liu, Brian W. Murphy
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 18 May
- arXiv:1205.2814 [pdf, other]
# 17 - A Search for Hierarchical Triples using Kepler Eclipse Timing
- D. R. Gies, S. J. Williams, R. A. Matson, Z. Guo, S. M. Thomas, J. A. Orosz, and G. J. Peters
- Astronomical Journal - Volume: 143, Issue: 6
- doi:10.1088/0004-6256/143/6/137 Tag this article
# 18 - Absolute Properties of the Eclipsing Binary Star BF Draconis
- Claud H. Sandberg Lacy, Guillermo Torres, Francis C. Fekel, Jeffrey A. Sabby, and Antonio Claret
- Astronomical Journal - Volume: 143, Issue: 6
- doi:10.1088/0004-6256/143/6/129 Tag this article
# 19 - Gas, Stars, and Star Formation in ALFALFA Dwarf Galaxies
- Shan Huang, Martha P. Haynes, Riccardo Giovanelli, Jarle Brinchmann, Sabrina Stierwalt, and Susan G. Neff
- Astronomical Journal - Volume: 143, Issue: 6
- doi:10.1088/0004-6256/143/6/133 Tag this article
# 20 - Identifying High-metallicity M Giants at Intragroup Distances with Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- Lauren E. Palladino, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Heather Morrison, Patrick R. Durrell, Robin Ciardullo, John Feldmeier, Richard A. Wade, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, and Patrick Lowrance
- Astronomical Journal - Volume: 143, Issue: 6
- doi:10.1088/0004-6256/143/6/128 Tag this article
# 21 - Low CO Luminosities in Dwarf Galaxies
- Andreas Schruba, Adam K. Leroy, Fabian Walter, Frank Bigiel, Elias Brinks, W. J. G. de Blok, Carsten Kramer, Erik Rosolowsky, Karin Sandstrom, Karl Schuster, Antonio Usero, Axel Weiss, and Helmut Wiesemeyer
- Astronomical Journal - Volume: 143, Issue: 6
- doi:10.1088/0004-6256/143/6/138 Tag this article
# 22 - Structural Parameters for Globular Clusters in the Outer Halo of M31
- Song Wang (çæ¾) and Jun Ma (é©¬éª)
- Astronomical Journal - Volume: 143, Issue: 6
- doi:10.1088/0004-6256/143/6/132 Tag this article
# 23 - A finite temperature chandrasekhar model: Determining the parameters and calculation of the characteristics of degenerate dwarfs
- M. V. Vavrukh and S. V. Smerechynskyi
- Astronomy Reports - Volume: 56, Issue: 5
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# 24 - Transit of Venus: Last chance to see
- The June 2012 transit of Venus across the Sun offers an opportunity to check our methods for spotting distant planets crossing far-away stars, says Jay M. Pasachoff.
- Nature - Volume: 485, Issue: 7398
- 279-410
# 25 - Astronomy: On the track of the transit
- Owen Gingerich enjoys two histories of the expeditions that aimed to measure the passage of Venus across the face of the Sun.
- Nature - Volume: 485, Issue: 7398
- 279-410
# 26 - Heavy Element Nucleosynthesis in the Brightest Galactic Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars
- Amanda I. Karakas, D. A. GarcÃa-HernÃ¡ndez, and Maria Lugaro
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 751, Issue: 1
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# 27 - Kinematical and Chemical Vertical Structure of the Galactic Thick Disk. II. A Lack of Dark Matter in the Solar Neighborhood
- C. Moni Bidin, G. Carraro, R. A. MÃ©ndez, and R. Smith
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 751, Issue: 1
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# 28 - Lithium Abundances in Carbon-enhanced Metal-poor Stars
- Thomas Masseron, Jennifer A. Johnson, Sara Lucatello, Amanda Karakas, Bertrand Plez, Timothy C. Beers, and Norbert Christlieb
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 751, Issue: 1
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# 29 - MMT Hypervelocity Star Survey. II. Five New Unbound Stars
- Warren R. Brown, Margaret J. Geller, and Scott J. Kenyon
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 751, Issue: 1
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# 30 - The Dynamics and Metallicity Distribution of the Distant Dwarf Galaxy VV124
- Evan N. Kirby, Judith G. Cohen, and Michele Bellazzini
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 751, Issue: 1
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# 31 - The Dynamics of the Outer Parts of ω Centauri
- G. S. Da Costa
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 751, Issue: 1
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# 32 - The Shapes of Milky Way Satellites: Looking for Signatures of Tidal Stirring
- Ewa L. Åokas, Steven R. Majewski, Stelios Kazantzidis, Lucio Mayer, Jeffrey L. Carlin, David L. Nidever, and Leonidas A. Moustakas
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 751, Issue: 1
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# 33 - Characterizing the Galactic White Dwarf Binary Population with Sparsely Sampled Radial Velocity Data
- Dan Maoz, Carles Badenes, and Steven J. Bickerton
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 751, Issue: 2
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# 34 - Nucleosynthesis and the Inhomogeneous Chemical Evolution of the Carina Dwarf Galaxy
- Kim A. Venn, Matthew D. Shetrone, Mike J. Irwin, Vanessa Hill, Pascale Jablonka, Eline Tolstoy, Bertrand Lemasle, Mike Divell, Else Starkenburg, Bruno Letarte, Charles Baldner, Giuseppina Battaglia, Amina Helmi, Andreas Kaufer, and Francesca Primas
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 751, Issue: 2
- Abstract References Cited by Full text PDF (3.09 MB) HTML with Enhancements
# 35 - Red Supergiant Stars as Cosmic Abundance Probes: NLTE Effects in J-band Iron and Titanium Lines
- Maria Bergemann, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Bertrand Plez, Ben Davies, Karin Lind, and Zach Gazak
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 751, Issue: 2
- Abstract References Full text PDF (1.47 MB) HTML with Enhancements
# 36 - The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury. X. Quantifying the Star Cluster Formation Efficiency of nearby Dwarf Galaxies
- David O. Cook, Anil C. Seth, Daniel A. Dale, L. Clifton Johnson, Daniel R. Weisz, Morgan Fouesneau, Knut A. G. Olsen, Charles W. Engelbracht, and Julianne J. Dalcanton
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 751, Issue: 2
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# 37 - The ELM Survey. IV. 24 White Dwarf Merger Systems
- Mukremin Kilic, Warren R. Brown, Carlos Allende Prieto, S. J. Kenyon, Craig O. Heinke, M. A. AgÃ¼eros, and S. J. Kleinman
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 751, Issue: 2
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# 38 - The First Planets: The Critical Metallicity for Planet Formation
- Jarrett L. Johnson and Hui Li
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 751, Issue: 2
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# 39 - The Kinematics and Chemistry of Red Horizontal Branch Stars in the Sagittarius Streams
- W. B. Shi, Y. Q. Chen, K. Carrell, and G. Zhao
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 751, Issue: 2
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# 40 - The Milky Way Has No Distinct Thick Disk
- Jo Bovy, Hans-Walter Rix, and David W. Hogg
- The Astrophysical Journal - Volume: 751, Issue: 2
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# 41 - Discovery of the Most Isolated Globular Cluster in the Local Universe
- In Sung Jang, Sungsoon Lim, Hong Soo Park, and Myung Gyoon Lee
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 751, Issue: 1
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# 42 - Examination of the Mass-dependent Li Depletion Hypothesis by the Li Abundances of the Very Metal-poor Double-lined Spectroscopic Binary G166-45
- Wako Aoki, Hiroko Ito, and Akito Tajitsu
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 751, Issue: 1
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# 43 - How to Make an Ultra-faint Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: Tidal Stirring of Disky Dwarfs with Shallow Dark Matter Density Profiles
- Ewa L. Åokas, Stelios Kazantzidis, and Lucio Mayer
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 751, Issue: 1
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# 44 - Proper Motions and Internal Dynamics in the Core of the Globular Cluster M71
- Raminder S. Samra, Harvey B. Richer, Jeremy S. Heyl, Ryan Goldsbury, Karun Thanjavur, Gordon Walker, and Kristin A. Woodley
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 751, Issue: 1
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# 45 - First Evidence of Globular Cluster Formation from the Ejecta of Prompt Type Ia Supernovae
- Takuji Tsujimoto and Kenji Bekki
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 751, Issue: 2
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# 46 - Reconciling the Galactic Bulge Turnoff Age Discrepancy with Enhanced Helium Enrichment
- David M. Nataf and Andrew P. Gould
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 751, Issue: 2
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This material is based upon work supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Award Number DE-SC0026204.