Segue Virtual Journal

JINA - Segue Virtual Journal, 12 October 2012

Volume 7, Issue 41 (26 Articles)

# 1 - A spectrograph instrument concept for the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) on Subaru Telescope
- Sébastien Vives, David Le Mignant, Fabrice Madec, Marc Jaquet, Eric Prieto, Laurent Martin, Olivier Le Fèvre, James Gunn, Michael Carr, Stephen Smee, Robert Barkhouser, Hajime Sugai, Naoyuki Tamura
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 12 Oct
- arXiv:1210.2728 [pdf]
# 2 - Calibrating Milky Way dust extinction using cosmological sources
- Edvard Mortsell
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 12 Oct
- arXiv:1210.2191 [pdf, ps, other]
# 3 - Carbon and nitrogen abundances of stellar populations in the globular cluster M 2
- C. Lardo, E. Pancino, A Mucciarelli, A. P. Milone
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 12 Oct
- arXiv:1210.2566 [pdf, ps, other]
# 4 - High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars from SDSS/SEGUE: I. Atmospheric Parameters and Chemical Compositions
- Wako Aoki, Timothy C. Beers, Young Sun Lee, Satoshi Honda, Hiroko Ito, Masahide Takada-Hidai, Anna Frebel, Takuma Suda, Masatuki Y. Fujimoto, Daniela Carollo, Thirupathi Sivarani
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 12 Oct
- arXiv:1210.1946 [pdf, ps, other]
# 5 - Metallicity Gradients of Thick Disk Dwarf Stars
- Kenneth Carrell, Yuqin Chen, Gang Zhao
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 12 Oct
- arXiv:1210.2824 [pdf, ps, other]
# 6 - Prime Focus Spectrograph - Subaru's future -
- Hajime Sugai, Hiroshi Karoji, Naruhisa Takato, Naoyuki Tamura, Atsushi Shimono, Youichi Ohyama, Akitoshi Ueda, Hung-Hsu Ling, Marcio Vital de Arruda, Robert H. Barkhouser, Charles L. Bennett, Steve Bickerton, David F. Braun, Robin J. Bruno, Michael A. Carr, João Batista de Carvalho Oliveira, Yin-Chang Chang, Hsin-Yo Chen, Richard G. Dekany, Tania Pereira Dominici, Richard S. Ellis, Charles D. Fisher, James E. Gunn, Timothy M. Heckman, Paul T. P. Ho, Yen-Shan Hu, Marc Jaquet, Jennifer Karr, Masahiko Kimura, Olivier Le Fèvre, David Le Mignant, Craig Loomis, Robert H. Lupton, Fabrice Madec, Lucas Souza Marrara, Laurent Martin, Hitoshi Murayama, Antonio Cesar de Oliveira, Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, Ligia Souza de Oliveira, Joe D. Orndorff, Rodrigo de Paiva Vilaça, Vanessa Bawden de Paula Macanhan, et al. (11 additional authors not shown)
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 12 Oct
- arXiv:1210.2719 [pdf]
# 7 - Probing the Structure and Kinematics of the transition Layer between the Magellanic Stream and the Halo in HI
- Lou Nigra, Snezana Stanimirovic, John S. Gallagher III, Kenneth Wood, David Nidever, Steven Majewski
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 12 Oct
- arXiv:1210.2836 [pdf, ps, other]
# 8 - Protostellar Feedback and Final Mass of the Second-Generation Primordial Stars
- Takashi Hosokawa, Naoki Yoshida, Kazuyuki Omukai, Harold W. Yorke
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 12 Oct
- arXiv:1210.3035 [pdf, ps, other]
# 9 - RR Lyrae variables in the Small Magellanic Cloud - II. The extended area: chemical and structural analysis
- Efstratios Kapakos, Despina Hatzidimitriou
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 12 Oct
- arXiv:1210.1954 [pdf, ps, other]
# 10 - Stellar Populations
- Reynier Peletier
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 12 Oct
- arXiv:1210.2127 [pdf, ps, other]
# 11 - Stellar populations in the Galactic Bulge (review)
- Carine Babusiaux
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 12 Oct
- arXiv:1210.2200 [pdf, other]
# 12 - The Size Difference Between Red And Blue Globular Clusters Is NOT Due To Projection Effects
- Jeremy J. Webb, William E. Harris, Alison Sills
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 12 Oct
- arXiv:1210.2710 [pdf, ps, other]
# 13 - Towards an Understanding of the Atmospheres of Cool White Dwarfs
- Piotr M. Kowalski, Didier Saumon, Jay Holberg, Sandy Leggett
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 12 Oct
- arXiv:1210.3192 [pdf, ps, other]
# 14 - What Can We Learn from the Rising Lightcurves of Radioactively-Powered Supernovae?
- Anthony L. Piro (Caltech), Ehud Nakar (Tel Aviv University)
- arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 12 Oct
- arXiv:1210.3032 [pdf, ps, other]
# 15 - Direct determination of the hubble parameter using type IIn supernovae
- S. Blinnikov, M. Potashov, P. Baklanov and A. Dolgov
- JETP Letters - Volume: 96, Issue: 3
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# 16 - An accurate mass and radius measurement for an ultracool white dwarf
- S. G. Parsons, B. T. Gänsicke, T. R. Marsh, P. Bergeron, C. M. Copperwheat, V. S. Dhillon, J. Bento, S. P. Littlefair and M. R. Schreiber
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 426, Issue: 3
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# 17 - Identifying Local Group field galaxies that have interacted with the Milky Way
- Maureen Teyssier, Kathryn V. Johnston and Michael Kuhlen
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 426, Issue: 3
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# 18 - Models for the lithium abundances of multiple populations in globular clusters and the possible role of the big bang lithium
- Francesca D'Antona, Annibale D'Ercole, Roberta Carini, Enrico Vesperini and Paolo Ventura
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 426, Issue: 3
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# 19 - Radial migration in disc galaxies – I. Transient spiral structure and dynamics
- Rok Roškar, Victor P. Debattista, Thomas R. Quinn and James Wadsley
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 426, Issue: 3
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# 20 - RR Lyrae variables in the Small Magellanic Cloud – II. The extended area: chemical and structural analysis
- E. Kapakos and D. Hatzidimitriou
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 426, Issue: 3
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# 21 - The Gaia spectrophotometric standard stars survey – I. Preliminary results
- E. Pancino, G. Altavilla, S. Marinoni, G. Cocozza, J. M. Carrasco, M. Bellazzini, A. Bragaglia, L. Federici, E. Rossetti, C. Cacciari, L. Balaguer Núñez, A. Castro, F. Figueras, F. Fusi Pecci, S. Galleti, M. Gebran, C. Jordi, C. Lardo, E. Masana, M. Monguió, P. Montegriffo, S. Ragaini, W. Schuster, S. Trager, F. Vilardell and H. Voss
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 426, Issue: 3
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# 22 - The galaxy ancestor problem
- M. J. Disney and R. H. Lang
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 426, Issue: 3
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# 23 - The SLUGGS survey: globular cluster system kinematics and substructure in NGC 4365
- Christina Blom, Duncan A. Forbes, Jean P. Brodie, Caroline Foster, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Lee R. Spitler and Jay Strader
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 426, Issue: 3
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# 24 - Constraints on the Shape of the Milky Way Dark Matter Halo from Jeans Equations Applied to Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data
- Sarah R. Loebman, Å½eljko IveziÄ, Thomas R. Quinn, Fabio Governato, Alyson M. Brooks, Charlotte R. Christensen, and Mario JuriÄ
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 758, Issue: 1
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# 25 - Dark Satellites and the Morphology of Dwarf Galaxies
- Amina Helmi, L. V. Sales, E. Starkenburg, T. K. Starkenburg, C. A. Vera-Ciro, G. De Lucia, and Y.-S. Li
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 758, Issue: 1
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# 26 - Tidal Interactions at the Edge of the Local Group: New Evidence for Tidal Features in the Antlia Dwarf Galaxy
- Samantha J. Penny, Kevin A. Pimbblet, Christopher J. Conselice, Michael J. I. Brown, Ruth GrÃ¼tzbauch, and David J. E. Floyd
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters - Volume: 758, Issue: 2
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