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JINA - Segue Virtual Journal, 17 February 2012

Volume 7, Issue 7 (29 Articles)

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• # 1 - Astrophysics datamining in the classroom: Exploring real data with new software tools and robotic telescopes
  • Rosa Doran (1), Anne-Laure Melchior (2), Thomas Boudier (2), Pacôme (2) Delva, Roger Ferlet (3), Maria L. T. Almeida (1), Domingos Barbosa (4), Edward Gomez (5), Carl Pennypacker (6), Paul Roche, Sarah Roberts (7) ((1) NUCLIO - Núcleo Interactivo de Astronomia,(2) Université de Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie, (3) Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris,(4) Grupo de Radio Astronomia - Instituto de Telecomunicações - U. Aveiro,(5) Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc., (6) Hands On Universe Division, Physics/SSL, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab,(7) Faulkes Telescope Project, Astronomy Centre, HESAS, University of Glamorgan)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.2764 (cross-list from physics.ed-ph) [pdf, other]
• # 2 - Building the cosmic distance scale: from Hipparcos to Gaia
  • Catherine Turon, Xavier Luri, Eduard Masana
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.3645 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 3 - Citizen Science: Contributions to Astronomy Research
  • Carol Christian, Chris Lintott, Arfon Smith, Lucy Fortson, Steven Bamford
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.2577 [pdf]
• # 4 - Cosmic Explosions (Optical Transients)
  • S. R. Kulkarni
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.2381 [pdf, other]
• # 5 - Detailed abundances in stars belonging to ultra-faint dwarf spheroidal galaxies
  • P. François, L. Monaco, S. Villanova, M. Catelan, P. Bonifacio, M. Bellazzini, C. Moni Bidin, G. Marconi, D. Geisler, L. Sbordone
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.2899 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 6 - Detection of the Second r-process Peak Element Tellurium in Metal-Poor Stars
  • Ian U. Roederer, James E. Lawler, John J. Cowan, Timothy C. Beers, Anna Frebel, Inese I. Ivans, Hendrik Schatz, Jennifer S. Sobeck, Christopher Sneden
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.2378 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 7 - Discovery & Depth
  • S. R. Kulkarni
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.2738 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 8 - Elemental and isotopic abundances and chemical evolution of galaxies
  • Chiaki Kobayashi
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.3356 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 9 - emcee: The MCMC Hammer
  • Daniel Foreman-Mackey, David W. Hogg, Dustin Lang, Jonathan Goodman
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.3665 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 10 - Gravitational wave background from population III binaries
  • I. Kowalska, T. Bulik, K. Belczynski
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.3346 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 11 - Insight Into the Formation of the Milky Way Through Cold Halo Substructure. III. Statistical Chemical Tagging in the Smooth Halo
  • Kevin C. Schlaufman, Constance M. Rockosi, Young Sun Lee, Timothy C. Beers, Carlos Allende Prieto, Valery Rashkov, Piero Madau, Dmitry Bizyaev
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.2360 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 12 - Non-LTE effects on the lead and thorium abundance determinations for cool stars
  • Lyudmila Mashonkina, Alexander Ryabtsev, Anna Frebel
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.2630 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 13 - Quantifying the Universality of the Stellar Initial Mass Function in Old Star Clusters
  • Nathan Leigh, Stefan Umbreit, Alison Sills, Christian Knigge, Guido de Marchi, Evert Glebbeek, Ata Sarajedini
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.2851 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 14 - Rubidium, zirconium, and lithium production in intermediate-mass asymptotic giant branch stars
  • Mark A. van Raai, M. Lugaro, Amanda I. Karakas, Domingo A. Garcia-Hernandez, David Yong
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.2620 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 15 - Supernova-driven outflows and chemical evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies
  • Yong-Zhong Qian, Gerald J. Wasserburg
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.3202 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 16 - The double sub-giant branch of NGC 6656 (M22): a chemical characterization
  • A. F. Marino, A. P. Milone, C. Sneden, M. Bergemann, R. P. Kraft, G. Wallerstein, S. Cassisi, A. Aparicio, M. Asplund, R. L. Bedin, M. Hilker, K. Lind, Y. Momany, G. Piotto, I. U. Roederer, P. B. Stetson, M. Zoccali
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.2825 [pdf, other]
• # 17 - The inner structure of haloes in Cold+Warm dark matter models
  • Andrea V. Maccio', Oleg Ruchayskiy, Alexey Boyarsky, Juan C. Munoz-Cuartas
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.2858 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 18 - The M Dwarf Problem in the Galaxy
  • Vincent M. Woolf, Andrew A. West
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.3078 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 19 - The Role of Thermohaline Mixing in Intermediate- and Low-Metallicity Globular Clusters
  • George C. Angelou, Richard J. Stancliffe, Ross P. Church, John C. Lattanzio, Graeme H. Smith
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.2859 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 20 - The vertical motions of mono-abundance sub-populations in the Milky Way disk
  • Jo Bovy (IAS), Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA), David W. Hogg (NYU, MPIA), Timothy C. Beers (NOAO, Michigan State), Young Sun Lee (Michigan State), Lan Zhang (MPIA)
  • arXiv.org - Astrophysics - Volume: 2012, Issue: 17 Feb
  • arXiv:1202.2819 [pdf, ps, other]
• # 21 - Chemical composition of the atmospheres of red giants with high space velocities
  • Yu. V. Pakhomov
  • Astronomy Letters - Volume: 38, Issue: 2
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• # 22 - Investigation of the open star cluster NGC 2323 (M50) based on the proper motions and photometry of its constituent stars
  • V. N. Frolov, Yu. K. Ananjevskaja and E. V. Polyakov
  • Astronomy Letters - Volume: 38, Issue: 2
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• # 23 - 3D interstellar extinction map within the nearest kiloparsec
  • G. A. Gontcharov
  • Astronomy Letters - Volume: 38, Issue: 2
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• # 24 - Dwarf spheroidal galaxy kinematics and spiral galaxy scaling laws
  • Paolo Salucci, Mark I. Wilkinson, Matthew G. Walker, Gerard F. Gilmore, Eva K. Grebel, Andreas Koch, Christiane Frigerio Martins and Rosemary F. G. Wyse
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 420, Issue: 3
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• # 25 - Global structure and kinematics of stellar haloes in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations
  • I. G. McCarthy, A. S. Font, R. A. Crain, A. J. Deason, J. Schaye and T. Theuns
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 420, Issue: 3
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• # 26 - Mass estimators in the Gaia era
  • J. An, N. W. Evans and A. J. Deason
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Volume: 420, Issue: 3
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• # 27 - Tough choices
  • Scientists must find ways to make more efficient use of funds —, or politicians may do it for them.
  • Nature - Volume: 482, Issue: 7385
• # 28 - Charity supports science
  • US philanthropy is increasing.
  • Nature - Volume: 482, Issue: 7385
• # 29 - Hard Times for OSTP
  • Jeffrey Mervis
  • Science - Volume: 335, Issue: 6070
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