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astro-ph2009★ 118 cited

Two-Dimensional Transport of Solids in Viscous Protoplanetary Disks

Fred Ciesla

Large-scale radial transport of solids appears to be a fundamental consequence of protoplanetary disk evolution based on the presence of high temperature minerals in comets and the…

astro-ph2008★ 34 cited

CNO "Breakout" and Nucleosynthesis in Classical Novae

S. Ami Glasner, Jame. W. Truran

For very slow white dwarf accretors in CV's Townsley and Bildsten (2004) found a relation between the accretion rate and the central temperature of the white dwarf Tc. According to…

astro-ph2008★ 21 cited

A novel method for the absolute fluorescence yield measurement by AIRFLY

AIRFLY Collaboration, M. Ave

One of the goals of the AIRFLY (AIR FLuorescence Yield) experiment is to measure the absolute fluorescence yield induced by electrons in air to better than 10% precision. We introd…

astro-ph2008★ 140 cited

Fermi LAT Observations of the Vela Pulsar

A. A. Abdo

The Vela pulsar is the brightest persistent source in the GeV sky and thus is the traditional first target for new gamma-ray observatories. We report here on initial Fermi Large Ar…

astro-ph2008★ 62 cited

Nucleosynthetic osmium isotope anomalies in acid leachates of the Murchison meteorite

L. Reisberg, N. Dauphas, A. Luguet +3

We present osmium isotopic results obtained by sequential leaching of the Murchison meteorite, which reveal the existence of very large internal anomalies of nucleosynthetic origin…

astro-ph2008★ 74 cited

The Red Rectangle: Its Shaping Mechanism and its Source of Ultraviolet Photons

Adolf N. Witt, Uma P. Vijh, L. M. Hobbs +3

The proto-planetary Red Rectangle nebula is powered by HD 44179, a spectroscopic binary (P = 318 d), in which a luminous post-AGB component is the primary source of both luminosity…

astro-ph2008★ 1k cited

Chandra Cluster Cosmology Project III: Cosmological Parameter Constraints

A. Vikhlinin, A. V. Kravtsov, R. A. Burenin +8

Chandra observations of large samples of galaxy clusters detected in X-rays by ROSAT provide a new, robust determination of the cluster mass functions at low and high redshifts. St…

astro-ph2008★ 112 cited

The June 2008 flare of Markarian 421 from optical to TeV energies

The Agile Collaboration, Webt Collaboration, Magic Collaboration +2

We present optical, X-ray, high energy ( GeV) and very high energy ( GeV; VHE) observations of the high-frequency peaked blazar Mrk 421 taken betwee…

astro-ph2008★ 6 cited

Backgrounds and Projected Limits from Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments

Scott Dodelson

A simple formula is introduced which indicates the amount by which projections of dark matter direct detection experiments are expected to be degraded due to backgrounds.

astro-ph2008★ 60 cited

Discovery of Very High-Energy Gamma-Ray Radiation from the BL Lac 1ES 0806+524

VERITAS Collaboration, V. Acciari, E. Aliu +90

The high-frequency-peaked BL-Lacertae object \objectname{1ES 0806+524}, at redshift z=0.138, was observed in the very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray regime by VERITAS between November…

astro-ph2008★ 58 cited

Biased Dark Energy Constraints from Neglecting Reduced Shear in Weak Lensing Surveys

Charles Shapiro

The weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies by large-scale structure is expected to become a powerful probe of dark energy. By measuring the ellipticities of large numbers o…

astro-ph2008★ 38 cited

Cross-Calibration of Cluster Mass-Observables

Carlos Cunha

This paper is a first step towards developing a formalism to optimally extract dark energy information from number counts using multiple cluster observation techniques. We use a Fi…

astro-ph2008★ 13 cited

Evolution of Dark Matter Phase-Space Density Distributions in Equal-Mass Halo Mergers

Ileana M. Vass, Stelios Kazantzidis, Monica Valluri +1

We use dissipationless N-body simulations to investigate the evolution of the true coarse-grained phase-space density distribution f(x,v) in equal-mass mergers between dark matter…

astro-ph2008★ 104 cited

Collapse Barriers and Halo Abundance: Testing the Excursion Set Ansatz

Brant Robertson, Andrey Kravtsov, Jeremy Tinker +1

Our heuristic understanding of the abundance of dark matter halos centers around the concept of a density threshold, or "barrier", for gravitational collapse. If one adopts the ans…

astro-ph2008★ 113 cited

Reconstructing Patchy Reionization from the Cosmic Microwave Background

Cora Dvorkin, Kendrick M. Smith

We introduce a new statistical technique for extracting the inhomogeneous reionization signal from future high-sensitivity measurements of the cosmic microwave background temperatu…

astro-ph2008★ 5.4k cited

The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

K. Abazajian

This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDS…

astro-ph2008★ 252 cited

Non-linear Evolution of f(R) Cosmologies III: Halo Statistics

Fabian Schmidt, Marcos Lima, Hiroaki Oyaizu +1

The statistical properties of dark matter halos, the building blocks of cosmological observables associated with structure in the universe, offer many opportunities to test models…

astro-ph2008★ 12 cited

The effects of flux transport on interface dynamos

J. Mason, D. W. Hughes, S. M. Tobias

The operation of an interface dynamo (as has been suggested for the Sun and other stars with convective envelopes) relies crucially upon the effective transport of magnetic flux be…

astro-ph2008★ 9 cited

CMBPol Mission Concept Study: Foreground Science Knowledge and Prospects

A. A. Fraisse, J. -A. C. Brown, G. Dobler +10

We report on our knowledge of Galactic foregrounds, as well as on how a CMB satellite mission aiming at detecting a primordial B-mode signal (CMBPol) will contribute to improving i…

astro-ph2008★ 15 cited

CMBPol Mission Concept Study: A Mission to Map our Origins

Daniel Baumann, Asantha Cooray, Scott Dodelson +7

Quantum mechanical metric fluctuations during an early inflationary phase of the universe leave a characteristic imprint in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB…

astro-ph2008★ 86 cited

Epeak estimator for Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed by the Swift Burst Alert Telescope

T. Sakamoto, G. Sato, L. Barbier +13

We report a correlation based on a spectral simulation study of the prompt emission spectra of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT). The correl…

astro-ph2008★ 22 cited

Distinguishing Between Dark Matter and Pulsar Origins of the ATIC Electron Spectrum With Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes

Jeter Hall, Dan Hooper

Recent results from the Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) balloon experiment have identified the presence of a spectral feature between approximately 300 and 800 GeV in t…

astro-ph2008★ 71 cited

Intrinsic properties of a complete sample of HETE-2 gamma-ray bursts. A measure of the GRB rate in the Local Universe

A. Pélangeon, J. -L. Atteia, Y. E. Nakagawa +32

Aims: Taking advantage of the forthcoming Catalog of the HETE-2 mission, the aim of this paper is to evaluate the main properties of HETE-2 GRBs - the E_peak, the T_90 and the E_is…

astro-ph2008★ 170 cited

Cataclysmic Variable Primary Effective Temperatures: Constraints on Binary Angular Momentum Loss

Dean M. Townsley, Boris T. Gaensicke

We review the most decisive currently available measurements of the surface effective temperatures, Teff, of white dwarf (WD) primaries in cataclysmic variables (CVs) during accret…