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Title: Core-Accretion Model Predicts Few Jovian-Mass Planets Orbiting Red Dwarfs Authors: Gregory Laughlin, Peter Bodenheimer, Fred C. Adams 15 Jul 2004 The favoured theoretical explanation for giant planet formation -- in both our solar system and others -- is the core accretion model (altho...
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Title: ChAInGeS: The Chandra Arp Interacting Galaxies Survey Authors: Beverly J. Smith (ETSU), Douglas A. Swartz (USRA/MSFC), Olivia Miller (ETSU), Jacob A. Burleson (UAH), Michael A. Nowak (MIT-CXC), Curtis Struck (ISU) We have conducted a statistical analysis of the ultra-luminous X-ray p...
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We in the HerMES team are very pleased to announce our first major data release, DR1. This release includes Herschel SPIRE sky maps and object catalogues. The maps were made using 250, 350 and 500 µm filters. These sub-milimeter wavelengths had not been significantly exploited before the Herschel...
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The first colour images taken by the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere - some of constellations as distant as 10 000 million light years - were revealed on Thursday by the astronomy team responsible for the Southern African Large Telescope (Salt) located near the chilly...
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Tooth Fairy
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Title: Non-detection of the Tooth Fairy at Optical Wavelengths Authors: Eve Armstrong We report a non-detection, to a limiting magnitude of V = 18.4 (9), of the elusive entity commonly described as the Tooth Fairy. We review various physical models and conclude that follow-up observations must p...
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Title: FIRST, a fibred aperture masking instrument. I. First on-sky test results Authors: E. Huby, G. Perrin, F. Marchis, S. Lacour, T. Kotani, G. Duchęne, E. Choquet, E. L. Gates, J. M. Woillez, O. Lai, P. Fédou, C. Collin, F. Chapron, V. Arslanyan, K. J. Burns In this paper we present the first on-sk...
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Binary Microlensing Events
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Title: Planetary and Other Short Binary Microlensing Events from the MOA Short Event Analysis Authors: D. P. Bennett, T. Sumi, I. A. Bond, K. Kamiya, F. Abe, C. S. Botzler, A. Fukui, K. Furusawa, Y. Itow, A. V. Korpela, P. M. Kilmartin, C. H. Ling, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, N. Miyake, Y. Muraki, K. Ohnis...
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6000km Radio Telescope
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Korean, Chinese and Japanese astronomers will join hands to make a 6,000 km-diameter radio telescope, the world's largest. Quoting Shen Zhiqiang, a researcher at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Science, Xinhua said the radio telescope network of the three count...
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WISE Mission Catalogue
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NASA Releases New WISE Mission Catalogue of Entire Infrared Sky NASA unveiled a new atlas and catalogue of the entire infrared sky today showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. WISE launched Dec. 14, 20...
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Herschel DEBRIS Survey
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Title: Age Determination for 346 Nearby Stars in the Herschel DEBRIS Survey Authors: Laura Vican DEBRIS is a flux-limited survey of nearby stars (spectral types A-M) for evidence of debris disks with the Herschel Space Observatory. One goal of the survey is to determine disk incidence as a functio...
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Mars Society India
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Mars Society India Launched Today In Collaboration With Nehru Centre The Indian chapter of the Mars Society was launched today in Mumbai in collaboration with the Nehru Centre and students of IIT-Mumbai. Robert Zubrin, President of The Mars Society, has stated that if India launches major space e...
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Quasometry
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Title: Quasometry, Its Use and Purpose Authors: Valeri Makarov, Ciprian Berghea, David Boboltz, Christopher Dieck, Bryan Dorland, Rachel Dudik, Alan Fey, Ralph Gaume, Norbert Zacharias, Xuming Lei, Henrique Schmitt Quasometry is precision measurement of celestial positions and apparent m...
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A tiny piece of rock taken from the moon during the last manned mission in 1972 is to be on display at the Canada Museum of Science and Technology beginning Thursday. Read more
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Survey of the Trans-Neptunian Region
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In the framework of the key program "TNOs Are Cool: A Survey of the Trans-Neptunian Region," Herschel will reveal the physical properties of the poorly known objects orbiting beyond Neptune. The Herschel Space Observatory, one of the cornerstone missions of the European Space Agency...
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Optical Transients
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Title: Cosmic Explosions (Optical Transients) Authors: S. R. Kulkarni This paper is an extended summary of the talk I gave at IAU Symposium "New Horizons in Time Domain Astronomy" (Oxford, 2011). I first review the history of transients (which is intimately related to the advent of wid...
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