New research centre 560 million years in the making. The legend of a South Australian geologist, explorer and environmentalist will live on in a new research centre being launched at the University of Adelaide tomorrow night (Thursday 8 November). The Sprigg Geobiology Centre, part of the Univer...
Title: CXOGBSJ174444.7-260330: a new long orbital period cataclysmic variable in a low state Authors: E.M. Ratti, T.F.J. van Grunsven, P.G. Jonker, C.T. Britt, R.I. Hynes, D. Steeghs, S. Greiss, M.A.P. Torres, T.J. Maccarone, P.J. Groot, C. Knigge, V. A. Villar, A. C. Collazzi, V. J. Mikles, L. G...
Title: New Massive Binaries in the Cygnus OB2 Association Authors: Daniel C. Kiminki, M. Virgina McSwain, Henry A. Kobulnicky As part of an ongoing study to determine the distribution of orbital parameters for massive binaries in the Cygnus OB2 Association, we present the orbital solutions for t...
Title: KELT-3b: A Hot Jupiter Transiting a V=9.8 Late-F Star Authors: Joshua Pepper (1), Robert J. Siverd (1), Thomas G. Beatty (2), B. Scott Gaudi (2), Keivan G. Stassun (1,3), Jason Eastman (4,5), Karen Collins (6), David W. Latham (7), Allyson Bieryla (7), Lars A. Buchhave (8,9), Eric L. N. Jense...
Title: Observation of the Goos-Hänchen Shift with Neutrons Authors: Victor-O. de Haan, Jeroen Plomp, Theo M. Rekveldt, Wicher H. Kraan, and Ad A. van Well The Goos-Hänchen effect is a spatial shift along an interface resulting from an interference effect that occurs for total internal reflecti...
We present results of field analysis, microscopy, and remote sensing mapping of two circular structures in Australia of which the meteorite impact origin is not yet confirmed. Piccaninny, Western Australia (17°25' 30" S, 128°26' 10" E, 7.5 km diameter): The circular structure (Beer...
Title: SDSSJ2222+2745 A Gravitationally Lensed Sextuple Quasar with Maximum Image Separation of 15.1" Discovered in the Sloan Giant Arcs Survey Authors: H. Dahle, M. D. Gladders, K. Sharon, M. B. Bayliss, E. Wuyts, L. E. Abramson, B. P. Koester, N. Groeneboom, T. E. Brinckmann, M. T. Kriste...
Title: SWIFT J1749.4-2807: A neutron or quark star? Authors: Junwei Yu, Renxin Xu We investigate an unique accreting millisecond pulsar with X-ray eclipses, SWIFT J1749.4-2807 (hereafter J1749), and try to limit the binary system by various methods including that of the Roche lobe, the mass-ra...
Title: A dozen type II-P supernovae seen with the eyes of Spitzer Authors: T. Szalai, J. Vinkó (Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary) Core-collapse supernovae (CC SNe), especially those of type II-plateau (II-P), are thought to be important contr...
Raphaël Salem (November 7, 1898 in Saloniki, Ottoman Empire (now Thessaloniki, Greece) - June 20, 1963 in Paris, France), was a Greek-Sephardic mathematician after whom are named the Salem numbers and whose widow founded the Salem Prize. Read more
Philip Morrison, (November 7, 1915 in Somerville, New Jersey - April 22, 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was Institute Professor Emeritus and Professor of Physics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1942 he joined the Manhattan Project as group leader and physic...
Jakob Ellrod (born 7 November 1601; died 28 July 1671 in Gefrees); priest, astronomer and mathematician, ancestor of the Reichsfreiherr family of Ellrod Read more
Eric Priest, FRSE, FRS, (born 7 November 1943) holds the Gregory Chair of Mathematics and is a Bishop Wardlaw Professor at St Andrews University. He is a recognised authority in solar magnetohydrodynamics (or MHD for short), the study of the subtle, and often nonlinear, interaction between the Su...
Leon Trotsky (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 - 21 August 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. Read more
