Friday, December 30, 2011

Friday, December 23, 2011

1104.5477 (Eliza Miller-Ricci Kempton et al.)

The Atmospheric Chemistry of GJ 1214b: Photochemistry and Clouds    [PDF]

Eliza Miller-Ricci Kempton, Kevin Zahnle, Jonathan J. Fortney

1112.5163 (J. Farihi et al.)

A Trio of Metal-Rich Dust and Gas Disks Found Orbiting Candidate White Dwarfs with K-Band Excess    [PDF]

J. Farihi, B. T. Gänsicke, P. R. Steele, J. Girven, M. R. Burleigh, E. Breedt, D. Koester

1112.5220 (Dave Jewitt)

The Active Asteroids    [PDF]

Dave Jewitt

1112.5264 (Mariko T. Kato et al.)

Planetesimal Formation at the Boundary Between Steady Super/Sub-Keplerian Flow Created by Inhomogeneous Growth of Magnetorotational Instability    [PDF]

Mariko T. Kato, Masaki Fujimoto, Shigeru Ida

1112.5363 (Julien Frouard et al.)

Instability zones for satellites of asteroids. The example of the (87) Sylvia system    [PDF]

Julien Frouard, Audrey Compère

1112.5426 (Stephen L. Adler)

Modeling the flyby anomalies with dark matter scattering: update with additional data and further predictions    [PDF]

Stephen L. Adler

1112.5432 (E. Podlewska-Gaca et al.)

Outward migration of a super-Earth in a disc with outward propagating density waves excited by a giant planet    [PDF]

E. Podlewska-Gaca, J. C. B. Papaloizou, E. Szuszkiewicz

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

1112.4476 (Nikku Madhusudhan et al.)

Analytic models for albedos, phase curves and polarization of reflected light from exoplanets    [PDF]

Nikku Madhusudhan, Adam Burrows

1112.4514 (Thomas N. Gautier III et al.)

Kepler-20: A Sun-like Star with Three Sub-Neptune Exoplanets and Two Earth-size Candidates    [PDF]

Thomas N. Gautier III, David Charbonneau, Jason F. Rowe, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Howard Isaacson, Guillermo Torres, Francois Fressin, Leslie A. Rogers, Jean-Michel Désert, Lars A. Buchhave, David W. Latham, Samuel N. Quinn, David R. Ciardi, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Eric B. Ford, Ronald L. Gilliland, Lucianne M. Walkowicz, Stephen T. Bryson, William D. Cochran, Michael Endl, Debra A. Fischer, Steve B. Howel, Elliott P. Horch, Thomas Barclay, Natalie Batalha, William J. Borucki, Jessie L. Christiansen, John C. Geary, Christopher E. Henze, Matthew J. Holman, Khadeejah Ibrahim, Jon M. Jenkins, Karen Kinemuchi, David G. Koch, Jack J. Lissauer, Dwight T. Sanderfer, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Sara Seager, Kathryn Silverio, Jeffrey C. Smith, Martin Still, Martin C. Stumpe, Peter Tenenbaum, Jeffrey Van Cleve

1112.4550 (Francois Fressin et al.)

Two Earth-sized planets orbiting Kepler-20    [PDF]

Francois Fressin, Guillermo Torres, Jason F. Rowe, David Charbonneau, Leslie A. Rogers, Sarah Ballard, Natalie M. Batalha, William J. Borucki, Stephen T. Bryson, Lars A. Buchhave, David R. Ciardi, Jean-Michel Desert, Courtney D. Dressing, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Eric B. Ford, Thomas N. Gautier III, Christopher E. Henze, Matthew J. Holman, Andrew W. Howard, Steve B. Howell, Jon M. Jenkins, David G. Koch, David W. Latham, Jack J. Lissauer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Samuel N. Quinn, Darin Ragozzine, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Sara Seager, Thomas Barclay, Fergal Mullally, Shawn E. Seader, Martin Still, Joseph D. Twicken, Susan E. Thompson, Kamal Uddin

1112.4770 (Anita L. Cochran et al.)

Thirty Years of Cometary Spectroscopy from McDonald Observatory    [PDF]

Anita L. Cochran, Edwin S. Barker, Candace L. Gray

1112.4819 (Giovanni M. Mirouh et al.)

A new model for mixing by double-diffusive convection (semi-convection): I. The conditions for layer formation    [PDF]

Giovanni M. Mirouh, Pascale Garaud, Stephan Stellmach, Adrienne L. Traxler, Toby S. Wood

1112.4822 (Ruth A. Murray-Clay et al.)

Disruption of a Proto-Planetary Disk by the Black Hole at the Milky Way Centre    [PDF]

Ruth A. Murray-Clay, Abraham Loeb

Friday, December 16, 2011

1112.3398 (J. Lebreton et al.)

An icy Kuiper-Belt around the young solar-type star HD 181327    [PDF]

J. Lebreton, J. -C. Augereau, W. -F. Thi, A. Roberge, J. Donaldson, G. Schneider, S. T. Maddison, F. Ménard, P. Riviere-Marichalar, G. S. Mathews, I. Kamp, C. Pinte, W. R. F. Dent, D. Barrado, G. Duchêne, J. -F. Gonzalez, C. A. Grady, G. Meeus, E. Pantin, J. P. Williams, P. Woitke

1112.3409 (Thiem Hoang et al.)

Acceleration of Small Dust Grains due to Charge Fluctuations    [PDF]

Thiem Hoang, A. Lazarian

1112.3438 (Patryk Sofia Lykawka et al.)

The dynamical evolution of dwarf planet (136108) Haumea's collisional family: General properties and implications for the trans-Neptunian belt    [PDF]

Patryk Sofia Lykawka, Jonathan Horner, Tadashi Mukai, Akiko M. Nakamura

1112.3590 (W. R Webber et al.)

Sudden Intensity Increases and Radial Gradient Changes of Cosmic Ray MeV Electrons and Protons Observed at Voyager 1 beyond 111 AU in the Heliosheath    [PDF]

W. R Webber, F. B. McDonald, A. C. Cummings, E. C. Stone, B. Heikkila, N. Lal

Thursday, December 15, 2011

1112.3099 (James M. Bauer et al.)

WISE/NEOWISE observations of Active Bodies in the Main Belt    [PDF]

James M. Bauer, A. K. Mainzer, Tommy Grav, Russell G. Walker, Joseph R. Masiero, Erin K. Blauvelt, Robert S. McMillan, Yan R. Fernández, Karen J. Meech, Carey M. Lisse, Roc M. Cutri, John W. Dailey, David J. Tholen, Timm Riesen, Laurie Urban, Alain Khayat, George Pearman, James V. Scotti, Emily Kramer, De'Andre Cherry, Thomas Gautier, Stephanie Gomillion, Jessica Watkins, Edward L. Wright, the WISE Team

1112.3107 (Henry Throop)

UV photolysis, organic molecules in young disks, and the origin of meteoritic amino acids    [PDF]

Henry Throop

1112.3113 (Henry Throop et al.)

Accretion of Jupiter's atmosphere from a supernova-contaminated molecular cloud    [PDF]

Henry Throop, John Bally

1112.3136 (P. Tanga et al.)

Sunlight refraction in the mesosphere of Venus during the transit on June 8th, 2004    [PDF]

P. Tanga, Th. Widemann, B. Sicardy, J. M. Pasachoff, J. Arnaud, L. Comolli, A. Rondi, S. Rondi, P. Suetterlin

1112.3240 (A. Jiménez-Escobar et al.)

Sulfur depletion in dense clouds and circumstellar regions I. H2S ice abundance and UV-photochemical reactions in the H2O-matrix    [PDF]

A. Jiménez-Escobar, G. M. Muñoz Caro

1112.3256 (Jan-Erik Solheim et al.)

Solar activity and Svalbard temperatures    [PDF]

Jan-Erik Solheim, Kjell Stordahl, Ole Humlum

1112.3305 (Matthew S. Tiscareno)

Planetary Rings    [PDF]

Matthew S. Tiscareno

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

1106.1989 (Ingo P. Waldmann)

Of `Cocktail Parties' and Exoplanets    [PDF]

Ingo P. Waldmann

1112.2700 (David M. Kipping et al.)

A Novel Method to Photometrically Constrain Orbital Eccentricities: Multibody Asterodensity Profiling (MAP)    [PDF]

David M. Kipping, William R. Dunn, Jamie M. Jasinski, Varun P. Manthri

1112.2708 (Scott S. Sheppard et al.)

2007 TY430: A Cold Classical Kuiper Belt Type Binary in the Plutino Population    [PDF]

Scott S. Sheppard, Darin Ragozzine, Chadwick Trujillo

1112.2717 (Roman R. Rafikov et al.)

The origin of the negative torque density in disk-satellite interaction    [PDF]

Roman R. Rafikov, Cristobal Petrovich

1112.2728 (G. Tinetti et al.)

EChO - Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory    [PDF]

G. Tinetti, J. P. Beaulieu, T. Henning, M. Meyer, G. Micela, I. Ribas, D. Stam, M. Swain, O. Krause, M. Ollivier, E. Pace, B. Swinyard, A. Aylward, R. van Boekel, A. Coradini, T. Encrenaz, I. Snellen, M. R. Zapatero-Osorio, J. Bouwman, J. Y-K. Cho, V. Coudé du Foresto, T. Guillot, M. Lopez-Morales, I. Mueller-Wodarg, E. Palle, F. Selsis, A. Sozzetti, P. A. R. Ade, N. Achilleos, A. Adriani, C. B. Agnor, C. Afonso, C. Allende Prieto, G. Bakos, R. J. Barber, M. Barlow, P. Bernath, B. Bezard, P. Bordé, L. R. Brown, A. Cassan, C. Cavarroc, A. Ciaravella, C. O. U. Cockell, A. Coustenis, C. Danielski, L. Decin, R. De Kok, O. Demangeon, P. Deroo, P. Doel, P. Drossart, L. N. Fletcher, M. Focardi, F. Forget, S. Fossey, P. Fouqué, J. Frith, M. Galand, P. Gaulme, J. I. González Hernández, O. Grasset, D. Grassi, J. L. Grenfell, M. J. Griffin, C. A. Griffith, U. Grözinger, M. Guedel, P. Guio, O. Hainaut, R. Hargreaves, P. H. Hauschildt, K. Heng, D. Heyrovsky, R. Hueso, P. Irwin, L. Kaltenegger, P. Kervella, D. Kipping, T. T. Koskinen, G. Kovács, A. La Barbera, H. Lammer, E. Lellouch, G. Leto, M. Lopez Morales, M. A. Lopez Valverde, M. Lopez-Puertas, C. Lovis, A. Maggio, J. P. Maillard, J. Maldonado Prado, J. B. Marquette, F. J. Martin-Torres, P. Maxted, S. Miller, S. Molinari, D. Montes, A. Moro-Martin, J. I. Moses, O. Mousis, N. Nguyen Tuong, R. Nelson, G. S. Orton, E. Pantin, E. Pascale, S. Pezzuto, D. Pinfield, E. Poretti, R. Prinja, L. Prisinzano, J. M. Rees, A. Reiners, B. Samuel, A. Sanchez-Lavega, J. Sanz Forcada, D. Sasselov, G. Savini, B. Sicardy, A. Smith, L. Stixrude, G. Strazzulla, J. Tennyson, M. Tessenyi, G. Vasisht, S. Vinatier, S. Viti, I. Waldmann, G. J. White, T. Widemann, R. Wordsworth, R. Yelle, Y. Yung, S. N. Yurchenko

1112.2764 (Michael E. Brown)

The Compositions of Kuiper Belt Objects    [PDF]

Michael E. Brown

1112.2882 (O. R. Hainaut et al.)

P/2010A2 LINEAR - I: An impact in the Asteroid Main Belt    [PDF]

O. R. Hainaut, J. Kleyna, G. Sarid, B. Hermalyn, A. Zenn, K. J. Meech, P. H. Schultz, H. Hsieh, G. Trancho, J. Pittichová, B. Yang

1112.2997 (Phil Hellary et al.)

Global models of planetary system formation in radiatively-inefficient protoplanetary discs    [PDF]

Phil Hellary, Richard P. Nelson

1112.3008 (P. Delorme et al.)

High resolution imaging of young M-type stars of the solar neighborhood: Probing the existence of companions down to the mass of Jupiter    [PDF]

P. Delorme, A. M. Lagrange, G. Chauvin, M. Bonavita, S. Lacour, M. Bonnefoy, D. Ehrenreich, H. Beust

Monday, December 12, 2011

1107.5084 (Alberto S. Betzler et al.)

Nonextensive distributions of rotation periods and diameters of asteroids    [PDF]

Alberto S. Betzler, Ernesto P. Borges

1112.1954 (Schuyler Wolff et al.)

Neptune on tiptoes: dynamical histories that preserve the cold classical Kuiper belt    [PDF]

Schuyler Wolff, Rebekah I. Dawson, Ruth A. Murray-Clay

1112.2008 (D. Mislis et al.)

Estimating transiting exoplanet masses from precise optical photometry    [PDF]

D. Mislis, R. Heller, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, S. Hodgkin

1112.2037 (Mikhail I. Ivanov)

Free Internal Waves in Polytropic Atmospheres    [PDF]

Mikhail I. Ivanov

1112.2087 (U. Kramm et al.)

Constraining the interior of extrasolar giant planets with the tidal Love number k_2 using the example of HAT-P-13b    [PDF]

U. Kramm, N. Nettelmann, J. J. Fortney, R. Neuhäuser, R. Redmer

1112.2121 (J. Koppenhoefer et al.)

MDia and POTS - The Munich Difference Imaging Analysis for the pre-OmegaTranS Project    [PDF]

J. Koppenhoefer, R. P. Saglia, A. Riffeser

Friday, December 9, 2011

1105.6086 (Michael Efroimsky)

Bodily tides near spin-orbit resonances    [PDF]

Michael Efroimsky

1112.1704 (Min-Kai Lin et al.)

Outward migration of a giant planet with a gravitationally unstable gap edge    [PDF]

Min-Kai Lin, John Papaloizou

1112.1725 (Justin R. Crepp et al.)

The Dynamical Mass and Three-Dimensional Orbit of HR7672B: A Benchmark Brown Dwarf with High Eccentricity    [PDF]

Justin R. Crepp, John Asher Johnson, Debra A. Fischer, Andrew W. Howard, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Jason T. Wright, Howard Isaacson, Tabetha Boyajian, Kaspar von Braun, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Sasha Hinkley, John M. Carpenter

1112.1731 (Alan B. Whiting)

Sir John Herschel and the Stability of Saturn's Ring    [PDF]

Alan B. Whiting

1112.1792 (Wilfried F. Domainko)

Occurrence of potentially hazardous GRBs launched in globular clusters    [PDF]

Wilfried F. Domainko

1112.1845 (Tobias W. A. Müller et al.)

Circumstellar disks in binary star systems    [PDF]

Tobias W. A. Müller, Wilhelm Kley

Thursday, December 8, 2011

1112.1506 (Nicolas Glade et al.)

A Stochastic Process Approach of the Drake Equation Parameters    [PDF]

Nicolas Glade, Pascal Ballet, Olivier Bastien

1112.1512 (A. A. Vidotto et al.)

Shock formation around planets orbiting M-dwarf stars    [PDF]

A. A. Vidotto, J. Llama, M. Jardine, Ch. Helling, K. Wood

1112.1527 (Konstantinos E. Themelis et al.)

On the unmixing of MEx/OMEGA hyperspectral data    [PDF]

Konstantinos E. Themelis, Frédéric Schmidt, Olga Sykioti, Athanasios A. Rontogiannis, Konstantinos D. Koutroumbas, Ioannis A. Daglis

1112.1553 (H. M. Cegla et al.)

Stellar jitter from variable gravitational redshift: implications for RV confirmation of habitable exoplanets    [PDF]

H. M. Cegla, C. A. Watson, T. R. Marsh, S. Shelyag, V. Moulds, S. Littlefair, M. Mathioudakis, D. Pollacco, X. Bonfils

1112.1595 (Peter Plavchan et al.)

Stars Don't Eat Their Young Migrating Planets - Empirical Constraints On Planet Migration Halting Mechanisms    [PDF]

Peter Plavchan, Christopher Bilinski

1112.1640 (William J. Borucki et al.)

Kepler-22b: A 2.4 Earth-radius Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Sun-like Star    [PDF]

William J. Borucki, David G. Koch, Natalie Batalha, Stephen T. Bryson, Douglas A. Caldwell, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, William D. Cochran, Edna DeVore, Thomas N. Gautier III, John C. Geary, Ronald Gilliland, Alan Gould, Steve B. Howell, Jon M. Jenkins, David W. Latham, Jack J. Lissauer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Jason Rowe, Dimitar Sasselov, Alan Boss, David Charbonneau, David Ciardi, Guillermo Torres, Francois Fressin, Lisa Kaltenegger, Laurance Doyle, Andrea K. Dupree, Eric B. Ford, Jonathan Fortney, Matthew J. Holman, Jason A. Steffen, Fergal Mullally, Martin Still, Jill Tarter, Sarah Ballard, Lars A. Buchhave, Josh Carter, Jessie L. Christiansen, Brice-Olivier Demory, Jean-Michel Désert, Courtney Dressing, Michael Endl, Daniel Fabrycky, Debra Fischer, Michael R. Haas, Christopher Henze, Elliott Horch, Andrew W. Howard, Howard Isaacson, Hans Kjeldsen, John Asher Johnson, Todd Klaus, Jeffery Kolodziejczak, Thomas Barclay, Jie Li, Søren Meibom, Andrej Prsa, Samuel N. Quinn, Elisa V. Quintana, Paul Robertson, William Sherry, Avi Shporer, Peter Tenenbaum, Susan E. Thompson, Joseph D. Twicken, Jeffrey Van Cleve, William F. Welsh, Sarbani Basu, Bill Chaplin, Andrea Miglio, Steve Kawaler, Torben Arentoft, Dennis Stello, Travis S. Metcalfe, Graham Verner, Christoffer Karoff, Mia Lundkvist, Mikkel Lund, Rasmus Handberg, Yvonne Elsworth, Saskia Hekker, Daniel Huber, Timothy R. Bedding

1112.1658 (Emily Rauscher et al.)

A General Circulation Model for Gaseous Exoplanets with Double-Gray Radiative Transfer    [PDF]

Emily Rauscher, Kristen Menou

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

1105.3897 (Eike Beitz et al.)

Free Collisions in a Microgravity Many-Particle Experiment. II. The Collision Dynamics of Dust-Coated Chondrules    [PDF]

Eike Beitz, Carsten Güttler, René Weidling, Jürgen Blum

1107.5038 (M. Cuntz)

Application of the Titius-Bode Rule to the 55 Cancri System: Tentative Prediction of a Possibly Habitable Planet    [PDF]

M. Cuntz

1110.6181 (Abraham Loeb et al.)

Detection Technique for Artificially-Illuminated Objects in the Outer Solar System and Beyond    [PDF]

Abraham Loeb, Edwin L. Turner

1112.0222 (Jean Schneider)

Philosophy and problems of the definition of Extraterrestrial Life    [PDF]

Jean Schneider

1112.0223 (C. A. Giuppone et al.)

Origin and Detectability of coorbital planets from radial velocity data    [PDF]

C. A. Giuppone, P. Benitez-Llambay, C. Beauge

1112.0274 (Chris Ormel et al.)

Understanding how planets become massive. I. Description and validation of a new toy model    [PDF]

Chris Ormel, Hiroshi Kobayashi

1112.0337 (Julia Fang et al.)

Predicting Planets in Kepler Multi-Planet Systems    [PDF]

Julia Fang, Jean-Luc Margot

1112.0359 (Daniel Bayliss et al.)

The Frequency of Hot Jupiters in the Galaxy: Results from the SuperLupus Survey    [PDF]

Daniel Bayliss, Penny Sackett

1112.0368 (S. M. Lawler et al.)

Debris Disks in Kepler Exoplanet Systems    [PDF]

S. M. Lawler, B. Gladman

1112.0423 (Marko Horvat et al.)

Impact of technological synchronicity on prospects for CETI    [PDF]

Marko Horvat, Anamari Nakić, Ivana Otočan

1112.0498 (Christopher Broeg et al.)

Giant planet formation: episodic impacts vs. gradual core growth    [PDF]

Christopher Broeg, Willy Benz

1112.0572 (David Ehrenreich et al.)

Transmission spectrum of Venus as a transiting exoplanet    [PDF]

David Ehrenreich, Alfred Vidal-Madjar, Thomas Widemann, Guillaume Gronoff, Paolo Tanga, Mathieu Barthélemy, Jean Lilensten, Alain Lecavelier des Etangs, Luc Arnold

1112.0574 (N. B. Cowan et al.)

Thermal Phase Variations of WASP-12b: Defying Predictions    [PDF]

N. B. Cowan, P. Machalek, B. Croll, L. M. Shekhtman, A. Burrows, D. Deming, T. Greene, J. L. Hora

1112.0577 (Alice C. Quillen et al.)

Capture of Irregular Satellites via Binary Planetesimal Exchange Reactions in Migrating Planetary Systems    [PDF]

Alice C. Quillen, Imran Hasan, Alexander Moore

1112.0584 (D. Rouan et al.)

Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission - XIX. CoRoT-23b: a dense hot Jupiter on an eccentric orbit    [PDF]

D. Rouan, H. Parviainen, C. Moutou, M. Deleuil, M. Fridlund, A. Ofir, M. Havel, S. Aigrain, R. Alonso, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin, P. Barge, A. Bonomo, P. Bordé, F. Bouchy, J. Cabrera, C. Cavarroc, Sz. Csizmadia, H. Deeg, R. F. Diaz, R. Dvorak, A. Erikson, S. Ferraz-Mello, D. Gandolfi, M. Gillon, T. Guillot, A. Hatzes, G. Hébrard, L. Jorda, A. Léger, A. Llebaria, H. Lammer, C. Lovis, T. Mazeh, M. Ollivier, M. Pätzold, D. Queloz, H. Rauer, B. Samuel, A. Santerne, J. Schneider, B. Tingley, G. Wuchterl

1112.0730 (Marko Gacesa et al.)

Non-thermal escape of molecular hydrogen from Mars    [PDF]

Marko Gacesa, Peng Zhang, Vasili Kharchenko

1112.1035 (E. W. Guenther et al.)

Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space missionXIX. CoRoT-19b: A low density planet orbiting an old inactive F9V-star    [PDF]

E. W. Guenther, R. F. Diaz, J. -C. Gazzano, T. Mazeh, D. Rouan, N. Gibson, Sz. Csizmadia, S. Aigrain, R. Alonso, J. M. Almenara, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin, P. Barge, A. S. Bonomo, P. Borde, F. Bouchy, H. Bruntt, J. Cabrera, L. Carone, S. Carpano, C. Cavarroc, H. J. Deeg, M. Deleuil, S. Dreizler, R. Dvorak, A. Erikson, S. Ferraz-Mello, M. Fridlund, D. Gandolfi, M. Gillon, T. Guillot, A. Hatzes, M. Havel, G. Hebrard, E. Jehin, L. Jorda, H. Lammer, A. Leger, C. Moutou, L. Nortmann, M. Ollivier, A. Ofir, Th. Pasternacki, M. Paetzold, H. Parviainen, D. Queloz, H. Rauer, B. Samuel, A. Santerne, J. Schneider, L. Tal-Or, B. Tingley, J. Weingrill, G. Wuchterl

1112.1062 (Stephen L. Redman et al.)

A High-Resolution Atlas of Uranium-Neon in the H Band    [PDF]

Stephen L. Redman, Gabriel G. Ycas, Ryan Terrien, Suvrath Mahadevan, Lawrence W. Ramsey, Chad F. Bender, Steven N. Osterman, Scott A. Diddams, Franklyn Quinlan, James E. Lawler, Gillian Nave