Friday, February 3, 2012

1202.0026 (Yanqin Wu et al.)

Ohmic Heating Suspends, not Reverses, the Cooling Contraction of Hot Jupiters    [PDF]

Yanqin Wu, Yoram Lithwick

1202.0083 (Kaspar von Braun et al.)

The GJ 436 System: Directly Determined Astrophysical Parameters of an M-Dwarf and Implications for the Transiting Hot Neptune    [PDF]

Kaspar von Braun, Tabetha S. Boyajian, Stephen R. Kane, Leslie Hebb, Gerard T. van Belle, Chris Farrington, David R. Ciardi, Heather A. Knutson, Theo A. ten Brummelaar, Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Harold A. McAlister, Gail Schaefer, Stephen Ridgway, Andrew Collier Cameron, P. J. Goldfinger, Nils H. Turner, Laszlo Sturmann, Judit Sturmann

1202.0214 (L. Paganini et al.)

The chemical composition of CO-rich comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd) at Rh = 2.4 and 2.0 AU before perihelion    [PDF]

L. Paganini, M. J. Mumma, G. L. Villanueva, M. A. DiSanti, B. P. Bonev, M. Lippi, H. Boehnhardt

1202.0265 (Paul Robertson et al.)

The McDonald Observatory Planet Search: New Long-Period Giant Planets, and Two Interacting Jupiters in the HD 155358 System    [PDF]

Paul Robertson, Michael Endl, William D. Cochran, Phillip J. MacQueen, Robert A. Wittenmyer, J. Horner, Erik J. Brugamyer, Attila E. Simon, Stuart I. Barnes, Caroline Caldwell

1202.0446 (Guillem Anglada-Escudé et al.)

A planetary system around the nearby M dwarf GJ 667C with at least one super-Earth in its habitable zone    [PDF]

Guillem Anglada-Escudé, Pamela Arriagada, Steven S. Vogt, Eugenio J. Rivera, R. Paul Butler, Jeffrey D. Crane, Stephen A. Shectman, Ian B. Thompson, Dante Minniti, Nader Haghighipour, Brad D. Carter, C. G. Tinney, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Jeremy A. Bailey, Simon J. O'Toole, Hugh R. A. Jones, James S. Jenkins

1202.0548 (W. Hayek et al.)

Limb darkening laws for two exoplanet host stars derived from 3D stellar model atmospheres    [PDF]

W. Hayek, D. Sing, F. Pont, M. Asplund