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Mixing up gas in the wake of a strangled satellite

Title: Removal and mixing of the coronal gas from satellites in galaxy groups: cooling the intragoup gas Authors: Jesús Zavala, Michael L. Balogh, Niayesh Afshordi, Stephen Ro First author’s...

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Spinning the First Stars

Title: Rotation and Internal Structure of Population III Protostars Authors: Athena Stacy, Thomas H. Greif, Ralf S. Klessen, Volker Bromm, and Abraham Loeb First Author’s Institution: NASA Goddard...

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Have major mergers lost their driver’s license?

Title: The insignificance of major mergers in driving star formation at z~2. Authors: Kaviraj, S.; Cohen, S.; Windhorst, R. A.; Silk, J.; O’Connell, R. W.; Dopita, M. A.; Dekel, A.; Hathi, N. P.;...

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Gravitational Lensing in the Canary Islands

The 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) on La Palma--the largest optical telescope in the world! Every November the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) hosts a winter school on a particular...

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The strength of weak lensing

Title: CFHTLenS: Combined probe cosmological model comparison using 2D weak gravitational lensing Authors: Martin Kilbinger, Liping Fu, Catherine Heymans, Fergus Simpson, Jonathan Benjamin, Thomas...

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No jets in the Galactic center?

Title: Giant Magnetized Outflows from the Centre of the Milky Way Authors: Ettore Carretti, Roland M. Crocker, Lister Staveley-Smith, Marijke Haverkorn, Cormac Purcell, B. M. Gaensler, Gianni...

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Exploding diamonds in the sky

Title: Helium ignited violent mergers as a unified model for normal and rapidly declining type 1a supernovae Authors: Pakmor, R., M. Kromer, and S. Taubenberger 1st author’s home institutions:...

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Why I left research for education

I love teaching. About a month ago, I decided to leave astronomy research to pursue only education. For the year leading up to this decision, I struggled against adding to the statistic that women...

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Digging up “red nuggets” in local elliptical galaxies

Title: Fossil evidence for the two phase formation of elliptical galaxies Authors: Song Huang, Luis C. Ho, Chien Y. Peng, Zhao-Yu Li, Aaron J. Barth 1st Author’s Home Institutions: School of Astronomy...

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CUWiP Application Deadline *this Friday*!

The application deadline for the 2014 Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) is *this Friday*, November 1. These are three-day regional conferences for undergraduate physics majors,...

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