Fri, 22 Dec 2006

astro-ph/0612607 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :

Title: A direct measurement of the relativistic expansion velocity of gamma-ray burst fireballs
Authors: E. Molinari, S.D. Vergani, D. Malesani, S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo, G. Chincarini, F.M. Zerbi, L.A. Antonelli, P. Conconi, V. Testa, G. Tosti, F. Vitali, F. D'Alessio, G. Malaspina, L. Nicastro, E. Palazzi, D. Guetta, S. Campana, P. Goldoni, N. Masetti, E.J.A. Meurs, A. Monfardini, L. Norci, E. Pian, S. Piranomonte, D. Rizzuto, M. Stefanon, L. Stella, G. Tagliaferri, P.A. Ward, G. Ihle, L. Gonzalez, A. Pizarro, P. Sinclair, J. Valenzuela
Comments: 14 pages, 2 color figures

astro-ph/0612611 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :

Title: Constraints on Braneworld Gravity Models from a Kinematic Limit on the Age of the Black Hole XTE J1118+480
Authors: Dimitrios Psaltis (University of Arizona)
Comments: 4 pages, to appear in the Physical Review Letters

[*]astro-ph/0612617 [abs, pdf] :

Title: The brightest supernova ever recorded, powered by the death of an extremely massive star
Authors: Nathan Smith, Weidong Li, Ryan J. Foley, Ryan Chornock, Alexei V. Filippenko, David Pooley, Robert Quimby, J. Craig Wheeler, Joshua S. Bloom, Charles Hansen
Comments: 10 pages, 3 color figures

astro-ph/0612638 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :

Title: Rotating Collapse of Stellar Iron Cores in General Relativity
Authors: Christian D. Ott, Harald Dimmelmeier, Andreas Marek, Hans-Thomas Janka, Burkhard Zink, Ian Hawke, Erik Schnetter
Comments: 19 pages, 6 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the New Frontiers in Numerical Relativity Conference, AEI Golm, Germany, 2006

[**]astro-ph/0612640 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :

Title: Massive perturbers in the galactic center
Authors: Hagai B. Perets, Clovis Hopman, Tal Alexander
Comments: To appear in the Proceeding of the Galactic Cenetr Workshop 2006, see astro-ph/0606443 for the full and extended paper
Journal-ref: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2006, 54, 293