Fri, 13 Apr 2007

arXiv:0704.1630 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Exciting the Magnetosphere of the Magnetar CXOU J164710.2-455216 in Westerlund 1
Authors: M. P. Muno, B. M. Gaensler, J. S. Clark, R. de Grijs, D. Pooley, I. R. Stevens, S. F. Portegies Zwart
Comments: 5 pages, three figures, accepted to MNRAS letters

arXiv:0704.1598 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: Radiative transitions of the helium atom in highly magnetized neutron star atmospheres
Authors: Zach Medin, Dong Lai (Cornell), Alexander Y. Potekhin (Ioffe Inst., St. Petersburg)
Comments: 13 pages, 7 figures, submitted to MNRAS

arXiv:0704.1570 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: A method for the direct determination of the surface gravities of transiting extrasolar planets
Authors: John Southworth (1), Peter J. Wheatley (1), Giles Sams (1), ((1) University of Warwick, UK)
Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters (original submission 2007 March 5). Contains 5 pages with 3 figures

[**] arXiv:0704.1510 [ps, pdf, other] : Title: A compact star rotating at 1122 Hz and the r-mode instability
Authors: Alessandro Drago (Univ. Ferrara and INFN sez. Ferrara, Italy) Giuseppe Pagliara (Inst. Theoretische Physik, Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and INFN Italy), Irene Parenti (Univ. Ferrara and INFN sez. Ferrara, Italy)
Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures