Selected astro-ph abstracts for Friday 2017 May 5
The Gold Standard: Accurate Stellar and Planetary Parameters for Eight Kepler M dwarf Systems Enabled by Parallaxes
Andrew W. Mann, Trent Dupuy, Philip S. Muirhead, Marshall C. Johnson, Michael C. Liu, Megan Ansdell, Paul A. Dalba, Jonathan J. Swift, Sam Hadden
X-ray emission from the nuclear region of Arp 220
Alessandro Paggi, Giuseppina Fabbiano, Guido Risaliti, Junfeng Wang, Margarita Karovska, Martin Elvis, W. Peter Maksym, Jonathan McDowell, Jay Gallagher
The Globular Cluster -- Dark Matter Halo Connection
Michael Boylan-Kolchin (The University of Texas at Austin)
The Swift/BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS) -- VI. The Gamma_X - L/L_Edd relation
Benny Trakhtenbrot, Claudio Ricci, Michael J. Koss, Kevin Schawinski, Richard Mushotzky, Yoshihiro Ueda, Sylvain Veilleux, Isabella Lamperti, Kyuseok Oh, Ezequiel Treister, Daniel Stern, Fiona Harrison, Mislav Balokovic, Neil Gehrels
Roche-lobe overflow in eccentric planet-star systems
Fani Dosopoulou, Smadar Naoz, Vassiliki Kalogera
The Dust Attenuation of Star-forming Galaxies at $z\sim3$ and Beyond: New Insights from ALMA Observations
Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Pascal A. Oesch, Eva Schinnerer, Brent Groves, Alexander Karim, Benjamin Magnelli, Mark T. Sargent, Paolo Cassata, Philipp Lang, Olivier Le Fèvre, Vernesa Smolčić, Lidia Tasca
Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey with The Hubble Space Telescope. Stellar cluster catalogues and first insights into cluster formation and evolution in NGC 628
A. Adamo, J.E. Ryon, M. Messa, H. Kim, K. Grasha, D.O. Cook, D. Calzetti, J.C. Lee, B.C. Whitmore, B.G. Elmegreen, L. Ubeda, L.J. Smith, S.N. Bright, A. Runnholm, J.E. Andrews, M. Fumagalli, D.A. Gouliermis, L. Kahre, P. Nair, D. Thilker, R. Walterbos, A. Wofford, A. Aloisi, G. Ashworth, T.M. Brown, R. Chandar, C. Christian, M. Cignoni, G.C. Clayton, D.A. Dale, S.E. de Mink, C. Dobbs, D.M. Elmegreen, A.S. Evans, J.S. Gallagher III, E.K. Grebel, A. Herrero, D.A. Hunter, K.E. Johnson, R.C. Kennicutt, M.R. Krumholz, D. Lennon, K. Levay, C. Martin, A. Nota, G. Ostlin, A. Pellerin, J. Prieto, M.W. Regan, E. Sabbi, E. Sacchi, D. Schaerer, D. Schiminovich F. Shabani, M. Tosi, S.D. Van Dyk, E. Zackrisson
Evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole in the globular cluster NGC 6624
B. B. P. Perera, B. W. Stappers, A. G. Lyne, C. G. Bassa, I. Cognard, L. Guillemot, M. Kramer, G. Theureau, G. Desvignes
SIMP J013656.5+093347 is Likely a Planetary-Mass Object in the Carina-Near Moving Group
Jonathan Gagné, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Adam J. Burgasser,Étienne Artigau, Sandie Bouchard, Loïc Albert, David Lafrenière, René Doyon, Daniella C. Bardalez-Gagliuffi
Feeding vs. Falling: The growth and collapse of molecular clouds in a turbulent interstellar medium
Juan C. Ibáñez-Mejía, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Ralf S. Klessen, Christian Baczynski
AX J1910.7+0917: the slowest X-ray pulsar
L. Sidoli (1), G.L. Israel (2), P. Esposito (3), G.A. Rodriguez Castillo (2), K. Postnov (4,5) ((1)-INAF, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Milano, Italy, (2)-INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Monteporzio Catone, Italy, (3)-Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (4)-Moscow Lomonosov State University, Faculty of Physics, Moscow, Russia, (5)-Moscow Lomonosov State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia)
Probing dark matter with star clusters: a dark matter core in the ultra-faint dwarf Eridanus II
Filippo Contenta (1), Eduardo Balbinot (1), James A. Petts (1), Justin I. Read (1), Mark Gieles (1), Michelle L. M. Collins (1), Jorge Peñarrubia (2), Maxime Delorme (1), Alessia Gualandris (1) ((1) Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK, (2) Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK)
Constraining the Noise-Free Distribution of Halo Spin Parameters
Andrew J. Benson (1 and 2) ((1) Carnegie Observatories, (2) Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara)