Some interesting arXiv preprints, today
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JeanTate
Abramson+ (2016): "Return to [Log-]Normalcy: Rethinking Quenching, The Star Formation Main Sequence, and Perhaps Much, Much More"; from the abstract:
We take these surprising findings -- which ultimately imply that quenching is the "peeling-off" of the densest tail of the starforming population at any epoch -- to mean either that: (1) models in which galaxies are diversified on long timescales by something akin to initial conditions rival the dominant "grow-and-quench" framework as good descriptions of the data; or (2) cornerstone metrics of galaxy evolution are too information-poor -- if not intrinsically misleading -- to confirm a unique explanation.
Aumer+ (2016), "The quiescent phase of galactic disc growth", quite interesting re the GZ studies into bars, and possibly Ross Hart's PhD.
Kaplan+ (2016) "PSR J1024-0719: A Millisecond Pulsar in an Unusual Long-Period Orbit", and Bassa+ (2016) "A millisecond pulsar in an extremely wide binary system": both are on the same system, and both use the same dataset, yet reach somewhat different conclusions. And the author lists contain just one name in common (Weiwei Zhu, of Max-Planck-Institut f ̈ur Radioastronomie). Competing teams? How did they manage to get their preprints on arXiv not only on the same day, but right next to each other?
All links are to the abstracts.
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