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ULTRALUMINOUS SUPERNOVAE AS A NEW PROBE OF THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM IN DISTANT GALAXIES

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 755:2 (2012) l29

Authors:

E Berger, R Chornock, R Lunnan, R Foley, I Czekala, A Rest, C Leibler, AM Soderberg, K Roth, G Narayan, ME Huber, D Milisavljevic, NE Sanders, M Drout, R Margutti, RP Kirshner, GH Marion, PJ Challis, AG Riess, SJ Smartt, WS Burgett, KW Hodapp, JN Heasley, N Kaiser, R-P Kudritzki, EA Magnier, M McCrum, PA Price, K Smith, JL Tonry, RJ Wainscoat
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The Atlas3D project - XV. Benchmark for early-type galaxies scaling relations from 260 dynamical models: mass-to-light ratio, dark matter, Fundamental Plane and Mass Plane

(2012)

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Michele Cappellari, Nicholas Scott, Katherine Alatalo, Leo Blitz, Maxime Bois, Frederic Bournaud, M Bureau, Alison F Crocker, Roger L Davies, Timothy A Davis, PT de Zeeuw, Pierre-Alain Duc, Eric Emsellem, Sadegh Khochfar, Davor Krajnovic, Harald Kuntschner, Richard M McDermid, Raffaella Morganti, Thorsten Naab, Tom Oosterloo, Marc Sarzi, Paolo Serra, Anne-Marie Weijmans, Lisa M Young
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The Atlas3D project - XX. Mass-size and mass-sigma distributions of early-type galaxies: bulge fraction drives kinematics, mass-to-light ratio, molecular gas fraction and stellar initial mass function

(2012)

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Michele Cappellari, Richard M McDermid, Katherine Alatalo, Leo Blitz, Maxime Bois, Frederic Bournaud, M Bureau, Alison F Crocker, Roger L Davies, Timothy A Davis, PT de Zeeuw, Pierre-Alain Duc, Eric Emsellem, Sadegh Khochfar, Davor Krajnovic, Harald Kuntschner, Raffaella Morganti, Thorsten Naab, Tom Oosterloo, Marc Sarzi, Nicholas Scott, Paolo Serra, Anne-Marie Weijmans, Lisa M Young
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The Co-ordinated Radio and Infrared Survey for High Mass Star Formation (The CORNISH Survey) - I. Survey Design

(2012)

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MG Hoare, CR Purcell, EB Churchwell, P Diamond, WD Cotton, CJ Chandler, S Smethurst, SE Kurtz, LG Mundy, SM Dougherty, RP Fender, GA Fuller, JM Jackson, ST Garrington, TR Gledhill, PF Goldsmith, SL Lumsden, J Martí, TJT Moore, TWB Muxlow, RD Oudmaijer, JD Pandian, JM Paredes, DS Shepherd, RE Spencer, MA Thompson, G Umana, JS Urquhart, AA Zijlstra
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Revisiting a fundamental test of the disc instability model for X-ray binaries

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 424:3 (2012) 1991-2001

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M Coriat, RP Fender, G Dubus

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We revisit a core prediction of the disc instability model (DIM) applied to X-ray binaries. The model predicts the existence of a critical mass-transfer rate, which depends on disc size, separating transient and persistent systems. We therefore selected a sample of 52 persistent and transient neutron star and black hole X-ray binaries and verified if the observed persistent (transient) systems do lie in the appropriate stable (unstable) region of parameter space predicted by the model. We find that, despite the significant uncertainties inherent to these kinds of studies, the data are in very good agreement with the theoretical expectations. We then discuss some individual cases that do not clearly fit into this main conclusion. Finally, we introduce the transientness parameter as a measure of the activity of a source and show a clear trend of the average outburst recurrence time to decrease with transientness in agreement with the DIM predictions. We therefore conclude that, despite difficulties in reproducing the complex details of the light curves, the DIM succeeds in explaining the global behaviour of X-ray binaries averaged over a long enough period of time. © 2012 The Authors. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2012 RAS.
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