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River conservation in central and tropical
N. Pacini and D.M. Harper
Despite a century and a half of European colonization of the continent, the ecology of the rivers of tropical Africa is still relatively unknown. The major rivers, and the lure of their sources, were the focal point for early exploration and, as a result, the knowledge that exists is unevenly distributed. A large amount of information and understanding exists for the Nile, for example (Rzóska, 1976) when compared with the Congo. Human uses of rivers though, are as old as our species and will continue to affect rivers as long as humankind inhabits the earth. Early Egyptian civilizations, 5000 years BC, first regulated the Nile, creating basins for flood waters and irrigation canals to build their cities. In the middle of the 20th century, the building of the High Dam at Aswan definitively changed the ecology of the entire region. The future, however, may produce even greater surprises following the launching in 1997 of the Tuzhka Project which, within some 25 years, could build an artificial channel across western Egypt to replicate the ancient river (Tadesse, 1998).
The colonization of Africa brought with it the expertise of European-style civil service, and the application of new scientific ideas (Worthington, 1958), but the development of ecological knowledge was still uneven. It was focused upon the development of fisheries (and more oriented towards lakes than rivers), upon the ecology and control of disease vectors, the control of exotic species, and the supply of drinking water. The development of concepts of conservation on land, with the growth of National Parks and other protected areas, was not mirrored by any form of aquatic conservation except where floodplains contained large mammal herds. Since the middle of the 20th century, much money and effort has been spent understanding the ecological impact of large reservoirs on major river systems such as Kariba on the Zambezi, Volta in Ghana, and Aswan on the Nile, but almost all were conducted after the event, and had little or no influence on management decisions. Even up to the present day, the occurrence of serious environmental evaluation of water resource development schemes is rare and conservation is very much a 'catching-up' activity, usually after the expatriate engineers, technologists and economists have gone home (Pacini et al., 1999). Capital aid programmes are rarely linked to assistance for subsequent running costs and, as a result, many large projects – from unserviced University equipment to unfunded resettlement schemes – have failed to deliver environmental improvements (see also Wishart et al., this volume, Part II).
The conservation of tropical aquatic habitats has been overshadowed by the mobilization of public interest and support generated by the urgent need to conserve tropical rain forests. Running waters in particular still have a low profile within the new nations of tropical Africa. National parks and protected areas are often delimited by rivers instead of being set around them, thus disregarding the link between rivers and their catchments. This link is particularly crucial in Africa where water is more precious than in many other parts of the world. Indeed, current estimates forecast significant decreases in water


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The Enchanted Forest theme park closed for good in the 1990s. But the owner of a nearby farm has moved, and preserved, many of its features ensuring that a new generation of kids will be able to enjoy the quirky structures. See photos and video of the local landmark's new home.
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Wizards guard Bradley Beal made a visit to Japan to support the continued growth of basketball in the country. Read to see more about his daily adventures.
Holly Prigerson, co-author and Director of the Center for Research on End of Life Care at Weill Cornell Medical Center, said it was a "shock" to see how few of the patients fully understood their prognoses.
Fairfax County police have announced the arrest of two suspects in last weekend's robbery of a Springfield jewelry store, in which police officers were shot at and an officer and a bystander was injured.
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A century and a-half is nothing in the eons of often violent geology that made Yellowstone National Park. Even so, an exhaustive photo project shows how an ecosystem protected for that long can change.
After a dominant Thunder victory Sunday night, Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals could well decide the series … and the season.
The official, who is part of the Egyptian team investigating the crash that killed all 66 people on board the flight from Paris to Cairo early last Thursday, has personally examined the remains at a Cairo morgue.
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OKC Thunder: Kendrick Perkins out for Friday night, Kevin Durant questionable
Two-time NBA scoring champ Kevin Durant missed Friday morning's shoot-around. "His stomach was a little weak," Thunder coach Scott Brooks said. "We'll see how he feels tonight."
Durant was seen in the practice facility roughly 30 minutes after the team had left.
Definitely out tonight are center Kendrick Perkins with a knee contusion and guard Thabo Sefolosha, who will miss his 11th straight start with a sore right foot.
Brooks said Perkins banged knees in the closing minutes of Wednesday night's 96-95 loss at Houston. "We'll see how he feels tomorrow (Saturday)."
Nazr Mohammed will start in place of Perkins, with Nick Collison in reserve, depending if Durant plays the 4 position.
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"Last game, I thought his defense was on-point every time downcourt, and that's what Royal gives us," Brooks said. "He gives us that every day in practice, the spirit to compete every possession. We didn't win the game, but those first five minutes he had in the first half changed the whole game around.
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Gustavus III: Julian Gavin*, tenor
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|F stars: A challenge to stellar evolution
|Monday, November 3, 2014 - 11:50
Many main-sequence F and early G stars are too luminous for their effective temperature, surface gravity, and chemical composition. These "overluminous stars" have two curious properties. First, their kinematics as a function of age from stellar evolution modeling (isochrone fitting) is very different from that of normal stars. Second, while X-ray luminosity of normal stars declines with age, the X-ray luminosity of overluminous F stars changes in the opposite direction, being on average higher for older stars. These properties imply that, in defiance of standard models of stellar evolution, F stars of a given mass and chemical composition can evolve very differently. Assuming that the models correctly describe normal stars, for overluminous F stars they predict too young age and the X-ray emission evolving in the direction opposite to the actually observed trend. This discrepancy between modeling results and observational data suggests that standard stellar evolution models and models of stellar activity are missing some important factors, which makes stellar age and predictions for stellar activity from these models problematic. The data and literature analysis presented in this paper point to a nonuniform rotation of the stellar interior as a plausible key factor able to reconcile the divergent trends in age-velocity relationships of normal and overluminous F stars and explain in a coherent and self-consistent way the overluminosity phenomenon.
Authors: A. A. Suchkov, S. A. Lyapustina
|Detection of a Light Echo from the Otherwise Normal SN 2007af
|Friday, October 31, 2014 - 09:50
We present the discovery of a light echo from SN 2007af, a normal Type Ia supernova (SN Ia)
Authors: D. Drozdov, M. D. Leising, P. A. Milne, J. Pearcy, A. G. Riess, L. M. Macri, G. L. Bryngelson, P. M. Garnavich
|Wind mass transfer in S-type symbiotic binaries I. Focusing by the wind compression model
|Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 11:21
Context: Luminosities of hot components in symbiotic binaries require accretion rates that are higher than those that can be achieved via a standard Bondi-Hoyle accretion. This implies that the wind mass transfer in symbiotic binaries has to be more efficient.
Aims: We suggest that the accretion rate onto the white dwarfs (WDs) in S-type symbiotic binaries can be enhanced sufficiently by focusing the wind from their slowly rotating normal giants towards the binary orbital plane.
Methods: We applied the wind compression model to the stellar wind of slowly rotating red giants in S-type symbiotic binaries.
Results: Our analysis reveals that for typical terminal velocities of the giant wind, 20 to 50 km/s, and measured rotational velocities between 6 and 10 km/s, the densities of the compressed wind at a typical distance of the accretor from its donor correspond to the mass-loss rate, which can be a factor of $\sim$10 higher than for the spherically symmetric wind. This allows the WD to accrete at rates of $10^{-8} - 10^{-7}$ M(Sun)/year, and thus to power its luminosity.
Conclusions: We show that the high wind-mass-transfer efficiency in S-type symbiotic stars can be caused by compression of the wind from their slowly rotating normal giants, whereas in D-type symbiotic stars, the high mass transfer ratio can be achieved via the gravitational focusing, which has recently been suggested for very slow winds in Mira-type binaries.
Authors: Augustin Skopal, Zuzana Carikova
|Existence of a group of "quiet" quasars confirmed
|Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 10:42
Quasars appear to evolve with distance: the farther away one gets, the brighter they are. This could indicate that quasars extinguish over time or it could be the result of a simple observational bias masking a different reality: that gigantic quasars evolving very quickly, most of them already extinct, coexist with a quiet population that evolves at a much slower rhythm but which our technological limitations do not yet allow us to research.
To solve this riddle it was necessary to look for low luminosity quasars at enormous distances and to compare their characteristics with those of nearby quasars of equal luminosity, something thus far almost impossible to do, because it requires observing objects about a hundreds of times weaker than those we are used to studying at those distances.
The tremendous light-gathering power of the GTC telescope, has recently enabled Sulentic and his team to obtain for the first time spectroscopic data from distant, low luminosity quasars similar to typical nearby ones. Data reliable enough to establish essential parameters such as chemical composition, mass of the central black hole or rate at which it absorbs matter.
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|Georgia State Astronomers Image the Exploding Fireball Stage of a Nova
|Monday, October 27, 2014 - 08:06
MOUNT WILSON, Calif.–Astronomers at Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) have observed the expanding thermonuclear fireball from a nova that erupted last year in the constellation Delphinus with unprecedented clarity.
The observations produced the first images of a nova during the early fireball stage and revealed how the structure of the ejected material evolves as the gas expands and cools. It appears the expansion is more complicated than simple models previously predicted, scientists said. The results of these observations, carried out by 37 researchers from 17 institutions and led by Georgia State astronomer Gail Schaefer, are published in the current issue of Nature.
|Optical Dual-Band Photometry and Spectroscopy of the WZ Sge-Type Dwarf Nova EZ Lyn during the 2010 Superoutburst
|Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 07:11
We performed optical simultaneous dual-band (SDSS g'- and i'- band) photometry and low-resolution spectroscopy for the WZ Sge-type dwarf nova EZ Lyn during its 2010 superoutburst. Dual-band photometry revealed that the g'-i' color reddened with a decrease in brightness, during the main superoutburst and the following rebrightening phase, whereas the color became bluer with a further decrease in brightness during the slow, final decline phase. With a fit to our photometric results by a blackbody function, we estimated the disk radius ratio (ratio of the disk radius to the binary separation) and compared this with that of V455 And, a WZ Sge-type object that did not show any rebrightening in the 2007 superoutburst.
The comparison revealed: (1) the disk radius ratio of EZ Lyn decreased more slowly than that of V455 And; and (2) the radius ratio of EZ Lyn at the end of the main superoutburst was larger than that of the V455 And. These results favor the mass reservoir model for the mechanism of rebrightening. During both the superoutburst plateau and subsequent rebrightening phase, H-alpha and H-beta lines were detected. The H-alpha line showed a double-peak profile from which we estimated the disk radius ratio. The comparison of this ratio with that derived by photometry, indicates that the H-alpha disk was larger than the photometric one, which suggests that the optically thin gas was extended to the outer region more than the optically thick gas disk and was possibly responsible for the rebrightening phenomenon. Time-series dual-band photometry during the main superoutburst revealed that color variations during the early superhump show roughly the same behavior as that of V455 And, whereas color variations during the ordinary superhump display clear anticorrelation with brightness, in contrast to that seen in the V455 And.
Authors: Mizuki Isogai, Akira Arai, Atsunori Yonehara, Hideyo Kawakita, Makoto Uemura, Daisaku Nogami
|MY Camelopardalis, a very massive merger progenitor
|Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 11:43
Context. The early-type binary MY Cam belongs to the young open cluster Alicante 1, embedded in Cam OB3. Aims. MY Cam consists of two early-O type main-sequence stars and shows a photometric modulation suggesting an orbital period slightly above one day. We intend to confirm this orbital period and derive orbital and stellar parameters. Methods. Timing analysis of a very exhaustive (4607 points) light curve indicates a period of 1.1754514 +- 0.0000015 d. High- resolution spectra and the cross-correlation technique implemented in the TODCOR program were used to derive radial velocities and obtain the corresponding radial velocity curves for MY Cam. Modelling with the stellar atmosphere code FASTWIND was used to obtain stellar parameters and create templates for cross-correlation. Stellar and orbital parameters were derived using the Wilson-Devinney code, such that a complete solution to the binary system could be described. Results. The determined masses of the primary and secondary stars in MY Cam are 37.7 +- 1.6 and 31.6 +- 1.4 Msol, respectively. The corresponding temperatures, derived from the model atmosphere fit, are 42 000 and 39 000 K, with the more massive component being hotter. Both stars are overfilling their Roche lobes, sharing a common envelope. Conclusions. MY Cam contains the most massive dwarf O-type stars found so far in an eclipsing binary. Both components are still on the main sequence, and probably not far from the zero-age main sequence. The system is a likely merger progenitor, owing to its very short period.
Authors: J. Lorenzo (Universidad Alicante), I. Negueruela (Universidad Alicante), A.K.F. Val Baker (University of Malaya), M. García (CSIC-INTA), S. Simón-Díaz (IAC), P. Pastor (Universidad Alicante), M. Méndez Majuelos (IES Arroyo Hondo)
|NASA's Fermi Satellite Finds Hints of Starquakes in Magnetar 'Storm'
|Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 09:31
Because a neutron star's solid crust is locked to its intense magnetic field, a disruption of one immediately affects the other. A fracture in the crust will lead to a reshuffling of the magnetic field, or a sudden reorganization of the magnetic field may instead crack the surface. Either way, the changes trigger a sudden release of stored energy via powerful bursts that vibrate the crust, a motion that becomes imprinted on the burst's gamma-ray and X-ray signals.
It takes an incredible amount of energy to convulse a neutron star. The closest comparison on Earth is the 9.5-magnitude Chilean earthquake of 1960, which ranks as the most powerful ever recorded on the standard scale used by seismologists. On that scale, said Watts, a starquake associated with a magnetar giant flare would reach magnitude 23.
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|Big Black Holes Can Block New Stars
|Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 10:46
Massive black holes spewing out radio-frequency-emitting particles at near-light speed can block formation of new stars in aging galaxies, a study has found.
The research provides crucial new evidence that it is these jets of "radio-frequency feedback" streaming from mature galaxies' central black holes that prevent hot free gas from cooling and collapsing into baby stars.
"When you look into the past history of the universe, you see these galaxies building stars," said Tobias Marriage, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins and co-lead author of the study. "At some point, they stop forming stars and the question is: Why? Basically, these active black holes give a reason for why stars stop forming in the universe."
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|Thursday, October 16, 2014 - 13:55
A group of researchers led by Melina Bersten of Kavli IPMU recently presented a model that provides the first characterization of the progenitor for a hydrogen-deficient supernova. Their model predicts that a bright hot star, which is the binary companion to an exploding object, remains after the explosion. To verify their theory, the group secured observation time with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to search for such a remaining star. Their findings, which are reported in the October 2014 issue of The Astronomical Journal, have important implications for the evolution of massive stars.
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|Observations of binaries in AGB, post-AGB stars and Planetary Nebulae
|Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - 12:30
During the last years, many observational studies have revealed that binaries play an active role in the shaping of non spherical planetary nebulae. We review the different works that lead to the direct or indirect evidence for the presence of binary companions during the Asymptotic Giant Branch, proto-Planetary Nebula and Planetary Nebula phases. We also discuss how these binaries can influence the stellar evolution and possible future directions in the field.
Authors: Eric Lagadec, Olivier Chesneau
Read the review paper on astro-ph
|Chemical abundance analysis of symbiotic giants - II. AE Ara, BX Mon, KX Tra, and CL Sco
|Monday, October 13, 2014 - 10:14
Knowledge of the elemental abundances of symbiotic giants is essential to address the role of chemical composition in the evolution of symbiotic binaries, to map their parent population, and to trace their mass transfer history. However, there are few symbiotic giants for which the photospheric abundances are fairly well determined. This is the second in a series of papers on chemical composition of symbiotic giants determined from high-resolution (R ~ 50000) near-IR spectra. Results are presented for the late-type giant star in the AE Ara, BX Mon, KX TrA, and CL Sco systems. Spectrum synthesis employing standard LTE analysis and stellar atmosphere models were used to obtain photospheric abundances of CNO and elements around the iron peak (Sc, Ti, Fe, and Ni). Our analysis resulted in sub-solar metallicities in BX Mon, KX TrA, and CL Sco by [Fe/H] ~ -0.3 or -0.5 depending on the value of microturbulence. AE Ara shows metallicity closer to solar by ~0.2 dex. The enrichment in 14N isotope found in all these objects indicates that the giants have experienced the first dredge-up. In the case of BX Mon first dredge-up is also confirmed by the low 12C/13C isotopic ratio of ~8.
Authors: Cezary Galan, Joanna Mikolajewska, Kenneth H. Hinkle
|Photometric analysis of overcontact binaries AK Her, HI Dra, V1128 Tau and V2612 Oph
|Friday, October 10, 2014 - 12:55
We analyze new, high quality multicolor light curves of four overcontact binaries: AK Her, HI Dra, V1128 Tau and V2612 Oph, and determine their orbital and physical parameters using the modeling program of G. Djurasevic and recently published results of radial velocity studies. The achieved precision in absolute masses is between 10 and 20%, and in absolute radii between 5 and 10%. All four systems are W UMa type binaries with bright or dark spots indicative of mass and energy transfer or surface activity. We estimate the distances and the ages of the systems using the luminosities computed through our analysis, and perform an O-C study for V1128 Tau, which reveals a complex period variation that can be interpreted in terms of mass loss/exchange and either the presence of the third body, or the magnetic activity on one of the components. We conclude that further observations of these systems are needed to deepen our understanding of their nature and variability.
Authprs: S. Caliskan, O. Latkovic, G. Djurasevic, I. Ozavci, O. Basturk, A. Cseki, H. V. Senavci, T. Kilicoglu, M. Yilmaz, S. O. Selam
|Luminous Blue Variables and superluminous supernovae from binary mergers
|Friday, October 10, 2014 - 12:49
Evidence suggests that the direct progenitor stars of some core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are luminous blue variables (LBVs), perhaps including some `superluminous supernovae' (SLSNe). We examine models in which massive stars gain mass soon after the end of core hydrogen burning. These are mainly intended to represent mergers following a brief contact phase during early Case B mass transfer, but may also represent stars which gain mass in the Hertzsprung Gap or extremely late during the main-sequence phase for other reasons. The post-accretion stars spend their core helium-burning phase as blue supergiants (BSGs), and many examples are consistent with being LBVs at the time of core collapse. Other examples are yellow supergiants at explosion. We also investigate whether such post-accretion stars may explode successfully after core collapse. The final core properties of post-accretion models are broadly similar to those of single stars with the same initial mass as the pre-merger primary star. More surprisingly, when early Case B accretion does affect the final core properties, the effect appears likely to favour a successful SN explosion, i.e., to make the core properties more like those of a lower-mass single star. However, the detailed structures of these cores sometimes display qualitative differences to any single-star model we have calculated. The rate of appropriate binary mergers may match the rate of SNe with immediate LBV progenitors; for moderately optimistic assumptions we estimate that the progenitor birthrate is ~1% of the CCSN rate.
Authors: Stephen Justham, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Jorick S. Vink
|NASA's NuSTAR Telescope Discovers Shockingly Bright Dead Star
|Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 10:28
Astronomers have found a pulsating, dead star beaming with the energy of about 10 million suns. This is the brightest pulsar - a dense stellar remnant left over from a supernova explosion - ever recorded. The discovery was made with NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR.
"You might think of this pulsar as the 'Mighty Mouse' of stellar remnants," said Fiona Harrison, the NuSTAR principal investigator at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "It has all the power of a black hole, but with much less mass."
The discovery appears in a new report in the Thursday, Oct. 9, issue of the journal Nature.
Read the full press release at NASA/JPL
|NASA's Swift Mission Observes Mega Flares from a Mini Star
|Wednesday, October 1, 2014 - 00:31
Stars erupt with flares for the same reason the sun does. Around active regions of the star's atmosphere, magnetic fields become twisted and distorted. Much like winding up a rubber band, these allow the fields to accumulate energy. Eventually a process called magnetic reconnection destabilizes the fields, resulting in the explosive release of the stored energy we see as a flare. The outburst emits radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to visible, ultraviolet and X-ray light.
At 5:07 p.m. EDT on April 23, the rising tide of X-rays from DG CVn's superflare triggered Swift's Burst Alert Telescope (BAT). Within several seconds of detecting a strong burst of radiation, the BAT calculates an initial position, decides whether the activity merits investigation by other instruments and, if so, sends the position to the spacecraft. In this case, Swift turned to observe the source in greater detail, and, at the same time, notified astronomers around the globe that a powerful outburst was in progress.
Read the full story at nasa.gov
|Pulsating Components in Binary and Multiple Stellar Systems - A Catalog of Oscillating Binaries
|Monday, September 29, 2014 - 09:34
We present an up-to-date catalog of pulsating binaries, i.e. the binary and multiple stellar systems containing pulsating components, along with a statistics on them. Compared to the earlier compilation by Soydugan et al.(2006a) of 25 δ Scuti-type `oscillating Algol-type eclipsing binaries' (oEA) plus 197 candidates,the recent collection of 74 oEA by Liakos et al.(2012), and the collection of Cepheids in binaries by Szabados (2003a), both the types of pulsating variables and binaries are now extended. The total numbers of pulsating binary/multiple stellar systems have increased to be 501 as of 2014 September 16, among which 262+ are oscillating eclipsing binaries and the oEA containing δ Scuti components are updated to be 93. The catalog is intended to be a collection of various pulsating binary stars across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. We reviewed the open questions, advances and prospects connecting pulsation/oscillation and binarity. The observational implication of binary systems with pulsating components, to stellar evolution theories is also addressed. In addition, a catalog consisting of 434 confirmed Algol-type eclipsing binaries (EA) is provided for reference.
Author: A.-Y. Zhou
|The Immediate Environments of Two Herbig Be Stars: MWC 1080 and HD 259431
|Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 10:37
Deep mid-infrared (10-20 $\mu$m) images with sub-arcsec resolution were obtained for two Herbig Be stars, MWC 1080 and HD 259431, to probe their immediate environments. Our goal is to understand the origin of the diffuse nebulosities observed around these two very young objects. By analyzing our new mid-IR images and comparing them to published data at other wavelengths, we demonstrate that the well extended emission around MWC 1080 traces neither a disk nor an envelope, but rather the surfaces of a cavity created by the outflow from MWC 1080A, the primary star of the MWC 1080 system. In the N-band images, the filamentary nebulosities trace the hourglass-shaped gas cavity wall out to $\sim$0.15 pc. This scenario reconciles the properties of the MWC 1080 system revealed by a wide range of observations. Our finding confirms that the environment around MWC 1080, where a small cluster is forming, is strongly affected by the outflow from the central Herbig Be star. Similarities observed between the two subjects of this study suggest that the filamentary emission around HD 259431 may arise from a similar outflow cavity structure, too.
Authors: Dan Li, Naibí Mariñas, Charles M. Telesco
|Astronomers observe mysterious winds from T Tauri star
|Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 10:21
T Tauri stars are a class of variable stars, named for their prototype T Tauri, discovered in 1852. T Tauri stars have been known for decades as relatively normal, medium-sized, extremely young main-sequence stars. At one point, some 4.5 billion years ago, our Sun was a T Tauri star. T Tauri stars are thought to be surrounded by protoplanetary disks, containing the raw materials to build both rocky and gaseous planets. Though nearly invisible in optical light, these disks shine in both infrared and millimeter-wavelength light.
Some T Tauri stars emit infrared radiation in unexpected ways. Those stars were the focus of this study, led by astronomer Colette Salyk at the National Optical Astronomical Observatory (NOAO) in Tucson, Arizona. Many T Tauri stars have been thought to have extremely powerfulstellar winds – predicted by astronomers, but never clearly detected – and Salyk and her team proposed that, for some T Tauri stars, the winds may be emanating from within the stars' protoplanetary disks. They say these winds could have important implications for planet formation, potentially robbing the disk of some of the gas required for the formation of giant Jupiter-like planets, or stirring up the disk and causing the building blocks of planets to change location entirely.
Read the full story at EarthSky
Read the press release from NRAO
|The Pulsating sdB+M Eclipsing System NY Virginis and its Circumbinary Planets
|Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 08:27
We searched for circumbinary planets orbiting NY Vir in historical eclipse times including our long-term CCD data. Sixty-eight times of minimum light with accuracies better than 10 s were used for the ephemeris computations. The best fit to those timings indicated that the orbital period of NY Vir has varied due to a combination of two sinusoids with periods of P3=8.2 yr and P4=27.0 yr and semi-amplitudes of K3=6.9 s and K4=27.3 s, respectively. The periodic variations most likely arise from a pair of light-time effects due to the presence of third and fourth bodies that are gravitationally bound to the eclipsing pair. We have derived the orbital parameters and the minimum masses, M3sini3 = 2.8 MJup and M4sini4 = 4.5 MJup, of both objects. A dynamical analysis suggests that the outer companion is less likely to orbit the binary on a circular orbit. Instead we show that future timing data might push its eccentricity to moderate values for which the system exhibits long-term stability. The results demonstrate that NY Vir is probably a star-planet system, which consists of a very close binary star and two giant planets. The period ratio P3/P4 suggests that a long-term gravitational interaction between them would result in capture into a nearly 3:10 mean motion resonance. When the presence of the circumbinary planets is verified and understood more comprehensively, the formation and evolution of this planetary system should be advanced greatly.
Authors: Jae Woo Lee, Tobias Cornelius Hinse, Jae-Hyuck Youn, Wonyong Han
|Ideas for Citizen Science in Astronomy
|Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 12:02
We review the relatively new, internet-enabled, and rapidly-evolving field of citizen science, focusing on research projects in stellar, extragalactic and solar system astronomy that have benefited from the participation of members of the public, often in large numbers. We find these volunteers making contributions to astronomy in a variety of ways: making and analyzing new observations, visually classifying features in images and light curves, exploring models constrained by astronomical datasets, and initiating new scientific enquiries. The most productive citizen astronomy projects involve close collaboration between the professionals and amateurs involved, and occupy scientific niches not easily filled by great observatories or machine learning methods: citizen astronomers are most strongly motivated by being of service to science. In the coming years we expect participation and productivity in citizen astronomy to increase, as survey datasets get larger and citizen science platforms become more efficient. Opportunities include engaging the public in ever more advanced analyses, and facilitating citizen-led enquiry by designing professional user interfaces and analysis tools with citizens in mind.
Authors: Philip J. Marshall, Chris J. Lintott, Leigh N. Fletcher
|Calling All Amateur Astronomers
|Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 11:51
NASA's Night Sky Network is conducting a new survey to better understand the landscape of educational outreach performed by astronomy clubs. It will then use this data to assess the needs of the amateur astronomy community for the next five years.
NASA's Night Sky Network is a community of more than 400 astronomy clubs across the U.S. that share their time and telescopes with the public. They have held nearly 30,000 events and have inspired over 3 million members.
The survey, which will run until the end of September, is fairly straightforward. It asks questions about your local astronomy club, any astronomy activities you participate in, and any challenges you face in outreach.
Read the full story at Sky & Telescope
|Astronomers solve 20-year-old quasar mystery
|Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 09:27
Discovered in the early 1960s, quasars are highly luminous objects shining over vast intergalactic distances. Until the early 1980s, the nature of quasars was controversial, but now most astronomers agree a quasar is a supermassive black hole in the center of a distant massive galaxy. The black hole rapidly accretes (accumulates) matter toward its center to create a quasar's powerful luminosity. Still, mysteries about quasars have remained, and now two scientists say they've solved a quasar mystery that astronomers have been puzzling over for 20 years. These scientists say that most observed quasar phenomena can be unified with two simple quantities: how efficiently the central black hole is being fed and the viewing orientation of the astronomer. The journal Nature published this work on September 11, 2014.
Read the full story at EarthSky
|Hubble Finds Supernova Companion Star after Two Decades of Searching
|Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - 23:08
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a companion star to a rare type of supernova. The discovery confirms a long-held theory that the supernova, dubbed SN 1993J, occurred inside what is called a binary system, where two interacting stars caused a cosmic explosion.
"This is like a crime scene, and we finally identified the robber," said Alex Filippenko, professor of astronomy at University of California (UC) at Berkeley. "The companion star stole a bunch of hydrogen before the primary star exploded."
SN 1993J is an example of a Type IIb supernova, unusual stellar explosions that contains much less hydrogen than found in a typical supernova. Astronomers believe the companion star took most of the hydrogen surrounding the exploding main star and continued to burn as a super-hot helium star.
Read the full NASA press release
|When Will Betelgeuse Explode?
|Monday, September 8, 2014 - 11:12
If there's one star in the sky people know about, it's Betelgeuse.
Marking the right shoulder of the hunter Orion — remember, he's facing us, so it's on our left — this orange-red star is one of the brightest in the night sky. It's been studied for as long as we've had telescopes, yet for all our advanced technology and knowhow, details about it are maddeningly vague. We don't even have a good determination of how far away it is!
Still, there's a lot we do know: It's a red supergiant, a star that started out life already a lot bigger, more massive, and far more luminous than the Sun. Stars like that go through their nuclear fuel extremely rapidly; while the Sun is only approaching middle age at 4.5 billion years old, Betelgeuse is dying now at an age of less than 10 million years old. And when it does finally give up the ghost, it'll do so with a bang. A very, very big bang: It'll go supernova, one of nature's most dramatic and ridiculously violent events.
Read the full story from Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy.


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Today (July 9) marks the 15th anniversary of the now-classic teen sex comedy "American Pie." A lot has changed in the last 15 years, and this video of Beyoncé interviewing newcomer Jason Biggs for MTV on the carpet of the 2000 MTV Movie Awards is probably the best example of that.
First of all, yes, Jason Biggs and Beyoncé interacted, and she was the one interviewing him. Second, while Jason Biggs still has a young-looking mug in "Orange is the New Black," it's pretty amazing how he's pretty much baby-faced here. (Note on things that don't change — Beyoncé is basically ageless.)
The interview itself is a lot of fun, with Beyoncé getting in her own version of "This one time, at band camp." Also, Jason Biggs can now count himself as someone Beyoncé said looked sexy, which means he should be eternally happy.
So check out the video, celebrate 15 years of "American Pie," and try to remember a strange, scary world where Beyoncé co-hosted an MTV Movie Award red carpet … with Sisqo. Remember Sisqo? Oh the times, they've a-changed.


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Update on Cesar EduardoThis member continues to work for a private marketing company, where he works from 8:00 A.M. until 7:00 P.M. He has been working at this job for 7 years, and his dream is to run a small grocery store. He is asking for a loan to buy a computer for home use.
This member very much appreciates the opportunity that is being provided to him by this organization, and he is committed to paying back the loan in full according to the payment schedule.
El socio se encuentra agradecido por la oportunidad brindada mediante este medio y así mismo se compromete a cumplir con el pago correspondiente al cronograma.
Previous Loan DetailsCesar Eduardo belongs to communal bank 'Minibank', he is from the city of Cusco. Cesar Eduardo is 25 years old and is single. He works in a private company in the marketing department, using the Internet to do his job. He is asking for a personal use loan, to be able to pay for the specialization... More from Cesar Eduardo's previous loan »
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Asociación Arariwa is a large non-governmental organization that started offering microcredit in 1994 to improve the quality of life, skills and equity of the population in the rural Cusco region of Peru. Arariwa serves the southern Andean provinces of Peru, and is distinguished by its efforts to reach the very poor, who often live in isolated rural areas. Arariwa fosters village banking, supports savings accounts, promotes access to education, and empowers women entrepreneurs (who make up 78% of its borrowers).
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An early version of FF Offline Regular was made in 1993 for an art catalogue titled Oceaan Coalities. The stencil alphabet recalls the lettering on transport boxes, evoking travel and ocean liners. It took considerable time to complete the family. As Mulder says, ironically: "Speed is what you need".


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Not only is Bizarre Creations' "James Bond 007: Blood Stone" officially acknowledged as a game as of today; it's added British singer Joss Stone to its talent roster to accompany Daniel Craig and Dame Judi Dench, as well as to perform the original track "I'll Take it All" with Eurythmics member Dave Stewart.
"'James Bond 007: Blood Stone' captures the cinematic intensity of a Bond film by immersing players in an intriguing conspiracy that will require them to think and act like James Bond," Activision Publishing head of marketing for licensed properties David Pokress said in a press release. "In addition, the game will feature a diverse array of multi-player modes and debut strategic objective-based gameplay that will allow Xbox 360, PS3 and PC players to battle as teams of spies and mercenaries through authentic Bond locales."
Many wondered if this game would be a car-focused title, given Bizarre's history making games like "Blur" and the "Project Gotham" racing series. While the announcement does promise "full-throttle, behind-the-wheel action on land and sea" it also specifically references "cover-based firefights, lethal hand-to-hand combat" that will occur along the way.
What I want to know, though, is whether or not you'll be able to engage in knife fights while racing, because that would be pretty boss.
Are you interested in seeing what Bizarre's new Bond game looks like? What do you think of the addition of Joss Stone? Share your responses in the comment section below.


text: eBay is large online shopping platform for many. There are deals, bids, offers and many more stuff you can go for. I had seen that on eBay a number of users are selling used products. Some of them are independent seller in remote places. So I want to know one thing that does people trust eBay. What are about your personal view. If you trust it, then what is the common duration of ordering product from this site.


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For a more entry-level workflow, R-WearStudio software also allows you to create custom rhinestone templates using Roland's GX series of cutters, personalizing everything from T-shirts and handbags to wine bottles and cell phones with only a small investment.
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text: I have played Risen 2: Dark Waters and almost have reached to the end of the game. During this whole game, I have seen that developers have put a lot of weapons in the game for use of player. I liked the ranged weapons like pistol and Muskets more than the melee weapons. I know that everybody must have their own opinion on weapons in Risen 2: Dark Waters. I wanted to know opinion of different people on choice of their weapons in Risen 2: Dark Waters.


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First doodle of 2013!!! >u<)/
I tried drawing nose lol
My goal is to learn how to draw cute noses like Akiyoshi's and Hekicha's!!!!
I love it I love it I love it I love it!!! <3
The Great Question: How does one nose
Also: how do color
Also: how do color
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I love this ^^
wahaw a nose good job
Its a little sketchy but still pretty amazing
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- BurundiFoodFunding via Turame Community Finance, a partner of World Relief and HOPE International
Kumuhwi GroupBurundiFoodFunding via Turame Community Finance, a partner of World Relief and HOPE International
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Damien has had a business selling beer and meat (goat) in his bistro for three years.
He is on his first loan at Turame. With this KIVA loan he is obtaining, he is going to increase his capital and buy many goats to sell meat, so as to earn more.
In the coming years, he would like to buy his own plot of land to build his own house. Aside from this, he would like to see his children go to school and complete their education.
Il prend soin d'un neveu qui étudie.
Il fait le commerce de la bière et de viande (chèvres) dans son bistrot depuis 3ans.
Il est à son premier crédit à Turame. Avec le crédit KIVA qu'il obtient, il va augmenter son capital et acheter beaucoup de chèvres pour la vente de viande, afin de gagner plus.
Dans les prochaines années, il voudrait acheter sa propre parcelle pour construire sa propre maison. Il voudrait en outre voir ses enfants étudier et terminer les études.
Additional Information
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
- 6 months (Additional Information)
- Repayment Schedule
- Monthly
- Pre-Disbursed:
- Jul 18, 2012
- Listed
- Aug 16, 2012
- Currency Exchange Loss:
- Possible
- Ended:
- Jan 15, 2013


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Living the Commercial Life
Americans are drowning in commercial messages. Everyone knows that. The only open questions, it seems, are the depth of the water and the strength of the undertow. "The average American sees about 400 advertisements a day," stated a university-based feminist organization in 2003. Its members were upset about the effects of ads on the self-image of American women.1 But this statistic was limited to visual messages. "The average American sees or hears 560 advertisements a day" (emphasis added), according to a commonly used Internet reference as well as an August 2004 report by a West Coast television station.2 No, say many other critics and commentators— these numbers are way, way too low. No less a reputable source than PBS, warning teenagers of the "negative effects of media," stated in 2003 that "the average American sees 3,000 advertisements a day."3 Not to be outdone, well-known authors and marketing consultants Tom Collins and Stan Rapp, chairman of McCann-Erickson Worldgroup, asserted that on a typical day, "an average American sees over 5,000 advertisements."4
The leap from 400 ads a day to more than 5,000 is a gigantic one and begs for an explanation. As is the case for many such factoids— statements or statistics that sound authoritative but lack appropriate


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FUKUOKA (Kyodo) The body of 5-year-old boy was found Monday in Chikugo, Fukuoka Prefecture, after he was swept away by a river swollen from torrential rain, bringing the total of weather-related deaths in western Japan in the past week to 28.
Koji Koide was last seen at around 4 p.m. Sunday while being carried away in the Kurame River. He was playing with three other children, including his two brothers, at the time, according to police.
Normally the river at 2 meters wide is not even a decent stream and is sometimes dry. But the recent downpours in northern Kyushu left the stream swollen and strong enough to sweep people away, the police said.
In Onojo, Fukuoka, the bodies of a man and a woman were found in a van that was hit by a mudslide on the Kyushu Expressway in Onojo on Sunday, the police said.
They were identified as Yoshihiro Inoue, 42, and his wife, Minako, 39. Police were investigating whether other cars were buried, they said.
The mudslide occurred at around 11 a.m., but rescue work was hampered by continued downpours and numerous obstacles buried in the mud, including large chunks of concrete and trees.
In Sasaguri, Fukuoka Prefecture, the search for two women believed buried under their crushed house resumed Monday morning.