Featherstone: Rupert Boneham Forms Exploratory Committee for Governor’s Race

(Editor’s Note: By Josh Featherstone, Originally posted at his blog, Featherstone on Government. The LPIN candidate selection process takes place at our annual convention in April. LPIN Leadership and Rupert’s team will be exploring this idea further in the coming weeks.) Rupert Boneham, famous for his appearances on TV’s Survivor, may be interested in an [...]

Swift observations of the March 2011 outburst of the cataclysmic variable NSV 1436: a probable dwarf nova

Authors: J. P. Osborne, K. L. Page, A. A. Henden, J.-U. Ness, M. F. Bode, G. J. Schwarz, S. Starrfield, J. J. Drake, E. Kuulkers and A. P. Beardmore.<br />Astronomy & Astrophysics Vol. 533 , page A41<br />Published online: 24/08/2011<br />
Keywords:
accretion, accretion disks ; binaries: general ; stars: dwarf novae ; novae, cataclysmic variables ; stars: individual: NSV 1436.

Small-scale H? jets in the solar chromosphere

Authors: D. Kuridze, M. Mathioudakis, D. B. Jess, S. Shelyag, D. J. Christian, F. P. Keenan and K. S. Balasubramaniam.<br />Astronomy & Astrophysics Vol. 533 , page A76<br />Published online: 30/08/2011<br />
Keywords:
Sun: activity ; Sun: chromosphere ; Sun: faculae, plages ; Sun: photosphere ; Sun: surface magnetism.

WASP-50?b: a hot Jupiter transiting a moderately active solar-type star?

Authors: M. Gillon, A. P. Doyle, M. Lendl, P. F. L. Maxted, A. H. M. J. Triaud, D. R. Anderson, S. C. C. Barros, J. Bento, A. Collier-Cameron, B. Enoch, F. Faedi, C. Hellier, E. Jehin, P. Magain, J. Montalbán, F. Pepe, D. Pollacco, D. Queloz, B. Smalley, D. Segransan, A. M. S. Smith, J. Southworth, S. Udry, R. G. West and P. J. Wheatley.<br />Astronomy & Astrophysics Vol. 533 , page A88<br />Published online: 01/09/2011<br />
Keywords:
techniques: spectroscopic ; planetary systems ; techniques: radial velocities ; stars: individual: WASP-50 ; techniques: photometric.